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An Iceberg Chart I made of TV shows that, for one reason of another, should not exist. To clarify, the subject of this iceberg isn’t just bad TV shows. A lot of television shows in here should not exist but we are blessed that they do.
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TV Shows That Should Not Exist Iceberg Explained by Joey Engelman
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[@bigben3199]

Imagine adopting a dog that’s probably got more knowledge on flying a plane then yourself😂😂😂

[@joeyengelman]

lol damn so true

[@Mrnotpib]

Every dog has more knowledge of flying a plane than me. -12 flying skills, am too heavy.

[@chuchoggaming2132]

That’s why you’re adopting tho

[@scorpionsen4302]

Just out in the backyard on top of the doghouse fighting the Barron

[@LordmonkeyTRM]

​@@scorpionsen4302nice Snoopy reference 👌

[@dakotamwee]

What I'm learning from this video is that there was a period of time during the big reality TV boom in the 2000s where TV execs were in the studio like "Yeah, this sounds like the cruelest thing that's ever been put on TV, drop it"

[@chaos.corner]

Japan had already been running cruelty gameshows (often featured on shows like Clive James') and I think execs wanted a piece of that action, especially as standards were being relaxed.

[@superscatboy]

The boom in trash "reality" shows was a direct result of a writer's strike. The writers refused to work, so the networks said "fine, we'll just write our own shows".

[@JazzerciseJustice]

Reading this comment before I watched the video, I knew you were right, but holy shit I had no idea how right you were until after

[@freakyfro99]

Having lived through this era, yes. The Swan is something that I still talk about now and it wasn't even the worst. There were so many shows that had 0 point other than cruelty.

[@user-vm7tw2ro2k]

Check 90's japanese *game* shows. Cruelty was almost a requirement. Even a simpson episode made fun of it

[@ferretman6790]

17:31 the fact that he was attacked for the poem, instead of the Turkish government responding with facts and evidence, automatically leads me to believe that the poem was not a joke and that he actually did all of those evil things

[@Zeitgeist6]

Probably not (at least not all), but it does show how the Turkish government has become more restrictive. Erdogan has slowly allowed religious influences to take hold within the Turkish government while the founder of Turkey (Atatürk) sought to make Turkey a modern secular country. I vaguely remember this incident and it was around the same time Erdogan was in the news for restricting freedom of speech in Turkey and demanding that other countries should censor their journalists for criticizing his policies and Islam or there would be consequences. I can't remember the fine details but it was something like that. Disclaimer to provide some background on the subjects mentioned in the poem: The animal and kids thing was a criticism of Islam itself. A Dutch director (Theo van Gogh) and imfamous anti-islamist (he was later murdered by a religious extremist) popularized the term 'goatf*cker' as a slur when referring to muslims in the early 2000's here in Europe. As for the kids thing, that's a reference to the prophet's wife.

[@AlexHidanBR]

nah bruh guys can't take a "joke"

[@matthiasannaberger2469]

Fun fact, jan Böhmermann still has the same job as presenter of this show, wich is publicly funded, and is still not pulling punches.

[@1sie]

Erdogan is a piece of shit but we dont have anyone better to vote for lol

[@brotbrotsen1100]

​@@matthiasannaberger2469Nah he just calls everything Nazi now and sues people for stuff he himself does. He is a shill

[@cardinalhamneggs5253]

The reason the Copycat family fell off the bridge is very clever: the Wattersons devised a death-defying stunt that required all five of them to pull it off properly. The Copycats failed because there were only four of them.

[@eyitsmattyyy616]

The Jo Shmo Show is such a great horror concept. Imagine if everyone you know and love one day reveals to you that everything was just an act and non of the relationships and memories you made with them were real, just an act. And everyone just laughs and waves at the cameras and the audience claps and laughs as well as you break down and cry in the center of it all If someone says The Truman Show one more time I’m going to scream

[@enriquemedina3631]

That’s like the Truman Show

[@darkknight5541]

Isn't there an episode of The Twilight Zone like that?

[@thej2241]

The episode “White Bear” from Black Mirror is kind of a similar concept.

[@phoenixgirl70]

It’s sad so many of the actors didn’t get much work afterward. To stay in character, remember their back stories and just not laugh during some crazy times 24 hours a day and just roll with whatever happened amazed me. A couple of them have done well (Wiig of course,and David Hornsby has acted and produced It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia). I’ve got the show on DVD and it’s truly amazing. It’s so funny and Matt was just such a good guy.

[@FerrisFun]

Literally the Truman show but real

[@owen5854]

39:49 The thing about the Tomoaki Hamatsu (Nasubi) thing that makes it so much worse is that after he got the 1 million yen, he had to do it again in a different room. After he did that, they put him in another room, where he understood what to do stripped of his clothes, only for the room to collapsed and in front of him was an audience.

[@zmbiepuke]

you are not his wife 💀💀😭@@koryhawkins1499

[@owen5854]

@@koryhawkins1499 I have a question, what do you mean by “The Wife Here”?

[@Judgement_Kazzy]

Don't forget that round 2 was in a foreign country (South Korea), where he didn't speak the language and had to rely on a translation dictionary to read and fill out the sweepstakes.

[@thecursedgalleon7096]

​@@owen5854it is quite literal in its meaning

[@theswissmiss69]

@@koryhawkins1499what in the Truman show shit is this?!??

