Cunk on Earth | Every Pump Up the Jam Segue

[@minus1letter]

The first time this joke happened I was like "okay.." Every time after that I was in tears of laughter

[@ApollosCounselTV]

Literally my exact experience 😂

[@Beingmeasme]

Same. Same.

[@ToniDios]

That's because this joke was only made decades after the release of unrelated belgian techno anthem “Pump Up The Jam”

[@owatson7648]

First time I was laughing and dancing to the music… but every time after i was sitting in anticipation of the insane trivia

[@lavender.lemonade]

Literally like chest hurting laughter. Especially the "if you're going to the store get me a coke zero and a kit-kat

[@terrormilk384]

1:00 its so fucking hilarious to me that she adds the ,unrelated' there

[@marcorromix]

The "people were terrified that the jam would be pumped into their houses" brought me to tears

[@Jezza819]

Thanks. I was trying to remember the exact quote.

[@FAIRYGIRL911]

when?

[@falsemcnuggethope]

Where's that from? I can't find it.

[@benlee8436]

That's the new plan to tackle the British housing crisis.

[@callyral]

It's a reference to the train movie thing where the people in the theater thought the train was gonna go out of the screen

Let us not discount the impact Philomena's accent has on saying "Pump Up the Jam."

[@TheGyromorgian]

Poump oup the jam

[@Wanapelei]

@@TheGyromorgian 🤣👌

[@personmcpersonperson2893]

Pomp op the jum

[@PresidentHotdog]

Yes she's pronouncing every word how it's spelled. Down south it would be 'pamp ap the jaym'. When will you lot learn that Lancashire pronunciations are the most correct?

[@personmcpersonperson2893]

@@PresidentHotdog Get back to farting dude

[@nametest2558]

I love how in 4 episodes it's so random, but in last episode it actually fits the history. It's like whole series was leading only to this.

[@Jayk-kz7sh]

Exactly! It was wild for me to find out that the fall of the Berlin Wall and the release of Pump up the Jam happened in the same year. And you know what? Its one hell of a song to usher in the end of the Cold War

[@makeitthrough_]

​@@Jayk-kz7sh Start of the Cold War anthem: Snake Eater End of the Cold War anthem: Pump Up The Jam

[@AL-fl4jk]

Philomena plays the long game

[@steuph1976]

It is the pinnacle of human Art. It all went downhill after that.

[@ViciousTuna2012]

@@Jayk-kz7sh Wait, but the Cold War isn't over anymore

[@PurpleMetal75]

It's so inspiring for me to know that no matter what happens in my life, no matter what successes I achieve, no matter what mistakes I make, it will all eventually come back to the release of the 1989 Belgian techno anthem, Pump Up the Jam.

[@michaelsetiawan2746]

All roads lead to Pump Up The Jam.

[@vulpes7079]

The jam must never stop pumping

[@rexcorvorum4262]

This comment being posted 34 years after the release of unrelated techno anthem Pump Up the Jam

[@terrormilk384]

pamp upp de jiam

[@sweetgrasshopper]

Belgian?!!

[@Ekraelum]

"If you isolate the individual drumbeats from this song and areange them in a circle, it unlocks a cheat mode that allows you to pass through solid surfaces at will" THAT GOT ME GOOD

[@restlessmosaic]

​@@CamoHiddenDJPanning for left/right, highpass/lowpass for up/down. Boom did it

[@TheNefastor]

So that's how you clip into the Backrooms.

[@jacktherater3533]

By the third episode i was anticipating it. It always hit like a bus

[@NickNutjob]

Yup, any time it began zooming on reading material I was like “here we goooo” 😂

[@Bluelink13]

Honestly that is the beast part. You know it's coming yet it still manages to blindside you somehow

[@SadieAtCollege]

When they went from Chernobyl, to Berlin Wall, to the 1989 unrelated Belgium techno anthem Pump Up The Jam…I laughed my ass off

[@SadieAtCollege]

@@Bluelink13 it gets funnier and funnier 😂

[@skyblue_2204]

It felt like I was about to be rickrolled

[@ifmodb6922]

My fellow Canadians, please rise for the national anthem.

[@TheGyromorgian]

I remember when the King of Canada, Pierre Poutine, sang this.

