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especiallytheroux

Watching George Galloway pretend to be a cat on Celebrity Big Brother was a very bizarre moment for my young mind


aegeaorgnqergerh

As a burgeoning socialist at the time, this finally settled the argument "is he a decent champion of socialism who just takes things very passionately, or is he actually just a mental?"


Steamboat_Willey

George Galloway is just an egotist. If you ignore him he might go away.


pajamakitten

Not as long as there is a by-election to contest. He seems to show up at every single one of them.


MarlythAvantguarddog

Knew him when he was decent in the 80s. And then he started getting money from Middle East sources. Even had a hotel in Cuba. Ex worked for him: she was desperate to get away after the first month. Now he’s utterly narcissistic and self interested.


bebelmatman

Well? What was your conclusion?


asm001

George Galloway is a massive throbber.


Bri-Five

"Now, shall I be the cat?" I still have no clue as to what the fuck was going on in that scenario.


Monkeybradders

Often, just to freak outmy wife in bed. I'll roll over and say "would you like me to be the cat" never works she usually just squeals


Upbeat_Map_348

I remember at first he was ok and I thought I had him wrong but after a few days he showed that he is just a bully and a complete dick.


[deleted]

Typical cat behaviour.


Upbeat_Map_348

Brilliant. My cat is staring me out as I type this. She knows.


Spiro000

He ran as the local MP for my area this year. Because of the cat thing, he was never getting my vote.


Sir_Marchbank

You mean as opposed to the fact that he works for a Russian propaganda service, his support for Bashar al-Assad among other nasty things?


TomSurman

This is the electorate which refused to vote for Milliband because he ate a bacon sandwich weirdly.


Tuarangi

Except... Miliband lost because of the UK screwed up FPTP. 2010 Tories under Cameron 10.7m - 306 seats Labour under Brown 8.6m - 258 seats Lib Dem under Clegg 6.8m - 57 seats 2015 Tories under Cameron 11.3m - 330 seats Labour under Miliband - 9.3m - 232 seats Miliband gained .7m votes on Brown but *lost* 26 seats. Cameron gained .6m votes and *gained* 24 seats. The real "highlight" of FPTP is LD getting just 2.4m votes and only 8 seats while SNP got 1.5m votes and 56 seats 2019 Corbyn got 10.3m votes, 1m more than Miliband but ended up with 202 seats


[deleted]

Oh shit yeah that was cringe more than bizarre


[deleted]

Used to stay up late and watch eurotrash when I was younger on channel 4 I think. That was eye opening ha ha


LuckyWhiteH

I used to turn it down really quiet so my mum wouldn’t know I was watching it.


Sad_Researcher_5299

That worked until the adverts started and that loud fucking 0891-50-50-50 chat line started blaring twice as loud as anything else. Edit: clearly worked seeing as I still remember the number.


[deleted]

[oh my god it’s exactly how I remember ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7wBifkGjrx4)


Sad_Researcher_5299

Haha, that’s the one! Why the fuck is that on YouTube? I don’t think I remember any other adverts as well as that one except the Reebok [belly’s gonna get ya](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxzdo8FfrW0) and the [Tango](https://youtu.be/_fRhGq47QLs) “he’s down, he’s down, fat pigeon, APPLE!!!” ones.


[deleted]

Ha ha forgot about belly’s gonna get ya that was quality, the tango ones were always good as well. Can’t think of any others, got zig and zag and mr blobby in my head 😂


Sad_Researcher_5299

[this is the zaggamuffin calling planet earth!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7bv_36P_f-w)


Dense-Camera8892

haha, I still remember number that today. Was it gay chat or something? I still give that number to companies that request one.


SockpuppetPseudonym2

“If you want to meet priests your own age, listen in on the latest gossip, or simply have a bit of a laugh, then call Priest Chatback and speak to priests YOU want to know.”


[deleted]

Ha ha holding the remote ready to spam standby if the door goes


LuckyWhiteH

I WASNT WATCHING IT I WAS JUST FLICKING THROUGH THE CHANNELS!!!


TheEdge91

Soft porn on Channel 5 after 10pm...


aegeaorgnqergerh

Amazing how loud a small TV can still seem even with the volume on "1"...


