I don't mind announcers speaking over television credits, but it does annoy me when they roll the credits so fast I can't really read them. What's the point in having them, then?
Technically the credits are part of the program. I know this because when I buy shows on DVD, there's always credits. And I know that credits are important, because otherwise they would be cut out entirely, instead of just squished. Honestly it feels like something sleazy is going on.
One popped up half way through the film once cutting out all the character dialog for 14 seconds and pissed me right off infect I made the personal point to turn the TV off and I watched the film on the internet and upon watching it I found the TV version was censored as well.
This is the best video on YouTube until I find the next one that's the best! Seriously, I have actually given up TV, and one of the main reasons is this blatant disregard that broadcasters now seem to have for the idea that someone might want to watch a programme or film IN ITS ENTIRETY. So yes, I've actually bitten the "shit end of the Mars bar", and yes, I am proud to say that I spat it out, never to buy another. TV can get stuffed until it learns some good taste again.
Well said David! I'm not a Morse fan, but I do object to a piece of music over the end credits of a film I like being interrupted by some announcer telling us what's next; Channel 5 are the main culprits in this.
As a musician it really bugs me that the composers of the music in a drama often get no credit and the performers - never. If you could even see as they fly past...
@MrsGrey and music borrowed from artists never get shown on credits either, when watching a show and a piece of music comes on that I like or maybe vaguley recognise, and then not see it presented in the credits bugs me.
Yeah, there's nothing worse than when you're trying to listen to your favourite theme tune someone going "Next up on Channel 4, the worlds fattest goat" and then talking about some shit you don't care about.
...they play closing credits in a small black bar under the opening credits of the next episode or programme (TBS, Discovery Channel, TNT, etc., etc.).
The only time I don't mind credit squeezes is after Charlie Brooker programs because the continuity announces always feel bad because Charlie also hates credit squeezes.
Also, I seem to remember 'programme associates' on 10 O'Clock Live? Not that anyone with a brain couldn't figure out what they were for, nor do I expect that was anything to do with Mr Mitchell, but that didn't seem very respectful.
I do like the 'breathing space' that credits can give, but frankly that is served by a couple of seconds of black or the clock in 24, for example.
The only credits the average person might glean are the exec producers, because it pauses on them at the end, and of course the production company. Sometimes the actors have pre-credits. I would rather have as a stipulation to have accurate cast, crew and other production staff online, since when the production block is over, your next employer might google you and see the stuff you've worked on.
And with reality tv, the number of junior crew is often ridiculous and simply gets left off.
AS A PROFESSIONAL THE FIRST TIME MY NAME WAS ON THE CREDITS ON NAT TV A GREAT MOMENT MY ARGUMENT IS SIMPLE A PROGRAME SUCH AS COWBOY BUILDERS WHERE COMPANIES DONATE FURNITURE AND OTHER THINGS TO FIND THE SCREEN COMPRESSED AT THE END OF THE PRGRAMME AFTER ALL THE GOOD WILL THEY HAVE SOON VERY DISREPECTFUL SOceanOfficial
This would be funny if it wasn't for the fact that I don't actually care about the credits. I watch the program for the program not to read text of who is in it. For me the program ends when the credits begin.
I would give real money to shove the guy in these damn Allstate ads, along with everyone involved in writing, producing and directing them, into a pit lined with sharpened sticks.
I want him to rant about how DVD unskippable intros and logos and trailers and drawn-out-spoiler-filled-menu-build-ups and outrageously misleading anti-piracy propaganda makes me want to throw the DVD out AND DOWNLOAD THE FUCKING THING SO I CAN JUST WATCH THE CUNT WITHOUT ALL THAT SHIT!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Fuck the people who decided to talk over the credits. I don't want to watch the other shit shows, I'm watching the show I like now, so fuck off, off of my credits!
I saw him today about to enter the park at Kensington High Street, carrying a whole foods bag. Upon seeing him, I went slightly hysterical, him knowing what was coming next put on his headphones in order to avoid confrontation. Haha, I love him!
@lul999able I had the same thing, My friend lived next door to him in kilburn, I knocked on my friends door and DM answered his door by accident thinking I'd knocked on his, you could tell he was thinking "AH f***", I just went "alright", think he was quite relieved,
Boy, you think you've got it bad in Britain? You should see what happens to television credits in America. They get scrunched into an even tinier box and then sped up to 10 times the speed.
