Why is Daytime TV Like This?
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
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Beautifully taking the piss out of daytime TV while actually taking the piss out of lazy UA-cam video critiques - it's beautiful and so annoying!
It works on several levels.
Please specify the number of levels it works on, @@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw
This one wasn't even that lazy 😂
@@bigfriki The snide remark about home buyers being racist was definitely lazy, especially when these shows and adverts are now infused with wokery.
"wokery" you sound like a knob @@alihenderson5910
How I love it when the Homes Under the Hammer landlord divides the two-bedroom house up into fourteen individual flats.
Or they 'swipe' away any beautiful original features with cheap short pile grey carpet and nothing but an empty vastness of white walls
@@raggletaggle8827Surely you mean "gave it a clean and contemporary makeover"?
Flashbacks to Tom Nicholas' *_ROOM_*
@@raggletaggle8827 Yes, it often looks worse after the philistines have had a go at it.
The background music, the drawn out descriptions, the twitchy camera/editing, the one-word-at-a-time subtitles, the 30sec episodic packages. God, this is perfect satire for how cringe YT essays have become. Couldn't even make it to the end, I was so put-off. Nice work, my friend.
Also the "bruh" sound effects for emphasis
I hope this is a one-off. It was unbearable
I also couldn’t make it to the end, but it was because of my severely diminished attention span
@@mark9294 have you heard of our new Lord and Saviour, TikTok Shorts? Reaction videos limited to five seconds that must have the first bar of a song currently in the top 20. and single-word subtitles that cover the centre of the screen.
It was missing the 'presenter filmed from the side while they talk to the main camera'
Don’t forget renovating old houses on a mere budget of 1 million that mum and dad gave as an Easter present.
Or the couple who only have themselves and a dog to accommodate, desperately want to swap their 5-bed, 3-bath detached for something bigger buy only have £1.6m to spend...!!!
What gets me is the bit in Grand Designs re-visit a year afterwards when the couple opens the door and just this wave of smugness comes out and hits the presenter. Just once, I want the re-visit to show the farmhouse conversion project has failed, they didn't get the planning permission to use the original timber from the Mary Rose, and the smug couple are living in a tent and using a bucket for a toilet. But hasn't happened so far.
I'm a 70+ year old bloke and can I say that the segment about daytime ads every 5 minutes on ways to kill time before you peg out is priceless.
I love that the joke is not about daytime TV but about YT video essays. Perfect editing!
It was a perfectly executed double-switch XD
Plenty of jokes about daytime TV here.
1. Create video essay.
2. End with, "we need to stop this."
3. Immediately throw script in trash, go to bed, start making the next one.
I'm glad I got the joke. The loud BACKGROUND music gave it away for me
I’m so used to be spoon-fed this algorithm that I didn’t notice and enjoyed it, haha
Surely a way to save on funeral expenses? Go on the cruise and wear a t-shirt saying, "If I die, just chuck me overboard". There's a back print saying, "Please check I'm dead first."
I would need an asterisk *please check I’m dead first, I’m a very heavy sleeper 😂
My daytime tv pet hate - when a micro celebrity is invited onto a chat show to relate their "mental health struggles" then proceed to tell a fairly ordinary tale about a tough, but common life event that made them feel a bit sad until they got over it.
It's such a slap in the face to people dealing with MH problems that can incapacitate them & aren't going to go away with breathing exercises & positive thinking.
I used to listen to Fearn Cotton's Happy place podcast with celebrities and got the same vibe.
Yep, nothing compared to Alan Partridge’s real life ‘drink & drugs heck’.
@@patchso Alan suffered real hardship in the Linton Travel Tavern days. I felt for him in that era particularly.
“Mental health struggles” has been so watered down and trivialised these days that it means nothing. People use it all the time to to get sympathy, attention and to avoid accountability
People get startled by a loud noise and say they just had a panic attack
Celebs will do or say the most toxic and shitty things and play the “I was in a bad place mentally” card
Hilarious! also love the "You tuber" editing clichés, complete with annoying mandatory subtitles 🤣 love it! …..err, unless there was actually no irony intended. In which case, I apologise.
To paraphrase Chris Morris, if it's obvious that it's satire you're not doing it well enough.
And the Vine soundboard effects!! I hope irony was intended hahaha
Ad breaks spot on and the timings between them. How ppl get through just one of these shows without losing their shit, I'll never know!!
I'm glad the voiceover guy from Coldhaven Television got the cruise voiceover job on ITV3.