[@oddity7263]

Tier 1 0:13 The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid 1:35 Dogs Might Fly 2:12 Cavemen (initially a commercial series) 3:31 Turner Doomsday Video 4:45 Mystery Diners 5:41 The Mystery Of Al Capone's Vaults 6:45 The Joe Schmo Show 8:21 The Pokemon Shock Tier 2 9:50 Labor Games 10:30 Space Cadets 11:55 Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos 13:02 Vivir Del Cuento 13:36 I Want To Marry Harry 14:52 Miracle Star 15:58 Kid Nation Tier 3 16:58 Jan Böhmermann's Erdogan poem/extra 3 18:28 The Spaghetti Tree Hoax 20:17 Eaten Alive 21:28 Shattered 22:40 Superstar USA 24:08 Who Wants To Marry A Multi-Millionaire? 25:40 Compete For The Meat 26:15 1958 Sweden World Cup Tier 4 27:59 Bernd das Brot 29:24 Legends of Chamberlain Heights 30:04 The Pricemaster 31:27 Za Gaman 32:21 Unwind With The Sweeties 33:01 Poppy The Performer 34:24 Honey We're Killing The Kids Tier 5 35:30 Alternative 3 36:43 It's So Funny 37:24 BBC 1938 New York signal incident 38:44 Susunu! Denpa Shōnen 39:59 John Dillermand 40:39 The Chamber 41:49 Welcome To The Neighborhood 42:53 The Swan Tier 6 44:29 The Great Satan at Large 45:40 Aqui Agora 47:02 Darren Brown plays Russian Roulette 48:13 The Rose of Guadalupe 49:07 Brass Eye 50:05 Fun With Roadkill Handbook 50:53 Tomorrow's Pioneers 52:09 Ghostwatch 53:55 De Grote Donorshow/The Great Donor Show

[@vinc4295]

This should be pinned

[@siinxx7656]

I've never seen a more truthful description of the Rose of Guadalupe, not even from Mexicans themselves. Good job

[@carbon2600]

wait this guy’s goated

[@pepsiman7453]

Can anyone else not see the Rosa de Guadalupe segment?

[@joeyengelman]

Someone hit me with a copyright claim and I had to cut the segment 🙃

[@Marina_DU]

You are one of the few youtubers from the US that puts metric system measurements for context when talking about an imperial system measurement, and I came here to thank you for that.

[@souleaterevans4589]

16:20 I don't remember the name, but there was another show that did the "no parents" shtick, but the kids' behavior was a little concerning. One kid got so stressed from the chaotic environment that he took a kitchen knife and began aggressively stabbing objects, while cameras just kept filming.

[@andyghkfilm2287]

Lol. Dudes rock.

[@BoldActionSkitty]

I know cameramen aren't supposed to intervene unless the situation was really bad. I feel like they should intervene if one of the kids has something that can be used as a weapon.

[@aaronwoods7967]

yeah, I remember that. It was the exact program he was talking about, I never thought it was that bad, he was just attention seeking like children do, you could tell he had no intent to hurt anyone, still good to take the thing off him though, accidents happen after all. I had forgotten about the cigarettes though. It's unbelievable to me that the crew members let them do that.

[@juvenoiachild7675]

@@andyghkfilm2287 hell yeah dude

[@thatonedude6949]

Bernd is designed to : --Be entertaining for kids while also telling them to leave and go to bed. --Be relatable to adults who are watching over theyr kid while they are watching TV. --Be something drunk people will have a fun time watching. In other word : Bernd das Brot has a place in the heart of every German.

[@angrypie1852]

Seeing popee the performer on this list made me jump from my chair, I used to be obssessed with that show and even joined online fanbases for it and did a lot of fan art of it. What a wild show!

[@sammieegoldwand]

Honestly as much as I am a fan of popee, im not surprised it's on the list. It should have at least been an adult show, and not a kids show in my opinion.

[@nonAehT]

Honestly, "Bernd das Brot" is great. since it loops it helps you fall asleep, and every month there is a new loop. Those sketches really get a bunch of creative freedom and often have great and funny and sometimes really meta stuff in them. Since it loops it doesn't keep you too interested to fall asleep, and since bernd is very low energy and calm there are usually no loud noised to startle you or wake you up, so it's perfect to roll in the background while you try to fall asleep. It is honestly my favourite TV show to fall asleep to.

[@joaovitormatos8147]

Being Brazilian, claiming that the 1958 FIFA World Cup not happening is almost anti-patriotic

[@joeyengelman]

*wins the freakin World Cup* 🗣 F A K E

[@carloszarzoso1724]

I'm from the UK I was a kid a watched ghost watch live at the end when titles went up it said sound affects by and the actors names but it was believable. I saw brass eye it was funny actually I've seen few of these shows.

[@ConvincingPeople]

One important detail about the Porygon incident: It was almost certainly an outbreak of mass hysteria, with very few actual seizures due to photosensitive epilepsy-tragic though this is, there seem to have only been about five in total-and the vast majority of reports being children claiming to feel ill after the fact whose overzealous parents blamed the episode after the fact. A lot of sources in the Anglosphere misreported this due to the atmosphere of hysteria surrounding Pokémon's perceived violent content and "foreignness," however, which spread the urban legend further.

[@dizzy60527]

Exactly.

[@vismattress5760]

mass hysteria 🙄 my foot. im always skeptical of ANYTHING labeled "mass hysteria" it was just the news overexaggerating the truth

[@carolyns4519]

​@@vismattress5760.....that's what "mass hysteria" means.

[@vismattress5760]

@@carolyns4519 no, it doesn’t. Mass hysteria is different than the corrupt news. Mass hysteria is when the people cause panic, not when the news lies for clicks.

[@an0rmalp3rson70]

@@vismattress5760 it was a mix of the two, ya DingDong

[@ZimVader-0017]

I only knew about The Swan because of Luxeria 😂 There's also a show called "Bridalplasty", where they would take women who were about to get married and submit them to various plastic surgeries, with not enough time between said surgeries, and without them being able to even see their families during the reality show.

