I`ve never really understood the fuss about THE DAY TODAY . I know it`s a slick satire but it`s done in such an offbeat avant garde way I doubt if anyone would be taken in by it and that`s what it was trying to do was it not ? Trying to get people to believe it was a REAL current affairs show in the same way as the latter BRASS EYE , so why spoil it with surreal scenes like the man dancing in the background ?
The show does have its rare good points like the story of terrorists using " bomb dogs " and I remember many viewers complained about the sale of a video called THIS IS OUR WAR where a track like Tina Turner`s DISCO INFERNO is played over footage of burning Iraqi tanks from the 1991 Gulf war then HANDS UP by Ottawa is played and the footage cuts to a montage of Iraqi troops surrendering with their arms raised then it cuts to weeping Iraqi soldiers as STOP YOUR SOBBING by The Pretenders is used on the sound track . I don`t like to admit it but THIS IS OUR WAR made me laugh but the laughs are few and far between with THE DAY TODAY
The show does have its rare good points like the story of terrorists using " bomb dogs " and I remember many viewers complained about the sale of a video called THIS IS OUR WAR where a track like Tina Turner`s DISCO INFERNO is played over footage of burning Iraqi tanks from the 1991 Gulf war then HANDS UP by Ottawa is played and the footage cuts to a montage of Iraqi troops surrendering with their arms raised then it cuts to weeping Iraqi soldiers as STOP YOUR SOBBING by The Pretenders is used on the sound track . I don`t like to admit it but THIS IS OUR WAR made me laugh but the laughs are few and far between with THE DAY TODAY