I was one of those kids who watched Spike TV when I was 9 or 10. I love how your channel regales my nostalgia specifically to the youngins who weren't cool enough to be kids in the 2000s.
Jason Ellis ! NO WAY, I Never knew he was on Spike?!!?!!??!?! Tony Hawk's friend?! THAT"S WOLF, from HAWK VS WOLF. Tony Hawk's Podcast HAHAHA NO WAY. As Soon as I heard him speak I was like No way, its him without face tattoos. wow.
A friend of mine's dad is a professor with a PHD in medieval warfare and one of the experts they called on Deadliest Warrior. He's still salty about the bullshit ruling in his episode and calls it "deadliest blow to my career" when he talks about it lol
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Here in Canada, around the same time Spike TV hit the airwaves, we got a copycat channel called Men TV. It kind of billed itself as a bit more sensual than Spike, it was dark, mysterious, and smooth, as opposed to Spike's constant explosions and boobs. It was a glass of whiskey to Spike TV's tallboy of beer. It had its own programming, mostly talk shows and game shows, as well as sitcoms like Blackfly and reruns of older shows like Sledgehammer and Remmington Steel. At one point, Spike actually tried to get them off their air because they were causing "competition" with them, but the Canadian courts looked at both and was like, "No, these are different channels".
I remember seeing ads for it when I watched Deadliest Warrior but never watched it because it seemed too dark for my tastes (I was like 8 or 9) plus I had more of a warrior obsession at the time
It's hard to find online now but truly recommend it 💀 early 2000s parody/satire of college football at its absolute finest. It would never air today but the level of awareness the writers had about misogyny and the perspective of the stereotype of college football is so good.
More fun fact: tna’s falling out with spike was actually due to frustration and anger on spikes end because they specifically told tna that they didn’t want a certain backstage director to be working for the company as he had history of creating terrible storylines and was vocally hated by fans. So Tna secretly hired him back and had him working and when spike found out it was the last straw and they officially canceled their relationship
Imagine being the dude crushed by a coffin, turning on the tv in the afterlife and seeing a story about how you WERE A NECROPHILIAC CRUSHED BY THE COFFIN OF HIS VICTIM.
I hated the show. They take real deaths and twist them making the dead look like an awful person. There's two cases of this happening, one in 1989 and the one in the show is VERY loosely based off on Marciana Silva Barcelos, except she wasn't a pervert like Mason. On November 11th, 2008 in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - Barcelos, 67, was a passenger in the hearse carrying the body of her husband, Josi Silveira Coimbra, who had died the day before. Suddenly, a speeding Alfa Romeo car struck the back of the hearse. Dislodged by the accident, Josi’s coffin hurtled forward and smashed into the back of Marciana’s neck, killing her instantly.
I’ve always thought about that when watching the show. Like no way were all these people genuinely horrible or deserved it and then I imagine if all these people who died were able to see the show and how they were represented. Like I can imagine the guy who got crushed by a coffin was just a normal dude, prolly had a family, pretty chill or whatever and we all remember him as a necrophile
@@t.l.w.1221 I listed the case in my comment above. It was a she, and she probably had f*cked the person (while they were alive)... Because it was her husband. Really sad story. The show had no respect for the dead.
@@Gatorade69 Not to derail your point because it's indeed awful to try to downplay the severity of a strange death by presenting the victims as absolute horrible beings who _deserve_ to die (most unusual deaths are down to bad luck and have nothing to do with karma) But her name was literally "Martian"????
@@DeepWeeb Does Marciana mean Martian in Portuguese ? I assumed it is kind of the Hispanic equivalent of the name Marcella/Marceline/Marcy. Which according to the internet the meaning of the name Marcy 'comes from the Latin name Marcius, and its meaning is related to Mars, the Roman god of war.'
I love the guy talking about the bullet and saying "A knight has a shield, so getting through that extra layer is going to be a big factor" as if a Knight has supernatural reaction time
Fun fact about Gary the Rat: when Spike canned their entire adult animation block after it didnt take off (which was going to be revamped with more new shows and Adult Party being replaced by newly remastered reruns of the original Ren and Stimpy show, which in itself was edited for ad time and to remove Nickelodeon's endcard), the shows there then were uncermousally canned without proper closure except for old Gary..... His show was the only one of the entire lineup to actually have an finale
I must thank Spike for Blue Mountain State, Deadliest Warrior, MXC, and their occasional 007 marathons. My teenage years wouldn't be what they were without Spike.
For some reason the one that stuck with me most was the one where a girl had a kink for.. “🤮”and she choked on something that a guy had thrown up on her.. I guess it stuck in my mind because it was so nasty.. Oh and the one where the girl’s implants blew up on the plane.. 💀
I often think about the episode of 1000 Ways to Die where a guy drowned in his cat's water bowl. For the reenactment, they decided to make him just like, a full crazy cat man. It's so weird to think that the ideal man was invented by Spike TV.
Peter John Robinson, aged 28, slipped while walking down his back door ramp to feed his cat, Piper. His mother, Gill Robinson, found him lying unconscious, facedown in 4cm of water in the plastic cat bowl. Coroner Peter Roselli found that Mr Robinson drowned after a significant head injury on July 5. Mrs Robinson said the ramp was covered in about 3cm of ice after a week of frosts. Sad.
The one that always stuck with over the years, for some random reason, is the skit with the terrorists setting a bomb. However, they died in the explosion due to forgetting about day light savings time😂. Just so damn stupid
As a kid, I used to think I could get the Deadliest Warrior simulation code, and when I realized it was just an excel spreadsheet on an alienware laptop, my childhood ended
A core memory for me is watching Star Wars on Spike as a ten year old at about 11:00 pm on a Thursday night, and I got hit with a Girls Gone Wild ad. Things were never quite the same.
I remember series that one show that has Olivia Munn on it and then showing previews for Telltales The Walking Dead and showing ads for reruns of Lost (which I actually finished back in June of this year)
I remember watching some of _Deadliest Warrior,_ because on the surface, they genuinely seemed to want to do a fair comparison between two groups to deduce their fighting prowess. Two groups have different sets of weapons, let’s test them to see if one is better. And while it’s kind of juvenile, shedding some light on to who would win between, say Vikings and Samurai, isn’t inherently a bad idea. But then I saw one particular episode. They wanted to see which grenade was better, the one used by Group A or the one used by Group B. So they set up a room filled with cardboard cutouts and detonated the grenade used by Group A, then they examined the aftermath. Next, you’d expect they’d repeat the same experiment with the grenade used by Group B, so they could compare the results, right? No. They put Group B’s grenade in a washing machine and detonated it. That is a completely different test. Now, because you don’t know what you’re doing, we can’t directly compare the two grenades. You fail science _Deadliest Warrior._
Oh my glob, I had forgotten about the blood boiling rage I felt at that episode. I don't even remember the rest of the episode, but I remember how pissed off I was as a kid who didn't get objective testing
Overall while it's definitely my favorite Spike show and the only one I watched all the episodes of, it's about as accurate to history as Barney was to dinosaurs. William Wallace is very obviously based on Braveheart and Shaka Zulu his opponent was ripped from the Shaka TV drama from the 80s, not any actual historical figures that takes you know research and time. It's pretty much the same for every character. He also jokes a lot about the Green Berets losing but I just want to point out that's the only episode I can remember where the Americans lose. They sweep the competition every other time from the Rangers to Teddy Roosevelt.
