Manny got a little bit too handy that day 💀💀

An adult movie unexpectedly popping up during a kid's show is a past equivalent of a kinky fetish ad popping up in the middle of a G-rated mobile game.

People who show hardcore adult material to kids should be thrown in jail.

Imagine if an adult channel randomly aired handy manny and the reaction of the viewers must be priceless

It's always so surreal when a network gets hacked especially a kids network.

This kind of thing does always irritate me a bit when it involves kids. As a kid I was always scared of the idea of TV or computer screens showing something unexpected or creepy. Like, even putting aside it being porn in particular, I feel like I would've just been freaked out if the show suddenly switched to something strange. Why do you gotta do that to kids, you know?

I remember being a little kid, confused at why my mom banned the playhouse Disney channel. Turns out, this specific highjacking was most likely the reason for it!

The fact that the Handy Manny thing is supposedly “infamous” yet this is the first time I’m ever hearing of this incident.💀

An adult video being aired in place of a show called _Handy_ Manny... the jokes write themselves

The Max Headroom incident looks far creepier than adult content being briefly shown on TV. I do understand the inappropriateness of something like that happening on a kids channel, but when it happens during the Super Bowl, it sounds hilarious. There was a similar incident that happened on the Sesame Street KZfaq Channel where someone hacked it and uploaded adult content on it.

comcast actually taking full responsibillity and admitting it was on their end was a gigachad level respect.

Oh my god I remember seeing this in my preschool! The caretaker ran to the tv to turn it off after she realized what was on screen, all us kids were really confused. I was around 3 at the time and it is one of those memories that always lingered in the back of my head

I've never been a witness for this kind of incidents. However, I think I can say I was a witness to a "reverse" incident. Mexico City, September 19th. A huge earthquake nearly destroyed the city, including the oldest and most important broadcaster, Televisa. For about 5 hours, 4 TV channels went off the air, only for one of their channels to go back on air to show the gruesome event. Channel 5, traditionally a kids channel, was the most affected since its huge transmitter antenna was now part of the pavement, but that didn't deter the broadcaster to put the channel back and give the programming many frightened kids wanted to watch. And, so it happened, they tied to put it back around 5 PM with a scheduled re-re-rerun of Shazam!... which failed miserably. The signal was weak, even with a good antenna that usually picked the same channel with good quality the day before, it was like moving the rabbit ears constantly. Colors going off, distorted picture and off center, but the creepiest part was the audio, completetly distorted, noisy and unintelligible. When the episode was done, after the credits rolled, the channel went back off air. This is effectively lost media, it is very unlikely that the broadcaster being in such situation recorded this attempt to bring back the channel and there are even less chances for someone rich enough to have a VCR at that time who had recorded this broadcast. 2007 and no one having this in an old hard drive, a VHS or even a DVD-R? Laughable! I'm sure it will surface sooner or later. Someone in Mexico in 1985 recording a meaningless broadcast during a huge natural disaster and keeping the recording for years (maybe not even weeks) instead of using the tape again to save a lot of money on a new blank one to record a soccer game? Chances equal to 0. Impossible, and I do mean it in the pure sense of the word, impossible. Now, that's what I call lost media I'm not joking, if this is ever found, analog terror could change forever.

I was a kid watching the super bowl with my family in 2009 when the channel got hijacked. I remember my mom yelling at my dad to change the channel as the man in the porno started pulling down his pants LOL. Luckily my dad changed it just in time before my younger sister and I saw his junk. I thought the whole event was pretty scary and confusing as an 11 year old, so I feel bad for the even younger children who were watching playhouse Disney.