The idea of credits is a bizarre thing to begin with. Outside of film and television, when are you given a list of all the people involved with making the product you've just enjoyed?
"The sandwich you've just eaten was assembled by Javier. The bacon was fried by Marcus, the lettuce was leafed by Emma, and the tomato was sliced by Steven. The bread was produced by Mom's Fresh Bakery."
@134235634634636452 I disagree. Painters sign their paintings. Authors put their name under the title. Photographers make sure you know they took their picture and those who created films/tv shows are right to let us know they did it. The difference between a sandwhich and a show/film is that the latter is considered to be a unique creation and a piece of culture.
@TheVampireCabbit It's not just the painter/author, it's anyone tangentially involved with the film, from corporate accountants to electricians. If you ever pay attention to who is actually in the credits, the list is quite long and absurdly detailed.
Besides, an individual sandwich may not be a unique creation, but neither is an individual showing of a film. If you look at a restaurant chain rolling out a new sandwich and a movie studio rolling out a new film, the similarities are striking.
@TheVampireCabbit It's not just the painter/author, it's anyone tangentially involved with the film, from corporate accountants to electricians. If you ever pay attention to who is actually in the credits, the list is quite long and absurdly detailed.
Besides, an individual sandwich may not be a unique creation, but neither is an individual showing of a film. If you look at a restaurant chain rolling out a new sandwich and a movie studio rolling out a new film, the similarities are striking.
@TheVampireCabbit Painters and authors are not legally obliged to put their names to their works. Film credits are a legal requirement. I suspect that the habit of making credits unreadable may already have led to litigation (obviously not successful).
I watched an episode of Not Going Out on Dave last night and bizarrely, they left the credits alone but dubbed their fucking continiuity announcements over one of those transitional shots of the London skyline just before the final scene. Fuckwits.
Great rant, as usual. On an unrelated note, being an American, I'd never heard of "Inspector Morse." I just rented the first episode and it was absolutely wonderful. Thanks David Mitchell!
Just had a prime example of this. Whilst lost for something to watch, i decided to surf the retro gameshow channels on sky and came across Catchphrase. A lovely bit of mindless jollity. As always, Roy Walker always ends on a moderately amusing joke. Just as he was about to say the punchline, the screen shrunk and the commentator blurted out that there would be more Catchphrase next. Totally masking over the punchline.
Sort of like how we all accept that the annotations on the youtube videos we watch will tell us to "Subscribe to davidmitchellsoapbox channel" over top of the video that we are trying to watch on the channel we're already subscribed to. Even though it makes everyone mad and is a disincentive to subscribe, someone thinks it's a brilliant idea.
I'm completely sick of the channel adverts that pop up and dance around the screen when you are watching a show. A show that has content on the lower portion of the screen that is quite important to the plot. NO! You have to see squiggly, colorful, people popping graphics advertising the very channel you ARE watching or a terrible show that will air on the same channel. FFS!
@TheRockybalburke I do, hes right, i want to read them and i cant when its all tiny, also sometimes the show continues into the credits and they talk over it.
@TheRockybalburke I personally think prank calls are for sad bastards, but you don't see me going out of my way to tell that to someone enjoying a prank call. Dick.
When my father was a kid, the only accessible television was at the local prison where the security guards had a choice of 3 channels that operated until dinner and were owned by the government. Oh how things have changed.
I seriously hate this trend... Nothing ruins a good movie like hearing some obnoxious announcer bellow out at you the instant the screen fades to black. What If I wanted to find out who played who? What if I wanted to re-listen to part of an excellent score without the noise of the movie? Or simply reflect on what I've just watched.
I think the problem is, that if you want to find out everything about a show, including everyone involved, it's available online. You don't need to watch the credit.
