“C’mon man, you gotta get the name right,” Jimmy Kimmel tells the barista who calls out a latte for Timmy, just as he comes to terms with the truth of that statement.
That’s when another employee morphs into a giant Oscar statuette—yet another haunting reminder of last year’s snafu when La La Land was mistakenly revealed as best picture, followed moments later by the announcement that Moonlight was in fact the winner.
“You know, I dream about it every night,” Kimmel says in a promo for the 2018 Oscars ceremony. “The worst part is, they want me to do it again.”
Kimmel will return to host the event on Sunday, March 4 at 8 p.m. EST, a half hour earlier than previous years.
ABC has leaned into the 2017 error, with key art featuring the tagline “What could possibly go wrong,” and ABC President Channing Dungey telling reporters at the Television Critics Association winter press tour that it would be silly not to poke a little fun at it.
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Kimmel does just that as he recounts the trauma of not being able to open the mail piling up outside his door, and his futile attempts to put the past behind him, all while lying on a couch talking to his therapist … who turns out to not be his therapist at all.
CREDITS
Network: ABC
Executive Vice President, Entertainment Marketing: Rebecca Daugherty
Senior Vice President, Creative: Jill Gershman
VP, Production: Bob Schefferine
Director of Production: Chris O’Hara
Director, Design: Lucas Aragon
Art Director: Kevin Anderson
Associate Director, Special Projects & Production: Sandy Christmas
Sr. Manager of Production: Meg Tyra
Sr. Manager of Post Production: Steve Burch
Manager of Production: Christine Sparks
Producer, Creative Director: Brenda Lau, Pilot
Creative Director: Ford Oelman, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
Writers: Jimmy Kimmel and Joe Strazzullo
Editor: Carlos Almonte, Pilot
Production Company: Black Label Content
Director: Paul Feig
Founder/ Executive Creative Director: Joseph Uliano
Producer: Norm Reiss
Director of Photography: Autumn Durald
Production Design: Patrick Lumb
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