Honestly, except that I'm not sure they were smart enough to think of this, it seems like they intentionally did stupid shit like that to spark greater discussion/debate/dumb arguments. I remember as a kid having tons of conversations with my friends driven by that kind of "mistake".
@@Salsmachev I'm guessing they did two different tests just because they thought it'd be boring to audiences if they did the same thing twice and really didn't think much beyond that
I went to a bar that was JUST visited by Bar Rescue with their new theme and name. They told me "oh, we just had a TV show shoot in here. It will be back to normal next week" They changed everything back. Still open.
I think 1000 ways to die changed me as a child, because I saw this one episode where this dude thought that high rise building windows are strong, and won't break if he were to run into it. So he thought it would be a cool and funny prank if he ran at a window in front of his co-workers, and he ended up breaking through and falling to death. As an adult I still can't comfortably go too close to windows in tall buildings lol.
@@nikkey8951 yes !! my mom used to tell me this story a bunch as a kid, presumably so i wouldn't do the same thing (which. why would i), but yeah, i can't remember if it was a group of his students or new hires at his company, but this guy would run at the window in front of them to freak everyone out for a second before they'd realize the window didn't break. he'd then explain "they make windows really strong to avoid lawsuits" (i can't remember if his profession was legal or architectural). but yeah, it was a trick that only worked so many times before the window finally gave in.
As someone who actually knows about historical combat from actually doing it as part of my hyperfixation, nobody on Deadliest Warrior ever knew the first thing of what they were talking about.
@InevitableOption-ic2vx To be fair, that would be how it would play out. I don't think anyone would know what a rajput was, but they had them win against the roman centurion. And they did navy seals vs spetznaz and surprisingly had the spetznaz win in spite of one of them being former military. So I think it's not the worst.
When Billiam talks about lost I was like I wanna go back and watch that again. When Billiam talks about spikeTV I was like I wanna go back in time to prevent myself from watching spikeTV.
He goes so in-depth with Lost I don't feel like I need to watch it, but with this Spike stuff he goes just in-depth enough for me to watch to these insane things again to make sure they're actually real and he's not lying lol
1:05:29 I’m surprised you didn’t mention that Charlie Brown was also played by Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luthor from Smallville) because that was wild to see 😂
That quote about the Manswers people wanting the show to be sexy without being misogynistic is actually sending me; it is literally so easy to make something that is both sexy and not degrading to women, and Manswers does basically everything wrong in that regard. The fact that the showrunner was a woman is just all the more baffling.
Sounds like the showrunner's objective was "I must put together all the things men like," which... shows how low the showrunner's (and the network's) expectation of men was. (As for the middle school boys did end up liking it... idk I guess stereotypes exist for a reason.)
@@thejest69 I mean if my experiences are anything to go by, most middle school boys will watch anything that has a bunch of half naked women in it, so those demographics don't surprise me at all.
it makes it hilarious to me honestly like the show finally makes sense, there's a gag in Brookly 99 where the captain (who is gay) pretends to be straight during undercover missions and spends the whole time talking about boobs, ass and sex in the most direct and forced way possible to the point of making the other men feel uncomfortbale. this is like a tv show version of that
This video unearthed a memory I have been trying to recall for like 5 years: the "Ultimate Gamer" show. For years I was trying to remember the name of that show where some guy won a makeover of his living room to be Advent Rising themed. That game hadn't come out yet and the episode was a tie in. It ended up not being very good and the guy wasn't even smiling during the outro segment when he was playing an early copy of the game. I really thought it aired on G4. Thanks for solving this mystery for me.
I was 8-12 years old when 1000 Ways to Die aired in its original run. The deaths itself didn’t faze me at all per se, but it was the 3-D animations that explained how the people died that truly scared me. The death that stuck with me the most was a guy with narcolepsy who slept at his job whenever and wherever he could, and one day he decided to sleep inside an industrial oven that cured metals. His coworker didn’t realize that he was inside and closed the oven door while he was sleeping inside the oven and he was cooked alive in his sleep.
@@kazekamiha in another instance where the one person depicted in 1000 Ways to Die wasn’t acting like an asshole but still died anyways was this lady who was fly fishing and a fish flew into her mouth and asphyxiated due to the fish’s scales made it difficult for her to get the fish out of her throat.
Can't say I recall that one, but I just used to watch whichever ones I could find on youtube when I was 9 or so. The one I remember most vividly is definitely the Chainus... Shit was horrific
@@janegeland7596 I can see how it’s a horrific way to go. But my biggest question I had from watching RUclips clips of that death that you mentioned was how the hell did the guy get a chain that went from his mouth to outside his butthole. I’d imagine that this a pretty invasive procedure to do.
@@juancerda-duran1824 I mean, I have some doubts as to the veracity of some of the stories. However, I imagine it's a fairly thin chain; and I'd assume you basically just swallow it, and let it pass its way through your guts and such? Couldn't tell you, though, I know nothing about it apart from the vague memory of that episode hahaha. Absolutely wild, nonetheless. But the only mention of that sort of piercing I can find is directly related to the episode, so I have a fair few doubts hahaha.
Kitchen Nightmares is actually decent at saving the resturant 80% of the resturants shutting down is apparently just the standard in the resturant industry
Watching MXC was one of the happiest memories of my high school years. That show's dub cracked me up like nothing else. I'm almost 100% sure that I watched every episode.
Same, I remeember watching MXC way back when i was young, and it took me a long time to rediscover it, let alone rediscover the original version I ended up having to search "japanese wipeout" to get the answers
Afro Samurai is absolutely peak fiction. I was introduced to it when a Facebook group I was in was doing like a movie night on some website where we watched the Afro Samurai Resurrection movie and loved it. Not long after I bought the complete series DVD from a retro store and just sat there loving the entire show. It's a top 10 anime for me.
DUDE THE 1000 WAYS TO DIE PART GAVE ME FLASHBACKS When I was a kid my stepdad would watch it a lot when I was in the room and it freaked me out, and constantly made me paranoid I'd die anytime I got hurt even slightly. I'm convinced the show is what gave me my long-lasting thanatophobia lol.
I watched Afro Samurai when it first aired, and I *think* I remember it being one of the first shows that had a "Production Diaries" type segment after every episode. It was a genuine Eastern and Western production, Spike/Sam Jackson were super stoked about that, and the fact that it was one of the few animated shows at the time that still used animation cells. Afro Samurai definitely had an impact on me at an age when I shouldn't have been watching Spike TV. lol
It was one of my favorites for awhile, too. I'm definitely paranoid, but it's more from growing up within fundamentalist christianity, and dealing with the authoritarian, zero healthy boundaries parenting that shit produces and encourages. After about the third time of getting home to find your folks ransacked your room, and stole shit from you to throw it away, trust becomes a luxury you just can't afford.
