Scott and Todd, New York’s self-proclaimed longest-running morning show, became the target of Jocktober 2008. The O&A crew dissected their show for lazy hackery: forced laugh buttons, a cackling female presence (likely Jo Nolan), hosts who couldn’t keep their teeth in their mouths while delivering stilted jokes, and prank phone calls so obviously fake that even the station’s own FCC concerns became a punchline. The calls featured a rambling car salesman bit stretched to painful length, with Todd and Scott desperately trying to milk laughs from an obscure 1978 Rambler reference while their unidentified female co-host cackled at nothing. The segment climaxed with Scott and Todd’s turkey song parody—a incomprehensible mess of shoehorned lyrics about turkeys, sobriety, and croutons stuffed up bird butts—which so offended O&A standards that even their own station had to dump it out as too hacky. The final insult: Scott and Todd had been given such a lame, family-friendly treatment that O&A couldn’t even do their own bit without looking edgier than the target show itself.
Timestamps:
00:00:00 – Intro: Jocktober celebration begins, Scott and Todd announced as targets
00:05:08 – Scott and Todd’s Joe the Plumber segment: clenched teeth delivery, fake laugh button
00:08:11 – Edna Jester police story: Scott’s mumbling, Todd’s forced Titanic references
00:13:50 – Carnegie Hall apartment controversy, odd laughter, no clear punchline
00:17:38 – Scott’s prank phone call setup: car salesman bit with obvious plant caller
00:21:19 – Route 3 vehicular intercourse rant: caller breakdown, fake anger escalation
00:23:43 – Gas problem/spine joke climax: incoherent payoff, big reveal attempt
00:30:55 – Turkey song parody begins: Thanksgiving joke set to Christmas music
00:34:40 – Song parody dissection: shoehorning, drunk turkey bars, croutons bit
00:38:24 – Outro: O&A realizes they’re lamer than Scott and Todd, segment dump
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Never Off Air — Archiving the Opie & Anthony XM era (2004-2014).
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