Hilarious Cable Info-Bar Description Of The Day

Posted at 11:15 AM Sep 12, 2008

By Kenny Herzog

Last week, NCDSUV debuted its newest daily feature, which takes aim at the most confounding, misleading or abruptly hysterical info-bar synopses of the day's cable programming. And while yesterday saw Best In Show get recast as bestiality porn, today we go for lighter fare, like the timeless tale of a talking baby who really wants his mom to boink John Travolta before she gets old and stars in a TV show about how fat she is.

Today's entry is:

Look Who's Talking
The Actual Story: A bizarre crossroads experiment for John Travolta (for whom this was a pre-Pulp Fiction false start at a comeback) and Kirstie Alley (for whom this was a first big shot at screen stardom). Basically, he's a toughguy taxi driver and she's a workaholic single mom, and in lieu of How I Met Your Mother-esque hindsight narration, we get Bruce Willis omnisciently voicing over the infant, as if he were articulating the kid's actual observations (get it? adults make everything too hard when even a baby can understand love?).
Cable Info-Bar Synopsis: "An unwed accountant gives birth to Mikey, a hip baby who provides sarcastic commentary on events."
What Their Description Would Have You Believe: Plotwise, it's actually pretty spot-on, which says a lot more about the task of summing up this comic farce's inherent inanity. But you have to love the awkward attempt at channeling the lyrics from "Shaft" in order to do it. May Isaac Hayes rest in peace. Without Bruce Willis narrating his journey through the afterlife.

But hey, at least it gave us another magical supporting turn by nature's miracle, aka Olympia Dukakis (a veteran of another recent Hilarious Info-Bar Description entry):

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