The Jo Shmo Show is such a great horror concept. Imagine if everyone you know and love one day reveals to you that everything was just an act and non of the relationships and memories you made with them were real, just an act. And everyone just laughs and waves at the cameras and the audience claps and laughs as well as you break down and cry in the center of it all If someone says The Truman Show one more time I’m going to scream
It’s sad so many of the actors didn’t get much work afterward. To stay in character, remember their back stories and just not laugh during some crazy times 24 hours a day and just roll with whatever happened amazed me. A couple of them have done well (Wiig of course,and David Hornsby has acted and produced It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia). I’ve got the show on DVD and it’s truly amazing. It’s so funny and Matt was just such a good guy.
What I'm learning from this video is that there was a period of time during the big reality TV boom in the 2000s where TV execs were in the studio like "Yeah, this sounds like the cruelest thing that's ever been put on TV, drop it"
Japan had already been running cruelty gameshows (often featured on shows like Clive James') and I think execs wanted a piece of that action, especially as standards were being relaxed.
The boom in trash "reality" shows was a direct result of a writer's strike. The writers refused to work, so the networks said "fine, we'll just write our own shows".
Having lived through this era, yes. The Swan is something that I still talk about now and it wasn't even the worst. There were so many shows that had 0 point other than cruelty.
The reason the Copycat family fell off the bridge is very clever: the Wattersons devised a death-defying stunt that required all five of them to pull it off properly. The Copycats failed because there were only four of them.
Oh, that Japanese "don't sit too close and watch in a bright room" isn't just for TV shows! For example, sometimes on the main menu of Fire Emblem Warriors, your system voice will remind you of these two things. Which means every character has a line for it. Which is really funny because it's incredibly out of place in the medieval magic setting
That honestly freaks me out a little. One time I heard a character say "My, you're up late!" upon quitting back to the main menu. I know it makes comments based on your system clock, and that kind of thing is somewhat quaint now, but still.
Fun Fact: Nasubi did find success as an actor, forming his own theater trope called Eggplant Way and starring in television which included a role as the side character Watcherman in Kamen Rider W.
16:20 I don't remember the name, but there was another show that did the "no parents" shtick, but the kids' behavior was a little concerning. One kid got so stressed from the chaotic environment that he took a kitchen knife and began aggressively stabbing objects, while cameras just kept filming.
I know cameramen aren't supposed to intervene unless the situation was really bad. I feel like they should intervene if one of the kids has something that can be used as a weapon.
yeah, I remember that. It was the exact program he was talking about, I never thought it was that bad, he was just attention seeking like children do, you could tell he had no intent to hurt anyone, still good to take the thing off him though, accidents happen after all. I had forgotten about the cigarettes though. It's unbelievable to me that the crew members let them do that.
Tier 1 0:13 The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid 1:35 Dogs Might Fly 2:12 Cavemen (initially a commercial series) 3:31 Turner Doomsday Video 4:45 Mystery Diners 5:41 The Mystery Of Al Capone's Vaults 6:45 The Joe Schmo Show 8:21 The Pokemon Shock Tier 2 9:50 Labor Games 10:30 Space Cadets 11:55 Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos 13:02 Vivir Del Cuento 13:36 I Want To Marry Harry 14:52 Miracle Star 15:58 Kid Nation Tier 3 16:58 Jan Böhmermann's Erdogan poem/extra 3 18:28 The Spaghetti Tree Hoax 20:17 Eaten Alive 21:28 Shattered 22:40 Superstar USA 24:08 Who Wants To Marry A Multi-Millionaire? 25:40 Compete For The Meat 26:15 1958 Sweden World Cup Tier 4 27:59 Bernd das Brot 29:24 Legends of Chamberlain Heights 30:04 The Pricemaster 31:27 Za Gaman 32:21 Unwind With The Sweeties 33:01 Poppy The Performer 34:24 Honey We're Killing The Kids Tier 5 35:30 Alternative 3 36:43 It's So Funny 37:24 BBC 1938 New York signal incident 38:44 Susunu! Denpa Shōnen 39:59 John Dillermand 40:39 The Chamber 41:49 Welcome To The Neighborhood 42:53 The Swan Tier 6 44:29 The Great Satan at Large 45:40 Aqui Agora 47:02 Darren Brown plays Russian Roulette 48:13 The Rose of Guadalupe 49:07 Brass Eye 50:05 Fun With Roadkill Handbook 50:53 Tomorrow's Pioneers 52:09 Ghostwatch 53:55 De Grote Donorshow/The Great Donor Show
Honestly, Paedmageddon sounds like the funniest shit. Going through all the trouble of shooting the guy into space, only to accidentally leave a child on there sounds like a better version of a Robot Chicken sketch
39:49 The thing about the Tomoaki Hamatsu (Nasubi) thing that makes it so much worse is that after he got the 1 million yen, he had to do it again in a different room. After he did that, they put him in another room, where he understood what to do stripped of his clothes, only for the room to collapsed and in front of him was an audience.
Don't forget that round 2 was in a foreign country (South Korea), where he didn't speak the language and had to rely on a translation dictionary to read and fill out the sweepstakes.
If I'm not mistaken, I distinctly remember that with the Porygon incident, WAY less little ones would've had to be hospitalized if the news channels in Japan wouldn't have mass-reshowed the "seizure" part of the episode on air while discussing it. It let to way more people being hospitalized. I could be wrong, I was TINY when this happened but I do remember news about it airing on Japanese tv and them showing the part on the news.
I know it's horrible, but honestly I find what the news did to be really funny. To be clear, it's NOT funny that those poor kids got seizures, but the fact that the news people were so stupid as to air a clip they knew could hurt people...real big brain move right there LMAO
@@GGsquared I saw the episode a few years ago - the flashing lights last a lot longer than three seconds. It's a decently long portion of the latter part of the episode. It's pretty easy to find online but obviously DO NOT watch it if you have any suspicion of having photosensitive epilepsy.
One important detail about the Porygon incident: It was almost certainly an outbreak of mass hysteria, with very few actual seizures due to photosensitive epilepsy-tragic though this is, there seem to have only been about five in total-and the vast majority of reports being children claiming to feel ill after the fact whose overzealous parents blamed the episode after the fact. A lot of sources in the Anglosphere misreported this due to the atmosphere of hysteria surrounding Pokémon's perceived violent content and "foreignness," however, which spread the urban legend further.
@@carolyns4519 no, it doesn’t. Mass hysteria is different than the corrupt news. Mass hysteria is when the people cause panic, not when the news lies for clicks.
Bernd is designed to : --Be entertaining for kids while also telling them to leave and go to bed. --Be relatable to adults who are watching over theyr kid while they are watching TV. --Be something drunk people will have a fun time watching. In other word : Bernd das Brot has a place in the heart of every German.
I remember when I was about 5, I asked my father where Spaghetti came from. He immediately brought me over to the computer and showed me the ‘BBC special’. It took me several years to realise the joke.
17:31 the fact that he was attacked for the poem, instead of the Turkish government responding with facts and evidence, automatically leads me to believe that the poem was not a joke and that he actually did all of those evil things
Probably not (at least not all), but it does show how the Turkish government has become more restrictive. Erdogan has slowly allowed religious influences to take hold within the Turkish government while the founder of Turkey (Atatürk) sought to make Turkey a modern secular country. I vaguely remember this incident and it was around the same time Erdogan was in the news for restricting freedom of speech in Turkey and demanding that other countries should censor their journalists for criticizing his policies and Islam or there would be consequences. I can't remember the fine details but it was something like that. Disclaimer to provide some background on the subjects mentioned in the poem: The animal and kids thing was a criticism of Islam itself. A Dutch director (Theo van Gogh) and imfamous anti-islamist (he was later murdered by a religious extremist) popularized the term 'goatf*cker' as a slur when referring to muslims in the early 2000's here in Europe. As for the kids thing, that's a reference to the prophet's wife.
You are one of the few youtubers from the US that puts metric system measurements for context when talking about an imperial system measurement, and I came here to thank you for that.
I watched the Joe Schmo show as it was airing, and honestly it was one of my favourite shows at the time. Matt was awesome, I still remember him awkwardly stumbling over telling the gay "cast member" he supported him, and honestly found it so unique and interesting compared to other shows at the time. I think the intent was to satirize reality tv moreso than mock Matt, but I could be remembering wrong.
True. It wasn't supposed about making him look like a dummy or fool. It was about him being a regular guy and if they could make him believe he was on a reality show. Anyone would have been fooled not just an idiot.
As someone who watched Ghostwatch on its original broadcast, I can confirm that it was *terrifying*. The commitment to verisimilitude was seriously impressive. All the presenters were well known to presenters at the time. The phone number used was a real bbc phone number famously used for the Saturday morning kids show call ins. Even if you knew it wasn’t real, you believed it.
The idea of the swan is actually horrifying, I would never ever wish body dysmorphia on my worst enemy and to essentially just give it to someone is so awful, not to mention the normalization of body shaming and treating non standard body types/facial features etc. as bad.
The two women used as examples seemed pretty normal to me, in fact now that Im 45 all people on the show were just normal people. I watched this show when it was on. Most people just needed braces, a haircut, and new clothes. Purposely surgically altering someone without their knowledge is pretty evil and egregious.
I'm from the UK I was a kid a watched ghost watch live at the end when titles went up it said sound affects by and the actors names but it was believable. I saw brass eye it was funny actually I've seen few of these shows.
Bernd das Brot is one of the most geniusly crafted satirical shows to ever air on German Television. Glad you're bringing it up, it deserves international recognition.
