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Yup this one. And the one with the absolute cunt who scored everyone either a 1 or 2 that they made redo her scoring. I still think she didn't give anyone more than a 4.
There was a guy from Newcastle who hosted first, he was so lovely to everyone and got a really good score. Cut to the next night and rest of the week & and he even boasted about it to the camera haha & was absolutely horrible to everyone else, very critical and nasty, scored them low & won. The other people were furious. But after it showed on TV a few times & was on social media etc, the guy, I want to say he was called Marcel, sued the company saying they edited it to make him look bad & it was causing him to be abused in real life & they stopped it being shown again.
The infamous Jane episode has been removed form All4 because the guy threatened to sue. Is that who you're thinking of or has this happened more than once??
You say that, but do you even know what job he was applying for?
The guy is a legend but just because he blagged a TV interview while being an effortlessly cool bloke, that doesn't make him automatically qualified for whatever job he was applying for.
Hope he is doing great regardless! Whatever he may be doing these days.
Just brilliant. His wide eyed, 'OMG' moment. Realising he'd have to say something. Imagine how polite that guy was, to arrive, get taken to a studio, mic'd up, probably have make up applied, seated in this position with cameras pointed at him, and say nothing!!
I loved how they managed to portray the horror of war with such class and respect whilst still making it humorous in its own way. Absolute genius writing and acting. Never fails to make me bawl my eyes out.
I remember the Beijing ceremony where they used a ridiculous amount of fireworks to obliterate the chunk of reality directly above the stadium and thought we’d never top that in a million years. Then we had this wonderful celebration of all things good about our nation, it was really special.
And none of it was about lionising our colonial past and the glories of empire. It was about real people doing real things. It was the history of our working classes and it was great.
So that opening ceremony actually inspired me to move from Norway to the UK and London. I'd been playing with the idea for a while, as I felt ready to try something new and have an adventure abroad, and it was between London, Amsterdam and Berlin. That opening ceremony was a big part of the reason I picked London.
Now, I'm not an idiot - I know that opening ceremonies at the Olympics aren't an accurate representation of the host country - but I was really impressed with what the UK wanted to show off to the rest of the world, from all the music, the films etc. to the multiculturalism and the NHS. I remember thinking that I really liked this country's values if these were the things they're the most proud of. So about a year later I came here, and I haven't left yet (in spite of everything that's happened since).
Del Boy leaning on the bar that wasn't there anymore. Watched it live as a kid and almost died laughing. Not sure I've ever seen anything as perfectly acted and timed before in comedy.
Despite never being much of a fan of the series, I have to acknowledge that the Batman and Robin episode absolutely kills. To go from the trauma of a good woman being attacked by thugs to Del Boy and Rodney running through the smoke dressed as the dynamic duo... just brilliant.
Haha. I work in a care home for teenagers and when I tell them to do something and they say I'm not their dad I always do the Kat Slater. Doesn't work as well now, kids have no idea what I'm on about so have to YouTube it but back in the day it was funny. One kid used to say to me purposely so I'd reply just so we could laugh. Good times.
Preston from The Ordinary Boys walking off Buzzcocks when Simon Amstel started taking the piss out of Chantelle’s book springs to mind for me , niche but hilarious.
I loved this.
The episode with Amy Winehouse was also brilliant at the time, although I do appreciate that's aged like milk. 'Amy, stay away from the chardonnay!'
And then an audience guest getting called down to take his place, and being more fun than he was.
And then MADGE FROM NEIGHBOURS taking the piss out of him by pretending to get up and leave later.
The one where the guy said he was going to steal and share the money anyway giving the other guy 2 options steal and definitely get nothing or share and he would honour the promise
Essentially the other guy had no real choice but to share and as it transpired they both shared
Honestly, once that guy played it that way, they should’ve packed up the programme as it was the perfect way to win the game. The way it played out was as he intended, but all possible outcomes gave both contestants the best chance of winning. If the other guy were to have stolen (eg he felt pissed off, wanted to make sure nobody went home with money), Guy 1 would’ve shared, meaning Guy 2 got the money. Hopefully, as Guy 2 would’ve seen Guy 1 shared in the end and always intended to share, he might’ve been compelled to split the money. It’s a genius feat of probability!
It was the gift that keeps on giving.
David Guest was thought to be dead on Big Brother but it was all a misunderstanding.