Sorry, but credits are completely awful and I'd love to be rid of them completely... I think you're fond of them simply because you ARE an actor and want people to see your name and not get distracted by an announcer. If I needed to find out if that's "the same guy that was in that other thing" I would do a 3 second google search before the show even ended. Also, you're completely wrong about the advertising of the box set.
i completly agree, hate anouncers i can just push a button to know what's on next it's called select, and make up my own mind without anyones force, but get this, once i was finishing the ed edd and eddy movie, at the end is the end to a little side story which is shown not with the credits, it's still part of the story, i mean it's mainly for comedy but that's the movie, the movie is not over but while i'm watching the last bit the anouncer comes on and starts blabbing i can't hear the end! gah
I don't mind it as such, but it's annoying when I want to find out the name of an actor and I don't have a 34inch screen to view it on. Or if it's an older show where something happens during the credits. Shows today know better than to have bonus credits scenes.
as long as i can read the credits i don't mind when somone announces the next show, what annoys me is when there's a video clip playing alongside the credits that i want to watch is muted and yelled over -.-
The worst is late a night on something like Discovery, where they show an advert break even though no-one's paid for an advert to be shown - so bloody Discovery Channel advertises itself for 30 seconds before allowing me to watch the rest of Mythbusters...
I just get frustrated when the channel can't be bothered to check if something actually happens during the credits, and those shove it aside and do their ads anyway. THE MOVIE IS STILL HAPPENING! I'M MISSING STUFF!
This is so accurate!
619wisey 21 hours ago
So no one read the credits, and was able to listen to David aswell? I'll give a biscuit to the first person who can.
blade3337 1 day ago
From what I have seen of TV, this seems to be more of a British thing.
jtathaizzosh 1 day ago
Lol, that explosion sound at the end is exactly the same one used on The Totally Rad Show.
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Jackie Chan's credits show bloopers which are TOTALLY worth watching. :D
EvelynneSaysHi 1 week ago
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EvelynneSaysHi 1 week ago
I'm going to get a t-shirt that says, "Live Slow, Die Eventually."
ODaemienE 1 week ago 3
Anyone else stop paying attention to the credits for a second and have to rewind to see why they were talking about a chav riot?
1mgoingtoregretthis 1 week ago in playlist Series 3
Rabbi Fluffer? :)
Chrisfs59 1 week ago
I'm just surprised they haven't started overlaying a rolling conveyor belt of products throughout the entirety of the programme.
CowLunch 1 week ago 5
Great-now I have an uncontrollable craving for a MARS bar.
upallhours9 2 weeks ago
I treat all credits equally, whether it's film or TV "finally, I can go for a piss and not miss anything!"
theomega616 2 weeks ago
I don't mind announcers speaking over television credits, but it does annoy me when they roll the credits so fast I can't really read them. What's the point in having them, then?
moonlily1 2 weeks ago 11
@moonlily1 I agree-- If you're going to show them, SHOW THEM!
GoblinXXX 1 week ago
I was drifting off at the end.
GraveHorizon 2 weeks ago 2
Technically the credits are part of the program. I know this because when I buy shows on DVD, there's always credits. And I know that credits are important, because otherwise they would be cut out entirely, instead of just squished. Honestly it feels like something sleazy is going on.
handsomebrick 2 weeks ago
I watched this three times.
CheckersPerson 2 weeks ago in playlist More videos from davidmitchellsoapbox
Waiting for the day that "David Mitchell TV" becomes a real channel. :D
Campusanis 2 weeks ago
Master of the Universe: He-Man
David...I love you.
LochGabriel 2 weeks ago
The only television I watch is stuff on my freeview plus box. I skip advert breaks and opening/closing credits.
soundslave 2 weeks ago
Stay tuned for Chav Riot, Reality Poodle, Dr Beaver and Son's Great Adventure of Love.
gunterdak 3 weeks ago
I don't like credit. Just thought you should know...
SirSeanald 3 weeks ago in playlist Series 3
I don't like credit. Just thought you should know...
