Tuesday June 01, 2010

Alakazam three, and poof!

When I was a kid, I was on a local kiddie show called The Uncle Al Show a few times. Everybody was. The show had a big studio audience of kids who were also on camera. It was like Regis & Kelly, but for kids in the '70s. In any case, before they went to commercial, they would do this thing where they would have all the kids chant in unison: "Alakazam one! Alakazam two! Alakazam three, and poof!" And then when they would cut to commercial. Watching at home, it was pretty neat.

When I went on the show, I was excited to be a part of the trick. The first commercial break arrived and we were led (by a producer, I'm sure) through the chant. "Alakazam one! Alakazam two," we screamed. "Alakazam three, and poof!" After that I looked around, saw us all still sitting there on the floor, and yelled out, "It didn't work!"

That's sort of how I felt this morning when I logged into Facebook and found us all still there.

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