Sounded like a great example of a modern take on the "Theatre of the Absurd", with the 1953 play "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett as its prime example. The premise of the play is that two main characters, Vladimir and Estragon, are as the title says waiting for Godot. The stage is completely empty with the exeption of a single tree. They don't know how long their wated, or how long they'll have to wait, or if perhaps Godot has already been there. They basically just wait because they know they have to, in a reality that could well be seen as something outisde of time and space. There are many ways to read and try to understand the meaning behind the play (Beckett himself simply said "It means what it means" when being asked about one of his other plays meant, which might tell you quite a lot about his unwillingness to explain), but in general it's a great example of the Sisyphean reality that too many experience. I'm sure the creators of Bern das Brot were directly or indirectly inspired by Beckett and the Theatre of the Absurd.
@@writeordie5452 It is primarily intended to encourage children who are awake after 9 p.m. to go to bed. That's why a video is looped that is around five minutes long and the viewers are asked in various ways to sleep so that Bernd can finally go. The channel is called Ki.Ka which is short for Kinder Kanal(=children's channel) and the channel itself gives this as a reason. Since the Ki.Ka is part of public television and the funds for those in Germany are distributed very unfairly, it is probably more to save money.
Seeing popee the performer on this list made me jump from my chair, I used to be obssessed with that show and even joined online fanbases for it and did a lot of fan art of it. What a wild show!
Honestly as much as I am a fan of popee, im not surprised it's on the list. It should have at least been an adult show, and not a kids show in my opinion.
Thank you for mentioning popee the performer. That show is wack but I actually really love it. The low budget 3D (which i actually think is done well), as well as the lack of speaking (apart from one time), works to the shows advantage. It's just a weird show that I got a kick out of. The creator had another show as well.
Popee is the absolute pinacle of anime. Evangelion, Beserk, Monster, Akira, Ghosts of the Fireflies are all DECENT... but none reach the level of PURE ART that Popee achieves.
Fun fact the creator and his wife are working on a sequel, but I think it's going to be in a comic form or something. The wife who designed the characters still draws them all the time though, very good art
I watched this show when I was 13-14 and ngl I think its affected how I see comedy at this point, I need something that captures the unnerving nonsensical nature that made it funny
Ironically Geraldo and Al Capone's vault was one of the very few times where a high profile failure actually ended up helping someone's career, it became a big running joke that popped up in other shows for years and he was enough of a good sport about it that he'd even joke about it once in a while. Most people would either try to suppress a flop like that or get upset when it was brought up, but being able to roll with it definitely helped maintain his popularity.
8:30 what people don’t usually understand about this episode was the media trying to cancel/ban Pokémon. It’s true that Japanese kids did get headaches and epileptic seizures, but the numbers are staggered, the only reason so many kids went to the hospital was because of worried parents and pandemonium about the show.
From what I remember, most of the kids weren't taken to hospital on the day the episode aired, but the following days, after they had gone back to school and spoken to their friends about it lol
While true they probably should have put a warning at the beginning of the episode. Photosensitive triggered epilepsy is common enough that the should have been warnings. Especially since Nintendo consoles tend to have that warning when you turn them on, they probably should have done it for this episode.
I heard somewhere that the majority of the seizures were triggered when the news aired a segment from the show. And it's still BS Porygon got basically canceled from the tv show even though it was all Pikachu's fault.
Wait till you see the segment how pedo get kids over the internet! That's the best bit. Apparently noone had the slightest clue how the internet and monitor screens worked back then! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
yeah that was way to funny. The hole idea of sending him to space only for it to have ended up lucking him in sided with a child. It somehow just captures the stupidity of news channel reporting on stuff perfectly. The hole dramatizations of situations that they are a direct result of, and the irony of solving a isue in way over kill manor only to have it backfired completely. welcome to politics.
I can think of a show that totally belongs here, probably in tier 4 or 5. “Opposite Worlds” on the SyFy channel. “Fourteen people face off on opposing teams as they live in a house separated by a glass wall into one past and one future world, each with its own unique advantages and disadvantages; each player's fate is determined by viewer participation.” It was horrible. The past people had to literally camp with no heat and no real food. The future really had no downside at all. Jenny Nicholson made a great video on it.
Honestly, "Bernd das Brot" is great. since it loops it helps you fall asleep, and every month there is a new loop. Those sketches really get a bunch of creative freedom and often have great and funny and sometimes really meta stuff in them. Since it loops it doesn't keep you too interested to fall asleep, and since bernd is very low energy and calm there are usually no loud noised to startle you or wake you up, so it's perfect to roll in the background while you try to fall asleep. It is honestly my favourite TV show to fall asleep to.
Ted lasso was originally a series of sketches promoting broadcasts of premier league games on NBC. So it is possible to make a successful TV show out of a commercial
Honestly I feel it may have more to do with similarities to the Yakuza practice of cutting off fingers/digits. That's why most anime characters explicitly have 5 fingers instead of 4 or less like in a lot of Western cartoons.
I only knew about The Swan because of Luxeria 😂 There's also a show called "Bridalplasty", where they would take women who were about to get married and submit them to various plastic surgeries, with not enough time between said surgeries, and without them being able to even see their families during the reality show.
The Brass Eye special is genius because the reaction they got from the tabloids is the exact thing it was satirising. their total lack of self awareness meant they ran straight into it, like you said, bemoaning the show while also sexsualising a 15 year old before doing the "count down to leagal" for charlotte church. And yet our tabloids in teh UK are still just as vile
@@aarondavis8943The brilliant thing is that sentence has been uttered hundreds of times in Britain as the plans of bureaucrats goes absolutely tits up 😂
Brass eye was classic must watch tv, this episode as well as a couple more (the drugs one, the animal welfare one) even yesterday i was quoting "going to change the name from the british isles to the pedif isles. " the reason it was so attacked wasnt the viewing audience but the press and media getting revenge for being shown as the scum they really are.
@@klisher It blows me away that they're still doing the same stuff these days too. I remember the Sun running the "countdown to legal" when Charlotte Church was coming up to her 16th birthday. I never understood that one, how was that in any way ok?
For those outside the UK. K Foundation was also the 'band' KLF, the biggest selling singles artist in the UK in the early 90's with their stadium house trilogy. However, as they explained at the time, they had to deal with a LOT of music industry bilge water as a result, so they felt the money was tainted by their experiences. Check out their stadium house trilogy, then watch their Brits performance when they "left the music industry".
The thing about burning the money is that it's not like the value disappeared. Everyone else's money increased in value a little bit in consequence. At least until the government inflated it away.
So the key takeaway from this video is that we really love torturing each other. Alright Also, one thing about "The Swan" is that one of the doctors on the show, Dr. Dubrow, is the star doctor in the series "Botched". I like to think that he realized the error of his ways.
I think that Joe Shmo show would have been better if the Joe was also secretly an actor that the other actors didn't know about. He would then display increasingly strange behavior to see how well the other actors could cope with that and stay in character themselves.
And if we take that concept to its logical conclusion, call it the Joe Milgram Show, and have a bunch of people who think they’re actual contestants on a reality show with a single actor playing someone who is losing their grip on reality while the producers are telling the real contestants to push the secret fake contestant to the brink because it’ll get them screen time
As a german i can say you dont even question bernd the bread if you grew up with him. The joke is that he speaks of things like no other character from the kids channel hes belonging to ever could bc hes so much more serious then all of them. And diving into the lore thats actually completely normal behaviour for a bread, as well as that his favorite food is flour soup and his favorite hobby is staring at woodchip wallpapers. But still i totally get that the concept must be completely unhinged for those who arent familiar with it. xD
For me, I’d probably throw in The Moment of Truth for being probably one of the more wilder polygraph-based shows on TV at the time knowing how many secrets people would answer truthfully in front of their friends, spouses, and loved ones all to win up to $500,000. I remember the first time watching one episode as a child, and it left me shocked to see someone lose out on $100,000 and her marriage back then, along with the only $500,000 winner which was even tougher to watch
It gets wilder. One of the contestants on the Peruvian version of the show confessed to cheating and was eventually murdered by her husband who was on the show with her
Well this was one of the most traumatizing icebergs I've ever seen. Take a shot for each entry that involves someone being gaslighted. And seriously... that Ghostwatch entry was the definition of escalating quickly.
30:15 I got to the Pricemaster, and I swear to god I’ve never laughed so hard in my life. There are tears running down my face from laughing so hard. My sense of humor is some combination of loving of blunt satire, surrealist humor, and anything where there’s glaring absurdity in mundane situations, so it tickled something deep in my brain. As soon as The Pricemaster panned into view, I completely lost it
I've seen the Paedogeddon Brass Eye episode, and it was great. Really tore into how the media almost salivates at the chance to cover sensationalistic stories. Also Brass Eye was just a fantastic show in general, wish It'd had more episodes.
I assume you're already aware, but Brass Eye was a spiritual successor to The Day Today and On the Hour (which incidentaly was where Steve Coogan's Alan Partridge first debuted), and if you've not watched or listened to them before, I highly reccomend them
There is something of an explanation of why The K Foundation, better known as the music group The KLF, burned all that money: They had become a massively successful pop group through following a formula which they laid out in a book entitled The Manual, and were systematically rejecting the fame which this brought them through increasingly bizarre and off-putting stunts, including having the grindcore band Extreme Noise Terror perform their hit song "3 AM Eternal" for them at the Brit Awards and then firing AKs loaded with blanks over the audience. The money-burning, and the subsequent deletion of their entire back-catalogue, was the culmination of this campaign.
The Hamas children’s show is by far the most evil. Bringing children deliberately to a high risk of death location and calling them children of martyrdom. Absolutely evil.