I saw a signal broadcast in Costa Rica around 2011 - 2012. I’ve never seen anyone talk about this, but I know it happened because my mom saw it too. Basically it happened on some dubbed free movie channel, where it stopped and for about 2 seconds was a line of 3 buff men in thongs made of jingle bells swinging their “packages” around, then immediately clipped back to the program. I would’ve thought this was a fever dream if my mom had not been just as shocked as me and obviously remember it. It happened very late at night around 2 -3 am, so I don’t think many people saw it, if any. I wouldn’t be surprised if me and my mom were the only two to see this regional movie channel program hack

This is such an interesting situation because I was one of the witnesses! I was born in 2006, 17 now, so I must've been 1. My mom, understandably, flipped out and contacted the cable company only for them to respond with a basic "Monitor what your kids do." Despite that clearly not being what happened, haha. I thought this was a small thing but to see a lot of people being affected by this is really interesting! On a less positive note, I do feel bad for children that were older than me, since I didn't remember this at all (as a 1 year old wouldn't). But I'm sure someone who was 5 - 6 would've, hope it didn't affect anybody too hard..

I remember around 2014 while CN was airing a new episode of Adventure Time that the intro of The Cleveland Show accidentally got broadcast and then the screen goes blank abruptly returning to Adventure Time. I thought it was the funniest shit at the time and I'm curious if anyone has recorded that incident.

Theres also in the Philippines, GMA7 accidentally aired a naked woman in 8 seconds during Teletubbies in 2000

Coming from someone with a messed up sense of humor, this incident was disgusting, and there's nothing that can be said to defend this incident or the people behind it.

i actually feel bad if any child saw the handy manny interruption. seeing porn or anything sex related at such young age can really mess with your brain, it's not fun.

This gives handy manny a new meaning

I love how you used the Jason Griffith safe sex ad in place of the adult film.

thats just evil. whoever did that needs to be in prison forever imo. you can't just traumatize children like that.

hey, everyone... in all seriousness, let's take a moment to hold compassion for the kids who probably ended up with some form of PTSD from this. it might seem funny on the surface level, but I know the inescapable, lifelong effects of childhood pornography exposure firsthand, and it's... haunting. truly and deeeply harrowing beyond description. I can't imagine many parents handling something like this very well, either, which could have been so damaging in an already incredibly volatile and fragile situation. not being able to understand or process something you see on a screen is one thing, but having a parent freak out and scream in panic and fury is a whole other layer. so my heart seriously goes out to the kids affected by this. I hope many of them got the help they needed and were able to recover.

There was a hijacking on one of my local radio stations that I heard one day in the car with my mom. It was audio of a fake Obama saying strange things, profanities and weird stuff to be funny. I looked it up when I got home and nobody was talking about it online. Never knew what happened to this day, but it shook me to my core since it was so strange and unexpected.

I once commented to a friend that I wonder how many people had witnessed a broadcast hijacking and not realized it because they thought whatever was happening was part of the movie or show. Imagine two friends watching a movie at one of their homes… “Hey, why’d they cut out the chalkboard scene?” “The what?” “I was watching this on TV one night and it cut to a guy drawing sheep on a chalkboard and yodeling.” “Wait, was this around 2019? Back when you were living in Ohio?” “Yeah! How’d you know?” “I read about that hijacking! You know, they never did catch whoever did that!” (Note: I made this example up. As far as I know a hijacking like I described hasn’t actually happened)

If I hijacked a TV network, I'd do something crazy but fairly harmless, like Rick Roll people watching the news or interrupt a season finale of a super popular show by putting on The Room or put an actual nature documentary on Animal Planet or something. Adult content on a kids' channel just sounds like crossing a line that should never be crossed.

i can’t imagine how scared the kids must’ve been, especially those who don’t know about that kind of thing.

Imagine you as a toddler, sitting down, ready to watch some Handy Manny, and then seeing two adults getting it on in front of you

Tbh I find it disgusting that some hackers put nsfw on screens, especially if it's on kids channels, like.. And then on top of that, some of y'all find that (or nsfw in general) funny? Tf is wrong with y'all?

On the topic of info like the hijack length being forgotten: It REALLY pisses me off when history doesn't get written down, or is purposefully destroyed.

