The Spike TV Iceberg
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
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SPIKE TV aired some of the wildest content to ever air on cable. In less than two decades, it created one of the most INSANE catalogs of content ever. In this video, we're tackling the SPIKE TV ICEBERG in an attempt to see it all.
00:00:00 - INTRO
00:03:27- Layer 1: The Surface
00:24:03- Layer 2: Combat Sports
00:32:59- Layer 3: Animation and Cartoons
00:42:38 Layer 4 - Reality Shows
00:53:51 Layer 5 - Live Events
00:59:21 Layer 6 - Oddities
01:07:11 Layer 7 - The Rise and Fall of Spike
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I was one of those kids who watched Spike TV when I was 9 or 10.
I love how your channel regales my nostalgia specifically to the youngins who weren't cool enough to be kids in the 2000s.
Like people can afford to buy jewelry
Tom Holland in drag was my favorate lmao I grew up in a wild time
Jason Ellis ! NO WAY, I Never knew he was on Spike?!!?!!??!?! Tony Hawk's friend?!
THAT"S WOLF, from HAWK VS WOLF. Tony Hawk's Podcast HAHAHA NO WAY.
As Soon as I heard him speak I was like No way, its him without face tattoos. wow.
Literally saw 1000 ways to die as a kid, and couldn’t think the same since
Literally, without this video, I would have lived my entire life assuming Afro Samurai was an Adult Swim production.
Same. I never heard anyone speak about it in connection to the other Spike tv shows.
You might be getting mixed up with Samurai Champloo
Same here
it was released direct to dvd here in the uk, so it kinda skipped that over here. really, spike tv just did reruns of futurama.
Should have gone to Adult Swim. Afro Samurai is too good for Spike TV.
A friend of mine's dad is a professor with a PHD in medieval warfare and one of the experts they called on Deadliest Warrior. He's still salty about the bullshit ruling in his episode and calls it "deadliest blow to my career" when he talks about it lol
what episode was he on?
How tf you get a phd in medieval warfare
@@Zzed45Ella Mafia you can get a degree in anything at this point
@@Zzed45Get good history grades and go study medieval history in university.
Well history itself shows that gun powder beats medieval warfare
“Finally… A gay guy for MEN!” I fucking lost it
He’s gay… he dances… AND HAS GUNS!
he had the fash cut in Starship Troopers he was already the gay guy for real men honestly
Holy fuck so did I lol
"Real men" 😂
He's soo right tho
Deadliest Warrior was part of that holy trinity of "lets wreck some ballistics gel dummies" shows next to Mythbusters and Forged in Fire
also the British series Brainiac
Spike TV was Lifetime for men.
Perfect comparison
Honestly yeah
😂😂😂
Blue mountain state. Oh boy do I miss that show hahaha
Yeah I was comparing it to Lifetime on the last video lol
Imagine being the dude crushed by a coffin, turning on the tv in the afterlife and seeing a story about how you WERE A NECROPHILIAC CRUSHED BY THE COFFIN OF HIS VICTIM.
I hated the show. They take real deaths and twist them making the dead look like an awful person. There's two cases of this happening, one in 1989 and the one in the show is VERY loosely based off on Marciana Silva Barcelos, except she wasn't a pervert like Mason. On November 11th, 2008 in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - Barcelos, 67, was a passenger in the hearse carrying the body of her husband, Josi Silveira Coimbra, who had died the day before. Suddenly, a speeding Alfa Romeo car struck the back of the hearse. Dislodged by the accident, Josi’s coffin hurtled forward and smashed into the back of Marciana’s neck, killing her instantly.
I’ve always thought about that when watching the show. Like no way were all these people genuinely horrible or deserved it and then I imagine if all these people who died were able to see the show and how they were represented. Like I can imagine the guy who got crushed by a coffin was just a normal dude, prolly had a family, pretty chill or whatever and we all remember him as a necrophile
@@t.l.w.1221 I listed the case in my comment above. It was a she, and she probably had f*cked the person (while they were alive)... Because it was her husband. Really sad story. The show had no respect for the dead.
@@Gatorade69 Not to derail your point because it's indeed awful to try to downplay the severity of a strange death by presenting the victims as absolute horrible beings who _deserve_ to die (most unusual deaths are down to bad luck and have nothing to do with karma)
But her name was literally "Martian"????