SirSeanald 3 weeks ago in playlist Series 3
What about the fast forward credits. Those are annoying as heck.
cinnahum 3 weeks ago
One popped up half way through the film once cutting out all the character dialog for 14 seconds and pissed me right off infect I made the personal point to turn the TV off and I watched the film on the internet and upon watching it I found the TV version was censored as well.
darkblood626 3 weeks ago
thanks for dinosaur scrubber, i laughed
BarnacleGooseInvalid 3 weeks ago
@ the credits-SNOT Designer XD
upallhours9 4 weeks ago
LOL @ the credits
Berelore 1 month ago
@SMuJ17 It's even worst when English isn't your first language. I had to watch it all over again.
upesupernova 1 month ago
Why are half the names Hungarian? :)
erka001 1 month ago
This is the best video on YouTube until I find the next one that's the best! Seriously, I have actually given up TV, and one of the main reasons is this blatant disregard that broadcasters now seem to have for the idea that someone might want to watch a programme or film IN ITS ENTIRETY. So yes, I've actually bitten the "shit end of the Mars bar", and yes, I am proud to say that I spat it out, never to buy another. TV can get stuffed until it learns some good taste again.
macronencer 1 month ago 2
Confidence builder:
Justin Gayner
Anyine else get that reference?
bainbonic 1 month ago
To be fair nobody gives a shit about who the dubbing editor of a programme is, and if we want to see who a specific actor is we use IMDB or Wikipedia.
If you're out shopping, do you really want to be forced to see a list of people who made your shopping trip possible upon your exit?
Cash desk builder: Tony Harper
Escape sign fitter: John Prime
Toilet hand wash replenisher: Judy Daws
No, if we were forced to see the names of everyone who did everything we see, life would be chaos.
RichyBMelodies 1 month ago
David has sandwich makers?! What a guy...
KyuubiNoodleBear 1 month ago
High five for Inspector Morse
Rohmanator 1 month ago
It's stupid, I know, but I feel compelled to point out at about @1:58, it leaves the H out of the web address.
Well, my work is done here. Pointless Pedant-man, Away!
RexMundane 1 month ago
Well said David! I'm not a Morse fan, but I do object to a piece of music over the end credits of a film I like being interrupted by some announcer telling us what's next; Channel 5 are the main culprits in this.
MsBkirk 1 month ago
so true.
HulloooZeebaNeighbah 1 month ago
As a musician it really bugs me that the composers of the music in a drama often get no credit and the performers - never. If you could even see as they fly past...
MrsGrey 1 month ago
@MrsGrey and music borrowed from artists never get shown on credits either, when watching a show and a piece of music comes on that I like or maybe vaguley recognise, and then not see it presented in the credits bugs me.
DoYouKnowWhoKnew 1 month ago
LOL SNOT DESIGNER
lubu160 2 months ago
I love david mitchell so true
RacingDriver12 2 months ago
Yeah, there's nothing worse than when you're trying to listen to your favourite theme tune someone going "Next up on Channel 4, the worlds fattest goat" and then talking about some shit you don't care about.
TBlenx1995 2 months ago in playlist Series 3 2
In America, it's worse...
...they play closing credits in a small black bar under the opening credits of the next episode or programme (TBS, Discovery Channel, TNT, etc., etc.).
WorldNews92 2 months ago
Live slow, Die eventually, Leave an indifferently attractive corpse, that's my motto
thecanadianDJ 2 months ago
I did not listen to a word he said... I was reading the credits...
SMuJ17 2 months ago 51
The only time I don't mind credit squeezes is after Charlie Brooker programs because the continuity announces always feel bad because Charlie also hates credit squeezes.
ciaracustard 3 months ago
Those credits are screwed up. :o
MyCrazymonkey12 3 months ago in playlist Series 3
Also, I seem to remember 'programme associates' on 10 O'Clock Live? Not that anyone with a brain couldn't figure out what they were for, nor do I expect that was anything to do with Mr Mitchell, but that didn't seem very respectful.
I do like the 'breathing space' that credits can give, but frankly that is served by a couple of seconds of black or the clock in 24, for example.
simpleton7 3 months ago
The only credits the average person might glean are the exec producers, because it pauses on them at the end, and of course the production company. Sometimes the actors have pre-credits. I would rather have as a stipulation to have accurate cast, crew and other production staff online, since when the production block is over, your next employer might google you and see the stuff you've worked on.
And with reality tv, the number of junior crew is often ridiculous and simply gets left off.
simpleton7 3 months ago
AS A PROFESSIONAL THE FIRST TIME MY NAME WAS ON THE CREDITS ON NAT TV A GREAT MOMENT MY ARGUMENT IS SIMPLE A PROGRAME SUCH AS COWBOY BUILDERS WHERE COMPANIES DONATE FURNITURE AND OTHER THINGS TO FIND THE SCREEN COMPRESSED AT THE END OF THE PRGRAMME AFTER ALL THE GOOD WILL THEY HAVE SOON VERY DISREPECTFUL SOceanOfficial
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Bring back our credits!
