Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for October 21, 2024

Gee, I had a hard time focusing on this one. Something kept distracting me. Hmm. Nope, can’t concentrate long enough to get my head around what it is. . . .

Uh… What?

Cute.

Second panel looks like they’re censoring something. Is his barn door still open?

My dad has to have captions on while watching programs. I try to look away, but it’s distracting.

I work at night and they have TVs on in the break room, with the sound turned down, thank God. Lunch is at 11:30 pm, and so I get to see the late night monologues, and the start of Saturday Night Live. SNL’s captioner really struggles to keep up. Back in the 90s they just used the teleprompter feed, having to stop and go back if anyone went off script.

I’m pretty good with accents, but I have to admit that some of the dialog in “Doctor Who” whizzed right past me … dialog that was important to the story line. So I got into the habit of turning on closed captioning, but just for that program.

Except instant closed captioning, especially, isn’t like that (said the pretty-deaf guy). Those captions should read, “I’LL SELL YOU THEN…” and the other one, “WHEN THEY DISCOVER DIVERSE ONE SAT TENSIONS WAS BEING HIGH, JACK.”

On one I saw 1908 as nineteen O eight.

Speech balloons and closed captioning. Talk about redundant.

Mrs wanted closed caption activated to help her learn English. I have kept them on so I can understand what is being said, have lost considerable hearing. You learn. It doesn’t become a distraction at all.

The movies are so dark, you can’t see anything. The music or background noise is so load, you can’t hear any dialog. If you can hear any, the speech is so stilted or accented, you can’t understand what they are mumbling. Pretty soon all movies with be a black silent screen. They may be more interesting that way actually.

I use close captioning because I cannot hear the dialog due to the excessively loud soundtrack

I remember when closed captioning became available, but not all programs had it. You also needed a separate machine hooked to the TV to show the captions. (I remember, cause my brother had one.)

It’s handy, but only partially, when Kamala trys to answer on-air questions.

They became default when we forgot how to turn them off on the TV. They get turned on accidentally and I forget where the setting is.

Great! Now I can’t see Verne’s pedicure!

Closed Caption isn’t always reliable. It can’t always pick up what the people on TV are saying.

Closed captioning now uses speech recognition software to ensure total chaos and maximal frustration.