@@DeepWeeb Does Marciana mean Martian in Portuguese ?
I assumed it is kind of the Hispanic equivalent of the name Marcella/Marceline/Marcy. Which according to the internet the meaning of the name Marcy 'comes from the Latin name Marcius, and its meaning is related to Mars, the Roman god of war.'
The channel for 'modern day men' showing mostly cartoons? Spike really was ahead of its time
A core memory for me is watching Star Wars on Spike as a ten year old at about 11:00 pm on a Thursday night, and I got hit with a Girls Gone Wild ad. Things were never quite the same.
I never watched BMS, but hearing "His dad dies in the war. Leaving him his beloved fleshlight" had me howling.
U missed out. Show was funny back then 😂
@@Blacknight6577 wdym was? It still is 😂😂😂
It's hard to find online now but truly recommend it 💀 early 2000s parody/satire of college football at its absolute finest. It would never air today but the level of awareness the writers had about misogyny and the perspective of the stereotype of college football is so good.
@@liz_loves_cats it actually came out in 2010 with the 00s comedy/humor
BMS is incredible!
CAN YOU FART SO HARD YOUR BALLS EXPLODE!!??🤯 💥 ⚽️
BOUNCING BEWBS
Yes. It has happened to me.
The premise of a channel for men in a reality where 99% of media is already created by and for men could only result in this kind of base idiocy.
I need to know what the manswer to that was.
@@DrewLSsixfr
Fun fact about Gary the Rat:
when Spike canned their entire adult animation block after it didnt take off (which was going to be revamped with more new shows and Adult Party being replaced by newly remastered reruns of the original Ren and Stimpy show, which in itself was edited for ad time and to remove Nickelodeon's endcard), the shows there then were uncermousally canned without proper closure except for old Gary.....
His show was the only one of the entire lineup to actually have an finale
Justin, your favourite game is 'Dragon Futa Harem 4: Get Pregnant!' and we're about to remake your room.
I read this comment before the video actually talked about that show, and I was so confused
You just know that coffee table would have been wild
@@roytomlinson1448He'd still try and make it some World War 2 antique (but sexy)
goals ngl
The 1000 ways to die bit where a nail in a DIY slip n slide ripped someone's guts out has stuck with me. Forever.
The one where the guy throws dynamite and his dog brings it back was the one i remember the most
the one that stuck with me was people throwing rocks on the ground to break them and dying from inhaling rock dust
For some reason the one that stuck with me most was the one where a girl had a kink for.. “🤮”and she choked on something that a guy had thrown up on her..
I guess it stuck in my mind because it was so nasty..
Oh and the one where the girl’s implants blew up on the plane.. 💀
That show was so unhinged it could cut a freaking mountain in half.
Mine was the girl that had an orgasm on a motorcycle bc of the vibrations and fell off
Billiam - "Fuck you for making me side with Vince McMahon Spike TV"
Me - "he's so Based"
He's just like me fr
I read this comment right as he said it. Nothing is real
@@jasonnoregretes491 based
@@96bel96 Happens all the time. Can't explain it.
Afro samurai is a top tier show. You are in there for an over the top action mixed with dark moods and it does it so well.
Leftover pizza tips:
-Leftover pizza makes a great base for "pizza quesadillas". Anything you'd put in a quesadilla, put between 2 pissa slices, & grill or pan fry.
-Leftover pizza is a great base for scrambled eggs or huevos rancheros.
-Freeze individual slices in freezer bags right away & reheat as needed from frozen in an oven. It reheats better & tastes more like supermarket pizza than leftover pizza done that way.
Dont gaslight me with two criminal offenses against pizza and one normal suggestion
"She came undone."
You know the writer has been waiting for an excuse to make that pun.
I think 1000 ways to die changed me as a child, because I saw this one episode where this dude thought that high rise building windows are strong, and won't break if he were to run into it. So he thought it would be a cool and funny prank if he ran at a window in front of his co-workers, and he ended up breaking through and falling to death.
As an adult I still can't comfortably go too close to windows in tall buildings lol.
fun fact: this was a real death that happened to someone. probably not exactly as portrayed in this show but still.