In one of the episodes they brought two children who just lost their mom after she tried to kill a few Israelis and failed. The kids were shown the the video of their mom BEING KILLED AND THE HOST WAS CALLING HER A HERO, PRAYING THAT HER RECENTLY ORPHANED CHILDREN FOLLOW IN HER FOOTSTEPS. This is what people mean when they say "there are no innocent people in gaza", they teach them very young
@@michal31131yeah all children are terrorists in Gaza. Just kidding of course you’d have to be very stupid to believe that. Here’s a question: how do children living without power watch a tv show? Obvious answer: they can’t. Only a select few are able. Additionally, the children in the studio being shown the video of their mother ARE innocent. They cannot be killed simply because they have a higher chance of becoming S bombers. If you don’t mean that the children are guilty by association consider changing how you phrase your very repulsive comment. The children had no other TV show to watch, they clearly didn’t always agree with or even understand it’s message. When the host of the show died (the first time) the children were completely torn up about it, despite the show framing it as a martyrdom that should be celebrated and aspired to. Clearly the children disagreed.
Oh dang I was so excited when you mentioned ghostwatch! Controversy aside it's a fascinating piece of horror history especially since it predates the blair witch project and it always reminded me of the infamous war of the worlds radio broadcast. I definitely recommend it for people who are into horror history
The best part about the Gumball Copycats episode is the Watersons succeed because of that one difference -- the copycats don't have an Aiese (I can never spell her name) because of the Chinese law limiting children.
Seems like a reference to real life. China is struggling right now after trying so hard to copy and outdo their competitor America. We see from their poor working conditions right now they are about to meet the same end as the goats.
Always good that people are being made aware of Brass Eye but definitely it shouldn't be classed as "Shouldn't have been on TV" Every episode is brilliant. My favourite bit about that particular episode is when the presenter brings his son on and demands the confirmed offender in the stocks say how he would assault his them. Only for the offender to turn around and say that he didnt find his son attractive. The host obviously is shocked and tries to immediately mask his disappointment shouting "w..w..well good!'
To clarify, the subject of this iceberg isn’t just bad TV shows. A lot of television shows in here should not exist in a “I can’t believe they got away with this” kinda way
this exactly! I've watched the episode, it's so in-line with Morris' other work as a satirist. it made me feel uncomfortable, and *that was the point*. I've read the OFCOM report about the production of the show and the investigation that followed, and it goes into detail about the lengths they went to ensure child safety - the scene you mentioned actually didn't have a child present at all iirc, and was green screened into the shot in post. it was edgy, it was uncomfortable, and that's exactly what good satire is. I think I remember Chris Morris being unsurprised at the backlash to the episode because that was exactly what the show was satirising - the sensationalist nature in which these cases are often reported on
Surprised "queen for a day" wasn't included. The first "look at this person's grief" reality show that paraded war widows out to beg for food for their kids. Then giving them a puppy or makeup.
"Making a TV show based on a commercial might not be a good idea" Anyone ever heard of Max Headroom? That was originally a Coca Cola commercial that was made into a TV series. If I recall correctly it lasted 3 seasons. It was pretty good actually. Starred Matt Frewer and Amanda Pays.
The original TV movie, the show that's just Max presenting music videos, and the TV show that follows on from the movie all predate the Coke commercials.
As a young hispanic lad, Rosa de Guadalupe was a staple of my elementary school days. I vividly remember an episode that was meant to scare people away from homosexuality by painting the gay kids as r***sts and that the kid who was abused ended up bleeding from the penis and then passing out from blood loss. It was wild.
I have a special place in my heart for the episode where a girl eats a marihuana plant and becomes uncontrollably demented until the mother confesses that it was her fault because she had smoked a joint when pregnant of her. This immediately brought in the magic wind and instantaneously cured the girl of her addiction to chewing marihuana leaves.
While I feel sorry for the would-be astronauts, I find it quite astonishing that they did not question the gravity in space (and the whole concept of the show)
If you didn´t watch it, its available on youtube. They had quite good selection process, weeding out anyone already interested in science, space, science-fiction and then selected the ones that were most gullible and likely to follow the hivemind. Few of them were also actors to keep the group on track.
They were basically brainwashed. They were under the control of the tv producers and there was even a plant within the group whose job was was to deflect their doubts as they arose. As for the gravity, they were told that as they were going to be in “near space” there would still be gravity. One contestant had issues for some t8me after the shoe distinguishing reality so this was not a harmless prank.
In Denmark we actually had a series of commercials that ended up being turned into a movie. "Polle Fiction" was watched by 300,000 people in the theaters alone. Pretty decent from a full population of only 5 million.
49:12 the worst part is that the teaser was only teased about 2-3 weeks after the tragedy took place. People were literally still grieving when that came on tv
The fact that we’re not even halfway down the iceberg, & we’ve got I Wanna Marry Harry already, means that there are even worse ideas for shows out there.
Damn, I remember watching that ghostwatch. At the time I was a very Christian teenager who had been conditioned to see demonic activity as a very real thing and taught that any number of things could 'open the door to demons in my own life'. I don't even know why my parents let me watch ghostwatch that night because usually I wasn't even allowed to celebrate Halloween at all. I was blimin' terrified!
Hi, German here. I love that you called him Jan Boomermann. The show is great though and it should exist because it always tackles such topics nobody talks about and still exists to this day. Even got promoted from a secondary TV channel to a main one.
23:00 I remember this. It was cruel to do, the finale was really sad. You could practically see the dreams of the contestants crushed before your eyes.
Knew Ghostwatch would have to be in this somewhere. There was a BBC show called Spy in 2004 that could have been an honourable mention in a lower tier - it was a great show, the fairly minor issues around it being the contestants trying their espionage skills on regular members of the public, and occasionally committing actual crimes in the process. And there's plenty of Derren Brown stunts that could have been all over this list.
I saw it at the time and the format was common but, to be absolutely certain, I checked out the credits and found "special effects". Apparently, though, even BBC workers were asking each other "Have you seen what's happening in Studio 3???"
I loved watching the Joe Schmo Show. I thought it was a great spoof on reality TV. Never got the idea they were making fun of Matt, and his genuine niceness restored some of my faith in humanity back then. It's worth watching, and seeing him constantly (unknowingly) throwing curveballs at the production staff is awesome.
God, I still remember the Porygon Panic! News headlines claiming "Pokemon is bad for your kids and will give them seizures!" It would seem like such a simple fix to just edit the problematic scene, but nothing could fix the damage done by the sensational media coverage.
Usually on iceberg charts I note how deep down I managed to get based on if I've actually heard of the content involved. This is the first time I've actually heard of media on every level of the chart. Crazy
The Brass Eye Paedogeddon episode is one of the greatest self affirming shows ever shown on TV. And I'm absolutely positive that Chris Morris himself would be proud to hit tier 1 in your ranking. Everything it satirised was simply QED'd by the reactions to the show itself.
I watched "Honey, We're Killing the Kids!" religiously as a child. I could never remember the name of it over the years and was about to write it off as a fever dream or some obscure lost media. Good to know I'm not totally insane, sad to know I was insane enough to watch it so much back in the day. 😅
These are some of the show which shouldn't be exist but not on this list: - Tomorrow's Pioneers (Hamas-affiliated children's show) - Dated and Related (borderline incest dating show) - Toddlers & Tiaras - MILF Manor - Train Your Baby Like a Dog - There's Something About Miriam
Another great iceberg. Thank you for making it! I love high effort ones. The only critique I have is about the Porygon bit. A few years ago, another RUclipsr did an investigation about the claims made about the effects of Porygon. There is actually little to no evidence about that many kids having seizures. It is more than likely it happened to a few kids and it was greatly exaggerated by the news, which led to the whole situation.
There was also a gossip/claim that Japanese TV re-aired this moment with little to no warning and csuses extra seizure attacks, so I guess this event has even more legends attaches to it
Oh my god, seeing Bernd das Brot was so unexpected and I love it. As a kid I absolutely loved the shows this character had and I would watch the endless gameshow loop every night before going to bed - it runs on a kid's channel as the last thing before the channel transfered into its night time program which was just DMAX, although nowadays I think it's just literally and endless loop of Bernd until the regular program resumes the next morning? Not too sure on the lore of all this since I haven't watched TV in so long. But still today I will sometimes go down a rabbit hole and rewatch Bernd episodes and it holds up so well and is just so funny in a both ironic and unironic way. At a convention I went to years ago there even was the creator of Bernd on stage and we were all so hyped lmao
That dog experiment is the coolest thing I heard this year! I always wanted to do something similar, like trying to tech a dog to drive a RC car. Its interesting because it relies on intuition and senses, rather than intelligence. Super interesting stuff, I am gonna try to find to full show right now!
Here's one that I would have included, complete with a write-up: This show was literally so funny, it killed a man. _The Goodies_ was a British comedy starring the titular trio of comedians, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie, that aired 76 episodes from 1970 to 1982. One of these episodes, first aired in March 1975, was "Kung Fu Kapers". Bill teaches the other two a martial art named "Ecky Thump", which simply involves hitting people over the head with black pudding. 50-year-old viewer Alex Mitchell of King's Lynn found the episode so hilarious that he laughed throughout the entire thing, after which, according to his widow, he "slumped on the settee and died" of a heart attack. It's thought that he had long QT syndrome, as his granddaughter would later be diagnosed with the condition after suffering her own heart attack. While his widow was distraught, she was at least appreciative of the Goodies, writing a letter thanking them for making his final moments so pleasant.
I have always wondered whether the Brass Eye outrage in the newspapers was just them missing the point, OR whether they understood it but just wanted their readers to misunderstand it. On the one hand, the press are masters at spinning a narrative. On the other hand, if something can equally be explained by "Idiocy" or "Cunning", the idiot solution is usually correct, so I'm torn! I don't really think it deserves to be so deep on the iceberg, though; the episode is still easily available on streaming in the UK.
