582: Brakes
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| Brakes |
 Title text: It was the funniest 6.5 seconds of my life, although as usual like 80% of it was just Tom and Ray's gasping, hacking laughter. |
[edit] Explanation
A driver loses control of his car and plunges over a cliff. As a response, he calls a live radio phone-in show for help with the failed brakes.
Car Talk is a car advice/comedy radio show often aired on NPR stations. While there is some actual advice given on the radio show, it is presented as a comedy/entertainment show. Much of the show does involve the hosts "gasping and hacking" as they ask non-relevant questions of the callers and add their own commentary or relate other personal asides and stories.
[edit] Trivia
NPR made a shirt out of this comic, it can be seen at shop.npr.org.
[edit] Transcript
- Narrator: Of the potential responses to my brakes' failure, I did not choose the best.
- [A cliff is visible, with a car flying off it.]
- Voice from car: Hello, you're on Car Talk.
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The shirt would have been even better if they would have put the alt-text underneath! -- mwburden 70.91.188.49 20:53, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
