When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was Lizard Music by Daniel Pinkwater.
In that book, a kid left home alone gets to watch late-night TV and is horrified to see game shows with people laughing spastically at things that aren’t funny, running around and doing stupid awful things for money, and acting like amalgamations of human beings – fake people. He realizes that they’re aliens taking the form of people; he calls them pod people.
That’s all I can think of when I see clips from the new Gong Show.