I agree it doesn't really belong so deep. It's political satire, compare that with shows on a higher tier that make Running Man look tame and reasonable. How can you compare a show that is making a point about media sensationalism of child abusers and didn't hurt anyone directly, with a show that put a guy in solitary confinement (naked) for a year, starved him and caused him to become mentally ill, all for the entertainment of others. Or a game show that tortures contestants and runs a real risk of killing them or leaving them with serious health conditions. I am shocked and appalled at how many tv shows made money out of causing physical and psychological harm to real individuals. A show of "naughty" videos gets whipped off the air but one that is clearly a violation of medical ethics and is likely to shatter the mental health of the participants (the swan) is allowed to get multiple seasons?! For shame.
There is a Star Trek TNG blooper that involved the German dubbed version of an episode where every crew member on the ship vanishes along with every trace of their ever existing, except in Dr. Crusher's memory. Finally she is all alone on the ship. On the bridge she activates the view screen and instead of stars she sees the ship is surrounded by a greyish white fog or mist. She asks "What is that mist?" In the German dub they translate the question into German but instead of translating "mist" into it's German counterpart, they leave the word as "mist" And so in the episode Crusher asks, "What is that shit?" I bit out of character I think.
The “Compete for the Meat” game show makes more sense when you know that an old British pub custom is to have “meat raffles”, where you can win meat, and Al Murray’s stand up character is a pub landlord.
The duo in the first example had a music group called “The KLF.” which was an electronic music group that had some hits in the UK during the late 80s and early 90s (check out “3 AM eternal” and “Last train to trancentral”, good stuff.) The money they burned was pretty much everything they earned from their music.
22:18 I was a drug addicted escort for quite a few years and the longest I was up was 9 days!! It was physically painful for my body to try and relax and when I finally did I slept for 18 hours. Not to mention the hallucinations were terrifying: I was convinced that the guy in the motel Room next to us was plotting my murder and burial.
I never made it past 5 days, I kept getting micro sleeps on the freeway, I drifted into another lane and the honk woke me up. I had a rest stop 2 miles up the road, got a Gatorade and hamburger and slept for a full day. Never again
So glad Popee the performer made the list! I actually started loving that show at 12 because it got popular and it lead me into liking smaller shows and adult cartoons.
My very 1st house after flying the nest was in an old block of flats with my girlfriend in Scotland. We watched Ghostwatch live, and both of us were frikking terrified. After the show finished we were in bed. My partner asked me to lean over and shut the wardobe door as it was freaking her out being open. A few seconds after i did i heard this rumbling noise which scared the life out of us. The noise stopped and in the morning i checked the top of the wardrobe , it was 2 golf balls i placed up there many months before. Never forget that night. Thats must have been the early 90s. The show really freaked both of us out..Tame when you look at it now but scary back then.
45:52 90s brazilian television programs were INSANE, i still remember the case of the victim of kidnapping that was killed by her captor because of the host of a tv show and that woman never faced major consequences ...
Ah, Brass Eye it was a glorious series. I remember all the fuss about it at the time from people who hadn't watched it. Oddly mirroring the show's dislike of wilful ignorance. Then the same happened when BBC 2 screened a performance of Jerry Springer the Opera. Though I found the reaction to Ghost Watch the funniest: Everyone was discussing it at school the next day.
as a brit I have to say I am beyond surprised that naked attraction isn't on the list edit: I honestly cannot believe just how many british tv shows made it into the video
@2:43 that might just be the finest thing I've ever heard in my entire life. That's just ppl looking for things to be offended over and then making up things so they can try to be offended.
I love these videos, seriously they're so relaxing to me. And it's incredibly interesting to hear about facts and trivia related to media we usually just consume on TV. Super excited for this one.
What an interesting iceberg you made here! You covered the shows I expected to see on this list. Also liked how you discussed the repercussions of Ghostwatch, which many seem to undermine. I hope you mentioned how all of The Swan's season finales were beauty competitions that could give more damage to their self-esteem.
Wow! I'm subscribed! I can't imagine the amount of research that you'd have to put in to do a 1-hour video like this. good job you definitely earned my subscription and my gratitude. Jason.
The first co-host of the Pioneers of Tomorrow was killed off because it turns out the terrorists were terrified of Disney's lawyers who had found out about the character. The footage from the BBC in 1938 is one of the coolest things I have ever seen. I was randomly suggested the RUclips video of it last year. Not only is it the oldest and only known live recording of the pre-war BBC. The other surviving programs were filmed programs. One of those, the 1937 Coronation was recorded on a home film camera and lent to the BBC in 1953, but it's location is unknown now.
The Jo Shmo Show is such a great horror concept. Imagine if everyone you know and love one day reveals to you that everything was just an act and non of the relationships and memories you made with them were real, just an act. And everyone just laughs and waves at the cameras and the audience claps and laughs as well as you break down and cry in the center of it all
If someone says The Truman Show one more time I’m going to scream
That’s like the Truman Show
Isn't there an episode of The Twilight Zone like that?
The episode “White Bear” from Black Mirror is kind of a similar concept.
It’s sad so many of the actors didn’t get much work afterward. To stay in character, remember their back stories and just not laugh during some crazy times 24 hours a day and just roll with whatever happened amazed me. A couple of them have done well (Wiig of course,and David Hornsby has acted and produced It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia). I’ve got the show on DVD and it’s truly amazing. It’s so funny and Matt was just such a good guy.
Literally the Truman show but real
What I'm learning from this video is that there was a period of time during the big reality TV boom in the 2000s where TV execs were in the studio like "Yeah, this sounds like the cruelest thing that's ever been put on TV, drop it"
Japan had already been running cruelty gameshows (often featured on shows like Clive James') and I think execs wanted a piece of that action, especially as standards were being relaxed.
The boom in trash "reality" shows was a direct result of a writer's strike. The writers refused to work, so the networks said "fine, we'll just write our own shows".
Reading this comment before I watched the video, I knew you were right, but holy shit I had no idea how right you were until after
Having lived through this era, yes. The Swan is something that I still talk about now and it wasn't even the worst. There were so many shows that had 0 point other than cruelty.
America's Next Top Model be like
The reason the Copycat family fell off the bridge is very clever: the Wattersons devised a death-defying stunt that required all five of them to pull it off properly. The Copycats failed because there were only four of them.
That one child policy costed their lives 😭
lol this is why I don’t want to be a father of just one child
@@illford Karma for not considering Ribbit an actual child of theirs like the Wattersons consider Darwin
Petty on Cartoon Network's part but they knew they were so that's why they made it comically exaggeratted
Well to be honest China copies and parodies all shows and movies and makes good memes like "You want Iron man? How about Metal Boy"
Imagine adopting a dog that’s probably got more knowledge on flying a plane then yourself😂😂😂
lol damn so true
Every dog has more knowledge of flying a plane than me. -12 flying skills, am too heavy.
That’s why you’re adopting tho
Just out in the backyard on top of the doghouse fighting the Barron
@@scorpionsen4302nice Snoopy reference 👌
Oh, that Japanese "don't sit too close and watch in a bright room" isn't just for TV shows! For example, sometimes on the main menu of Fire Emblem Warriors, your system voice will remind you of these two things. Which means every character has a line for it. Which is really funny because it's incredibly out of place in the medieval magic setting
Yeah. Many games have that warning now.
True, but i think its origin is based on the “Electric soldier porygon” pokemon episode
That honestly freaks me out a little. One time I heard a character say "My, you're up late!" upon quitting back to the main menu. I know it makes comments based on your system clock, and that kind of thing is somewhat quaint now, but still.
they should've made that one of byleth's taunts in smash
Pick a spot and stay! …at least ten feet from the TV.
Fun Fact: Nasubi did find success as an actor, forming his own theater trope called Eggplant Way and starring in television which included a role as the side character Watcherman in Kamen Rider W.
Oh my god, I've watched W several times and I had no idea that was the guy
ive been getting into kamen rider lately and also recognize EXACTLY where your profile pic is from. you get internet stranger's "you cool" award
16:20 I don't remember the name, but there was another show that did the "no parents" shtick, but the kids' behavior was a little concerning. One kid got so stressed from the chaotic environment that he took a kitchen knife and began aggressively stabbing objects, while cameras just kept filming.
Lol. Dudes rock.
I know cameramen aren't supposed to intervene unless the situation was really bad. I feel like they should intervene if one of the kids has something that can be used as a weapon.
yeah, I remember that. It was the exact program he was talking about, I never thought it was that bad, he was just attention seeking like children do, you could tell he had no intent to hurt anyone, still good to take the thing off him though, accidents happen after all. I had forgotten about the cigarettes though. It's unbelievable to me that the crew members let them do that.
@@andyghkfilm2287 hell yeah dude
@@Rwnds7967probably herbal tbh. No stretch to imagine they likely were fakes planted by producers.
Tier 1
0:13 The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid
1:35 Dogs Might Fly
2:12 Cavemen (initially a commercial series)
3:31 Turner Doomsday Video
4:45 Mystery Diners
5:41 The Mystery Of Al Capone's Vaults
6:45 The Joe Schmo Show
8:21 The Pokemon Shock
Tier 2
9:50 Labor Games
10:30 Space Cadets
11:55 Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos
13:02 Vivir Del Cuento
13:36 I Want To Marry Harry
14:52 Miracle Star
15:58 Kid Nation
Tier 3
16:58 Jan Böhmermann's Erdogan poem/extra 3
18:28 The Spaghetti Tree Hoax
20:17 Eaten Alive
21:28 Shattered
22:40 Superstar USA
24:08 Who Wants To Marry A Multi-Millionaire?