@@KingOfGaymes Final Destination goes more from horror to comedy the further u get in the series, the gymnast death is still one of the funniest things I ever seen in a movie
Back in 2014 My mom almost got on bar rescue! She went through all the interviews and a few of my teachers at school were talking about it cuz they wanted to go to the filming. After more thinking, Mom later turned them down cuz she's an extremely loud hard headed women and wouldn't accept someone belittling her in her own bar. She's still growing today, now has 2 bars and currently looking for a third location. ❤ I love my Mom
Fun fact: The Mel Gibson parody that gets disemboweled by his jacuzzi pool drain was based on the real death of a 6-year-old girl named Abigail Taylor in 2008. This death would later be recreated in even gory detail in The Final Destination.
Gosh this takes me back, I remember watching ST: Voyager on there as a kid (and I think Stargate sometimes too?) as they were the only ones broadcasting it, but it was hard to make it through the ads for their own shows.
My personal VGA moment, at least when it aired on Spike, was the year (either 2007 or 2008, iirc) that they enforced having shorter speeches, and if the winner went over time they were tackled by a soldier that then t-bagged them. It was wild. I think only one or two winners went over time.
I watched 1,000 Ways to Die when I was younger. I am absolutely a paranoid, anxious person and some of the episodes are ingrained in my brain. Specifically the pool out where two kids cut themselves open by sliding over nails and that one where a felon tries to escape through the sewer system but gets stuck. I have never forgotten them and it’s been well over 10 years at this point
As someone that watched Slamball on Spike TV when it aired, I can confirm it was insane and deserved more time in the spotlight. They had a couple revive attempts but never got very far. BRING BACK SLAMBALL
Something interesting is that Manswers was produced by a Japanese company, and one of their American liaisons Michael Schelp was also a producer of animated mockbusters like "Plan Bee" and "A Car's Life "
I 100% remember walking in on my dad watching 1000 ways to die and getting really scared of three things: decompression chambers, having sex in hot tubs, and eating carrots for some fcking reason
4:19 yes both my boyfriend and I were talking about how that show made us both incredibly paranoid especially because we were already paranoid autistic children Also Tom Holland Dancing to Umbrella is truly one of my favorite things to ever have happened and lives rent free in my mind
i also grew up with this show, but ive always been the autistic kid that has 0 sense of danger and accidentally walks out into traffic without realizing, but if the doorbell rings ill shit my pants
@@modernmusic52 bro same I’ve almost been hit by a car cause I walked in front of one like four times in my entire life and I’m only 21 my boyfriend has more of the paranoia side of it. I just have anxiety and I just think there’s a lot of times I do stuff and I’m like ha ha this is how somebody died on that show. Meanwhile, my boyfriend will be terrified of like told you that you’re gonna hurt yourself because the show.
FUN FACT: The guy who made MANswers later made some notorious animated rip-off films with his company Sparkplug Entertainment including "A Car's Life" and "Spider's Web: A Pig's Tale".
Speaking of Slamball and Death Battle, here's a convoluted connection for you: #33 for the Bandits, a Slamball team, was Craig Skistimas. He went on to be a founder of Screwattack, a website for gaming content. One of their shows was Death Battle, which went on to eclipse Screwattack to the point where Screwattack flat out changed itself to focus on Death Battle permanently. In other words, Slamball got us Death Battle.
When I was a kid I remember people used to rag on a 1000 Ways to Die for the stories not being real. As an adult I realize how fucked up it'd be if they just told the actual stories of how people died live on TV.
ive only seen yellowstone is glimpses while walking by my parents watching, but what ive gathered is that its very striking to look at, but EVERY "conversation" between characters is people monolouging at each other
also, while i praise the show for having native american actors and addressing issues plaguing the modern native american community, it doesn't do it well. first off, the actress for their most prominent native character isn't even native, she's east asian lmao. secondly, even when native americans' concerns are played sympathetically, it still has an undercurrent of the white ranchers being like "yeah but. this is our land now ):" also it's hard to describe because its obviously not shown in a good light, but the sexual assault scenes are often more...sexy than traumatizing, if that makes sense. like i don't expect long shots of women being brutalized and screaming and crying, but id like their to be less horny gasps and focus on their legs, y'know? the show overall is very White Patriarchy in subtle ways. Like in the whole White Man Protect His Homestead and Family kind of way. which i guess its kinda expected since it plays very much into the hollywood of cowboys and cattlemen, which was already very whitewashed and painted in a very specific light by 1940s--1970s america (not that actual ranches where secret liberal paradises ofc but yknow what i mean; it was very different than what we think of today) tldr: its a complicated show about complicated people in complicated situations, but SO often it shows that the majority of the writers are white men
I still get uncomfortable flashbacks to 1000 ways to die, especially the girl who got a seagull to the face while hanging out a limo and the guy who got caught in the hinges of an industrial lift
the one where the girl had a quicksand pit in her backyard and sunk into it lives rent free in my head. i swear i've had so many joyous experiences that could have been committed to memory, but no. i get stuck remembering the death show instead.
I remember an episode where a woman gets a cut shaving her legs and dies of, like, a flesh-eating infection. One of those scarring childhood memories for me - up there with salad fingers
I really liked Takeshi’s castle, stoked that they pretty recently renovated that mountain and started filming again, I hope the English dub is silly like before
I feel bad for stopping my binge of Billiam's Lost videos, because it's not that the videos were bad. It's that they were so good that he sold me on the show and now I've been watching through it. I don't want any more spoilers!
As a wresting fan, we will never escape Katie Vick or the evils of Vince McMahon. Also an interesting facts you missed: TNA was taken off of Spike because they secretly re-hired notorious writer Vince Russo who the Network hated.
I know it was a 4 way tag title tlc match... Fuck wrestling is stupid and ik it's Kane and hurricane who were champs hurricane got attacked backstage so he wasn't in it who was in that match? I think they had a member of each of the og TLC teams with someone else like Christian and Benoit RVD and Jeff and bubba and spike that sounds right but I'm not sure
Then after Kane got called a necrophiliac and they came back from commercial to a diva's tag match..... Several things wrong with that. Why'd book a tag match immediately after the crazy 4 way tag they had? Yeah they need a piss break match and that's what all women's matches in 02 were but why not a singles and more importantly... THE FUCK HAPPENED TO KANE? HE JUST GOT ACCUSED OF HAVING SEX WITH A CORPSE BUT IT'S COMMERCIAL BETTER HEAD TO THE BACK let's what till next week to address this criminal accusation.
Had no idea about afro samurai being a spike production. It's on my list of essential anime, if I had a guest over that hadn't seen it we would end up binge watching it on the spot most of the time
I remember I watched 1000 ways to die one time and there was this story of a guy who was crushed by a tombstone from the grave he was graverobbing. They changed his name to Doug just to say that Doug dug too close.
BMS just reminds me of all those movies and shows that depict college football. College football in shows: Violence, sex, drugs, and all the parties!!! College football IRL: Wake up at 4:30, lifting until 6, film until 7, classes until 3, practice until 8, homework until Midnight, and repeat every day until game day Saturday. Sunday you do homework and sleep all day.
