Richard Ayoade FUMES During Jen Brister's 90's Quiz! | Question Team | Dave

Richard Ayoade gets HEATED over technicalities in Jen Brister's 90's quiz, with James Acaster and Lara Ricote!
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[@DoctorFurioso]

Richard's right though. The reason why jets didn't fall out of the sky and toasters didn't attack people, or whatever, is because they fixed the bug during the 1990s.

[@lastnihilist9]

he is.

[@robertbrennan8187]

The Millennium Bug is a terrible item for that quiz. Arguably Richard is wrong because the bug itself was created well before the 90s. Really, it's not just one bug, but a decision made for a lot of software and hardware to only hold two digits for the year. There were probably some people proactive enough to fix the big before the 90s. As a popular news story, the Millennium Bug was from the 1990s, which was Richard's thinking, probably. The Millennium Bug would apply on January 1, 2000 but otherwise marking it with that year feels really wrong.

[@DoctorFurioso]

@@robertbrennan8187 You're right-- but still, as a cultural phenomenon/meme, it was a strictly 1990s phenomenon.

[@robertbrennan8187]

@@DoctorFurioso Yeah, in the spirit of the quiz it should have had a "start" year of 1995/1996 and Richard should have been still in the game.

[@luminiferous1960]

According to the National Geographic: "When complex computer programs were first written in the 1960s, engineers used a two-digit code for the year, leaving out the "19." As the year 2000 approached, many believed that the systems would not interpret the "00" correctly, therefore causing a major glitch in the system." Thus, The Millennium Bug (or as we called in the USA the Y2K bug) originated in the 1960s, and therefore, Richard is wrong, but not for the reason given in the show. For those who say that the cultural phenomenon associated with The Millennium Bug occurred in the 1990s, that is correct, but the words on the board read "The Millennium Bug" not "The cultural phenomenon associated with The Millennium Bug."

[@davidallen111]

The book, "The Millenium bug", was published in 1998. It's from the 90s.

[@thomassears7396]

RA was right. The Millenium Bug WAS from the 90s. It DID NOT happen in 2000 - that was the point.

[@torgnyaanderaa2334]

You simply can't say "The Millenium Bug" WASN'T a 90's thing. That's when we talked and worried about it. Come 2000, it turned out it was fine. And it wasn't an issue anymore. Boo, I say. Boooo! Point to Richard.

[@BlairdBlaird]

It "turned out it was fine" because an estimated $300bn was spent in investigating, fixing, and mitigating the issue in critical systems. But don't worry we've got a do-over coming up in 2038.

[@torgnyaanderaa2334]

@@BlairdBlaird I stand corrected. "Come 2000, they had fixed it, and it wasn't an issue anymore."

[@Gimpyjoe]

James is so mad at himself for missing that first one 2:08 The spice girls are part of his Lore.

[@klaythoring1326]

I was so proud of my guess but thought I must be wrong if James didn’t think that’s what it was…also of course it was the Chunnel!

[@sfshinz]

I love how much Acaster loves Richard.

[@magiclantern66]

Yeah. The Millennium Bug was a big concern in 1999. It was all forgotten about the following year.

[@Dim4323]

It was Y2K

[@donnatozer9099]

god i remember this, the world was going crazy over y2k and how all computer based systems would fail. it started in 1999 and huge efforts were made to prevent catastrophe hitting businesses and the like. richard was right.

[@wbfaulk]

It definitely didn't start in '99. There were many years worth of effort put into fixing all the relevant computer systems, and it existed in the public consciousness for more than just a year.

[@bobidou23]

I can actually relate to Richard's answer a lot! As a youth I would spend my summers making sure my iTunes library of classic music was meticulous, with all the tracks consistently labeled

[@puirYorick]

Richard was robbed on the Millenium Bug. It was literally *up to* the end of 1999 by definition. Although named for the year it was meant to be revealed, it was very much a 1990s thing. The stupidity of the quiz writers has kicked the best panellist in the nuts here.

[@tyrannicpuppy]

If we're judging things like Saved By The Bell on the year they started, why are we judging the Millenium Bug as part of the year after it failed to be a thing? It should also be rated on when it started. Given the bug never actually happened, because of all the panic over and work done to prevent it leading up to the new millennium, it most certainly started in the 90s. If not earlier. They're lucky David Mitchell wasn't there. He'd never have given up that point as easily as Richard did. Man was robbed.

