I love how my market was the one which had the Superbowl porn. Honestly, I thought the whole thing was hilarious; it's spawned a whole new variety of dance moves.

"The Superbowl" and "The Comcast" being my favorites.

Well, at least they had the decency to upgrade their customers from one boob to two, free of charge.

@YouDidWhatNow?:

Funniest thing I've read in weeks.

What better people to show B rated porn too?

Conspiracist theory: Girls Gone Wild did it puposly to make sure we all burn in Hell!!!! And to sell a couple tapes to some backed up people.

The only emergency alert I have after watching that commercial at 2am is trying to find a towel fast enough.

I guess it's true that nothing wholesome happens after midnight.

The first ever positive Comcast piece on the site! I want to paypal donate them $5 for this!

This is actually hillariously win.

wow, way to go Comcast. Now I understand why everybody hates them.

I think it's a great idea to provide porn in case of emergencies. At least it'll keep people inside and out of danger.

At least the Pope didn't show us his tits.

Not. Again.

Well the EBS did work, but some jerk had something on that channel that was no-no-no-nauty boy, let me turn you over my knee and give you a spanking!

@Trai_Dep: Manboobs FTL!

@Trai_Dep: I LoL'd, comment of the day to you sir.

This is hilarious.
"We interrupt your regularly scheduled Pope broadcast to inform you of possible boobies in your area. Please stand by."

Well, honestly, as an atheist and agnostic person, I'd rather watch Girls Gone Wild than the pope. And I don't even like Girls Gone Wild.

I don't know which one I less want to watch.

The irony is great.

Take that papalcy.

@Cocoa Vanilla: How can you be both agnostic and athiest?

@Cocoa Vanilla: The pope resembles a life-size figurine of Palpatine. Sorta freaky.

I call bull on Comcast's response. The fact that it was a 30 second advertisement suggests it was more likely a malfunction with their local ad insertion system than anything to do with EBS.

You know those messy ads for local businesses and events you see on cable channels? That's a system at the cable company that overrides the channel feed with its own commercials. When the timing is out of whack, it inserts the ad in the middle of a TV show instead of during the commercial break.

@HiPwr:

He doesn't believe that there are people who say you can't prove there is a God.

Or something like that.

Is it true that they granted priesthood to anyone who didn't pop one?

@gaberussell: I thought that the EBS tests interrupted more than just one targetted channel, as well.

Think of the complaints they would have gotten if Girls Gone Wild was interrupted by the Pope.

Those girls are crazy. It's entirely appropriate to broadcast an emergency message to alert the populace so that they can be put down immediately.

@Cocoa Vanilla: Ouch, that would be a tough decision. Fortunately we don't have a TV and don't have to watch either :)

*goes to find wife's boobies instead

Why does a channel that provides emergency information even have ad's in first place? most of the time don't they just use a PSA channel for that?

I wanted to provide some quick clarity. This was not a glitch in terms of our systems. Here is what happened: As part of the Emergency Alert System, we elect to auto tune our boxes to a local broadcast channel to provide the best information in an emergency. We test this system monthly late at night to limit any inconvenience. During this month's test the local broadcast channel had a paid advertisement for this video (The same video was on their over the air broadcast). This was not a commercial being run by Comcast or content provided by Comcast. We do apologize that this occurred. Our intent is to guide the box to a local news source for further information in an emergency and certainly not advertise this content to people not interested.

I hope this makes sense.

Thank you!
Frank Eliason
Comcast
@ComcastCares on Twitter
We_Can_Help@cable.comcast.com

I love how 1 person called to complain, yep, 1 :-)

@comcastcares:

Good to know! I kind of like having comcast on here to clear up issues.

Can I request Comcast please pre-empt any Pope coverage in the future? Definite drain on your ratings. Thanks.

@comcastcares:

Stop with the technical details, Smithers. However you managed it, bravo. This one will get you extra gravy with your next holiday bonus chicken.

Geez, what's with all the Pope-bashing?

@Nighthawke: Kinky.

@HiPwr:

"A person can believe in a god (theism) without claiming to know for sure if that god exists; the result is agnostic theism. On the other hand, a person can disbelieve in gods (atheism) without claiming to know for sure that no gods can or do exist; the result is agnostic atheism."

It's from an "About" article, so take from it what you will.

@comcastcares:

So I take it the Girls Gone Wild people did not have to pay Comcast for this syndication in cable?

I sure hope not, since only antenna folk were able to see it.

You know, if Comcast wasn't so desperate for advertising revenues that they'll show anything as long as someone is willing to pay for it, they wouldn't have to worry so much about getting their feeds crossed.

Comcast has got to be the champion purveyor of sleaze advertising.

@comcastcares: Quick correction the test is actually weekly. I guess I need to stay up later more often.

I don't know, but the porn thing was the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. I laughed myself silly over that one.

"AMEN!" said the congregation.

Porn ad interrupt the Pope? Best thing to ever happen!!! :D

At least we've finally gotten away from reality TV.

Mythology from the Pope followed by silicone from Dr's MacNamara and Troy.

The only thing real on TV that night was the Snuggie!

@gafpromise: I am wondering the same thing. I am not Catholic but I know that the Pope is an honorable man and I respect him. I don't know if it is that he sticks to his beliefs even if it brings him hatred but I see the Pope as a wise a good human. With all the fraud and people trying to ruin each other on this site I expected people to respect the Pope.

Sorry to be so picky, but since when is a broadcast of a Good Friday Mass (which only happens once a year, as far as I know) a "regularly scheduled program"?

Given it involved the Catholic Church, I would have expected an ad for "Underage Choir Boys Gone Wild" :-)

@gafpromise:

"As you've probably heard, the Pope has asked all the Cardinals to return to Rome. You know how they got them all to come back? They told them that there was going to be a performance by the Vienna Boys Choir." --Jay Leno