Talk:This Week in God

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Is the "sacred chalice of holy water" quote actually in any of the videos on Comedy Central's site? I only see "Now, with chalice holder! I no longer have to search for my holy grail." --Interiot 03:57, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Are you serious???
An article for a segment in a TV show? What in God's name is this doing in Wikipedia? IMHO: This television-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by deleting it 71.141.124.124 17:21, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Deletionist begone! Possibly the most well-known and popular segment in one of the most popular and noteworthy television shows currently on the air, and moreover a rather nice-quality article (the links are a fantastically helpful touch) that I would certainly not qualify as a "stub", despite the tag on it. Could use some touching up, but it no more merits deletion than the White House does for being "just a building". Whether a certain article merits inclusion or not depends on the specific noteworthiness or lack of it of that subject, not on whether the article is about a TV show segment, a piece of furniture, a garbageman, or a tree. Any subject can be noteworthy in special circumstances, even ones that usually aren't. -Silence 17:51, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
 * How many separate pages are there for SNL sketches? (answer: a lot)  --Interiot 18:26, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
 * While deletion may be excessive, you've got to admit that the level of detail in this article is embarassingly fannish. (Not quite as embarassingly fannish as analogizing TWiG with the White House, but close.) While the bare factual information about the existence of the segment could conceivably be considered encyclopedic, I fail to see how a painfully detailed verbal description of fundamentally visual humor adds anything but sheer overweening lameness to the entry. While this may be widespread on Wikipedia, as the preposterous sycophancy of the SNL folks gives credence to, that doesn't make it worthy of an encyclopedia.Sparohok 21:13, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I did not compare TWiG to the White House. I used reductio ad absurdum to illustrate that saying that something is "just an X" is a very weak argument, because there are almost always exceptions to notions that a certain type of article subject matter isn't noteworthy, and because it's deceptive to try to recharacterize an article by ignoring all possible significance it would have and distilling it to just its type of subject, be it "just a building", "just a toy," "just a book" or "just a band." Whether something is noteworthy should be based on this specific instance, not on broad biases against a certain subject matter. -Silence 17:25, 13 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Agree. It wouldn't hurt if a few of the irreverent details were trimmed or rewritten.  --Interiot 21:26, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Incidentally, I've been looking at the SNL pages and despite my snarky comments I think they do show a modicum of restraint. The SNL sketches with their own entries are generally pop culture icons. I don't watch SNL, but I'm familiar with most of these sketches, through memetic osmosis I guess. I think it's pretty clear that TWiG, while hilarious, is not and never will be a pop culture icon. Sparohok 23:03, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Copy Silence's comments; TWiG is alot more notable than many articles that make it through WP:AFD. If this one ever gets sent over there, please let me know. I'll vote Keep. Karmafist 23:12, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Beep...boop...boop
I have a suspicion that Jon is making the beeping sounds off camera. Can someone who has seen a taping confirm this?
 * Aren't the beeping sounds exactly the same everytime, meaning that they're pre-recorded?  --bbatsell  |  &laquo; give me a ring &raquo;  23:09, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
 * And they're timed pretty well to match the video changes. They've got to be pre-recorded. (though I think they may intentionally sound corny and human-generated).  --Interiot 14:25, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Stephen Colbert provides the sound effects... I recall an episode when he was commenting on the effect and made the sound himself. Surprisingly it sounded the same when he did it M@$+@ Ju 23:38, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * It is Colbert. During a Q&A before the Dec 8 taping of the Colbert Report, Colbert mentioned the "exclusive licensing" agreement but went on to say that he will always be the "ghost in the God machine," and obliged by performing a flawless "beebooboobeeboobooboobooboobeebooboobeeboobooboobooboobeebooboobeebooboobooboobee...booo...boop." NTK 19:19, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the info guys.