You know we're getting another Blue mountain State movie lol. Also, I used to love scarred as a kid. The show where they're just telling stories about how they got really fucked up scars and like the actual video footage that they were taking, it's pretty cool
I always love how you introduce your videos. "...yeeaah this is billiam" makes me feel like I accidentally started somewhere in the middle of the video
Blue Mountain State definitely still holds up. Its an absurd comedy, you're not suppose to take it seriously in the slightest. You're right about Thad being the best character though
I have been waiting for this haha. My sister's and I watched spike tv constantly when we were younger and I genuinely believe that's why I find stupid things absolutely hilarious.
We had takeishi's castle in the UK, but it was not dubbed like this, they didn't try and dub over the Japanese announcers, we just had people commenting on the footage, the hell is this.
Fun story about Deadliest Warrior: so when I was a kid my little sister and I would go to Missouri to stay with my grandparents for 4 weeks. Quick background, my grandparents are *VERY* Catholic. So anyways, one summer they got cable, and my sister and I got REALLY in to Deadliest Warrior. This was fine until one day my (very Catholic) grandpa sat down and watched it with us and he got really mad about the two of us watching it because "people lopping people's heads off and killing people, it's ridiculous." And "Would our parents let us watch this?" (The answer is absolutely yes, we would have a family betting pool). This is especially funny because my (very Catholic) grandmother's favorite show that year was Hannibal.
BMS is pretty hilarious and it actually has a heart warming ending. It was important to me as a high school football player getting ready to play my last games.
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I was one of those kids who watched Spike TV when I was 9 or 10.
I love how your channel regales my nostalgia specifically to the youngins who weren't cool enough to be kids in the 2000s.
Like people can afford to buy jewelry
Tom Holland in drag was my favorate lmao I grew up in a wild time
Jason Ellis ! NO WAY, I Never knew he was on Spike?!!?!!??!?! Tony Hawk's friend?!
THAT"S WOLF, from HAWK VS WOLF. Tony Hawk's Podcast HAHAHA NO WAY.
As Soon as I heard him speak I was like No way, its him without face tattoos. wow.
Literally saw 1000 ways to die as a kid, and couldn’t think the same since
Deadliest Warrior was part of that holy trinity of "lets wreck some ballistics gel dummies" shows next to Mythbusters and Forged in Fire
also the British series Brainiac
Hellz yeah
The channel for 'modern day men' showing mostly cartoons? Spike really was ahead of its time
A friend of mine's dad is a professor with a PHD in medieval warfare and one of the experts they called on Deadliest Warrior. He's still salty about the bullshit ruling in his episode and calls it "deadliest blow to my career" when he talks about it lol
what episode was he on?
How tf you get a phd in medieval warfare
@@Zzed45Ella Mafia you can get a degree in anything at this point
@@Zzed45Get good history grades and go study medieval history in university.
Well history itself shows that gun powder beats medieval warfare
Leftover pizza tips:
-Leftover pizza makes a great base for "pizza quesadillas". Anything you'd put in a quesadilla, put between 2 pissa slices, & grill or pan fry.
-Leftover pizza is a great base for scrambled eggs or huevos rancheros.
-Freeze individual slices in freezer bags right away & reheat as needed from frozen in an oven. It reheats better & tastes more like supermarket pizza than leftover pizza done that way.
Dont gaslight me with two criminal offenses against pizza and one normal suggestion
So perfect timing
“Finally… A gay guy for MEN!” I fucking lost it
He’s gay… he dances… AND HAS GUNS!
he had the fash cut in Starship Troopers he was already the gay guy for real men honestly
Holy fuck so did I lol
"Real men" 😂
He's soo right tho
Here in Canada, around the same time Spike TV hit the airwaves, we got a copycat channel called Men TV. It kind of billed itself as a bit more sensual than Spike, it was dark, mysterious, and smooth, as opposed to Spike's constant explosions and boobs. It was a glass of whiskey to Spike TV's tallboy of beer. It had its own programming, mostly talk shows and game shows, as well as sitcoms like Blackfly and reruns of older shows like Sledgehammer and Remmington Steel. At one point, Spike actually tried to get them off their air because they were causing "competition" with them, but the Canadian courts looked at both and was like, "No, these are different channels".
I didn't have that channel, just Spike. Though, I didn't have a LOT of channels that you had on the mainland.
i do not remember men tv but honestly from the marketing alone i probably wouldve enjoyed that channel more as a teen lol
Literally, without this video, I would have lived my entire life assuming Afro Samurai was an Adult Swim production.
Same. I never heard anyone speak about it in connection to the other Spike tv shows.
You might be getting mixed up with Samurai Champloo
Same here
it was released direct to dvd here in the uk, so it kinda skipped that over here. really, spike tv just did reruns of futurama.
Should have gone to Adult Swim. Afro Samurai is too good for Spike TV.
Honestly 1,000 Ways To Die probably did add to my paranoia as a teen and to this day to some extent. I loved it.
I remember seeing ads for it when I watched Deadliest Warrior but never watched it because it seemed too dark for my tastes (I was like 8 or 9) plus I had more of a warrior obsession at the time
@devonmunn5728 I was probably a teen at the time and I think it played into my Xbox Live and Call Of Duty phase.
I never watched BMS, but hearing "His dad dies in the war. Leaving him his beloved fleshlight" had me howling.
U missed out. Show was funny back then 😂
@@Blacknight6577 wdym was? It still is 😂😂😂
It's hard to find online now but truly recommend it 💀 early 2000s parody/satire of college football at its absolute finest. It would never air today but the level of awareness the writers had about misogyny and the perspective of the stereotype of college football is so good.
@@liz_loves_cats it actually came out in 2010 with the 00s comedy/humor
BMS is incredible!
1:05:15 hearing Schroeder being confused with Schrödinger was a joke I thought up a long time ago and hearing it in real life is surreal
Spike TV was Lifetime for men.
Perfect comparison
Honestly yeah
😂😂😂
Blue mountain state. Oh boy do I miss that show hahaha
Yeah I was comparing it to Lifetime on the last video lol
More fun fact: tna’s falling out with spike was actually due to frustration and anger on spikes end because they specifically told tna that they didn’t want a certain backstage director to be working for the company as he had history of creating terrible storylines and was vocally hated by fans. So Tna secretly hired him back and had him working and when spike found out it was the last straw and they officially canceled their relationship
Was it Vince russo?
Rhymes with prince?
Imagine being the dude crushed by a coffin, turning on the tv in the afterlife and seeing a story about how you WERE A NECROPHILIAC CRUSHED BY THE COFFIN OF HIS VICTIM.
I hated the show. They take real deaths and twist them making the dead look like an awful person. There's two cases of this happening, one in 1989 and the one in the show is VERY loosely based off on Marciana Silva Barcelos, except she wasn't a pervert like Mason. On November 11th, 2008 in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - Barcelos, 67, was a passenger in the hearse carrying the body of her husband, Josi Silveira Coimbra, who had died the day before. Suddenly, a speeding Alfa Romeo car struck the back of the hearse. Dislodged by the accident, Josi’s coffin hurtled forward and smashed into the back of Marciana’s neck, killing her instantly.