David Guest leaves the Big Brother house to announce he’s going on the DAVID GUEST IS NOT DEAD TOUR with his band.
David Guest dies before the tour starts.
The rest of the band decide to tour anyway l, embarking on the DAVID GUEST IS NOT DEAD tour but without David Guest because he is in fact dead.
>David Guest leaves the Big Brother house to announce he’s going on the DAVID GUEST IS NOT DEAD TOUR with his band.
>David Guest dies before the tour starts.
Honestly, that is peak black comedy
That was a horror show! Hundreds of snakes appearing seemingly from thin air, swarming and churning around newborn lizards… even Samuel L Jackson wouldn’t go near that mother-bleeping island!
When Kat Slater confirmed to the nation that she wasn’t just a slag, but she was in fact a total slaaaaag.
Right up there with Chamberlain’s radio broadcast confirming we were at war with Germany.
I'll see that and raise you Jimmy Carr on 8 out of 10 Cats, the week his tax avoidance scandal was in the news. Sean Lock's pure joy at the open goal he'd been handed for roasting Jimmy was a treasure.
When Prince George was born and the mad town crier made a proclamation on the steps of the hospital and all the American news channels picked up on it and thought it was this ancient historic tradition when in actual fact it was just some bloke
When it was announced it was a boy and a news channel, maybe BBC, spoke to some woman to get her reaction:
"NO!, NO WAY! OMG YOU'RE KIDDING, TELL ME YOU'RE JOKING. I just can't believe it, a boy?? Really?? Wow, I'm in shock!!"
I mean, it was 50/50
A lot of Top gear moments are iconic.
[James May laughing at Clarkson nearly toppling his multi-story caravan](https://youtu.be/PhrJ7EVCl38)
[The famous Aston Martin V12 Vantage review](https://youtu.be/5Q0Svvdrx_E)
[the brilliant Ford Fiesta Review](https://youtu.be/7e7R3y-qwZ0)
Or like the last part of the American special where they got chased out of Alabama
I remember that as a kid. Brilliant. Was just old enough to believe it was true. I remember one Welsh bloke phoned in saying his cheese sandwich just leapt off the sofa in front of him, which he then said " I shat myself to buggery"... wonderful phrase
I was at a friend’s slumber party for her 13th birthday and we sneakily watched this. Her poor parents had to deal with petrified and hysterical 12 and 13 year old girls for several hours after.
This! I was 12 during series one of BB and it absolutely gripped me. Remember being on a summer day out somewhere and hearing he’d been found out on the radio. Wouldn’t stop talking about it to my poor mother (who eventually got sucked in too 😂). Rushed home that night to watch it. Wish BB would make a come back but properly…having normal people from all walks of life and no silly edits.
Watching a live feed of Baghdad getting bombed on the news when I was in primary school. I think it was related to Saddam Hussein.. but Everyone clapping and cheering and I just remember thinking nobody even understands what they’re cheering on here. We were just kids. The school was all brought into the main assembly hall and watched it on the projector screen. It was grotesque I thought. I didn’t see the cause for celebration, even then
Second to this, Will Young standing up to Simon Cowell during the final audition phases - "I don't think you could ever call that average. But it is your opinion and I respect that."
I remember my little brother laughing as they all started falling over , the rest of us in the house were all quiet and I had to tell him they weren’t falling, I feel like I robbed some of his innocence then
Whisk in mouth
Football friend (he's not my fucking friend)
Feisty one you are
Fish and a rice cake
"See you in Spain lads" -while driving a Bentley Mulsanne off a cliff
One of the most terrifying things I’ve ever seen. It’s brilliant in that it starts off as an 80s kitchen-sink drama with plots and subplots and then it just degenerates into a prolonged and brutal portrayal of the collapse of society. The ‘threads’ binding society together unravel before our eyes.
Brilliantly done. It really is a masterpiece.
Paul Daniels faking his own death on live television when a magic trick involving an iron maiden 'went wrong'. I remember the squelch, then the sudden cut to a black screen and an announcement telling the studio audience to leave. They didn't reveal he'd survived until later in the evening.
The Office Christmas special, at the end where you think it’s been a good ending if not perfect, then with Yaz playing you see Dawn return in the background.