[@kingofmilfgaard7604]

what the hell

[@jon-paulfilkins7820]

For those outside the UK. K Foundation was also the 'band' KLF, the biggest selling singles artist in the UK in the early 90's with their stadium house trilogy. However, as they explained at the time, they had to deal with a LOT of music industry bilge water as a result, so they felt the money was tainted by their experiences. Check out their stadium house trilogy, then watch their Brits performance when they "left the music industry".

[@carbon2600]

Sorry man it looks like you put a lot of effort into this comment but nobody gives even half a fuck about those guys.

[@tomlouie2855]

Their album liner notes were epicly weird. When I heard they burned a million quid, I was like, yeah, not surprised.

[@stephanniemorin]

Soooo, the money burn was an act of protest? Respect, if true

[@beatnikmary]

Ohhhhh....that makes so much more sense if they were actually KLF. Thanks for the info!!

[@chaos.corner]

The thing about burning the money is that it's not like the value disappeared. Everyone else's money increased in value a little bit in consequence. At least until the government inflated it away.

[@stevefromlatvia79]

Some German dude legit started a international political crisis with a simple poem. What a freakin' legend.

[@joeyengelman]

lol easily one of my favorite entries in here

[@biggestastiest]

that is a wild comment out of context

[@superrazor7617]

The second time that has happened in our history

[@jaymevosburgh3660]

​@@superrazor7617 What other German started an international crisis after reading a poem on television?!

[@superrazor7617]

@@jaymevosburgh3660 1942 ill leave it at that

[@katieg1071]

Oh, that Japanese "don't sit too close and watch in a bright room" isn't just for TV shows! For example, sometimes on the main menu of Fire Emblem Warriors, your system voice will remind you of these two things. Which means every character has a line for it. Which is really funny because it's incredibly out of place in the medieval magic setting

[@Pooky1991]

Yeah. Many games have that warning now.

[@stimihendrix3404]

True, but i think its origin is based on the “Electric soldier porygon” pokemon episode

[@0uttaS1TE]

That honestly freaks me out a little. One time I heard a character say "My, you're up late!" upon quitting back to the main menu. I know it makes comments based on your system clock, and that kind of thing is somewhat quaint now, but still.

[@novameowww]

they should've made that one of byleth's taunts in smash

[@RisingSunfish]

Pick a spot and stay! …at least ten feet from the TV.

[@fairygoth-mother7341]

"Making a TV show based on a commercial might not be a good idea" Anyone ever heard of Max Headroom? That was originally a Coca Cola commercial that was made into a TV series. If I recall correctly it lasted 3 seasons. It was pretty good actually. Starred Matt Frewer and Amanda Pays.

[@jaguarr314]

...no?

[@chibiusa4072]

There's also Ted Lasso.

[@wbfaulk]

The original TV movie, the show that's just Max presenting music videos, and the TV show that follows on from the movie all predate the Coke commercials.

[@gyroscope915]

Nah that lady in the sleep show was unhinged. I believe 100% that she arm wrestled that boxer.

[@DemonnPrincess9]

If I'm not mistaken, I distinctly remember that with the Porygon incident, WAY less little ones would've had to be hospitalized if the news channels in Japan wouldn't have mass-reshowed the "seizure" part of the episode on air while discussing it. It let to way more people being hospitalized. I could be wrong, I was TINY when this happened but I do remember news about it airing on Japanese tv and them showing the part on the news.

[@WilfredCthulu]

That is exactly what happened yeah.

[@GGsquared]

yeah I was wondering how 3 seconds of flashing lights would be enough to send hundreds of people to the hospital, that makes a lot of sense

[@carolyns4519]

I know it's horrible, but honestly I find what the news did to be really funny. To be clear, it's NOT funny that those poor kids got seizures, but the fact that the news people were so stupid as to air a clip they knew could hurt people...real big brain move right there LMAO

[@bunnyluver2176]

The Simpsons did a great parody of this on their Japan vacation episode

[@tsurugizaki]

​@@GGsquared I saw the episode a few years ago - the flashing lights last a lot longer than three seconds. It's a decently long portion of the latter part of the episode. It's pretty easy to find online but obviously DO NOT watch it if you have any suspicion of having photosensitive epilepsy.

[@jarvis]

when the world needed him most he returned

[@joeyengelman]

just trying my best 💛🫡

[@nshadex72]

JARVIS WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!?!?!

[@r0tten.b0y]

Hi jarvis

[@juliusnepos6013]

Hello Jarvis!

[@lyu1ee]

hi jarvis! :)

[@Wolfspirat]

As a german i can say you dont even question bernd the bread if you grew up with him. The joke is that he speaks of things like no other character from the kids channel hes belonging to ever could bc hes so much more serious then all of them. And diving into the lore thats actually completely normal behaviour for a bread, as well as that his favorite food is flour soup and his favorite hobby is staring at woodchip wallpapers. But still i totally get that the concept must be completely unhinged for those who arent familiar with it. xD

[@whattawonderfulworld9329]

tw// suicide on 46:19 i can't believe the infamous ryuk (death note) aesthetic photos was actually taken from this footage. may the girl rest in peace.

[@thelastdankbender4353]

Bernd das Brot is one of the most geniusly crafted satirical shows to ever air on German Television. Glad you're bringing it up, it deserves international recognition.

[@writeordie5452]

Sounded like a great example of a modern take on the "Theatre of the Absurd", with the 1953 play "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett as its prime example. The premise of the play is that two main characters, Vladimir and Estragon, are as the title says waiting for Godot. The stage is completely empty with the exeption of a single tree. They don't know how long their wated, or how long they'll have to wait, or if perhaps Godot has already been there. They basically just wait because they know they have to, in a reality that could well be seen as something outisde of time and space. There are many ways to read and try to understand the meaning behind the play (Beckett himself simply said "It means what it means" when being asked about one of his other plays meant, which might tell you quite a lot about his unwillingness to explain), but in general it's a great example of the Sisyphean reality that too many experience. I'm sure the creators of Bern das Brot were directly or indirectly inspired by Beckett and the Theatre of the Absurd.

