5.1.3. The Fox 1995 Summer Replacement Series (TV Nation Episode)
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This article is from the Michael Moore FAQ, by Edward Champion edchamp@slip.net with numerous contributions by others.
5.1.3. The Fox 1995 Summer Replacement Series (TV Nation Episode)
Producer: Kathleen Glynn
Supervising Producer: Jerry Kupfer
Executive Producer: Michael Moore
First Show (July 21, 1995)
We're #1
LOUIS FOR PRESIDENT: Anybody can run for president in this country,
so TV Nation registers ex-con Louis Bruno as a legitimate
candidate for next year's election
BEACH PARTY: Janeane Garofalo finds that some public beaches are
really private, so she organizes her own beach party
CRIME SCENE CLEANUP: Louis Theroux finds out what it really takes
to clean up crime
SLAVES: Rusty Cundieff discovers that Mississippi is just getting
around to abolishing slavery, so he goes there to get some
slaves of his own
CRACKERS: Michael Moore takes a bite out of corporate crime with
TV Nation's crime-fighting chicken!
TV Nation POLLS
Source: Widgery & Associates
Margin of Error: +/- 9%
Out of 204 Americans surveyed,
- 60% of Americans say that if they could push a button that would
make Larry King disappear, they would "keep pushing it and not
stop."
- 37% of Americans agree that while they would hate being British,
they wouldn't mind having a British accent.
- More Americans say they would rather spend time in a jacuzzi with
Dan Rather than Tom Brokaw. Of those who want to tub with Dan,
10% have no health insurance.
[This episode is available on THE BEST OF TV Nation, tape two.]
Second Show (July 28, 1995)
Payback Night
KGB: Michael Moore hires a KGB agent to spy for TV Nation
NEA: Now that the National Endowment of the Arts is dead, Karen
Duffy visits the other free non-government sponsored museums.
JERUSALEM SYNDROME: Louis Theroux finds out why so many tourists
are crazy for Jerusalem
JOHNS OF JUSTICE: Karen Duffy finds lines, lines, and more lines
and brings relief to women around the country with the Johns
of Justice
A-BOMB: TV Nation visits a used car dealer who went to a government
auction and came home with a nuclear bomb factory
TV Nation POLLS
Source: Widgery & Associates
Margin of Error: +/- 9%
Out of 151 Americans surveyed,
- 11% of people who have tried Prozac- would like to see Dan Quayle
make a comeback because "Al Gore just isn't funny enough".
- 36% of college graduates think that there are virtually no female
serial killers because women "just aren't aggressive enough".
Third Show (August 4, 1995)
War Night
CRACKERS IN PHILLY: Crackers the Corporate Crime Fighting Chicken
seeks justice in the City of Brotherly Love
COBB COUNTY: Michael Moore goes to Newt Gingrich Country to get Big
Government off it's back
ELECTRONIC SNIFFER: Louis Theroux tracks down the electronic nose
and finds out why it's a threat to humans
HELLTOWN: Jeff Stilson visits a town that's going to hell
SCHOOL OF ASSASSINS: An exploration of a government-funded school
for assassins
TV Nation POLLS
Source: Widgery & Asssociates
Margin of Error: +/- 9%
- 12% of those polled believe the success of actor David
Hasselhoff, star of Baywatch, is due at least in part to
"dealings with the devil."
- 45% of Americans believe that if space aliens could pick up
C-SPAN and see Sonny Bono speaking on the floor of Congress,
they would never visit Earth.
- 17% of college graduates would punch themselves really hard in
the face for $50.
- 28% of those who said they were "normal" Americans would like to
be King of Great Britain, but not if it meant marrying the
Queen.
Fourth Show (August 11, 1995)
Love Night
MILITA: Michael Moore goes on maneuvers with the Michigan
Mitlitia
AQUARIUMS: Jeff Stilson profiles the latest plan to save America's
cities - brightly colored fish!