25:40 Compete For The Meat
26:15 1958 Sweden World Cup
Tier 4
27:59 Bernd das Brot
29:24 Legends of Chamberlain Heights
30:04 The Pricemaster
31:27 Za Gaman
32:21 Unwind With The Sweeties
33:01 Poppy The Performer
34:24 Honey We're Killing The Kids
Tier 5
35:30 Alternative 3
36:43 It's So Funny
37:24 BBC 1938 New York signal incident
38:44 Susunu! Denpa Shōnen
39:59 John Dillermand
40:39 The Chamber
41:49 Welcome To The Neighborhood
42:53 The Swan
Tier 6
44:29 The Great Satan at Large
45:40 Aqui Agora
47:02 Darren Brown plays Russian Roulette
48:13 The Rose of Guadalupe
49:07 Brass Eye
50:05 Fun With Roadkill Handbook
50:53 Tomorrow's Pioneers
52:09 Ghostwatch
53:55 De Grote Donorshow/The Great Donor Show
This should be pinned
I've never seen a more truthful description of the Rose of Guadalupe, not even from Mexicans themselves. Good job
wait this guy’s goated
Can anyone else not see the Rosa de Guadalupe segment?
Someone hit me with a copyright claim and I had to cut the segment 🙃
Honestly, Paedmageddon sounds like the funniest shit. Going through all the trouble of shooting the guy into space, only to accidentally leave a child on there sounds like a better version of a Robot Chicken sketch
Brass Eye is an absolute classic
The entirety of Brasseye is floating around RUclips but it is very of it's time and place
39:49
The thing about the Tomoaki Hamatsu (Nasubi) thing that makes it so much worse is that after he got the 1 million yen, he had to do it again in a different room. After he did that, they put him in another room, where he understood what to do stripped of his clothes, only for the room to collapsed and in front of him was an audience.
you are not his wife 💀💀😭@@koryhawkins1499
@@koryhawkins1499 I have a question, what do you mean by “The Wife Here”?
Don't forget that round 2 was in a foreign country (South Korea), where he didn't speak the language and had to rely on a translation dictionary to read and fill out the sweepstakes.
@@DrummerBoy5854-p8mit is quite literal in its meaning
@@koryhawkins1499what in the Truman show shit is this?!??
If I'm not mistaken, I distinctly remember that with the Porygon incident, WAY less little ones would've had to be hospitalized if the news channels in Japan wouldn't have mass-reshowed the "seizure" part of the episode on air while discussing it. It let to way more people being hospitalized. I could be wrong, I was TINY when this happened but I do remember news about it airing on Japanese tv and them showing the part on the news.
That is exactly what happened yeah.
yeah I was wondering how 3 seconds of flashing lights would be enough to send hundreds of people to the hospital, that makes a lot of sense
I know it's horrible, but honestly I find what the news did to be really funny. To be clear, it's NOT funny that those poor kids got seizures, but the fact that the news people were so stupid as to air a clip they knew could hurt people...real big brain move right there LMAO
The Simpsons did a great parody of this on their Japan vacation episode
@@GGsquared I saw the episode a few years ago - the flashing lights last a lot longer than three seconds. It's a decently long portion of the latter part of the episode. It's pretty easy to find online but obviously DO NOT watch it if you have any suspicion of having photosensitive epilepsy.
Nah that lady in the sleep show was unhinged.
I believe 100% that she arm wrestled that boxer.
I bet she's a mom. That's why she aced the game.
She needs to be recruited to the CIA. I cant stay up past 18 hours!
One important detail about the Porygon incident: It was almost certainly an outbreak of mass hysteria, with very few actual seizures due to photosensitive epilepsy-tragic though this is, there seem to have only been about five in total-and the vast majority of reports being children claiming to feel ill after the fact whose overzealous parents blamed the episode after the fact. A lot of sources in the Anglosphere misreported this due to the atmosphere of hysteria surrounding Pokémon's perceived violent content and "foreignness," however, which spread the urban legend further.
Exactly.
mass hysteria 🙄 my foot. im always skeptical of ANYTHING labeled "mass hysteria" it was just the news overexaggerating the truth
@@vismattress5760.....that's what "mass hysteria" means.
@@carolyns4519 no, it doesn’t. Mass hysteria is different than the corrupt news. Mass hysteria is when the people cause panic, not when the news lies for clicks.
@@vismattress5760 it was a mix of the two, ya DingDong
Bernd is designed to :
--Be entertaining for kids while also telling them to leave and go to bed.
--Be relatable to adults who are watching over theyr kid while they are watching TV.
--Be something drunk people will have a fun time watching.
In other word : Bernd das Brot has a place in the heart of every German.
I remember when I was about 5, I asked my father where Spaghetti came from. He immediately brought me over to the computer and showed me the ‘BBC special’. It took me several years to realise the joke.
17:31 the fact that he was attacked for the poem, instead of the Turkish government responding with facts and evidence, automatically leads me to believe that the poem was not a joke and that he actually did all of those evil things
Probably not (at least not all), but it does show how the Turkish government has become more restrictive. Erdogan has slowly allowed religious influences to take hold within the Turkish government while the founder of Turkey (Atatürk) sought to make Turkey a modern secular country.
I vaguely remember this incident and it was around the same time Erdogan was in the news for restricting freedom of speech in Turkey and demanding that other countries should censor their journalists for criticizing his policies and Islam or there would be consequences.
I can't remember the fine details but it was something like that.
Disclaimer to provide some background on the subjects mentioned in the poem:
The animal and kids thing was a criticism of Islam itself. A Dutch director (Theo van Gogh) and imfamous anti-islamist (he was later murdered by a religious extremist) popularized the term 'goatf*cker' as a slur when referring to muslims in the early 2000's here in Europe. As for the kids thing, that's a reference to the prophet's wife.
nah bruh guys can't take a "joke"
Fun fact, jan Böhmermann still has the same job as presenter of this show, wich is publicly funded, and is still not pulling punches.
Erdogan is a piece of shit but we dont have anyone better to vote for lol
@@matthiasannaberger2469Nah he just calls everything Nazi now and sues people for stuff he himself does. He is a shill
when the world needed him most he returned
just trying my best 💛🫡
JARVIS WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!?!?!
Hi jarvis
Hello Jarvis!
hi jarvis! :)
You are one of the few youtubers from the US that puts metric system measurements for context when talking about an imperial system measurement, and I came here to thank you for that.
I watched the Joe Schmo show as it was airing, and honestly it was one of my favourite shows at the time. Matt was awesome, I still remember him awkwardly stumbling over telling the gay "cast member" he supported him, and honestly found it so unique and interesting compared to other shows at the time. I think the intent was to satirize reality tv moreso than mock Matt, but I could be remembering wrong.
True. It wasn't supposed about making him look like a dummy or fool. It was about him being a regular guy and if they could make him believe he was on a reality show. Anyone would have been fooled not just an idiot.
I loved it because he did end up being such a nice guy
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gunnartvlive did an amazing watchthrough of all the episodes, it was so surreal seeing it all again
What is going ooon!?
As someone who watched Ghostwatch on its original broadcast, I can confirm that it was *terrifying*. The commitment to verisimilitude was seriously impressive. All the presenters were well known to presenters at the time. The phone number used was a real bbc phone number famously used for the Saturday morning kids show call ins. Even if you knew it wasn’t real, you believed it.
We watched Ghostwatch a few Halloweens ago, it was genuinely one of the best horror "movies" I've seen in a while!
I saw this once I the ghost watch part came on bit coincidentally
The idea of the swan is actually horrifying, I would never ever wish body dysmorphia on my worst enemy and to essentially just give it to someone is so awful, not to mention the normalization of body shaming and treating non standard body types/facial features etc. as bad.
The two women used as examples seemed pretty normal to me, in fact now that Im 45 all people on the show were just normal people. I watched this show when it was on. Most people just needed braces, a haircut, and new clothes. Purposely surgically altering someone without their knowledge is pretty evil and egregious.
Being Brazilian, claiming that the 1958 FIFA World Cup not happening is almost anti-patriotic
*wins the freakin World Cup*
🗣 F A K E
I'm from the UK I was a kid a watched ghost watch live at the end when titles went up it said sound affects by and the actors names but it was believable. I saw brass eye it was funny actually I've seen few of these shows.
As a welshman, it's almost as anti-patriotic 😅
Bernd das Brot is one of the most geniusly crafted satirical shows to ever air on German Television. Glad you're bringing it up, it deserves international recognition.
Sounded like a great example of a modern take on the "Theatre of the Absurd", with the 1953 play "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett as its prime example. The premise of the play is that two main characters, Vladimir and Estragon, are as the title says waiting for Godot. The stage is completely empty with the exeption of a single tree. They don't know how long their wated, or how long they'll have to wait, or if perhaps Godot has already been there. They basically just wait because they know they have to, in a reality that could well be seen as something outisde of time and space.
There are many ways to read and try to understand the meaning behind the play (Beckett himself simply said "It means what it means" when being asked about one of his other plays meant, which might tell you quite a lot about his unwillingness to explain), but in general it's a great example of the Sisyphean reality that too many experience.
I'm sure the creators of Bern das Brot were directly or indirectly inspired by Beckett and the Theatre of the Absurd.
Bernd ist Gott!! It's like how the American shows The Simpsons or Futurama show how the American culture "tickt".
@@writeordie5452 It is primarily intended to encourage children who are awake after 9 p.m. to go to bed. That's why a video is looped that is around five minutes long and the viewers are asked in various ways to sleep so that Bernd can finally go. The channel is called Ki.Ka which is short for Kinder Kanal(=children's channel) and the channel itself gives this as a reason. Since the Ki.Ka is part of public television and the funds for those in Germany are distributed very unfairly, it is probably more to save money.
Nein dann wäre es nix mehr besonders :(
Seeing popee the performer on this list made me jump from my chair, I used to be obssessed with that show and even joined online fanbases for it and did a lot of fan art of it. What a wild show!
