Earlier today, the Spanish EBU affiliate (jokingly?) told Pastora Soler not to win Eurovision because the country can't afford to host the competition. Soler herself made similar comments, saying it wouldn't be in the best interests of Spain or the Spanish people for her to win.
Now, I'm going to lay my bias out on the table here and say that I think Spain's entry is one of the better ones this year, and I would love to see a neck and neck race between her and Nina Zilli (Italy). But what does any of this have to do with tv?
In the episode "A Song for Europe," from British comedy "Father Ted," the main characters catch Eurosong fever, and decide to enter the fictional Eurovision-esque competition. They write a terrible song called "My Lovely Horse" and enter it into the Irish selection competition.
So what happens? They win and head to Eurosong? Why...because Ireland had won for five years running and simply couldn't afford to host it again, so the competition was rigged to send the worst song imaginable. The plan worked, as the episode ends with everyone giving our heroes nul points.
The saddest part? "My Lovely Horse" is better than some of the actual songs that have been up on stage over the years...
Well there's the fantastic mid-episode plagiarized version of "My Lovely Horse" (with the exception of the sax solo), and then there's the awful version they end up performing to avoid having their cheating revealed.
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True true. I just couldn't resist the dream version with teh sax solo!
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