This was such a distinctly British skit and I love it so much.
Oh, I don’t know. That time they had that woman on This Morning who predicted the future by chucking a load of asparagus on the floor was pretty good.
🤣🤣🤣
A classic!!
Did they have a sane person on for ‘balance’?
She predicted someone would slip on them and hurt themselves?
@@philgray1023 Or that the studio would smell of piss for a fortnight.
That last bit about the adverts was spot on!
This had a real Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe vibe to it. 👍
Just stopped short enough to make it his own.
I came here to make this exact comment 😂
I do miss Screenwipe, but Black Mirror is exactly what was needed.
That was SO ITV3. Perfect just perfect, Michael. Oh and the lousy landlord who, on buying the house, decides he's just going to lay a bit of lino, and bugger all else. 😆👍
I once watched a game show where supposedly grown up people ran a short distance grabbed a bean bag, and ran back to put it in a bucket, while being urged on by an overexcited presenter and a cheering audience...I last did that when I was at infants school. I didn't know it would be a skill for life....
It won't be repeated. One of the presenters was a bit naughty in the seventies.
Don't be too sure. Sunak is on the short list@@nowster
My Dad used to work for Thames TV before Maggie sold off the ITV franchises in ‘91, after the ‘Death on the Rock’ documentary. The company that got Thames’ licence, Michael Green’s Carlton, employed one David Cameron as ‘director of corporate affairs’. By 1994 the ITC criticised the ‘poor network programming’. It didn’t improve.
Were there too many shows featuring pigs?
Sincerely, contact Private Eye with your story!
OMG Michael. the landlord!! Love it!🤪🤣
It was like a mini-video within a video, worked all on it's own :)
Homes Under the Hammer. It's a real show staffed by er, emm and an ex footballer who once played for err. They bought some cheap rat holes at auction and did things to them and rented them out. To students probably.
THE SUPER NOODLES ARE ON ME!
YOU WON'T BELIEVE how disappointed I was THAT the video title wasn't a random MIX of capital LETTERS and ?!?!?
Did it shock you?
LOVE the 'length' of Part 2 of Morse...🤣🤣🤣
Soon there will be a whole channel showing nothing but John Thaw drinking beer. - oh, and ads of course.
The adverts were spot on too, I sometimes watch snooker on ITV 4, all the adverts are about death and things to help old people.
Wasn’t that pub garden idyllic though!
You forgot the over-50s life insurance. Get yer free binoculars.
And a free pen, or free binder with part one
That bang sound effect at 47 seconds 😂 I’m in stitches
I remember living in a bomb-filled rental in my student days. We lost a roommate once but, luckily, only half of the common area was destroyed so it was still legally a livable residence and my rent didn’t go up until just before I graduated.
You forgot to highlight the sub-genre of nothing chat shows: telling the elderly to avoid obvious scams every 20 minutes
Actually those scam warnings are a good thing.
All that was missing was a lo-fi chill soundtrack
Haha that landlord sketch is bang on! Just like homes under the hammer!
Oh don’t you just love how they match the music on Homes under the Hammer to the description of the house 😂😂
If it wasn't for that program, the majority of the country wouldn't be so jealous of Asians.
I love all of this but particularly the piece about landlords.
Yep. I haven't met a single landlord who doesn't have that kind of disgusting attitude.
Top shelf multi-level satire.
you are actually that funny, you just made sit through this even though the subtitles nearly gave me a stroke. i thought i couldnt take it anymore and then the landlord skit was so hilarious, it gave me enough power to hold on until the end. 10/10 would watch again without subtitles
I couldn't agree more, the main themes seem to be buying and selling houses or antiques, auctions for houses or antiques, repairing houses or antiques or documentaries about repossession from the bailiffs point of view.
Or fashion (yawn)
The thing is these shows all have something interesting in them. If they focused more on the action behind the shows (fixing up the antiques, doing work on the homes) and didn't totally skip past the labour and art that is the process by which the things in the show are achieved then the shows would have more meaning.
I occasionally catch antiques shows on and some parts are genuinely enlightening - like fixing an old shelf; but instead they skip past that as if the labour in of itself is not interesting and the result is all that matters. It just cuts to somebody talking in the middle of an incredible restoration of an old watch or something it's totally disengaging.
@@JomchenThe people doing the work don't want the audience to see how it's done. If people knew how easy some of the work was, all antiques restorers would be claiming benefits to eat.