VinnyMonster1 3 months ago
This would be funny if it wasn't for the fact that I don't actually care about the credits. I watch the program for the program not to read text of who is in it. For me the program ends when the credits begin.
shreyapanda 3 months ago
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I would give real money to shove the guy in these damn Allstate ads, along with everyone involved in writing, producing and directing them, into a pit lined with sharpened sticks.
ELuhn 3 months ago
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ELuhn 3 months ago
they do this on Peep Show
TheHolyMane 3 months ago
Mark Corrigan > David Mitchell
BestCharlieSheenEver 4 months ago
His trousers are too tight, am I the only one that notices that and are disturbed by that?
BestCharlieSheenEver 4 months ago
Look at the credits at 1:50 XD
TheAltoSaxophonist 4 months ago
Is it just me or did Charlie Brooker do this exact same rant on screenwipe?
jwilson1455 4 months ago
I want him to rant about how DVD unskippable intros and logos and trailers and drawn-out-spoiler-filled-menu-build-ups and outrageously misleading anti-piracy propaganda makes me want to throw the DVD out AND DOWNLOAD THE FUCKING THING SO I CAN JUST WATCH THE CUNT WITHOUT ALL THAT SHIT!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
EvilStreaks 4 months ago 3
....and disclaimers and more logos and 20-page region selection that seems to have no effect...
YOU WANT PEOPLE TO STOP DOWNLOADING AND START BUYING? STOP JAMMING IT UP WITH ALL THAT DRAGGING, OBNOXIOUS SHITE FOR CHRIST'S SAKE!!!! IDIOTS.
EvilStreaks 4 months ago
@EvilStreaks I want him to rant about lame YouTube comments and unnecessary use of Caps Lock.
Then again, wouldn't it be funny if David did indeed read his YouTube comments, and instead ranted about people who complain about other comments? :)
RichardForkins 4 months ago
Rabbii FLuffer....?
EvilStreaks 4 months ago
Grr. Focus groups. FUCKING FOCUS GROUPS....
EvilStreaks 4 months ago
21 people are announcers
TruthfulAtAllTimes 4 months ago
Haha, chicken sexer. Thanks, QI! :D
miduchalan1 4 months ago
I like David Mitchell, but all of this has been said countless times over the past 10 years. It doesn't need a video making it sound as if it's news.
DomSezXL 4 months ago
Fuck the people who decided to talk over the credits. I don't want to watch the other shit shows, I'm watching the show I like now, so fuck off, off of my credits!
saiyaniam 5 months ago
I went to 'YOUTUBE.COM/DAVIDMITCELLSOAPBOX'and found nothing.
CLBellamey 5 months ago
The explosion woke me up.
PseudaZ 5 months ago in playlist More videos from davidmitchellsoapbox
Chicken sexer? Err..
AsRetard 5 months ago
Solution is simple: don't watch television.
Who needs television when you have the internet anyway?
boxweasel 5 months ago 2
my favourite is "peas keeper" :D
schnorschrajaxx 5 months ago
DID I JUST SEE 'RABBI FLUFFER' IN THE CREDITS?!!!!!!! X^D
phoney98 5 months ago 2
I saw him today about to enter the park at Kensington High Street, carrying a whole foods bag. Upon seeing him, I went slightly hysterical, him knowing what was coming next put on his headphones in order to avoid confrontation. Haha, I love him!
lul999able 5 months ago 84
@lul999able I had the same thing, My friend lived next door to him in kilburn, I knocked on my friends door and DM answered his door by accident thinking I'd knocked on his, you could tell he was thinking "AH f***", I just went "alright", think he was quite relieved,
Sxrule 3 months ago
@lul999able That is so Mark Corrigan.
kev9089798767 2 months ago 3
@kev9089798767 That's when you yell "its mister clean shirt!"
o0FallenAngel0o 2 weeks ago
@lul999able He was carrying an entire foods bag, crikey! (no spellcheck I don't mean "Ricky" ffs)
CowLunch 1 week ago
if people love credits then why do people leave the cinema at the start of the credits?
