Here's an old, but related, story y'all might enjoy:
I show up for work at OSH tower at 6am, not much going on. Then the tower chief comes up to the tower cab, says I got a job for you-- the Today show is here, and they want to interview a controller.
I go downstairs and meet Willard Scott and his crew. They tell me that the plan is for the Today show to cut to a 30-second live shot of Willard standing in front of one of the airplanes in the display area out front of the (old) tower. Willard will make some remarks to tease the segment, then twenty minutes later they'd cut back and he'd do a short interview with me.
We head out to the flight line, and after moseying around awhile, they settle on the airplane they want to use as the backdrop for the teaser. The producer arranges Willard in front of it, I stand off to the side with the crew, and we all wait for the countdown until airtime.
Nobody notices that there's a pole with a big PA speaker on it, not more than ten feet from where Willard is standing.
Five, four, three, two, one... the producer points at Willard, he raises the mic to his mouth... but before he can say a word, the yodeler starts blasting over the speaker directly over our heads.
The producer looked like he was having a stroke. He grabs my shoulder, tells me to "do something!" Yeah, right, like I have any control over the yodeler.
Willard handles it well, mugging around, acting like he's the one doing the yodeling, etc. Finally, it ends, and he adlibs, "Now THAT'S the way you wake up in the morning if you're lucky enough to attend the biggest airshow in the world! Later in this hour...".
As nice and professional as Willard was, the producer was fit to be tied, he seemed to think I'd pranked them. Never did do the interview.
