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I mean, seriously. He came off like a creepy zombie on TV last night. Somebody close to him needs to have an honest conversation with him and let him know it's really creepy and also kinda sad.

I appreciate that it's difficult to do TV after having a massive stroke, but that's why people who have difficultly speaking don't normally do TV. It's very unsettling and uncomfortable to watch him slur through the countdown, and if you're recall, last year he counted wrong.

Am I being too insensitive here?


Here's somebody who has captured my sentiments pretty well:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/articl ... kward.html

It's one of those situations where I feel embarassed for him and get really uncomfortable to the point of not being able to watch it anymore. It seems as though the other hosts/announcers felt similarly but are paid well enough to attempt disguising their discomfort. I kind of feel like a dick for thinking this way, but after viewing the whole countdown last year (12, 45, 10, 9, apple, squirrel...uhhh 3...happy 9/11!) I feel that it's time for the ol' Dickster to RETIRE.

Has anybody else had the thought that 50 years from now, Ryan Seacrest is going to be in the same position? Maybe not a stroke specifically, but he'll be old as shiz, and I don't imagine him getting replaced any time soon. When was the last time anyone saw Dick Clark outside of New Year's Eve? 1983? I wouldn't know, I wasn't even born yet.

As for Dick, er Mr. Clark, I didn't watch the countdown. I was too busy being pathetic in a dark room by myself.

Been sick so I slept for some 16 hours yesterday but specifically woke up to get frightened by Dick Clark as per my annual tradition. It's creepy and I find entertainment in that.

Directly related, Dick Clark + awesome bass fuzz:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFfKWfJ8Tc8[/youtube]

snipelfritz wrote: I was too busy being pathetic in a dark room by myself.

Yeah, pretty much this.

I wonder if he has some contract with the mob, so he has to do the countdown every year or they eat his family or something...

It seems painful for him to do the countdown, so that's the only explanation I can think of.

theactionindex wrote: after viewing the whole countdown last year (12, 45, 10, 9, apple, squirrel...uhhh 3...happy 9/11!)

foomanfat wrote:

snipelfritz wrote: I was too busy being pathetic in a dark room by myself.

Yeah, pretty much this.

Did you make any cool photos?

futuresailors wrote:I wonder if he has some contract with the mob, so he has to do the countdown every year or they eat his family or something...

Actually, he owns all the rights to the "franchise", so if ABC wants to have "Dick Clark's Rockin New Year's Eve", then Dick is the one calling the shots on who goes on and who doesn't. So if he wants to trot his old, zombie-like ass on there and slur through the countdown, nobody can really stop him.

culturejam wrote:

futuresailors wrote:I wonder if he has some contract with the mob, so he has to do the countdown every year or they eat his family or something...

Actually, he owns all the rights to the "franchise", so if ABC wants to have "Dick Clark's Rockin New Year's Eve", then Dick is the one calling the shots on who goes on and who doesn't. So if he wants to trot his old, zombie-like ass on there and slur through the countdown, nobody can really stop him.

That. Is. Awesome.
Zombie new years eve.

i hope he does it until he dies.

i like the creepy unsettling-ness maybe one year someone'll organize a new year's zombie walk and it'll have it's proper context

unownunown wrote:i hope he does it until he dies.

i like the creepy unsettling-ness maybe one year someone'll organize a new year's zombie walk and it'll have it's proper context

Hopefully he doesn't die while doing it. Now that would be awkward.

I hope they set him up with a Lenin-like see-through casket. Then they can wheel his old bag o' bones out for the countdown every year.

culturejam wrote:I hope they set him up with a Lenin-like see-through casket. Then they can wheel his old bag o' bones out for the countdown every year.

You should send him a telegraph with that idea. I bet he'd go for it.

futuresailors wrote:You should send him a telegraph with that idea. I bet he'd go for it.