NBC News Special Report - "A Daffy Interruption" (1980)
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- Here is an NBC News Decision '80 Special Report, which interrupted a broadcast of "Daffy Duck's Easter Special". (the premiere!) Includes:
Few seconds of "Daffy Duck's Easter Special"
NBC News Decision '80 Special Report featuring news anchor David Brinkley with early results from the Kansas primary showing Reagan and Carter winning (opening and closing voiceover by Bill Hanrahan)
"Daffy Duck's Easter Special" returns
This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, April 1st 1980.
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If I was a kid in the 80s I'll go beyond sobbing or booing at news broadcast interruption while watching Daffy Duck Easter cartoon.
They definitely could've waited until the end of the program to talk about this.
I was terrified of programming interruptions as a kid. Biggest fear was tornadoes.
If I was a person growing up in the 80s, I think I'd be beyond peeved off.
Amen, brother!
I can remember back in the late '90s I was watching "Mickey's Christmas Carol" and it got interrupted for a brief Special Report on the "Operation Desert Fox" bombings in Iraq.
But that couldn't even compare to the next day when nearly my entire Saturday Morning cartoons were pre-empted by the Clinton Impeachment hearings and vote.
"We take you now to Kermit the Frog with another fast-breaking news story!"
Nice sesame street refince there
They couldn't just wait until AFTER the special ended?
You have to remember this was before anything like cable news so this was really the only way people had to get instant information.
If I were a little kid when a special news report interrupted a tv show I was watching i’d be hysterical! I used to DREAD special news reports as a kid! But today as of 2018 they hardly happen anymore! I’m glad today’s kids don’t have to go through the tumultuous nuances of this era! lol
Chip Drusano I'd get it if it was some big news, like the collapse of the soviet union or princess diana, but interrupting a show just for some election results seems awfully frivolous, like why not just let it wait for the news to come on?
Be N S O N today it’s even more frivolous they break in now when someone says something or someone in Washingtion resigned and many other reason that I could go on that really don’t need an immediately break in and can wait for the later news.
What are you talking about? They STILL do that!
I remember those days when one moment my family and I were watching a good program on tv and then, Bammo! The next moment we see a special news report display on the screen with an announcer's voice saying, "we interrupt our regularly scheduled program to bring you the following special report from (network name) News, here is (name of anchor/reporter)." Then after the special report was over, the announcer would say, "this has been a special report, we now bring you back to our regularly scheduled program already in progress." Those network news break-ins may have been a nuisance to me, but I sure miss those days because those were the good ol' days when tv was naturally tv. Nowadays, all we see are words that move from right to left at the bottom of the screen, meaning no interruptions to any programs on network television. Hallelujah!
@@RobertoLopez-xb1mj Exactly 👍
I can understand some breaking news stories cutting into the shows you're watching, if it's something like dangerous weather (tornado, hurricane, floods, that kind of thing), or the death of a world leader, or something like a terrorist attack. But election results? I mean, come on, something like that can wait until AFTER the cartoon special is over!
Yeah!!! Reagan and Carter were probably already the presumptive nominees for their respective parties at this particular stage. And the results from the Kansas primaries weren't going to change anything anyway. So this could DEFINITELY have waited until after the cartoon special or it could even have been on during a commercial break! And even though this was on April 1, 1980 (I looked it up.) this would have sucked BIG TIME as an April Fool's joke. I mean REALLY, people!!
@@pinedelgado4743Carter didn’t get a majority of delegates until the very end of the primary season, so every contest mattered for him in 1980.
One of the shortest special reports I have ever seen.
David Brinkley looked so grumpy and stressed out. You can tell he was at the end of his rope at NBC before he quit working for that same network the following year.
He didn't quit the business. He just quit NBC, who sent him off w/ "retirement" accolades, before going over to ABC, where he worked the rest of his career.
@@jehobden Yes, on one of American television's best Sunday political shows-- This Week with David Brinkley (nowhere near the same now without him).
