News Teases

From OAPedia.com

News Teases are commercials for upcoming news broadcasts that are often sensationalist and meant to scare viewers into watching the news. They usually involve a vague description about a common, everyday item causing unspeakable harm (often using the catchphrase "hidden danger"), or a deadly threat such as terrorism or a natural disaster that may affect you. Yet the news story itself almost always describes a one-in-a-million occurrence or something that can't possibly affect the people watching.

Opie and Anthony have turned these news teases into a bit where they play the most outrageous ones they can find. They have also taken the best ones and put them into a News Tease Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame includes teases such as:

• "One city wants to pack all their sex offenders into a three block area. Problem is, it could be right next to your house."
• "How a twist on the predator law could shut down religion."
• "Could frequent hiccups be a sign of cancer? Watch News 8 at 10."
• "Are you normal?"
• "Could your house be making you fat?"
• "Sex offenders may be in your house. At 11."
• "And the ingredients in shampoo that could make a boy develop breasts."
• "Sexual predators sent to live in our nursing homes... Could this happen to your mother?"