The Biggest Fraud on TV

[@vbarreiro]

“It’s September 9, 2001” Boy oh boy is this news gonna get overshadowed reeeeal fast

[@ihathtelekinesis]

If I remember rightly, one of his shows was actually due to go out on the 11th.

[@clarenceboddicker6679]

The second part of the show was filmed on September 10th 2001. Nobody knew at the time that the whole world would change the next day

[@generalcrab0009]

@@clarenceboddicker6679was it really the whole world or just the states?

[@MusicByThai]

@@generalcrab0009Definitely the whole world. The peripheral effects of the attacks are incalculable.

[@tajuddinahmed3379]

​@@generalcrab0009just the greedy capitalists

[@technetium9653]

Ok, none of these people should be harassed, but naming your cough medicine after the guy is legendary

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[@jamm8284]

That's the best part of this story 😂👌

[@edgarneto1154]

I find it super weird that all that harassment was the actual reaction of the population. I would have totally expected him being viewed as some sort of Robin Hood type folk hero. I mean, pretty much a "victimless crime" like it was mentioned, *especially* for people to flip out about it like that,; like wtaf🤷‍♂🤷‍♂ But not even judging what was right or wrong here, in terms of what was done and the reactions to it, I would have just thought I'd been around humans long enough to have figured out how they would generally react in a given situation, and even though I believe I mostly can, this is completely surprising to me. Sure the media plays a part here, but still. 🤷‍♂ Like, the "model" I would use to understand people's minds works in most cases, but is actually quite off to the side? Lol I notice that sometimes, does anyone else share that feeling? People are weird.

[@the_vba5384]

@@edgarneto1154i think it's because they feel like he stole the chance for someone else to win. Plus the sheep mentality is really unpredictable

[@KiroFlutterwing]

@@edgarneto1154 they could pay out 2 Millionaires each show, and still make a profit. They make absolute bullshit money on advertisement money in this show. I am 100% on the cheaters side here.

[@cartographic.]

imagine someone in the crowd had allergies and completely messed up his entire plan just by coughing 😂

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[@simonnilsson8375]

He repeated answers often and often got the same cough on the same answer.

[@grundywins1775]

who coughs with allergies tf😂

[@Mike__B]

Patient zero of COVID in England just messes the whole plan up!

[@WackoMcGoose]

@@grundywins1775 I do, it's called "chronic dry cough" and it's an extremely common comorbidity with allergies, especially the year-round-seasonal kind.

[@Navman_]

18:30 Guys, THE CAT SURVIVED. There was a tv series called Quiz that came out in 2020 that was based on the Ingrams and in that show they had Buffy (the cat's name) as a dog which died from the shooting. But when fans asked Charles if it was true, he confirmed on twitter that Buffy was actually a cat and had actually survived in real life.

[@Yosetime]

Well, he's such an honest man...of course he was telling the truth about that! (no cough)

[@SfTexWillyB]

Why do people give af about a cat

[@DankBlank]

​@@SfTexWillyBshould we care about you, an innocent person, if you were to be killed because your parents decided to cheat on a TV show? Their cat did nothing and was killed, bud.

[@jordy9606]

⁠@@SfTexWillyBBecause it's an innocent living thing that did not at all deserve to be targeted over something it couldn't even comprehend

[@jordy9606]

@@SfTexWillyBI would have said a lot more but KZbin is automatically deleting my replies. For no reason. I'm not even saying anything mean or anything. This has been happening to me so much lately and I'm so sick of it sorry

[@AdirondackRuby]

He was quick to refute the irregularities without even being told what the issue at the recording even was. And he kept saying WE...if the other two played no part in anything why even involve them in your defense? "Me and the people I definitely didn't cheat with, didn't cheat!"

[@estherstreet4582]

Yeah, his response to the phone call was majorly suspicious. I don't know if maybe the TV rep was speaking in legalese that I don't understand, but it really seemed like he somehow *knew* he was busted for cheating even though they weren't really saying anything solid.

[@The_Secret_King]

@@estherstreet4582 Well he had actually called them and was expecting a short and perfunctory conversation and was at his army base where histronics would not have been acceptable. I do think I would have reacted much differently but I am not British.

[@konradk1066]

Also not British, but I would have answered with a stuttering "Well.. why... that's positively ridiculous. What are the next steps?" He wasn't even interested in the rest of the process, he just gave up on the milly in like 2 sentences

[@ixinor]

Always scam a gaming scam.

[@hhds113]

@@The_Secret_King You don't need to be British to understand why he answered quickly on the phone and wasn't told what those irregularities were. Irregularities can mean ANYTHING until it was specified. So his answer BEFORE they said about what those irregularities were is a major suspicious behavior.

[@vitoc8454]

Possible the most legendary episode was when a guy named John Carpenter competed. At the start, people booed him when he said he worked for the IRS. He got to the 1 million dollar question without using any lifelines, and on the final question he used Phone A Friend... to call his dad and tell him he was gonna win because he already knew the answer. Absolute legend.

