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  • This reminds me of the rants from the movie "The Network".

    While it does have it's merits, blaming your shitty life on a big wooden/plastic box is a denial of other factors which lead to the downfall of the human mind/morale.

  • Oh you've got a fucking pool!

  • Who watches television these days?

  • In the screenshot I thought it was Ricky from Trailer Park Boys, oh well...

  • If you want it, go get it. Don't whine about how someone else made you feel inferior and blame everyone but yourself for your failures.

  • @RyanThomas09 absolutely! its about time people woke up from sleep and turn dreams to reality by becoming actors instead of dreamers.

  • Does anyone know the name of the piano song at 5:44 - only lasts a few seconds but would greatly appreciated if anyone could let me know! cheers :)

  • Pommies are such depressingly negative tools, and ugly too.

  • Charlie Brooker looks like a white Lawrence Fishburne!

  • The key word here is "debt"

  • Delightful.

  • Freddy needs to die

  • well if it weren't for TV i couldn't have watched this hilarious program.

  • I have learnt English by watching disney cartoons on the television and I won a competition for a 90% scholarship because of that. You can't deny the positive effects of TV as well.

  • I love these sketches, and here is the BUT... nothing changes as a result of the plain & bitter truth that lies within the carefully contrived scenes & scripts.

    We appear hopelessly addicted to ridiculous & costly habits that will invariably lead to our downfall. To me, we are a doomed species :-/

  • to be bad they didnt let him make more episodes. This guy is a genius.

  • @idragon2003 they did. He has loads of them. They're all brilliant :-)

  • Exactly why I don't watch TV, and nor will my children.

  • Thank you so much for delivering such a true and powerful message about how screwed up our socially accepted overall view of reality is. Thankfully I've only ever used that damned box to watch the History International, Nation Geographic or Science channels. I also have a nice habit of muting commercials.

  • my problem's not the tv. it's the internet :D

  • oh

  • this is the smartest tv show ever cause it tells you tv shows are stupid...

  • tv is evil. I refuse to have one in my home

  • It's okay to occasionally enjoy tv, but it shouldn't rule your life.

  • WHY THE FUCK is desperate scousewifes in the suggested playlist???? isn't it against everything both this video and Brooker stands for?

  • @reagansmash9000 Youtube just likes to fuck with you.

  • every time I feel mad or don't understand what the hell the point in life is, I just watch some Brooker to bring some sanity and meaning back. Thanks Charlie

  • Don't say it didn't, it did

  • Brooker for Education secretary!!

  • This is such a good video. But TV is not all bad. There are great documentaries, history and art available at all times, if you have the right channels. People just need to filter out the junk, AND change the channel every single time the advertising blocks come up. Imagine if everyone did that? Maybe we could then have the chance to watch a good movie or documentary, without having our brains melted by advertisements for anti-dandruff shampoos and frozen pizzas every 15 minutes..

  • Stupid bitch.......fancy buying the $67.000 car and not giving it to her on the day of the party.

    Who does that sort of thing?

    ....Stupid Bitch!!

  • 3.02 Saw that episode. It was a converted water treatment plant. And yes that is a red convertable in the room except now its a kind of sofa as I remember.

  • Enchanted Coin Shitting Machines - hahaha

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  • One of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.

  • I think this guy is Brilliant its so true that someone like this can bring this out.

  • Imagine what it would've been like a few centuries back if the nobility got a chance to exploit their lifestyle like this? Take a wild guess

  • wait... was that a spoon of cum?

  • This rules.

    

  • a tv program telling us tv is bad...

  • I love this man I just love him

  • Cut the cable folks. My wife and I did over 10 years ago and our lives have been SO much more fulfilling. Go outdoors...take a walk...climb a mountain...start a business. The funny thing is, a lot of the truly wealthy people (CEOs of large corporations, entrepreneurs who created the next big thing) couldn't have done it sitting in front of the boob tube day in and day out. The reason they are so successful is they do something you don't, they work hard instead of watch TV.

  • @froppo Yes but, like me, I ditched the TV & ended up on YouTube :-P

  • @froppo Do you still have a radio? I find the output from Radio4Extra to be infinitely more entertaining than anything TV has to offer.

  • @froppo And yet you clicked on a video of a tv show.

  • @froppo Yeah but most CEOs ae evil so it's not good to make more of them.

  • @froppo yeah but you have a computer so its not likely your completely seperated, and computers can be just as life ruining or life wasting as a tv. though not saying that its not impressive what you did. and i own a tv but i love going outdoors, this is really about i can watch tv and not be wasting away in front of it

  • only if you are too attached to your ego you feel bad for other peoples wealth.

  • "If you were poor, you had to live in a cramped tent full of relatives and cholera"

    Haha!

