More EPG fails from TrueVisions :-)
Dec. 16th, 2022 06:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spiderbraidsWow, has it been a year already? I managed to scrounge up a few more EPG fails from TrueVisions, plus one straight out of the figurative vault...
Nick Asia is responsible for three of these examples, two of them from deciding to bring back some of their older shows in overnights, including Winx Club (just seasons 5-6, though :-\) Both of these shows in question had these same episode-specific summaries back when they originally aired as well, both of these summaries are for the second halves of their first episodes, and both of these summaries fail to even mention their respective shows' titular characters...
Anyone who remembers Rainbow Butterfly Unicorn Kitty probably remembers it mainly for supposedly plagiarizing Cartoon Network's Unikitty (which in turn was based on a character in the first Lego Movie), but anyways, here's who the summary is referring to:
Miguel is the blue-colored dog, one of the friends who hangs out with Felicity, a cross between, well, see title; meanwhile, Unikitty also hangs out with her own gaggle of friends, as well as her brother, a dim-witted blue-colored dog-unicorn hybrid named Puppycorn, so you can see where the comparisons are coming from... (Even if Miguel isn't dim-witted or a hybrid, it doesn't exactly help matters either that he seems to hang out with her more than her other pals)
Now this one for Abby Hatcher must have left many people confused AF as to who this summary is referring to, and what they have to do with the titular Abby, especially given that the blurb gives no hints whatsoever to the show's central premise of a hotel full of creatures known as Fuzzlies, which is literally what you'd expect the EPG blurb to do :-\ And it's not even the main Fuzzly who's mentioned in the blurb :-\ (BTW, this show is from the same people as the Nick Jr. mega-hit Paw Patrol, and like with Paw Patrol, they'd rather you not think too hard about certain elements of that premise)
Anyways, here's the characters just mentioned: Mrs. Melvin (top) runs the hotel's salon, Harriet (center) is a Fuzzly who helps her at said salon (I'd wager they're in about 10-15% of the show at most), and on the bottom is Abby, whose parents run the hotel, cuddling with her Fuzzly named Bozzly :-)
But this EPG fail for The Fairly Oddparents: Fairly Odder, the animated-live action hybrid reboot (!) of the early 2000s cartoon, manages to take it to the next level: Not only is this a specific episode summary... it's for a specific episode of the original cartoon version:
Pretty sure they're not remaking the animated series' plots, and even if they were, the budget wouldn't exactly allow them to remake this one :-\
And here's a case of one of TrueVisions' own in-house channels putting the summary for the wrong film on the EPG, for the gangster flick Lucky Number Slevin:
![Wrong synopsis and genre for Lucky Number Slevin, but correct cast listing: 'The story of the spiritual journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off the map desert town / DRAMA / Cast: Josh Hartnett, Ben Kingsl[ey]'](https://i.postimg.cc/BnNkZTB3/20220908-092036-resized.jpg)
Ben Kingsley sure is looking quite young for 90 here ;-) Kidding aside, a 90-year old atheist and quirky characters in an off-the-map desert town might make for an interesting gangster flick, but that summary is for Lucky, a 2017 drama that's more than a whole decade younger than Slevin :-\ (though that's nothing compared to the Countdown and The Island examples from the last post)
Lastly, here's something I found vaulted away from 2010... a faulty in-house synopsis for an airing of the TV series version of that film that beat Brokeback Mountain at the Oscars; the text is a bit rough but still readable...
"This series features hands-on exploration of safety, science and technology. Uncover how things work, how they go wrong, and how we stay safe."
Now I'd assume they must have gotten that summary from some sort of documentary series on crashes (which, while off-brand for this particular channel, would sort of make sense), but Googling this summary produces no results :-\ Still, it's nowhere near the vicinity of being a correct blurb, given that the original movie (and I'd assume also the series) revolves around racial tensions in Los Angeles (!)
Nick Asia is responsible for three of these examples, two of them from deciding to bring back some of their older shows in overnights, including Winx Club (just seasons 5-6, though :-\) Both of these shows in question had these same episode-specific summaries back when they originally aired as well, both of these summaries are for the second halves of their first episodes, and both of these summaries fail to even mention their respective shows' titular characters...
Anyone who remembers Rainbow Butterfly Unicorn Kitty probably remembers it mainly for supposedly plagiarizing Cartoon Network's Unikitty (which in turn was based on a character in the first Lego Movie), but anyways, here's who the summary is referring to:
Miguel is the blue-colored dog, one of the friends who hangs out with Felicity, a cross between, well, see title; meanwhile, Unikitty also hangs out with her own gaggle of friends, as well as her brother, a dim-witted blue-colored dog-unicorn hybrid named Puppycorn, so you can see where the comparisons are coming from... (Even if Miguel isn't dim-witted or a hybrid, it doesn't exactly help matters either that he seems to hang out with her more than her other pals)
Now this one for Abby Hatcher must have left many people confused AF as to who this summary is referring to, and what they have to do with the titular Abby, especially given that the blurb gives no hints whatsoever to the show's central premise of a hotel full of creatures known as Fuzzlies, which is literally what you'd expect the EPG blurb to do :-\ And it's not even the main Fuzzly who's mentioned in the blurb :-\ (BTW, this show is from the same people as the Nick Jr. mega-hit Paw Patrol, and like with Paw Patrol, they'd rather you not think too hard about certain elements of that premise)
Anyways, here's the characters just mentioned: Mrs. Melvin (top) runs the hotel's salon, Harriet (center) is a Fuzzly who helps her at said salon (I'd wager they're in about 10-15% of the show at most), and on the bottom is Abby, whose parents run the hotel, cuddling with her Fuzzly named Bozzly :-)
But this EPG fail for The Fairly Oddparents: Fairly Odder, the animated-live action hybrid reboot (!) of the early 2000s cartoon, manages to take it to the next level: Not only is this a specific episode summary... it's for a specific episode of the original cartoon version:
Pretty sure they're not remaking the animated series' plots, and even if they were, the budget wouldn't exactly allow them to remake this one :-\
And here's a case of one of TrueVisions' own in-house channels putting the summary for the wrong film on the EPG, for the gangster flick Lucky Number Slevin:
Ben Kingsley sure is looking quite young for 90 here ;-) Kidding aside, a 90-year old atheist and quirky characters in an off-the-map desert town might make for an interesting gangster flick, but that summary is for Lucky, a 2017 drama that's more than a whole decade younger than Slevin :-\ (though that's nothing compared to the Countdown and The Island examples from the last post)
Lastly, here's something I found vaulted away from 2010... a faulty in-house synopsis for an airing of the TV series version of that film that beat Brokeback Mountain at the Oscars; the text is a bit rough but still readable...
"This series features hands-on exploration of safety, science and technology. Uncover how things work, how they go wrong, and how we stay safe."
Now I'd assume they must have gotten that summary from some sort of documentary series on crashes (which, while off-brand for this particular channel, would sort of make sense), but Googling this summary produces no results :-\ Still, it's nowhere near the vicinity of being a correct blurb, given that the original movie (and I'd assume also the series) revolves around racial tensions in Los Angeles (!)
