On the local morning news here, Matt O'Donnell is one of the anchors. His sense of humor seems to have been honed at a fraternity or an all-boys high school, always full of snarky comments and especially innuendo for the blonde traffic/weather lady, Karen Rogers. His comments are easily the most compelling reason to watch the show, always walking that line between merely inappropriate and downright obscene. It's delightful to watch.

Sometimes it's just silly stuff like this, after a report on 6-foot-tall longstem roses at Valentine's day (paraphrased from memory):

"Bet you'd like one of those roses. / 6 feet? That would eclipse me. / Eclipsing is what I do best."

My favorite so far was earlier this week (unfortunately I didn't catch it on video), when one of the transitions back from commercial showed kids building a snowman on a slushy, muddy snow day. Matt's female co-anchor Tamala Edwards (who plays straight-man to Matt's clowning) made some throwaway comment about "That's got to be the dirtiest snowman I've ever seen." Unable to resist an easy target like that, Matt had to raise the ante: "But if it were a dirty, *naughty* snowman, Karen would be all over that, right, Karen?"

If anything ever happens to Matt, I have a feeling Karen's husband would be a prime suspect.

But anyway, today we had not one but *two* examples - the first one was facilitated by a teaser for a later story about pole dancing (almost too easy), but then the later one was completely out of the blue. And Karen seemed to play along with both, in that awkward way that makes it even worse.

Priceless.

Here's the video.

(Random aside: like my previous citation of bizarre segues on the local ABC news, this one also featured footage of an abused dog - perhaps that's an omen, my signal to fire up the Tivo?)