@@vantablack6288 By what I understand, the window didn't break, but it did come loose and fall out
@@screamingcactus1753yeah. he kept demonstrating with the same window and it weakened the frame. avoidable death :(
@@nikkey8951 yes !! my mom used to tell me this story a bunch as a kid, presumably so i wouldn't do the same thing (which. why would i), but yeah, i can't remember if it was a group of his students or new hires at his company, but this guy would run at the window in front of them to freak everyone out for a second before they'd realize the window didn't break. he'd then explain "they make windows really strong to avoid lawsuits" (i can't remember if his profession was legal or architectural). but yeah, it was a trick that only worked so many times before the window finally gave in.
This show + final destination 2 kicked off my lifelong anxiety disorder lmaoo
I love the guy talking about the bullet and saying "A knight has a shield, so getting through that extra layer is going to be a big factor" as if a Knight has supernatural reaction time
Honestly 1,000 Ways To Die probably did add to my paranoia as a teen and to this day to some extent. I loved it.
They didn't have any furries working on Gary the Rat and it shows. Though whoever designed Gary is definitely a closeted furry.
I often think about the episode of 1000 Ways to Die where a guy drowned in his cat's water bowl. For the reenactment, they decided to make him just like, a full crazy cat man. It's so weird to think that the ideal man was invented by Spike TV.
Peter John Robinson, aged 28, slipped while walking down his back door ramp to feed his cat, Piper. His mother, Gill Robinson, found him lying unconscious, facedown in 4cm of water in the plastic cat bowl. Coroner Peter Roselli found that Mr Robinson drowned after a significant head injury on July 5. Mrs Robinson said the ramp was covered in about 3cm of ice after a week of frosts.
Sad.
The one that always stuck with over the years, for some random reason, is the skit with the terrorists setting a bomb. However, they died in the explosion due to forgetting about day light savings time😂. Just so damn stupid
Afro Samurai is absolutely peak fiction. I was introduced to it when a Facebook group I was in was doing like a movie night on some website where we watched the Afro Samurai Resurrection movie and loved it. Not long after I bought the complete series DVD from a retro store and just sat there loving the entire show. It's a top 10 anime for me.
Here in Canada, around the same time Spike TV hit the airwaves, we got a copycat channel called Men TV. It kind of billed itself as a bit more sensual than Spike, it was dark, mysterious, and smooth, as opposed to Spike's constant explosions and boobs. It was a glass of whiskey to Spike TV's tallboy of beer. It had its own programming, mostly talk shows and game shows, as well as sitcoms like Blackfly and reruns of older shows like Sledgehammer and Remmington Steel. At one point, Spike actually tried to get them off their air because they were causing "competition" with them, but the Canadian courts looked at both and was like, "No, these are different channels".
I didn't have that channel, just Spike. Though, I didn't have a LOT of channels that you had on the mainland.
i do not remember men tv but honestly from the marketing alone i probably wouldve enjoyed that channel more as a teen lol
As someone who actually knows about historical combat from actually doing it as part of my hyperfixation, nobody on Deadliest Warrior ever knew the first thing of what they were talking about.
@InevitableOption-ic2vxninjas did not exist, so I mean, yeah you should have known it was going to be terribly innaccurate.
@@SpecialistkayI guess Iga and Koga were results of centuries spanning continuous mass hallucinations, according to you.
@InevitableOption-ic2vx To be fair, that would be how it would play out.
I don't think anyone would know what a rajput was, but they had them win against the roman centurion.
And they did navy seals vs spetznaz and surprisingly had the spetznaz win in spite of one of them being former military.
So I think it's not the worst.
I remember watching some of _Deadliest Warrior,_ because on the surface, they genuinely seemed to want to do a fair comparison between two groups to deduce their fighting prowess. Two groups have different sets of weapons, let’s test them to see if one is better. And while it’s kind of juvenile, shedding some light on to who would win between, say Vikings and Samurai, isn’t inherently a bad idea. But then I saw one particular episode. They wanted to see which grenade was better, the one used by Group A or the one used by Group B. So they set up a room filled with cardboard cutouts and detonated the grenade used by Group A, then they examined the aftermath. Next, you’d expect they’d repeat the same experiment with the grenade used by Group B, so they could compare the results, right? No. They put Group B’s grenade in a washing machine and detonated it. That is a completely different test. Now, because you don’t know what you’re doing, we can’t directly compare the two grenades. You fail science _Deadliest Warrior._
Oh my glob, I had forgotten about the blood boiling rage I felt at that episode. I don't even remember the rest of the episode, but I remember how pissed off I was as a kid who didn't get objective testing
Overall while it's definitely my favorite Spike show and the only one I watched all the episodes of, it's about as accurate to history as Barney was to dinosaurs. William Wallace is very obviously based on Braveheart and Shaka Zulu his opponent was ripped from the Shaka TV drama from the 80s, not any actual historical figures that takes you know research and time. It's pretty much the same for every character. He also jokes a lot about the Green Berets losing but I just want to point out that's the only episode I can remember where the Americans lose. They sweep the competition every other time from the Rangers to Teddy Roosevelt.
