Brass Eye: Season 1 Episode 7 Paedo-Geddon

LOL the celeb part was hilarious though =] I do want to check out The Day Today I have heard several times it is really good. Make sure you vote on the next poll bud!

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LOL true.

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That is hilarious man thanks for sharing!

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I love JAM. I always found it far darker and more controversial than the Paedo-Geddon episode by far. I'm amazed it got commissioned to be honest.

Jay

Literally has them calling it a "hoax game" (HOECS) and nobody clicks

C Dread

This was the first episode of Brass Eye I saw many years ago as a student, we couldn't believe what we were watching and laughed our arses off. I went out and got the DVD which I have watched over and over. Great to see some ones first reaction to it after all this time.

Ronnie Hotdog

Great episode. If I remember rightly, at the time, it was very controversial and a lot of the "celebs" duped into taking part were very pissed off. It was made as a one off special but there were so many complaints about it that Channel 4 had to apologise for airing it so any potential of a new season was off the table. You've done a lot of Chris Morris stuff, the movie Four Lions was once of his, he was in first 2 series of The I.T Crowd. Chris Morris along with Armando Iannucci are the 2 great British satirists of our time. Armando worked with Chris on radio show that preceded "The Day Today". I would definitely recommend "The Day Today" but also, another of Armando's "The Thick of It", its the British version of Veep (Which Chris Morris directed a few episodes of). Sorry, for long message, it got away from me.

Mick Mills

No offenc, no offenc, no offenc, and no fanks - Nonse sense.... still randomly think of that to this day haha

mwdoom

why can no longer think of the British Isles, without the word Paedoph in front of them Hahahaha classic

mwdoom

This is a true story... my best friend was watching it on dvd 20 yrs ago and fell asleep, long story short it was on the paedogeddon episode his mum came in his room and it just said paedogeddon on a frozen screen as the episode had finished, he was none the wiser but she sat his older brother down that night saying to him we have to talk about your brother, she explained what she had seen and Pete laughed his arse off when he realised it was brass eye!

Daniel

The actor who said he didnt fancy his kid was Simon Peg

Paul Lightfoot

He said in the video there would be a new poll later this week.

Manly Stump

LOL I can imagine, this episode was crazy I loved it. I will be doing a poll for you all to vote on for the next show =]

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This was hilarious man =]

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Interesting thanks bud.

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LOL thanks bud!

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The Eminem guy was hilarious =] This was great man so crazy. I am bummed this show is over but it was a wild ride!

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Thanks bud!

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LOL this episode was crazy, I loved it.

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LOL it was hilarious man =]

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Yea I can see why people would be upset but I can see the comedy as well.

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I can see why lol

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BAN THIS SICK FILTH! XD

Ian Webster

Really enjoyed this series Josh! Is there going to be a new poll soon for this spot?

Teddy Alison

It's part of a change not just in television broadcasting but in pop culture as a whole. The Thatcher years in the eighties are probably viewed more as a decade of anti-establishment feeling, but I think the nineties was the real decade of change. And Channel 4 was very much a part of that with The Mark Thomas Comedy Product and After Dark (I assume that's what you're referring to) and Brass Eye that really challenged mainstream and establishment attitudes to society and politics, but also programmes like The Word that introduced the wider British public to alternative music, or the long forgotten Takeover TV that was a precursor to what YouTube began as by allowing anyone to contribute to a television programme. Then like you said, the entire landscape changed for reasons too many to count and too complicated to talk about in any kind of depth in a Patreon text box, and all of that changed. The post 9/11 world in particular was paralysed by fear and became more conservative (small C), and although I think perhaps people became less receptive to it in that climate, we needed this kind of pop culture to confront the reactionary nature of the early 21st century world. But the industries didn't need that pop culture anymore, they didn't need to take a chance on a Chris Morris or a Mark Thomas who was going to put the shits up people who needed to have the shits put up them, or a Nirvana or a kid with a camcorder anymore, so they didn't. And that irreverence and that subversion disappeared, and broadcasting and the rest of pop culture became safe and bourgeois. Then again, I'm writing this at 2:40am so maybe I've just written a load of old nonsense. But there's so much to talk and think about when it comes to this, far too much for a comments section on here.