I remember when the movie Sister Act was aired, then suddenly an adult scene appeared during the movie out of nowhere. Who’d have thought someone must’ve hijacked the airing? Man, I could never forget that day…

this reminds me of the time the Sesame Street Facebook got hacked and started posting porn on their page. this one is actually documented i'm pretty sure, but it's still pretty wild that happened. i'm all for crude humour, but i think hacking into something targeted for children and parents and showing nsfw is crossing the line, like, a lot.

As a New Jerseyan, the fact that this happened here does not surprise me at all.

What gets me that I remember as a kid who had Comcast was why they offered adult material for free. One day I was trying to find a niche cartoon show that I had seen live once and wondered if Comcast had it. As I was clicking around through the tabs in the main menu, I came across an adult section, was curious by the titles, and clicked on to see some inappropriate stuff. I freaked out and closed out of everything and turned off the tv. You'd think that kind of stuff would be behind a password paywall like thing or something. I went to my parents and told them what I came across and they were horrified. Needless to say I was forbidden to go searching for stuff on my own unless they'd do it for me if what I was wanting to find was past my usual tabs I'd go through normally.

great video on this topic. I remember hearing multiple incidents and such and I think that it kinda makes sense due to the time period. During that time many cable operators and cable headends were transitioning from analog to digital.. as well as many signals up in the sky that were now starting to be broadcast full-on digital via c-band. I highly believe that the handy mandy incident and the superbowl were only seen in analog cable as someone would need to had either changed something by mistake or had done a malicious act and changed the digital to analog feed. The lilo and stitch incident may had been a glitch with the DVR from dish, especially if it was raining or something changed. This is because I remember reading online of an issue where a recording might change channel halfway when it looses signal, but not sure. It's also very likely that just that family saw such recording and no one else did (unlike the comcast incidents where more people saw it at the same time).

I live in New Jersey but a bit more north from Linwood to have been aware of this incident. And by 2007, I would only be 12 years old. I have a sister 6 years younger, but my family didnt often watch Disney Channel, let alone Handy Manny. Yet i think we had Comcast at the time regardless. While I'm sad to have no insight, I still find it fascinating to have lived close to a hijacking without participation.

I actually saw this as a kid. Never thought it would be lost media 🤷🤷

The real question is How the hell do they manage to find the receiving antenna and make a signal stronger than the actual antenna sending the program in the first place

I perked up when you mentioned Middletown, as my mom grew up there and some of her family still lives in the area. Unfortunately, I was around 6 when this incident happened, so she would've been long gone, and it's unlikely that anyone she knows would've been watching Disney Channel when the incident occurred.

oh i used to think this was a fever dream or a creepypasta. I didn't think it was a whole real thing help 💀

Never expected to hear “Handy Manny” and “porn film” in the same sentence

5:15 I love how when they talk about the spokesperson of comcast they show footage of a talking tortoise, implying that the tortoise is the spokesperson

I was on my way to work one morning and heard something over the local radio station for maybe 15 minutes. It wasn't like two channels fighting over the same frequency. They were playing simultaneously, like it was embedded in the stations broadcast, in the music, the djs talking, the commercials, once that ended, the djs commented on it, they had no idea what it was.

I’m surprised no one had footage of this happening despite it happening in 2007.

From Handy Manny to Manny getting a Handy 😬😂

To be fair, Handy Manny does sound like a title of a porno.

As a 7yo and a big fan of Playhouse Disney and Handy Manny on that date, I’m so glad I wasn’t watching it live like I would every day before school earlier in the year. Even more glad that if it ever did happen, I was already at school. Edit: If this was the time for EDT, it may be inaccurate since I live in CDT. I was not watching Handy Manny on that morning because this was after we moved and I wasn’t watching Playhouse Disney every morning at that point.

I love how you used the jason griffith condom commercial as a placeholder, lmao.

Wow! I actually remember reading about the Handy Manny and Lilo & Stitch incidents YEARS ago!

It's always fun listening to your videos and hear you talk.

