BRUM | THE MOST INSANE KIDS TV SHOW

[@harryfoley2294]

Only in Birmingham where a small yellow car is smarter than half the residents

[@yikesgal4117]

Brum is the literal definition of how “nothing should hold you back from your dreams, (no matter how impossible they are)”.

[@DynamixWarePro]

"Things are only impossible until they are not" - Captain Jean Luc Picard

[@RW-nr6bh]

Cheryl Cole is the literal definition of that. She made a career as a singer despite having no ability to sing whatsoever.

[@acnhsasha3085]

Rest in Piece to Brum’s Designer and Builder: Rex Garrod (1943 - 2019).

[@samuelgiles7571]

Rex Garrod participated in the first three series of UK Robot Wars with Recyclopse, Cassius and Cassius 2 respectively. He left after Series 3 in protest over the show’s then-laxing health and safety standards which, ironically, improved significantly from Series 4 onwards.

[@Tycowiz]

Just what I was about to comment.

[@jackmonaghan8477]

Imagine if they did a Brum-Robot Wars crossover episode (with Cassius as a guest star).

[@samuelgiles7571]

@@jackmonaghan8477 seems unlikely as both shows are off the air as of now

[@Scampfan127]

RIP =[

[@bouncingbluesoul5270]

The actors who played the villains have done nothing since this episode according to IMDB.

[@liammeech3702]

Probably just BBC production staff.

[@galahad6300]

Of course they haven't. Where else is there to go after reaching such a peak?

[@Nooticus]

LMFAO

[@PsychoSk8r4bg]

@@galahad6300 “That’s it lads, we hit the big time on the telleh, time for a pint, the pub’ll be full of people who recognise us, free drinks for life lads!”

[@cosmiquealiene6168]

Of course not! They clearly went to prison

[@pokefire5]

If Brum was to fight Thanos, Thanos would be cooked.

[@channelzero2252]

In the original "Brum" he suck out of the mechanic shop to have an inadvertant adventure. But in the new one he snuck out of the mechanic shop to run around meeting friends because everyone knew who he was except the mechanic who still had no idea he was driving off everyday?

[@jean-lucpicard5510]

He suck out?

[@JosephBayliss-gi4dm]

Actually, the airport episode was filmed at The East Midlands Airport, which is near Nottingham. A couple of episodes were filmed in Tamworth as well like part of Brum and the Crazy Chair Chase and Brum and the Runaway Train were filmed at Drayton Manor Theme Park and Brum and the Snow Thieves was filmed at Tamworth Snow Dome.

[@oli_gordon]

Cool

[@LCaddyStudios]

TIL there’s a Tamworth outside of Australia

[@Shiny_Firey]

This episode be like: Airplane: physics can’t be broken Brum: are you sure about that?

[@BBCTwoIdentFan101]

I love how some of these Ragdoll shows, there's little to no product placement but they literally show a DHL plane at 10:35.

[@TheUKNutter]

This is due to UK advertising laws. You are not allowed any product placement whatsoever, with tiny exceptions.

[@alansuleyman3651]

Well, during the episode I also saw Airtours, Futura Airways & Burger King uncensored.

[@lukedavis436]

It's largely changed now, many shows just don't care.... Stuff like Death in paradise shows all sorts of Computer branding uncensored (Lenovo, Dell etc) Even some old CBBC shows let a few brands slip by, I don't really know why next to No Car manufacturers are covered up say for maybe one or two in Doctor who (and the large majority of Advertisements themselves) But I suppose the laws like "unless it's a car brand.... Yaint showing it" Hell they had to put Tape over the Microsoft logos on the back of the surface tablets on *insert shitty Channel 5 program my mother watches here, figure it out*

[@pollyjackson-dzacchaeus1342]

DHL isn't even a passenger airline

[@paulfinney]

This only applies to bbc. Which makes it weird because brummwas on bbc if I remember correctly

[@bentullett6068]

I remember one of the older 1990's episodes where someone's dog gets locked in a shed by the park keeper and the only logical way of rescuing it was to get a large crane to lift the shed from its base, releasing the dog in the process.

[@GuessMyName234]

😂😂

[@graemedoctor7266]

I was today years old when I learned that Brum is called Brum because he’s from Brum.

