Only thing missing is a solid 5 seconds worth of a single establishing shot of an ordinary home or building, with no music, just diegetic sound that probably has a pidgeon cooing before the narrartion starts again.
OMG or like a pond with some old crooner just walking in pain along. Swan honk effortlessly timed to the breath pause of the narrator. "And here, in this pictureesque countryside just 8 minutes outside of Bridgemontenshireyork, is where Davy Krocket has lived all his life, with his wife Nora and their children, Willouhby, and Greg."
"Inflection and cadence". There's a bid to sound clever if ever I read one... what an absolute... mommy look at me! I said big boy words! It just wasn't flawless delivery either. The execution lacked confidence yet that didn't stop you from jerking out your complement-soup facial so everyone could see your lexical showreel of special words. 🙄
@WalkOutTV For anyone tuning in late: this guy had a bunch of super sus stuff in public playlists, like a bunch of Hitler speeches and stuff to that effect. Very funny.
The face he makes when he tells us he found a woman with FOUR kids cracks me up. Like they’ve been out of story ideas for so long that they all convinced themselves this was crazy and reporting on it would be a slam dunk blockbuster story 😂
That whole walking while asking yourself questions and frowning, as if these thoughts are only just occurring to you, only to confidently say the answer to camera as you walk out of shot.
Those shows where some explorer/archeologist/historian wonders what in the world could have ever happened at this old site in the woods, like they just discovered it, only for them to go on it was a well known site of something diring WW2 or whatever.
It always felt pretty in your face to me. They're asking all these questions in quickfire and then aggressively tell you the answer as they fly past the camera, as if _you're_ the one asking the questions and that you're getting on their nerves. 😂
@@infinite-sadness There was always a reason. If you don't want a morbidly obese society, unproductive and cost healthcare billions and thus causing harm to broader society, you do the necessary shaming. You can't have a civilised and socially conscious society, if you insist that everyone live their own 'truth' and damn everyone else.
Don't forget that every BBC show had almost identical opening titles. But that said, ITV have had uniform corporate end credits on all their shows for many years now.
It's really not. Social media goes both ways, you have both anti poor people content and content that is positive about poverty. Social media is better because people create it, not some suit in an office somewhere who has no idea what people are really like. Social media has it's problems but it's nothing like the hate filled TV we used to watch in the UK@@dannybirch5117
@@dannybirch5117 swings and roundabouts. Television's more regulated nature sands down the sharp edges sometimes (not always) but when that happens it also lends the message itself an air of undeserved sophistication. I generally think the internet's slightly better overall actually. You don't see messages like this on here and think "oh that's what everyone thinks" (unless you're new or something).
Holy shit this reminded me of my GCSE joke documentary I made for media studies in 04. It was a sarcastic documentary praising the cleanliness of the school, to footage of me exploring how absolutely disgusting it really was. So much so the teacher told me to tone it down in case it needed to be shown in the future 😂
Funny, but sadly true. Especially after the financial crisis benefit-shaming became really prevalent on TV. Really weird, parasocial hating on the disadvantaged, the different, the outsiders, anyone who wasn't able to keep living comfortably after the crash was seen as a failure, or even just a leech on society. It's concerning how quick the mass media are to vilify those less fortunate in life.
@@blarghblargh No shit, Sherlock! And I'm calling them out ... for being petulant and fragile contributors to the "everyone is oppressed' nervous breakdown of contemporary privileged society.
This propaganda tactic actually worked at convincing the middle-aged working class that those that were slightly more hard-done-by than them, or had other challenges in life, were the cause of all of their problems.
I'm not British and didn't grow up in the UK but every time I came across British programmes on TV the one thing that stood out to me is how they'd walk towards the camera while talking and then after they've finished talking, they would ALWAYS walk right past the camera leaving an empty frame behind them. No other country's presenters do this, as far as I've seen.... such a British thing! 😂
We had a Prime Minister who adopted this to get out of interviews - he’d hear the questions, say his canned sound bite (which may or may not relate to the question) and walk straight out of frame!
