I’ve never met a kid that didn’t like it… though I suppose statistically speaking, some must exist, somewhere.
I’m gonna go with the theory that the pilot was just messing with the reporter, and she fell for it; rotely repeating what she’d heard, without thinking about it first.
Probably. But I wonder if maybe she was reading off a teleprompter and someone in the office was having a little fun. I don’t know enough about local TV news to know if they have teleprompters or writers though.
She’s in the field so it’s on her (and probably the pilot who was screwing around when she was interviewing and taking notes for the stand-up). A reporter doing a live remote will sometimes submit a basic script (along with video to be edited) back to the studio for closed captioning and sometimes a writer or producer will check it, but apparently this was not one of those times.