MegaBigByte 5 months ago
Damn, I was reading the credits and not paying attention. Had to watch this again.
XProffrinkX 5 months ago 2
Watched the video once, watching David, then watched it again just to read the credits. PRICELESS.
CallMeNudge 5 months ago
Boy, you think you've got it bad in Britain? You should see what happens to television credits in America. They get scrunched into an even tinier box and then sped up to 10 times the speed.
einootspork 5 months ago
haha back on top form in my opinion :D
bobbiwib 5 months ago
Ok, this particular rant was a bit over the top. More so than usual i mean...
CrusstyJugglers 5 months ago
Heartily agreed!
Hoganply 5 months ago
Rabbi Fluffer!
tjd10 5 months ago 2
The idea of credits is a bizarre thing to begin with. Outside of film and television, when are you given a list of all the people involved with making the product you've just enjoyed?
"The sandwich you've just eaten was assembled by Javier. The bacon was fried by Marcus, the lettuce was leafed by Emma, and the tomato was sliced by Steven. The bread was produced by Mom's Fresh Bakery."
134235634634636452 5 months ago in playlist Series 3
@134235634634636452 I disagree. Painters sign their paintings. Authors put their name under the title. Photographers make sure you know they took their picture and those who created films/tv shows are right to let us know they did it. The difference between a sandwhich and a show/film is that the latter is considered to be a unique creation and a piece of culture.
TheVampireCabbit 5 months ago
@TheVampireCabbit It's not just the painter/author, it's anyone tangentially involved with the film, from corporate accountants to electricians. If you ever pay attention to who is actually in the credits, the list is quite long and absurdly detailed.
Besides, an individual sandwich may not be a unique creation, but neither is an individual showing of a film. If you look at a restaurant chain rolling out a new sandwich and a movie studio rolling out a new film, the similarities are striking.
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@TheVampireCabbit It's not just the painter/author, it's anyone tangentially involved with the film, from corporate accountants to electricians. If you ever pay attention to who is actually in the credits, the list is quite long and absurdly detailed.
Besides, an individual sandwich may not be a unique creation, but neither is an individual showing of a film. If you look at a restaurant chain rolling out a new sandwich and a movie studio rolling out a new film, the similarities are striking.
134235634634636452 5 months ago
@TheVampireCabbit Painters and authors are not legally obliged to put their names to their works. Film credits are a legal requirement. I suspect that the habit of making credits unreadable may already have led to litigation (obviously not successful).
jlim2397 4 months ago
we don't even get to see the credits in holland, they just drop the commercials or the next show in there.
superawsomesaurusrex 5 months ago
you've got really tight pants in this ep david
eva0prawn 5 months ago
I really hate the credits being ruined on E4 and BBC. Really fucking hate those bastards. Grrrr fuck off you bastards!
SteRDLK 6 months ago
I watched an episode of Not Going Out on Dave last night and bizarrely, they left the credits alone but dubbed their fucking continiuity announcements over one of those transitional shots of the London skyline just before the final scene. Fuckwits.
JediSlayer22 6 months ago
I loled @
Masters of The Universe
He-Man
IGiveAndYouTake 6 months ago
If you want to know more about the issues discussed in this rant, press the red button now.
ELuhn 6 months ago 2
Good rant, totally agree!
KrisRamJ 6 months ago
utterly hilarious.
mollyleahallman96 6 months ago
'dinosaur scrubber'- genius.
Cleo4696 6 months ago
Great rant, as usual. On an unrelated note, being an American, I'd never heard of "Inspector Morse." I just rented the first episode and it was absolutely wonderful. Thanks David Mitchell!
ladylinton 6 months ago 2
"Peas keeper!"" Sense maker!" See how much information titles have!!! XD
annybonni 6 months ago
I just want to hear David say 'Grrr' more often...
atreya777 6 months ago
They even do it on kids shows, where I quite enjoy the cheesy ending themes. (Because that's the kind of life I lead...) I hate it so much!
"Oh, the dub actully bothered to make an English version of this song! And.... *commentator announces next shows* ...Argh."
