It’s snowed, so – as is tradition – Fox29 sent Steve Keeley out to do something zany. Mike Jerrick was in the studio wearing a pink/purple sweater that’s getting some good-spirited guff on Twitter:

All good fun. Keeley wanted in. So he said Mike’s sweater reminded him of a gay joke from his grade school days, and at no point in setting it up did he realize how terrible of an idea it was. Behold:

We caught more of the aftermath here:

God bless Mike Jerrick, whose ability to find the line and hold it has no rival. He knew he was in danger of becoming a homophobic meme and quickly turned himself into a little teapot, short and stout.

Good Day Philly thrives on the awkward sometimes, this was on the other end of the spectrum. Here’s a palate cleanser:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYnK99qalNk

Post Script: There’s no way Keeley was going to realize how out of bounds and awkward that was if you subscribe to my theory that Steve Keeley is a robot from the future sent back in time to do some kind of dangerous mission. However, they haven’t quite perfected the skin substitute in his era, and the leathery, grain-like texture covering his machinery didn’t protect the inner robotics from all of that snow. It effected his CPU and his mission is now lost to history.