Where's the cookery segment?!? I need a cookery segment using lots of ingredients I don't have and can't afford!!!
@retrogiftsuk4812 this aswell 😂😂
The "if you want a flat in South London at an affordable price, you're gonna have to put up with...." is the most accurate thing ever.
I always suspected daytime TV was for people in old folks homes.
Glad to see it clarified.
"Maybe The Awfulness Is Unavoidable" --I"m stitching that on a pillow!
the fucking funeral ad!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
He’s got a point. Get it sorted!
:-)
The length of the ad breaks not to mention the ads themselves 😂😂😂
Brilliant 😂
I was getting progressively more suspicious until I got to the "Bruhhh", then I knew what was going on. Very nice indeed!
I'm very grateful that you took the time to talk about something on your YT channel and **released it during the day**
Remember when tv stopped broadcasting for a few hours? Day time tv could take that on board. Save money, save power…just a thought
Same with 24 hour news, there's no need for it. I know people that get addicted to watching it, they see the same news over and over gain. It isn't the most cheerful thing to watch, I don't care who murdered someone today, I know there's psychopaths about, it doesn't interest me.
But that means the unemployed would have to clean their house or do something productive
The adverts were hauntingly accurate
You forgot "watch people cook some food, and then eat the food!"
and then they bitch about the food!
You made my day! Really funny and the cruise line commercials were brilliant
The brilliant thing about this channel is Michael Spicer only puts out funny material, there is literally no fat. It's so efficient.
'Georgian gravy boat'. Perfect choice!
Lets hope it had a hallmark and was not sterling silver or the viewer coul well go ahead and switch to a low-energy game show.
The subtitle style is especially apt and hilarious.
Can I just point out that I legitimately and with no exaggeration lived in a flat in SE London that had no roof. I stayed there for a year. On the upside it had two bathrooms.
And if it rained it didn't take long to run a bath.
@@trickygoose2 mere moments. Pigeon poo is surprisingly good as an exfoliant.
The skits at the end holds so much truth, television these days appeals to no one but the elderly, one of the main reason why more and more people opting out of TV licence and watch online. And TV companies often wonder why, even though they keep reusing the same formula for 30, 40 years. No one wants to watch Saturday night shows or talk shows anymore.
' -opting out of tv license and watching online- pretending 'ohhhh I don't watch any of that _telly_ rubbish' .........while still watching programmes'
I got an Ad for a Cheezy Funeral Plan, every day multiple times a day during "the lockdown era" as l refer to it. Often it was the only 1 on repeat.
I'm alive today out of spite for them only
This might be the other way around, young people do not watch TV at all, so why program material (including adverts) for them at all?
@@AdamBuckley1964 Because adverts rely on split attention by bypassing the critical faculties, so being on your phone - adjacent to a TV is actually optimal!
l got an Ad for a Cheezy Funeral Plan, every day multiple times a day during "the lockdown era" as l refer to it. Often it was the only 1 on repeat.
Happy Days 🙄
Spicer knows all the funny words and in what order to use them. 5/5 Would commission a new series.
5:50 I’ve said to my parent so many times, closely followed by “hope your will is up to date”.
Love the pause after 'well the dining room needs a new carpet' 😅😅😅
OMG, the switch to black-and-white for things we should disapprove of...it's like Brass Eye for the Influencer Age.
:D It's so true. I used to work as the maintenance in a care home and that was literally all that was playing in the each of the dozens of rooms. It was a nightmare. And the poor residents zombified by it. Not watching it, but zombified by it. I bet they never saw that coming when they were young, go-getters like the rest of us.
So true. I’ve haven’t watch Free-to-Air TV in about 5yrs. Can’t stand ads 😬
That's brilliant on so many levels.
I was honestly struggling to get through this video and I kept thinking, "this isn't like the Michael Spicer videos I'm used to..."
And then I got it. Excellent work.
Not quite there yet but an excellent start! What was missing from the house programmes was "Whoops, I bought a French chateau, what am I like?". I can give you loads of suggestions for that one!
"India is a wellness guru and Sebastian sells antiques. They sold their house in Surrey and bought this derelict 300 year old, 36 bedroom chateau in 2023. They are planning to open it as a 4 star bed and breakfast, if they can manage to renovate the whole house in 6 months, with a budget of only half a billion pounds."
"We're just a normal couple really.. We don't have any experience but we like the asthenic.. since we moved here, India has started painting pictures of the garden and she sells them in the local cafe. We need to finish on time because we have invited people over for an ironic Christmas party in April."