  • Your edit of this episode is much better than the full version, I happened to watch crystal stilts - departure right afterwards - a nice combo

  • 14 minutes full of truthfulness! Damn, Charlie Brooker is goooood!

    I wonder though, if everything is becoming more and more glamorous, then where will it end?

  • this is the most condensed sarcasm i've seen in quite a while. that said, its completely justified. 

  • Who is the woman at 10:00 who is very good at inhaling and exhaling?

  • @5806356 i would not bother looking her up she is a waste of time and only famous for going topless her whole life

  • Why not? Beautifull women going topless make me happy :D

  • @5806356 then you have no taste

  • I don't care what you people going to think of me. I was one of those teens who never liked MTV or teen dramas and I hated rap and r&b. I liked things like star trek and other sci-fi,comics and superheroes. Stuff like that taught me lessons and morals. Everyone was always on about Hollyoaks or shitty hip hop music. For that I was never liked that much in school. I was bullied by boys who thought they were gangsta rap stars and girls who thought they were some cheap celeb they read in their mags

  • @Vonzaku Was there a point to that comment or would you just like us to feel sorry for you?... I can try.... but you seem like to much of a self involved little shit with a trumped up idea of your own importance to warrant my sympathy

  • @chizza08 You're just being stupid. The point of the comment was that not all people are the way they are portrayed in the video. You seem like an ass with a big vocabulary looking to put somebody down for no good reason. "or would you just like us to feel sorry for you?" That is known as a "Straw Man argument" smart guy.

  • @LoneQuietus I apologize if my big vocabulary makes you feel inferior I suppose all that time not listening to rap music and watching Star Trek interfered with all your reading time. Also you obviously don't know shit because for me to have made the mistake of the straw man fallacy you would have had to make a point. However, my point was you didn't have a point, which you didn't. And pointing that out doesn't make me an ass it makes you imbecilic (I'm sorry if that is too complicated for you)

  • @chizza08 Don't want sympathy. I'm just pointing the finger at these Music videos and MTV, I didn't get my point across very well. I can say what I like and express what I feel, I don't need your fucking approval.

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  • I dont watch T.V. but thats why im on Youtube / the internet...

  • THAT'S WHY WERE GONNA LEVEL EVERYTHING THIS SOCIETY BUILT TO FUCKING GROUND AND BUILD IT OVER

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  • Nice take on it all, some fu*king man!

  • this video is gold we need more stuff like this!

  • you give me hope

  • We don't need TV in fact. Every information and communication media is being substituted by computers/internet.

    Welcome to the era of scientific inquiry and digital goods.

    The predominant culture cannot hope to survive when there are so many alternatives popping out on the free ride that is the World Wide Web.

  • 26 people from cribs watched this

  • I dont really agree with what he says between 5:44 - 6:26. Kids should be protected and yeah especially from T.V

  • @TheJeffreyJames Sounds reasonable, but in practice I am very happy that my parents didn't micromanage my play time the way you suggest and the way people do nowadays.. Kids brain is a sponge and they best learn from their own mistakes. Not for their parent mistakes. to quote Atmosphere " If I were a rich man I'd buy you some shoes, tall boots for all the dirt you walk through.. what would that do enable you to deal, without schooling you on how to touch what's real"

  • What have we become... This is how it all ends, very well then..

  • 9:10 the bunny for the win

  • 9:10 thw bunny fot the win

  • This is why I don't believe money should exist and why I don't watch TV

  • hahaahahaahahahahahh LOOOVE the ending...

  • lmao - totally freakin AWESOME! LOVED this! XD

  • Attention world:

    On behalf of all Americans I would like to apologize.

    I'm so flipping sorry.

  • @SStrongIsNeverWrong

    speak for yourself you suck up, im not sorry for any of this. You shouldn't be afraid of Britain, they're just mad that their little brother grew up to be a better country then themselves. By the way to all British speakers: its color, flavor, favorite, and neighbor not colour, flavour, favourite, and neighbour. I dont see why you people seem inclined to add a "U" after every "O"

  • @Superfluff06 The fuck are you talking about? Chill the fuck out man. . . those spellings of those words are perfectly acceptable (and often preferred). Again: I apologize.

  • Remember that prick shill Charlatan Leech,? Well, Charlatan Fooker is just the same.. He calls all conspiracy theorists talking of 9/11 etc , cult worshipping paranoid nutters.. He's a classic shill if ever I saw

  • Really? No comments on the irony of this TV show?

  • Very witty.

  • Loved it. Makes me sad most Americans couldn't understand it because of his accent. Personally I thought it was brilliant (another word quickly disappearing from the American language).

  • @1337n0mad His accent is not difficult to make out, mate.. You Americans overlook the Irish and the Scots for their accents..

