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June 15th, 2009
We Got It All On UHF
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Ephram? Paw? Sweet Apple IIe of Appalachia, it’s The Technobillies!
Ephram and Paw get their satellite service from a special program provider that caters directly to those of a certain cultural status. It’s 400 channels of reality-game shows hosted by Jeff Foxworthy.
This is a friendly reminder to call your grandma and explain why her “tv box got all snowy” and she “can’t watch Maury and The Wheel“.
- FCC says DTV transition going smoothly, few TVs shot up
- A Video Diary Detailing Switch To Digital TV As It Happened
- Digital TV’s history in America: the DTV transition nearly cost the USA its technological freedom
- Digital TV Hot Line Gets 700,000 Calls Over Switch
- Don’t Forget: Your TV Might Not Work Anymore
- Digital TV transition: 12 hours in, how are things going?
I doubt many of you were negatively afftected by the analog Tv shut-off, so how about we just make up other shows that would be on Ephram and Paw’s satellite service?
Tags: tech, technobillies, tv
June 15th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
lol @ gynosynchronous
The Technobillies win as always – nice job dude!
June 15th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
"Cast yur moronic eyes roof-ward, EphramI"
Ah jaysus, I'm glad they're back.
June 15th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
I guess it's out of the question to suggest that people who can't buy and install their own converters should instead go buy a $10 radio…
June 15th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
Unsolicited suggestion time!
You should have a "random comic" button on your header, or with the nav buttons below the comic. I like when webcomics have these, because sometimes you just want a quick hit of funny.
June 15th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
I expect compensation for the use of what is obviously my family in this comic.
June 15th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
CSI Hoskin’s Corner – This week’s episode: The investigation team, Luke and Zeke and Zeke’s dog who’s also named Luke, finally get their DNA test kit in the mail only to find out that everyone’s matches.
June 15th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Gynencosynchronicity is a concept I would welcome with open arms. It'd be worth the week of hell knowing that ALL women were giving that hell all in the same week.
Great comic title, BTW.
June 15th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
Somewhere, someplace there is a rural community called Geneticbottleneck.
June 15th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
The 24 hour Beverly Hillbillies channel. Except they don't know that it's not real, they just assume it's another celebrity reality show.
June 15th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Please God, if there is any justice in this poor excuse for a world, let the word "transmogrifisplosion" get into the dictionary.
June 15th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Seandalf, the world would come to an end. Or at least mankind would.
June 15th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Top Roadkill Chef.
America's Next Top Dollar Store Employee.
June 15th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
This must have come up before somewhere. The phrase "Ladies, synchronize your periods!" was already on my list of "phrases I need to incorporate into something someday" and I have no idea what inspired me to put it there.
June 15th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Our attempts at coping with the DTV changeover mostly involve doing diddly-squat too, not because we have cable or satellite but because everyone in my family, bar none, is too damn lazy to actually do anything about it. We have one digital TV in the house and converter boxes on all the others, but of course none of the antennas are powerful enough to actually pick up half the channels.
Oh, and we have a DVD recorder hooked up that nobody wants to learn how to use. (Would you believe subscription-free DVRs don't even exist? Madness!)
June 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Oh, and now that song is stuck in my freaking head.
YOU CAN WATCH US ALL DAY
YOU CAN WATCH US ALL NIGHT
YOU CAN WATCH US ANY TIME THAT YOU PLEASE
YOU CAN SIT AROUND AND STARE AT YOUR PICTURE TUBE
TILL YOUR BRAIN TURNS INTO COTTAGE CHEEEEEEEESE
June 15th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
I wanna "Baby Jesus in Outer Space" t-shirt!
June 15th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
I actually was affected by the switchover because I'm too cheap to pay $60 a month to time warner to get the 8 cable channels I'm interested in.
I have a digital box that I bought several years ago when they were very expensive on one TV, then I have a digital tuner in my desktop computer. Both are hooked up to indoor antennas.
And everything was fine except one of my stations decided to move their digital signal from the UHF band to the VHF band. I tried both antennas, and I can't get that channel to show up anymore. So thanks, WLUK, I've apparently now lost the ability to see you.
June 15th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
[...] Succinct explanation of digital TV transition: "The broadcasters beamulate their signals up to Baby Jesus in outer space" http://ur1.ca/5qnl [...]
June 16th, 2009 at 1:02 am
I like the "ugly closeup" a la Ren and Stimpy in the middle panel.
also Baby Jesus in Outer Space sound like a title for an awesome shitty movie.
June 16th, 2009 at 3:39 am
I am way too young to have watched UHF but I have heard the song. Wait, what does UHF stand for? We don't use that terminology in Australia.
All we have is Foxtel and Austar and stuff unless you watch Free to Air, we don't get half the crazy shows you Americans get. Not that one would want to watch all those trashy reality shows when we could be watching The Gruen Transfer…
June 16th, 2009 at 4:05 am
If baby Jesus and or god beamed down 500 channels of television from space for us to watch I might consider worship….as it stands….nope.
June 16th, 2009 at 4:05 am
If baby Jesus beamed down 500 channels of television from space for us to watch I might consider worship….as it stands….nope.
June 16th, 2009 at 4:07 am
Isn't it funny how Ren and Stimpy envisioned how people would look on HD TV.
June 16th, 2009 at 4:19 am
They do….they're call a media pc with a TV tuner video card….not that you want to go that route but that the only alternative.