[@kimmyera174]

*Holds someone's toque to my chest in preparation*

[@elliotkeil6063]

A beautiful day for Canada, and therefore the world.

[@islandlanguage3349]

Pompez la confiture en haut

[@patrickstjean7646]

That clip isn't even in this.

[@extravagantpanda7962]

I'm like 90% convinced the entire reason for including this joke is that the title "Pump Up the Jam" sounds ridiculous in her northern accent.

[@jamesperkins191]

Poopm oop the jaam

[@joesweeney6152]

The way the singer says it is pretty ridiculous too. PUUUUmp up tha jeeam

[@birdrustler]

​@@joesweeney6152 While your feet are stumping

[@vulpes7079]

​@YellowMeadow Spirituelle ridiculous to all non-Americans I suppose

[@typhoon2827]

Accent just sounds perfectly normal.

[@hfsk123]

This song is the national anthem of the country of Canada

[@vaguelydangerous]

I had no idea Canada was that cool.

[@lxblake]

I’m Canadian and I confirm and approve this message

[@Trentypooh]

I am from canada and can support this statement. Much as our national aminal is the beaver, and our catholic sundays consist of crying excessively to tragically hip

[@danieltavner805]

As someone not from Canada, I naturally assumed that your national anthem was One Week by the Barenaked Ladies.

[@danflashes7125]

@@Trentypooh As an American I am so jealous you guys can claim The Tragically Hip. Such a great band. RIP Gord

[@crusherbmx]

This song was actually released around the time the Berlin Wall came down, so as soon as I saw the clips of the wall I knew what was coming....

[@skeven0]

yeah about a month earlier,

[@curple3]

Same, this bit always caught me off guard in all the first four episodes, but when i got to the last one and heard her mention the Berlin Wall and 1989, i knew it was far too late.

[@spookbusterstirner5865]

I was born on the day that Pump Up the Jam came out, and I'm from Canada. So the national anthem of my country came out on my birthday.

[@aznbreakerboi51o]

Actually, you came out the day they released national anthem of your country, aka Pump Up the Jam.

[@r.davidsen]

Although, these are all jokes. However unrelated, the Belgian techno-anthem "Pump Up The Jam" is no joke! One of the best floorfillers of all time.

[@redlightmax]

Yep, it really is a toe-tapper.

[@SarahMonster711]

@@redlightmax toes be tappin' fingers snappin' hands clappin'

[@Puschit1]

It's one of the most remixed songs for a reason. Still have the vinyl :)

[@yorgunsamuray]

@@SarahMonster711 that was from another Technotronic song "Move This" :)

[@radiationshepherd]

It's unironically good

[@EricSoderblom]

I've literally watched this 100 times. Never gets old. Much like the toe tapping beat of Belgian techno anthem "Pump Up the Jam"

[@juancornandez3825]

"unrelated"

[@yellow468]

😂😂

[@RockPhonic]

....Produced centuries before the release of unrelated Belgiun techno anthem: Jam up the Pump...

[@roejogan2693]

Did you know that "Jam up the Pump" is an anagram of "Pump up the Jam"?

[@Klinkenstecker22]

Jump up the Pam

[@ethanmerolla2953]

@@roejogan2693 I just saw this episode lmfao

[@romankotas448]

A song holding the galactic record for being retrofitted into every erectile dis fiction add ever made

[@TheRealDarrylStrawberry]

When she sticks to straight facts you know Pump Up the Jam is coming.

[@scrat9870]

My literal earliest memory on this earth is sitting in a dimly lit McDonald's parking, waiting for my brother to come back from using the bathroom while this song played over the car radio. I'm glad somebody else recognizes its massive weight in the zeitgeist.

[@janssenmccormick7824]

Mine is hanging out in my older cousin’s room eating a slice of birthday cake while he was trying to mix Pump Up the Jam and Holiday Rap on his turntables. If you’re going out could you grab me a Coke Zero and a Twix?

[@W81Researcher]

You could listen to it IN McDonalds.

