Americans React To "The Big Fat Quiz Of The '90's (2012)"

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[@dazediss6629]

Jack’s introduction was just joking at the historical contrast between classes. He’s a posh boy from London, probably lived all his life in a 5 floored town house in Knightsbridge, never really had to work & has had a ridiculously expensive education. Northern towns were usually where the government effectively shat on throughout history, whether it be in cotton mills or the coal mines, very working class, generally very poor, poorly educated, kids sent to work very early, multiple jobs, couldn’t afford any luxuries, lived in poverty & squalor, and as such crime, domestic violence, alcoholism, drug use, was all rife. But yeah Jack had obviously never experienced any of that living with his brigade of servants in Chelsea 😂

[@6022]

The Y2K bug was basically "If we don't fix this, then all these terrible things could happen" and then a load of computer programmers went "Ok, we'd better fix that" and then they did, so nothing happened.

[@ErisRising]

People say that we made a big deal out of nothing, but the reason that it was nothing is that we made a big deal out of it.

[@JeshuaSquirrel]

Exactly.

[@junction6_m27VNC]

I was one of those guys doing patches on computers and telephone exchanges which meant nothing happened, if we hadn’t done the patches then, who know what would have happened

[@ErisRising]

@@junction6_m27VNC I mean this sincerely: THANK YOU. It's likely that you played a part in averting absolute catastrophe for millions, perhaps billions.

[@FrodankBaggies]

Why didnt anything bad happen in China or Russia or Japan or India or most of the countries in the world that didnt do anything? Nobody "fixed" their systems and nothing bad happened The worst to happen was U.S spy satellites malfunctioned and sent unreadable data, as a result of a patch they did that was supposed to save them from Y2K!!

[@Uatu-the-Watcher]

Nothing happened on Y2K because we technicians and engineers reviewed our technology and fixed the coding errors. It was a concern for operations that referenced date and time for calculations. But the technical community combed through everything and fixed it ahead of time.

[@FrodankBaggies]

Why didnt anything bad happen in China or Russia or Japan or India or most of the countries in the world that didnt do anything? Nobody "fixed" their systems and nothing bad happened The worst to happen was U.S spy satellites malfunctioned and sent unreadable data, as a result of a patch they did that was supposed to save them from Y2K!!

[@afrocomber]

There was a whole series of adverts for the Renault Clio featuring the characters 'Nicole and Papa'. I think this was the final one where Vic and Bob cameoed in a spoof of the ending of 'The Graduate'

[@esteban280889]

Alan and Phil are regulars on QI. Comedy quiz show. Alan is on every ep. Phil is a regular guest (especially in the early years)

[@lynnejamieson2063]

He was also a team captain on the original run of Nevermind the Buzzcocks.

[@richardbetts816]

Phil’s daughter is a QI elf

[@jcoutelier]

Mr Blobby actually started as a Candid Camera kind of prank thing; they would get celebrities in telling them this horrific thing was a really popular children's TV character, then he would just crash around like you saw. But obviously you can only do that prank so long before the celebs all know about it, so he soon just became a regular character and released a single.

[@adamcashin4021]

IIRC Simon Cowell had something to do with the 'Mr Blobby' Song. Its a terrible song, but at the time I was just happy to see Take That prevented from getting the Christmas number 1 spot. Simon Cowell rebuilt his career in the 90's having success in the pop charts with TV novelty crossovers rather than actual musical acts.

[@skoodledoo]

@@adamcashin4021 Sad to say, the Mr Blobby song was the very first CD single I bought when I was a kid. I apologise.

[@slytheringingerwitch]

If you ever want a good series to watch, Johnathan Creek starring Alan Davies, is very good. Murder, mystery and sometimes mayhem.

[@mancuniangamecat8288]

It was UK gladiators which was bigger than American gladiators.

[@ErisRising]

THIS is the one I've been waiting for!