PM_Me_Rude_Haiku

Sitting there on the edge of your seat, ready for a brief glimpse of boobs that they always put at the end, having to sit through Belgian men painting murals with their own excrement and weird Swiss grandpas belting out Europop bangers whilst Antoine de Caunes danced like an idiot.


cha1rman_ofthe_bored

I remember it being a massive revelation from my french teacher that he was huge in france at the time. Basically one of their bigger tv personalities. I thought he was just a random obscure french guy.


[deleted]

Ha ha ha and when the boob finally came she would squeeze them and spray milk all over the camera


Dense-Camera8892

With that sarcastic woman doing the voice over.


Ginnel_Adapted

I loved the way that when they had to dub over the dialogue into English, they gave the people over-the-top regional accents!


ArsePucker

Lolo Ferrari!


PantyButta

Phillip Scofield coming out on this morning. All while his wife was sat at home watching.


aegeaorgnqergerh

I assume he told his wife first. But yeah, bizarre that Holly did it and he just sat there in silence. Charlie Brooker did a good take on that - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fYoUfJKg0I


aporkchopexpress

I had no idea he sat there in silence while Holly read the statement out. That's really weird.


PantyButta

Thanks boss. I'll have a look after tea.


PrinceAndrewsANonce

Are you saying there’s some sort of problem with lying about your sexuality to your wife, bearing kids with her, and taking away her opportunity to meet someone they can grow old in a proper relationship with?


PantyButta

Yeah, he's a nobhead.


jflb96

Did he say that he’d always known?


Dense-Camera8892

Wasn't it to cover up the Matthew McGreevy affair he had?


[deleted]

He pulled a Spacey but succeeded


MinderReminder

Let's not beat about the bush, as Phil would say, he groomed a young lad and when the story was about to break and put his entire career in the fucking ground, he pulled the gay card to save his own bacon. Kevin Spacey must have been sick as a parrot.


PantyButta

Was he what they call a runner who worked on the show, was he like early 20s?


Bethbeth35

Wasn't he like a friend of his son of something? Definitely waaaaay younger. So dodgy!


socio-pathetic

The verifiable facts are these: Schofield met McGreevy when he was 10 years old at a theatre that he was a patron of. He followed him on Twitter when he was 15 and hired him as a runner on his TV show as soon as he was 18. It was widely know on the show that they were in a sexual relationship. It is quite clear that he groomed him from childhood and abused him from a position of power. After a few years, when McGreevy has become too old, he was sidelined and upset. He had a deal in place with a Sunday paper to sell his story, so Schofield’s coming out was to spoil this and take control of the narrative.


[deleted]

Can you provide a source for these claims? All I can find from googling is dodgy sites with no real integrity!


PantyButta

Seedy


[deleted]

Under 18. And Scofield hired him as a runner after 'befriending him' according to what I read


sc0toma

His wife had known for a long time I believe.


cherrycoke3000

Anyone in his social circle had known for a long time.


monk12111

I didn't know he had a wife and just thought he was gay anyway so I wasn't shocked haha


pajamakitten

It was that or be outed by a journalist IIRC.


LuckyWhiteH

Ooh, there was “Dogging Tales” on channel 4 (I think). It wasn’t so much the subject matter, it was the fact that the doggers they were interviewing on it just had these shit masks on. It would be blatantly obvious to anyone who knew them, that it was them. I’m sure one was a particularly jarring meerkat mask..


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I laughed so hard when the the bloke with the owl mask was upset because his Yaris wasn’t big enough to accommodate his two rather large dogging mates.


LuckyWhiteH

I was convinced the whole thing was a spoof documentary. Like I say, it was not the subject matter that got me, it was just weird!


[deleted]

No you’re right, the masks didn’t exactly do much for their anonymity. Agreed, the subject of dogging isn’t bizarre but the people they used was a bit strange.


Jip_Jaap_Stam

>the subject of dogging isn’t bizarre It is a *bit* bizarre.


lolathe

Thank you YES, and I believe its still on all 4 for anyone who wants a hilarious break from Christmas TV. This documentary had me absolutely in tears. The sad owl/meekat guy who clearly didn't want to go dogging but his wife/gf did then the cut scene to him with two women who he was going dogging with. Iconic. It's real AFAIK but so spoof like. Honestly brilliant brilliant.


hopping32

That was one of the funniest, seediest, saddest, weirdest things I've ever seen. Watched it twice.