[@Yan-jv6xe]

This was my elementary schools’ pep rally anthem lol

[@messygrl]

it was funny for the first 10 seconds, then it wasn't funny the next two times, then it became one of the best bits in any show I have ever seen

[@thorwhoisacat]

My favorite joke in the entire series, or at least the one that made me laugh the hardest, is “When the video released, viewers were terrified that it was real, and that the jam would be pumped directly into their homes”

[@ModishShrink]

When this joke first appeared in the show, I was so legitimately floored that I just sat there with my mouth hanging open. I can't believe that they got away with this, and I can't believe they did it each episode. It is absurdity in its finest.

[@bobafettjr85]

Pump Up the Jam was released 3 years after the premier of British sitcom Brush Strokes.

[@haroldestep8264]

YES!

[@ruthie8785]

BECAUSE OF YOOOOOOOOOOU

[@obamnaprismus]

this joke only got exponentially funnier every time it showed up

[@morbidsearch]

Over 5 million native inhabitants were killed by the regime of the Congo Free State, but some of the survivors would go on to become the ancestors of Ya Kid K, the lead singer of the Belgian techno anthem, Pump Up The Jam

[@liketheroman]

Not a bad trade off in my eyes.

[@stefanmilovic5244]

"If you isolate the individual drumbeats from this song and arrange them in a circle it locks a cheat mode that allows you to pass through the solid surfaces at will." peak writing, ￿I AM IN TEARS

[@ic1815]

“This song was played five times in a row at the funeral of director Stanley Kubrick” 😩💀

[@ODUBlue]

HERE'S the comment I was looking for! 😂😂

[@trashpandaqc]

I had no idea about this show or meme and watched the entire video solely based on that line in the thumbnail. and now I'm gonna look up the show. thanks Stanley!

[@petriholopainen]

Only because Kubrick's ghost wanted replays the first four times.

[@borskavin6395]

So 'Cunk on Earth' was Stanley Kubrick's funeral, got it!

[@cthulhluftagn3812]

I love how she keeps saying its Unrelated, like she knows its complete nonsence and just likes the song

[@scribblesworth1]

Shout out to the KZbin algorithm for this piece of gold...which is the same gold as the gold record that technotronic's "pump up the jam" received from the UK!

[@iwalotoy6764]

Thank you for creating this video, which will be the backbone of my mental health in 2023

[@TheNeverposts]

If you isolate the individual drumbeats from this song and arrange them in a circle, it unlocks a cheat mode that allows you to pass through solid surfaces at will ROFL!!!1

[@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494]

I remember her documentary about Will. He was apparently pretty boring. ;-)

[@ninjapants7688]

It's the CUNKONAMI code

[@noncatholiccatholicrat6309]

@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494my mate Paul says boringness is subject to relativity. … But he also finds Taylor swift exciting so I’m not sure how good his meter of boring is

[@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494]

@@noncatholiccatholicrat6309 Go easy on Paul. He's had a hell of a time 😞

[@dnkakusei]

@@ninjapants7688 "Cunknami Code" has a nicer ring to it

[@gabrielbarachoo]

it’s always so unexpected

[@OytheGreat]

Is this the best thing ever to come from Belgium? Yes. Yes it is.

[@-Anninski-]

After Stromae

[@kawaiilotus]

And frites!

[@n0xure]

After The Sound the C

[@janhendrik1829]

After Tintin.

[@skeven0]

And beer

[@tylerkochman1007]

0:12 Queen Kylie Minogue at #8 on the charts that week

[@fabionaso]

It's the "unrelated" going with it that kills me all the time

[@That0neCrow]

Every so often I come back here. I will never regret it. She served cunk.

[@cheshire1]

I love the implication that the belgian techno anthem "Pump Up the Jam" expanded humankind's horizons in a way that surpassed the enlightenment

[@aussiewanderer6304]

I picture this song being played in jam factories around the world as they pump the jam up from vats into the jars ready for sale at supermarkets.

[@rrrrrrrrrrrv]

I want to have this song played five times in a row at my funeral like Stanley Kubrick's

[@DragonSpikeXIII]

"unrelated Belgian techno anthem" a combination of words I never thought possible

[@nunyanunya4147]

i accedently arranged the drum track in a circle and fell into my neighbor's couch... now I use this cheat code to get free milk from my grocer.

[@darsalome]

Today KZbin thought it was a good idea to slip this into the mix of music I play often and I almost peed myself. I love you Philomena. Thanks for a good edit.