  • @1337n0mad that would surprise me. English isn't even my native language and I have no problems whatsoever with understanding this video. A few years on the internet and a fair share of British and American series/movies is all you really need to get started :) Although my accent would be more American-ish, I do think that British English has a nicer ring to it and is more pleasant to listen to. Feels like there's more depth and a smoother flow.

  • @1337n0mad Americans couldn't understand it? I'm not American , and I have no Idea if Americans really find British English hard to understand or not .but I just think it's really weird for a native speaker to struggle with the British accent . I'm not a native English speaker nor I have lived in any country where English is the first language, yet I find all English accents very understandable - Essex is a bit hard in the beginning thou- , and the standard British accent is the clearest of all

  • @hamoo911

    Dude you crazy, My first language is English, I relocated to Devon after growing up in the midlands and it took me two weeks before I could understand the locals. I still have to ask "what?" to any Glaswegian that speaks to me, though that might be the booze.

  • @Garrotte123 hahaha ,, that sucks! lol.. well, maybe it's easier for non-native speakers .. you know, because we have to sit in a classroom filled with people who are trying to pronounce English texts properly, yet they all sound like Apu (the Indian guy from the Simpsons) :) .LOL

  • @hamoo911 ya if an american has a hard time understanding british acsent..pass em off as "stupid". im american :)

  • @xRobertx209 hehehe well, no i disagree.. I think America is just too diverse to the degree that it killed the natural instinct that make the people go around the world to learn about new cultures and new languages n some people .. diversity has a dark side as well I guess .. :)

  • but youtube is like tv

  • There is a reason I don't watch anything on MTV.

  • i never watch tv and i still have no aspiration ! but i smoke a lot of weed !! flower power

  • @pestele2007 You've probably never seen weed let alone smoke it. Listen kid follow this advice. Drugs don't make you cool, they just make you fuck up your life and kill your body.

  • @xDaZJMx i would say people that do what the fuck they want as opposed to conforming to bullshit propaganda would be cooler than a fucking tool bag that actually believes what a government tells him

  • So, right on. what a penetrating perspective!! Hang in there bud. Your insights are spot on!

    I got so tired of the bs being aired by pro-war, mainstream newscasts and press releases that I compiled a number of blogs. Just google search:

    "Fabricating The Enemy, 9/11, and Rewritten History - Bill Woollam"

    Enjoy

  • Haaahuuu GOOD!

    Best part.

  • This teenagers make me sick! Literally sick! Hold on let me call the doctor.

  • This can't be real...its just a horrible dream!!!!!! That can't be whats on T.V.!!!!! Its impossible!!!!!!!

  • I think i'll stop watching tv... just after I fap to this guy! He is HOT

  • yahtzee?

  • What is this from? like a tv show (lol)? who made it?

  • I want all of those video games

  • I don't watch My Super Sweet 16, but I find the idea hilarious:

    Half because I know a lot of it is faked (A girl at a local high school tried out for it but failed when she said she wasn't willing to throw public bitch-fits) and half because those parents deserve it for raising their kids like that.

    ...And you know those kids will go through life never getting the tiniest sliver of happiness from anything, which is the perfect punishment.

  • @CJAnonymous egad, those kids make me wanna puke.... like, shotgun puke.

  • @quazzie11 HURK-HURK BLLERRGGH. HURK-HURK BLLEEARRGH.

  • @rawBot1 Exactly.

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  • I loved that bunny cartoon!

  • Yep, I'm more than willing to blame my country for this. The U.S. is chocked full of rich little sub-urbanite monstrosities called children/teenagers. The parents are usually just as bad. But not all of us are like that. Matter of fact MOST of us are not like that, but sadly it does seem that most of do want to be that. :(

  • Pure, unadulterated win @ 9:13

  • Funny 'cuz it's true. Sad 'cuz it's true.

  • 22 People are butt hurt because he's talking about them!

  • jordan has huge tits. that's why she's famous, not because she breathes.

  • Hilarious. Specially the last part.

  • hihih I don't watch TV, does that mean I'm winning?

  • I never realized that the monster that is Super Sweet 16 traveled across the pond... I'm... so sorry UK...

  • @beyondxabilities

    Super Sweet 16 was broadcoasted in Germany, too

  • genius

  • wow. this is SPOT ON

  • Who let Charlie in my room?

    

  • Great video. I guess the American Dream isn't so glamorous after all. 

  • Is there a difference between youtube and TV. Neither has an editing function, that's still our function- Be careful that we blame mindless technology for our own mindless ( numb as McLuhan says) decisions.

  • I haven't owned a TV in years... doesn't look like I'm missing anything.

  • So you made a TV show...

    About why TV is bad.

    Why?

  • @layzergun Because it's the best way to reach those that it could help? There is a sense of irony in making a TV show about why TV is detrimental but there is also a sense of irony in talking about how language restricts consciousness.