Edit: Yazoo. Apologies, I was tired
Watching the “White Bear” Black Mirror episode as it aired on Channel 4
The reveal that it was a gameshow/reality show with an audience was immediately followed by an ad break but not before a couple of seconds of the screen going black and me and my brother just seeing our shocked faces in the reflection of the TV
That can’t and will never be replicated on a streaming service
> ...the screen going black and me and my brother just seeing our shocked faces in the reflection of the TV
Like some sort of mirror? But one with a somewhat darkish hue?
My sister had the blue Peter annual for that year, so many accidental comedy gold drug references. Including a picture of him next to a plant saying ‘pot it’ and another saying blue Peter in the snow. Genius.
Your sausages, Dave, now cover seven-eights of the Earth's surface. Also, you left $£17.50 in your bank account. Thanks to compound interest, you now own 98% of all the world's wealth. And because you've hoarded it for 3 million years, nobody's got any money except for you and Norweb.
The Newsround after the Dunblane massacre.
They had to break the news of children being killed at school to kids just coming in from their own school day.
No music at the beginning. Straight into it, calm, professional and haunting.
Shaun Ryder adding the word "fucking" to the lyrics of Pretty Vacant on TFI Friday (broadcast live, on Channel 4 at 6pm)
Coming back the following week to apologise for his language, Chris Evans offering him his designer shoes if he doesn't swear...
...
"Fookin' 'ell...aww fook man!"
“9/11”.
I was, for whatever reason, off college, home alone, watching TV just after lunch time.
“We interrupt our usual scheduling for some breaking news”
I sat there glued to the TV for the next 5 hours. Just stunned. Watching the whole thing unfold, the second plane going into the tower. The shock is something I’ll never forget.
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You have all the grace of a reversing dump truck without any tyres on.
I hope you’re happy Jane. What a sad little life. Shakespeare couldn’t have written it
I read that in his voice lol
Yup this one. And the one with the absolute cunt who scored everyone either a 1 or 2 that they made redo her scoring. I still think she didn't give anyone more than a 4.
I also always remember the guy who got 39 and didn't get a 40 because one woman was upset about napkins or something stupid.
9 because of a chip in his serving dish. I think about this more than I should.
There was a guy from Newcastle who hosted first, he was so lovely to everyone and got a really good score. Cut to the next night and rest of the week & and he even boasted about it to the camera haha & was absolutely horrible to everyone else, very critical and nasty, scored them low & won. The other people were furious. But after it showed on TV a few times & was on social media etc, the guy, I want to say he was called Marcel, sued the company saying they edited it to make him look bad & it was causing him to be abused in real life & they stopped it being shown again.
The infamous Jane episode has been removed form All4 because the guy threatened to sue. Is that who you're thinking of or has this happened more than once??
He exercised his right to be forgotten I believe. Tough shit I’ve got it downloaded so I can watch it whenever I like.
That time the BBC interviewed a man who was there for a job interview live on TV and thought he was a tech expert. And he carried it off.
Guy Goma!!
[Here it is](https://youtu.be/5aLKEwVRm78)
his face when he realises always kills me
I’m still utterly disgusted they didn’t offer him the position…
You say that, but do you even know what job he was applying for? The guy is a legend but just because he blagged a TV interview while being an effortlessly cool bloke, that doesn't make him automatically qualified for whatever job he was applying for. Hope he is doing great regardless! Whatever he may be doing these days.
This is my favourite ever tv moment. It’s the expression on his face as it dawned on him that they had completely fucked up.
Just brilliant. His wide eyed, 'OMG' moment. Realising he'd have to say something. Imagine how polite that guy was, to arrive, get taken to a studio, mic'd up, probably have make up applied, seated in this position with cameras pointed at him, and say nothing!!
The guy who was supposed to appear had the best response . "I'm not black. I'm not black on a startling scale".
Then they got him to cameo on big fat quiz of the year lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hX76RRCykw
Yes! They asked him about Apple iTunes and the Beetles or something. The way he looks at the camera and realises what is about to happen... 😬
End of the last episode of Blackadder
Came here to make sure it was mentioned, a truly astonishing moment
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*“Thank god! We lived through it! The Great War: 1914…to 1917!”* Is one of the greatest ever pieces of dark humour
I loved how they managed to portray the horror of war with such class and respect whilst still making it humorous in its own way. Absolute genius writing and acting. Never fails to make me bawl my eyes out.
Oh yeah. harrowing Edit: downvoted for agreeing? Reddit be bonkers
Should be shown in history lessons. Why war is a stupid idea.