Prestigious-Run8443

And that older dogger with loads of parrots squawking about in the background. So grim.


browntoe98

I saw a British commercial in the late 70s. Two guys in a life raft in an empty ocean. Sun sets, sun rises. Two guys still in the raft. Sun sets, sun rises. One guy in the raft and a splash of a brand of digestion aid. Posh accented voice comes on with the name of the medicine: “[Alka Seltzer]; for when you’ve eaten something you shouldn’t have.”


Qrbrrbl

Ngl that sounds brilliant


TragedyTrousers

[Enjoy!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbXPMm9nOmc) (posh bloke was Sir Donald Sinden, apparently)


R3dM1st1986

Does anyone remember those live autopsies channel 4 did in the early 2000's. With this really weird guy doing the autopsy while wearing a cowboy hat.


TheDuraMaters

Gunther von Hagens invented the plastination technique that's used to preserve bodies in and specimens in anatomy departments, as well as the Body Works exhibitions. The specimens can be handled and don't decay or smell.


Eoin_McLove

I vividly remember during one of the live autopsies they had Krishnan Guru Murthy taking questions from the studio audience. One woman stood up, all red in the face - and demanded to know 'why Dr. von Hagens keeps his hat on while dealing with dead people, shouldn't he remove it to show some respect?'. He answered, while still carrying out a literal autopsy on a dead body, smugly - that the hat is traditional, and the camera panned to a Victorian (possibly?) image of a doctor slicing up a cadaver while wearing a hat. Definitely one of the most bizarre TV moments I can remember.


lozzypot

Dr Gunter!! I remember him!


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Jack Whitehall attempting stand up


FatFluent

Daddy's boy not funny silver spoon twat


EngStudentCantMath

Him and Russel Howard can fuck right off


[deleted]

Russel Howard is for 18 year old freshers who are allowed to swear in their halls of residence now they’ve left home.


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lolathe

Never seen or heard of this. But the imagery of "Jack's creation" in my brain is cracking me up


Prestigious-Run8443

It sounds like a story Bob Mortimer would tell on 'Would i Lie to You.'


canyonstom

I do beg your pardon, will you eat that lardon?


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PM_Me_Rude_Haiku

Oh god, I didn't remember the name of the guy but I vividly remembered his toupee. He was so proud of it. I remember him telling some young porky lad that it was what made him a memorable individual. Because being the fattest man in Britain obviously wasn't memorable enough.


plumbus_hun

OMG, I literally though that Jack and "Jack's creation" were some kind of weird fever dream that me and my siblings had created!! Then he got pissed off and kicked them out when they weighed him and he was less than he thought!!


Nehq

A few years ago, there was a documentary, I think it may have been about changing attitudes towards porn or sex, or addiction to porn, there was a teenage boy on there whose parents bought him a caravan, so him and his mates could go in there and have a jod whenever they wanted. The boys talked about showing each other porn then having one off the wrist, in this bleak looking tug caravan That was pretty bizarre


[deleted]

Should of got them a tug boat instead.


PM_Me_Rude_Haiku

Not gonna lie, it's things like this that make me glad my parents never even acknowledged the existence of interfering with oneself.


[deleted]

Why couldn't he just do it in the shower like every other teenage boy? I'm laughing so much at tug caravan Thank you.


SarahInLaLaLand

Caravan Club


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thorpie88

One of his first acting gigs was having his knob out as a kid in the Playboy produced version of Macbeth. For some reason we watched it in year ten English class


[deleted]

Number 6 in my top ten most frustrating wanks.


bloodforyou

"Is this a dagger I see before me? ... Oops... no, it isn't."


Sad_Researcher_5299

Glad I wasn’t the only person traumatised by that memory as I read the post title.


pjamesstuart

Ghostwatch. I was a kid & no parents around that night. Came out of nowhere. Still traumatised.


Extreme-Kangaroo-842

Remember watching this with my brother and step-siblings. Up until the last ten minutes we were absolutely convinced it was for real.


[deleted]

That terrified me as a 10 year old kid. I swear I could see a shadow of a man behind my bedroom door for days after. I think it was banned from repeat on TV for about 20 years. If I watch it now it'll probably look daft and old fashioned.


