The refresh on those old TVs just made him look one color.
He was oscillating at above the standard crt refresh rate, to even out the tone. if you watch old episodes on a new tv with 60fps you will see that Mr Ed is both stripy and vibrating.
Did you know Mr Ed was actually a zebra and a zebra looks like a horse on old-fashioned black and white TV
I was like "that can't be right" and then I found the Snopes article about it and learned a number of things!
Though I still don't understand the tech reasoning behind it at all...I would've assumed a zebra would have appeared striped on a black and white TV? And then I found this screenshot which is apparently from one of the Mr. Ed episodes, and....????????
Did you know Mr Ed was actually a zebra and a zebra looks like a horse on old-fashioned black and white TV
I was like "that can't be right" and then I found the Snopes article about it and learned a number of things!
Though I still don't understand the tech reasoning behind it at all...I would've assumed a zebra would have appeared striped on a black and white TV? And then I found this screenshot which is apparently from one of the Mr. Ed episodes, and....????????
I feel like I'm being trolled
help what is happening
Oh fuck we're being Berenstein Bearsed in real time.
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I think it's key to point out that Snopes has it as a Lost Legend, meaning they could neither confirm nor deny so they repeated an interesting story.
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3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
Anyway if you look at the morphology of the ears and snout he's very obviously not a zebra.
I think it's key to point out that Snopes has it as a Lost Legend, meaning they could neither confirm nor deny so they repeated an interesting story.
Yeah their description of "Lost Legend" didn't help at all hahaha, I was trying to figure out what they were trying to say....
I just noticed they mentioned the zebra they used was a "Grevy’s zebra", and looking those up, I can now see what happened. The Grevy zebra has stripes very thin and very close together, so I could see that blending together on old TV's...while the zebras in the above photo are a different kind that have the black snoots and heavy striping that shows up clearly
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I think it's key to point out that Snopes has it as a Lost Legend, meaning they could neither confirm nor deny so they repeated an interesting story.
These legends aren’t really lost — we’ve known where they were the whole time! We created The Repository of Lost Legends (TRoLL for short) for those of you who don’t let the truth get in the way of a good story. If you have a taste for the unusual and arcane (and can suspend your disbelief just a little), sample some of these precious gems.
No, I think it’s because they like fucking around with people on some things
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I’ve never really seen the show but didn’t they do a lot of tight frame closeups when Mr Ed was striking the ground or whatever? Those could have been the hooves of any animal.
Probably a hippo.
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I’ve never really seen the show but didn’t they do a lot of tight frame closeups when Mr Ed was striking the ground or whatever? Those could have been the hooves of any animal.
Probably a hippo.
Right. A hippogryph.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I’ve never really seen the show but didn’t they do a lot of tight frame closeups when Mr Ed was striking the ground or whatever? Those could have been the hooves of any animal.
Probably a hippo.
That would make sense, hippos are often used to stand in for close shots because of their easygoing nature and trainability.
I’ve never really seen the show but didn’t they do a lot of tight frame closeups when Mr Ed was striking the ground or whatever? Those could have been the hooves of any animal.
Probably a hippo.
That would make sense, hippos are often used to stand in for close shots because of their easygoing nature and trainability.
Oh yeah. Famously chill.
Most manatees on film are actually hippos.
Also wow I did the whole "sometimes our brains drop extra words at the ends of sentences" but with the entire phrase "(TRoLL for short)"
I somehow missed that key detail
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I’ve never really seen the show but didn’t they do a lot of tight frame closeups when Mr Ed was striking the ground or whatever? Those could have been the hooves of any animal.
Probably a hippo.
That would make sense, hippos are often used to stand in for close shots because of their easygoing nature and trainability.
Oh yeah. Famously chill.
Most manatees on film are actually hippos.
That’s actually an urban legend. Manatees get their names from being large men wearing t—shirts, easy mistake to make.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
I’ve never really seen the show but didn’t they do a lot of tight frame closeups when Mr Ed was striking the ground or whatever? Those could have been the hooves of any animal.
Probably a hippo.
That would make sense, hippos are often used to stand in for close shots because of their easygoing nature and trainability.