I’ve always thought about that when watching the show. Like no way were all these people genuinely horrible or deserved it and then I imagine if all these people who died were able to see the show and how they were represented. Like I can imagine the guy who got crushed by a coffin was just a normal dude, prolly had a family, pretty chill or whatever and we all remember him as a necrophile
@@t.l.w.1221 I listed the case in my comment above. It was a she, and she probably had f*cked the person (while they were alive)... Because it was her husband. Really sad story. The show had no respect for the dead.
@@Gatorade69 Not to derail your point because it's indeed awful to try to downplay the severity of a strange death by presenting the victims as absolute horrible beings who _deserve_ to die (most unusual deaths are down to bad luck and have nothing to do with karma)
But her name was literally "Martian"????
@@DeepWeeb Does Marciana mean Martian in Portuguese ?
I assumed it is kind of the Hispanic equivalent of the name Marcella/Marceline/Marcy. Which according to the internet the meaning of the name Marcy 'comes from the Latin name Marcius, and its meaning is related to Mars, the Roman god of war.'
I love the guy talking about the bullet and saying "A knight has a shield, so getting through that extra layer is going to be a big factor" as if a Knight has supernatural reaction time
Fun fact about Gary the Rat:
when Spike canned their entire adult animation block after it didnt take off (which was going to be revamped with more new shows and Adult Party being replaced by newly remastered reruns of the original Ren and Stimpy show, which in itself was edited for ad time and to remove Nickelodeon's endcard), the shows there then were uncermousally canned without proper closure except for old Gary.....
His show was the only one of the entire lineup to actually have an finale
I must thank Spike for Blue Mountain State, Deadliest Warrior, MXC, and their occasional 007 marathons. My teenage years wouldn't be what they were without Spike.
The 1000 ways to die bit where a nail in a DIY slip n slide ripped someone's guts out has stuck with me. Forever.
The one where the guy throws dynamite and his dog brings it back was the one i remember the most
the one that stuck with me was people throwing rocks on the ground to break them and dying from inhaling rock dust
For some reason the one that stuck with me most was the one where a girl had a kink for.. “🤮”and she choked on something that a guy had thrown up on her..
I guess it stuck in my mind because it was so nasty..
Oh and the one where the girl’s implants blew up on the plane.. 💀
That show was so unhinged it could cut a freaking mountain in half.
Mine was the girl that had an orgasm on a motorcycle bc of the vibrations and fell off
Deadliest warriors and Manswers is such a blast of nostalgia for an unsupervised me, thank you for reminding me
I often think about the episode of 1000 Ways to Die where a guy drowned in his cat's water bowl. For the reenactment, they decided to make him just like, a full crazy cat man. It's so weird to think that the ideal man was invented by Spike TV.
Peter John Robinson, aged 28, slipped while walking down his back door ramp to feed his cat, Piper. His mother, Gill Robinson, found him lying unconscious, facedown in 4cm of water in the plastic cat bowl. Coroner Peter Roselli found that Mr Robinson drowned after a significant head injury on July 5. Mrs Robinson said the ramp was covered in about 3cm of ice after a week of frosts.
Sad.
The one that always stuck with over the years, for some random reason, is the skit with the terrorists setting a bomb. However, they died in the explosion due to forgetting about day light savings time😂. Just so damn stupid
Love the scene where the robber is pulled into the MRI with the nurse who is clearly wearing jewlery standing next to it, unharmed in her undergarms
Billiam - "Fuck you for making me side with Vince McMahon Spike TV"
Me - "he's so Based"
He's just like me fr
I read this comment right as he said it. Nothing is real
@@jasonnoregretes491 based
@@96bel96 Happens all the time. Can't explain it.
As a kid, I used to think I could get the Deadliest Warrior simulation code, and when I realized it was just an excel spreadsheet on an alienware laptop, my childhood ended
They didn't have any furries working on Gary the Rat and it shows. Though whoever designed Gary is definitely a closeted furry.
You do NOT give an anthropomorphic animal a voice and grin like that if you aren't thinkin bout that Rat Rod ALL I'M SAYIN
I’d beg to differ. Blue Mountain State is and will always be a masterpiece. I still watch the episodes to this day
A core memory for me is watching Star Wars on Spike as a ten year old at about 11:00 pm on a Thursday night, and I got hit with a Girls Gone Wild ad. Things were never quite the same.
I think you should do a G4 deep dive. G4 started out as a cool gaming and tech channel but quickly devolved into Spike 2.0
I remember series that one show that has Olivia Munn on it and then showing previews for Telltales The Walking Dead and showing ads for reruns of Lost (which I actually finished back in June of this year)
I loved g4 for xplay and og ninja warrior
"She came undone."
You know the writer has been waiting for an excuse to make that pun.
That's Ron Perlman (Hellboy, Teen Titan's Slade, etc) , if you didn't know.
I'll defend Bar Rescue like shows. By the time the show gets to the business it is so heavily in debt that there's really no easy way to fix it.
I remember watching some of _Deadliest Warrior,_ because on the surface, they genuinely seemed to want to do a fair comparison between two groups to deduce their fighting prowess. Two groups have different sets of weapons, let’s test them to see if one is better. And while it’s kind of juvenile, shedding some light on to who would win between, say Vikings and Samurai, isn’t inherently a bad idea. But then I saw one particular episode. They wanted to see which grenade was better, the one used by Group A or the one used by Group B. So they set up a room filled with cardboard cutouts and detonated the grenade used by Group A, then they examined the aftermath. Next, you’d expect they’d repeat the same experiment with the grenade used by Group B, so they could compare the results, right? No. They put Group B’s grenade in a washing machine and detonated it. That is a completely different test. Now, because you don’t know what you’re doing, we can’t directly compare the two grenades. You fail science _Deadliest Warrior._
Oh my glob, I had forgotten about the blood boiling rage I felt at that episode. I don't even remember the rest of the episode, but I remember how pissed off I was as a kid who didn't get objective testing
Overall while it's definitely my favorite Spike show and the only one I watched all the episodes of, it's about as accurate to history as Barney was to dinosaurs. William Wallace is very obviously based on Braveheart and Shaka Zulu his opponent was ripped from the Shaka TV drama from the 80s, not any actual historical figures that takes you know research and time. It's pretty much the same for every character. He also jokes a lot about the Green Berets losing but I just want to point out that's the only episode I can remember where the Americans lose. They sweep the competition every other time from the Rangers to Teddy Roosevelt.
Honestly, except that I'm not sure they were smart enough to think of this, it seems like they intentionally did stupid shit like that to spark greater discussion/debate/dumb arguments. I remember as a kid having tons of conversations with my friends driven by that kind of "mistake".
@@Salsmachev I'm guessing they did two different tests just because they thought it'd be boring to audiences if they did the same thing twice and really didn't think much beyond that
I remember that! I was so pissed at it too! I think it was American vs Russian grenades and the Russian grenade was put into the washing machine.
