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This is Tim Lake and Renee Chenault-Fattah, in, uh, cartoon form. Now Irresistible Ella isn’t the only cartoon anchor the station has. I don’t know what to think of this. honestly.
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dmac | 10:03 AM | 0 Comments
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Dec
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My enthusiasm for NBC 10’s Irresistible Ella has waned since she (”she”) was introduced in May, and it appears the NBC10.com staff has tired of it as well, not updating quite as often as they used to.
But no matter. Ella won all of our hearts upon her debut with her robotic feminine voice and her on-sight reports from Citizens Bank Park, The Late Show With David Letterman, The Spectrum, a boxing ring with Mike Tyson in it and The White House.
Ella also seems to be still suffering from some sort of skin cancer, since she’s been sunburned since at least late August.
But, really, Ella makes the list — as our first, but not last, non-human winner — simply because NBC 10 bought a license to use that Vhost thing (or whatever) and actually put it up on a news website. And her reports are still mostly culled from wire services.
But, hey, would we expect anything less?
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Irresistible Ella [NBC 10]
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dmac | 3:15 PM | 1 Comment
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 • Late last week, Brian Tierney took questions online from readers. Aside from the usual stupidity — someone asking if Michael Smerconish could edit the Inquirer, a person wanting a gift shop/waiting room at 400 N. Broad that people could read the paper in, etc. — Tierney provides this comment in response to someone who reads Metro instead of the Daily News: I’ve always thought Metro was a little overpriced ;)” OMG LOL! [Philly.com]
• Despite an absolutely atrocious team, the Phillies have three All-Stars: Chase Utley, Ryan Howard and Tom Gordon. And at the halfway point, the Phillies have a 37-44 record, their worst first half since 2002. It’s okay, though, the Phillies are set for the second half after trading for 5-foot-7, 175-pound F. Castro! Okay, it’s Fabio Castro, which is almost as funny as if the Phillies signed Fidel. [Inquirer, Phillies.com]
• Philadelphia loses its biggest celebrity: Lil’ Kim was released from prison this morning. Throngs of fans — and, assumedly, Dan Gross — greeted her today. Huzzah! [AP/Philly.com]
• Faye Flam’s Carnal Knowledge column celebrates its first year today with a quiz about sex. And the first question? “1. What does a male honeybee do after he finishes having sex with the queen?” I think I’ll stick to worrying about human sex, thanks. [Inquirer]
• A group of people ordered cheesesteaks at Geno’s the other day in Spanish, which means we’ve hit a tipping point: The (hardcore) protesters of Geno’s have finally gotten more annoying than Joe Vento himself. (Eh, maybe. Definitely not as annoying as Vento’s more vociferous supporters, though.) But, eh, we’re sure the big guy will find a way to tip that scale back to his side any day now. [Inquirer]
• A meeting of the minds! The Bucks County Courier Times‘ J.D. Mullane and Lyndon Larouche! [Bucks County Courier Times]
• And, really, what would a day be without Irresistible Ella? She’s somehow reporting in front of a static fireworks display. [NBC 10]
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dmac | 9:56 AM | 8 Comments
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Jun
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It’s been almost two months since NBC 10 introduced their virtual anchor, Irresistible Ella.
In typical NBC 10 — and, to an even greater extent, NBC10.com — fashion, it’s absolutely ridiculous. It’s a news organization, a TV station, with a freaking cartoon character who narrated a news story updated every weekday on the website. Somewhere, someone decided this was a good idea, that this was something that would interest their readers, that this was a benefit for the viewers! Probably more than one person, too. (You might say that someone, somewhere — more than one person, even — decided that hiring me to write this every weekday was a good idea. To that I say: Touché.)
Really, though, what do we expect? It’s a TV news station’s website — we expect the ridiculous and such. Today’s Ella news brief hit new levels, though. There was nothing all that weird about it — except I didn’t already know the story Ella was narrating — but look at the photo up there: She’s outside, in DC, so she has a raincoat on. I’ll repeat it: NBC 10 put their cartoon anchor in a raincoat because the photo she was reporting in front of — in the fictional cartoon world — was outside, at the White House, and it’s raining there.
There’s nothing left to say but: Well played, NBC 10. Well played, indeed.
Irresistible Ella [NBC 10]
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dmac | 3:44 PM | 2 Comments
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Jun
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Continuing our borderlining-on-obsessive coverage of Irresistible Ella, the cartoon newscaster on NBC 10’s website, a reader notified us of her interesting getup today:
Is she wearing a peach-colored ringer shirt or is she naked? If the latter, where the hell is her cleavage?
Irresistible Ella [NBC 10]
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dmac | 11:14 AM | 1 Comment
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May
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Seriously, are we supposed to believe this is some sort of magical time traveling news anchor who can go back in time to find Mike Tyson back when he was knocked down during a boxing match? Geeze, people.
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dmac | 12:52 PM | 2 Comments
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