Oh yeah. Famously chill.
Most manatees on film are actually hippos.
Well CHRIST of course so, are you kidding you'd have to be insane to go near a manatee. Fucking murder tornadoes they are.
My grandfather worked on a TV set back when he was a young dude and apparently they had some kind of matte paint that they would use to cover up reflective surfaces to keep them from creating a sort of black flare on screen. You can see this on some low budget productions from the early days of film.
Basically what I'm saying is that zebras are aluminum and shiny and they only show up on camera if coated with toxic chemicals that eventually kill the zebra it is terribly sad.
@Desert Leviathan after WAY too much time spent on this...it is done.
On the down side, I'm not sure what I wrote is especially good. But on the plus side, it's extremely long! And is a parody of a really depressing old poem!
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the one i always remember getting bandied about is that they would make the horse lips move by poking him in the butthole with a carrot
which doesn't hold up to even the slightest scrutiny but that's always the mr ed urban legend i remember hearing
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I heard about Ed’s butthole carrot from this, the Penny Arcade webcomic.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I know I'd probably have a few things to say if someone poked my butthole with a carrot.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
the one i always remember getting bandied about is that they would make the horse lips move by poking him in the butthole with a carrot
which doesn't hold up to even the slightest scrutiny but that's always the mr ed urban legend i remember hearing
They really milked reactions from Mr Ed by implementing anticipation into the process, having the handler gleefully cry “I’m not touching you! I’m not touching you!” a half dozen times before insertion.
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And we do and you can't prove otherwise
I'm not the person who brought up Equus in this thread.
But if we have to do this, we should make sure we do it right.
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Zonkey, zonkey, zonkey-ey-ey!
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He was oscillating at above the standard crt refresh rate, to even out the tone. if you watch old episodes on a new tv with 60fps you will see that Mr Ed is both stripy and vibrating.
I was like "that can't be right" and then I found the Snopes article about it and learned a number of things!
Though I still don't understand the tech reasoning behind it at all...I would've assumed a zebra would have appeared striped on a black and white TV? And then I found this screenshot which is apparently from one of the Mr. Ed episodes, and....????????
I feel like I'm being trolled
help what is happening
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Oh fuck we're being Berenstein Bearsed in real time.
Yeah their description of "Lost Legend" didn't help at all hahaha, I was trying to figure out what they were trying to say....
I just noticed they mentioned the zebra they used was a "Grevy’s zebra", and looking those up, I can now see what happened. The Grevy zebra has stripes very thin and very close together, so I could see that blending together on old TV's...while the zebras in the above photo are a different kind that have the black snoots and heavy striping that shows up clearly
No, I think it’s because they like fucking around with people on some things
I’ve never really seen the show but didn’t they do a lot of tight frame closeups when Mr Ed was striking the ground or whatever? Those could have been the hooves of any animal.
Probably a hippo.
Right. A hippogryph.
goddamn it internet I swear to god
That would make sense, hippos are often used to stand in for close shots because of their easygoing nature and trainability.
Oh yeah. Famously chill.
Most manatees on film are actually hippos.
which doesn't hold up to even the slightest scrutiny but that's always the mr ed urban legend i remember hearing
I somehow missed that key detail
That’s actually an urban legend. Manatees get their names from being large men wearing t—shirts, easy mistake to make.
Well CHRIST of course so, are you kidding you'd have to be insane to go near a manatee. Fucking murder tornadoes they are.
All of Florida can confirm that manatees will blend.
Just don’t breathe these!
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Basically what I'm saying is that zebras are aluminum and shiny and they only show up on camera if coated with toxic chemicals that eventually kill the zebra it is terribly sad.
I'm not disappointed.
Keep up the good work, everyone.
On the down side, I'm not sure what I wrote is especially good. But on the plus side, it's extremely long! And is a parody of a really depressing old poem!
You know what they say, an infinite amount of chicoblue’s fucked in the ass with a carrot will eventually spout works of Shakespeare
They really milked reactions from Mr Ed by implementing anticipation into the process, having the handler gleefully cry “I’m not touching you! I’m not touching you!” a half dozen times before insertion.
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