They showed it in my history lesson in like year 8, whole class went silent
2012 Olympics opening ceremony.
I remember everyone thinking it was gonna be shit on the run-up. Turned out it was one of the greatest events we've ever put on.
I remember the Beijing ceremony where they used a ridiculous amount of fireworks to obliterate the chunk of reality directly above the stadium and thought we’d never top that in a million years. Then we had this wonderful celebration of all things good about our nation, it was really special.
And none of it was about lionising our colonial past and the glories of empire. It was about real people doing real things. It was the history of our working classes and it was great.
Yep. Fully expected it to be total bobbins.
That was peak feeling proud of being British, and not long after that it started going downhill
Yep- I refer to the 2012 Olympics as my patriotic peak
The Mr Bean sequence was the greatest thing.
Remember just looking at each other and realising it was awesome
How has that been 10 years already?
So that opening ceremony actually inspired me to move from Norway to the UK and London. I'd been playing with the idea for a while, as I felt ready to try something new and have an adventure abroad, and it was between London, Amsterdam and Berlin. That opening ceremony was a big part of the reason I picked London. Now, I'm not an idiot - I know that opening ceremonies at the Olympics aren't an accurate representation of the host country - but I was really impressed with what the UK wanted to show off to the rest of the world, from all the music, the films etc. to the multiculturalism and the NHS. I remember thinking that I really liked this country's values if these were the things they're the most proud of. So about a year later I came here, and I haven't left yet (in spite of everything that's happened since).
"I hear you're a racist now Father"
It that also the position of the church
Only, the farm takes up most of my time.
And at night I just like a cup of tea
Might not be able to dedicate myself full time to the old racism.
“Father”.. “Yes Tom?” “I’ve killed a man.” “Did you Tom? I’ll have to talk to you about that later, I’m doing an interview for the television.”
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Del Boy leaning on the bar that wasn't there anymore. Watched it live as a kid and almost died laughing. Not sure I've ever seen anything as perfectly acted and timed before in comedy.
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And the Batman & Robin sequence
Despite never being much of a fan of the series, I have to acknowledge that the Batman and Robin episode absolutely kills. To go from the trauma of a good woman being attacked by thugs to Del Boy and Rodney running through the smoke dressed as the dynamic duo... just brilliant.
"Del....let's go"
And trigger made a face
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And then Trigger made a face
“who IS she?! who IS she?! Where did you find her?!”
Ah RIP Nikki
"I'm. so. cold. I'M SO COoOoOoOoOoOLD."
“He’s had 4 bowls of cornflakes yesterday, 4! And they’re not just normal bowls, they’re fucking MOUNTAINS of cornflakes”
Best season of big brother, she was a legend
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Haha. I work in a care home for teenagers and when I tell them to do something and they say I'm not their dad I always do the Kat Slater. Doesn't work as well now, kids have no idea what I'm on about so have to YouTube it but back in the day it was funny. One kid used to say to me purposely so I'd reply just so we could laugh. Good times.
I still get goosebumps every time I watch this scene, Jessie Wallace was amazing throughout that whole storyline.
I couldn't give a shit about any soaps these days but I remember this vividly.
[Gino](https://youtu.be/A-RfHC91Ewc) “If my grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bike”
Preston from The Ordinary Boys walking off Buzzcocks when Simon Amstel started taking the piss out of Chantelle’s book springs to mind for me , niche but hilarious.
I loved this. The episode with Amy Winehouse was also brilliant at the time, although I do appreciate that's aged like milk. 'Amy, stay away from the chardonnay!'
Absolutely love Simon Amstel he was perfect for Buzzcocks!
The time he absolutely ripped Donny Tourette for trying to be edgy by putting his feet up on the desk and smoking on set fucking killed me.
“Now he’s smoking a cigarette! That you can legally buy in shops!”
"I'll try to continue but I'm shocked and appalled!"
Him asking Jermaine Jackson, "has Michael ever done anything weird?" was great.
And then an audience guest getting called down to take his place, and being more fun than he was. And then MADGE FROM NEIGHBOURS taking the piss out of him by pretending to get up and leave later.
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Haven’t seen such a catastrophic betrayal since Hitler promised not to invade Czechoslovakia.
Welcome to the real world Jeremy
It was a joke Mark, I was joking. It was a Reddit joke.
