Hilarious Cable Info-Bar Description Of The Day: 'Meteor Man'

Posted at 11:30 AM Oct 13, 2008

By Kenny Herzog

Last month, NCDSUV debuted its newest daily feature (and compiled September's best a few weeks back), which takes aim at the most confounding, misleading or abruptly hysterical info-bar synopses of the day's cable programming. And while yesterday saw a Patrick Dempsey coming-of-age story get transformed into a time-traveling adventure, today we turn our attention toward Robert Townsend's entry into the little-explored subgenre of ordinary superheroes as metaphors for battling inner-city corrosion (here's looking at you, Blankman).

Today's entry is:

Meteor Man
The Actual Story: Townsend plays a reserved D.C. teacher who gets struck by a meteor and has the ability to battle a local gang.
Cable-Info Bar Synopsis: "Falling star gives him superpowers."
What Their Description Would Have You Believe: That MC Hammer provided the elusive "him" (God? Neo? Bobcat Goldthwait?) with extraordinary abilities. For no reason.

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