I went to a bar that was JUST visited by Bar Rescue with their new theme and name. They told me "oh, we just had a TV show shoot in here. It will be back to normal next week"
They changed everything back. Still open.
I think 1000 ways to die changed me as a child, because I saw this one episode where this dude thought that high rise building windows are strong, and won't break if he were to run into it. So he thought it would be a cool and funny prank if he ran at a window in front of his co-workers, and he ended up breaking through and falling to death.
As an adult I still can't comfortably go too close to windows in tall buildings lol.
fun fact: this was a real death that happened to someone. probably not exactly as portrayed in this show but still.
@@vantablack6288 By what I understand, the window didn't break, but it did come loose and fall out
@@screamingcactus1753yeah. he kept demonstrating with the same window and it weakened the frame. avoidable death :(
@@nikkey8951 yes !! my mom used to tell me this story a bunch as a kid, presumably so i wouldn't do the same thing (which. why would i), but yeah, i can't remember if it was a group of his students or new hires at his company, but this guy would run at the window in front of them to freak everyone out for a second before they'd realize the window didn't break. he'd then explain "they make windows really strong to avoid lawsuits" (i can't remember if his profession was legal or architectural). but yeah, it was a trick that only worked so many times before the window finally gave in.
This show + final destination 2 kicked off my lifelong anxiety disorder lmaoo
I flipping LOVE your Scooby Doo retrospectives (: you should do more animated show retrospectives, I think that'd be cool and neat!!!
CAN YOU FART SO HARD YOUR BALLS EXPLODE!!??🤯 💥 ⚽️
BOUNCING BEWBS
Yes. It has happened to me.
The premise of a channel for men in a reality where 99% of media is already created by and for men could only result in this kind of base idiocy.
I need to know what the manswer to that was.
@@DrewLSsixfr
Afro Samurai was my favorite thing to watch during my high school summers when i could stay up obscenely late
As someone who actually knows about historical combat from actually doing it as part of my hyperfixation, nobody on Deadliest Warrior ever knew the first thing of what they were talking about.
@InevitableOption-ic2vxninjas did not exist, so I mean, yeah you should have known it was going to be terribly innaccurate.
@@SpecialistkayI guess Iga and Koga were results of centuries spanning continuous mass hallucinations, according to you.
@InevitableOption-ic2vx To be fair, that would be how it would play out.
I don't think anyone would know what a rajput was, but they had them win against the roman centurion.
And they did navy seals vs spetznaz and surprisingly had the spetznaz win in spite of one of them being former military.
So I think it's not the worst.
Afro Samurai is the best thing Spike ever aired
When Billiam talks about lost I was like I wanna go back and watch that again.
When Billiam talks about spikeTV I was like I wanna go back in time to prevent myself from watching spikeTV.
He goes so in-depth with Lost I don't feel like I need to watch it, but with this Spike stuff he goes just in-depth enough for me to watch to these insane things again to make sure they're actually real and he's not lying lol
1:05:29 I’m surprised you didn’t mention that Charlie Brown was also played by Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luthor from Smallville) because that was wild to see 😂
Justin, your favourite game is 'Dragon Futa Harem 4: Get Pregnant!' and we're about to remake your room.
I read this comment before the video actually talked about that show, and I was so confused
You just know that coffee table would have been wild
@@deafenedRHe'd still try and make it some World War 2 antique (but sexy)
goals ngl
Growing up in the MW2 era, it's hard to understate just how much Deadliest Warrior was like liquid crack injected directly into my veins.
The game was soooooo good
That quote about the Manswers people wanting the show to be sexy without being misogynistic is actually sending me; it is literally so easy to make something that is both sexy and not degrading to women, and Manswers does basically everything wrong in that regard. The fact that the showrunner was a woman is just all the more baffling.
Sounds like the showrunner's objective was "I must put together all the things men like," which... shows how low the showrunner's (and the network's) expectation of men was.
(As for the middle school boys did end up liking it... idk I guess stereotypes exist for a reason.)
@@thejest69 I mean if my experiences are anything to go by, most middle school boys will watch anything that has a bunch of half naked women in it, so those demographics don't surprise me at all.
@@fhey7903If by middle school boys you mean “all ages of men after puberty that like women” I 100% agree. 😂
In hindsight, a woman running the show actually makes sense as to why the show had such a stereotypical view of men
it makes it hilarious to me honestly like the show finally makes sense, there's a gag in Brookly 99 where the captain (who is gay) pretends to be straight during undercover missions and spends the whole time talking about boobs, ass and sex in the most direct and forced way possible to the point of making the other men feel uncomfortbale. this is like a tv show version of that
This video unearthed a memory I have been trying to recall for like 5 years: the "Ultimate Gamer" show. For years I was trying to remember the name of that show where some guy won a makeover of his living room to be Advent Rising themed. That game hadn't come out yet and the episode was a tie in. It ended up not being very good and the guy wasn't even smiling during the outro segment when he was playing an early copy of the game. I really thought it aired on G4. Thanks for solving this mystery for me.
I was 8-12 years old when 1000 Ways to Die aired in its original run. The deaths itself didn’t faze me at all per se, but it was the 3-D animations that explained how the people died that truly scared me. The death that stuck with me the most was a guy with narcolepsy who slept at his job whenever and wherever he could, and one day he decided to sleep inside an industrial oven that cured metals. His coworker didn’t realize that he was inside and closed the oven door while he was sleeping inside the oven and he was cooked alive in his sleep.
Yeah, I remember that one.
They write almost all the stories so the guy who dies is an asshole... that wasn't one of them.
@@kazekamiha in another instance where the one person depicted in 1000 Ways to Die wasn’t acting like an asshole but still died anyways was this lady who was fly fishing and a fish flew into her mouth and asphyxiated due to the fish’s scales made it difficult for her to get the fish out of her throat.
Can't say I recall that one, but I just used to watch whichever ones I could find on youtube when I was 9 or so. The one I remember most vividly is definitely the Chainus... Shit was horrific
@@janegeland7596 I can see how it’s a horrific way to go. But my biggest question I had from watching RUclips clips of that death that you mentioned was how the hell did the guy get a chain that went from his mouth to outside his butthole. I’d imagine that this a pretty invasive procedure to do.
@@juancerda-duran1824 I mean, I have some doubts as to the veracity of some of the stories. However, I imagine it's a fairly thin chain; and I'd assume you basically just swallow it, and let it pass its way through your guts and such? Couldn't tell you, though, I know nothing about it apart from the vague memory of that episode hahaha.
Absolutely wild, nonetheless. But the only mention of that sort of piercing I can find is directly related to the episode, so I have a fair few doubts hahaha.
Wait...1000 ways to die stories were fake? I thought people actually died trying to get off. Took me 20 years to learn this. Thank you, Billiam
Afro samurai is a top tier show. You are in there for an over the top action mixed with dark moods and it does it so well.
Kitchen Nightmares is actually decent at saving the resturant 80% of the resturants shutting down is apparently just the standard in the resturant industry
That sucks. That leaves many small, family owned places that don't get the airtime or the right resources no choice but to bail.