[@Danstarr69]

Mr Blobby - Born in Bradford. Sooty - Born in Bradford. Chumbawamba - Have strong connections to Bradford, made at least two songs about Bradford, and apparently recorded one of their albums or songs in Bradford. Zayn Malik from One Direction - Born in Bradford.

[@robocop3961]

Bradford can keep them all 😂😂😂

[@bareakon]

Bradford, the town of under-appreciated anarchists. And Zayn from 1D.

[@richardbetts816]

Rita, Bob and Sue too!

[@Danstarr69]

@@richardbetts816 Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987) Mr Blobby, Chumbawamba, and One Direction - All mentioned in this 90s episode. Sooty, I always throw in with Mr Blobby, as they were both controlled by people from Bradford.

[@andywatts8654]

Who’s just here for the Blobster?

[@connormckay1304]

Right here

[@ajorngjdonaydbr]

Blobby Blobby blob!

[@stevekeeves9363]

Yeah boy this was a good one, i look forward to these each week

[@fatlad5090]

mr blobby so funny. loved him smashing everything up

[@Danstarr69]

Every question, on every episode Spencer pretends he knows the answer... Yet says nothing for a few seconds, waiting for Daniel to come in with an answer, that he will no doubt agree with.

[@myopicautisticmetal9035]

Damnit, technically you got the point, Madona was in Playboy. I dream of 8 minutes by the bins with Claudia Winkleman. On-Dre-Ah-Gas-Sea

[@Wagoo]

Blobby rules OK

[@fishtigua]

I missed most of the 90's, working offshore. I came back to the UK to do my Captain Exams, the week Robbie Williams left Take That. Snogged the barmaid as she was so upset.

[@wellreally5854]

Enjoyed this so much, thanks guy's 😄

[@GodlessScummer]

Mr Blobby started out on a TV show called Noel's House Party. There was a segment of that show where the host Noel Edmonds would stage a prank on a celebrity. So Mr Bobby was set up as a fake children's TV show that a celebrity would co-host and then the kind of insanity you saw on this show would ensue to prank the celebrity. The Mr Blobby segments were so popular at the time that Mr Blobby became a huge pop culture fad for about a year or so. Which of course was milked for every single bit of money it could possibly make.

[@dazediss6629]

The Vic & Bob advert was a take on the 1967 movie “The Graduate”, with Bob playing Dustin Hoffman’s character, Ben; and “Nicole” playing the part of Elaine. If you haven’t seen the movie then people like Mrs Robinson won’t make much sense to you, having said that; the advert if it was for a car didn’t make much sense anyway, as I’m pretty sure at the end of the movie Ben & Elaine eloped on a bus.

[@Industrialist2015ofUk]

can you do "The Forgotten Riots that almost Destroyed London", its referring to the 2011 riots that i remember. done by Jimmy the giant

[@The-Underbaker]

Mr. Blobby had a hit song in the UK during the 90's in the coveted Christmas No.1 spot. How it happened i'll never know...

[@Anetron1]

Having watched the latest episode of Taskmaster, seeing Mr. Blobby seems quite apropos.

[@MusicalJackknife]

Oh my, I'm two episodes behind because I was waiting for my brother to watch together, but I'm intrigued now.

[@mancuniangamecat8288]

Ones a beef burger and ones a chicken burger, it's not rocket surgery.

[@richardbetts816]

Yes, burgers aren’t sandwiches

[@Sheffield_Steve]

The person portraying Mr Blobby (this, his last performance) was a Shakespearean actor.

[@michaeljohn1978]

I thought the Vic and Bob one was going to be the Cadbury's Boost ad: "Slightly rippled with a flat underside". But it wasn't

[@dougiemilnephotography756]

Alan Davies is a permanent fixture on QI, which is worth checking out. Alan's Animal Impressions and Alan's Anecdotes are a couple of compilations well worth looking at.

[@dylansharkey6040]

One Direction splitting up was compared to Take That breaking up, yeah.. idk if one was worse than the other though.. but then Take that reformed and Robbie had a fantastic solo career - Harry Styles is pretty big, but I guess he may do more acting, rather than have anything close to Robbie's longevity..