[@Nooticus]

Same here

[@cal5566]

The comment I was going to make

[@BlitzdUK]

Same 😅🤣🤣

[@ryanclaffey5203]

Brum always reminded me of Noo Noo the vacuum cleaner

[@masterknife8423]

Same production company

[@LeoFan93]

Brum aired here in the States on TLC back when it wasn't a reality tv hellhole. It was on very early in the morning so whenever I watched it, I was still waking up so about 75% of the time it felt like I was still asleep and was hallucinating what I was watching.

[@Peppmintleaf]

Brum, Balamory, Hi-5, that's my childhood right there I honestly never realized how...crazy a concept of "a small yellow car saving the day" for a kid show is. Like the exaggerated mime movements from the actors and the wild camera work, it's pretty wild. I enjoyed hearing your comentary, keep up the good work :D

[@ryaquaza3offical]

Brum is canonically the fastest car to ever exist. Let that sink in God speed lil dude 🫡

[@MandmaMusic]

Only now I’m realising how insane Brum was. 😂

[@RedBird7]

How a small yellow austin 7 stop a entire plane is hurting my brain

[@Happymali10]

Crew mistook it for a Follow Me car

[@MilesL.auto-train4013]

It can easily damage the nose landing gear, and you kinda need that. Also, risk of ingesting parts into the engines, so, you don't exactly want anything on the runway on takeoff/landing.

[@Coastal603]

As an Australian, I grew up watching Brum and looking back, it is the most creepy and awkward piece of kids media to ever exist. It’s up there with Boohbah on creepiness.

[@Ah-ed6ie]

Boohbah was too creepy. Shaped like what a fat man keeps zipped up

[@BigPhilBigBike]

We gave you Brum, you gave us Johnson & Friends with a creepy-ass accordion and water bottle . That’s a fair trade

[@makeawishcounttothreescrat2346]

Adam, this is not a joke, repeat this is not a joke, my name is Chalky Chawner and I am one half of the Big Town Baddies in this episode. The smaller one. We were named Bubble and Squeak on the DVD’s extras which were released a few months later and also in the books. That was the first time our characters were given names. Love this! Although I must point out, it’s not Birmingham airport it’s actually a freezing cold February morning at East Midlands airport. Fun fact - 9/11 happened later this year and this episode nearly never saw the light of day because we “hijack” a plane. Seriously dude😂

[@nadinerutherford5978]

Love this ❤

[@imnotabin]

Early 2000s kids didn't have a childhood if they didn't sing "Brum, Brum, kiss his bum" when the theme played

[@AntoKyuuketsuki]

Brum, Brum licks his bum. Ass soup chicken churro. Brum, Brum now he cu...

[@cosmiquealiene6168]

Why didn't I know anybody who did this????

[@thegamingprozone1941]

😂😂

[@neonfroot]

I apparently never had a childhood then

[@ATAMytb]

The airport was East Midlands airport in Derbyshire. I know as my grandfather used to work there and remembers them filming the car going through the airport 😊

[@TheAd1383]

This episode first aired on the 3rd of September, 2001. If it had aired more than a week later we might never have been able to see it!

[@catmasterson1621]

Wow! I was thinking as I watched how much 9/11 would have changed the episode, had no idea it was that close to the day

[@johnscarsandstuff]

I had no idea that Brum got an early 2000s reboot. Thanks for the wild ride. That airport definitely has the worst security, but maybe things were more relaxed in the pre 9-11 world. Having worked around the public, actually I can believe that people wouldn't notice two conspicuously-dressed criminals up to no good.

[@lcmortensen]

The airport episode was released on 3 September 2001 - 8 days before 9/11!

[@MilesL.auto-train4013]

@@lcmortensen oh heck

[@bradwhite5884]

Seeing this unlocked a core memory in, been awhile since I've seen this, but I wonder how fast Brum is when going against all the top fastest super and hyper cars after beating that plane, lol

[@Lewis-g2f8z]

I did not realise how the intro would go😂

[@AdamMartyn]

Hope it entertained!

[@PrinceOfCats5]

RIP Rex Garrod. Robot Wars and Brum legend

[@victorpeterson3502]

Early 2000’s Brum is so nostalgic to me! And that closing theme. NOSTALGIA!

[@Wenlocktvdx]

Watched it on ABC TV in Australia in the 90s. I was in my 30s. Hm, passengers on a cargo plane? Oh, the Aussie soap Skyways filmed outsides at Sydney’s Kingsford Smith airport. There was an unused terminal building at the time I recall spotting the reversed logos around the building when we when went to pick up a friend while holidaying just outside Sydney

[@PhoenixRedtail]

Oh my gosh seeing this show a good 20 years later is mad stuff. I used to have a little toy Brum! I grew up in Ireland, but I had mad respect for this little yellow British hero.