Watching MXC was one of the happiest memories of my high school years. That show's dub cracked me up like nothing else. I'm almost 100% sure that I watched every episode.
Definitely my favorite of the shows. Honestly a lot of it holds up.
DON'T. GET. ELIMINATED!!!!
Same, I remeember watching MXC way back when i was young, and it took me a long time to rediscover it, let alone rediscover the original version
I ended up having to search "japanese wipeout" to get the answers
Right you are, Ken.
I never realised how blessed I was as a kid to have the UK version of Tekeshis castle with Craig Charles.
Unfortunately, the narrator occasionally called the contestants "Happy jappy clappy chappies," which may be considered racist these days.
UK Takeshi's Castle was the GOAT
Afro Samurai is absolutely peak fiction. I was introduced to it when a Facebook group I was in was doing like a movie night on some website where we watched the Afro Samurai Resurrection movie and loved it. Not long after I bought the complete series DVD from a retro store and just sat there loving the entire show. It's a top 10 anime for me.
DUDE THE 1000 WAYS TO DIE PART GAVE ME FLASHBACKS
When I was a kid my stepdad would watch it a lot when I was in the room and it freaked me out, and constantly made me paranoid I'd die anytime I got hurt even slightly.
I'm convinced the show is what gave me my long-lasting thanatophobia lol.
A friend of mine was a producer on A Thousand Ways to Die. Just know there's multiple seasons worth of even more insane things they never aired.
Do elaborate! Sounds interesting
That's a shame. I'd have loved to see all 1000 segments
I watched Afro Samurai when it first aired, and I *think* I remember it being one of the first shows that had a "Production Diaries" type segment after every episode. It was a genuine Eastern and Western production, Spike/Sam Jackson were super stoked about that, and the fact that it was one of the few animated shows at the time that still used animation cells. Afro Samurai definitely had an impact on me at an age when I shouldn't have been watching Spike TV. lol
When I tell you "1000 Ways to Die," was one of my favorite shows growing up. And I'm not paranoid... I'm cautious. Lol
Same tbh
Just curious, but do you like final destination too cuz they have some overlap in goofy ways to die
It was one of my favorites for awhile, too. I'm definitely paranoid, but it's more from growing up within fundamentalist christianity, and dealing with the authoritarian, zero healthy boundaries parenting that shit produces and encourages. After about the third time of getting home to find your folks ransacked your room, and stole shit from you to throw it away, trust becomes a luxury you just can't afford.
Watch out for paper cuts
@@burninsherman1037 tmi
@@KingOfGaymes Final Destination goes more from horror to comedy the further u get in the series, the gymnast death is still one of the funniest things I ever seen in a movie
Back in 2014 My mom almost got on bar rescue! She went through all the interviews and a few of my teachers at school were talking about it cuz they wanted to go to the filming. After more thinking, Mom later turned them down cuz she's an extremely loud hard headed women and wouldn't accept someone belittling her in her own bar. She's still growing today, now has 2 bars and currently looking for a third location. ❤ I love my Mom
Fun fact: The Mel Gibson parody that gets disemboweled by his jacuzzi pool drain was based on the real death of a 6-year-old girl named Abigail Taylor in 2008. This death would later be recreated in even gory detail in The Final Destination.
@InevitableOption-ic2vx that name's familiar, was that the dark harvest guy or someone else?
@InevitableOption-ic2vx oh right that guy
Chuck Palanuk author of Fight Club wrote a book called Guts which the title is in reference to dying that way. It's a pretty good book.
Wow, that is...Incredibly slimy holy shit.
@@SpecialistkayI was gonna say I thought that was from Guts. I guess the idea has been around for a while
Gosh this takes me back, I remember watching ST: Voyager on there as a kid (and I think Stargate sometimes too?) as they were the only ones broadcasting it, but it was hard to make it through the ads for their own shows.
My personal VGA moment, at least when it aired on Spike, was the year (either 2007 or 2008, iirc) that they enforced having shorter speeches, and if the winner went over time they were tackled by a soldier that then t-bagged them. It was wild. I think only one or two winners went over time.
Honestly, bring that back. And make it universal to all award ceremonies
I watched 1,000 Ways to Die when I was younger. I am absolutely a paranoid, anxious person and some of the episodes are ingrained in my brain.
Specifically the pool out where two kids cut themselves open by sliding over nails and that one where a felon tries to escape through the sewer system but gets stuck. I have never forgotten them and it’s been well over 10 years at this point
We need to bring back SPIKE TV, not on television but in a ZOO so it can be studied by the scientific minds of the world.
As someone that watched Slamball on Spike TV when it aired, I can confirm it was insane and deserved more time in the spotlight. They had a couple revive attempts but never got very far. BRING BACK SLAMBALL
Something interesting is that Manswers was produced by a Japanese company, and one of their American liaisons Michael Schelp was also a producer of animated mockbusters like "Plan Bee" and "A Car's Life "
@TheAlexSchmidt So...we have Manswers to blame for mockbusters?
That one episode of a thousand ways to day where Santa gets empaled by an icicle still makes me think twice before I look up on a snowy day
I 100% remember walking in on my dad watching 1000 ways to die and getting really scared of three things: decompression chambers, having sex in hot tubs, and eating carrots for some fcking reason
Oh the carrot one was terrible
I hope we get one of these for The Discovery Channel because that had such a 180 turn over the years
4:19 yes both my boyfriend and I were talking about how that show made us both incredibly paranoid especially because we were already paranoid autistic children
Also Tom Holland Dancing to Umbrella is truly one of my favorite things to ever have happened and lives rent free in my mind
i also grew up with this show, but ive always been the autistic kid that has 0 sense of danger and accidentally walks out into traffic without realizing, but if the doorbell rings ill shit my pants
@@modernmusic52 bro same I’ve almost been hit by a car cause I walked in front of one like four times in my entire life and I’m only 21 my boyfriend has more of the paranoia side of it. I just have anxiety and I just think there’s a lot of times I do stuff and I’m like ha ha this is how somebody died on that show. Meanwhile, my boyfriend will be terrified of like told you that you’re gonna hurt yourself because the show.
FUN FACT: The guy who made MANswers later made some notorious animated rip-off films with his company Sparkplug Entertainment including "A Car's Life" and "Spider's Web: A Pig's Tale".
Another Spike TV joint, lets go, maybe we'll get a G4 episode sometime?
XPlay
i hope he talks about code monkeys
G4 wasnt masculine enough for beta bill to get triggered by.
Oh God yes. We need someone talking about the history of G4; when it was Tech TV, when it became G4, and G4's failed relaunch.
@@Dragoncurse4You mean it's failed relaunch featuring Jirard "The Completionist" Khalil, which many people claimed he was the best part of it...
Speaking of Slamball and Death Battle, here's a convoluted connection for you: #33 for the Bandits, a Slamball team, was Craig Skistimas. He went on to be a founder of Screwattack, a website for gaming content. One of their shows was Death Battle, which went on to eclipse Screwattack to the point where Screwattack flat out changed itself to focus on Death Battle permanently.
In other words, Slamball got us Death Battle.
When I was a kid I remember people used to rag on a 1000 Ways to Die for the stories not being real.