[@stephenl1315]

Richard was robbed, as usual!

[@DaveTVChannel]

He just can't catch a break

[@wesleywisdom3511]

Richard got so robberd here. The Millenium Bug was what we were worried about IN THE 90s!

[@AKSnowbat907]

Richard should be the next Doctor Who.

[@emimonsterlicious]

I been saying this! He shoulda been Dr Who, like, yesterday!

[@silverotg4927]

The millenium bug is from the 90's that's when people started preparing for it.... When the year hit 2000 and nothing happened, nobody cared about it anymore.

[@DrLakai.18]

I said the same thing: It's called the Chunnel ! 😂😂

[@davidallen111]

1. People were talking about the millenium bug before the year 2000, because we had to fix bug before the year 2000, and we did. 2. The year 2000 is in the 90s as there is no year zero. Every decade starts with a year that ends in 1, and ends with a year that ends with 0.

[@grahamstrouse1165]

I was gonna mention that last bit, too…

[@50m31_AW]

2000 was not in the 90s You are correct that there is no year zero, so the first decade would be 1-10, and 1991-2000 would be 199th decade. But you don't have to count decades aligned to that. You can call any period of 10 years a decade with a specific name. "The 90s" refers to the 10 years starting at 1990 and endind at 1999. James Acaster is currently in the decade he'd call his 30s, lasting from 2015-2024

[@davidallen111]

@@50m31_AW So, using your reasoning, the aughts, the decade that started with the year 1 and ended with the year 9, only had 9 years. The aughts included the year 10. The teens started with the year 11 and ended with the year 20, and so on.

[@GodheadNee]

i don't know why people struggle with this. When you have a portion of a whole it's still more than zero. once you start counting days from year zero it starts a decade. you aren't Zero Years Old between birth and your first birthday, you are a fraction of a year, weeks, months, hours, etc. Decades start at the dawn of the 0th year, end at the end of 9th, because it is a full ten count from nothing. You don't count to eleven to get ten seconds of time.

[@davidallen111]

@@GodheadNee There was no year 0. Time, as we count it, went from year 1 BC to year 1 AD. The first year of the first decade of this era was 1, and the last year of the first decade was 10. The year 2000 was the last year of the 10th decade of the 20th century, otherwise known as the 1990s. You ARE 0 years old between birth and your first birthday. We just do not usually say it that way. We use months and days because they are more significant when we are less than 1. Age is counted differently than dates. That is why figuring out your age using dates can be confusing. You are 1 AFTER your first year, but the first year of an era, a decade, or a century is 1 at the BEGINNING of the year.

[@shaun2463]

If we're going to be pedantic with Saved By The Bell, it technically started a couple years earlier than 1989 with a different name. But I guess this wasn't an '80s quiz 💅

[@thehedgehogwholived]

at around 6 minutes in the subtitles just change to "your governments are controlling you" and don't change back to regular subtitles.

[@tyrannicpuppy]

Because the governments are controlling the subtitles too. Subliminal reinforcement.

[@broccoli2572]

Yeah I just noticed that. A bit confused

[@veronicadm3334]

They did Richard dirty in this one!! If we go by how she defined the starting time, then the Millennium Bug never started at all. It was 100% a 90's thing, because we spent so much time, money, and effort on preventing and prepping for it in the 90's, and when the Millennium turned, there were no problems. They contained it in the 90's so the bug was over before it could even start.

[@TMThesaurus]

Justice for Richard

[@MrBdatta]

Am curious what else in the board was from the 90s. I guess Nirvana won't be there, because their debut album came out in '89. Look at me expressing doubt with facts in a KZbin comment section early in the morning.

[@bitchykins]

If the year under the Nirvana tile was 1989 it would have been wrong. The band played their first gig in 1988.

[@tamrymer4153]

Richards absolutely right

[@livb6945]

No we're not surprised. Mainly because all us Ayoade fans already knew

[@cascade9584]

James got bodied

[@MsZandiX]

I've been coping since i found out that Jen is nearing 50. She looks like she's maximum mid 30s and that offends me

[@josephrankin9406]

At 00:01 am on January 1st 2000 ... the millennium bug fuss was over ... because nothing happened.