Southenisland 6 months ago
Just had a prime example of this. Whilst lost for something to watch, i decided to surf the retro gameshow channels on sky and came across Catchphrase. A lovely bit of mindless jollity. As always, Roy Walker always ends on a moderately amusing joke. Just as he was about to say the punchline, the screen shrunk and the commentator blurted out that there would be more Catchphrase next. Totally masking over the punchline.
austinfallen 6 months ago
Sort of like how we all accept that the annotations on the youtube videos we watch will tell us to "Subscribe to davidmitchellsoapbox channel" over top of the video that we are trying to watch on the channel we're already subscribed to. Even though it makes everyone mad and is a disincentive to subscribe, someone thinks it's a brilliant idea.
frumpyframpton 6 months ago 47
@frumpyframpton Yep that was the joke
riseofthejellyfish 3 months ago
Assistant frog doctor is in the sub-titels.
lanner95 6 months ago
I'm completely sick of the channel adverts that pop up and dance around the screen when you are watching a show. A show that has content on the lower portion of the screen that is quite important to the plot. NO! You have to see squiggly, colorful, people popping graphics advertising the very channel you ARE watching or a terrible show that will air on the same channel. FFS!
whitebeltblatz 6 months ago
who gives a FUCK about credits, sorry david but your wrong about this one
TheRockybalburke 6 months ago
@TheRockybalburke I do, hes right, i want to read them and i cant when its all tiny, also sometimes the show continues into the credits and they talk over it.
arr5612 6 months ago
@arr5612 sad sad sad basterd
TheRockybalburke 6 months ago
@TheRockybalburke I personally think prank calls are for sad bastards, but you don't see me going out of my way to tell that to someone enjoying a prank call. Dick.
Nameless164 6 months ago
When my father was a kid, the only accessible television was at the local prison where the security guards had a choice of 3 channels that operated until dinner and were owned by the government. Oh how things have changed.
HaoWenXiang 6 months ago
facebook monkey and chav riot.... LMAO.
PrezLeefun 6 months ago
I completely agree.
CookieMonsterBabes 6 months ago
Action Essentials Pack 2 FTW!
tazolson 6 months ago
*gunfire*
It's "Who killed whom".
hkidokid 6 months ago
Motion Sausage Control Technician. Lawl.
I seriously hate this trend... Nothing ruins a good movie like hearing some obnoxious announcer bellow out at you the instant the screen fades to black. What If I wanted to find out who played who? What if I wanted to re-listen to part of an excellent score without the noise of the movie? Or simply reflect on what I've just watched.
alopexau 6 months ago
This reminds me of the episode of the Simpsons where Bart is featured on a show and right when his name comes up on the credits, it gets squished.
I suppose I'm saying... Simpsons did it.
MSGPresident 6 months ago
Sandwich makers are quite important!!
CrazyLazySnazzyJazzy 6 months ago
Quality
Owl1995TTB 6 months ago
Yeah, I only caught about three words of that, David. I was too interested in who your Peas Keeper and Best Whip were.
jackandjuice 6 months ago
19 people didn't get a credit as 'trolling youtubers'
ElectroThePhoenix 6 months ago
Is it bad that I feel this is a charlie brooker rip off :(
SimzNI13 6 months ago
Pain supplier? lol
lajollacat 6 months ago
Is it me, or has he steadily got more and more aggressive/more inclined to shouting as the series progressed?
MrJaskell 6 months ago
@MrJaskell thats what happens as you age, believe you me!
RisefromyourGRAVE 6 months ago
Live slow, die eventually, leave an indifferently attractive corpse.
I found a new motto.
AernoutMJC 6 months ago 62
i loved seeing grr in the subtitles
makeamelaugh 6 months ago
Live slow, die eventually, leave an indifferently attractive corpse
ThePawnty 6 months ago
Muted for the second run so I can read the words properly...
gypsyroses198 6 months ago
How much money, David?
loonatic323 6 months ago
Motion sausage control technician :L Adam Chappell, you have the best job in the world :D
TeamEpikWin 6 months ago 2
DMTV; Coming Up Next - More Ranting. I hope that's a promise little technicolour pop-up graphic do-dacky else I will be most disatisfied.
MissFotini 6 months ago
davidmictellsoapbox on the bottom
GamerDecci 6 months ago
LMFAO Rabbi Fluffer! that's funny :)
Keownolomio 6 months ago 3
What... what?!