[@DuongLeAccountingAutomate]

Well that sounds like another fraud, but a smart one who hid his tricks successfully 🙂‍↔️

[@cuckmasterflex9106]

We've all seen the video

[@burimsaliji23]

Yea I love that guy ,that shit at the end was amazing 🥹🥹

[@iwatchwithnoads7480]

​@@DuongLeAccountingAutomateis everything fraud for you? Do you believe birds are real?

[@MrAB-fo7zk]

Every time I've ever called the IRS the people there were super nice and professional. Don't understand the hate. Hate the congressmen that continue it.

[@nerdbot4446]

That was the most brilliant sponsor integration I've seen a while

[@medhamehra]

brilliant 😉

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[@Quovio]

I see what you did there

[@Pumpkinpied]

it was indeed quite brilliant

[@orangejjay]

As a user of Sp0nsorbl0ck, I am happy to report I never see these things. Being able to avoid ads is beautiful.

[@felixw19]

0:56 in English, they are called "lifelines" not "jokers" like in the German version

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[@espben360]

Jokers is kind of cool, like wildcards

[@HNBGamer]

Which make sense, since the creator is from Netherlands

[@felixw19]

@HNBGamer they are Germans. Just currently living in the Netherlands.

[@Sinthoras155]

WHY JUST WHY NOOO

[@derek04151]

I love how the signal is a cough....but he keeps needing confirmation, and after the 3rd cough he's still not certain.

[@youtube-kit9450]

This. They only got him because he was so absolutely bad at it. Iirc, they said that if they had just taken the 125k and gone, they likely would've gotten away with it.

[@karolina285]

Also him constantly saying the same thing "I never heard of ...". And then suddenly picking that answer. Why would you reveal that you don't know what this or that is? When you're waiting on confirmation to pick one answer. 🤦‍♀️ He definitely shouldn't play poker 😂

[@PinataFreaks]

I have never seen a better example of me having been ruined by the internet than when I heard "Cheating at Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" and my first thought was "Did he use a vibrating buttplug?"

[@SfTexWillyB]

You're not ruined by the internet, it was just you're first thought because thats how you would have done it. You were ruined by lifestyle choices

[@idrinkmilk282]

@@SfTexWillyB you're a mongrel

[@james088]

Hans Niemann vibes?

[@iamerror1699]

It's a valid cheating strategy, I used it for my final exams 13 yrs ago.

[@EdinoRemerido]

​@@SfTexWillyBthat's a accusation that a chess grandmaster received.

[@TomSistermans]

I mean, someone shooting the cat with an airgun is the most unacceptable thing ever, whomever did that can rot in hell... But the cough drops company naming their products after them is absolutely hilarious

[@PenguinCrayon269]

brits are truly something else

[@DarkCobra88]

Yeah i was thinking how disgusting it was to do that, the cat wasn't involved or even aware of anything from one day to the next... but the cough medicine thing is honestly just classy, talk about good marketing as the public would laugh that up so much.

[@davo6263]

@@DarkCobra88 Furthermore, civilised people don't hurt the loved ones (I include pets as loved ones) of those who have done them wrong as a form of retribution.

[@JosephQPublic]

You focus on the cat? All of the harassment is despicable…

[@kelvinpang438]

​@@JosephQPublicHe had it coming for trying to steal $1m.

[@ventiqx.1070]

that 1 million question is the easiest i have ever seen lmao

[@ThePhoenix107]

You gotta keep in mind that this was in 2001. Today, a lot of people have heard about this trivia because Google named themselves after it but at that time, why would anyone know about this?

[@OhQueBacan]

@@ThePhoenix107if this guy had any critical thinking, he would know that at the time it was a rare trivia question 🤭

[@TMtheScratcher]

@@ThePhoenix107 well with middle school knowledge you would know what a mol and hence nanomol is. Gigabit is also a known unit and falls under the same pattern. Also, you can know that nano is small and giga big, but not that big, so even two reasons to cancel these out. And then there is megatron. Even if this was before transformers made blockbusters, it sounds more fictional than Googol. You're right, back then it was not as easy as today, but I would still argue there were more complicated questions along the way.

[@ThePhoenix107]

@@TMtheScratcher Yeah probably. Hard to tell from today's perspective though.

[@Tudas]

@@TMtheScratcher I mean I wouldnt choose nanomole either and would've said Googol because it made the most sense for me. Gigabit idk about 2001, but most people didn't even have internet at this point and internet was fking slow too and most stuff was small.

[@rocko34]

10:47 as a Brit who is fluent in “Bri’ish” I can confirm the [inaudible] statement is “I’m absolutely gobsmacked” 😂

[@rawtrout007]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@DigitalDart]

I had to read your comment to understand/hear what was being said 😂😂😂

[@rocko34]

@@DigitalDart You're welcome 😂

[@mildlydispleased3221]

I guess our language is harder to understand than I thought.

[@sarahnadeofpoetry]

I'm not British, and I even got that. lol.