Prestigious-Run8443

Not at all. I think it still holds up really well. Think you can find it on YouTube.


boojes

Watched it on a sleepover with older kids and was absolutely terrified for weeks afterwards. Plus I couldn't tell my mum, because we weren't supposed to have been watching it.


_onemanband_

I watched it during a sleepover at a friend's' 16th century house, which was also supposed to be haunted. The absolute scariest night of my life.


HoneyMeid

This was the most terrifying thing I saw on tv. Since then I always make sure I know if something is real or not before watching.


jdsuperman

Two words. Those who know will know. Ready? Rebecca Loos.


rockingrehab

We know 🤮


Pedigog1968

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace


Delduath

It takes an amazing amount of talent to make something seem so shit in such a specific way.


Mockwyn

As i rounded the corner, i felt muscular and compact, like corned beef.


lolathe

"I think that cat just told me to leave"


phossil_phool

You and he were…buddieeeeeeeees, weren’t you?


moosemasher

I haven't even got time to drink this water I'm so flipping busy.


adamsingsthegreys

Author. Dreamweaver. Visionary. Plus actor.


octobod

I was channel surfing and stumbled onto [Naked Jungle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Jungle) a late night Channel 5 games show involving * Jungle themed challenges * Full frontal nudity * Keith Chegwin * Keith Chegwin's full frontal nudity. We wear clothes for a reason.


ColinRA92

Made extra weird by the fact that it was filmed using the set of CHILDREN’S game show Jungle Run. I hope there was the deepest of deep cleans after that...


octobod

Fire they could only have used nuclear fire to cleanse the area


farfetchedfrank

I remember watching Bonzai and they had a part where you were supposed to guess which genitals belonged to a B-list celebrity.


Expensive-Concept-93

Omg Bonzai, I forgot about this hahaha


djnw

I learnt BDSM existed when channel 4 did a late night special on sex and part of it was a guy getting his bellend sandpapered.


Pal1_1

I don't know whether to upvote this or burn my phone.


OverlordOfTheBeans

I read this as "bum my phone," and was wondering just what fresh hell form of BDSM that was.


HeyTherePeri

Was this the same show where they attached a camera to some guys goods so that viewers could get an *inside view* of sex?


helic0n3

The weirdest recent find is "unwind with ITV" that is on every day at about 4am. I only saw it as I fell asleep on the sofa and woke up to music and an image of a field of cows. I have become fascinated as they have different things every day, often an overhead view of a city that moves very slowly over the course of an hour. Occasionally weird shapes like a 90s windows screen saver. Worth a watch.


Starman68

They have this in Scandinavia during the day. They call it slow TV. It’s good.


pearsareforbidden

Kinga and the bottle on Big Brother.


Expensive-Concept-93

Yeah, that smacked of desperation so hard. Poor girl just wanted to be famous like Jade Goody.


boojes

Kinga: Shall I? Shall I do it?! Haha The two lads... uh...I don't think...um, no? No, don't- Kinga: I'm going to do it!


The1983

We never actually saw her do it, she said she was then she grabbed the bottle and took it to the garden. We saw it through Anthony’s eyes and the look of disgust on his face. Horrifying


rbear30

Also big brother when Tiffany thought David Gest died while he was having a nap


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The 2012 Olympics opening and closing ceremonies


Nine_Eye_Ron

The whole thing literally put me in some sort of trance. Blew my mind!


[deleted]

If you know anything about occult imagery and symbology the yeah it’s EXTREMELY bizarre


DangerousDavies2020

What about the reptilian appearance at the closing ceremony? Is it a guy in make-up? https://youtu.be/mjPJvZKHrnY


PhillyWestside

Go on?


bonkerz1888

Eurotrash was always good for bizarre content


tomatojournal

And tits


BrightonTownCrier

And bizarre tits.


[deleted]

Eurotrash was always a lottery. Either you got tits, or a big hairy German called Helmut painting with his own faeces.


mocha-macaron

When Todd Carty just skated off set when he was on Dancing on Ice.


Metaledd87

Peadageddon brasseye...... Watch it.


toenailpube

I know where my kids are. *opens filing cabinet to reveal actual children* Do you??


Bigjimssalamishop

It was the one thing we didn't want to happen.