@@deesnutz42069no it doesn’t mean entitlements , why comment on something when you’re completely wrong or not smart enough to understand the context . Swap out benefits with welfare ..
The intonation is spot on lmao
Theyyyyre faht
@@sarlardaryou misspelled phat!
That's rigghhtt.....The intoNATION is SPOT ON.
Jeremy Clarkson STILL presents like this lmao
Yes but don't we love him for it? 😂😂
I always thought it was sarcastic
@@rinkohorowitzit is
@@rinkohorowitz Clarkson's style is double layered irony. He presents in a sarcastic manner whilst actually meaning what he says lol.
That's why he is the GOAT
You forgot the part where Richard Hammond is just randomly there hosting even if it wasn't top gear
Things that make you go hmmm why is Richard Hammond presenting this
@@improvedalpaca3294and the "why him in particular and not james may?"
@@AirborneAshes tbh I liked Hammond doing brainiac as odd as it was. Strange they chose him for Wipeout UK, but maybe that was a joke after his crash
@@improvedalpaca3294 To quote Hamster, "You'd have to be really, really desperate to get on the Telly," then points to himself.
😭🤣
Only thing missing is a solid 5 seconds worth of a single establishing shot of an ordinary home or building, with no music, just diegetic sound that probably has a pidgeon cooing before the narrartion starts again.
I can see it now - the brick foundation, the white wood, the smooth grass lawn and potted colour below the window...
makes it feel serious lol
So accurate.
Did you know those cooing pidgeons received.. you guessed it: BENEFITS.
OMG or like a pond with some old crooner just walking in pain along. Swan honk effortlessly timed to the breath pause of the narrator.
"And here, in this pictureesque countryside just 8 minutes outside of Bridgemontenshireyork, is where Davy Krocket has lived all his life, with his wife Nora and their children, Willouhby, and Greg."
The inflection and cadence on this is absolutely flawless
Word ❤😅
"Inflection and cadence". There's a bid to sound clever if ever I read one... what an absolute... mommy look at me! I said big boy words! It just wasn't flawless delivery either. The execution lacked confidence yet that didn't stop you from jerking out your complement-soup facial so everyone could see your lexical showreel of special words. 🙄
“You guessed it… beneffiiittss” 😂😂
Reminds of the day today, brilliant!
@@vanbalzup6481 they're obviously inspired by Chris Morris
@@vanbalzup6481 I don't think it'a rehash. Everything's influenced by something else. There's nothing new under the sun.
"Weve trapped a fat mans family in a block of butter."
Now we give it him for cooking and check if he notices anything.
oh my days i heard batman i was so confused 😭😭
I'd watch that
Wanted to like but its 1 2 3 4 likes and i couldnt break my OCD
That came out of nowhere and it sweeted me 😂😂😂😂
Fuck, I forgot how much 2000s TV bitched about benefits.
Can't anymore because doing so would alienate about half of all nurses...
Why shouldn't they? Destroyed the country.
@@elsietheboyElaborate please. I'm foreign and my country doesn't have nurses, so I don't understand.
@@HOTD108_your country has nurses lol. They take care of sick people. All countries have them.
@@HOTD108_ Your country doesn't have nurses?
The smug face as he says "they're all gay" got me.
He's not wrong though is he?
@@chairmanmeow8388Yeah lol my reaction to a lot of these clips was "I mean, he has a point"
@@SquareNoggin better more honest times.
@@chairmanmeow8388if he's right that's a good advertisement for the communist party
@@dazednova communism is pretty gay to start with.
"heads shoulders knees and toes, and we talk to a family that had none of them" literally killed me 😂😂
How do you think the family feels? Awkward interview..
Figuratively *
@@Crouchback did you just assume they're not a ghost in the machine? very corporialist of you
RIP
Now THAT is a show I would watch.
Calling the entire british communist party gay for no reason is about the most british thing I've heard today.
Yeah but....
Which one? There's like 10 😂
@@alexjeffrey3981 I bet all 10 are gay as hell.
Commies are usually homo though. Stereotypes exist for a reason and all that.
@@alexjeffrey3981 They're all gay.
