Biggest Loser's Amercia

There's our America. There's Sarah Palin's America. And then of course there's the Amercia of "The Biggest Loser." It wasn't until later that I noticed the non-question of the next line, "In 1985, it was a size?" Looks like NBC may win top honors for most gaffes in the truncated first year of Cap'n Typo.

KNBC's "Yes Yes" Proposition

Here's an oldie from an election of yore, courtesy of KNBC in Los Angeles. Talk about a "win win" proposal. Add it all up and the voters agree 100%--stop state funding!

A "Today Show" Triple in Under 10 Minutes!

During Friday's "Today Show" broadcast, the voice-over read "Every day 67 families find out..." while the fancy graphic sported the common and erroneous mash-up everyday. Then just nine minutes later, the graphics guys turned what should have read "Day Care" into a child's scrawl of Daycare while the title folks added their two cents with childcare. Nice triple play!

"Extra" Superbowl Stupidity

Hey, NBC! Somebody from the ad department might want to tell those yokels over at "Extra" to learn how to spell the name of your biggest cash cow of the year. Idiosos!

Ellen's Backseat Makeout

When I saw this song list for a fictional album on the commercial teaser for today's episode of "Ellen" I thought I had a two-fer, but you'll have to decide for yourself about "backseat," which I thought would be two words here. The one-word version yields just under six million hits on Google, while the two-word version shows up over eight million times. Webster's not only lists it as a word but dates it back to the 1700s, while Oxford doesn't recognize it in noun form at all and offers the hyphenate "back-seat" as an adjective, which this isn't. But even assuming the party responsible favors Webster, that's no excuse for the mash-up of "makeout."

"Good Morning America" Look-A-Like

Clearly preoccupied with its effort to make a funny pun about Conan O'Brien's support for Finland's President Tarja Halonen in 2006, "Good Morning America" forgets how to spell look-alike.

"Colbert Report" Sinks Titantic

Peabody Award, April 2, 2008. Emmy Award, September 13, 2008. Cap'n Typo's Lame Spelling Award, October 1, 2008. FYI, a search for the misspelling "Titantic" yields over 200,000 hits on Google. But we expect a bit more from our fake news programs.

"Survivor": Just Becuase

In honor of the new "Survivor" debuting this week, here's a classic gaffe to give people an idea of what to look for when appreciating producer Mark Burnett's attention to detail. And this is no third-rate cable job, mind you, but the #1 show in the country.

"SNL" Pulls a Boner with Weiners

Though this mistake from last night's "Saturday Night Live" is pretty common and probably just another case of a graphics department with no sense of spell checking, we can't believe that nobody caught it in time, especially considering that cast member Kenan Thompson just starred in the 2008 road trip comedy "Wieners."

Give Brady Quinn Some Space

I'm a big Cleveland Browns fan and I look forward to great things from upstart QB Brady Quinn, though I find it premature to accord him the kind of mono appello status bestowed upon tried-and-proven stars like Morrissey, Charo and Jackée.

"Today Show" Trivia For A $1.00

Cap'n Typo Trivia -- Cap'n Typo introduced himself on September 8, 2008 with a trivial "Today Show" cap left over from the 2006 holiday season.