Honestly as much as I am a fan of popee, im not surprised it's on the list. It should have at least been an adult show, and not a kids show in my opinion.
Thank you for mentioning popee the performer. That show is wack but I actually really love it. The low budget 3D (which i actually think is done well), as well as the lack of speaking (apart from one time), works to the shows advantage. It's just a weird show that I got a kick out of. The creator had another show as well.
i honestly enjoyed watching the episodes they're entertaining and creative 👏
Popee is the absolute pinacle of anime. Evangelion, Beserk, Monster, Akira, Ghosts of the Fireflies are all DECENT... but none reach the level of PURE ART that Popee achieves.
Fun fact the creator and his wife are working on a sequel, but I think it's going to be in a comic form or something. The wife who designed the characters still draws them all the time though, very good art
I watched this show when I was 13-14 and ngl I think its affected how I see comedy at this point, I need something that captures the unnerving nonsensical nature that made it funny
I find it funny that popee is trying to kill the wolf dude but he dies more times
Ironically Geraldo and Al Capone's vault was one of the very few times where a high profile failure actually ended up helping someone's career, it became a big running joke that popped up in other shows for years and he was enough of a good sport about it that he'd even joke about it once in a while. Most people would either try to suppress a flop like that or get upset when it was brought up, but being able to roll with it definitely helped maintain his popularity.
"There was nothing in Al Capone's vault, but it wasn't Geraldo's fault" -Homer Simpson
He's always seemed a fairly fun easygoing guy, especially for a Fox personality.
wow, imagine the flex at the dog park. my dog can sit, shake hands, roll over. yeah? my dog's a pilot
Some German dude legit started a international political crisis with a simple poem. What a freakin' legend.
lol easily one of my favorite entries in here
that is a wild comment out of context
The second time that has happened in our history
@@superrazor7617 What other German started an international crisis after reading a poem on television?!
@@jaymevosburgh3660 1942 ill leave it at that
8:30 what people don’t usually understand about this episode was the media trying to cancel/ban Pokémon. It’s true that Japanese kids did get headaches and epileptic seizures, but the numbers are staggered, the only reason so many kids went to the hospital was because of worried parents and pandemonium about the show.
From what I remember, most of the kids weren't taken to hospital on the day the episode aired, but the following days, after they had gone back to school and spoken to their friends about it lol
While true they probably should have put a warning at the beginning of the episode. Photosensitive triggered epilepsy is common enough that the should have been warnings. Especially since Nintendo consoles tend to have that warning when you turn them on, they probably should have done it for this episode.
do u understand that this happened before they used those warnings regularly? @@LadyGoof
I heard somewhere that the majority of the seizures were triggered when the news aired a segment from the show. And it's still BS Porygon got basically canceled from the tv show even though it was all Pikachu's fault.
What you said may be true, but the actual original flashing lights were completely inexcusable regardless.
Giving the girls a fake therapist is genuinely the greatest piece of gaslighting in history
"This is the one thing we didn't want to happen" Cracks me up so much
I'm definitely watching that show, it sounds hilarious
I was stopped dead in my tracks by laughter and I felt so guilty until I saw that that spot was the most replayed.
Wait till you see the segment how pedo get kids over the internet! That's the best bit. Apparently noone had the slightest clue how the internet and monitor screens worked back then! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's a great show. Amazing satire.
yeah, i legit lol'ed
yeah that was way to funny.
The hole idea of sending him to space only for it to have ended up lucking him in sided with a child.
It somehow just captures the stupidity of news channel reporting on stuff perfectly.
The hole dramatizations of situations that they are a direct result of, and the irony of solving a isue in way over kill manor only to have it backfired completely.
welcome to politics.
I can think of a show that totally belongs here, probably in tier 4 or 5. “Opposite Worlds” on the SyFy channel. “Fourteen people face off on opposing teams as they live in a house separated by a glass wall into one past and one future world, each with its own unique advantages and disadvantages; each player's fate is determined by viewer participation.”
It was horrible. The past people had to literally camp with no heat and no real food. The future really had no downside at all. Jenny Nicholson made a great video on it.
Honestly, "Bernd das Brot" is great. since it loops it helps you fall asleep, and every month there is a new loop. Those sketches really get a bunch of creative freedom and often have great and funny and sometimes really meta stuff in them. Since it loops it doesn't keep you too interested to fall asleep, and since bernd is very low energy and calm there are usually no loud noised to startle you or wake you up, so it's perfect to roll in the background while you try to fall asleep. It is honestly my favourite TV show to fall asleep to.
Ted lasso was originally a series of sketches promoting broadcasts of premier league games on NBC. So it is possible to make a successful TV show out of a commercial
it's insane to me that the only problem they had with Poppy was the fact that only having 3 fingers could be considered a disability
I wonder whether the issue is more that lacking fingers is a sign you belong to the Japanese gangsters the Yakuza.
Honestly I feel it may have more to do with similarities to the Yakuza practice of cutting off fingers/digits.
That's why most anime characters explicitly have 5 fingers instead of 4 or less like in a lot of Western cartoons.
@@molybdomancer195 Probably. I know that has been an issue in the past when releasing Western cartoons in Japan.
@@Zeitgeist6thats such an interesting quirk
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I only knew about The Swan because of Luxeria 😂
There's also a show called "Bridalplasty", where they would take women who were about to get married and submit them to various plastic surgeries, with not enough time between said surgeries, and without them being able to even see their families during the reality show.
what the hell
"The film was supposed to be aired on April Fool’s Day, but was delayed until June"
On the plus side, no one would have been expecting it
The Brass Eye special is genius because the reaction they got from the tabloids is the exact thing it was satirising.
their total lack of self awareness meant they ran straight into it, like you said, bemoaning the show while also sexsualising a 15 year old before doing the "count down to leagal" for charlotte church.
And yet our tabloids in teh UK are still just as vile
"This was the one thing we didn't want to happen" 😂😂
@@aarondavis8943The brilliant thing is that sentence has been uttered hundreds of times in Britain as the plans of bureaucrats goes absolutely tits up 😂
Brass eye was classic must watch tv, this episode as well as a couple more (the drugs one, the animal welfare one) even yesterday i was quoting "going to change the name from the british isles to the pedif isles. " the reason it was so attacked wasnt the viewing audience but the press and media getting revenge for being shown as the scum they really are.
@@klisher It blows me away that they're still doing the same stuff these days too.
I remember the Sun running the "countdown to legal" when Charlotte Church was coming up to her 16th birthday.
I never understood that one, how was that in any way ok?
@@mrman991 they are such bloody hypocrites.
For those outside the UK. K Foundation was also the 'band' KLF, the biggest selling singles artist in the UK in the early 90's with their stadium house trilogy. However, as they explained at the time, they had to deal with a LOT of music industry bilge water as a result, so they felt the money was tainted by their experiences. Check out their stadium house trilogy, then watch their Brits performance when they "left the music industry".
Sorry man it looks like you put a lot of effort into this comment but nobody gives even half a fuck about those guys.
Their album liner notes were epicly weird. When I heard they burned a million quid, I was like, yeah, not surprised.
Soooo, the money burn was an act of protest? Respect, if true
Ohhhhh....that makes so much more sense if they were actually KLF. Thanks for the info!!
The thing about burning the money is that it's not like the value disappeared. Everyone else's money increased in value a little bit in consequence. At least until the government inflated it away.
So the key takeaway from this video is that we really love torturing each other. Alright
Also, one thing about "The Swan" is that one of the doctors on the show, Dr. Dubrow, is the star doctor in the series "Botched". I like to think that he realized the error of his ways.
yep thats basically the conclusion i've come to as well
Truly the days of the gladiator live on.
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he's also Kevin Dubrow's (Quiet Riot Singer) brother
I think that Joe Shmo show would have been better if the Joe was also secretly an actor that the other actors didn't know about. He would then display increasingly strange behavior to see how well the other actors could cope with that and stay in character themselves.
Joeception
And if we take that concept to its logical conclusion, call it the Joe Milgram Show, and have a bunch of people who think they’re actual contestants on a reality show with a single actor playing someone who is losing their grip on reality while the producers are telling the real contestants to push the secret fake contestant to the brink because it’ll get them screen time
That is actually a freaking hilarious idea for a show
As a german i can say you dont even question bernd the bread if you grew up with him. The joke is that he speaks of things like no other character from the kids channel hes belonging to ever could bc hes so much more serious then all of them. And diving into the lore thats actually completely normal behaviour for a bread, as well as that his favorite food is flour soup and his favorite hobby is staring at woodchip wallpapers.
But still i totally get that the concept must be completely unhinged for those who arent familiar with it. xD
For me, I’d probably throw in The Moment of Truth for being probably one of the more wilder polygraph-based shows on TV at the time knowing how many secrets people would answer truthfully in front of their friends, spouses, and loved ones all to win up to $500,000. I remember the first time watching one episode as a child, and it left me shocked to see someone lose out on $100,000 and her marriage back then, along with the only $500,000 winner which was even tougher to watch
watched the first episode of it, can't stand watching the next ones eventually...
It gets wilder. One of the contestants on the Peruvian version of the show confessed to cheating and was eventually murdered by her husband who was on the show with her
Well this was one of the most traumatizing icebergs I've ever seen.
Take a shot for each entry that involves someone being gaslighted.
And seriously... that Ghostwatch entry was the definition of escalating quickly.
30:15 I got to the Pricemaster, and I swear to god I’ve never laughed so hard in my life. There are tears running down my face from laughing so hard. My sense of humor is some combination of loving of blunt satire, surrealist humor, and anything where there’s glaring absurdity in mundane situations, so it tickled something deep in my brain. As soon as The Pricemaster panned into view, I completely lost it
yep. same
I've seen the Paedogeddon Brass Eye episode, and it was great. Really tore into how the media almost salivates at the chance to cover sensationalistic stories.