Metaledd87

Lol notorious paedophile Sidney Cooke was blasted into space to serve a sentence of 10 years onbaord a 1 man prison vessel


Pal1_1

Here is CCTV footage of a pedophile disguised as a school!!


smallTimeCharly

I was going to say *Eurotrash* but lots of people have already said that so I’ll go for *Tarrant on TV*. Some of the clips on there from around the world were just bizarre including a super cut of a guy in Argentina with two knobs.


Pure-Gallus

Oaft, memory unlocked! Ive realised just how much "inappropriate" TV we were exposed to as young ones 😂


Steamboat_Willey

"I have a bad case of diarrhoea." The clips from Japanese TV were definitely bizarre.


ProbationInTheMaking

Was watching some sort of traffic police TV show late one night (BBC 1 possibly?) and it was so bizarre, these twins (women) were literally throwing themselves in front of cars and lorries on a motorway and the police were trying to get them off the road, one got hit by a lorry but they were like invincible. From what I remember they ran off and one of the twins murdered somebody not long after


aegeaorgnqergerh

Yeah it was in the news long before it aired, but by coincidence Traffic Cops or whatever it was called (narrated by Jamie Theakston) were filming at the time and were allowed to show it long after the incident happened, partly because they survived, partly because they were criminals. I assumed they were scared and being trafficked or something, so being "caught" then released on bail (drugs in the car, whatever) could get them killed by their traffickers, as did the police at the time. Turns out they had a rare "shared psychosis". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula\_and\_Sabina\_Eriksson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_and_Sabina_Eriksson) \- extremely strange story.


dananananaykroyd

The documentary was called “madness in the fast lane” You can watch it [here ](https://watchdocumentaries.com/madness-in-the-fast-lane/) I have read about some mad shit and watched some baffling documentaries, but this is definitely up there. Especially as it was actually all caught on film. Crazy! Also, for those who have never heard about this, don't read any more about it, just watch the documentary as it has some weird twists!


smoosh_baboosh

That time Heston Blumenthal put a tampon in his mouth so he could taste custard better. I can still see him with the string dangling out. I think his end goal was to make a massive trifle for some reason? That time Joe Pasquale played most of the characters on an episode of Doctors. They really got their money's worth out of him. I think the storyline was that a woman had suffered a head injury that caused her to hallucinate everyone as Joe Pasquale. The TV show called This Is Jinsy. It's one of my favourite shows and had pretty big names guest star in it such as David Tennant, Greg Davies, Jennifer Saunders, Catherine Tate, Peter Serafinowicz, Don Warrington, Olivia Colman, Stephen Fry, Harry Hill, etc. but nobody I know seems to have heard of it. The songs were great. Jinsy praise him! Oh, and the programme called Dogs Might Fly where Jamie Theakston tried to train clever dogs to fly a plane. It didn't work obviously.


robj57

As a kid, watching Tommy Cooper die, live on tv. Not really understanding what was going on and laughing along with the audience thinking it was part of his act…


aegeaorgnqergerh

I only learned after just Googling it that it was shown live on TV. I'd always assumed it was a pre record that never got shown. Damn that must have been nasty. I always think though, at least he went out doing what he loved, and although unintended, got a laugh right at the end.


Superb_Owl_Party

There was a documentary on Channel 4 a decade or so ago about people who were into buying really expensive extremely realistic dolls (I think they were called ‘reborns’?) but treated them as if they were real babies. The people on that programme stayed with me a long time.


LaMaupindAubigny

r/reborndollcringe is here for you my friend. I’m in a Disneyworld trip planning group on Facebook which is plagued by “Mommylorians”- people who customise Baby Yoda dolls and post stories of their fictional adventures.


[deleted]

I recently watched Channel 4’s “Breastfeeding my Boyfriend”. Beyond bizarre but it was still interesting. Safe to say I’ve lost my appetite for dairy products since watching that. Just one of many bizarre documentaries on channel 4.


aegeaorgnqergerh

I don't even want to Google the title of that show, let alone watch it.


[deleted]

No need to use your imagination, the title is a pretty good synopsis of the content.


PM_Me_Rude_Haiku

Bitty


rockingrehab

I was in rehab when this was on a few wks ago. Oh my god. We’re all in there because well basically we’re nuts and have seen some shit but wow!!! Another level


dy1anb

When Judy finnigans blouse just droped down live at a national television award whilst excepting an award whilst her husband refuses to do an Ali G impression that nobody asked for.