[@christophercarr3755]

Mr Blobby is a legend, tv royalty. You need look up Britain's got talent where Mr Blobby appeared and slimed Simon Cowell, legend

[@ZondaFRoadster]

You guys may have not made the podium, but congrats on setting a new personal high score!

[@miff227]

internet was the 60s, internet is kinda like the road system. HTML was 1992/3 which is like a new type of traffic on the road, world wide web was a description of the html links in webpages, and search engines which helped find these links came later.

[@katherinedowling4246]

I love this episode whenever I have an off day I watch it aMr Blobby made me laugh myself silly it’s the perfect combination of weird and stupid I am recovering from going to the dentist this week and I needed😂 this so badly thank you guys

[@Griexxt]

The first time I watched this BFQ I was very tired and fell asleep somewhere in the middle of it. I woke up again just when Blobby came on, and thought I was having a stroke.

[@AutomaticDuck300]

The OJ Simpson car chase was on June 17th 1994. They got the question wrong.

[@StormRiderShow]

You’re are right!

[@Cobalt-Jester]

You should defo react to "Ghost Watch". It was a live broadcast show from one of the most haunted houses in England. It closely follows the Enfield Poltergeist which is the story told in 'The Conjuring 2'. Watching it now-a-days it seems a little bit tame. But it was way ahead of it's time for scares.

[@MusicalJackknife]

When they had "information mesh" in the question, it's pretty sketchy giving yourselves a point for missing "internet" and saying Google 😂

[@cameronallan3034]

There's another 2012 epsiode with James corden and Jack whitehall you guys need to watch

[@whatwhatinthewhat4400]

A chicken on a burger bun calling it a sandwhich sounds so silly. Pretty sure this is a world vs america thing like metric vs imperial.

[@davewoody4182]

Ghostwatch!! The "live" tv show broadcast on Halloween night and caused a mini war of the worlds style panic! Was epic!

[@pegaz6529]

I used to love watching Mr.Blobby destroy the set on every show he went on.

[@EATherridan]

As someone who was in IT in 98 and 99, there was a LOT of work done to fix systems before 1/1/2000. We basically had carte blanche for hours and OT.

[@ajorngjdonaydbr]

Mr Blobby is a God and I will die on that hill. Physical comedy at its most unhinged 🤣

[@Cobalt-Jester]

That car advert with Vic and Bob was sort of a running gag story. It was very well known in the UK. I'm in my 40s and back at school one of my best fries was a boy from a posh family named Robert. I called him Bob on the first day and it stuck. Because of that commercial a posh boy from a well off family was called the working class name "Bob". I called him Bob at the age of 11, he was still known as Bob when we were 18. His parents hated me for ding that. lol.

[@Codex7777]

Been waiting for the Blobby moment. One of my favourite tv moments of all-time! Whoever was inside that suit is a star! :)

[@Thisandthat8908]

y2k was not a big problem partly because a lot of people worked on it not being one. Still the apocalyptical hype was a bit silly. But it was based on potential issues with computer technology, Not a ancient, mystical (and btw completely misinterpreted) Maya calendar.... Comparing that is a bit unfair, there was more substanc to y2k.

[@SharmanSomerset]

Blobby should be King

[@veryvarley6706]

Ghostwatch was madness. The people involved were all well trusted people from news and kids TV and they basically did a horror show they pretended was real and a live broadcast. Great fun, Blair witch found footage with people from children's TV.

[@scottandrewbrass1931]

Blobby! Blobby! Blobby!

[@aledjango]

Blobby blobby blob blob

[@Sandell21]

Oh yeah! Been waiting for this one!!

[@Codex7777]

I'm not sure how you got to 15.5, lol. You were being VERY generous with your scoring! :)

[@msmrsro]

You’ll see a number of these people on other chat shows and game shows. Alan Davies has been the one constant contestant on QI for decades. Claudia is the host of Strictly Come Dancing, the original Dancing with the Stars in Britain. She also hosts the game show “the Traitors (UK)”. Jack Whitehall is a comedian and a comic actor with some movies and tv shows under his belt, a fun one being “Travels with my Father” where he travels the world with his aristocratic, posh father.