Brinkley quit the business--at NBC only to move to ABC.
@@pinedelgado4743 yep, ABC News lured him to their network where he became the host and moderator of a brand new Sunday morning program called This Week with David Brinkley and the rest is tv history.
@@bmasters1981 yes indeed. ABC's This Week was never the same again post-David Brinkley. Even the present version with George S doesn't have any zest.
Couldn’t they have fucking waited a bit to show this?!?!?
Even now, I still have these visions of there being "Duck Amuck" (or even "Rabbit Rampage")-type scenes in which the news anchor and/or reporters involved in the interruption get screwed over by the show they're interrupting. Here, I'll demonstrate:
(CBS News 1980s "Special Report" sounder)
*Dan Rather:* Good morning, this is Dan Rather in New York. Against the Middle East and a Grenada backdrop, President Reagan is about to appear before reporters at the White House.
(as he continues, the newsroom fades out, little by little)
*Dan:* On the Middle East, the president apparently... will announce... that...
(he notices his surroundings are blank)
*Dan:* President Reagan...? Reporters...? Middle East...?
(he sneaks off, then ducks back in)
*Dan:* Hey! Psssst! Whoever's in charge here! The footage! Where's the footage?
(an off-camera paintbrush paints in the set of _The Price is Right,_ Dan returns to start his report again)
*Dan:* Good morning, this is Dan Rather in New York. Against the Middle East and a Grenada backdrop, President Reagan is about to appear... before reporters... at the... White House??
(he notices the change, and is not the least bit happy about it)
*Dan:* Okay, have it your way.
(he slinks off, carrying Bob Barker's stick mic, starts his report yet again; after a while, the scene changes to the Winner's Circle on the set of _The $100,000 Pyramid_ (complete with 60-second countdown and low lighting), Dan immediately catches on and is even more upset)
*Dan:* Would it be too much to ask if we could make up our minds, hmm?
(he storms off, grabbing a mannequin to use as his "celebrity partner*, starts his report yet _again;_ but then the scene changes to the _Press Your Luck_ set with the board in motion, Dan catches on again, gives the camera a nasty look, then storms off once more before returning with a "No Whammys" T-shirt on; he starts up his report one last time, but halfway through, he gets interrupted by the Whammy buzz, then the George Washington Whammy ("Hee hee hee-I cannot tell a lie, you lose!") then all four Whammies pop up at his podium, rendering Dan out of the game, as indicated by the ejector seat that catapults him back to that same blank surroundings)
*Dan:* Well! (gives the camera another nasty look) Sir, it may come as a complete surprise to you to find that this is a CBS News Special Report we're dealing with here, and that in CBS News Special Reports, they have the necessary footage. (eraser rubs him out) And in all my years as anchor/managing ed-
(he notices he's not here)
*Dan:* All right, wise guy; *_where am I?_*
(Much later, after Dan had had enough, we pull out to reveal Bob Barker and Rod Roddy at the VTR console)
*Bob:* Well, we sure fooled him this time, didn't we, Rod?
*Rod:* My sentiments exactly, Bob.
(they both laugh)
Or to put it another way:
(NBC News' 1982-84 sounder, complete with Howard Reig's "Special Report" voiceover)
*Tom Brokaw:* Good morning from Des Moines, Iowa. Tonight, the Democratic caucuses in the state of Iowa will be underway and the first results have just been reported. The NBC News projection is that Walter Mondale will be the winner. (suddenly, the set turns upside down) About half of those attending the caucuses tonight who expressed a preference for a can- (he notices he's upside down about to fall) *_Huh?!_* (he does so) AAAHHHH!!! (lands on the floor) Ooooofff!! (shakes himself loose)
*Tom:* Hey! What's going on here? (notices the animator) Oh, so it's you, is it? Well, if you're the one who's going to shoot this special report, then count me out. Capital O, capital U, capital T, OUT. So goodbye to you and farewell to thee!