IoEstasCedonta 6 months ago
"Chicken Sexer"
ItsDov 6 months ago
Actors ARE clever! *nods*
rollozan 6 months ago
Noby save those who pay the announcer..
and the announcer.
AngelusDlion 6 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
his hand...teleports at 2:07
lordjoesnow 6 months ago
his hand...teleports at 2:09
lordjoesnow 6 months ago
his hand...teleports at 2:10
lordjoesnow 6 months ago
It is now my aim in life to be credited as 'General Sexer' in a motion picture.
Mrbslsthgrt 6 months ago 3
If we dont listen to the credits, we wont be able to catch the musical themes that occured earlier.
Further more I for one like to know whether or not animals were harmed during the production of a film.
IExpectedBetterOfYou 6 months ago 44
I think the problem is, that if you want to find out everything about a show, including everyone involved, it's available online. You don't need to watch the credit.
viperswhip 6 months ago
@viperswhip
more like the solution
TehConqueror 6 months ago
Sorry, but credits are completely awful and I'd love to be rid of them completely... I think you're fond of them simply because you ARE an actor and want people to see your name and not get distracted by an announcer. If I needed to find out if that's "the same guy that was in that other thing" I would do a 3 second google search before the show even ended. Also, you're completely wrong about the advertising of the box set.
Artbug 6 months ago
@sunflowergirl611 That scared the shit out of me. I was just starting to drift, then "BLAM".
CitrusC 6 months ago
i completly agree, hate anouncers i can just push a button to know what's on next it's called select, and make up my own mind without anyones force, but get this, once i was finishing the ed edd and eddy movie, at the end is the end to a little side story which is shown not with the credits, it's still part of the story, i mean it's mainly for comedy but that's the movie, the movie is not over but while i'm watching the last bit the anouncer comes on and starts blabbing i can't hear the end! gah
lugiawingsKH 6 months ago
"Stalin's Wackiest Purges" ... Brilliant!
MattRHale 6 months ago
Charlie Brooker also had a great rant about the credit squeeze.
AaronMatthewEvans 6 months ago
Pain supplier.
aModernDandy 6 months ago
I don't mind it as such, but it's annoying when I want to find out the name of an actor and I don't have a 34inch screen to view it on. Or if it's an older show where something happens during the credits. Shows today know better than to have bonus credits scenes.
KyleRDent 6 months ago
as long as i can read the credits i don't mind when somone announces the next show, what annoys me is when there's a video clip playing alongside the credits that i want to watch is muted and yelled over -.-
ToLoveToSmile 6 months ago
Master of the universe - He-Man
CropUpAnywhere 6 months ago
The worst is late a night on something like Discovery, where they show an advert break even though no-one's paid for an advert to be shown - so bloody Discovery Channel advertises itself for 30 seconds before allowing me to watch the rest of Mythbusters...
Whatupwidat 6 months ago 3
@butterjohn
No. No it is not.
PETERWASHERE100 6 months ago
I want to be a dinosaur scrubber. Failing that, I'll become a theriogenologist.
NJD3110 6 months ago
Stalin's Wackiest Purges sounds like I show I'd enjoy.
amerigovespucci 6 months ago
Sock Puller lol
JustAboutCrazy 6 months ago
He complains about people talking over credits when he is doing it over his own. Oh, the irony.
Guitarfan1995 6 months ago
Pain Supplier?, Confidence builder, finger puller, sock puller, local shoplifter, ......... :-D
TipsyTulia 6 months ago
He he he he!!, excellent!, excellent!, excellent!.
TipsyTulia 6 months ago
easily the most passionate yet
thatdudeonutube 6 months ago
I just get frustrated when the channel can't be bothered to check if something actually happens during the credits, and those shove it aside and do their ads anyway. THE MOVIE IS STILL HAPPENING! I'M MISSING STUFF!
Greichen 6 months ago 2
I just hooked onto my neighbours router and can change her password to "neighbours porn". Ethically correct?
butterjohn 6 months ago
Morse finished?? No one tells me anything anymore. Loving the establishment media coverage of riots. Never kick an Ozzie when he's so humbled!
butterjohn 6 months ago
It also defeats the point of nice theme tunes.
whowantsabighug 6 months ago