It's obvious from watching Kare 11 at the fair that a lot of people love Sven Sundgaard. And then some of these people google to learn about Sven, and some of them end up at this lousy blog that is rather rarely about Sven. Sorry, jackasses. We've got mixed feelings. He tells us the weather.
Here's one reason we don't like Sven Sundgaard: his interactions with rubes at the fair are horrible. He usually gets out of them their names and where they are from...and that's it. Nothing else. "What's your name?" "Rube." "Rube, where are you from?" "Rubetown." "That's great." And then Sven might say something about where the rube is from, but he's on to the next rube. "And who are you, where you from?" "I'm Ruby, from Rubeville." "Great, great, good to see you out at the fair."
That's pretty much it. Now, I know he's talking to rubes, and most of them aren't going to have anything useful to contribute anyway (not that they might not be interesting people with intelligent things to say, but they're not going to contribute much in the few seconds Kare 11 sticks a microphone in front of their faces at the fair). The fault is with whatever producers think a good use of news time is having a weatherman go around finding out names and hometowns of random people in the audience. But though Sven has improved at finding folksy things to say, he's generally ready to quickly move on to the next rube once he's got the name and location.
Why do they do this? How can this matter? How can anybody possibly think this is interesting? Even the people who know these rubes stating their names and hometowns aren't interested. All of these people could easily play P.O.W.s in a movie, just reciting their names and dog tag numbers and nothing else. But the news producers are pretty stupid for deciding to have the weatherman go around getting people to state their names and hometowns and nothing else, and Sven is rather bad at it.
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Don't blame Sven for the idiocy of his producers/director. Sven's pretty good at delivering the weather forecast, which is all I expect. As you've pointed out in previous entries, most local newscasts spend way too much time on the weather and they seem to expect that their weather forecasters will be beloved, worshipped, idolized, and fawned over by the rubes. Again, not Sven's fault.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in northern Indiana a very long time ago, before Doppler radar and Google Earth. One of the local stations had a sock puppet as their weather guy. No lie! He was named Donovan and his segment was called "Donovan Duz The Weather." He was hilarious. He said "humilfidy" and "cold affront" and "barometrical pressure." We got a decent weather forecast and a few laughs. I miss Donovan and his total lack of pretense.
That's awesome!!! Sven should get a sock puppet.
ReplyDeleteI remember the show Sifl and Ollie. They were sock puppets. There is something that is just super funny about sck puppets.
What a creative way to give information. If anyone did that here, everyone would choose to watch that newscast.
Who cares. Sven's little flex routine was hot!!! That boy is built.
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