AMERICA'S MOST WANTED: Michael Moore meets the face that launched
a thousand squad cars
KGB: TV Nation send KGB agent Yuri Shvets to spy on our competition
TV Nation POLLS
Source: Widgery & Associates
Margin of Error: +/- 9%
- 44% of Republicans say they would watch "Nightline" if it had a
band and an opening comedy monologue.
- If Jesus came back and saw that Pat Robertson was his
spokesperson, 46% of Americans think that we'd all be in big
trouble.
- 42% of Americans feel that Kato Kaelin should be a passenger on
the next space shuttle, whether he wants to go or not.
[This episode is available on THE BEST OF TV Nation, tape two.]
Fifth Show (August 25, 1995)
Canada Night
CONTRACT WITH AMERICA: Michael Moore enforces the Contract With
America
TED NUGENT: Louis Theroux shoots guns with the newest NRA Board
member, Ted Nugent
FALKLANDS: Karen Duffy travels to Britain to turn a coal mining
town into part of Argentina
CRACKERS IN ST. LOUIS: Crackers the Corporate Crime Fighting
Chicken ruffles some feathers in St. Louis
TV Nation POLLS
Source: Widgery & Associates
Margin of Error: +/- 9%
- 26% of those in possession of a firearm believe that the second
amendment protects their right to buy explosive fertilizer.
- 81% of those who have seen two or more "Police Academy" movies
believe that O.J. is innocent.
- 29% of those surveyed think that the guy who first put the
"Great" in front of "Britain" probably meant it as a joke.
Sixth Show (September 1, 1995)
MIKE HUGS ALL 50 GOVERNORS: Mike touches power by trying to hug all
50 governors
PSY-OPS AT OJ: It worked on Noriega; and it sort of worked on David
Koresh. Louis Theroux tries out psychological warfare at the
O.J. Simpson trial
ROSEMONT: Rusty Cundieff visits Rosemont, Illinois, a town that
decides to keep the rest of the world out by putting police
and gates at it's city limits
NEW UNIONS: You can look for the Union label, but you can't touch!
TV Nation meets some newly organized members of the labor
movement
ENDANGERED WHITE MEN: TV Nation feels the pain of a vanishing breed
- white men
AMERICA'S MOST WANTED PART 2: A follow-up to the most dangerous
face in America, Brian Anthony Harris.
FAN MAIL: Louis Bruno and his campaign manager read viewer mail.
TV Nation POLLS
Source: Widgery & Associates.
Margin of Error: +/- 9%
- 16% of all Americans believe that the world is out to get them.
Of those, 46% are gun owners.
- One third of American women agree that baseball was more exiting
when it was on strike.
- 4% of Americans remember exactly where they were when "JFK" the
movie was shot.
Seventh Show
(aired September 8, 1995 in USA)
Bully Reunion Night
CRACKERS IN DETROIT: Crackers tackles media mergers and goes to
Detroit to stop two newspapers from merging.
WEATHERMAN: You don't have to be a weatherman to know which way the
wind blows, but it helps. Rusty Cundieff presents the TV
Nation Weatherman
SINNERS: Sinners can be winners with Janeane Garofalo's consumer
guide to the confessional
YURI: What happened to the Democratic Party? Yuri Shvets, TV
Nation's KGB spy, finds out
IVAN AND ANDY: Meet Ivan and Andy. They want to put people in jail
for watching TV. Jeff Stilson finds out why folks in Britain
need a license to watch the tube
TV Nation POLLS
Source: Widgery and Associates
Margin of Error: +/- 9%
- Of those who said they've had a good cry in the past six months,
42% were Democrats, 27% were Republican, and 54% said they
believe in UFOs.
- 28% of Americans think that our army's high tech military
equipment is too expensive to risk in combat.
(Note: In addition, there was an unaired eighth episode on FOX,
which aired on the BBC. This episode contained several segments
which were deemed too controversial here, such as Bush's
involvement with the S&L scandal, etc. There also may be another
Year-End special aired on FOX. A segment of this was shown with
one of Michael's appearances on Conan O'Brien.)
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