Honestly, except that I'm not sure they were smart enough to think of this, it seems like they intentionally did stupid shit like that to spark greater discussion/debate/dumb arguments. I remember as a kid having tons of conversations with my friends driven by that kind of "mistake".
@@Salsmachev I'm guessing they did two different tests just because they thought it'd be boring to audiences if they did the same thing twice and really didn't think much beyond that
I remember that! I was so pissed at it too! I think it was American vs Russian grenades and the Russian grenade was put into the washing machine.
DUDE THE 1000 WAYS TO DIE PART GAVE ME FLASHBACKS
When I was a kid my stepdad would watch it a lot when I was in the room and it freaked me out, and constantly made me paranoid I'd die anytime I got hurt even slightly.
I'm convinced the show is what gave me my long-lasting thanatophobia lol.
When Billiam talks about lost I was like I wanna go back and watch that again.
When Billiam talks about spikeTV I was like I wanna go back in time to prevent myself from watching spikeTV.
He goes so in-depth with Lost I don't feel like I need to watch it, but with this Spike stuff he goes just in-depth enough for me to watch to these insane things again to make sure they're actually real and he's not lying lol
We need to bring back SPIKE TV, not on television but in a ZOO so it can be studied by the scientific minds of the world.
1:05:15 hearing Schroeder being confused with Schrödinger was a joke I thought up a long time ago and hearing it in real life is surreal
I must thank Spike for Blue Mountain State, Deadliest Warrior, MXC, and their occasional 007 marathons. My teenage years wouldn't be what they were without Spike.
I was 8-12 years old when 1000 Ways to Die aired in its original run. The deaths itself didn’t faze me at all per se, but it was the 3-D animations that explained how the people died that truly scared me. The death that stuck with me the most was a guy with narcolepsy who slept at his job whenever and wherever he could, and one day he decided to sleep inside an industrial oven that cured metals. His coworker didn’t realize that he was inside and closed the oven door while he was sleeping inside the oven and he was cooked alive in his sleep.
Yeah, I remember that one.
They write almost all the stories so the guy who dies is an asshole... that wasn't one of them.
@@kazekamiha in another instance where the one person depicted in 1000 Ways to Die wasn’t acting like an asshole but still died anyways was this lady who was fly fishing and a fish flew into her mouth and asphyxiated due to the fish’s scales made it difficult for her to get the fish out of her throat.
Can't say I recall that one, but I just used to watch whichever ones I could find on youtube when I was 9 or so. The one I remember most vividly is definitely the Chainus... Shit was horrific
@@janegeland7596 I can see how it’s a horrific way to go. But my biggest question I had from watching UA-cam clips of that death that you mentioned was how the hell did the guy get a chain that went from his mouth to outside his butthole. I’d imagine that this a pretty invasive procedure to do.
@@juancerda-duran1824 I mean, I have some doubts as to the veracity of some of the stories. However, I imagine it's a fairly thin chain; and I'd assume you basically just swallow it, and let it pass its way through your guts and such? Couldn't tell you, though, I know nothing about it apart from the vague memory of that episode hahaha.
Absolutely wild, nonetheless. But the only mention of that sort of piercing I can find is directly related to the episode, so I have a fair few doubts hahaha.
That quote about the Manswers people wanting the show to be sexy without being misogynistic is actually sending me; it is literally so easy to make something that is both sexy and not degrading to women, and Manswers does basically everything wrong in that regard. The fact that the showrunner was a woman is just all the more baffling.
Sounds like the showrunner's objective was "I must put together all the things men like," which... shows how low the showrunner's (and the network's) expectation of men was.