Also Brass Eye was just a fantastic show in general, wish It'd had more episodes.
All the while running active cover for pdos in their own organisations.
I assume you're already aware, but Brass Eye was a spiritual successor to The Day Today and On the Hour (which incidentaly was where Steve Coogan's Alan Partridge first debuted), and if you've not watched or listened to them before, I highly reccomend them
@@elLooto "in their own organizations" meaning Brass Eye?
@@sendphotonowpls Meaning the British MSM.
@@elLooto ahhh okay, I live in the US so I wasn’t aware
There is something of an explanation of why The K Foundation, better known as the music group The KLF, burned all that money: They had become a massively successful pop group through following a formula which they laid out in a book entitled The Manual, and were systematically rejecting the fame which this brought them through increasingly bizarre and off-putting stunts, including having the grindcore band Extreme Noise Terror perform their hit song "3 AM Eternal" for them at the Brit Awards and then firing AKs loaded with blanks over the audience. The money-burning, and the subsequent deletion of their entire back-catalogue, was the culmination of this campaign.
gotta love natural selection
The Hamas children’s show is by far the most evil. Bringing children deliberately to a high risk of death location and calling them children of martyrdom. Absolutely evil.
In one of the episodes they brought two children who just lost their mom after she tried to kill a few Israelis and failed. The kids were shown the the video of their mom BEING KILLED AND THE HOST WAS CALLING HER A HERO, PRAYING THAT HER RECENTLY ORPHANED CHILDREN FOLLOW IN HER FOOTSTEPS.
This is what people mean when they say "there are no innocent people in gaza", they teach them very young
@@michal31131yeah all children are terrorists in Gaza. Just kidding of course you’d have to be very stupid to believe that. Here’s a question: how do children living without power watch a tv show? Obvious answer: they can’t. Only a select few are able. Additionally, the children in the studio being shown the video of their mother ARE innocent. They cannot be killed simply because they have a higher chance of becoming S bombers.
If you don’t mean that the children are guilty by association consider changing how you phrase your very repulsive comment.
The children had no other TV show to watch, they clearly didn’t always agree with or even understand it’s message. When the host of the show died (the first time) the children were completely torn up about it, despite the show framing it as a martyrdom that should be celebrated and aspired to. Clearly the children disagreed.
Oh dang I was so excited when you mentioned ghostwatch! Controversy aside it's a fascinating piece of horror history especially since it predates the blair witch project and it always reminded me of the infamous war of the worlds radio broadcast. I definitely recommend it for people who are into horror history
Totally! It was so ahead of its time. A must watch for fans of the found footage genre
The best part about the Gumball Copycats episode is the Watersons succeed because of that one difference -- the copycats don't have an Aiese (I can never spell her name) because of the Chinese law limiting children.
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He literally said that in the video.
@@leeshaponhe didn't say that's why they won though.
@@MontySlythonI thought they won because they couldn't copy the hippy teacher referencing Tienamen Square
Seems like a reference to real life. China is struggling right now after trying so hard to copy and outdo their competitor America. We see from their poor working conditions right now they are about to meet the same end as the goats.
Weird Al made fun of Hoaldo's vault raid in UHF. There's a scene where he breaks into Al Capone's glove compartment.
"Ah-ha, road maps!"
Joe shmo is the equivalent of the show "jury duty" nowadays, where an entire movie set is pranking one guy
At least that show was very wholesome
Or the true man show movie
I love how the BBC builds up a ton of trust and occasionally just drops an absolute bomb on it for the laughs
Always good that people are being made aware of Brass Eye but definitely it shouldn't be classed as "Shouldn't have been on TV"
Every episode is brilliant.
My favourite bit about that particular episode is when the presenter brings his son on and demands the confirmed offender in the stocks say how he would assault his them. Only for the offender to turn around and say that he didnt find his son attractive.
The host obviously is shocked and tries to immediately mask his disappointment shouting "w..w..well good!'
To clarify, the subject of this iceberg isn’t just bad TV shows. A lot of television shows in here should not exist in a “I can’t believe they got away with this” kinda way
this exactly! I've watched the episode, it's so in-line with Morris' other work as a satirist. it made me feel uncomfortable, and *that was the point*. I've read the OFCOM report about the production of the show and the investigation that followed, and it goes into detail about the lengths they went to ensure child safety - the scene you mentioned actually didn't have a child present at all iirc, and was green screened into the shot in post. it was edgy, it was uncomfortable, and that's exactly what good satire is. I think I remember Chris Morris being unsurprised at the backlash to the episode because that was exactly what the show was satirising - the sensationalist nature in which these cases are often reported on
When you're so likable that you change the trajectory of the show. Bless. I hope Matt is doing well for himself wherever he is now.
i do to. his reaction was funny and priceless. i bet he still get recognized for it
I hope he got to keep his best friend balloon the only friend that he knew
But my thing I wonder if there was ever people that liked him and actually cared about him and wanted to blow the whistle.
Surprised "queen for a day" wasn't included. The first "look at this person's grief" reality show that paraded war widows out to beg for food for their kids.
Then giving them a puppy or makeup.
i'm actually planning out a Game Shows That Should Not Exist and that is absolutely gonna be in there
Awesome. It's really one of those "are most people basically evil?" types of societal rot.
"Making a TV show based on a commercial might not be a good idea"
Anyone ever heard of Max Headroom? That was originally a Coca Cola commercial that was made into a TV series. If I recall correctly it lasted 3 seasons. It was pretty good actually. Starred Matt Frewer and Amanda Pays.
...no?
There's also Ted Lasso.
The original TV movie, the show that's just Max presenting music videos, and the TV show that follows on from the movie all predate the Coke commercials.
Sometimes,it’s a good idea
As a young hispanic lad, Rosa de Guadalupe was a staple of my elementary school days. I vividly remember an episode that was meant to scare people away from homosexuality by painting the gay kids as r***sts and that the kid who was abused ended up bleeding from the penis and then passing out from blood loss. It was wild.
I have a special place in my heart for the episode where a girl eats a marihuana plant and becomes uncontrollably demented until the mother confesses that it was her fault because she had smoked a joint when pregnant of her. This immediately brought in the magic wind and instantaneously cured the girl of her addiction to chewing marihuana leaves.
@@Psychprogrockthat's hilarious
While I feel sorry for the would-be astronauts, I find it quite astonishing that they did not question the gravity in space (and the whole concept of the show)
If you didn´t watch it, its available on youtube. They had quite good selection process, weeding out anyone already interested in science, space, science-fiction and then selected the ones that were most gullible and likely to follow the hivemind. Few of them were also actors to keep the group on track.
I was gonna say... how the hell did they not figure it out when they had to actually board the capsule on the "shuttle"... indoors...
They were basically brainwashed. They were under the control of the tv producers and there was even a plant within the group whose job was was to deflect their doubts as they arose. As for the gravity, they were told that as they were going to be in “near space” there would still be gravity. One contestant had issues for some t8me after the shoe distinguishing reality so this was not a harmless prank.
@@tarnvedra9952 Flat Earthers?
Fundamentalists? Scientologists?
In Denmark we actually had a series of commercials that ended up being turned into a movie. "Polle Fiction" was watched by 300,000 people in the theaters alone. Pretty decent from a full population of only 5 million.
The Joe Schmo Show was actually one of the best fake reality shows ever, Matt was just too pure for this show, I hope he’s doing well 😊
I remember it well. For pre-internet times it was mind blowing. The host was particularly funny and well chosen for the part.
49:12 the worst part is that the teaser was only teased about 2-3 weeks after the tragedy took place. People were literally still grieving when that came on tv
30:30 pricemaster! One of the people involved in that was Rick Perry, art director for Dropout and Dimension 20!!
The fact that we’re not even halfway down the iceberg, & we’ve got I Wanna Marry Harry already, means that there are even worse ideas for shows out there.
Damn, I remember watching that ghostwatch. At the time I was a very Christian teenager who had been conditioned to see demonic activity as a very real thing and taught that any number of things could 'open the door to demons in my own life'.
I don't even know why my parents let me watch ghostwatch that night because usually I wasn't even allowed to celebrate Halloween at all. I was blimin' terrified!
Hi, German here. I love that you called him Jan Boomermann. The show is great though and it should exist because it always tackles such topics nobody talks about and still exists to this day. Even got promoted from a secondary TV channel to a main one.
23:00 I remember this. It was cruel to do, the finale was really sad. You could practically see the dreams of the contestants crushed before your eyes.
Knew Ghostwatch would have to be in this somewhere.
There was a BBC show called Spy in 2004 that could have been an honourable mention in a lower tier - it was a great show, the fairly minor issues around it being the contestants trying their espionage skills on regular members of the public, and occasionally committing actual crimes in the process.
And there's plenty of Derren Brown stunts that could have been all over this list.
I saw it at the time and the format was common but, to be absolutely certain, I checked out the credits and found "special effects". Apparently, though, even BBC workers were asking each other "Have you seen what's happening in Studio 3???"
I loved watching the Joe Schmo Show. I thought it was a great spoof on reality TV. Never got the idea they were making fun of Matt, and his genuine niceness restored some of my faith in humanity back then. It's worth watching, and seeing him constantly (unknowingly) throwing curveballs at the production staff is awesome.
God, I still remember the Porygon Panic! News headlines claiming "Pokemon is bad for your kids and will give them seizures!" It would seem like such a simple fix to just edit the problematic scene, but nothing could fix the damage done by the sensational media coverage.
Usually on iceberg charts I note how deep down I managed to get based on if I've actually heard of the content involved.