[@damdampapa]

Bernd ist Gott!! It's like how the American shows The Simpsons or Futurama show how the American culture "tickt".

[@generichumanname2420]

@@writeordie5452 It is primarily intended to encourage children who are awake after 9 p.m. to go to bed. That's why a video is looped that is around five minutes long and the viewers are asked in various ways to sleep so that Bernd can finally go. The channel is called Ki.Ka which is short for Kinder Kanal(=children's channel) and the channel itself gives this as a reason. Since the Ki.Ka is part of public television and the funds for those in Germany are distributed very unfairly, it is probably more to save money.

[@klausohnehaus5196]

Nein dann wäre es nix mehr besonders :(

[@seaweed1068]

it's insane to me that the only problem they had with Poppy was the fact that only having 3 fingers could be considered a disability

[@molybdomancer195]

I wonder whether the issue is more that lacking fingers is a sign you belong to the Japanese gangsters the Yakuza.

[@Zeitgeist6]

Honestly I feel it may have more to do with similarities to the Yakuza practice of cutting off fingers/digits. That's why most anime characters explicitly have 5 fingers instead of 4 or less like in a lot of Western cartoons.

[@Zeitgeist6]

@@molybdomancer195 Probably. I know that has been an issue in the past when releasing Western cartoons in Japan.

[@ens0246]

Always good that people are being made aware of Brass Eye but definitely it shouldn't be classed as "Shouldn't have been on TV" Every episode is brilliant. My favourite bit about that particular episode is when the presenter brings his son on and demands the confirmed offender in the stocks say how he would assault his them. Only for the offender to turn around and say that he didnt find his son attractive. The host obviously is shocked and tries to immediately mask his disappointment shouting "w..w..well good!'

[@joeyengelman]

To clarify, the subject of this iceberg isn’t just bad TV shows. A lot of television shows in here should not exist in a “I can’t believe they got away with this” kinda way

[@MBJK_baby]

35:07 as an introvert I have some of the nicest skin on the planet for someone with PCOS. No hyperpigmentation, rare acne spots on my face, etc, and its quite nice

[@coolcreep]

I watched the Joe Schmo show as it was airing, and honestly it was one of my favourite shows at the time. Matt was awesome, I still remember him awkwardly stumbling over telling the gay "cast member" he supported him, and honestly found it so unique and interesting compared to other shows at the time. I think the intent was to satirize reality tv moreso than mock Matt, but I could be remembering wrong.

[@smackmybitchup9543]

True. It wasn't supposed about making him look like a dummy or fool. It was about him being a regular guy and if they could make him believe he was on a reality show. Anyone would have been fooled not just an idiot.

[@mrsaeddiccus4244]

I loved it because he did end up being such a nice guy

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

100th like

[@bonghitsandheavyriffs]

gunnartvlive did an amazing watchthrough of all the episodes, it was so surreal seeing it all again

[@rodluv21]

What is going ooon!?

[@auntiefish4192]

As someone who watched Ghostwatch on its original broadcast, I can confirm that it was *terrifying*. The commitment to verisimilitude was seriously impressive. All the presenters were well known to presenters at the time. The phone number used was a real bbc phone number famously used for the Saturday morning kids show call ins. Even if you knew it wasn’t real, you believed it.

[@srahhh]

We watched Ghostwatch a few Halloweens ago, it was genuinely one of the best horror "movies" I've seen in a while!

[@malemrajoinam]

I saw this once I the ghost watch part came on bit coincidentally

[@michaelb6349]

30:30 pricemaster! One of the people involved in that was Rick Perry, art director for Dropout and Dimension 20!!

[@aaronmerrill4730]

That spaghetti tree thing is pure brilliance. Right down to instructing people to place a "sprig" of spaghetti into some tomato sauce and hope for the best... 🤣 A+ trolling...

[@michaelstevenson5044]

"This is the one thing we didn't want to happen" Cracks me up so much I'm definitely watching that show, it sounds hilarious

[@LusterDust]

I was stopped dead in my tracks by laughter and I felt so guilty until I saw that that spot was the most replayed.

[@BadWebDiver]

Wait till you see the segment how pedo get kids over the internet! That's the best bit. Apparently noone had the slightest clue how the internet and monitor screens worked back then! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@user-zp9dn9yz1r]

It's a great show. Amazing satire.

[@seanthompson1197]

yeah, i legit lol'ed

[@MouseGoat]

yeah that was way to funny. The hole idea of sending him to space only for it to have ended up lucking him in sided with a child. It somehow just captures the stupidity of news channel reporting on stuff perfectly. The hole dramatizations of situations that they are a direct result of, and the irony of solving a isue in way over kill manor only to have it backfired completely. welcome to politics.

[@NorthStarBlue1]

Ironically Geraldo and Al Capone's vault was one of the very few times where a high profile failure actually ended up helping someone's career, it became a big running joke that popped up in other shows for years and he was enough of a good sport about it that he'd even joke about it once in a while. Most people would either try to suppress a flop like that or get upset when it was brought up, but being able to roll with it definitely helped maintain his popularity.

[@alicewright4322]

"There was nothing in Al Capone's vault, but it wasn't Geraldo's fault" -Homer Simpson

[@BadWebDiver]

He's always seemed a fairly fun easygoing guy, especially for a Fox personality.

[@shaeisgae8952]

The idea of the swan is actually horrifying, I would never ever wish body dysmorphia on my worst enemy and to essentially just give it to someone is so awful, not to mention the normalization of body shaming and treating non standard body types/facial features etc. as bad.

