Offscreen Moment of Awesome/Real Life

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Examples of Offscreen Moment of Awesome in Real Life include:

Sports

  • The year is 1968. The New York Jets are beating the Oakland Raiders 32 to 29 with 65 seconds left in a critical late-season game. Fans across the country are on the edge of their seats. And NBC cuts the game off to start showing Heidi, a children's movie. And then Oakland scores two touchdowns in the time left, beating the Jets 43 to 32. Executives tried to preempt this, but they couldn't reach operations. No one on the East coast got to see Oakland's comeback. People were rather put out. This has been ranked as the fifth worst television blunder of all time and it will never happen again.
    • In 2007, Bitter rivals Buffalo and Ottawa were meeting in the NHL playoffs. The game went into overtime as both goalies were red hot that day. But oops! the game was on NBC, which still hadn't learned its lesson. Overtime was shunted to Versus, an upstart cable channel which few providers carried, in favor of an hour of pre-race coverage for The Preakness Stakes.
  • 2010, July, a hot summer afternoon. England's first match in the World Cup. Expectations are high. All around the country fans gather in pubs, homes and at parties. Three minutes of tense action goes by. The crowd are on the edge of their seats, England has the ball and are soaring upfield as if unopposed. Sky TV cuts out. Two minutes later it cuts back in to the action. The score? 1-0.

Theme Parks

  • The Real Ghostbusters and Beetlejuice are characters who star in live shows at Universal Studios, and because the latter is a ghost, logic indicates they'd cross paths there a few times. In the 90s, there were indeed a few performances (often on Halloween) where the Ghost With the Most crashed the Ghostbuster's show, resulting in them chasing him offstage, sounds of a loud fight, and then the Ghostbusters returning with a used ghost-trap, indicating they managed to bust him in an offstage battle.

Other Real Life

  • During the Evo 2010 Super Street Fighter IV grand final match, the online stream, being watched by over 27,000 people at the time, went out. During the final moments of the match.
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