(As for the middle school boys did end up liking it... idk I guess stereotypes exist for a reason.)
@@thejest69 I mean if my experiences are anything to go by, most middle school boys will watch anything that has a bunch of half naked women in it, so those demographics don't surprise me at all.
@@fhey7903If by middle school boys you mean “all ages of men after puberty that like women” I 100% agree. 😂
In hindsight, a woman running the show actually makes sense as to why the show had such a stereotypical view of men
it makes it hilarious to me honestly like the show finally makes sense, there's a gag in Brookly 99 where the captain (who is gay) pretends to be straight during undercover missions and spends the whole time talking about boobs, ass and sex in the most direct and forced way possible to the point of making the other men feel uncomfortbale. this is like a tv show version of that
As a kid, I used to think I could get the Deadliest Warrior simulation code, and when I realized it was just an excel spreadsheet on an alienware laptop, my childhood ended
Wait...1000 ways to die stories were fake? I thought people actually died trying to get off. Took me 20 years to learn this. Thank you, Billiam
Fun fact: The Mel Gibson parody that gets disemboweled by his jacuzzi pool drain was based on the real death of a 6-year-old girl named Abigail Taylor in 2008. This death would later be recreated in even gory detail in The Final Destination.
@InevitableOption-ic2vx that name's familiar, was that the dark harvest guy or someone else?
@InevitableOption-ic2vx oh right that guy
Chuck Palanuk author of Fight Club wrote a book called Guts which the title is in reference to dying that way. It's a pretty good book.
Wow, that is...Incredibly slimy holy shit.
@@SpecialistkayI was gonna say I thought that was from Guts. I guess the idea has been around for a while
A friend of mine was a producer on A Thousand Ways to Die. Just know there's multiple seasons worth of even more insane things they never aired.
Do elaborate! Sounds interesting
That's a shame. I'd have loved to see all 1000 segments
Love the scene where the robber is pulled into the MRI with the nurse who is clearly wearing jewlery standing next to it, unharmed in her undergarms
More fun fact: tna’s falling out with spike was actually due to frustration and anger on spikes end because they specifically told tna that they didn’t want a certain backstage director to be working for the company as he had history of creating terrible storylines and was vocally hated by fans. So Tna secretly hired him back and had him working and when spike found out it was the last straw and they officially canceled their relationship
Was it Vince russo?
Something interesting is that Manswers was produced by a Japanese company, and one of their American liaisons Michael Schelp was also a producer of animated mockbusters like "Plan Bee" and "A Car's Life "
When I tell you "1000 Ways to Die," was one of my favorite shows growing up. And I'm not paranoid... I'm cautious. Lol
Same tbh
Just curious, but do you like final destination too cuz they have some overlap in goofy ways to die
It was one of my favorites for awhile, too. I'm definitely paranoid, but it's more from growing up within fundamentalist christianity, and dealing with the authoritarian, zero healthy boundaries parenting that shit produces and encourages. After about the third time of getting home to find your folks ransacked your room, and stole shit from you to throw it away, trust becomes a luxury you just can't afford.
Watch out for paper cuts
@@burninsherman1037 tmi
@@KingOfGaymes Final Destination goes more from horror to comedy the further u get in the series, the gymnast death is still one of the funniest things I ever seen in a movie
Growing up in the MW2 era, it's hard to understate just how much Deadliest Warrior was like liquid crack injected directly into my veins.
The game was soooooo good
Afro Samurai is the best thing Spike ever aired
Watching MXC was one of the happiest memories of my high school years. That show's dub cracked me up like nothing else. I'm almost 100% sure that I watched every episode.
Definitely my favorite of the shows. Honestly a lot of it holds up.
DON'T. GET. ELIMINATED!!!!
Same, I remeember watching MXC way back when i was young, and it took me a long time to rediscover it, let alone rediscover the original version
I ended up having to search "japanese wipeout" to get the answers
Right you are, Ken.
My personal VGA moment, at least when it aired on Spike, was the year (either 2007 or 2008, iirc) that they enforced having shorter speeches, and if the winner went over time they were tackled by a soldier that then t-bagged them. It was wild. I think only one or two winners went over time.