[@n3a7]

30:15 I got to the Pricemaster, and I swear to god I’ve never laughed so hard in my life. There are tears running down my face from laughing so hard. My sense of humor is some combination of loving of blunt satire, surrealist humor, and anything where there’s glaring absurdity in mundane situations, so it tickled something deep in my brain. As soon as The Pricemaster panned into view, I completely lost it

[@PronteCo]

yep. same

[@itayeldad3317]

Ted lasso was originally a series of sketches promoting broadcasts of premier league games on NBC. So it is possible to make a successful TV show out of a commercial

[@CriminaIlyInsane]

Joe shmo is the equivalent of the show "jury duty" nowadays, where an entire movie set is pranking one guy

[@Begeru]

At least that show was very wholesome

[@raptorskilltor4554]

Or the true man show movie

[@Bonde7280]

In Denmark we actually had a series of commercials that ended up being turned into a movie. "Polle Fiction" was watched by 300,000 people in the theaters alone. Pretty decent from a full population of only 5 million.

[@Rescel1]

30:38 i cant stop laughing this got me cold holy is that funny

[@We_silly]

8:30 what people don’t usually understand about this episode was the media trying to cancel/ban Pokémon. It’s true that Japanese kids did get headaches and epileptic seizures, but the numbers are staggered, the only reason so many kids went to the hospital was because of worried parents and pandemonium about the show.

[@Loccyster]

From what I remember, most of the kids weren't taken to hospital on the day the episode aired, but the following days, after they had gone back to school and spoken to their friends about it lol

[@LadyGoof]

While true they probably should have put a warning at the beginning of the episode. Photosensitive triggered epilepsy is common enough that the should have been warnings. Especially since Nintendo consoles tend to have that warning when you turn them on, they probably should have done it for this episode.

[@magentasunbringer]

do u understand that this happened before they used those warnings regularly? @@LadyGoof

[@FrenkTheJoy]

I heard somewhere that the majority of the seizures were triggered when the news aired a segment from the show. And it's still BS Porygon got basically canceled from the tv show even though it was all Pikachu's fault.

[@hoodedman6579]

What you said may be true, but the actual original flashing lights were completely inexcusable regardless.

[@vagranthippopotamus2738]

"The film was supposed to be aired on April Fool’s Day, but was delayed until June" On the plus side, no one would have been expecting it

[@Blitzkrieg_Wolf]

15:26 R34 artists: "And I took that personally"

[@sandrohernandez4401]

Hear me out

[@tepsicouch]

Giving the girls a fake therapist is genuinely the greatest piece of gaslighting in history

[@mrman991]

The Brass Eye special is genius because the reaction they got from the tabloids is the exact thing it was satirising. their total lack of self awareness meant they ran straight into it, like you said, bemoaning the show while also sexsualising a 15 year old before doing the "count down to leagal" for charlotte church. And yet our tabloids in teh UK are still just as vile

[@aarondavis8943]

"This was the one thing we didn't want to happen" 😂😂

[@videoviperOG]

Its because men own all of the tabloids worldwide. The problem is men. Men who manipulate and brainwash for power to feed their own self-righteous egos and narcissism.

[@ens0246]

​@@aarondavis8943The brilliant thing is that sentence has been uttered hundreds of times in Britain as the plans of bureaucrats goes absolutely tits up 😂

[@klisher]

Brass eye was classic must watch tv, this episode as well as a couple more (the drugs one, the animal welfare one) even yesterday i was quoting "going to change the name from the british isles to the pedif isles. " the reason it was so attacked wasnt the viewing audience but the press and media getting revenge for being shown as the scum they really are.

[@mrman991]

@@klisher It blows me away that they're still doing the same stuff these days too. I remember the Sun running the "countdown to legal" when Charlotte Church was coming up to her 16th birthday. I never understood that one, how was that in any way ok?

[@Begeru]

I can think of a show that totally belongs here, probably in tier 4 or 5. “Opposite Worlds” on the SyFy channel. “Fourteen people face off on opposing teams as they live in a house separated by a glass wall into one past and one future world, each with its own unique advantages and disadvantages; each player's fate is determined by viewer participation.” It was horrible. The past people had to literally camp with no heat and no real food. The future really had no downside at all. Jenny Nicholson made a great video on it.

[@Blitzkrieg_Wolf]

49:07 So THIS is where those memes came from!

[@nargalda773]

48:37 i laugh so hard, that i literaly shit my self laughing

[@matsu8518]

Thank you for mentioning popee the performer. That show is wack but I actually really love it. The low budget 3D (which i actually think is done well), as well as the lack of speaking (apart from one time), works to the shows advantage. It's just a weird show that I got a kick out of. The creator had another show as well.

[@joeyengelman]

i honestly enjoyed watching the episodes they're entertaining and creative 👏

[@baconsarny-geddon8298]

Popee is the absolute pinacle of anime. Evangelion, Beserk, Monster, Akira, Ghosts of the Fireflies are all DECENT... but none reach the level of PURE ART that Popee achieves.

[@Jhud69]

Fun fact the creator and his wife are working on a sequel, but I think it's going to be in a comic form or something. The wife who designed the characters still draws them all the time though, very good art

[@illford6921]

I watched this show when I was 13-14 and ngl I think its affected how I see comedy at this point, I need something that captures the unnerving nonsensical nature that made it funny

[@BORAKARAKA]

I find it funny that popee is trying to kill the wolf dude but he dies more times

[@nottheshirt483]

So the key takeaway from this video is that we really love torturing each other. Alright Also, one thing about "The Swan" is that one of the doctors on the show, Dr. Dubrow, is the star doctor in the series "Botched". I like to think that he realized the error of his ways.

