Operation X (1987) highlights a comedic collaboration between performance and video artists Mitchell Kriegman and Teddy Dibble. Conceived in the tradition of television pioneer Ernie Kovacs’s humor, Operation X presents a series of short comic vignettes woven together using the unique attributes of the television medium. Relying on conceptual and visual puns, associations, and various sound and image tricks, Kriegman and Dibble create a freshly updated homage to the early innovations of television.