[@JamesR624]

5:10 Okay, that was the smoothest sponsor segue I have EVER seen. I GENUINELY didn't realize it was a sponsor spot at ALL at first. It took me a second to remember, "right, this is about questions from 2001, not post-2012." REALLY good job there!

[@jackiwheeler6963]

That spot was very smooth

[@Electricity0]

Court: "Did you cheat?" Ingram: "It could be no, but it could also be yes" *cough*

[@tregoboing]

"My initial thought is yes, I cheated. Yes, yes, yes,.....no *cough* (angry look from wife)....no, I did not cheat"

[@philipjohn1254]

It was a clever plan in a way, but the execution of it was piss poor. By dismissing answers, and then having to backtrack, he just made it so obvious he was cheating. And by going back for confirmatory coughs he just made it even worse.

[@burimsaliji23]

The problem is the way he spoke during the game,that's where he incriminated himself" I've never heard of Google" "Google is my final answer" plus the dude didn't know any answer,lets say I would if I knew the answer start saying as he reads the question, "oh i know this answer" so the coughers stop coughing at all.. guy if he knew at least 3,4 questions ,they would've been safe 😅

[@burimsaliji23]

Set*

[@spriestchump1531]

Exactly. Even without the coughing it is obvious he is cheating. Nobody risks so much money on a random guess on something they have never heard of.

[@mydogeatspuke]

They should have had sneezing and nose blowing too, shake it up a bit, make it more likely someone had a cold. Perhaps feel out the audience in the early easier questions to make sure nobody else was also sniffing and spluttering, with a plan B if someone was genuinely sick.

[@mydogeatspuke]

@@spriestchump1531 he was definitely a poor choice to sit in the hot seat, he enjoyed the duping too much and was not a good actor. But it seemed to be that the others had already been on the show before so he may have been their only option.

[@nitolak]

September 9th 2001? eh, the next tuesday is gonna be crazy

[@jamesbissonette]

🙂

[@sawyersprott]

@@jamesbissonetteYo it’s the legend himself! James Bissonette!

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[@aidansuguitan6533]

​@@jamesbissonette Holy shit it's THE james bissonette

[@Faded._]

Me a New Yorker:

[@Modenut]

That million pound question was fucking sad tbh lol. Megatron? lmao

[@Hyperlaser_Merc]

Google got named after Googol

[@antonfeirer]

From our current standpoint it's laughable but considering the company Google was founded in late 1998 and the show was filmed in 2001 I suppose the term was not as populatized as it is now. Same for Gigabit and Nano-whatevers 😅😅

[@theextremegigachad]

I'd be a millionaire :(

[@Modenut]

@@theextremegigachad Anyone who is old enough and smart enough to be sitting there would be. Even if you hadn't heard of a googol the alternatives are so obviously not the right answers that it's laughable lol

[@XxZeldaxXXxLinkxX]

​@@Modenut"So obvious" Yeah looking back everything seems obvious doesn't it. Actually being there is a different story.

[@themapoe]

My toxic trait is that I see absolutely nothing morally or ethically wrong with committing this type of fraud.

[@prodigal_southerner]

That's not a toxic trait, you sound far healthier than anyone who got angry about someone scamming a TV network.

[@floggyWM1]

how would you feel if someone scammed you out of a million?

[@JFitz626]

@@floggyWM1I’d be too busy counting the hundreds of millions profited from my TV show

[@alexc9434]

@@floggyWM1he didn’t scam a random person. It’s a shady game show.

[@floggyWM1]

@@alexc9434 why is it shady?

[@lizzychrome7630]

Someone killing their pet is just plain sick.

[@SladeBling]

The pet survived just fine

[@markymark443]

@@SladeBlingdoesn’t matter, it’s the intent that counts. What they did was objectively infinitely worse than defrauding a multi-billion dollar network (even though the latter is still obviously morally wrong)

[@raylopez99]

@@SladeBling Because it was a UK airgun. They regulate the muzzle velocity energy in the UK to 12 ft-lbs or below, which is enough to harm a sparrow but often not much more. Outside the UK, with the airgun we have for example, you can decease a wild boar through their thick skull with a spring-loaded pellet air gun.

[@Mukukuish]

Meanwhile bullying kids and harassing people is ok... I love animals, but this is pathetic.

[@Angiesensei.]

​@@Mukukuishcalm...🙄

[@TerryJGeo]

I really hate how abusive and violent some people get over things that have nothing to do with them. So these three people probably tried to scam a million out of a TV show - does that mean you're entitled to kill their cat, throw vomit at and smash their windows, force them out of their jobs and schools? Get a life!

[@TheCatLady65]

They didn't scam anyone, they were the ones who got scammed. Corporations are all powerful in the West

[@ivy3671]

the poor cat bruh

[@traceyrice4978]

Yeee.

[@Navman_]

Nah the cat actually survived!!!! There was a tv series called Quiz that came out in 2020 that was based on the Ingrams and in that show they had Buffy (the cat's name) as a dog which died from the shooting. But when fans asked Charles if it was true, he confirmed on twitter that Buffy was actually a cat and had survived in real life.