Kinda one of those "don't just plop your kid down in front of the TV and leave them alone for hours" lessons but at the same time, it's kinda creepy and not in a fun way.

I love how clinically he described Max Headroom getting spanked with the flyswatter

I remember years ago, I was watching Doc Mcstuffins one day, and it was the episode with the red and blue flippy toys that were struggling to flip or something along those lines. Anyways…. When one of the two toys started talking, Disney Junior randomly bleeped out one of their words. It was like, “But if Bernardo can’t flip, something *BEEEEEP* be wrong!” Also, one time, I put on PBS Kids for background noise while I was cleaning my room. An episode of Peg + Cat came on and it got like, 10 seconds into the intro and the whole channel locked up. Then it pixelated and jumped to an episode of Thomas the Tank engine, except it was halfway through the episode. It stayed on Thomas for a solid 15 minutes before freezing and pixelating and jumping back to Peg + Cat.

I was always fascinated by this incident. It's just so random that this happened. It has to be some kind of sick practical joke in my opinion. It also hits a little close to home, too. Now I'm not from Lincroft, but I am from New Jersey. I would've been 4 years old at the time of the broadcast. Realistically, my dad would've just left for work, my mom would've been in the kitchen doing laundry and watching Regis and Kelly, and I would've been in the living room likely watching Playhouse Disney block. While I don't remember anything unusual, there is a chance, a small chance, but a chance, that those cursed images are buried somewhere deep down, inaccessible, in my subconscious, waiting to be found... Or not. But we may never know...

I had a set of toy tools when I was a child, and they had eyes on them. I never knew what they were, and I guess I never had to. They were the Handy Manny tools. I never knew this, and now I have to live with the fact that I learned it from this video.

i have a memory of something somewhat similar to this, just on a much less intense scale, and ive never been able to find any info on it at all. i was watching toon disney sometime during the afternoon in around 2007-2008, and during the commercials there was an ad for one of the girls gone wild videos (i remember the ad vividly and that it was about collage girls), it just came and went like any other ad, no glitching or anything to indicate it wasnt meant to be there. i called mom once i realized what i was looking at and she saw it too, she was freaking out trying to find the remote but it was pretty much over by the time she came and it was on to the next ad like nothing happened. she made me change the channel for a while in case it happened again, but acknowledged that it didnt seem like disney meant to air that and i wasnt banned from toon disney or anything. me and mom theorized that some kind of mix up happened with the broadcast and they played the ad on the wrong channel. i honestly have no idea how plausible that is, but it was just way too... *normal* to be a hijacking, youd think if they were gonna go through all the trouble and legal risk of hijacking a broadcast to show sexual content to kids they'd do something like the ones in this video, not something thats extremally tame and censored. i mean im not complaining that i didnt see surprise hardcore porn as a kid, but it just doesnt seem like what i saw was some malicious intentional thing they could trace back to one person and i would be really surprised if it was. cause like, what would be the point of that? i would love to see a recording of that commercial break, all the normal disney ads with a random ggw ad slapped in there.

I’d have to say the closest I’ve seen this played in real time was during one of the “pony streams” during the earlier seasons of Friendship is Magic getting aired. (Was a stream of at the time the newest episode for everyone to watch) Ironically, the episode was about bullying, and midway had a signal hijack with a banner bashing the brony community. I found it highly entertaining, but I had no clue if there were other similar stream hijacks other than that episode.

The fact that Comcast never blamed an external malicious actor is telling - any company would jump at the chance to blame someone else for a mistake of this magnitude. To me, the most likely conclusion is that it was a disgruntled employee trying to get back at the company or an intern pulling a "prank" and going wayyy too far

While I wasn't around for that instance, I was on vacation with my family watching PBS on the TV in our camper, when the signal started to get choppy, as it was picking up a crime-esk tv show from some other channel in the area. As it turns out, sometimes signals slip into lower or higher frequencies as the years go on. It made for an interesting cyberchase episode

I love that you used the Jason Griffith commercial 💀

I was waiting for you to do this one, good work

Finally somebody talked about disney Jr situation I saw this situation on Wikipedia many years ago