Honestly, bring that back. And make it universal to all award ceremonies
There's this one scenario from 1000 Ways to Die I saw as an early teen where a guy that gets in a vehicle accident is mistaken for dead has his organs harvested and he's aware of the whole thing and finally dies when his heart gets removed.
That was traumatizing af.
I'll defend Bar Rescue like shows. By the time the show gets to the business it is so heavily in debt that there's really no easy way to fix it.
I 100% remember walking in on my dad watching 1000 ways to die and getting really scared of three things: decompression chambers, having sex in hot tubs, and eating carrots for some fcking reason
Oh the carrot one was terrible
4:19 yes both my boyfriend and I were talking about how that show made us both incredibly paranoid especially because we were already paranoid autistic children
Also Tom Holland Dancing to Umbrella is truly one of my favorite things to ever have happened and lives rent free in my mind
i also grew up with this show, but ive always been the autistic kid that has 0 sense of danger and accidentally walks out into traffic without realizing, but if the doorbell rings ill shit my pants
@@modernmusic52 bro same I’ve almost been hit by a car cause I walked in front of one like four times in my entire life and I’m only 21 my boyfriend has more of the paranoia side of it. I just have anxiety and I just think there’s a lot of times I do stuff and I’m like ha ha this is how somebody died on that show. Meanwhile, my boyfriend will be terrified of like told you that you’re gonna hurt yourself because the show.
Spike TV was nothing but directed for the lowest common denominator...AND I WAS THAT LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR AND I LOVED IT!
And yes, 1000 Ways To Die made me paranoid as a teenager out of everything and anything...but it was my favorite show, like a live-action version of Happy Tree Friends...a ranchy live-action version of Happy Tree Friends
I watched 1,000 Ways to Die when I was younger. I am absolutely a paranoid, anxious person and some of the episodes are ingrained in my brain.
Specifically the pool out where two kids cut themselves open by sliding over nails and that one where a felon tries to escape through the sewer system but gets stuck. I have never forgotten them and it’s been well over 10 years at this point
Another Spike TV joint, lets go, maybe we'll get a G4 episode sometime?
XPlay
i hope he talks about code monkeys
G4 wasnt masculine enough for beta bill to get triggered by.
Oh God yes. We need someone talking about the history of G4; when it was Tech TV, when it became G4, and G4's failed relaunch.
@@Dragoncurse4You mean it's failed relaunch featuring Jirard "The Completionist" Khalil, which many people claimed he was the best part of it...
When I was a kid I remember people used to rag on a 1000 Ways to Die for the stories not being real.
As an adult I realize how fucked up it'd be if they just told the actual stories of how people died live on TV.
Deadliest warriors and Manswers is such a blast of nostalgia for an unsupervised me, thank you for reminding me
No joke I’ve been dying for a second episode. I watched spike tv when I was WAAAAY too young, so this is strangely nostalgic.
The best part of the video is the fact that it was posted on International Woman’s Day
ive only seen yellowstone is glimpses while walking by my parents watching, but what ive gathered is that its very striking to look at, but EVERY "conversation" between characters is people monolouging at each other
also, while i praise the show for having native american actors and addressing issues plaguing the modern native american community, it doesn't do it well. first off, the actress for their most prominent native character isn't even native, she's east asian lmao. secondly, even when native americans' concerns are played sympathetically, it still has an undercurrent of the white ranchers being like "yeah but. this is our land now ):"
also it's hard to describe because its obviously not shown in a good light, but the sexual assault scenes are often more...sexy than traumatizing, if that makes sense. like i don't expect long shots of women being brutalized and screaming and crying, but id like their to be less horny gasps and focus on their legs, y'know?
the show overall is very White Patriarchy in subtle ways. Like in the whole White Man Protect His Homestead and Family kind of way. which i guess its kinda expected since it plays very much into the hollywood of cowboys and cattlemen, which was already very whitewashed and painted in a very specific light by 1940s--1970s america (not that actual ranches where secret liberal paradises ofc but yknow what i mean; it was very different than what we think of today)
tldr: its a complicated show about complicated people in complicated situations, but SO often it shows that the majority of the writers are white men
Afro Samurai was my favorite thing to watch during my high school summers when i could stay up obscenely late
Kitchen Nightmares is actually decent at saving the resturant 80% of the resturants shutting down is apparently just the standard in the resturant industry
I liked 1000 Ways to Die as a kid.