  • @layzergun because it's funny...

  • OMFG, I agree with that guy 100%!

  • "A little more luxury in your laundry"

    Oh that's just what my laundry needs!

    Especially my underwear which concist mostly of holes.

  • Thank you. Now I remember why I throw my idiot box in the trash just before they introduced the flat screen moron squares.

  • The last time I watched television was 7 years ago. All it took was nickalodian cancelling Invader Zim. Sure they still show the episodes but none of them are new.

  • You only have to worry about your kids getting bad self image from television if your kids are girls, I gather. For television to give a boy bad self image, the boy has to already feel like there's something he's "missing" (like big muscles or a car or something).

    Television pretty much prepackages how girls are supposed to feel about themselves and then shoves down their throats that no matter what they think, they're all around horrid and the only solution is buying stuff.

  • ''This rat's coming along nicely'' LMFAO XD

  • haha this is funny and correct :P

  • One can only guard oneself from manipulation and rethroic tricks, with knowledge about those things and constant precaution when exposed to it.

    If an human by the age of 20 never heard about manipulation technics, then i am afraid that he is pretty much doomed in our western society...

  • @Nowhy I've heard of them, but I don't know what to do. :(

  • @Donatellangelo i can't manipulate you, because you only accept messages from friends ;)

  • A quote from Michael Foley's book Age of Absurdity: "It is possible that a starving African farmer has less sense of injustice than a middle-aged Western male who has never been fellated."

    This problem spreads a lot further than just TV.

  • @fvschie I've just taken that book out of my library now to see if it's any good. Thanks :)

  • I think that is the best description of our society I've ever heard.

  • If this doesn't make you cut off your cable service, you're doomed.

  • after seeing that spoiled little bitchqueen i screamed at the screen for 30 seconds then my girlfriend walked in staring at me and asked me "What the fuck?" then i showed her the video and she punched a hole through the wall....

  • don't worry English guy, I hate this bullshit also...

  • "I haven't seen that much money thrown at a shuddering arse since CNN hired Piers Morgan."

  • Drop those spoiled rotten teens in a Calcutta slum for one hour that should give them a dose of reality.

  • laughed so hard, nearly peed myself! WONDERFUL

  • The birthday girls reaction made me pause the video I was so upset. Poor Mommy :(

  • Everyones want to become middle class one day , anyway even it wont happen its always nice to dream of it :)

  • Fuckin women... plain and simple

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  • Who the fuck is MIMS?????

  • i'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore!

  • It's not TV you ignorant asses, it's you guys. TV didn't change anything, you let it happen.

  • @TheKenTerry It's called influence dipshit

  • @TheKenTerry The irony of your comment broke my meter. :(

    Ever heard of Edward Bernays? Without education/awareness or an understanding of how their mind works, human beings, or the masses in general were sitting ducks for this brainwashing campaign. Check out the dozens of studies on conformity. Nobody 'let it happen'. This is a cop out, a completely obnoxious and arrogant statement that refuses to explain anything. Letting something happen implies people consciously chose this.

  • @MarioSavioTZM People that are in denial constantly choose to follow the anti-system of capitalism , mediocrity, and mindless consumption.

  • @TheKenTerry Don't try to pretend that the environment people are brought up in and around doesn't effect their lives and aspirations. If you don't know anything other than TV because that's how Mum & Dad raised you, you're likely to pick up the sad substituted "morality" that the tube touts.

  • @WarInsideYourHead

    It's not. If you let yourself be run by that shit it's your fault. Weak people blame circumstance.

  • @TheKenTerry Sure, in the same way that it's your fault that you choose to speak English, use money, or an other arbitrary action. If you're not aware of any other way, then you're stuck with what you know.

  • @WarInsideYourHead

    Again, weak people blame circumstance. Nobody tells you what to do or how to act except for yourself.

  • i'm mad as hell and i'm not going to take it anymore !

  • 7:33 : Fuck you brat, give me the keys!

  • It's because of My Super Sweet 16 that I no longer questioned why someone would fly a plane into a building.

  • MOM WTF YOU ARE TRYING TO GIVE ME A 68 THOUSAND DOLLAR CAR RIGHT NOW...

    I HATE YOU!!!

  • LOL, "Al Qaida recruitment film". It actually might be...

  • Had to stop watching during the sweet 16 crap. *shudder*

  • haha ok, an early present? That tiara did not help keep her humility. I got angry when my mother opened her christmas present early because I wanted it to be special for her. I can understand the girl's frustration because she's in a state of delusion and thinks her mother should know all this because everything needs to be perfect for her precious party, but I think everyone still hates her. I would also watch that rabbit cartoon but I'd prefer they'd made it longer.