[@EmperorKonstantine01]

Your right no one deserves that treatment, he should be compensated at least 10 Million for the ordeal his family went through

[@eshnd-1]

"He had to trademark his name to stop a company from naming cough medicine after him" 💀

[@thekiwiclipper1113]

I knew about the first group of people you talked about, but I had never heard of the consortium. That is impressive that they were able to do that.

[@minaropaa7535]

u know kiwi farms?

[@Mark-lj1dj]

10:17 this is such critical evidence. He barely pretends to sound surprised. Imagine being innocent and being told you're not getting your million pounds and being referred to police. You'd be so shocked and angry. They're so guilty

[@radicaltrafficcone8284]

As a british person, this is exactly how we would react in that situation

[@Mark-lj1dj]

@@radicaltrafficcone8284 yeah if you were a character in a Jane Austin novel. Certainly not if you were told you weren't receiving the million pounds you thought you'd won and you were being referred to the police

[@kojoyeboah7]

​@@Mark-lj1djthe guy was a major in the British army. Angry hysterical fits isn't part of their training be it killing innocent people as collateral damage or losing a million pounds 😂

[@Thatdudewiththedogs]

Also, if you truly didn’t cheat and someone tells you that you’re under suspicion of cheating and the money isn’t coming, you’d naturally want to know how they thought you were cheating, or you’d inquire in some way about the cheating, but he just doesn’t care at all. Very sus.

[@StarryEyed0590]

@@Thatdudewiththedogs If you weren't cheating, you wouldn't assume the filming irregularities had to do with you - you'd be asking what happened during the filming.

[@marcinchreptowicz6843]

1:40 tbh if you know all 3 but googol you can always answer correctly. Megatron has obviously nothing to do with numbers - its a fictional character. Gigabit has nothing to do with 100 zeros. It's just billion bits. Nano means it's in the fractions of 1. I dont remember but I think it was 1 to 10(-9) power. Stupid question. Should be for 1000$

[@BryRod]

Seriously, They killed his cat? Quite sad some would hurt an innocent animal over this.

[@PhilipMarcYT]

Bullying kids is no big deal? Or throw bags of vomit?

[@BryRod]

@@PhilipMarcYT It is absolutely but an innocent helpless animal DIED sooooo yeah that was the main thing that upset me. Had a kid died then I would be upset over that.

[@tancreddehauteville764]

@@PhilipMarcYT The kids weren't shot at.

[@youngspaghettii]

​@@PhilipMarcYTtypical strawman argument i bet you have So many friends that like talking to you and inviting u places btw

[@Jason-vo8td]

@@BryRod Except the cat didn't die xD Charles confirmed it on twitter, lol.

[@graham1034]

Someone killed their family cat?!? That is definitely the worst part of the whole fiasco

[@evab.6240]

Agree. That is so sad

[@paulofelipebbraga9634]

Nah! The worst part is how they traded their dignity and rightousness just for a few bucks. If you want to get disgusted remember who made that happen.

[@babuskaonline8907]

@@paulofelipebbraga9634 I think that says more about the world we live in than the individuals.

[@MainInternetUser]

​@@paulofelipebbraga9634getting money on a TV game show (that would have just kept the money if nobody won it) is 100% not worth their cat's life. You see everyday at least 1 person who hasn't done better than them if you live in a city it's not like it's rare to see corrupt politicians and other. They're invisible till they're exposed

[@gutdupois2809]

@@paulofelipebbraga9634 that is absolutely in no way worse than what happened to the cat

[@phantom9805]

Plot twist : Sound engineers added the coughs later to deny his prize

[@filipbitala2624]

With the way english courts work, i wouldnt even be surprised

[@aaaaaa-hh8cq]

English courts are horrible

[@aaaaaa-hh8cq]

although he probably cheated

[@Yosetime]

And paid off all the other staff to look the other way....perfect plan! Or...'hear' the other way....so unlikely.

[@Patichu]

I mean we do know the coughs were amplified in order to make them legible in the court tapes and to this day that is the only tape we have of the game

[@scienceathome6144]

No one is talking about how smooth that AD was, wow man this is the only channel that can force you into watching an AD without knowing. Props to ur team FREN.......

[@nickchambers3935]

I love how Chris just gets tired of his antics at 4:00

[@MarijnRoorda]

That Brilliant commercial was in fact, Brilliant. I had already named it Brilliant as soon as i saw it, and then realized it was a joke and the advertising to the video. Hilarious.

[@matty_isthemotto]

Just another shill of useless crap

[@epharonaldo]

that was very creative

[@rayfangrui]

Except there was no cough

[@Marseb574]

Another plausible answer to this mystery could be that every single question was relatable to a specific event in this poor man’s life.

[@HaggisMuncher-69-420]

WHO WANTS TO BE A SLUMDOG MILLUNAIRRRRRRR?!!!!