[@mellojoe9421]

I love how the big town superstar just has a suitcase chock full of shiny stuff, and not in like, i don’t know, a safety deposit box at the bank, lol.

[@BH-98]

Loved the video. This was the Brum I grew up watching. I can't remember any of the episodes plots but I definitely remember the closing theme as I'd always catch the end of an episode.

[@painters04]

The funniest part is the inflatable gator they are carrying around. Like, why would you blow it up before getting to the airport and through security?

[@hiveinsider9122]

Company on the long flight

[@drdewott9154]

God Brum is like one of the first pieces of media I ever remember seeing as a wee little kid. I'm from Denmark so not exactly british myself, but even I know I saw this exact episode when I was little. Mostly because I remembered the big cargo plane with the DHL letters on it. I think I also vaguely remember some kind of football episode, where Brum somehow helps some kids win a football match?

[@buzzytrombone4353]

This iteration of Brum was my favourite one compared to the first two series because I never really got into the idea of him being a sentient vehicle taking part in human things like in the first two series and I found it more interesting to see the moments in all of the action in this iteration that were him cornering something as I’d wait with anticipation, my favourite moment being when he catches Scruffy the dog after burying the mobile phone in the mud and they literally see eye to eye. The only thing that annoyed me as a child was the boy and girl providing a running commentary when it could have stayed with a silent short film format

[@MrDannyDetail]

In the first two series Brum sneaks out of the motor museum in Bourton on the Water, and a lot of the external scenes are filmed in the cotswolds. Brum was owned by a guy called Mike, who also owned the Bourton Motor Museum, and I actually met Mike in the 90s, as my parents and I were regularly in Bourton. I was an overweight boy at the time and was a little confused when Mike went for my chubby cheeks to do a 'coochy-coo' kind of thing on me, but he was a nice guy, and apologetic when he realised I was a bit freaked by him going for my cheek. I also remember him coming rushing outside his museum once when he saw me and a couple of other kids paddling in the stream just outside his museum, as he knew that someone had come out the pub the night before and thrown a glass bottle in and he didn't want us to get hurt. It was only tonight, when I was watching this video that I looked him up and learned that Mike passed away a couple of years ago. Brum fans only remember him as a guy in overalls at the start and end of episodes in the first two series, but without him there would be no Brum franchise. RIP Mike.

[@TheHulioG]

Bro is tearing apart a show for children like breaking down the ending of inception 😂

[@MikesBakes]

I had a brum pedal-car replica when I was a kid and it was the best thing ever, shame we got rid of it.

[@samuelgiles7571]

I remember watching classic episodes of Brum on VHS at my grandparents’ house when I was a kid and watching a few 2000s episodes live on TV

[@tracymurray6840]

My head is hurting from scenes of a children's TV show I have never heard of, and it feels so good.

[@greengreen4251]

The hills are alive with the sound of bruuuuuum

[@beltingtokra]

Imagine how slow the plane would have had to move for brum to get in front 😂 eaay done in post nowadays, but there is such a charm to these early 2000s kids' shows ❤

[@theaverageteleporter7435]

Couldn’t you easily defeat brum by just flipping him over?

[@medichampion328]

Ironically, Brum's creator Rex Garrod mainly had flipping robots in Robot Wars.

[@gftyhify]

I’ve been to the Cotswolds Motoring Museum where Brum is kept on display. It’s actually a long way from Birmingham

[@masterknife8423]

It's nice to know that DHX Media didn't get their grubby corporate hands on at least one of Ragdoll's beloved characters

[@paulbell3682]

​@@masterknife8423Actually, they did. DHX made the 2016 Brum CGI show.

[@cosmiquealiene6168]

I loved this silly, campy, over-the-top show as a wee one! I still remember the part from this episode when Brum suddenly flew down the stairs (literally!) and when the celebrity opened her suitcase, to reveal a trove of the sort of stuff I used to imagine in my mind as a little girl to calm me down after I'd had a nightmare.

[@Internet_Canuck]

I grew up with Brum as a kid. I still have some of the old DVD's from when I was a kid stuffed in a box somewhere. Almost had whiplash seeing this showing up in my recommended.

