Lio by Mark Tatulli for June 18, 2017

Nice try, TV.

I’m the slime oozing out from your TV set.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-sREpqDiUo

Maybe read a magazine or… uh, never mind.

You’re not supposed to let people know you’re fooling them.

There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to – The Outer Limits.

Uh, I meant to make you read that book.

The Twonky left Lio with a working remote control, a major error, and so its scheme for World Conquest was aborted.

The aliens in They Live thought they were more clever, but failed to reckon with Rowdy Roddy’s response to missing his chewing gum fix….

Perhaps this demonstrates the use of reverse psychology in an ad from a publishing company.

I was going to comment with “I have come here to chew bubblegum …” except Sisyphos already beat me to it.