[@joeyengelman]

yep thats basically the conclusion i've come to as well

[@ImTheGuy]

Truly the days of the gladiator live on.

[@BlaxExodia]

yt

[@MrZappaman420]

he's also Kevin Dubrow's (Quiet Riot Singer) brother

[@Mondomeyer]

Weird Al made fun of Hoaldo's vault raid in UHF. There's a scene where he breaks into Al Capone's glove compartment. "Ah-ha, road maps!"

[@hiimemily]

Here's one that I would have included, complete with a write-up: This show was literally so funny, it killed a man. _The Goodies_ was a British comedy starring the titular trio of comedians, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie, that aired 76 episodes from 1970 to 1982. One of these episodes, first aired in March 1975, was "Kung Fu Kapers". Bill teaches the other two a martial art named "Ecky Thump", which simply involves hitting people over the head with black pudding. 50-year-old viewer Alex Mitchell of King's Lynn found the episode so hilarious that he laughed throughout the entire thing, after which, according to his widow, he "slumped on the settee and died" of a heart attack. It's thought that he had long QT syndrome, as his granddaughter would later be diagnosed with the condition after suffering her own heart attack. While his widow was distraught, she was at least appreciative of the Goodies, writing a letter thanking them for making his final moments so pleasant.

[@SwiftpawWolffox]

The best part about the Gumball Copycats episode is the Watersons succeed because of that one difference -- the copycats don't have an Aiese (I can never spell her name) because of the Chinese law limiting children.

[@but_heres_the_homestuck]

anais

[@leeshapon]

He literally said that in the video.

[@MontySlython]

@@leeshaponhe didn't say that's why they won though.

[@anonymousapproximation8549]

​@@MontySlythonI thought they won because they couldn't copy the hippy teacher referencing Tienamen Square

[@Jaiden_Anime_Shuns]

Seems like a reference to real life. China is struggling right now after trying so hard to copy and outdo their competitor America. We see from their poor working conditions right now they are about to meet the same end as the goats.

[@planescaped]

I've seen the Paedogeddon Brass Eye episode, and it was great. Really tore into how the media almost salivates at the chance to cover sensationalistic stories. Also Brass Eye was just a fantastic show in general, wish It'd had more episodes.

[@elLooto]

All the while running active cover for pdos in their own organisations.

[@Thuusu]

I assume you're already aware, but Brass Eye was a spiritual successor to The Day Today and On the Hour (which incidentaly was where Steve Coogan's Alan Partridge first debuted), and if you've not watched or listened to them before, I highly reccomend them

[@taylorbriceno5585]

@@elLooto "in their own organizations" meaning Brass Eye?

[@elLooto]

@@taylorbriceno5585 Meaning the British MSM.

[@taylorbriceno5585]

@@elLooto ahhh okay, I live in the US so I wasn’t aware

[@mikeb6085]

33:00 Poppy walked, so Xavier Renegade Angel could run

[@christopherappleyard9061]

I loved watching the Joe Schmo Show. I thought it was a great spoof on reality TV. Never got the idea they were making fun of Matt, and his genuine niceness restored some of my faith in humanity back then. It's worth watching, and seeing him constantly (unknowingly) throwing curveballs at the production staff is awesome.

[@user-yb1jm6us7f]

For me, I’d probably throw in The Moment of Truth for being probably one of the more wilder polygraph-based shows on TV at the time knowing how many secrets people would answer truthfully in front of their friends, spouses, and loved ones all to win up to $500,000. I remember the first time watching one episode as a child, and it left me shocked to see someone lose out on $100,000 and her marriage back then, along with the only $500,000 winner which was even tougher to watch

[@SetsunaTheFandom]

watched the first episode of it, can't stand watching the next ones eventually...

[@kurlykayla9013]

It gets wilder. One of the contestants on the Peruvian version of the show confessed to cheating and was eventually murdered by her husband who was on the show with her

[@Objectnimations]

​@@kurlykayla9013 Isn't that the 1st episode contestant?

[@Big_Country_67]

31:16 Fun fact, pricemaster is made by the same people that made Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared

[@luddyaeterna]

Hi, German here. I love that you called him Jan Boomermann. The show is great though and it should exist because it always tackles such topics nobody talks about and still exists to this day. Even got promoted from a secondary TV channel to a main one.

[@davefox72]

Wow! I'm subscribed! I can't imagine the amount of research that you'd have to put in to do a 1-hour video like this. good job you definitely earned my subscription and my gratitude. Jason.

[@FlyingFox86]

I think that Joe Shmo show would have been better if the Joe was also secretly an actor that the other actors didn't know about. He would then display increasingly strange behavior to see how well the other actors could cope with that and stay in character themselves.

[@mikeb6085]

Joeception

[@n3a7]

And if we take that concept to its logical conclusion, call it the Joe Milgram Show, and have a bunch of people who think they’re actual contestants on a reality show with a single actor playing someone who is losing their grip on reality while the producers are telling the real contestants to push the secret fake contestant to the brink because it’ll get them screen time

[@sammieegoldwand]

That is actually a freaking hilarious idea for a show

[@tb3411]

Well this was one of the most traumatizing icebergs I've ever seen. Take a shot for each entry that involves someone being gaslighted. And seriously... that Ghostwatch entry was the definition of escalating quickly.

[@NikoJr.]

Selling your house because a gay couple moved in near you is probably one of the most stupidly spiteful things I've ever heard of

[@ZeallustImmortal]

"This is the one thing we didnt want to happen!" Is such a legendary punch line, im sorry.