[@jameshumphreys9715]

My dad once dress as Mr Blobby. A toy version was used in Taskmaster.

[@benjammin9471]

It's always hilarious when Americans get surprised that people from other countries have the same food they do 😱

[@aaronhusk]

About 54:00, the Bob Mortimer ad seeems to be a parody of the weddding in the 1967 film “The Graduate”. That is all the information I have.

[@andreathompson7896]

I highly recommend watching Jack Whitehall's appearances on Graham Norton.

[@5Andysalive]

The WWW predates google by about a decade. And even by more common public use of either by multiple years. The internet in various forms is much older anyways.

[@KevPage-Witkicker]

"That was Jack Black,"... man, Spencer's getting wittier every video

[@Cobalt-Jester]

You call a round piece of minced beef a hamburger. Don't tell us that our language is wrong. You'd be speaking Chinese if it wasn't for us.

[@sarahealey1780]

"With great power comes great responsibility"

[@andreathompson7896]

You guys really need to watch the film I, Tonya. It's a great film, and will totally explain what happened.

[@Thisandthat8908]

42:00 is how Taskmaster was invented.

[@lynnejamieson2063]

I was never a fan of Mr Blobby (but I also wasn’t his target demographic) but I cannot watch the ending of this Big Fat Quiz without ending up in tears of laughter.

[@VisionalHD]

Guys should start QI from start.

[@Mean-bj8wp]

Watch Jungle Cruise with Dwayne Johnson and yo7 will find out who Jack Whitehall is.

[@Uatu-the-Watcher]

Mandela was a Huge fan of the Spice Girls. Maybe their music helped him in prison. It’s not a ludicrous idea. :-)

[@lynnejamieson2063]

Considering he was released from prison in 1990 and the first Spice Girls single was released in 1996, I think it’s highly improbable 😊

[@GodlessScummer]

​@@lynnejamieson2063thanks for saving me the trouble of pointing that out.

[@IDidntSetAHandle]

Ghostwatch is definitely worth a watch if you can find it.

[@tanzadog5403]

I just watched the Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice | Marty Ray Project video its pretty cool

[@kazbye79]

My Best teenage years in the 90s ❤❤❤

[@Mean-bj8wp]

A chicken burger is a burger nade from chicken is that really too difficult to believe.

[@davidsmith8475]

You should watch the in living colour version of Ice Ice Baby by Jim Carey called “white, white baby”

[@Amphibiot]

Mel B was an answer to a question on this episode. Mel B is a contestant on another Big Fat Quiz. If you'll give that one a skip, i'm sure people wouldn't mind, as she has HORRIBLE and soured the entire mood.

[@DannyTehGod]

Zoom Zoom

[@charlesfrancis6894]

Try to watch "The X Files" excellent series well worth a watch.

[@mancuniangamecat8288]

Rest in hell OJ.

[@pdcookstar]

You do know England's flag is also red, white and blue?

[@lynnejamieson2063]

England’s flag is white with a red cross. The Union Flag is red, white and blue and it represents more than just England, seeing as how as well as England’s flag, it contains Scotland’s and an outdated Irish flag too.

[@The-Underbaker]

"Our survey says?" Nrrrggg, wrong answer.

[@whitedwarf4986]

From the looks of things, Spencer's camera was made in the 90's, the contrast between his and Daniels' camera fits perfectly on this particular reaction. No hate guys, just saying.

[@mpmlopes]

You should check someof Dara Ó Briain's stuff, he's hilarious.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

Y2K panicked everybody but those that knew it was a manufactured non-event. The very computing people it was all supposed to have worried. I remember the switch from 89 to 90 and the systems that only used 1 digit for year. A days consulting and no problem. Then they pulled 99 to 2000 out of their hat and made out a plane in flight or a car cares what year it is... AND PEOPLE FELL FOR IT.