Jesus, the head and shoulders one is my favourite, just the delivery on the line lmao
What if I told you...there was no deliveryyyyy
I think I've actually seen that programme
@@plopdoo339 i mean... the line was said.. So im gonna disagree
Toaster :3
clever humour from the Chris Morris School of Humour
Ironically this feels like it could have been a Mitchell and Webb sketch
@WalkOutTVYou wanna explain your playlists?
@@YEs69th420 lmao got him
@@YEs69th420”Hitler speech collection” 😬
They even slightly resemble them
@WalkOutTV For anyone tuning in late: this guy had a bunch of super sus stuff in public playlists, like a bunch of Hitler speeches and stuff to that effect. Very funny.
It was all of british television too lol everything from "cant pay, we'll take it away" to a random documentary about Stonehenge.
An episode of "can't pay? we'll take it away" *about* stonehenge
@@badideagenerator2315 that would be trash tv gold lol
The face he makes when he tells us he found a woman with FOUR kids cracks me up. Like they’ve been out of story ideas for so long that they all convinced themselves this was crazy and reporting on it would be a slam dunk blockbuster story 😂
Goldmine! 😂
Considering birth rates have been on a decline, it's gonna be noteworthy news in a few years.
That whole walking while asking yourself questions and frowning, as if these thoughts are only just occurring to you, only to confidently say the answer to camera as you walk out of shot.
😂
Those shows where some explorer/archeologist/historian wonders what in the world could have ever happened at this old site in the woods, like they just discovered it, only for them to go on it was a well known site of something diring WW2 or whatever.
Literally just me walking with anybody I know.
It always felt pretty in your face to me. They're asking all these questions in quickfire and then aggressively tell you the answer as they fly past the camera, as if _you're_ the one asking the questions and that you're getting on their nerves. 😂
"They're all gaaaye"
"Theres a family who have none of them"
This is what Derek eats in one week
Ima go watch freaky eaters now
"We've trapped this fat man's family inside this block of butter". Now tell me this isn't a reference to 'The Chawners' Bwahaha!
They forgot "the boy with an arse for a face".
I thought the presenters represented him perfectly
The man whose hands are trees
To the tune of “The Boy With the Thorn in His Side”
@@liamclark8844 Brilliant
Or 'the woman with a second head that won't stop calling her a b***h'
British TV was very popular in the U.S. in the 2000s and I didn't realize I missed that overly concerned presentation style. It was fun for a while
Jesus that first one killed me to ded... "They are not only poor... THEY'RE FAT!"
they're ffhhaÆT
Ah .. the good old days, when truth telling was still a thing.
@@pm2886god i miss being mean for no reason
@@infinite-sadness There was always a reason. If you don't want a morbidly obese society, unproductive and cost healthcare billions and thus causing harm to broader society, you do the necessary shaming.
You can't have a civilised and socially conscious society, if you insist that everyone live their own 'truth' and damn everyone else.
“I would love to give fat people a punch on the nose but I can’t. I’m too fat!”
Tom Baker, Little Britain
“Luckily for me, I don’t live here”😂😂
Don't forget that every BBC show had almost identical opening titles.
But that said, ITV have had uniform corporate end credits on all their shows for many years now.
Oh gosh the ITV corporate credits. Its like the comic sans of credits
And we wonder why there is so much hate when we were all fed a diet of "let's see who we dislike today" on TV
Yeah social media does that now.
It's much worse now with social media
It's really not. Social media goes both ways, you have both anti poor people content and content that is positive about poverty.
Social media is better because people create it, not some suit in an office somewhere who has no idea what people are really like. Social media has it's problems but it's nothing like the hate filled TV we used to watch in the UK@@dannybirch5117
@@lofilevelling7830"This college age celebrity has gotten cringy. Get her!!!"
@@dannybirch5117 swings and roundabouts. Television's more regulated nature sands down the sharp edges sometimes (not always) but when that happens it also lends the message itself an air of undeserved sophistication. I generally think the internet's slightly better overall actually. You don't see messages like this on here and think "oh that's what everyone thinks" (unless you're new or something).
