In the episode of Jersey Shore that aired October 14, 2010 (S02E12), there was a rather bizarre chain of events surrounding the action packed “Sunday dinner”.
First, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, who easily is the most experienced chef in the house, throws a hot pan with hot grease under a cold water tap, leading to a smoke alarm event in the hotel. Upon arrival of the fire department, Pauly D first sees what appears to be a fire department supervisor wearing a polo shirt with a badge and he exclaims “busted!” Busted doing what, though? Let’s analyze this further.
One of the keys to effective scambaiting is keeping the scammers focused on you instead of some actual hapless victim. Telemarketers will usually hang up if you seem resistant, figuring they will just get the next sucker. But today, I received a call on one of my honeypot phone numbers that blew me away. It started out pretty normally, with a robodialer recorded message announcing “this is Michael with WCA clearing house” and offering me an opt-out option (which, based on my experience with WCA, does nothing whatsoever). Naturally I am not actually interested in opting out of future calls, in fact, I am very much interested in receiving all the calls they can throw at me. It just wastes their time and effort, and gives me an opportunity to be an obnoxious jerk like the readers of this website seem to love. So, I pressed ’1′ to be connected with my offer. The resulting fracas can be heard here:
Catch this one on Hulu while you can – in the Simpsons episode that aired October 10, 2010, titled “MoneyBART” (season 22, episode 3), Lisa decides she needs more extracurricular and winds up managing Bart’s little league team. The episode received some notoriety already because the couch gag, directed by world-famous graffiti artist Banksy, was particularly provocative and dark. But it’s very likely to receive even more notoriety now because of the easter egg I discovered at about 4:19 into the show. While Maggie and Lisa are play-fencing, for a few frames, the blocks spell “FUK U ER”. Leaving us all now wondering: who is ER?
If anyone knows the man at 0:35, please let his mother know: he misses her very much and says hello. One of them mentioned they were from Ottawa, even though they are singing in French.
