March 11th, 2010

Dumb New Records (I): How Many Hours Can a Person Watch Cartoons Before They Are Officially Braindead?

too-much-tv.jpg52-year old László Fölkl spent 104 hours watching cartoons in an attempt to break a world record, the organizers of Budapest’s Animania Movie Marathon revealed. As part of the record-breaking attempt Fölkl watched nearly 300 cartoons over the time period, eventually coming up twenty hours short of the world record, but still setting a Hungarian record in the process, good enough to land him a new laptop, and, it would seem, a minor mention in the press. [est.hu]

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