[@joeyengelman]

Lmao it’s amazing

[@MisterFribble]

I love how the BBC builds up a ton of trust and occasionally just drops an absolute bomb on it for the laughs

[@castor4357]

While I feel sorry for the would-be astronauts, I find it quite astonishing that they did not question the gravity in space (and the whole concept of the show)

[@tarnvedra9952]

If you didn´t watch it, its available on youtube. They had quite good selection process, weeding out anyone already interested in science, space, science-fiction and then selected the ones that were most gullible and likely to follow the hivemind. Few of them were also actors to keep the group on track.

[@raouldukestudios]

I was gonna say... how the hell did they not figure it out when they had to actually board the capsule on the "shuttle"... indoors...

[@molybdomancer195]

They were basically brainwashed. They were under the control of the tv producers and there was even a plant within the group whose job was was to deflect their doubts as they arose. As for the gravity, they were told that as they were going to be in “near space” there would still be gravity. One contestant had issues for some t8me after the shoe distinguishing reality so this was not a harmless prank.

[@Albtraum_TDDC]

@@tarnvedra9952 Flat Earthers? Fundamentalists? Scientologists?

[@Timodifiying]

wow, imagine the flex at the dog park. my dog can sit, shake hands, roll over. yeah? my dog's a pilot

[@frankbrodie5168]

The Brass Eye Paedogeddon episode is one of the greatest self affirming shows ever shown on TV. And I'm absolutely positive that Chris Morris himself would be proud to hit tier 1 in your ranking. Everything it satirised was simply QED'd by the reactions to the show itself.

[@OneNoneCares]

Oh dang I was so excited when you mentioned ghostwatch! Controversy aside it's a fascinating piece of horror history especially since it predates the blair witch project and it always reminded me of the infamous war of the worlds radio broadcast. I definitely recommend it for people who are into horror history

[@joeyengelman]

Totally! It was so ahead of its time. A must watch for fans of the found footage genre

[@ConvincingPeople]

There is something of an explanation of why The K Foundation, better known as the music group The KLF, burned all that money: They had become a massively successful pop group through following a formula which they laid out in a book entitled The Manual, and were systematically rejecting the fame which this brought them through increasingly bizarre and off-putting stunts, including having the grindcore band Extreme Noise Terror perform their hit song "3 AM Eternal" for them at the Brit Awards and then firing AKs loaded with blanks over the audience. The money-burning, and the subsequent deletion of their entire back-catalogue, was the culmination of this campaign.

[@MadsterV]

gotta love natural selection

[@COOLMAN87]

32:06 irl total drama?!?!

[@CharlieCat-fn5gw]

These are legit iceberg videos man good stuff

[@BraxtonHoward]

Surprised "queen for a day" wasn't included. The first "look at this person's grief" reality show that paraded war widows out to beg for food for their kids. Then giving them a puppy or makeup.

[@joeyengelman]

i'm actually planning out a Game Shows That Should Not Exist and that is absolutely gonna be in there

[@BraxtonHoward]

Awesome. It's really one of those "are most people basically evil?" types of societal rot.

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

The fact that we’re not even halfway down the iceberg, & we’ve got I Wanna Marry Harry already, means that there are even worse ideas for shows out there.

[@K9River]

I remember the spaghetti tree thing being done to me as a kid. The teachers played it in school. I remember sitting there trying to figure out what was going on. So confused.

[@ujustgotpwned2008]

A couple of things about 'Space Cadets', from a British person (me) who saw it when it was on: 1) The contestants weren't very convinced by the take-off, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the lack of zero-gravity had one or two of them commenting that it felt a bit fake. And secondly, a moth got into the studio, meaning that they had to shut the windows of the 'space shuttle' for some of the take-off, which made them doubt it even more. 2) The reason that the audience thought it might be a double-con and that the whole thing might be a hoax is that one of the contestants (the guy with big curly hair) appeared in an advert/commercial that was in the ad break of the show itself. By an extraordinary coincidence, that guy had been an extra in an advert for giving blood - and that advert played in the ad break of 'Space Cadets', which many people thought was a clue that he was in fact an actor himself. This was briefly addressed in the final episode after the ruse was revealed, and the contestant basically said "nah I was just earning a bit of money as a paid extra. I guess, um... don't give blood!" That said, three of the contestants WERE actors. But not all. And the audience was told about those three. The show had a neat premise but didn't really convince its contestants enough to be entertaining. The moment the lack of zero-gravity thing happened you could tell no-one was really convinced.

[@gyroscope915]

With commercial space travel becoming more and more viable today, id love to see a recreation but one that is funded by some crazy billionare so they can build full size sets and better props. Imagine the space ship being like those sets from insecption that can tilt and rotate full 360 degrees to add to the feeling. Obviously its always gonna be impossible to do 0g but they can definitely make a lot more of a dramatic and impressive simulation if they had the money today

[@ThatDudeWithBoobs]

A great aspect of Popee the Performer is his assistant, Kedamono the wolf, who only emotes through masks. Throughout the whole series, you never see his real face, and it becomes the main plot of the finale episode where another character, a frog, sees it for the first time. It leads up to the first and only voice line in the entire series, which I won't spoil here because it's worth the build-up and gets a surprisingly emotional end from the otherwise humorously sadistic show.

[@ansdoesfandoms1007]

see i always wondered why my old friends liked poppee the performer, but i never knew anything about it until now. it’s just a 3d happy tree friends (if that’s what the shows called. i haven’t watched it in awhile) kinda reminds me of amanda the adventurer

[@carlosi.1303]

As a young hispanic lad, Rosa de Guadalupe was a staple of my elementary school days. I vividly remember an episode that was meant to scare people away from homosexuality by painting the gay kids as r***sts and that the kid who was abused ended up bleeding from the penis and then passing out from blood loss. It was wild.