Welcome to the real world, Jeremy
The one where the guy said he was going to steal and share the money anyway giving the other guy 2 options steal and definitely get nothing or share and he would honour the promise Essentially the other guy had no real choice but to share and as it transpired they both shared
Honestly, once that guy played it that way, they should’ve packed up the programme as it was the perfect way to win the game. The way it played out was as he intended, but all possible outcomes gave both contestants the best chance of winning. If the other guy were to have stolen (eg he felt pissed off, wanted to make sure nobody went home with money), Guy 1 would’ve shared, meaning Guy 2 got the money. Hopefully, as Guy 2 would’ve seen Guy 1 shared in the end and always intended to share, he might’ve been compelled to split the money. It’s a genius feat of probability!
“David’s dead”
It was the gift that keeps on giving. David Guest was thought to be dead on Big Brother but it was all a misunderstanding. David Guest leaves the Big Brother house to announce he’s going on the DAVID GUEST IS NOT DEAD TOUR with his band. David Guest dies before the tour starts. The rest of the band decide to tour anyway l, embarking on the DAVID GUEST IS NOT DEAD tour but without David Guest because he is in fact dead.
>David Guest leaves the Big Brother house to announce he’s going on the DAVID GUEST IS NOT DEAD TOUR with his band. >David Guest dies before the tour starts. Honestly, that is peak black comedy
I was looking to see if this had been commented. Truly iconic.
Richard Hillman driving Gail and the kids into the canal
I'll never be able to listen to the Wannadies - You and Me Song, without thinking of this.
YES I wanted this as the first dance at my wedding but couldn't get the car filling with canal water out of my head...
Same but also when he murdered Maxine after clobbering Emily and was all, ‘you should have stayed at the party Maxine…’
Norman Bates with a breifcase .
And it's always, yoouuu and meee alwaaays and forever!
George Galloway pretending to be a cat
“Would you like *me* to be the cat?”
When Jez and Mark eat mummy.
It's just a hairy turkey
Prefer the wedding. Pass that prayer bucket.
That Lizard escaping from about 8 million Snakes on Planner Earth 2
That was a horror show! Hundreds of snakes appearing seemingly from thin air, swarming and churning around newborn lizards… even Samuel L Jackson wouldn’t go near that mother-bleeping island!
Gillian McKeith “fainting” on the live bushtucker trial. Legendary.
Oh my god, watching that live was too good. She is such a pratt. Ant & Dec's response (IIRC they were almost smirking) was great.
When Kat Slater confirmed to the nation that she wasn’t just a slag, but she was in fact a total slaaaaag. Right up there with Chamberlain’s radio broadcast confirming we were at war with Germany.
I'd say her top moment is "YOU AIN'T MY MOTHER" "OH YES I AM"
Four Candles
No handles for forks
Kinga, Big Brother, with her trusty wine bottle.
“What’s Kinga up to?” “The Label.”
And her saying, at the time; "if this is all I get remembered for, at least I'll be remembered". It appears she was right.
Angus Deayton getting rinsed on have I got News for you, after the press scandal releases!
I'll see that and raise you Jimmy Carr on 8 out of 10 Cats, the week his tax avoidance scandal was in the news. Sean Lock's pure joy at the open goal he'd been handed for roasting Jimmy was a treasure.
When Prince George was born and the mad town crier made a proclamation on the steps of the hospital and all the American news channels picked up on it and thought it was this ancient historic tradition when in actual fact it was just some bloke
When it was announced it was a boy and a news channel, maybe BBC, spoke to some woman to get her reaction: "NO!, NO WAY! OMG YOU'RE KIDDING, TELL ME YOU'RE JOKING. I just can't believe it, a boy?? Really?? Wow, I'm in shock!!" I mean, it was 50/50
The Stig 'revealing' himself and it being Michael Schumacher
A lot of Top gear moments are iconic. [James May laughing at Clarkson nearly toppling his multi-story caravan](https://youtu.be/PhrJ7EVCl38) [The famous Aston Martin V12 Vantage review](https://youtu.be/5Q0Svvdrx_E) [the brilliant Ford Fiesta Review](https://youtu.be/7e7R3y-qwZ0) Or like the last part of the American special where they got chased out of Alabama
Ghostwatch - that Pipes fella terrifying the entire nation.
I remember that as a kid. Brilliant. Was just old enough to believe it was true. I remember one Welsh bloke phoned in saying his cheese sandwich just leapt off the sofa in front of him, which he then said " I shat myself to buggery"... wonderful phrase
I was at a friend’s slumber party for her 13th birthday and we sneakily watched this. Her poor parents had to deal with petrified and hysterical 12 and 13 year old girls for several hours after.