[@Horsley-Green]

I was born in December 2004 so this is the version of Brum I remember. Saw a Toya Wilcox-narrated episode for the first time when I was about 5. It was strange seeing something different to what I was used to but I still quite liked it. I got nostalgic watching this too.

[@JasonRayShute]

Bring back Brum. Season one and two style.😊

[@JamietheBrumguy]

I’m glad you still know Brum also, I think he just flew or sometimes jumped like he has no momentum, so he’s not FULLY superhero formed

[@tessfabled4115]

Didn't realise the series I watched as a child was the revived one haha, I wasn't aware there was a predecessor!

[@mattvonwenden5405]

I recall I was fond of this show as a child and had it on DVD I believe. I believe also as a child I saw the 'real Brum' himself at a transport museum - I believe someplace in the Cotswolds. I have also somewhere a remote-control Brum toy. Very life-like. Somewhere...

[@dutchmansmine9053]

This show was a fever dream. I guess that's just kids media really.

[@Its_Danny-]

I have only seen the 2000s version since i was born in 2006 but its still dear to my heart, also I have never thought about the location, I'm dutch and it always looked vague enough to pass as any dutch city 😂

[@timrob12]

This used to air on Belgian TV as well and we used the VHS to record some programmes we wanted to see and this one always made it on. And thought it wasn't the programme we were looking for, I certainly always stopped to watch it.

[@CHEESEPUFF_7]

The oldest dream i remember having is from when i was extremely young, but it involved Brum and being inside an active volcano. Weird dream, surprised i can still remember it

[@CrazySpruiker2001]

I watched this show religiously as a kid in Australia in the 2000s.

[@dutchmansmine9053]

I probably saw episodes from both series, we had a lot of random ABC collection vhs tapes from different years.

[@Ulysses_S_Grant_18]

My nan had the early 2000s series of brum on dvd and it was The best The music is elite

[@elektra81516]

The genious I always thought is that Brum is a car that goes "Brum" and he's from Birmingham, making him a... Brummie

[@theroguecybersoldier2629]

Brum is a show I LOVED as a little kid, yet I only remember the beginning and the end, and nothing else

[@harrisonallen651]

I grew up with the 2000s revival knowing I was born in 2002. I did have a few ABC For Kids compilation tapes with the original 90s episodes which I didn’t particularly praise as the new ones. And yes, When we all thought that Herbie was Slapstick enough, just have a look at Brum. Not to mention the ending was basically the equivalent to say Thomas’s Engine Roll Call from Season 8-18.

[@CableWrestler]

The museum titles are filmed in Bournton On The Water. I was there the other day, taking pictures and thinking about the last time I visited there; my life was in a very different place.

[@sbob17]

its all about the 90s Brum for me. i loved that when i was a kid

[@rwmovies]

6:40 flying through the sky like chitty chitty bang bang

[@woodcraftworld]

I used to love Brum in my early years. (I think it was the 90s one because I don't remember that ending theme) My mum said that the only way she could get me to sleep some nights as a baby was to go downstairs and play the tape (I still have the tape) in the VCR. I was born long after Brum stopped airing (im 15) but still enjoyed it as a young child

[@messystudios8505]

I love your new humourous editing style. expecially funny combined with a video topic that isnt inherently comedic.

[@BBA2004]

The intro was just brilliant 😂

[@tokublwhovian]

Brum’s ending bought back nostalgia.

[@realfitzmarker]

11:13 - 11:23 So a small vintage car outrunning a plane is seen as too far but a space ranger toy riding on a toy horse doing that is a-okay.

[@SkyziProductions]

dunno why that opening made me think i clicked on a totally different video for a second lol

[@matthewhalloran5445]

I Loved Warching Brum Back in The Day I Remember This Brum Episode Very Well

[@AdamTheUltimateWhovian]

Gosh this was the best when I was young. Major nostalgia vibes here, thanks Adam!

[@AdamMartyn]

My pleasure!

[@darkstone64]

12:43 holy shit I just had some nostalgia

[@Techno-Universal]

I also remember this being aired on ABC 2 in the early 2000s in Australia with other kids shows like Bananas In Pyjamas back then! :)

[@bagorilla123]

This show scared me as a kid, I remember hiding under a table every time it came on

[@WVHTPAWorldOfTransport]

Bro the DHL aircraft just stopped very goofily.

[@brandnewdan]

That intro got you a sub immediatley!