"Can they do it? Are they richer than everyone you know but you can't work out why? Find out in this week's Chateau Rescue in the Sun."
Two weeks after buying the property India discovers she is 6 months pregnant and Drs have advised her not to do any strenuous work so cannot offer any practical help in the rebuild.
Luckily though, Indias' uncle is a jobbing builder and has brought his whole team over for an extended holiday where they might be able to help out a bit. They're definitely not working though as that would be illegal in France.
Next week, how many of the building crew will still be there after a surprise visit from the Gendarme and will the ironic Christmas party now be changed to a baby shower? Tune in for a unique gender reveal.
Love this! All the editing clichés too 😂
Good grief there's a wealth of subjects to get through in this format
I haven't watched TV for nearly 15 years because it was like this...
... And it still hasn't changed 🤦🏼♀️
Thanks for being an oasis from the almost unavoidable awfulness, Mr Spicer.
I particularly like the bit about home renovations by racists abroad....as here in the Republic of Ireland we are currently suffering a wave of "ex-pat Brits" because the English never refer to themselves correctly as "immigrants" and worse still, they're buying up real estate in Ireland while complaining simultaneously about the Irish weather and the Brexit they voted for that didn't work out so they can't live in Sunny Spain.
Thank goodness for this channel ❤
Had to listen to a racist rant at work between a 70 something that retired to Spain, and some 40 something that works in London a few times a year.
When she said how bad it is here now, I hoped she'd have the sense to realise it is because of 14 years of tories and the brexit bullshit.
Oh no, apparently these 2 could agree that it's not Britain anymore, just look at London, it's awful. Of course they're referring to immigrants existing. They even had to look around to see if there were any foreign looking people in the vicinity while they had their hateful rant.
Never ceases to amaze me how irony and logic is lost on these bastards. That woman is providing nothing to the economy in Spain, yet is outraged at immigrants coming here to work!
I can only apologise for our Gammon exports 😢
Since most people didn't vote for brexit and want nothing to do with the brexit gammom morons you must be really unlucky to only meet them.
No, no, you don’t understand. ‘Ex-pat’ is good. ‘Immigrant’ is bad ;-)
Well done on the anti-racist stuff while actually being a bit racist yourself.
Hahaha, you're right about the game shows being so dark! I did The Chase and was lucky not to fall off the relatively high step directly behind the chairs. PS, I was in the episode with Winston and Churchill (and Theresa, but I was June, not May, so folk gave me shit on Twitter!). 🤣🤣🤣
Did you win?
I highly recommend getting rid of the tv altogether. 🥳
Love the music being as loud as the recording.
Looking forward to more videos of you talking about stuff.
Oh, I'm stealing the Super Noodles tip and sending it off to Viz...
"How do you know he didn't read that tip there in the first place?"
Hmm...
I work in the mornings part time in the run up to my eventual retirement and often pass the TV in the canteen and I think 'Thank God I'm not unemployed!'.
The daytime TV companies completely ignore the fact that a huge proportion of their audience is unemployed and they, in turn, find it somewhat insulting to see endless programmes about people flaunting their wealth. You see twenty something's saying 'Well, we're hoping to upgrade to a bigger property - something between a million and one and a half million!' and you just know that they haven't got that sort of money from the 'hard graft' gammons always go on about. It's either through an inheritance or some serious back stabbing in the world of commerce or something equally shady.
It's my fathers funeral on the 14th, happy valentines..., and even I had to laugh at the funeral advert. My dad did arrange his funeral in advance, his main stipulation being that he had definitely died before the funeral took place.
In all honesty the Co-op have been fantastic, lovely food, haven't got a clue about their funeral service though...
Your dad is a very picky fellow. Seriously, I’m very sorry for your loss. Your dad must’ve been quite the character 😂
@@TallyRocky He really was, he was extremely intelligent, charming and athletic, a real people person, I'm nothing like him unfortunately.
What about those adverts where you can adopt a Lion, Zebra, Elephant, Tiger, Gorilla, for only £2/month? Where am i going to put them? What will the neighbours say?
Will my council tax go up?
Is an elephant exempt from ULEZ?
OMG genius idea! Horses are exempt from ULEZ. There's a park near me, and one near where I work. I could just get a horse and leave it in the park while I'm at home or at work!
Do I need 'car' insurance to drive a horse on the road? Does a horse need to have an MOT?