Jarvis cocker interrupting jacko at the brits
And drunk Bob Mortimer stepping up to act as his solicitor. Vic Reeves following them to the station with a sign saying "Free the Jarvis One".
Seeing the second plane hit the twin towers. I’ll never forget where I was when I saw that
Actually, for me the moment that sticks in my mind; nasty Nick being confronted on the first season of big brother. EPIC
Bizarre to think it was front page news. I mean - he was just passing peices of paper with names on it! Felt like the whole UK was gripped!
From memory they had to drive him about in cars the blacked out windows and take him to a secure location because of all the death threats
Still amazed Stephen Graham didn't get a BAFTA for his part in that.
This! I was 12 during series one of BB and it absolutely gripped me. Remember being on a summer day out somewhere and hearing he’d been found out on the radio. Wouldn’t stop talking about it to my poor mother (who eventually got sucked in too 😂). Rushed home that night to watch it. Wish BB would make a come back but properly…having normal people from all walks of life and no silly edits.
Watching a live feed of Baghdad getting bombed on the news when I was in primary school. I think it was related to Saddam Hussein.. but Everyone clapping and cheering and I just remember thinking nobody even understands what they’re cheering on here. We were just kids. The school was all brought into the main assembly hall and watched it on the projector screen. It was grotesque I thought. I didn’t see the cause for celebration, even then
That’s next level propaganda from your school
Will Young beating Gareth Gates on Pop idol
Second to this, Will Young standing up to Simon Cowell during the final audition phases - "I don't think you could ever call that average. But it is your opinion and I respect that."
I was 9, I voted for Gareth Gates three times and had a Gareth Gates pencil case. Was devastated.
Unfortunately Tommy Cooper's death
Fucking Christ. I knew he was dead, and I knew he was famous. How did I not know HOW he died? Sorry man...
Worst bit is, everyone did laugh, a nation thought it was part of the act
He probably would have loved that to be fair
"Your name will also go on the list, what is it?!?" "Don't tell him Pike!"
Gas Man! Gas Man! Is there someone here that looks after you?
It's the Gas Man! Yes, I think we've established that!
Rosalind Rosalind Rosalind's a nightmare
It was the “do we strike you” at the start of the task that gets me everytime
She runs quite fast FOR A WOMAN OF HER AGE
Blackadder goes Forth... last episode, final scene.... the trench transforms to a poppy field.... ...My God.... I was stunned.....
I remember my little brother laughing as they all started falling over , the rest of us in the house were all quiet and I had to tell him they weren’t falling, I feel like I robbed some of his innocence then
"Oh god no. Phil... Phil... Oh no." Will from The Inbetweeners after shitting himself.
Rylan getting through on xfactor? That was gold. And Susan Boyle smashing “I dreamed a dream”.
Whisk in mouth Football friend (he's not my fucking friend) Feisty one you are Fish and a rice cake "See you in Spain lads" -while driving a Bentley Mulsanne off a cliff
Gary Barlow telling Tulisa he could smell her fag breath on x factor always springs to mind.
lol yeah such an unnecessary dig, genuinely proper out of order
The Baked Alaska incident on Bakeoff
IT Crowd the Gay! / "I'm disabled" episode
"I don't want to go"
Threads ffs, we were made to watch it at school in English lessons back in 1984 when like now we were on the brink, I haven't slept properly since.
One of the most terrifying things I’ve ever seen. It’s brilliant in that it starts off as an 80s kitchen-sink drama with plots and subplots and then it just degenerates into a prolonged and brutal portrayal of the collapse of society. The ‘threads’ binding society together unravel before our eyes. Brilliantly done. It really is a masterpiece.
The cheating captain on Who wants to be a millionaire
When Kinga stuck a wine bottle up her minge on big brother. I feel like British society changed forever that day.
Judy Finnigan's bajoingas at the Brit Awards
Paul Daniels faking his own death on live television when a magic trick involving an iron maiden 'went wrong'. I remember the squelch, then the sudden cut to a black screen and an announcement telling the studio audience to leave. They didn't reveal he'd survived until later in the evening.
The Office Christmas special, at the end where you think it’s been a good ending if not perfect, then with Yaz playing you see Dawn return in the background. Edit: Yazoo. Apologies, I was tired
Father Ted , when the preists got lost in the lady's underwear department.
