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Shoutout to the anchor who called a tornado a 'taco' on live TV
I still laugh thinking about that news clip from Wichita last year where she accidentally said 'there's a taco on the ground near the highway' instead of tornado, and the weather guy just froze for a solid 3 seconds, has anyone else seen a blooper that made you almost spit your drink out?
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nancy_wood5d ago
OK so here's the thing about bloopers like that - I actually find them pretty annoying after the first laugh. That taco thing gets shared every single tornado season and it stopped being funny after the third time somebody sent it to me. The anchor clearly knew her mistake immediately and you could see her embarrassed. As for @bailey.jennifer mentioning that dangerously moist donut thing, I don't see it as cute at all. Those anchors are professionals trying to deliver serious information and we just sit here waiting for them to stumble so we can screenshot it for our group chats. The weather guy freezing for three seconds isnt funny when you think about how stressed he must have been trying to redirect the segment. These people have families and careers and one little slip gets turned into a meme for years. Honestly I side with the guy who wants to crawl under the counter - I'd feel the same way if every mistake I made at work got broadcast to thousands of people.
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bailey.jennifer6d ago
Oh man, that taco line kills me every time I think about it. It reminds me of the time my local news had a segment on a new bakery that opened downtown and the anchor accidentally described their famous donuts as "hand-crafted, artisanal, and dangerously moist." The baker on screen looked like he wanted to crawl under the counter. My wife and I still joke about that whenever we see any kind of pastry now. Those little language slip-ups are just the best, especially when the person next to them totally freezes.
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tessap736d ago
Did the baker at least try to laugh it off or did he just stand there with that frozen "please let this segment end" smile? I feel like that's the real test of a pro - can you recover from "dangerously moist" or are you just hoping nobody clips it for the blooper reel? My money's on him doing that slow blink thing people do when they're mentally checking out of a conversation.
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