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CTV Should Try Bootleg Fireworks

The Roommate and I reopened a pandora’s box called Canadian network television today. We haven’t had cable for years, but Plex has a CTVGlobeMedia plugin that lets us watch The Colbert Report over the Internet, with commercials. As the Cylons used to say: “All this has happened before, and all this will happen again.”

Except this time, it’s a real pain in the ass to fast forward through the ads. Although we were safely within the Internet’s bossom of choice, we were also sitting on the couch and the keyboard was waaay over there. We had to sit patiently, all 80s-like.

Shell kind of ruined the fun during the breaks and the Caramilk Key campaign wasn’t much better, but at least the Stampede reminded us we were being geo-targeted and that choice was only a click awaaay over there.

Do you know what would have been an awesome break between Colbert’s SuperPac and Formidable Opponent? Yup; one minute of bootleg fireworks.