The first ever Rob and Bill's TalkShow was a little "loose" even by our own standards since the show was basically total stream of consciousness even for the unconscious. Basically, the show was reality TV long before "reality TV" was on TV showing prepackaged and made up reality. I have never really seen reality where there are producers and camera people lurking behind every door but maybe that's the world we live in today, who knows. This was real reality. Unplanned, unscripted, "gee we should make a show but we don't know what to make it about, who cares, turn on the camera," kind of stuff. Just 2 guys and one cheap home video camera.
The very first night of shooting the very first show ever to air on Cable Access there was a large spider in Rob's house. It was totally distracting so it became the focus of a segment. "Spider of the Week" because of course everything had to be something of the week. The next week after the show aired we had people calling us or stopping us on the street and saying, "Hey dudes, did you guys really air 20 minutes of a trapped spider?" Yes we did. Here's just a piece of that ground breaking video.
(Posted by Bill, for Rob and Bill)
The originators of Reality TV, creators of 2-Man Television and Inventors of the Internet