[@Jaketherobonrd]

Aww I liked Brum back then when I was a little lad, i remember i saw him at Bourton on the water up close. I like to think he’s the great grandson to Bessie

[@V10_EPJ]

As a Brummie who grow up watching Brum, this video honestly unraveled some memories I had watching this show as a child 🥺. Loved the video ❤

[@fyrealis]

In what world is that flying? That's falling, with style!

[@incredibleflameboy]

Brum and the "see something, say something" adventure.

[@NanagoBlake]

6:29 I FORGOT THEY MADE HIM THIS GOOFY WHAT IN THE Birmingham City?

[@tjmfarming9584]

Watching this unlocked a stream of memories from my early childhood… I wasn’t lucky enough to watch the original, but I do remember the post-2001 Brum. Seeing as many of the episodes are filmed in Birmingham, I’m now realising all these years later that. Yep, most likely accurate to Birmingham

[@daffydwagstaff4246]

Did they remove the post credit thing where the car curator finds the souvenir Brum got given that episode? Also that guy was even more oblivious to the fact that a little yellow car was helping people in “Big City”, and didn’t connect it to his own little yellow car that went missing all the time.

[@Potaogirl-qm3ys]

Unfortunately yes, because outside of the archive footage. The museum owner (who actually owned the motor museum they filmed the opening in) no longer owns that museum.

[@DittoGTI]

Heres a small fact about brum! In the episode with brum chasing after a concrete ball, the concrete ball squashes a small green car (a BMW Isetta). That car belongs to my grandma! My grandparents lent it to them while they filmed it

[@Sparx632]

Core memory unlocked

[@Mariofan1989]

Brum staring at me at 0:43 got me rolling

[@The_One_Over_There]

it's the pure definition of criminally bombastic side eye if i've ever seen it

[@LeighTheYumeLion]

IM WATCHING YA

[@NW255]

I actually watched this on DVD in the late 2000’s and it was by far one of my favorite shows

[@higbeeproductions2340]

Fun fact, the studio behind Brum is the same studio behind Teletubbies

[@owenfautley]

5:09 Well, I mean she just got floor cleaner in her eyes who wouldn't fall to the ground in pain.

[@yvonnerogers6429]

If you imagine Brum starting life as a mini-Bessie Christmas gift from the Doctor to a young Kate Stewart, that Brum gained sentience thanks to that blue crystal from “The Green Death” and that he rolled off to live his own life in Birmingham once Kate grew up, then this story makes perfect sense. Thanks for the review. This looks like it was a pretty charming series.

[@AntoKyuuketsuki]

LOL... I never cared to realise that Brum was from Birmingham, I just thought Brum was a word like broom (noise not the brush). But since watching this video, figuring that Brum is obviously short for Brummie. 😂

[@drdewott9154]

Lol. I'm from Denmark and watched Brum as a kid. The name surprisingly makes more sense in Danish since if you want to imitate the noise a car makes here, you say "Brum" (basically our equivalent of saying vroom). So naming the car in a kids show after the sound cars make is just the biggest brain move anyone could have done. Now we just need a spinoff with their siblings dyt & båt.

[@sammy_oooo]

The hammy acting is top tier 👌🏻🤣 I'd love your take on Bodger & Badger !!

[@Pengoo-in]

I want a reboot of the show. Brum, please reboot!

[@outertoaster]

there is a reboot, several in fact, they're not that great though, wouldnt show them to my kids, but you might get a kick out of them :)

[@millennialchicken]

The amount of Birmingham jokes i could spout is near endless. But Brum's a lad so I'll be nice

[@RebeccaPhythian]

The jewels from Blackpool pleasure Beach 😂😂🫠🫠 I'm howling! Big up Brum for taking over the plane 🎉🎉🎉

[@acidbubbles419]

This episode is etched into my psyche

[@wannonisgay]

Brum flying down those stairs was some FNAF 2 energy stuff

[@mikeypeters7003]

Please, please do more of this type of video. Loved it. Great watch. Thank you.

[@camicow3329]

My proudest moment is meeting the real Brum car in the cotsworlds

[@DynamixWarePro]

As a child in the 90s, I loved Brum. I only have seen a few clips of the 2000s series as I was about 12 when it started and a bit old to be watching it, and I remember not liking it as much as the original series I grew up with and not liking the theme music as much either but the 2000s era theme does suit the time period.