that is so Gerard

One thing I find interesting about Spaced is that it's a snapshot of time and life in the UK just before 9/11. From which point the hope in the future we had as 20-somethings right at the turn of the millennium started to be eroded away by subsequent events, as the years grinded on towards the comparative horribleness of living in the UK of today.

Great vid my dude 👊✊

Isn’t Juicy dirt mud

8:10 yoo he getting stoppped literally 😭😭

this tab has been open in my browser for a few weeks now. can't remember if the eyeballs sent me or not, but they probably would have eventually. good stuff, and the comment section didn't disappoint.

Hold on, top gear NEVER had a facade of car facts. I remember as early as 2004 people arguing online that it was never meant as a car facts show

Top Gear / Grand Tour has one of the largest international audience if not the largest. Clarkson is a dick, but it is fun to watch him and his buddies do some stupid shit.

This video is giving me 2008 vibes. idk why.

Much more insightful than the average video essay 👍

Jeremy is simply not intelligent enough to be a schemer. If he actually had the necessary IQ points, he’d be outright Machiavellian. He does engage in lying and deception even more than Mark, it’s just more obvious from the outset.

This Chanel is soon to explode. You should do something with Garry’s economics

*Use your hands a bit. Your articulating your points with head movement, Eyebrow raises an winking

This video really wasn't convincing in the slightest

16:26 trying to say that the show got stale over time while showing a compilation of classic moments 🤔

Having never seen this show before; watching the hosts, of a show I thought was just about cars, spew their vitriol in ways I think are meant to be funny is a very bizarre experience. It’s like if the first episode you’ve ever seen of Sesame Street was just a gorey snuff film with puppets occasionally showing up in the background I THINK they’re trying to come off as bros who are just doing cool dude things, but to me they really just come across as those assholes from High School who were exhausting to be around, and haven’t grown out of that phase in their life for years. So, to see this kind of mediocre and uncharismatic type of guy be skyrocketed into the position of being a symbol of mainstream success just puts an awful taste in my mouth. But hey, that’s the former British Empire for ya!

Very interesting take. I have always seen this show through a psycho-social perspective- the episodes with Mark and Jeremy's respective families seem to give some insight into their motivations and outlooks. I suppose, watching this while growing up within the culture, I missed the characters engagement with capitalism. Been a long while since I learned anything from a KZbin vid, this bucked the trend!

Outro music is great

I don't think Mark is sociopathic. He has moral scruples, they're just usually quite weak and easily overruled by his cowardice, shame and ambition. His belief in systems and order (very) occasionally positions him as the ethical voice in a conflict - see Sectioning, where he tries to prevent Jez and Super Hans from stealing Mary's pub on the basis that it's morally wrong despite the fact that he stands to gain nothing from doing so. Of course, he's more likely to present a front of resistance on the basis of ethics before instantly crumbling when he sees that he has something to gain, but Mark's ethical centre does demonstrably exist. It's just mostly defunct and useless. Jez on the other hand I think does tick some sociopath boxes. He does what he thinks will make him feel good, and has zero impulse control or regard for the wellbeing of others in following that urge. He occasionally does something kind for Mark, but usually because it seems to give him a brief moment of emotional catharsis to enjoy the feeling of having a friend. He agrees to sell Big Suze's body to Johnson for a trifling sum without even for a second stopping to consider that she's a person - his internal monologue only considers the potential monetary gain and whether or not he's going to get in trouble for it. Quote: "This is almost like a moral choice...except not really, because nobody will find out." Jeremy's conception of ethics is that it's an external system which is capable of punishing him if he's caught doing bad things, which he only has to obey when there will be direct, punitive consequences for him. He has no conception of ethics as an internal code at all. He occasionally has a twinge of conscience, but it's so weak and such an alien feeling to him that he usually just seems confused by it and ignores it immediately. The most principled thing he does in the entire show is waiting for a bit to confess his love to Dobby - a really low bar.

So much of this interpretation of the specials is just plain wrong. To take one example, that exact clip you use of Clarkson buying from a local trader is NOT him 'exploiting local traders'. He actually turns to the camera in the next shot and says, 'I'm so irritated when Westerners go abroad and haggle; it's pennies to you and means so much to them, so just give them what they ask'. That exemplifies the good-natured attitude of the three Top Gear hosts abroad. Yes, they could joke about a country's cuisine, hygiene, or driving, but underneath it they were fundamentally decent, well-meaning, and eager to learn new things about each place.

8:00 but that's the truth LMAO

I don't know why people always use spam as an analogy for our destitution and decline, it's really bloody expensive in the shops!

It really doesn’t matter. Take care of your health and invest in gold.

I don't know why we cant just have are PM be the best person for the job... you know.. like any other job. Have the super rich play are rules is all. Nobody can say liz truse knew what she was doing why did she have the most important job in country ay?

Great video. My educated guess is that Starmer has already planted every seed needed for Farage to win the election after next with his "Reformed Conservative Party". Starmer has told so many obvious, unpunished lies in this one campaign that his opponents will fill in the gaps on their own with lies and conspiracies and it won't matter if they're true or not. The right-wing will take power in the election after next and it'll be Starmer's fault. I won't be voting Labour for the first time ever. I'm voting Green instead.

Really feeling this one in the US too, lmao

1200000 immigrants in the past two years allowed entry by the "right wing party"

Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains. -Karl Marx

No political bias here

Your awful

LOVE YOUR VIDEOS MATE. I FEEL LIKE I'M MAKING LOVE TO YOU WITH MY EYES EVERY TIME I WATCH.

This video is so perfectly aligned to my thoughts and interests.

'thank you' for pointing out the broken homepage

Oh a lefty, what a surprise.

15:34 Juicy dirt is called mud.

The flashbacks of Brian and Vulva’s artistic pieces also has them holding a sign saying ‘1980s?’, which feels like the 80s Hauntologising the 90s in this instance. A very good vid - also the first series of Peep Show feels very hauntologically early ‘00s in a similar way.

I blame Regan. I will not elaborate.

Notification gang where you at 💅

I like how this guy kinda looks like jeremy but dressed like mark

Video should be called Peep Show: the Overthinking

nice video ! Commenting so you dont stop with this stuff ! love it :)

Chance would be a fine thing

Please do videos about hot fuzz and the world's end too!

I think it's interesting that Mark is such a true believer in the capitalist system, but is repeatedly screwed over by it. His ambitions for an upward climb are always thwarted. I think his views and internal monologies were intended by the writers to be the "straight man" compared to the "kooky" views of others. However, when looking at the trajectory of these characters, it just highlights the disconnect between Mark's capitalist-realist beliefs in the justness of the existing system, and the crushing reality of it on the other hand.

This was such a fun and interesting video!

Is fielding the most self regarding man in Britain?

Women are utterly apolitical, then? Good video but I couldn’t help feeling something was missing…

I can’t cope with the clicking noises you edited in when showing scenes. There’s no need.

Mark and Jez also represent the New Labour brand of liberal centrism in interesting ways. Mark (who was privately educated until Dad’s British Aerospace shares went kaput) has clearly bought in to the myth of social mobility. He yearns to reach the other end of middle class-ness. Jez, on the other hand, seems to have based much of his personality around the facile “Cool Britainia” rhetoric of the mid-late 90s. Both have positive impressions of Blair and venerate the mid 90s when they presumably graduated.

dude pronounces genz the american way, instant dislike