Pop-up Video
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Pop-Up Video was a VH1 show that "popped up" bubbles (
[{{IPA]) — officially called "info nuggets" — containing trivia and spry witticisms throughout music videos. The show was created by Woody Thompson and Tad Low and premiered October 27, 1996. Although [VH1's website] still lists Pop-Up Video in its programming roster, it hasn't aired regularly on the network since 2002. It used to run on Canada's MuchMoreMusic and MuchMusic. The show, until recently, aired nightly on VH1 Europe, but is currently run only on special occasions, such as Pop-Up Video weekends.
Specials & other versions
Special episodes of Pop-Up Video aired throughout the series' run. Many focused on specific artists, including VH1 staples Madonna, U2, Prince, and Elton John. Others ran on different themes, such as "Women First," "Road Trip," "Movies," and "Duets". There were also several holiday specials, including Halloween and several Christmas episodes.
During a week of 1980s-themed programming on VH1 in March 1998, Pop-Up Video became Pop-Up '80s. These episodes featured additional clips of 1980s news events and pop culture tidbits between music videos.
The 1996 VH1 Fashion Awards, Divas Live, the Oprah Winfrey Show (aired in syndication), several episodes of the Brady Bunch (aired on Nick at Nite), ABC's Original TGIF 1998 and 1999 line-up's season premieres and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire also got the Pop-Up treatment.
A United Kingdom-specific version entitled Pop-Up Video UK, aired on Channel 4, and is still occasionally airs on VH1 UK and Europe. This version featured music videos by British artists such as Robbie Williams, the Spice Girls, and Elvis Costello.
The Brady Bunch had its own Pop-Up block, effectively named "Pop-Up Brady".
A similar show is aired on the Argentine Tv channel I-SAT. It's called Video Maní (peanut video), because the popups are a 3-D rotating peanut. It features a series of true/false questions on things regarding the theme of the video, and after a few seconds it shows "true" or "false". As I-SAT is a movie channel, the videos are used as fill between movies.
Controversy
Billy Joel, Bon Jovi, the Wallflowers, the Police, Meat Loaf, and other artists complained about what they perceived as harsh treatment on the show and their various videos were pulled. The show's creators called these "the Pops They Stopped." In contrast, some artists, including Joan Osborne and Paula Abdul, made appearances on the show to provide further information on their popped videos.The show's popularity led to several copycats, most notably on an episode of the ABC television series Sabrina, The Teenage Witch and a series of Bell Atlantic commercials. Spin The Bottle, Inc., which produced Pop-Up Video, publicly derided these Pop-Up imitators on its website.
Parodies
At the height of the show's popularity, MAD Magazine ran a series of "Pop-Off Video" takeoffs which mocked the artists, their fashions, their songs, and their music videos.Another MAD Magazine parody mocked Pop-Up Video and pornmovies with Pop-Up Porno, showing a similar idea in a pornographic context.
In the 1998 Playmate of the Year video of Karen McDougal, one of the segments was a Pop-up video showing factoids of Ms. McDougal and Playboy as she appeared in various stages of undress.
The 2000 horror spoof Shriek If I Know What You Did Last Friday The 13th featured a spoof scene entitled "Chop-Up Video".
The Happy Tree Friends First Blood DVD has a "Pop Corn" special of the episode "Spin Fun Knowin' Ya" with spoof pop-ups in a similar style to Pop-Up Video.
External links
- [VH1: Pop-Up Video]
- [MuchMoreMusic: Pop-Up Video]
- [Spin the Bottle, Inc.], Pop-Up Video's original production company
- [Eyeboogie, Inc.], Pop-Up Video's subsequent production company
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