Congratulations to anyone who put down "Muammar Gaddafi" as their ultimate tie-breaker in the TV.com Dead Pool, as the fashion-forward Libyan dictator has met the same fate as The Playboy Club and Charlie's Angels (though few could argue that his cancellation has come too early). But what does that news have to do with TV? Funny you should ask! The answer is Matthew Perry.
In 1987, the still-young Fox network put a show on the air called Second Chance. It was a sitcom with a premise almost as tortured as some of Gaddafi's most outspoken critics: A man dies in the year 2011, and is sent back to earth by St. Peter to earn his spot in heaven. So the man and his teen self (Perry) live out their lives, side-by-side. Yeesh. The show lasted two months.
In the prologue to the pilot, none other than Col. Gaddafi enters, having died on July 29, 2011. (The leader was still making headlines, having survived a bombing mission by the U.S. the year prior.) So the prediction was a little short of three months off, but still pretty impressive. Gaddafi is swiftly shown the door to Hell, to the cheers of the audience.
Watch the spooky premonition here (it starts at 2:25), just in time for Halloween! And then get working on your Zombie Gaddafi costumes.
Ooooo, cool :P I'm proud of you TV :)
On a slightly related note. This clip is a good example of how crazy religious people are. Its sad how many people believe in this fantasy bullshit.
Oh, it makes a lot of sense.
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Hahaha love the theme song...
Ha! Thats fun, it fun too that every futuristic movie thinks everything is gonna change so quickly, like in this show: There isn't wood and there are hover cars! XD
TV may get it wrong, but advancements in technology do increase at an exponential rate. In 20 years we will all have computers the size of a blood cell in our bodies, a million times more powerful than an iphone
Should be quite interesting to see how that all works out.
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So it's just me and Seth who finds this pretty impressive lol. It's not that they predicted his death, it's that the prediction is three months off and it was made 24 years ago. Seriously, the writer of that episode should consider jotting down some more stuff. I bet he is great at sports betting.
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This was a pretty fun show. Sorry I missed it. I was one of the ones watching Beans Baxter. I can't remember a thing about it.
Spooky? Really? Are you an infant?
It also predicted every single speech on the next 14 Miss America pageants.
24, you mathlete, you...
lol, yeah, you're right. In my defense I was sick and without any sleep for days because of work
I remember watching this. It was a Saturday night and it on after either Werewolf or The New Adventures of Beans Baxter. I always remembered the way Joe Maher said, "Ah, Colonel Khadaffy." The fact that the years match and the character in the show was shot to death are kind of eerie. Does the two months the show was on count the episodes where they dropped future Charles Russell and changed the title to Boys Will Be Boys?
No, the show actually lasted a bit longer under that moniker, according to Wikipedia!
FFS. Everyone will die eventually, it's not rocket science to predict that a tyrant will die a violent death in the throes of a revolution.
Not all of the predictions were so accurate - hover cars, anyone?
No wonder he crashed.
Gaddafi???
As far as i remember the guy was named kadhafi.
No, you anal prick...there are multiple ACCEPTABLE spellings of the name due to the translation of the language.
It is amazing that you don't know that very well established and often talked about fact.
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