[@newshodgepodge6329]

I saw that movie. I'm pretty sure it was called Slumdog Millionaire. Just thought I'd put that out there.

[@TheCatLady65]

@@newshodgepodge6329 Try reading the book instead 🤪

[@alejrandom6592]

💀

[@hoodiem1812]

I love you for bringing this up cause as soon as i started watching this video that movie was the only thing that came to mind😂😂

[@Valeofmusic]

Dude but think about it , picking the option you’ve never heard of is a strategy because you know the meaning of every other option

[@jackgonahieu4999]

It works in school tests fs

[@wellokayyes1266]

Yeah they waffle a little in breaking this down. Also almost every other contestant reads all answers out loud before final answer. The guy is a cheater, but the extra dressing on it isn’t necessary or relevant.

[@jendakrynicky5218]

I mean, seriously ... nanomole? If you paid any attention in chemistry lessons you know what that is, gigabit is a unit of information with quite a few fewer zeroes and megatron is some comics or sci-fi or some such thing. This was a fairly simple question.

[@EinTypOhneHandle]

@@jendakrynicky5218sure but a google is a search engine by your logic ;)

[@Puggylord316]

@jendakrynicky5218 It was in 2001. People knew far less about the internet, and even if they did that wouldn’t stop them picking it. We have a lot of hindsight to bear in mind.

[@Spdey_guy]

I saw a guy watching this on the bus, he probably saw me watching so he clicked on the screen i saw the name of the video. Thank you guy :)

[@Hale-Bopp]

the biggest fraud here is the ad that secretly played without you even knowing it's an ad.

[@lifeisfakenews]

The transition into the sponsor was dare i say, brilliant

[@raylopez99]

Was Brilliant the sponsor? I thought it was Incogniti... (Ray quietly leaves the scene).

[@dismiggo]

"[...] he had to trademark his name, to stop a company naming cough medicine after him." Sorry but that's just hilarious xD

[@Serizon_]

I know right.

[@TheBilly]

Which you can't even do unless you legitimately use your name in commerce, and in the same area (such as medicine). They were in the clear to mock him

[@Lady_Tee15]

😂😂😂

[@x_kells_o4249]

This has to be the worst thing to have happened in September, 2001.

[@vd9570]

Best comment on this platform

[@klpty8808]

⁠@@vd9570Best Platform on this comment

[@andrerodrigues8024]

you may want to sit down before I tell you something..

[@adamgerald849]

Probably.

[@Unizuka]

@@andrerodrigues8024 yeah, this is the second worst thing that happened on september 2001, the worst thing is my cat getting hit by a car

[@hesmousavi6184]

I love how you implement advertising in videos like they're a part of the story

[@camillecrichlow8138]

He doesn’t sound upset enough for a “winner” being called a cheater 😂

[@drpopandfizz]

The saddest part is if he would of stopped at like... 16,000... maybe even 32,000, he could of gotten away with it, or at least not live in infamy. instead, greed took over.

[@volkan2097]

Why stop there if you can have it all?

[@pnuttyinthacutty]

He didn’t cheat

[@drpopandfizz]

​@@pnuttyinthacutty No question he did. he can deny it all he wants. the 32,000 question there is no way he wasn't cheating on that one. 'i'm not sure' I think it's A1,' 'i never heard of craig david', no clue, his wife coughing at the time, and then just goes for the answer he A, never heard of the artist and B, the answer he wasn't leaning to? It's absolutely unnatural behavior.

[@Patichu]

​@@drpopandfizz watch quiz it's a fantastic retelling of the story that puts things into new light he is smart man and people seem to forget that every time this story is brought up i Don't know if he cheated or not but there is just a big of a reason to believe either side of the story after watching quiz. The only one who truly knows is him and we just have to accept that.

[@ieclaw1140]

​@drpopandfizz if he knew A1 but the question doesn't line up with what he knows about A1 then by default its Craig David

[@illuminatedzach4206]

10:42 Imagine you’ve just gone on a game show and fought your heart out and win 1 million dollars. You then get a call saying there a issues and they we be delaying payment. And then you respond I disagree bye. Like wouldn’t you say. Wtf why? I won where’s my money? Like he already knows why terrible liar

[@Puggylord316]

I could understand him not being angry, because he went through the military and will have learnt a lot about controlling that. But to not even sound slightly surprised is crazy.

[@WaterChamp2]

How you integrated the sponsor was BRILLIANT 😂 first time in a very long time I've seen that type of creativity

[@cdel4391]

they should let us now beforehand, "and now a word from our sponsor" instead of sneaking it in there, i spotted it right away and skipped that lol

[@kennethkho7165]

​@@cdel4391you must be fun at parties

[@linnamuuf]

And now, a million dollar question: How many times in a minute you'd have to cough to consider it a serious health issue? A: 2 times, B: 6 times, C: 7 times, D: 192 times (somebody starts coughing indefinitely)

[@jackiwheeler6963]

Coughcoughcough

[@GEMSofGOD_com]

Such an insulting absurdity. I hope your life is fine, linnamuuf

[@mananyapungvirawat2156]

6:11 skip ad

[@LOLyoujustgotrickrolled]

the date is pretty close to *it*

[@universaltoons]

My parents said if I reach 35K, they'd buy me a professionaI camera for recording... Pls guys I'm literally begging you!!...😮

[@gbt722]

I wonder if people are bright enough to realise what you meant?