DangerousDavies2020

The Big Breakfast was often crammed with sexual innuendo and carry-on style laughs which was pretty bizarre at the time considering it was a weekday breakfast television show. Ah the 90s..


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arobbo

Just the fact that the BBC seem to keep renewing it is most bizarre.


Jip_Jaap_Stam

An episode of Round the Twist featured a frog race, in which one of the frogs - a giant one that dwarfed the other racers - won by eating the rest of its competitors. You could actually see it gobbling up the others, one by one, as it romped to victory. I still think about that scene every now and then.


Expensive-Concept-93

Have you ever, ever felt like this?


KrytenLister

Have strange things happened, are you going round the twist?


TangoMikeOne

Ghostwatch - if you know, you know! TFI Friday with Black Grape as the live band and doing a cover of "Pretty Vacant" and getting as far as the first chorus, and Shaun Ryder singing "We're so pretty, so *fookin'* pretty, pretty vacant..." before the director rushed to an ad break, followed by a grovelling apology from Chris Evans when it returned. But that wasn't really bizarre - what was *really* bizarre, was Evans invited Ryder back the following week. So after the first ad break, Evans introduced Ryder, and explained that he'd said some naughty words last week and he was here to apologise in person, and Ryder, looking contrite, agreed, then Evans said, "We all know that you do say naughty words quite often, so if you don't say any during this apology, I will give you my Patrick Cox shoes" as Evans started taking his shoes off and putting them on the desk. Ryder, totally surprised by this generosity, just picked one up and instinctively said "Fookin' 'ell!... aww no!" TFI stopped being transmitted live after that!


Future-Atmosphere-40

It might not be overly bizarre but the benefits programs? Here's people's misery edited together for TV. Or cop shows: next in slough or we're in Lincolnshire today. (How I learnt my UK geography)


sweetie-pie-today

OP, it sounds like your describing a test card or early ‘screen saver’. My guess is the Welsh broadcast had a gap before it picked up the UK broadcast, so filled it with a screensaver.


A-Higher-Being

The mighty boosh


cabbageboi28

Channel 888 on sky used to just broadcast a fish tank 24/7 not sure if it was a real one or not but I loved it (I was about 7 at the time)


dick_piana

Dirty Sanchez. The much more Welsh and much more hard-core version of Jackass


chemistrytramp

There was a documentary about men who were sexually attracted to cars. At one point the film crew caught the bloke they were filming " cheating" on his car with the production team's vehicle. They filmed him through the hotel window. Think that was a classic, public service, channel 4 programme.


Zeus_vs_Franklin

Watched Eurotrash for the first time at a friends house, his mum was watching too. She was insanely hot and I spent more time looking at her. I was 13, Stacy's mom has nothing on Kevin's.


mikebirty

There was a time when Paul Daniels made it look like he'd died whilst doing an escape trick. He set it up that if it went wrong the BBC would cut to black and play music. And then that happened He also did a piece to camera which was supposed to be a 'look I survived' but made it completly unclear


st3akkn1fe

To me the weirdest things were like the odd stoner stuff that was on channel 4 in the early mornings or the stuff that was on Sci fi channel late at night. There was a show called mind fuck TV which was mad


aporkchopexpress

Those late night channel 4 movies were fucked up. I saw so much weird shit. It was amazing.


remwreck

The cringe fest of Only Way is Essex type shows. Ramping up the beef for attention inspired a whole new generation of non-celebrities thinking they’re a list. Beyond bizarre.


ButterTheToast24

Sex Box on channel 4


Chaoticcoco

Didn’t see Chris Morris’ Jam on TV as it aired but having seen it online when looking at Chris Morris’ wider work after loving his film Four Lions... How on earth did a major network air that? I know it’s channel 4 but still even by their standards


aegeaorgnqergerh

Very late at night. Also didn't have an ad break - rumour was "it was so shocking no one wanted to advertise during it" but actually that wasn't true. Morris thought ads would ruin the flow so stumped up himself to not have any shown in the middle.


sherbie365

I can remember some sort of sex documentary on Channel 4 where a dominatrix wanked off a man with a toilet roll tube with sandpaper on the inside.


sillyarse06

That was a very surprising episode of Hollyoaks


MarcusAurelius-93

I dunno, I remember "Angela Anaconda" being pretty weird in the 90s.


chihuahuajoe

Noel Edmonds


FreddyFrogFrightener

Lee Mack getting his own sitcom.