This is the first time I've actually heard of media on every level of the chart. Crazy
i can’t tell if that’s a good or bad thing lol either way I appreciate you watching all the way through and hope you enjoyed it
@@joeyengelman Just means you weren't obscure enough. :P
Still entertaining though 👍
@@Radman1889 or it means tat you shouldnt be such a goddamn asshole bitch
The Brass Eye Paedogeddon episode is one of the greatest self affirming shows ever shown on TV. And I'm absolutely positive that Chris Morris himself would be proud to hit tier 1 in your ranking.
Everything it satirised was simply QED'd by the reactions to the show itself.
I watched "Honey, We're Killing the Kids!" religiously as a child. I could never remember the name of it over the years and was about to write it off as a fever dream or some obscure lost media. Good to know I'm not totally insane, sad to know I was insane enough to watch it so much back in the day. 😅
As a kid in the 90s and 2000s its insane how toxic and surreal "reality shows" were back then...
hey it's better than today's fuckin slop
@@aquarius5264 Facts. I'd much rather have toxic shows than a show with a non-binary dinosaur.
@@coltonwilkie241 poor you
@@coltonwilkie241 My advice for people like you who have nothing better to do than complain about non-binary dinosaurs: just change the channel.
"wah so toxic wah so bad!" grow up
These are some of the show which shouldn't be exist but not on this list:
- Tomorrow's Pioneers (Hamas-affiliated children's show)
- Dated and Related (borderline incest dating show)
- Toddlers & Tiaras
- MILF Manor
- Train Your Baby Like a Dog
- There's Something About Miriam
Another great iceberg. Thank you for making it! I love high effort ones. The only critique I have is about the Porygon bit. A few years ago, another RUclipsr did an investigation about the claims made about the effects of Porygon. There is actually little to no evidence about that many kids having seizures. It is more than likely it happened to a few kids and it was greatly exaggerated by the news, which led to the whole situation.
interesting, I’ll look around for that video. Thanks for watching!
There was also a gossip/claim that Japanese TV re-aired this moment with little to no warning and csuses extra seizure attacks, so I guess this event has even more legends attaches to it
yes! thank you for wording this so well
Oh my god, seeing Bernd das Brot was so unexpected and I love it. As a kid I absolutely loved the shows this character had and I would watch the endless gameshow loop every night before going to bed - it runs on a kid's channel as the last thing before the channel transfered into its night time program which was just DMAX, although nowadays I think it's just literally and endless loop of Bernd until the regular program resumes the next morning? Not too sure on the lore of all this since I haven't watched TV in so long. But still today I will sometimes go down a rabbit hole and rewatch Bernd episodes and it holds up so well and is just so funny in a both ironic and unironic way.
At a convention I went to years ago there even was the creator of Bernd on stage and we were all so hyped lmao
15:26 R34 artists: "And I took that personally"
Hear me out
I'm glad the UK's weird history with pranks and reality tv shows is getting a bit of rep!
That dog experiment is the coolest thing I heard this year! I always wanted to do something similar, like trying to tech a dog to drive a RC car. Its interesting because it relies on intuition and senses, rather than intelligence. Super interesting stuff, I am gonna try to find to full show right now!
Here's one that I would have included, complete with a write-up:
This show was literally so funny, it killed a man. _The Goodies_ was a British comedy starring the titular trio of comedians, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie, that aired 76 episodes from 1970 to 1982. One of these episodes, first aired in March 1975, was "Kung Fu Kapers". Bill teaches the other two a martial art named "Ecky Thump", which simply involves hitting people over the head with black pudding. 50-year-old viewer Alex Mitchell of King's Lynn found the episode so hilarious that he laughed throughout the entire thing, after which, according to his widow, he "slumped on the settee and died" of a heart attack. It's thought that he had long QT syndrome, as his granddaughter would later be diagnosed with the condition after suffering her own heart attack. While his widow was distraught, she was at least appreciative of the Goodies, writing a letter thanking them for making his final moments so pleasant.
I have always wondered whether the Brass Eye outrage in the newspapers was just them missing the point, OR whether they understood it but just wanted their readers to misunderstand it. On the one hand, the press are masters at spinning a narrative. On the other hand, if something can equally be explained by "Idiocy" or "Cunning", the idiot solution is usually correct, so I'm torn!
I don't really think it deserves to be so deep on the iceberg, though; the episode is still easily available on streaming in the UK.
I agree it doesn't really belong so deep. It's political satire, compare that with shows on a higher tier that make Running Man look tame and reasonable. How can you compare a show that is making a point about media sensationalism of child abusers and didn't hurt anyone directly, with a show that put a guy in solitary confinement (naked) for a year, starved him and caused him to become mentally ill, all for the entertainment of others. Or a game show that tortures contestants and runs a real risk of killing them or leaving them with serious health conditions. I am shocked and appalled at how many tv shows made money out of causing physical and psychological harm to real individuals. A show of "naughty" videos gets whipped off the air but one that is clearly a violation of medical ethics and is likely to shatter the mental health of the participants (the swan) is allowed to get multiple seasons?! For shame.
There is a Star Trek TNG blooper that involved the German dubbed version of an episode where every crew member on the ship vanishes along with every trace of their ever existing, except in Dr. Crusher's memory.
Finally she is all alone on the ship. On the bridge she activates the view screen and instead of stars she sees the ship is surrounded by a greyish white fog or mist.
She asks "What is that mist?"
In the German dub they translate the question into German but instead of translating "mist" into it's German counterpart, they leave the word as "mist"
And so in the episode Crusher asks, "What is that shit?"
I bit out of character I think.
LOL I love this
The “Compete for the Meat” game show makes more sense when you know that an old British pub custom is to have “meat raffles”, where you can win meat, and Al Murray’s stand up character is a pub landlord.
The duo in the first example had a music group called “The KLF.” which was an electronic music group that had some hits in the UK during the late 80s and early 90s (check out “3 AM eternal” and “Last train to trancentral”, good stuff.) The money they burned was pretty much everything they earned from their music.
Even "Doctorin' the TARDIS"?
22:18 I was a drug addicted escort for quite a few years and the longest I was up was 9 days!! It was physically painful for my body to try and relax and when I finally did I slept for 18 hours. Not to mention the hallucinations were terrifying: I was convinced that the guy in the motel
Room next to us was plotting my murder and burial.
I never made it past 5 days, I kept getting micro sleeps on the freeway, I drifted into another lane and the honk woke me up. I had a rest stop 2 miles up the road, got a Gatorade and hamburger and slept for a full day. Never again
@InevitableOption-ic2vx why do you assume being a sex worker isn't a fulfilling career?
Day 3 is when the shadows... they start moving
So glad Popee the performer made the list! I actually started loving that show at 12 because it got popular and it lead me into liking smaller shows and adult cartoons.
My very 1st house after flying the nest was in an old block of flats with my girlfriend in Scotland. We watched Ghostwatch live, and both of us were frikking terrified. After the show finished we were in bed. My partner asked me to lean over and shut the wardobe door as it was freaking her out being open. A few seconds after i did i heard this rumbling noise which scared the life out of us. The noise stopped and in the morning i checked the top of the wardrobe , it was 2 golf balls i placed up there many months before. Never forget that night. Thats must have been the early 90s. The show really freaked both of us out..Tame when you look at it now but scary back then.
45:52 90s brazilian television programs were INSANE, i still remember the case of the victim of kidnapping that was killed by her captor because of the host of a tv show and that woman never faced major consequences ...
Qual?
48:37 i laugh so hard, that i literaly shit my self laughing
Ah, Brass Eye it was a glorious series. I remember all the fuss about it at the time from people who hadn't watched it. Oddly mirroring the show's dislike of wilful ignorance. Then the same happened when BBC 2 screened a performance of Jerry Springer the Opera. Though I found the reaction to Ghost Watch the funniest: Everyone was discussing it at school the next day.
The cake episode was my favourite, so many people blindly bought into it
@@davebryan1890 Remember 'Cake is a made up drug!'
@@laurencerushton3544 it's a fooken dizgrace
Drugs need you.... if you take away the U, what do you get???
Drgs.....never heard of anybody addicted to Drgs
as a brit I have to say I am beyond surprised that naked attraction isn't on the list
edit: I honestly cannot believe just how many british tv shows made it into the video
"This is the one thing we didnt want to happen!" Is such a legendary punch line, im sorry.
Lmao it’s amazing
31:16 Fun fact, pricemaster is made by the same people that made Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared
By the end, I felt even more justifiably paranoid about not leaving my house and accidentally appearing in tv shows.
@2:43 that might just be the finest thing I've ever heard in my entire life. That's just ppl looking for things to be offended over and then making up things so they can try to be offended.
I love these videos, seriously they're so relaxing to me. And it's incredibly interesting to hear about facts and trivia related to media we usually just consume on TV. Super excited for this one.
What an interesting iceberg you made here! You covered the shows I expected to see on this list. Also liked how you discussed the repercussions of Ghostwatch, which many seem to undermine.
I hope you mentioned how all of The Swan's season finales were beauty competitions that could give more damage to their self-esteem.
Wow! I'm subscribed! I can't imagine the amount of research that you'd have to put in to do a 1-hour video like this. good job you definitely earned my subscription and my gratitude. Jason.
The first co-host of the Pioneers of Tomorrow was killed off because it turns out the terrorists were terrified of Disney's lawyers who had found out about the character. The footage from the BBC in 1938 is one of the coolest things I have ever seen. I was randomly suggested the RUclips video of it last year. Not only is it the oldest and only known live recording of the pre-war BBC. The other surviving programs were filmed programs. One of those, the 1937 Coronation was recorded on a home film camera and lent to the BBC in 1953, but it's location is unknown now.