The scene in the "SCTV News" sketch where Earl Camembert took up much of the broadcast waiting for a filmed report about a local bus race, was a spoof of the night where Los Angeles news anchor John Schubeck, after seeing a news item on the teleprompter that he'd read only 10 minutes before, sat motionless and silent for the remaining two minutes of the newscast while waiting for the next item to come up.