Holy shit this reminded me of my GCSE joke documentary I made for media studies in 04. It was a sarcastic documentary praising the cleanliness of the school, to footage of me exploring how absolutely disgusting it really was. So much so the teacher told me to tone it down in case it needed to be shown in the future 😂
please upload it if you still have it
How did it go aside from that? Sounds good so far!
Funny, but sadly true. Especially after the financial crisis benefit-shaming became really prevalent on TV. Really weird, parasocial hating on the disadvantaged, the different, the outsiders, anyone who wasn't able to keep living comfortably after the crash was seen as a failure, or even just a leech on society. It's concerning how quick the mass media are to vilify those less fortunate in life.
The brass eye spirit is strong with these ones. I spat out my non existent drink when he turned into the house and said four
Brass eye/alan partridge
Yeah very Day Today/Brass Eye. Just waiting for 'Where now for man raised by puffins '
Spot on. The documentary style gave great scope for vast raging wit and humour 😂
@@dans3626 That will depend on how things turn out once Michael Portillo's had his teeth pulled. :P
'Sacked chimney sweep pumps boss full of mayonnaise.'
Anytime I see an american associating british accents with wit and intelligence I'll just link em to this video
There British btw
@@abdulazeez.jadalla7168 Really?
@@abdulazeez.jadalla7168*they're
They're still gonna think they're witty and deep lol
@@dennisthemenace3695 Did ‘e call yoo a fackin’ cant?
Saw this on Reddit yesterday. Came to subscribe immediately. Brass Eye recognises Brass Eye straight away. Bloody great stuff
It's not just big Chris, it's large. Free the United Kingdom from Drugs.
@@leon6777I'm talking nonce sense
Ted Maul lives on.
the brass eye is real 🙏
Was looking for this comment
My god this is brilliant 😂😂😂 I'm not even British but BBC America and PBS was filled with these shows
"Hello, I'm British, and I'm going to tell you how to live"
😂
To be fair, it worked for them for a few centuries.
I don't get it
Me: the 2000s was the best time to be alive.
The 2000s:
We watched some absolute trash TV in the 2000s. Talent shows, Reality TV, fake magicians, poor people slander shows, Lost...
@@cattysplat Yeah, but at least it was in the Time Before PC. Sort of.
@@pm2886 you seem to have entirely missed the subtext in the video. they're calling people like you out, specifically.
@@blarghblargh No shit, Sherlock!
And I'm calling them out ... for being petulant and fragile contributors to the "everyone is oppressed' nervous breakdown of contemporary privileged society.
@@pm2886no it wasn't. Maybe you were just too young to notice, but "PC" has been a thing since the 90's.
I'm from Netherland and we watch these type of shows for English class😂
You can find it all for free on RUclips, so your teacher is smart.
This reads 2 ways
This is basically every Channel 4 program.
woke now
“This is what Derek eats, in one week” got me 🤣
I literally burst out laughing at the head nod and pointing in the first 20 seconds. What a time! I can imagine this would’ve been on Channel 5 😂
“This man thinks he’s a woman, and we think he’s weird!”
Monty Python moment
Why is this so real though and they all had the exact same voice whether a different person or not
More the early 2010s. Benefit Street being a particularly notorious edition in 2013.
This propaganda tactic actually worked at convincing the middle-aged working class that those that were slightly more hard-done-by than them, or had other challenges in life, were the cause of all of their problems.
THis is how Rishi Sunak percieves the UK
You've got the British TV cadence down
Fuckin perfect lmao. Gettin Alan Partridge vibes.
These are too accurate bro 💀💀💀
FR
I'm not British and didn't grow up in the UK but every time I came across British programmes on TV the one thing that stood out to me is how they'd walk towards the camera while talking and then after they've finished talking, they would ALWAYS walk right past the camera leaving an empty frame behind them. No other country's presenters do this, as far as I've seen.... such a British thing! 😂
We had a Prime Minister who adopted this to get out of interviews - he’d hear the questions, say his canned sound bite (which may or may not relate to the question) and walk straight out of frame!
Why is this so accurate?? 😂
It isn’t an English TV show without the host walking towards the camera, is it?
