{"id":287,"date":"2011-02-17T13:22:35","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/?p=287"},"modified":"2018-01-14T20:51:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T04:51:07","slug":"video-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/video-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Video fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re fans of the Woody Goomsba series of promotional videos (well most of them, anyway). But long before Woody became an instant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/WoodyTheNutcracker\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> sensation, <em>Almost Live!<\/em> on KING5 in Seattle followed local law enforcement in Leavenworth, as documented in the video, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lx-aZqgF_N0\" target=\"_blank\">Cops in Leavenworth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ride along with a local, lederhosen clad Gendarme as he works to keep those pesky tourists in line. Leaving without souvenirs? Turn around and go back through the shops. Drinking beer from a plastic cup and LeBatts yet? Get that stein filled with German beer, thank you very much. <\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lx-aZqgF_N0\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"288\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/video-fun\/copslwframe\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/CopsLWframe.png?fit=470%2C355\" data-orig-size=\"470,355\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Cops in Leavenworth\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;The Seattle comedy show Almost Live! (1984-1999) spreads its irreverent humor east into the Cascade mountain town of Leavenworth, Washington. Joel McHale (Talk Soup and Community) was a member of the troupe from 1993-1997.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Trouble-making tourists are confronted by a local &amp;#8220;cop&amp;#8221; in Leavenworth&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/CopsLWframe.png?fit=470%2C355\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/CopsLWframe.png?resize=470%2C355\" alt=\"Bad Boys, Bad Boys\" title=\"Cops in Leavenworth\" width=\"470\" height=\"355\" class=\"size-full wp-image-288\" style=\"margin-left:25px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/CopsLWframe.png?w=470 470w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/CopsLWframe.png?resize=300%2C226 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Look closely. Joel McHale (L), now starring in NBC&#8217;s Community, got his start on the Seattle comedy scene. <\/p>\n<p>Before getting up in arms by the tongue-in-cheek humor be sure you check out the other Cops In . . . videos to see how the now defunct local television show created send-ups of other Seattle neighborhoods such as Ballard, Redmond and Kent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Woody Goomsba became a YouTube sensation . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3bH3a-4D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2512,"href":"http:\/\/www.accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/2512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.accidentalbavarian.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}