As an adult I realize how fucked up it'd be if they just told the actual stories of how people died live on TV.
1:15:11 I can't believe billiam would subliminally message us like that...
The best part of the video is the fact that it was posted on International Woman’s Day
That Phineas helmet joke really made me smile
ive only seen yellowstone is glimpses while walking by my parents watching, but what ive gathered is that its very striking to look at, but EVERY "conversation" between characters is people monolouging at each other
also, while i praise the show for having native american actors and addressing issues plaguing the modern native american community, it doesn't do it well. first off, the actress for their most prominent native character isn't even native, she's east asian lmao. secondly, even when native americans' concerns are played sympathetically, it still has an undercurrent of the white ranchers being like "yeah but. this is our land now ):"
also it's hard to describe because its obviously not shown in a good light, but the sexual assault scenes are often more...sexy than traumatizing, if that makes sense. like i don't expect long shots of women being brutalized and screaming and crying, but id like their to be less horny gasps and focus on their legs, y'know?
the show overall is very White Patriarchy in subtle ways. Like in the whole White Man Protect His Homestead and Family kind of way. which i guess its kinda expected since it plays very much into the hollywood of cowboys and cattlemen, which was already very whitewashed and painted in a very specific light by 1940s--1970s america (not that actual ranches where secret liberal paradises ofc but yknow what i mean; it was very different than what we think of today)
tldr: its a complicated show about complicated people in complicated situations, but SO often it shows that the majority of the writers are white men
My hometown’s where the high school is that recreated the Blue Mountain State cookie run. One of the only times it ever made the national news.
I still get uncomfortable flashbacks to 1000 ways to die, especially the girl who got a seagull to the face while hanging out a limo and the guy who got caught in the hinges of an industrial lift
the one where the girl had a quicksand pit in her backyard and sunk into it lives rent free in my head. i swear i've had so many joyous experiences that could have been committed to memory, but no. i get stuck remembering the death show instead.
I remember an episode where a woman gets a cut shaving her legs and dies of, like, a flesh-eating infection. One of those scarring childhood memories for me - up there with salad fingers
@InevitableOption-ic2vxI forgot about that chastity belt until now. That did mess with me as a kid
I remember someone fell into a wood chipper, two guys suffocate from coco powder, the peeping Tom, and a woman dying from a carrot it a bad oriface
I really liked Takeshi’s castle, stoked that they pretty recently renovated that mountain and started filming again, I hope the English dub is silly like before
Be careful going down that iceberg, you might get LOST in those icey SPIKEs!!!
The word is losened.
1000 Ways to Die
I feel bad for stopping my binge of Billiam's Lost videos, because it's not that the videos were bad. It's that they were so good that he sold me on the show and now I've been watching through it. I don't want any more spoilers!
As a wresting fan, we will never escape Katie Vick or the evils of Vince McMahon. Also an interesting facts you missed: TNA was taken off of Spike because they secretly re-hired notorious writer Vince Russo who the Network hated.
I know it was a 4 way tag title tlc match... Fuck wrestling is stupid and ik it's Kane and hurricane who were champs hurricane got attacked backstage so he wasn't in it who was in that match? I think they had a member of each of the og TLC teams with someone else like Christian and Benoit RVD and Jeff and bubba and spike that sounds right but I'm not sure
Then after Kane got called a necrophiliac and they came back from commercial to a diva's tag match..... Several things wrong with that. Why'd book a tag match immediately after the crazy 4 way tag they had? Yeah they need a piss break match and that's what all women's matches in 02 were but why not a singles and more importantly... THE FUCK HAPPENED TO KANE? HE JUST GOT ACCUSED OF HAVING SEX WITH A CORPSE BUT IT'S COMMERCIAL BETTER HEAD TO THE BACK let's what till next week to address this criminal accusation.
Had no idea about afro samurai being a spike production. It's on my list of essential anime, if I had a guest over that hadn't seen it we would end up binge watching it on the spot most of the time
I remember I watched 1000 ways to die one time and there was this story of a guy who was crushed by a tombstone from the grave he was graverobbing. They changed his name to Doug just to say that Doug dug too close.
After watching the research sections of Deadliest Warriors, I’m glad to see VS debating has not changed even slightly
BMS just reminds me of all those movies and shows that depict college football.
College football in shows: Violence, sex, drugs, and all the parties!!!
College football IRL: Wake up at 4:30, lifting until 6, film until 7, classes until 3, practice until 8, homework until Midnight, and repeat every day until game day Saturday. Sunday you do homework and sleep all day.
You know we're getting another Blue mountain State movie lol. Also, I used to love scarred as a kid. The show where they're just telling stories about how they got really fucked up scars and like the actual video footage that they were taking, it's pretty cool
Huh, i remeber Scarred being aired on MTV
@@molotera8789 yeah I just realized that. Idk why tf I thought it was spike
@@travit666 still owned by the same conglomerate so not that far off
I always love how you introduce your videos. "...yeeaah this is billiam" makes me feel like I accidentally started somewhere in the middle of the video
I actually remember seeing this channel go under. Saw a show just reacting to internet videos and the finale of the Blade Anime
spike tv was one of my favorite channels as a little girl. it probably changed me for the worst but i will never forget 1000 ways to die 😭😭
Blue Mountain State definitely still holds up. Its an absurd comedy, you're not suppose to take it seriously in the slightest. You're right about Thad being the best character though
I have been waiting for this haha. My sister's and I watched spike tv constantly when we were younger and I genuinely believe that's why I find stupid things absolutely hilarious.
We had takeishi's castle in the UK, but it was not dubbed like this, they didn't try and dub over the Japanese announcers, we just had people commenting on the footage, the hell is this.
Craig Charles is the GOAT of Takeshi's Castle UK commentators.
The British version of Takeshi's Castle was essential viewing growing up in the UK
The second I saw spike tv I was hoping he’d mention deadliest warrior
Fun story about Deadliest Warrior: so when I was a kid my little sister and I would go to Missouri to stay with my grandparents for 4 weeks. Quick background, my grandparents are *VERY* Catholic. So anyways, one summer they got cable, and my sister and I got REALLY in to Deadliest Warrior. This was fine until one day my (very Catholic) grandpa sat down and watched it with us and he got really mad about the two of us watching it because "people lopping people's heads off and killing people, it's ridiculous." And "Would our parents let us watch this?" (The answer is absolutely yes, we would have a family betting pool).
This is especially funny because my (very Catholic) grandmother's favorite show that year was Hannibal.
I'll always remember that my 65 year old grandmother's second favorite show (after Jeopardy) was 1000 ways to die.
I love these videos about TV Channels. One on G4 or perhaps the CN Real era would be really cool.
Realizing that Thad from BMS is fucking Jack Reacher is absolutely wild.
The exploding toilet episode on 1000 Ways to Die is a classic.
EXPLODING TOILET?!
surprised i'm not more paranoid about dying in freak accidents considering i grew up watching both 1000 ways to die AND final destination
BMS is pretty hilarious and it actually has a heart warming ending. It was important to me as a high school football player getting ready to play my last games.