[@LOLyoujustgotrickrolled]

@@gbt722 same

[@nonwows]

that's the first thing I thought about

[@kateapple1]

HUSH BOT 🤖

[@andykapur5628]

"Named a cough syrup after that guy". Give that marketing executive a f*cking raise!! @fern - Search for this guy called Shashwat on India's who wants to be a millionaire and what he did on the final question. Broke the system and exposed the rules so much that makers changed it next season. Should make a video on that to be a sequel to this masterpiece video you have created.

[@littlekishmish]

What’s the guy’s full name? I tried to Google him but couldn’t find anything like you described

[@mlydian8840]

Found him, Shashwat Goel, but I didn’t understand a word so I’ve no clue what he did to break the system haha

[@whois2517]

@@mlydian8840 is the video in hindi?

[@ValCronin]

All I could find is that he made it to the final question but answered it incorrectly. Also he used to watch the show with his mom but she died like a year before he made it on the show, and he chose not to bring a companion on the show because he left it open for her memory. Also he said if he was about about to win that he would donate most of the winnings but then he ended up answering incorrectly. I can't seem to find what you seem to be referencing about him 'breaking the system'....could you just summarize it for us since we can't find it on the internet?

[@skyfetheranger6066]

Good work man! iv seen this story on a bunch of other channels before, but your vid was my favorite because it felt like Lemmino had remembered his password

[@HernanBensasson]

The way you merged your sponsor was amazing! I was like "wait, what?". Amazing content btw. Thanks

[@JamesR624]

1:13 Wait, THIS? THIS was the £1,000,000 question. A semi-common-knowledge question? A question most college freshmen would know off the top of their heads? REALLY?

[@ToshioRiko_nextgenchems]

By now maybe. But back then? Idk I knew it too but the question Makers are just humans too. Probably none though someone would know it - and just think it's a dumb pun. ;)

[@joshhenry2389]

After you’ve answered the rest you deserve a nice question to seal the victory

[@LePredator1]

Oh, woooow... you're very smart indeed. Let's all grovel at your callused feet

[@sarvarbekmatsapaev5711]

isnt the date strange to you guys? 0:01

[@flippyisthebezt]

9/11 flashbacks

[@YoshiSSBU]

Immediately what I thought two days before, *that* day

[@vanceroday]

literally the best sponsor ad incorporation i've ever seen

[@jabukatshwa]

It was brilliant 😂😂

[@LostStylus]

The question for million is the simplest question I think I ever seen here

[@BigBoyJay_69]

It's only simple because of the search engine. I doubt you know the name of the number with a 1 and a thousand 0's after it.

[@matthewdurkin9543]

@@BigBoyJay_69 It's pretty easy through process of elimination assuming you have basic knowledge of some things. The options are megatron, gigabit, nanomole, and googol. Transformers was like 20 years old at that point, so it makes sense someone would recognize Megatron. Personal computers already had multiple gigabyte hard drives by 2000. Nano means one billionth and most people have heard of nanoseconds. Even if you'd never heard of googol you can figure it out through process of elimination

[@NodaxWoW]

​@@matthewdurkin9543exactly. also mol is a si unit in chemics. if this wasnt multiple choice, yes the question would have been really hard. but with those tupid other options its pretty obvious even if you never heard of google

[@MrNikolidas]

@@BigBoyJay_69 Googolplex. There's also a Googolplex-plex but I forget the number of 0's. Ten thousand?

[@volkan2097]

U forget that nobody and their mother heard of google in 2001, its like asking you what a number with 10 thousand 0 in it is called, u wouldn’t know it

[@Epsilon2042]

18:30 Even if they cheated, that is unacceptable. I wish there were laws against this...

[@lowrider81hd]

The most ridiculous thing about this is there were so many people involved, the prize money got so low I wouldn’t even get out of bed for it.

[@riditnimdia13]

People saying “Googol” is the easiest answer ever, this show was from 2001

[@sherrymartini_]

it really is tho, by process of elimination, 3 other options could not be the answer.

[@macgyversmit4647]

@SomeGuy-ul1np u really think that people in 2001 would have known that megatron is a fictional characters as most to nearly all people started knowing that megatron is a fictional character when the transformers movies started in 2007

[@zorktxandnand3774]

The fact that he did not seem to reason elimination makes this suspicious. And yes by that makes googol an easy answer. even if you do not know the Megatron character. the prefix "Mega" means million. So all 3 other answers contain a prefix that does not match a number with a 100 zero's. If he eliminated some obvious wrong answers, his win may have been more believable. Also fuck the asshole who shot their cat. what the hell is wrong with you.

