This has to be my favorite kids' television moment of the month, if not the year.
I Tivo'd Today two weeks ago because Laurie Berkner was scheduled to perform two songs. Zoey is a big Laurie fan and Zed always turns to the television when he hears one of her videos. And, believe it or not, her music's actually pretty decent, especially for children's music.
Anyway, Al Roker was sitting on the couch betwixt his two female cohosts. Sorry, I've never really watched Today so I don't know their names. Actually, I don't understand why anyone watches Today. It's basically just three hours' worth of recipes, celebrities pimping their latest vehicles, boring human interest stories, inane chatter, and, for some unknown reason, weather reports every fifteen minutes. Christ, if anyone needs the weather report that badly, couldn't they just switch it to The Weather Channel?
So they broadcast a clip of the next day's Today's musical guest, Hi-5, which, oddly enough, I can also stomach. Here is a transcript of Al Roker watching this clip:
Wow. I haven't seen them. Wow, that's freaky. Let's look at some more of that. Whoo. Wow.
They cut back to Roker and the cohosts and Roker's sitting on the edge of his seat, staring at the monitor. It was quite obvious Roker was enamored with the girls. So the kind people in the control booth began playing another clip just for Al. Here's what he had to say this time:
Oh yeah. Karaoke for the kids. Wow. Little something for the dads jumping around there, too. That's all right.
Which was met with nervous laughter from his female cohosts.
Needless to say, Al wasn't allowed any onscreen time with the girls of Hi-5 (sounds like a Playboy pictorial) the next day.
