... too graphic for SW? is that a thing?

Years ago one of the radio stations in a major city told everyone to take their phone off the hook so the telephone company could blow the dust out of the lines. (this was back before cell phones). So many people did it the telephone company had service outages in places.

Back in the 1990a BMW in the UK did a spoof advertisement for an 'oven cam', a camera that you mounted on the oven at home and which showed to progress of you cooking while you were out & about!

Back in 1977, the Guardian newspaper ran a story about the island of San Serife. Going back even firther, to 1957, the BBC did one about the ''failed spaghetti harvest' in Ticino, Switzerland.