(eraser rubs out Tom's chair, Tom sits down again but lands on the floor)
*Tom:* Hey, what's the big idea? I said I wasn't working with you (crosses arms) and that is that!
(paintbrush cursor paints yellow streak down Tom's back)
*Tom:* DAAHHH!!! (notices streak, and then the cursor, which he promptly crumples up and chucks it off-screen) What's coming off here, anyway? I've got a good mind to tell Messrs. Tinker and Grossman on you. (right-hand story column reveals a picture of Tom, with the caption "I WON'T WORK" below it, fades in) You're a menace to society, (he turns to notice) and besides, I... D'oh!
(he knocks it off the screen)
*Tom:* What are you trying to do, make me lose my job?! (right-hand story column reveals a picture of Tom, with the caption "I REFUSE TO LIVE UP TO MY CONTRACT" below it, fades in) After all, I've worked here for years and built up goodwill, and- (sees the column's back again) GAAAHHH!!!
(he knocks the column off again)
*Tom:* All right, you've made your point. You're in charge. Just cut out the shenanigans, and we'll get on with it. *paintbrush cursor paints a 10-gallon cowboy hat on Tom's head) Now what was it that I was trying to inform our view-
(he notices hat, then throws it off)
*Tom:* You know I'm not supposed to wear a hat!
(paintbrush paints a fedora on Tom's head; he throws it off too)
*Tom:* NOW CUT THAT OUT! You inhuman monster!
(paintbrush continues to paint various hats, which Tom takes off in turn; until the paintbrush paints in an oversized park ranger's hat which really irks him)
*Tom:* (lifts off park ranger's hat and chucks it into the pile where the other hats are) That settles it. Get yourself another anchorman. I'm through! (he storms off) What a Hunter S. _Troublesome!_ What a _Barbed_ Woodward!
(Much later, after Tom had had enough, we pull out to reveal Pat Sajak and Vanna White at the VTR console)
Pat: And there we go. It wasn't easy, Vanna, but we've finally gotten one over on Tom and his gang!
Vanna: Well, I guess *they* won't be bothering our shows any longer.
(they both laugh)
Very nice! Bravo!
I hope this got rescheduled.
Daffy came on SAT mornings at the time.
Could have been a prime time special
It was
That would pi--- old Daffy off so bad....having his show interrupted!
A real "Duck Amuck" indeed!
This could have been an email.
This is why I started distrusting the broadcast networks in how they treated cartoons. Every time some 'important event' came along, they would throw whatever cartoon I was watching under the bus just to get their stupid newscast on TV. Thankfully, we don't have to worry about that anymore with cable, on demand, and streaming, but in the early 80's, when you wanted to watch a cartoon, and it got cut short by the network in favor of news, and didn't have a VCR, you were fucked.
Marc Baker Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the 80's had VHS?
True, but if you didn't;t have a VCR, you were fucked.
@@6piecechickenmcnuggets23 they did, but they were expensive for the time. Plus you had VHS and Beta competing against each other.
Was it first run ?
April Fools! The real winner was Jerry Brown. Nice find though. God bless
What's the name of that Daffy Sylvester cartoon?
The Yolks on You, but as part of the Daffy Duck Easter Show
The Daffy and Tweety Show?
@@525Lines Weirdly enough, It's been currently shown as an individual short on Boomerang's LTs/MMs block from Monday thru Sunday as of today. I do suspect that it was done on the wake of Chuck Jones' return to Warner Bros. as Animation Director back in '80. #PleaseConfirm
Al- they just interrupted the show
I meant nuisances not nuance! My bad!
The golden egg… was a trap. Daffy probably interrupted the show by opening it lol
Was it that important to interrupt a cartoon for THAT???
the gold egg was a win
It would have been better if it had been Bert and Ernie doing that news bulletin and not David Brinkley. Just sayin'. :) :)
No fooling, period.
Callie Ray. My 1981 airing don't have the special report that I won from eBay not too long ago
I was referring to the airdate.
Callie Ray. Tuesday April 14 1981