[@maciejr1447]

well, Pop idol is technically correct

[@Northernsolstice]

My answer to question #1 was "Spice Girls parody group" would that have counted?

[@DaveTVChannel]

Our wild guess based on no reality whatsoever, is that Spice Girls parody groups probably only would have started forming in the early 00s, so that's no points for you.

[@YodaMan.]

always hated those jackets. loud enough to hear yourself coming from a mile away.

[@ReadyMindsetGo]

Yesterday I was at a kind of early Xmas market here in the Netherlands and there was a section with clothes that was full of grossly colourful 90s stuff like those jackets. I was born in 84 and as a teenager I grew to resent that look.. now it's what all the cool Gen Z kids wear.. utter cringe 🙈😅

[@kripaalex6762]

James would have got first answer right if his dad had gotten him spice girl album spice instead of his Sister

[@Dim4323]

Well he was wrong 1999 was Y2K or Y2J chris Jericho

[@J_C_Richard96]

4:16 bear in mind shes born the same year as me , i feel seen .

[@jnicolson865]

Ah, the 1990s, at least they weren't the 2020s! The 21st century has been a big disappointment, is what I'm saying.

[@ReadyMindsetGo]

I blame the internet. Sounded great in theory, look at us now..

[@simonhawker9277]

yea it was over bye 2000 it was all people could moan about through the nineties, im calling bullshit on this panel show

[@speakatron5634]

Who is Lara Ricote, and why is she doing a 90's quiz?

[@davidhill2020]

The Millenium Bug was, ultimately, not a thing, but people were winging on about it all throughout 1998-1999.

[@helenl3193]

It was only not a thing because coders/IT people worked tirelessly to ensure it wasn't.

[@dunbar9finger]

In addition to being wrong about the millennium bug she was also wrong about Saved By the Bell, since her question was not phrased "started in" the 90's it was phrased "from the 90's". A thing that had the majority of its existence in the 90's is "from the 90's" even if its first year of existence was just before the 90's. Talking Heads is quintessentially 80's even though it was first getting started in the end of the 1970's.

[@Rash17]

She says that it needed to be launched in the 90s 5:05

[@EnderSword]

There's a few things they were gonna do if we saw the rest of the answers, I assume they were going to claim Nirvana actually started in 1987 even though Dave Grohl hadn't joined til the 90s and nothing was successful yet

[@ReadyMindsetGo]

What are you on about? Nirvana was Nirvana before Dave Grohl joined. They just didn't become ridiculously huge until the 90s, but they absolutely originated in the 80s.

[@bagman817]

Even if, wrongly, you dated the "Millenium bug" at 00:01 01/01/2000, it'd still be "the 90s". Until people start counting to 10 starting with 'zero', the last year of the decade ends in 'zero'.

[@wbfaulk]

No. The 200th decade runs from the beginning of 1991 through the end of 2000, but, unlike centuries, no one refers to decades that way. The '90s is the decade that includes all of the years with a "9" in the tens position.

[@deltabeta5527]

Man, that Lara has an annoying voice!

[@kukualoo7932]

Millennium bug was proven dead in 2000. Host is a poser

[@byswartz]

The millennium bug only ever existed, as a fear, in the 90's, after the new year started in 2000 everyone knew it wasn't real

[@wbfaulk]

Upvote for being correct about the timing. Downvote for implying that billions of man-hours weren't spent *preventing* it from happening.

[@Rexer73]

Why does the host not have any carisma?

[@NucularRobit]

I agree with the host. Code isn't "bugged" if it's working as intended. Computers were intentionally programmed with a two digit year date. That in and of itself is not a bug. It only becomes a bug when you enter "00" and the month and day become unresolvable. So it only becomes a bug when entering the year 2000.

[@tyrannicpuppy]

And yet, Saved By The Bell was rated on the year in which it began. So too should the panic over the Millenium Bug. A term from well in advance of that actual date it was feared to occur on. One must be consistent with their criteria in a quiz such as this. Richard was correct.