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TV Meteorologist Explains What Happened After He Went Viral For His Giggle Fit During Weather Forecast In Hilarious Clip
As of 2026, the state has a population of only about 1.42 million people. The island of Manhattan alone in New York City has approximately 240,000 more at 1.66 million. Even though some neighbors from New Brunswick, Canada, and New Hampshire regularly tune in to Maine newscasts, it's still a comparatively small audience to view a moment of public embarrassment.
Unless the moment goes viral on social media.
Which is what happened to meteorologist Patrick Osborn after a recent live broadcast of WABI TV5 out of Bangor, Maine. Yes, that's the central Maine city of only about 32,600 people that Stephen King made famous.
Osborn, the station's weekend meteorologist was in the studio with reporter and weekend anchor Josh Gabbard and the broadcast's producer when things went sideways. Someone recorded the moment and it went viral on TikTok.
After the first small chuckle, Osborn told the audience they were "having a little bit of a scene offscreen." Then he dissolved into a fit of giggles that he tried to power through, remarking this was a first for him, apologizing, and saying "oh, geez" and "oh my gosh."
He finally, breathlessly, told Gabbard:
"Josh, please take it."
Gabbard appeared in a split screen with Osborn in that moment and joked:
"What happened to professionalism, Patrick?"
Which became even funnier after people learned what triggered Osborn's case of the giggles.
WBRC 6 News out of Birmingham, Alabama, was kind enough to share the viral clip on their TikTok, complete with convenient subtitles for everyone having trouble understanding Osborn, followed by a clip of Osborn's explanation of what happened.
WBRC 6 News' post, seen here, also went viral.
WABI TV 5 shared the full interview with Osborn, seen below, on TikTok as well.
Turns out, Osborn and his producer had been teasing Gabbard during a commercial break, comparing his storytelling to the "wawa" sound the adults in the Peanuts cartoons make. Osborn had pulled up a video featuring the sound to poke fun at Gabbard, expecting a short clip that would end during the commercial break.
When the sound continued in the background after the live broadcast resumed, everyone in the studio lost it. Osborn just happened to be the one on camera, and the mic, at the time.
People compared Osborn's laughing voice as he tried to finish his forecast to several well known animated characters.
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But the overwhelming consensus was that Osborn does a great impersonation of Mr. Pops, seen here, from Cartoon Network's Regular Show.
Regardless of who Osborn sounded like, people found the moment hilarious and joyful.
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A few wondered if Gabbard didn't take the opportunity to get the last laugh.
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Although, the old proverb "he who laughs last, laughs best" may not apply here.
Osborn seemed to have a pretty good chuckle over the whole thing, both during and after.
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Meghan Markle Bizarrely Criticized Over Post Hours After Dolly Parton's Death Was Announced—And Fans Are Baffled
On Tuesday, the sad news broke that the music legend and all-around icon had died at age 80. Just hours later, Markle’s lifestyle brand, As Ever, announced its Spiced Apple Butter.
Surely, those two things have absolutely nothing to do with each other, right? Well, someone forgot to tell OK! magazine.
The UK outlet responded with the following headline:
“Meghan Markle slammed over new apple butter launch just hours after Dolly Parton’s death.”
Now, if this all sounds completely unhinged, you must be new here.
Ever since Markle married Prince Harry in 2018, she has somehow found herself at the center of outrage over everything from eating avocados to wishing her then-6-year-old nephew Prince George a happy birthday on Instagram.
Then, in October, Markle faced intense backlash for posting an Instagram video driving through Paris while attending Fashion Week because Princess Diana died in a fatal car crash in the city in 1997.
Avocados. A child’s birthday. Driving through Paris. And now apple butter. At this point, Markle could check the weather and somehow be blamed for the rain.
The Outlet continued the blame fest:
“Meghan announced her new Spiced Apple Butter roughly four hours after news broke that Dolly had died at 80. As tributes poured in for the country legend, critics questioned why the product announcement wasn’t postponed. 👑🤔”
Now, you may be wondering who actually “slammed” Markle and what they said. Same. At the time of writing, there doesn’t appear to be a corresponding article on OK! magazine’s website offering any further insight.
You can see the post in question here:
Once again, the outrage feels wildly misplaced. The president, who apparently has too much time on his teeny tiny hands these days, posted an AI-generated slop image of himself with Parton despite the two never having met—yet somehow Markle’s apple butter became the controversy.
And it’s hard to ignore who keeps attracting this level of scrutiny: an American, an actor, a divorcee and, of course, a mixed-race woman. At some point, you have to wonder why the criticism so reliably finds its way back to her.
Plenty of people online were asking the exact same question:
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Meanwhile, away from headlines about Markle, Parton’s family gathered privately to say goodbye.
The beloved singer was laid to rest at Woodlawn Memorial Park and Mausoleum in Nashville, Tennessee, during a private service attended only by immediate family on Friday, August 28, according to her great-niece, Lainey Parton.
Lainey marked the emotional farewell in an Instagram post:
What Parton leaves behind is far more deserving of attention.
She wrote more than 3,000 songs, gave more than 330 million books to children through her Imagination Library and donated $1 million toward early COVID-19 vaccine research. Through it all, she showed that a woman could be powerful, talented, and wildly successful while still leading with kindness.
That kindness extended to Prince Harry and Markle, with Parton publicly sending the couple her best wishes when they welcomed their first child amid intense and often controversial press coverage. She also supported women in business, which makes invoking her death to criticize Markle for daring to run one especially bizarre.
So maybe, just maybe, that extraordinary legacy—not Markle’s brand's social media post—is what deserves the headline.
Andrew Garfield Praised For His Nuanced Take On Actors Who Choose To Get Botox
During an interview with Vanity Fair, Magic Faraway Tree costars Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy completed Vanity Fair's Lie Detector Test, and when asked about Botox, Garfield was prepared with the perfect answer.
Foy first asked Garfield if he felt there was such a thing as being "too emotional" on screen.
"Yes."
When asked for an example, Garfield laughed and said:
"Me! Me. 100 percent me."
Foy pressed on, asking:
"Do you think that Botox is preventing that from being a reality?"
Garfield thought for a moment and said:
"Oh god, that's tricky."
"I want to tread a bit carefully here, because I have, obviously, a very particular belief that it would be great if we lived in a society where no one felt the pressure to do anything to their faces."
"But, unfortunately, I understand that we're in a society where there is a pressure to do stuff to our faces, especially for women."
Curious now, Foy asked:
"Do you think that actors doing things to their faces is the reason why other people do things to their faces?"
Garfield offered thoughtfully:
"I think, for better or worse, people look to people in the public eye to decide what the norm is, or what is 'aspirational,' and I think it's..."
"...Yeah, I think there is a responsibility that we have, being in the public eye, to take care of our faces in a natural way."
You can watch the segment here:
TikTokers appreciated Garfield's thoughtful response.
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The clip also went viral on X, where users were impressed by Garfield's nuanced take on Botox.
You can watch the full interview here:
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Botox and how it's impacted actors' performances will inevitably be a part of the larger entertainment industry conversation going forward, but Andrew Garfield offered a delicate take here about the relationship between performers and the public.