Can confirm: I am now a paranoid adult.
I still get uncomfortable flashbacks to 1000 ways to die, especially the girl who got a seagull to the face while hanging out a limo and the guy who got caught in the hinges of an industrial lift
the one where the girl had a quicksand pit in her backyard and sunk into it lives rent free in my head. i swear i've had so many joyous experiences that could have been committed to memory, but no. i get stuck remembering the death show instead.
I remember an episode where a woman gets a cut shaving her legs and dies of, like, a flesh-eating infection. One of those scarring childhood memories for me - up there with salad fingers
@InevitableOption-ic2vxI forgot about that chastity belt until now. That did mess with me as a kid
I remember someone fell into a wood chipper, two guys suffocate from coco powder, the peeping Tom, and a woman dying from a carrot it a bad oriface
I think you should do a G4 deep dive. G4 started out as a cool gaming and tech channel but quickly devolved into Spike 2.0
I flipping LOVE your Scooby Doo retrospectives (: you should do more animated show retrospectives, I think that'd be cool and neat!!!
Be careful going down that iceberg, you might get LOST in those icey SPIKEs!!!
The word is losened.
1000 Ways to Die
The second I saw spike tv I was hoping he’d mention deadliest warrior
1000 ways to die had me scared of everything as a kid
That one episode of a thousand ways to day where Santa gets empaled by an icicle still makes me think twice before I look up on a snowy day
surprised i'm not more paranoid about dying in freak accidents considering i grew up watching both 1000 ways to die AND final destination
I remember I watched 1000 ways to die one time and there was this story of a guy who was crushed by a tombstone from the grave he was graverobbing. They changed his name to Doug just to say that Doug dug too close.
I went to a bar that was JUST visited by Bar Rescue with their new theme and name. They told me "oh, we just had a TV show shoot in here. It will be back to normal next week"
They changed everything back. Still open.
Speaking of Slamball and Death Battle, here's a convoluted connection for you: #33 for the Bandits, a Slamball team, was Craig Skistimas. He went on to be a founder of Screwattack, a website for gaming content. One of their shows was Death Battle, which went on to eclipse Screwattack to the point where Screwattack flat out changed itself to focus on Death Battle permanently.
In other words, Slamball got us Death Battle.
I'll always remember that my 65 year old grandmother's second favorite show (after Jeopardy) was 1000 ways to die.
As a wresting fan, we will never escape Katie Vick or the evils of Vince McMahon. Also an interesting facts you missed: TNA was taken off of Spike because they secretly re-hired notorious writer Vince Russo who the Network hated.
I know it was a 4 way tag title tlc match... Fuck wrestling is stupid and ik it's Kane and hurricane who were champs hurricane got attacked backstage so he wasn't in it who was in that match? I think they had a member of each of the og TLC teams with someone else like Christian and Benoit RVD and Jeff and bubba and spike that sounds right but I'm not sure
Then after Kane got called a necrophiliac and they came back from commercial to a diva's tag match..... Several things wrong with that. Why'd book a tag match immediately after the crazy 4 way tag they had? Yeah they need a piss break match and that's what all women's matches in 02 were but why not a singles and more importantly... THE FUCK HAPPENED TO KANE? HE JUST GOT ACCUSED OF HAVING SEX WITH A CORPSE BUT IT'S COMMERCIAL BETTER HEAD TO THE BACK let's what till next week to address this criminal accusation.
i’m pretty sure my 7th grade ap history teacher showed us an episode of deadliest warrior. this cannot be a unique experience.
spike tv was one of my favorite channels as a little girl. it probably changed me for the worst but i will never forget 1000 ways to die 😭😭
Blue Mountain State definitely still holds up. Its an absurd comedy, you're not suppose to take it seriously in the slightest. You're right about Thad being the best character though
Realizing that Thad from BMS is fucking Jack Reacher is absolutely wild.
As someone that watched Slamball on Spike TV when it aired, I can confirm it was insane and deserved more time in the spotlight. They had a couple revive attempts but never got very far. BRING BACK SLAMBALL
I hate when people are like “duhhh bar rescue and kitchen nightmares don’t work” it’s not the hosts fault though, they just go back to being a terrible restaurant as soon as the hosts leave. If you look and did research youd see that the statistics are closer to the actual number of restaurants that close each year, it’s just ridiculous
We had takeishi's castle in the UK, but it was not dubbed like this, they didn't try and dub over the Japanese announcers, we just had people commenting on the footage, the hell is this.
