The trio of judges Neil Fox, Nicki Chapman and Pete Waterman mugging absurdly to the camera, tripping over their effusiveness towards the moderately talented contestants; using personal tragedy to accrue votes (Hello Leon!); Geraldine singing the theme of Home and Away with Sir Paul McCartney.
Dozens of reporters were caught on camera tripping over each other to catch a glimpse of the Democratic frontrunner, and fawning over inane details such as what, exactly, Clinton ordered at Chipotle.
On Halloween Day, 1992, he whistle-stopped across the state with Mr. Bush, from Mukwonago and Waukesha to Oshkosh and Chippewa Falls, a made-for-the-cameras trip on a train called the Spirit of America.
With a battery of cameras tripped by electrical switches he captures minute metamorphoses too quick for the blinking human eye.
Inside, the car has a completely redesigned, leather- and aluminum-clad cockpit, with satellite navigation, Bluetooth capability, a rear parking camera, a trip computer, launch control and Vehicle Dynamic Assistance (to monitor the car's vitals).
Walking the first steps on the road that leads you towards scurrying across the Hungarian border while fascist camera women trip up your children isn't something driven by lifestyle, it's fuelled by hopelessness.
But it seems clear that in a couple of years, with an iPhone 6S in our pockets, it will be nearly impossible to justify taking a dedicated camera on trips like the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage.
When in September a Hungarian camera woman tripped up a young refugee and her father, the Guardian moderation team suddenly noticed a cohort of commenters ready to defend the country's right-wing stance.
Early on, there were trips to her house, introductions to family and friends, the ritual of the Thursday curry in the staff canteen, the joy in showing me contact strips fresh from the darkroom, the visit together to a man near the British Library who serviced cameras, a trip to Glastonbury to take photos of rock stars.
The Obama Administration got cracking early on the media-driven politics of the stimulus bill, with camera-friendly trips to weatherize houses or inaugurate solar plants in swing states.
