Crossword clues for vidiot
Wiktionary
n. (context derogatory informal English) A passive, undiscriminating consumer of video media.
Wikipedia
Vidiot was a children's/teenage television game show broadcast from 1992 to 1995 on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It was hosted by Eden Gaha for the first two series, then Scott McRae for the 1994 and 1995 seasons.
The game format was mostly a simple verbal question-and-answer, with slight variations like timed rounds, visual aids, and audio aids. Questions were themed on popular teen culture - Chart music, recent films, etc.
For each Monday to Thursday broadcast three new teenage contestants battled to win a place for the Friday broadcast. A live audience, often fellow students from the school from which the contestants originated, was present (although no schools where specified, to where the students where from).
Vidiot was recorded in ABC's Sydney studios. On the east coast of Australia it was broadcast 5:30pm weeknights.
Vidiot is also the term used by Ken Nordine in a sketch titled The Vidiot, on his 1957 album Word Jazz. The sketch is of a patient in a therapists office, describing his addiction to TV, and saying he has become a vidiot.
"Vidiot" is also used as a term to describe people who spend hours on computers and continuously watch TV.
It was also a 1980s video game magazine that demised in the North American Video Game Crash of 1983.
Category:Australian Broadcasting Corporation shows Category:Australian game shows Category:Australian children's television series Category:1992 Australian television series debuts Category:1995 Australian television series endings Category:1990s Australian television series
Usage examples of "vidiot".
Everything had been styled after an ancient musical, which meant the men wore shirts made of tablecloths from Italian restaurants and every other vidiot packed a six-gun with a low-grade laser triggered by revolver blanks.
The camcorder was dead, the adjoining room empty, its anonymous couple having completed their business and fled, and who knew what rare species of erotic practice had escaped documentation forever because he, the compleat vidiot, had pointed the Mitsubishi VCR remote at the JVC camcorder?