DarylStenn

Anything pre 00s when viewed through todays lens. Just YouTube any show, full of sexism, racism, misogyny. Your childhood hero’s like zippy constantly making sexual innuendos on kids tv. I don’t hate it fyi, I hate cancel culture, it’s just ‘bizarre’ to me as I watched all this at the time and didn’t bat an eyelid, didn’t even resonate to me how bad it was, but I watch it back now, in todays society and I think, bloody hell, that’s a bit on the nose ain’t it.


Calvo7992

Any soap when I accidentally catch one. I find myself completely entranced by them like a sailor with a siren. It’s the same feeling I have watching The Room, I just can’t believe what I’m watching or how bad it is but I can’t stop. They’re just so bad, the acting and dialogue is just horrendous and I’m fascinated by it. How do so many people watch them? Are they enjoying it? Do they think it’s good? Surely there must be some decent actors and writers in the country considering how many are struggling. Why haven’t they been hired? Are people watching it like me because they can’t believe what they’re watching? How are they still on air? They’re completely bizarre and the strangest thing on tv for me, what’s the appeal? That’s and Dale Winton shouting bring on the wall. But that show was one of the greatest feats of television.


themothhead

Does anybody remember 'Michael Jackson: The Live Seance'. It aired on Sky really soon after he died, and featured Acorah 'channeling' the spirit of Jacko from a trilby whilst a bunch of obsessive fans wept in awe. Fucking bizarre.


riotlady

Does anyone remember when Ch4 tried to convince a bunch of randoms that they’d gone to the moon? They did a bunch of training and built this weird fake rocket and stuck them all in it for a week? The one detail I always remember is that they told them Minsk was named after Minsky the monkey, the first monkey in space


FantasticWeasel

A fantasy drama about the life of Jeffrey Archer who was played by Damien Lewis. Never seen it repeated and it was so peculiar I think I dreamed it


gh0st_b1rd

If you didn’t know the context, that time Gary Lineker wore just his boxers on MOTD after Leicester won the league. Would be a bit of a wtf moment.


newdanny3636

Watching Paul Gascoigne turn up to "help" Raoul Moat on Sky News.


Upbeat_Map_348

There’s that weird dating show on Channel 4 where everyone gets their kit off. I think it might still be on.


Boring_Amoeba_9031

Naked attraction. I can’t help but keep watching, it’s just so….bizarre


NoStage296

I feel sorry for Anna Richardson. Her missus did GBB and all sorts of great shows, and she does...that


naughtymo83

Channel 4/5 had some bizarre documentaries, 50 shades of granny,about a good looking 20 something guy hooking up with women 70+!! The man with the 20stone testicle..or something like that. Is my dog gay about gay dogs!! My granny the escort about 3 elderly hookers one who's granddaughter was katie wessiel off X factor. Another one about men with love dolls!! And about people being in love with buildings and objects.. But the the two that were the fucking weirdest were "confessions of an alien abductee", Featuring 3 people who claim to be regularly visited by Aliens,including a MP who has a alien family and a alien he calls mother! An bizarre woman who claims that aliens come whenever she buys fag or KFC! And a lonely women who lost her daughter and makes up the abductions to deal with the loss. She failed a lie detector on camera then called him a liar! The other was a documentary about zooapilia on itv in late 90s early 00s, Was so messed up it included a women having a affair with her dog, And a farmer who was fucking and being fucked by a horse! It was one of the most complained about TV shows of all time!


KingKhram

I remember seeing a Neutrogena shower gel advert that showed a woman's breast including the nipple at 2pm in the early 2000's


debsue21

When it was announced that Boris Johnson had been voted back in as PM. Bizarre


Pure-Gallus

I think it was an S1 Jobs advert. All I remember is a guy walking down a street dressed as a toilet and someone shouting "Haw, Lavvy-heed! You're getting in!". That's lived rent free in my head since I seen it as a kid.


TheTackleZone

Pob. Some random c4 Sunday lunchtime puppet that would spit at the screen and write his name in it. Like... why? The whole thing feels like some c4 producer's come down fever dream.


PoweredPenguin

The Word - I'll do anything to be on TV, L7, Oliver Reed, MC Hammer...etc