I never consciously realized this fact I was 100% subconsciously aware of. Thank you.
"I break a documentary trope by walking away from the camera while I'm speaking."
“Benefiiiiits” 😂
That last one broke me.
This is possibly my favourite satirical video ever 😂 the accuracy is on point
As an American it's simultaneously comforting and depressing to hear the apple didn't fall TOO far from the tree.
Getting serious Brass Eye vibes from this. Nice job lads.
Definitely Chris Morris inspired
A blend of Jeremy Clarkson, Gordon Ramsay, Piers Morgan
ah, the golden days... what i wouldn't give to rot my 5 year old brain with this again.
Beats watching Mr.beast and Skibidi toilet.
You guys really got me here. And years late at that, thank you 🥲
"you guessed it Benfiiiits" 😂😂😂
This has me cryinggg🤣🤣🤣🤣 this is so true!! But as an American these British reality shows are my guilty pleasure!!! They are soooo entertaining. Lol
2000s British television seemed lit
Somebody wrote this already but I don't care. You've got Chris Morris vibes, it made me smile.
And somehow as an American I completely understand and watched a million of these
"This man might think he's a woman, but we just think he's weird" *knocks on door* Leave me alone 😭
Nailed it.
I love being British
Saw this on a jacksepticeye video and had to come subscribe😭🤣🤣🤣its too accurate bruh
The late 90s to early 2000s were a golden age.
As a Canadian who spent my teens watching british reality tv and documentaries, this definitely checks out
"We're handing out Asbo's to ugly kids!" I've been laughing for 10 solid minutes.
Oh I thought he said aspergers 💀
@@GeminiPlatypus ME TOO LOL
I grew up watching a lot of British tv and this is spot on. 😂
Doesn’t seem racist enough
Remember immigration street
Channel 4 Cutting Edge vibes 😄
Getting serious Brass Eye vibes!!
Well done 👏
The stress in the voice is perfect.
head shoulders knees and toes but what if i told you they had none of them 😂😂😂
They all sound so suspenseful, Damn I would've liked to hear all those tv shows then
These Brits are on the British Spectrum
You see, *"English"* is a s p e c t r u m. And I, am definitely *on it.*
-Graeme (maybe)
You mean the 128k home computer?
Good to see the media tackling the real problems in our society…
These videos are so funny and spot on.
Fucking incredible.
All facts, nothings changed.
I'm not British nor do I watch British television in the daytime but that all sounds familiar somehow as an US American😂
word, just swap "benefits" with "entitlements"
Jonathan Pie
@@deesnutz42069
Pay check 2 pay check in a Bernie Sanders voice.
@@deesnutz42069no it doesn’t mean entitlements , why comment on something when you’re completely wrong or not smart enough to understand the context . Swap out benefits with welfare ..
@@vinceventura4453 bud, you're so wildly stupid it isn't funny.
Super funny! I was visiting Britain in 1999 and I have defently seen this on tv back then
As if it's any better now, there's a reason i don't pay my tv licence.
This could easily be clips from the BBC.
“The traditional rhyme goes ‘head shoulders knees and toes’ but what if I told you, this family had none of them…”
this is very true and it still makes me laugh
'What if I told you that there was a family with none of them' 💀💀💀
Excellent. Someone's been watching Brass Eye
Anyone have any examples of shows that are like this? I know I've seen them but can't specifically think of any.
Everything on Channel 5
Benefits Britain
Fat Families
i laughed way too much at this
The phrase: "guess what... they're all gay" has hard entered me and my partner's lexicon. Usually relating to fandom and fanon pairings
"This man might think he's a woman, but we just think he's weird" is a reality check many people need today
I unironically want to be able to watch early 2000s british tv again, it's much easier to laugh about what they're saying a couple decades later.
Make British tv great again
Oh, of course, can't forget the BBC's transphobia quota
tom scott voice
God I want to present something like this so much
That videography is spot on 😂
Bri'ish peepole
Old British TV sounds based AF
So what I’m getting is old British TV used to be based
“How many kids is too many?” All of my friends have like 5-9 siblings no kidding
2000s British TV show plots are the modern RUclips show plots.