[@Psychprogrock]

I have a special place in my heart for the episode where a girl eats a marihuana plant and becomes uncontrollably demented until the mother confesses that it was her fault because she had smoked a joint when pregnant of her. This immediately brought in the magic wind and instantaneously cured the girl of her addiction to chewing marihuana leaves.

[@smg8048]

​@@Psychprogrockthat's hilarious

[@theodorekaczynski8147]

26:11 He hypnotized someone to call him daddy

[@KiyaNene]

9:02 there’s no way dude for real said “the real victim is the company, not the 12,000+ children who dealt with complications”

[@ImVeryOriginal]

It's very obviously a joke.

[@Amins88]

God, I still remember the Porygon Panic! News headlines claiming "Pokemon is bad for your kids and will give them seizures!" It would seem like such a simple fix to just edit the problematic scene, but nothing could fix the damage done by the sensational media coverage.

[@Radman1889]

Usually on iceberg charts I note how deep down I managed to get based on if I've actually heard of the content involved. This is the first time I've actually heard of media on every level of the chart. Crazy

[@joeyengelman]

i can’t tell if that’s a good or bad thing lol either way I appreciate you watching all the way through and hope you enjoyed it

[@Radman1889]

@@joeyengelman Just means you weren't obscure enough. :P Still entertaining though 👍

[@mattalan6618]

@@Radman1889 or it means tat you shouldnt be such a goddamn asshole bitch

[@joshuabarry6083]

I remember when I was about 5, I asked my father where Spaghetti came from. He immediately brought me over to the computer and showed me the ‘BBC special’. It took me several years to realise the joke.

[@grungeisdead_94]

So glad Popee the performer made the list! I actually started loving that show at 12 because it got popular and it lead me into liking smaller shows and adult cartoons.

[@MoonbearStartiger]

As a kid in the 90s and 2000s its insane how toxic and surreal "reality shows" were back then...

[@aquarius5264]

hey it's better than today's fuckin slop

[@coltonwilkie241]

​@@aquarius5264 Facts. I'd much rather have toxic shows than a show with a non-binary dinosaur.

[@johndoe-fb9uz]

@@coltonwilkie241 poor you

[@chadd990]

@@coltonwilkie241 My advice for people like you who have nothing better to do than complain about non-binary dinosaurs: just change the channel.

[@HECKINSOY]

"wah so toxic wah so bad!" grow up

[@Edramon53]

Knew Ghostwatch would have to be in this somewhere. There was a BBC show called Spy in 2004 that could have been an honourable mention in a lower tier - it was a great show, the fairly minor issues around it being the contestants trying their espionage skills on regular members of the public, and occasionally committing actual crimes in the process. And there's plenty of Derren Brown stunts that could have been all over this list.

[@immortalsofar5314]

I saw it at the time and the format was common but, to be absolutely certain, I checked out the credits and found "special effects". Apparently, though, even BBC workers were asking each other "Have you seen what's happening in Studio 3???"

[@ianbowman6595]

Amazing work on this video! I was glued to my phone for the most of it, especially at the end!

[@UnInfinityy]

I absolutely love this channel, but there's something about these iceberg vids in particular that give me a serious sense of dread and I don't know why lol

[@AleTitan]

49:12 the worst part is that the teaser was only teased about 2-3 weeks after the tragedy took place. People were literally still grieving when that came on tv

[@moodymermaid3690]

I watched "Honey, We're Killing the Kids!" religiously as a child. I could never remember the name of it over the years and was about to write it off as a fever dream or some obscure lost media. Good to know I'm not totally insane, sad to know I was insane enough to watch it so much back in the day. 😅

[@zimbot_KWB]

I came to hear whichever sound of mine you used and .... wow, I watched the whole thing and enjoyed it. And I noticed the sound at a couple of tier transitions. Great job.

[@netto6681]

The “Compete for the Meat” game show makes more sense when you know that an old British pub custom is to have “meat raffles”, where you can win meat, and Al Murray’s stand up character is a pub landlord.

[@erictaylor5462]

There is a Star Trek TNG blooper that involved the German dubbed version of an episode where every crew member on the ship vanishes along with every trace of their ever existing, except in Dr. Crusher's memory. Finally she is all alone on the ship. On the bridge she activates the view screen and instead of stars she sees the ship is surrounded by a greyish white fog or mist. She asks "What is that mist?" In the German dub they translate the question into German but instead of translating "mist" into it's German counterpart, they leave the word as "mist" And so in the episode Crusher asks, "What is that shit?" I bit out of character I think.

[@gal4xybr0]

LOL I love this

[@gabeangel8104]

Damn, I remember watching that ghostwatch. At the time I was a very Christian teenager who had been conditioned to see demonic activity as a very real thing and taught that any number of things could 'open the door to demons in my own life'. I don't even know why my parents let me watch ghostwatch that night because usually I wasn't even allowed to celebrate Halloween at all. I was blimin' terrified!

[@alxinldn11]

I've never come across this channel before, wow, great video!

[@fatkrab7556]

Although i hate the idea of a show that deprives people of a basic need(even though it is consentual and rewarded), claire was a genius. And i mean, a smarter jimmy neutron genius. Using the adrenaline boost from things like pain and rushes to keep yourself awake is a amazing idea

[@BuggingonBeeroids]

I'm glad the UK's weird history with pranks and reality tv shows is getting a bit of rep!

[@abemcg3803]

The Joe Schmo Show was actually one of the best fake reality shows ever, Matt was just too pure for this show, I hope he’s doing well 😊

[@aarondavis8943]

I remember it well. For pre-internet times it was mind blowing. The host was particularly funny and well chosen for the part.

[@AdamDonaldson7272]

What a great video, stuff I never heard of or vaguely remember, thanks

[@HeadsetShiba]

I've been looking for "honey were killing the kids" for years and I could never remember the name. Thank you!!!