Hilarious Cable Info-Bar Description Of The Day: 'Top Gun'

Posted at 12:00 PM Jan 09, 2009

By Kenny Herzog


Welcome back to one of NSCDUV's most beloved daily features, which takes aim at the most confounding, misleading or abruptly hysterical info-bar synopses of the day's cable programming.

And while yesterday saw Glenn Danzing and Mark Harmon make sweet, sweet poetry, today the Info-Bar takes flight with a young Tom Cruise.


Today's entry is:

Top Gun
The Actual Story: In what was more or less a 90-minute music video for Berlin's "Take My  Breath Away," Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer and Anthony Edwards play a variety of inanely nicknamed fighter pilots who compete for the hottest moves in the air and the sexiest ladies on the ground. Also notable for tapping Kelly McGillis at the height of her Witness-era carnal appeal.
Cable-Info Bar Synopsis: "A hot-shot Navy jet pilot tangles with MiGs and flirts with a civilian astrophysicist."
What Their Description Would Have You Believe: That Top Gun is intensely more complex than the above distillation would otherwise indicate. I literally have no idea what this Info-Bar synopsis means when removed from its context. 

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