Craig Charles is the GOAT of Takeshi's Castle UK commentators.
1,000 Ways to Die scared me specifically with the girl with a puke fetish and she went after a guy who won a hotdog eating competition and 7 pieces of unchewed hotdog got stuck in her throat. I don't think I'll ever be free of that memory 😭
BILLIAM, I was an anxious child watching 1000ways to die. My therapist directly told me not to watch it because it was making me paranoid.
That Phineas helmet joke really made me smile
Thad Castle going on to become Jack Reacher was a twist I did not see coming
I know right!. It's kind of difficult to watch Reacher, when all I see is Thad.
@@Busker_3000 nah reacher is Thads dad.
Lol historical Phineas was such a fun gag
I remember this channel being one of the reasons my dad refused to get cable TV. He apparently saw Spike TV at a neighbors house and specifically said that he wouldn't pay for cable because the programming was just awful. I was mad at him because we didn't get channels like Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network but now that I have learned that this was his first impression of cable, I totally understand his decision!
Gosh this takes me back, I remember watching ST: Voyager on there as a kid (and I think Stargate sometimes too?) as they were the only ones broadcasting it, but it was hard to make it through the ads for their own shows.
It still boggles the mind that Eric Bauza (one of the BIGGEST voice actors nowadays) once worked on Adult Party Cartoon, voicing Simpy and even co-writing an episode.
Fate works in mysterious ways my friend.
I’m so happy for Eric, that he managed to have such a successful career after a show like this.
That was actually his SECOND VA job. It's a miracle that didn't kill his career before it started
Hey, he had to work.
And now with your help he could save Coyote vs ACME from the claws of Zaslav's Warner bros!
You know we're getting another Blue mountain State movie lol. Also, I used to love scarred as a kid. The show where they're just telling stories about how they got really fucked up scars and like the actual video footage that they were taking, it's pretty cool
Huh, i remeber Scarred being aired on MTV
@@molotera8789 yeah I just realized that. Idk why tf I thought it was spike
@@travit666 still owned by the same conglomerate so not that far off
"I gaslit myself into thinking all the voices they were doing were Asian stereotypes..."
The funny thing is that the producers actually and very intentionally did NOT call attention to the fact that the competitors or the show were Japanese, specifically because they didn't want to make fun of the culture.
Unfortunately the UK version did, calling them "Happy Clappy Jappy Chappies".
@@cookieface80 oh dear
I never realised how blessed I was as a kid to have the UK version of Tekeshis castle with Craig Charles.
Unfortunately, the narrator occasionally called the contestants "Happy jappy clappy chappies," which may be considered racist these days.
UK Takeshi's Castle was the GOAT
I thought for 5 blissful seconds you were joking about the Fleshlight.
“He must be joking about the Fleshlight,” I said to myself.
But you weren’t. You really, really weren’t.
Even when the main character was ranting about the Fleshlight, I thought he was editing the audio for the bit
I've never heard of Spike TV, but most of these, if not all, shows were all on Comedy Central when I was younger.
I'd LOVE to see you do a deep dive on MXC. There was a LOT more to the production than meets the eye. They didn't just straight up take episodes of Takeshi's Castle and "translate" them, they chopped them up, sped then up, slowed them down, and pretty much made the footage into it's own thing with ZERO references to Japan outside of the Japanese-like show title. On top of that, it also gained a niche fan base on Yahoo back before social media Fandoms were common and even took on a life of it's own with the fans creating back stories to all the characters from Kenny to Guy.
The Wii sports music for Pro’s vs. Joe’s 😭
It's me. I'm the paranoid hypochondriac adult who stumbled upon 1000 Ways to Die way to early in life. Thanks for checking in. I'm doing great I only think about how everything could kill me 24/7
I've been convinced that my generalized anxiety is at least partially due to watching 1000 ways to die, too young. I feel more seen than ever
I actually remember seeing this channel go under. Saw a show just reacting to internet videos and the finale of the Blade Anime
Before Spike TV, the channel premiered in 1983 as The Nashville Network (TNN) which focused on country music. TNN would become The National Network in 2000 before it would become Spike TV.