Oddities

Although Comedy Central has been the home to decades of fantastic visual design and presentation, there are times where things don't seem right. The following is a work-in-progress list of instances where Comedy Central has broadcasted glitched screenbugs, broken graphical layouts and technical difficulties.
Date 	Description 	Example 	
March 20, 1992 	During the 2:30am airing of the C.P.O. Sharkey episode "Skolnick in Love," the Dishonorable Discharge screenbug appears in all white as the result of a masking error. 	 	Tape in Fenwick's collection
April 26, 1993 	During a 1:00am airing of the Blackadder Goes Forth episode "Major Star," a cropped, ghost-like version of the 1993 Globe screenbug appears for four seconds before disappearing. It can be assumed that the globe was accidentally displayed using the chroma-key settings meant for the Splitting Heirs Weekend promotional bug, resulting in a broken, transparent appearance. 	-|Video=</tabber> 	Tape in Fenwick's collection
October 16, 1993 	Comedy Central's screenbug persists through an entire commercial break during the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "Warrior of the Lost World". 	 	Tape in Tarlcabot25's collection
January 22, 1994 	Penn Jillette briefly interrupts the intro to Mystery Science Theater 3000's 7:00pm premiere of "Village of the Giants". 	 	
August 12, 1994 	After showing the "Premiere Night" bug during the first episode airing of The Vacant Lot, a green version of the 1994 Globe screenbug appears for a few seconds before disappearing and showing back up 20 seconds later properly. Presumably a chroma key error. 	 	Tape in waymu's collection
August 13, 1994 	After returning from a commercial break, The Vacant Lot's 2:00am airing of its pilot episode uses a completely opaque white version of the 1994 Globe screenbug. Quickly after, Comedy Central corrects this and switches to the bug's familiar appearance. This glitch appears to be a simple masking error. 	 	Tape in Sketch the Cow's collection
April 22, 1998 	For an extremely brief moment during a Ben Stiller celebrity ID preceding a 10:30pm Pulp Comics airing, a TV-14 rating bug appears. 	 	Tape in Fry's collection
January 6, 1999 	Upright Citizens Brigade is mistakenly titled "Upright Citizens Citizens" in the set of split screen credits that follow a 10:00pm rerun of the South Park episode "Ike's Wee Wee". 	-|Video=</tabber> 	Old TV capture by BernieC
January 20, 1999 	Following the 10:30pm premiere of Mark Twain Prize Honoring Richard Pryor, split screen credits are broadcast only for them to abruptly zoom in on the very middle of the screen. The zoom then quickly repositions itself so to focus on the video window. 	 	Tape in RWMyHappyThoughts's collection
June 2, 1999 	In an attempt to broadcast split screen credits following a 10:00pm rerun of the South Park episode "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride," Comedy Central accidentally mirrors South Park's credits, its closing logos as well as a John Larroquette ident where the upcoming program would normally be displayed. A TV-PG rating bug gets caught up in the mess too. 	-|Video=</tabber> 	Tape in Fenwick's collection
November 6, 1999 	In an attempt to broadcast split screen credits following a 10:00pm rerun of the South Park episode "Chinpokomon", Comedy Central accidentally replaces the South Park credits with that of the network's own, abruptly cutting off the episode's audio in the process. 	-|Video=</tabber> 	Tape in Evan's Media Archive's collection
January 9, 2000 	While other graphics show up as intended, the 1998 Globe screenbug is noticeably absent from the entire first act of the 11:30pm premiere of the Duckman episode "T.V. or Not to Be". 	 	Tape in Kongiscool0518's collection
July 2, 2000 	In an attempt to broadcast split screen credits following a 11:00pm rerun of the South Park episode "Cherokee Hair Tampons", Comedy Central accidentally queues up a 10-second long Strangers with Candy promo in its' place. The final frame of the promo freezes right when the credits go back into full frame, and are seen for a split second after the logos before another Strangers with Candy promo plays.	-|Video=</tabber> 	
September 30, 2000	After the first act of the South Park episode "Quintuplets 2000", the Comedy Central "Millennium Globe" screenbug sticks around for a little bit during the first commercial, said commercial being a teaser for the N.Y. Friars Club Roast of Rob Reiner. As such, we get to see a rare glimpse of the new 2000 logo and the 1997 logo being onscreen at the same time. 	 	
December 19, 2001 	A shadowy silhouette of the 2000 globe appears for a second before 2001's red/green globe screenbug animation begins. 	 	
January 21, 2004 	Chappelle's Show is mistakenly titled "Chappell's Show" in a promotional graphic during the 10:30pm premiere of its second season. 	 	Old TV capture
July 25, 2018 	 	-|Video=</tabber> 	
September 1, 2021 	A 4:00pm airing of the South Park episode "Poor and Stupid" during "So Much South Park: Pop Culture" marathon, a Friends advert overlaying the text is erroneously used. 	 	
August 12, 2022 	Halfway through the 9:00am airing of South Park's "Cartman Gets An Anal Probe," the Comedymark screenbug is shoved outside the 4:3 safezone by a promotional banner fit to display in 16:9. 	-|Video=</tabber> 	Recording by DKD Tapes
August 13, 2022 	A 9:10am rerun of the South Park episode "Terrance & Phillip in Not Without My Anus" has its last minute suffocated by Comedy Central's split screen credits layout. 	 	Live TV capture
August 24, 2022 	At the end of a 3:30am airing of the South Park episode "Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society," its final scene is prematurely interrupted by Comedy Central's split screen credits. The rest of the episode is muted while a Summer House 3: The Sweatacular promo plays. 	 	Live TV capture
December 25, 2022 	During a 5:00pm special airing of Jeff Dunham's Very Special Christmas Special, the text banner next the Comedymark screenbug is set to fit in a 4:3 safezone instead of the 16:9 display, this error was possibly due to the 16:9 re-sizing from it's original aspect ratio since the special was originally displayed in 4:3. This error was present throughout the entire airing. 	-|Close Up=</tabber>	
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May 23, 2024 	During the entire run of Seinfeld episodes on May 23, 2024, the screenbug stated "You're Watching South Park" throughout all episodes. 	 	
July 3, 2024 	Through the entirety of the TV premiere of Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe, the screenbug and the pop ups were formatted in 4:3. 	 	TV capture by Moman
August 25, 2024 	At the end of the 3:30pm showing of Hot Tub Time Machine, the movie's 2011 Brandon Grotesque split-screen credit template was mistaken to be apart of the movie and as a consequence, the network's current superimposed credits and rating bug appear. 	-|Video=</tabber> 	TV Capture by Evan's Media Archive
September 5, 2024 	At the end of the 12:00am rerun of the South Park episode "Sexual Harassment Panda", a lower third MTV Music Video Awards advertisment accidentally appears outside Comedy Central's split-screen credits layout during the entire credits. 	-|Video=</tabber> 	
November 13, 2024 	A 12:30pm rerun of the South Park episode "A Ladder to Heaven" glitched and corrupted the airing. 	 	
Category:On-Screen Elements