I vaguely remember this. My dad came in and flipped out because he thought I changed the channel

I was literally researching this during a broadcast hijacking rabbit hole and then lsupersonicq makes a video on it. hilarious coincidences and also really enjoyable and indepth video

I remember That Creepy Reading discussed this in one of his videos, where he mentioned it in a video about TV interruptions. The thing I remember most about it, was that MrCreepyPasta was guest narrating the incident, and he accidentally referred to the show as “Handy Mandy” instead of “Handy Manny”

I loved how you added Jason Griffith in the video! He's the best voice actor for Sonic the Hedgehog.

Not really a hijacking since it worked as designed, but the time an episode of Arther (I think it was) lined up flawlessly with an Amber alert, they didn't stop the episode, but played the alert audio over it and kept the episode in the background, and everything lined up perfectly between the alert and show. Kind of freaks me out, what are the chances of the alert going out to a station that's broadcasting the exact episode, and at that exact point in the episode?

Oh my god this was in my local area!! How have I never heard of this? I'm going to have to ask around to some friends to see if they've heard about it.

It’s crazy how this happened 20 minutes from where I lived in NJ in 2007 and I remember this channel was on all the time at my house. I’m glad I didn’t have the channel on or seen this at the time.

I remember going on ComCast’s OnDemand service when I was maybe 7 or 8 and instead of the usual video in the corner with previews of new movies and what had been added to OnDemand, there was some black and white video playing, I’m assuming a movie. It appeared the video wasn’t being scaled to the size of the box so the menu covered most of the screen, but I know I saw something that made me panic, close OnDemand, and turn off the TV. After about 5 minutes, I turned it back on and went to check if it was still there, but it was back to playing it’s usual stuff. I still wonder how it happened.

To interrupt a broadcast for such a small area is surprisingly easy if you have amateur radio knowledge, equipment and know where a transmitter is. I'm surprised it hasn't happened more often in the past. It is harder nowadays due to digital encryption. Chances are that it was simply done as a prank as most broadcast interruptions have been.

I'm looking for a signal hijacking incident that isn't famous, which seems like a nearly impossible task. It lasted for only one second, but it was definitely a panning shot of two burly anthropomorphic men. It's the only one of these events that I personally saw first-hand. It was either on Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, or the Disney Channel, although I'm certain that doesn't narrow it down too awful much, lol.

this isn't really a broadcast intrusion, but there was one time many years ago when nickelodeon was having some technical difficulties in australia. to make up for it, there was a spongebob marathon (i think it lasted all day iirc), and it would occasionally show a white screen with a picture of a scared spongebob with the text "we've got a problem!" next to him. i was only 7 when it happened, and it traumatised me 💀. i can't find any info on this incident on the internet, apart from a thread on the lost media wiki forums

I've lived in the area my entire life and this the first time I've heard of this happening. Lincroft is relatively small and home to the county college, I wonder if bored AV students could be to blame. They have a radio and TV program.

I loved Handy Manny as a little kid/teen in the 2000's and I definitely don't remember seeing the adult scene.

When I was a kid remember seeing a strange broadcast. It was late at night but probably no later the 10. The tv cuts to static before cutting to a strange darkly light pinkish alien environment. It looked like night but had pink light reflected off of fog. It zooms into a strange alien man pink slimy or wet skin. He standing next to a boiling cauldron and is speaking to the camera. I can’t remember what he said but his voice was corse and gravely. I remember him leaning into at the camera at some point and saying something like we’re coming. Scared me so much that I ran out the room. This was early 2000’s I was either in kindergarten, or first or second grade. I live in ct but have never met or heard another person talk about it. I’ve tried looking for it trying to see if anything fits what I remember but no. If anyone remembers or knows about it let me know.