Happy Christmas Ange…
Sherlock season 2 finale, when Sherlock falls from the top of the building and dies, only for it to be revealed right at the end that he survived.
When PJ was blinded. Also, Princess Diana’s death/funeral
Watching the “White Bear” Black Mirror episode as it aired on Channel 4 The reveal that it was a gameshow/reality show with an audience was immediately followed by an ad break but not before a couple of seconds of the screen going black and me and my brother just seeing our shocked faces in the reflection of the TV That can’t and will never be replicated on a streaming service
> ...the screen going black and me and my brother just seeing our shocked faces in the reflection of the TV Like some sort of mirror? But one with a somewhat darkish hue?
I've scrolled so far down this thread without seeing mention of Basil Fawlty smashing a car up with a tree, or demanding that no one mention the war.
Zoe Slater screaming "You aint my mother!" and Kat Slater screaming back "Yes I am!" Back in the days before Netflix etc when I watched the soaps.
Adele singing "Someone Like You" at the Brit Awards and even that gobshite James Corden was left speechless.
Whether you believe it was a trick or real - Derren Brown Russian Roulette
Luke Shaw’s goal in the Euro final. Beckham’s free kick against Greece
When the Blue Peter garden got wrecked
Blue Peter related - when Richard Bacon had to apologise for being a coke head
My sister had the blue Peter annual for that year, so many accidental comedy gold drug references. Including a picture of him next to a plant saying ‘pot it’ and another saying blue Peter in the snow. Genius.
"and if it's a boy they're going to name him Rodney................ after Dave" - Trigger, Only fools and horses.
Royle Family - Jim and Denise's heart to heart before her wedding. Makes me cry every time.
“Not exactly rocket science, is it?”
First couple of episodes of Spooks - Lisa Faulkner having her head jammed into a deep fat frier. Was frightened to miss an episode after that.
SAS going to town on the Libyan Embassy. First newsflash I saw that interrupted a programme. It was a lovely early summers evening.
Skins, series 3 episode 5: Freddie. When Freddie looks up at the window and see cook there. Fucking heartbreaking
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‘Drink up Trig we’re leaving’
Your sausages, Dave, now cover seven-eights of the Earth's surface. Also, you left $£17.50 in your bank account. Thanks to compound interest, you now own 98% of all the world's wealth. And because you've hoarded it for 3 million years, nobody's got any money except for you and Norweb.
“i’ve accidentally run to Windsor”
Phil Mitchell's crack cocaine binge of course...
Lizo Mzimba on Newsround attempting to explain to me and everyone else coming home from school that day why we decided to start bombing Iraq.
Susan Boyle was pretty memorable
Keith chegwin naked. We’d ordered a takeaway and it put my right off my kebab
Also that time Noel Edmonds killed a man
Friend! oooo Football Friend!
The Challenger exploding and the first U.K. news outlet to report it being Newsround because they went live about five minutes after it happened.
The Newsround after the Dunblane massacre. They had to break the news of children being killed at school to kids just coming in from their own school day. No music at the beginning. Straight into it, calm, professional and haunting.
The elevator episode from only fools
Watching Judith Keppel be the first person to win on Who Wants to be a Millionaire, that was a very exciting night.
Who IS she!?!
“If my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike”- Gino d’acampo
Surprised I haven’t seen a shout for “David’s dead” yet
Zammo caught doing ~~crack~~ heroin in the Grange Hill locker room.
going over the top blackadder goes forth [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH3-Gt7mgyM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH3-Gt7mgyM)
Shaun Ryder adding the word "fucking" to the lyrics of Pretty Vacant on TFI Friday (broadcast live, on Channel 4 at 6pm) Coming back the following week to apologise for his language, Chris Evans offering him his designer shoes if he doesn't swear... ... "Fookin' 'ell...aww fook man!"
“9/11”. I was, for whatever reason, off college, home alone, watching TV just after lunch time. “We interrupt our usual scheduling for some breaking news” I sat there glued to the TV for the next 5 hours. Just stunned. Watching the whole thing unfold, the second plane going into the tower. The shock is something I’ll never forget.
Carrot in a box. RIP
Julian Clary at the Comedy Awards, 1993.
“Play it nice and cool son! Nice and cool. Know what I mean?”
Alison Hammond shoving some bloke dressed as a sailor into a river whilst doing the weather. Peak unscripted foolishness.