[@zainalamarzainalabidin4368]

Truly the best running joke in the series

[@JamboreeBlackberry]

No words can describe how much the jam was pumped up into me

[@ToothpasteVixen]

They did it again

[@BlueMonkeySky]

It looks like Philomena LOVES that song!!!! ☺️🤣

[@steuph1976]

She has exquisite taste all along, also Here Comes The Hotstepper !

[@Blackadder75]

@@steuph1976 Play my friday night playlist! AI with German accent: Why am I doing this? Please kill me

[@bsibbs2667]

Theres some rumours that this joke is actually the punchline to Monty Python's funniest joke in the world, even though it aired 20 years before the release of the Belgian techno athem. Pump up the Jam. *insert music*

[@CJ286-e8g]

Historians agree: We live in a post-Pump up the Jam era, for better or worse. Some might even say better.

[@alicja.7957]

I've always wanted to pass through solids at will

[@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494]

Shakespeare? He went on a bit, didn't he?

[@ActuallyHoudini]

solids pass through me. doctor says its kidney stones but i think he's lying because he jealous of my penis rocks that shoot from my penis.

[@EllieSchfer]

@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 I believe that was because he already had cheats on by being a ghost and, you know, dead.

[@mashedjoetato2085]

this is easily the best video of all time

[@lavatr8322]

"Poomp oup the Jam" 🥁🥁

[@meschyk]

I needed this, thank you

[@thoopsy]

Been watching this series with my family and it's always a delight singing along together.

[@mrts2112]

I love her British accent saying "pomp op the jahm", scrolling up the Billboard list cutting in from an intricate piece of scholarly history 😂😂😂😂 by the third time, you're like "oh ok this is gonna be in every episode"

[@mrts2112]

On another note, I remember this being THE song at every party, arcade, bowling alley growing up omg it was huuuge

[@Orincaby]

I didn’t even realise this was a gag in every episode until the last one 💀

[@yorgunsamuray]

I didn't have to wait 3 episodes. As soon as I saw it on the second one, I was convinced.

[@mnky75]

The B side, was a more upmarket version called "Inflate the Conserve". It was sang by the three Tenors.

[@Blackadder75]

really? in my country they replaced it with Mix the Marmalade

[@osiris7127]

While your feet are stompin'

[@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494]

and the jam is pompin'

[@unsalame]

Look ahead the crowd is jumping

[@dnkakusei]

Pump it up a little more

[@joesweeney6152]

Get tha pwahty goin on tha deence flooah

[@unsalame]

See, 'cause that's where the party's at

[@SadieAtCollege]

It’s honestly a banger. I study music history and tbh the song will be talked about for years to come 🎉 It’s a techno banger 🔥

[@shonklebonkle324]

And when they are they'll be talking about the very related techno anthem: Pump Up The Jam.

[@TheRealDannAlexander]

This made me cry with laughter.... every...single...time.

[@L808drumz]

2:03 - "THIS SONG WAS PLAYED FIVE TIMES IN A ROW AT THE FUNERAL OF DIRECTOR STANLEY KUBRICK" 😂😂😂💀

[@Zeumlight]

This was a joke that never got old.

[@somegraperock9237]

only philomena cunk can connect the berlin wall with pump up the jam

[@gulaschsophie9642]

the transitions are so clean

[@seagull8415]

Technotronic, Jive Bunny and the Lambada top 3 in the charts. Thats a school disco right there.

[@afrododo3247]

The best part about this video is, that somehow youtube thinks this is a regular music video. So it keeps making music mixes for me with this video in it

[@antibeauty2164]

Lmao love that for you!

[@haaather7131]

Oh, that's freaking brilliant!

[@SquagelZ]

The histories will always remember Denaerys Stormborn and her Three Dragons Swept through Kings Landing, much like the Valyrian Techno anthem “Pump Up the Jam”.

[@nathankosanke2093]

The way I jumped up in cheers on the final episode

[@TheChaDav]

I wasn’t paying attention when I first watched the initial episodes on separate days so at first I thought “Didn’t I just watch this?” I went back to the Netflix episode screen and I’m like “huh, recurring gag” come along the third episode i was like “yup…😂”

[@sususegar]

same, i was watching it stoned and i thought i watched the wrong episode

[@rockycampbell6027]

I absolutely lost my mind with these. I love running gags and absurd non sequetors.