They really went from handy manny to handy jobby real fast

I REMEMBERED WHEN THIS HAPPENED! The next day it was all over the news! I’m from Chicago and I’d never new how much of a big deal that was

And yet we still sometimes get things like this now with KZfaq Ads, I guess you really can never escape from that stuff 😢

Haven't seen this specific interruption but I experienced something similar as a kid when I turned the TV on in the morning and was greeted by some hardcore action on who knows what channel. To this day I still can't make out what I saw thru my little kid eyes but I perfectly remember how mad my mom got at my dad💀

The way he says Tuscon 💀 Much love my dude, great video

The possibility of me witnessing this is extremely high. I constantly watched Disney especially in the mornings of 2007 :(

4:58 I remember Bears Big Blue House 😢

I remember one time from 2021 I saw a rerun episode of DuncanVille and the intro played like normal but before the episode played they cut to commercials but thankfully the Fox broadcast station apologized about the scenario and they played the episode that was already in progress

This video Brought back a hidden memory from my childhood OMG… I remember seeing this on TV when it happened…. I was like 5 years old so it was shocking for me…. However I don’t have any actual footage from it so your just gonna have to take my word for it…

The only weird tv things I had growing up in the 90s in England was the many times the tapes didn’t work and having the creepy girl and the clown doll shown until it was fixed or just had someone say sorry for the inconvenience and would just show something else or would have the presenters back on screen Always fun never knowing if your show would be played properly and seeing if tv presenters would mess up when they were on screen when they thought they were off air

This is honestly evil!

The fact this happened where I live is actually insane

I remember watching Teen Titans on CN but most of episodes just kinda stopped in the middle of them. Like they were about to fight and then it just skips to another episode

I always hated Time Warner Cable. As a kid I ALWAYS had Disney Channel running on for background noise in my sleep, and very often the shows would just freeze and pixelate. It was so scary to see as a child. And it'd last for HOURS and I couldn't sleep without the TV on. Man this was locked in the deepest parts of my memories but seeing these comments unlocked it and I'm kinda sad. Also getting the "Weekly Broadcast Emergency Tests" done at 3am were scary as shit man 😭

This is something I’d like to have preserved cause it’s not something you expect to happen

I remember browsing KZfaq sometime in 2012 and I ended up finding a porn video while looking for new uploads during a search. The weird thing was that it was shot just like a silent movie, complete with film scratches, intertitles, and clothing that would be accurate for the time period (1920s). The visuals didn't even look like it was just some cheap video effect either, it looked like it could have legitimately been made in that era. I watched the video for like a couple of minutes but got scared and turned it off when it was beginning to get explicit. I flagged it and it was taken down within a day. Believe it had like 400 views when I found it and it was about 9-10 minutes long in total.

I watched this show as a kid and once got a call that my grandmas cat passed and after that never watched the show again😭

Yeah, I don't know for sure, but I think it might've happened to me at one point too. You just never truly when you're casually watching TV, and then all of a sudden it becomes briefly interrupted by a suggestive commercial (though I do find it funny). While I'm sure finding said suggestive commercials will not be too difficult, it's very unlikely that the reasons of them happening will ever be found.

Way back in the day we had a large satellite dish with the wild feed channels, and I used to find all kinds of weird stuff on it but I can't remember too well other than the one time what was supposed to have been Saturday cartoons was what looked like a warning from another country, like a weather alert or something. I was like 10 or 11.

As an Arizona native, I feel the need to tell you it’s pronounced like “TOO-son” 😅

What's even more frightening is the fact that these were kids that were my age. I was 4 years old when this incident happened. Luckily, Im not from New Jersey so I didn't see it. But I can only imagine how frustrated my parents would've been if they saw something like that

Ayyy I recognize the commercial footage you used to replicate what the hack looked like. That's the condom commercial with Jason Griffith, and since his voice is so recognizable, it's a meme in the Sonic fandom, like the equivalent of Haley Joel Osment's "swabbing urethras" line in the Kingdom Hearts community

Jason Griffith (better known for his work as Sonic The Hedgehog from 2003-2000) is the man at 4:02 btw