[@dollzo]

Legit never heard of a googol till now

[@riditnimdia13]

@@dollzo It is what Google is named after

[@mattburland8105]

I thought the phone call with the producers was pretty telling. If you knew you hadn't cheated you'd be asking how long is this going to take to get cleared up? And when am I going to get my money? He didn't ask any of those obvious questions, because he knew he'd been busted.

[@mikhails5483]

True, and he said that he obviously "refutes" it, even if the caller didn't even say he was accused of cheating. If you're innocent, you'd first ask what's wrong and be in disbelief if told you were being investigated for cheating.

[@TheCatLady65]

Complete bullshit. Why are you so hateful?

[@Furious321]

@@mikhails5483 Yeah something along the lines of "Well, wait... What did you see when you reviewed the tapes? Maybe I can clarify whatever you found problematic."

[@GEMSofGOD_com]

He's been greeted in a calm and professional way with "We have police om you", how else do you react, "To heck the police, where's my money??"

[@porterowen-ch4nk]

“That’s how a question works” is amazing

[@John-jl7yi]

When the guy called to tell him that they're not gonna cash the check, his response is really weird. Anyone would have been devastated by that call.

[@MarioGoatse]

"He is quite possibly the biggest fraud on TV." Dr Phil sweats nervously

[@owenleal]

Creating an international crime syndicate built purely around gaming Who Wants to Be a Millionaire sounds like it could be an episode of Rick and Morty or Community.

[@GEMSofGOD_com]

I would be surprised if such shows (notvintellectual games; shows) never had such "non-illedal" syndicates appearing immediately after the shows launched

[@johnrhico04]

5:16 that ad transition was so smooth

[@ChaoticCharvel]

You’re telling me Google is named after that… It makes so much sense!

[@martingaspar8364]

the fact that when the called him and told about the "irregularities" and he didnt even questioned it, wasnt surprised or anything like an innocent person would do

[@giovannifrrri5495]

The real question is how she knew the answer...

[@dekuuchiha9990]

google

[@guninkakar7714]

@@dekuuchiha9990 they got no google in 2001, like phones with google

[@wellokayyes1266]

@@dekuuchiha9990 Wait for it ! “BEeEeE BUUUU be ba ba ba ba teeeeeeeeeeedlityyyyyyy Be bum Be bum Be bum weee oh weeee “ - Your google dial up in 2001

[@Gumplayer2]

but they had Googol!

[@Dan75817]

Google? In 2001 mate? ​@@dekuuchiha9990

[@witchywoman2008]

The fact that there was a whole underground ring getting people onto a game show is absolutely hilarious.

[@bohrabhijeet]

It takes balls of steel to cheat in such a high stakes game.

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[@GerdLPluu]

The stakes aren't that high, though, are they? This is not Poker or Roulette. You don't wager a or bet. The only thing you can lose is a bit of your dignity, but that's just how TV works.

[@subnormality.]

Ego of steel. Selfishness of steel.

[@NodaxWoW]

bruh there is literally nothing on the table. no risk at all. what do you mean???

[@Betttcpp]

Not really. It’s not illegal so either you win or you don’t. No additional loss for cheating or not

[@Shjeshje]

Well, that story was much more fascinating than expected.

[@RightsForZombies]

I’ve heard this story many times but never heard about the harassment. Sure, they cheated on a dumb game show but shooting their CAT?! They didn’t even get the money. As an Aussie whose dad is English I feel like I can safely say that when England gets whipped into a frenzy about something they can really file out disproportionate retribution, sometimes in really bizarre ways (like throwing bags of sick… did someone induce vomiting just to throw it at their home? Wild).

[@davidl.7383]

I ain’t even skipping the ad after a segue that smooth 😂

[@Linos.1]

That was the cleanest sponsorship I've ever seen. Brilliant!

[@Denboy0708]

Ich liebe es, eure Videos auch auf Englisch zu schauen und dann zu merken, dass es trotz dem gleichen Oberthema so viele neue Fakten zeigt und ihr das Thema komplett neu, auch visuell, überarbeitet habt. Chapeau Jungs und Mädels

[@wanali4504]

This is absolutely horrible. Truly nothing worse happened that month.

[@Deeps_]

I don't know if this comment is a joke or not...

[@TopCrazyDev]

@@Deeps_ of course it is

[@robynw6307]

Charles and Diana. Are we sure the other guy wasn't called Camilla?

[@mandeepsheera6272]

Lmao 😂😂😂

[@Appfel]

Wow! After knowing the Simpli video (and I watched it once more today), this is a nice add. I thought, it is another copy, which is fine. But no, this video is totally different, showing several other and new facets! Really good job!!!

[@PRS_101]

This might be one of the best ads integration in a youtube video i have seen in a while, absolutely camouflaged in the video 👏🏻

[@Ichim8]

a fern upload is always good

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[@AnZionist83]

​@@EEEEEEEEway too political man

[@klvcrz7998]

So no one's gonna talk about how brilliant he pulled the Brilliant ad?