[@pixlhound]

Nope, that's not true. Cars crashing and planes falling from the sky were made up by crackpots latching on to a very real computing issue. The 99 - 00 changeover was in fact a very real problem that required very real patching for computing. The reason it was a non event was purely BECAUSE of the work put in by engineers before the date hit, and using 89 - 90 as an example is completely unrelatable because the world had changed immeasurably in that time, and so had the technological landscape.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@@pixlhound Were you a programmer back then? Only COBOL and the much older almost phased out languages even had an issue. The ONLY thing at risk was accounting and record keeping, dates of birth, sakes and historical financial information. Nothing realtime was dealing with a year, and for years after a simple 1900 offset was used. Modern dares are stored as floating point numbers down to machine level. So in 8 bytes (8 characters) the full date and time can be stored. Microsoft and the of had it solved in the 90s, as did UNIX, Linux, SUN. SO HOW WAS I WRONG - HOW WAS WHAT I WROTE UNTRUE? By the way they weren't engineers back then, they were central administration to most companies. You had internal whizz kids and you had external contractors that cost considerable sums.

[@pixlhound]

@@daveofyorkshire301 Yes, actually I was and still am

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@@pixlhound Why are you saying Nope and then repeating what I said with unnecessary emphasis? Only the older languages that had the problem COBOL, LISP etc on the old mainframes and they were being replaced rapidly, the PC sorted it easy enough and the 3rd generation languages stored it numerically as a double float internally and in databases. It was as much a marketing and economic ploy as it was ever an issue. Businesses wouldn't have written off a mainframe for years more due to its initial cost of purchase, but replacement costs had plummeted, so how do you encourage executives to make the decision. You plant a seed of uncertainty. The antiquated mainframe is replaced with a mini computer far superior and it can do all the things government wants to do in accounting and payroll the mainframe would cost hundreds of thousands - in consulting and programming fees. Which businesses wouldn't sit still for. The Bill gates effectively created a new industry in the 80s, and the whizz kids of the 80s and 90s suddenly cut out these huge organisations providing software support , at costs of tens of thousands of pounds to just change the year digit count.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@@pixlhound Yes to what? I never asked a question.

[@CM-1723]

Renault Nicole and papa adverts

[@garethm3242]

Yeah Jack's intro was just a joke about gritty, grim "Northern" people vs posh southerners (like him). Self deprecating really, saying that he had a privileged posh upbringing.

[@Nitr8Dj]

u cant get a point for being close come on now play the game that like the answer right said fred but me saying fred flintstone and getting a point for saying fred lol

[@esclad]

The editing in this is weird. Some questions were edited so they were unfathomable, answers were edited in a way I didn't know if i'd got the answer correct- hell even the reaction conversation between you two guys was edited to the point I didn't know what you were talking about in the end! I stopped half way. Certainly no point watching the next one. Really schizophrenic editing.

[@JohnDavis-j7g]

Can't tell if the video is lagging on your side or its just the terrible cuts you make

[@adamaalto-mccarthy6984]

Sorry guys you have had a hard life if you were born when you say. Love your channel though.

[@joshchurms1505]

First to comment

[@drdassler]

Jupitus is one of three British comedians who have never even made me crack a grin. Can't stand him. He never misses the opportunity to mention he directed a Billy Bragg video. 🥱

[@rorz999]

Yeah, he sucks. Not sure how he's even labelled a comedian tbh, he's so joyless

[@Thisandthat8908]

​@@rorz999 imaging for a moment, your opinion is not the universal truth applying to everyone?! And yes, i know that's a big ask on the Internet. That's why he's "labelled a comedian", wether you like him or not. And i think he's great in panel shows like QI and of course Buzzcocks. And others. Like this one. So yes, he's apparently a very good comedian for quite a lot of people. I find a lot of big names like Vic Reeves not very funny. But i leave my torch and pitchfork at home.

[@SharmanSomerset]

Who are the other two?

[@Amphibiot]

For me, personally it's Jo Brand. Her "my husband" joke became old hat really fast.