[@skeliskellington5233]

Cunk’s version of a rickroll

[@justhuy7960]

In one of the times the song came in, she asked through the song's subtitles: "can you get me a Coke Zero and a Twix"🤣

[@KylerZee]

What is this masterpiece how have I lived without it I am truly blessed

[@Nootathotep]

Cunk Up the Jam

[@fightlikeacrow5091]

I just hear pump and I'm dying😌😆😭😂

[@JoelBoyens]

It's amazing to think this video happened all after the 1989 release Belgian techno anthem, Pump Up The Jam.

[@markslima1557]

my god the genius of this. i feel much smarter and now ready to 'pump up the jam'

[@burlapknapsack]

The classic song urges humanity to maintain an important tradition. Nobody wants flat, flaccid jam. It should always be pumped up.

[@DaniKay1974]

I was fairly ill when I first watched this series, and honestly thought it was a fever dream

[@tskmaster3837]

I've been looking for this song for ages. Not "Pump up the Jam" but "Swing the Mood", the number two song which is also unrelated but didn't take the world by storm.

[@gnu_andrew]

"The record became a worldwide hit as well, topping the charts of 12 other countries and reaching number 11 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It was the second-best-selling single of 1989 in the UK. " Not quite a jam pumper, but pretty good.

[@pandemelocoton9685]

It's almost like our whole history was waiting for the release of Pump the Jam.

[@eeyorehaferbock7870]

I love how she literally uses the release of that song the same way everyone else who uses the Gregorian calendar refers to the period around Christ’s birth.

[@gabriel9116j]

BPUPJ (before pump up the jam)

[@sirserendipity]

There's nothing like hearing this song in a store and trying not to burst out laughing like a crazy person.

[@lukasmurmann625]

The joke that only gets more and more funny

[@Jack-l8e2m]

👎

[@Fruity_fin59]

Real first time seeing it I was like "uh what" ang giggled but every other time I just bust out laughing

[@sourojeet]

Canada WISHES this was their national anthem (p.s. I'm in Toronto 🤣).

[@tyguy6296]

it's ok that youre in Toronto. Nobody is perfect and i forgive you

[@ronaldau538]

Me and my school have decided that we will strive to make this our anthem ps bc

[@ic1815]

Are you kidding me they play it in Nathan Phillips square all the time????

[@mrsgollum]

Thanks to this video I learned of a time where Jason Donovan was ahead of Kylie Minogue in the charts.

[@funandaims]

What it's like having a hyperfixation, in a nutshell

[@Gabuchibi]

Sharks were swimming earth some 450 million years before the release of unrelated Belgian techno anthem pump up the jam

[@TheRealRobertG]

Somehow this is even more ludicrous when played in a series

[@grilledspaghetti]

When I realized every one of the first 4 were just setups to end the joke on the actual year of its release. Brilliant. The way she doesn't say "unrelated". 😂😂

[@LettersAndNumbers300]

Watching this way too often…

[@considerateanarchist347]

I literally hear this song in my sleep after watching this show

[@lexakoszegi3764]

The Doctor has spoken of "fixed points" in time that cannot be altered even by a Time Lord, the most prominent of which is the 1989 release of Belgian techno anthem, "Pump Up the Jam".

[@cairoraiser9338]

I knew what was coming and still laughed so hard every time

[@dang9668]

“Trying to help the wall with hammers” 😂😂

[@fang_xianfu]

This is like Mankind getting thrown off Hell in a Cell but for Belgian techno

[@TentMakerToo]

Pump It Up!!!

[@elysianfields8461]

I needed this video today! Everything's in perspective now. Much better!! Thanks!

[@matthewgaulke8094]

I always loved Cunk...this really pumped up my jam feelings for her. 👌

[@benjir5264]

I grew up in Reigate and I can confirm that is correct about Reigate Town Centre

[@Gabriel071293]

Its also hilarious to think that the fake producers of this fake show could only afford the rights to ONE SONG so they had to use it on every single fake episode lmaoooo

[@haaather7131]

THE CHEAT CODE WORKS!!! I can now pass through walls, doors, any solid surface I please! All thanks to unrelated Belgium dance group Technotronic's Pump Up the Jam.

[@sarahlad107]

This is now going to be all my brain thinks about for the next week