[@Vlow52]

Usually this kind of cases are fascinating, because to cheat successfully at a long run you have to be much luckier and smarter than it’s needed to simply remember random facts that possibly could run out as a question.

[@HNBGamer]

Okay, one giant error, that is NOT the position Tecwen was sitting on the FFF row. His seat was in the middle on the same side behind Charles.

[@trod5902]

giant? that is the most insignificant error, how on earth can you call that a GIANT error? exaggeration much, just enjoy the content. Im sure you were jumping out of your seat to tell him he was wrong about one tiny error. so giant that it RUINED the video right?

[@florisdays]

2:48 idk why but the ringtone made me giggle

[@TheBlakus420]

Every Nokia phone had it back in the day lol

[@rawtrout007]

Old school 😂

[@夜空が素晴らしいです]

@@TheBlakus420 I can even remember the ringtone's name. It's "Kick". 😭

[@wooper2654]

High intelligence specimen:

[@rawtrout007]

@@夜空が素晴らしいです you just unlocked a core memory

[@HouseOfFunQM]

The funny thing is, back in 2001, we basically didn't have the internet as it is now. I am sure that these guys had NO IDEA that 23 years later, the internet would continue to produce videos ripping them to bits.

[@SevereFamine]

It’s crazy the googol question was a million dollar question in 2001. Usually old questions that are hard, only get harder.

[@crewrangergaming9582]

I thought that too when I first saw nut then I realized Google wasn't a everyday name back then and not many would have had knowledge about the number Googol, definitely with Google's popularity more people would know about the word Googol than in 2001.

[@asiansuperman]

Telling everyone that you don’t know the answer or never heard of it is not a smart move after getting it right. Totally showed his hand, a dumb move. Using an actor would have been a better choice.

[@Fanaro]

18:55 That was was hilarious.

[@Fanaro]

14:21 The guy looks awfully suspicious indeed, but it's worth pointing out that coughs are not at all uniformly distributed, meaning if the person gets anxious (as she would when the time for answering would come), the likelihood of coughing goes way higher.

[@thej3799]

This is why I'm afraid of facing a jury. It seems like juries are filled with idiots that only want to punish people

[@GEMSofGOD_com]

Absolutely so. It feels obvious to me that the three haven't cheated.

[@DjVortex-w]

I find it interesting that the host said afterwards that he didn't notice anything odd about Ingram's behavior. It's of course understandable. The host is there to present the show, keep the audience entertained and overall be as charismatic and likeable as possible, and make the show as engaging and interesting as possible. He's not there to observe and scrutinize every single detail of the contestant's behavior, he's there to run the show to the best of his abilities. He has priorities and things in his mind enormously more important than whether a particular contestant behaves a bit different than your typical contestants. But nevertheless, I still find it interesting that apparently he didn't notice anything suspicious.

[@youtube-kit9450]

It's funny he said that when he, in the show, said a few times Ingram was doing weird and illogical things. So he just thought Ingram was actually such a mouthbreather that he didn't think he was cheating lol.

[@theodorrichey]

Having cough medicine named after you because of a scam you did is WILD

[@SmilingSynic]

It was not just the coughing. It was the example of a cough followed by an obvious NO! when Ingram was going to choose the wrong answer on a six-figure question.

[@YouBeAiight]

The way you did the switch to the brilliant ad was 🔥 no lie

[@BucketHeadianHagg]

Fern, the way you did the ad was truly brilliant! 😊 I love your work!

[@RealLagu]

maaaan these videos are just insane! The quality is way above youtube standards🔥

[@tomdaviestravel]

"Good lord I'm absolutely gob smacked" is the inaudible section of that call with him

[@Quovio]

The production quality on this is insane!🔥🔥🙌🏿

[@killerkeks8843]

Amazing video with amazing animation and a brilliant theme. Hyped for the next one.

[@newshodgepodge6329]

I could see successfully using process of elimination for some of the questions. This has helped me before when choosing the correct answer on multiple choice tests; if you are familiar with most of the options and can reasonably rule them out as the correct answer, the option that you are left with will likely be the correct answer even if it is unfamiliar to you. But to use process of elimination for every correct answer is a bit further afield. Edit: fixed a few typos that improved the flow.

[@KasumiRINA]

Absolutely, I didn't remember large numbers but I sure know it isn't Megatron, and I didn't even watch Transformers.)

[@funguy398]

Rome and Athens are ancient cities, so the only candidates was Berlin and Paris, could be less obvious coughs

[@hanspillow278]

Crazy story this must have been on the front page of every newspaper for the next week!

[@ohlookanotheraccount]

I did not know the answer "Brilliant" and had no idea what it is. After skipping the ad, I still have no idea what it is. I consider this an absolute win. Thanks fast forward button!

[@DeCypher67_]

I get so happy when I see there is a new video posted, doesnt matter the topic. they are all amazing! great work

[@HawkingNoise]

Damn Fern your animations are always top notch and high quality. Looking forward to see more!