I taped last night’s episode of Beauty and the Geek. Or at least I thought I did. I popped the tape into the VCR (I know, you can see the cobwebs from here, but that’s what we’ve got), expecting to see some hot ladies and some nerdy guys. Well, I saw the latter. And they were wearing sombreros.
“Why the hell is Three Amigos on the tape?!” My best guess is that the “VCR+” programming got messed up somehow. The TV schedule has a coding system so you can use VCR+ to punch in a couple numbers and it’ll record a specific channel at a specific time. You can change the channel and time from that initial setting, so I always start it at 7:58 instead of 8:00 to make sure it records the opening of the show.
I also have to change the channel because we have cable. Normally, the WB is channel 23. With our cable service, it’s 13 instead. Channel 23 became WGN, which happened to be showing Three Amigos during the same time slot as Beauty and the Geek Thursday night. Sonofabitch!!
Sorry, guys—you’ll have to wait for a report and analysis about this week’s episode until next Wednesday. Assuming that I don’t leave for the evening, giving VCR+ a chance to screw up again and record a one-hour segment of something like Police Academy instead.
