"Pop-Up Video" returns

Yay!

October 3, 2011 at 4:10PM

Some people might not remember the show - I certainly don't remember the theme, "infectious" as it may have been. It was as close as music-video channels ever got to being educational. You learned things! It made non-annotated videos look incomplete.

Here's an example, from the days when people watched this video of their own free will, not because they'd been tricked or trolled. Yes, children, people wanted this on purpose.

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