SIX MINUTES OF SPICE?! This is gonna buuuuurn!
Brilliant, as always 👏🤣
I liked for the ad being repeated at the end of the ad break. So realistic
Scientists of the future will give up searching for the theory of everything, and instead focus their efforts into why Lorraine Kelly lasted so long on TV. It'll be a more challenging problem for them to solve.
4:47 got me in stitches
Wonderful! Best bit is the Itv3 ads! So true!
Well done Michael, a brilliantly observed take on daytime TV. I remember at the dawn of daytime TV and American was interviewed on UK national media to give an insight when the service launche - he said something to the effect that daytime TV in the US was nothing but drivel and made the point that it is impossible to produce quality programming 24/7 and you will end up with mush - he was completely accurate in his prediction!!
Reminds me that when the BBC wanted to import a day time soap in the '80s they chose Neighbours because the American alternatives were worse.
Great video, So amusing probably why UA-cam is much better then daytime TV by a mile (apart from events, sports and news if something is happening)
Ah, the last boat to the undying lands…sign me up.
every rewatch makes this masterpiece better: Deadpool as Bob Ross being the illustration for creativity, the 4 completely random categories,only here to give an illusion of structure, and the complete absence of point of the video. It's amazing.
This man is AMAZING I am cracking up with laughter every 5 seconds !!!!
He’s right about the Super Noodles, if anything, they actually taste better uncooked, smashed up, with the powder shaken into the packet. They’re the worst ramen going texture wise cooked.
The Golden Cruise ads killed me 😂
Loved it! So many layers of entertainment and wisdom. When's the next one coming out?
Right after this 11 minutes of ads
I loved uk daytime when satellite first started. Lots of imported u.s soap operas and game shows. That shit was hysterical 😂
What a superb little sketch, very funny. 🤣
Mike, I hope you will never be censored on UA-cam for your bang-on comedy. All the best!
No, he called people living in the countryside 'racist' so he's perfectly 'on message', he'll be fine.
@@alihenderson5910 I'm not sure, whether that was supposed to be a smart backhanded argument or just blunt of you, but maybe the English countryside could mofo stop hunting as a sport destroying nature and then they won't be target any more...
@@RemotelySkilledThis otherwise excellent video just had to go with the 'British people are all racists' trope, when talking about people moving to the countryside or expats abroad.
His satirical view of daytime TV and the advertising could have been even better if he'd referenced the blatant 'race washing' propaganda it promotes.
I would not have brought any of this up if he hadn't gone there first. There's enough thinly veiled anti white, anti British, sentiment in media as it is.
The hunting comment just baffles me.
This gets more and more hilarious! 🤣🤣🤣
Brilliant and so true!!!! The subtitles!!!
Brilliant as usual so correct
Amazing! Great work! More please!!
Don't get me started!! Great satire made even more effective by simply taking what you already know and sticking it in your face!! Next topic for the Michael Spicer treatment; 'How Many More Shows Can Channel 5 Make About Air Fryers??!!'
The fake retirement ads 🤣
My husband has cancer and he was right up for old episodes of Minder, Sweeney etc. Fortunately he also saw the funny side of the you-are-going- to-die-soon ads.
Bill Hicks - 'Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.'
And after all the lies they told, watching television in '24 is particularly braindead.
I still feel SM has ramped up the lies. MSM can't cram in as many as you see on SM.
It is indeed DIRE. You should do a vid on the youtube ads as well 😆
Great channel, love your humoristic intermezzo’s!
I didn't know the smashing super noodles technique!
SO excited to try this!!1
I haven't seen daytime TV in almost 15 years now. I am ready for this lol
Love your work. Absolutely.
My favourite on the daytime TV ads is the one that goes "Look. Here's a picture of a sad animal, and we're playing some heart-rending music over it and talking in a really sad voice to ask you to pleeeeeeeeeeease give us your money. Just phone this number and give us all of it. Not just some, but every single penny. Phone us now, or this sad little animal will die!". And then 3 minutes later in the same ad break, the same ad comes back on with the same sad music, but this time they say "Haven't you donated yet?............................You bastard!"
"Just £25 a week can pay someone who earns £4 a week to feed a knackered donkey, rather than shoot it"
My favourite was Bargain Hunt. Demographics mean there hasn’t been any money in antiquing for around two decades. Very hard to sell some beswick knick-knack for £50 when you just bought it for £23. Those stallholders must count their lucky stars that day 😂
Hilarious - and also TRUE!