LOL, Quizz! Get a potato and a cable and see what happens! I did strip one end of the cable so I had about 1.5 inches of the copper wire exposed. I also got a new screw connector end for the cable, which the instructions said to shove into the potato after pushing in the wire, which I did. My suspicion is that the potato is somehow picking up the signal from the UFO antenna, even with it unplugged (as I tested), but without the potato, the tv in the bedroom gets nothing. I do wonder if a lone potato antenna without any other signals around would do any good. Responses on Wiki How from people who tried it were mixed. Some said it worked great!