June 16th, 2009 at 4:44 am
UHF=Ultra High Frequency
June 16th, 2009 at 4:59 am
Note to god…buy Direct TV…
June 16th, 2009 at 7:36 am
This cracked me up big time. Hahaha
Kinda surprised though that this is only the second time that Ephram and Paw graced the pages of this site.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:51 am
"Queer Eye Punched by the Straight Guy"?
I feel guilty just for typing that one.
June 16th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
The reference to the "wok" seems awfully cosmopolitan for the hill-billys. I think he'd more likely to refer to it as a, "Tekmogasmatronic Ear'Horn."
June 16th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
When people were crying foul back in Jan/Feb about the conversion and how SO many people would be left behind… you know, because they could figure out how to get the FREE conversion boxes that the government provided… well, I was thinking, hey, here's a new list of people for the next round of supervirus-based eugenics!
June 16th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
When people were crying foul back in Jan/Feb about the conversion and how SO many people would be left behind… you know, because they couldn't figure out how to get the FREE conversion boxes that the government provided… well, I was thinking, hey, here's a new list of people for the next round of supervirus-based eugenics!
June 16th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
agreed: I need to discover a way to use that in casual conversation
June 16th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Law N' Order?
or Law and Ordure? Sorry, that one's offal, I know.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
"Like makin' breakfast in reverse" cracked me up!
June 16th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
"If I Divorce my Wife, Will she Still be my Sister?"
June 16th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Ha! Fantastic writing in this one. Great to see the technobillies back, they really worked for this.
June 17th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
second. make the button something like big. and a catchy name. "Fun-Shot" "Random Fancy Bastard?" i dunno.
PD: just got a new 1.5 Gig RAM. gonna (re)start translating comics in my new blog
(santiagoaquino.wordpress.com)
The font was Lafayette Comic Pro, Right?
June 17th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
well, argentinian word "fernet" is going into the RAE dictionary. its a BRANDED alcoholic drink. i think transmogrification can go into the US dictionary.
June 17th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
call Charlie Halper! we need a jingle tune for that.
June 17th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
yeah i liked that. Spongebob does that too, right? and the episode of The Simpsons where krusty shows everyone how the show will look in HDTV and hes all ugly
June 18th, 2009 at 12:37 am
This exact joke was done at CAD. The exact same thing. Are you just crawling his site for material,
June 17th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
This obviously isnt a serious question so I wont bother with a serious answer. If you want to comment on this site please be respectful. Maybe you spend too much time reading CAD to know how to be kind on the internet.
June 18th, 2009 at 3:04 am
Actually the show is called "Fuck, Marry, Kill." And you have to choose from your brother you wife and your dog.
June 18th, 2009 at 3:05 am
Awesome. I wasnt sure that would work.
June 18th, 2009 at 3:07 am
Thats actually exactly what I was thinking of but I didnt go all the way and make him super disgusting.
June 18th, 2009 at 3:09 am
"and Zeke's dog who's also named Luke"
Thats gold.
June 18th, 2009 at 4:12 am
Hah… As a Questionable Content reader for a few years now, I can't help but find it awesome that we completely obliterated your website with our WAAAAAGH of fanbase.
…and now time to read the entirety of your comic, in a single sitting.
June 18th, 2009 at 4:19 am
I sort of knew it would happen. Jeph has the 2nd largest audience in webcomics. Im happy to have you guys reading the comic, so I little down time is no sweat.
June 18th, 2009 at 8:29 am
Just have all the 'Blue Collar Comedy' shows on back to back and non stop.
Awesome comic, laughed my gigantic, pasty white, British arse off, especially at the 'making breakfast in reverse' bit!
However, we will be facing the reality of the digital domination fairly soon… Mass panic will ensue and the little old biddies who can't watch Bargain Hunt of weekday lunchtime will be out en-mass threatening the world with their knitting!
June 18th, 2009 at 8:35 am
Whoa, a response. O_o Almost like…. you're *real*.
Done with the whole comic, now… and all I have to say is: At least it wasn't another Digg-death.
June 18th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Nanageddon?
"Blood on the walls, of London Town
Satan's evil in a nylon gown
Evil cakes
Fiery Lakes
Nanageddon's coming with a demon in a wig"
June 18th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Yes! Nannatoo, however, will probably have no trouble getting a picture in the depths of the underworld. I understand they have excellent digital reception down there.
(for those as yet uninitiated into the brilliance that is The Mighty Boosh, check this out… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_mighty_boosh)
June 18th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
They watch Wife-Cousin Swap and Seven Piglets for Seven Brothers.
June 18th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
American Idol
The O'Riley Factor
Hannity
Reno 911
Most of WWE's Programing
… wait, we were making up fake shows? I thought these would actually be on a hillbilly satellite service.
June 19th, 2009 at 9:59 am
This is a friendly reminder to call your grandma and explain why her “tv box got all snowy” and she “can’t watch Maury and The Wheel“. -this made me lol so hard!
June 19th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Okay. I have come through the QC gateway. I have read all and now conquered. I demand more. Seriously. I demand it.
June 19th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Survivor: New York City.
June 21st, 2009 at 4:54 am
This is a classic, Joel. Seriously, I'm grinning from ear to ear. Excellent script; you write hillbillies disturbingly well.