Charlie

Some good jokes in the end credits too: 'Illegal Image Procurer - Celine Dion'

Ash

I hadn't seen it either. I watched a bit of the day today as a teenager and wrote chris morris off after that - the wackiness got on my nerves. But brass eye has been great fun to watch on this channel. He really nails the shouty humourlessness of british news reporters. Anything vaguely silly sounds funny coming out of their mouths.

Saul

I think a big part of why it was cancelled looking back is the bosses and commissioning editors were changing the way Channel 4 did stuff. This was the high point and end point of their subversive political stuff and their transition into more light entertainment and reality TV content. In the early days and first 20 years they had deep political discussion shows with spies who had to flee the country when they exposed secrets, a show with a guy who drove a tank into a McDonalds drive through and started a after school arms dealership with a bunch of 9 year old girls etc. to make political points about the government. Lots of stuff like that. Then around the very late 90s they started Big Brother and associated stuff and found they made way more cash and got in much less trouble with the regulators, and had much smaller running costs doing reality TV instead.

Kevin Tipcorn

Yes, Jerry Springer the Opera, which by comparison was tame and a bit rubbish. But it was religion after all, and you have to say nice things about religion, otherwise the infinitely powerful man in the sky who exists outside of time and space will get hurt feelings.

Saul

Ofc the British media totally missed the point and once again proved Chris Morris right

Ismaeel Ahmed

The pedo in the pillory, who didn't fancy Chris Morris's son, was Simon Pegg. This was good, but not the strongest episode imo. I absolutely loved the Eminem take-off, his musical parodies are ridiculously good. Good episode, riled our fucking awful, bilious, hypocritical tabloids so it did its job. Nevertheless, there was nothing in this episode that made me half as uncomfortable as that bit in the Sex episode where Morris starts flirting with an underage girl. That was mental.

Saul

wouldn't expect anything else from those vile rags tbh

Ismaeel Ahmed

You can say that again.

This sums up the reaction to this by the british press https://imgur.com/a/RSdlU3A

Samuel Coghlan-White

FWFI, this show wasn't "cancelled", that's not really how TV works here - Programmes are never usually designed to run for an infinitely long time, unless it's some throwaway soap-opera or something.

Nonautomaton

Superb episode haha. Looking forward to ur next Blackadder reaction, my favourite episode from the series 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Justyn

Hats off to channel 4 for commissioning this in the first place, but extra credit to them for, after it aired and was denounced by every newspaper on the front page the next day by people who clearly hadn't even bothered to watch it, repeating it two days later, proving the satire about media over-reaction to the subject was pretty spot-on. "Cold-blooded" as you like to say Josh lol

Andy Quin

Good suggestion.

Christopher Horner

The outrage over this episode was utterly ridiculous. Politicians condemned the episode then admitted that hadn't even seen it. The Daily Mail used the headline "Unspeakably sick" a phrase used by one of the politicians who hadn't seen it. This article was proceeded by close up pictures of princesses Beatrice and Eugenie in a bikini who were 13 and 11 at the time. The Daily Star ran a piece condemning the show next to a picture of a 15 year old Charlotte Church in a tight top with the headline "She's a big girl now, just swell"

Christopher Horner

BelladonnicHazeyJaneII

Jesus christ, it was as uncomfortable and hilarious as I hoped it would be 🤣

BelladonnicHazeyJaneII

Bloody hell , I always thought it was Gary Glitter and Graham Souness 😂

Ross Hardman

Yeah the wiki article does use the word cancelled but think that is sensationalism. This episode was made in 2011 and was a one-off special and not part of the original 2006 series or the first in a line of new shows, so I think it's more accurate to say that the episode made Channel 4 say they wouldn't commission another one if Morris wanted to do another in the future. Saying it was cancelled implies the show was pulled half-way through a series or something.

Steve King

I hear you, but Phillipa Forrester (holding the gloves) presented Tomorrows World at the time! Josh - that was a long-running flagship BBC programme about new science and technology.

BertFredStan

Lyrics to the song at the end "Stay away from the guy with the funny eye, stay away from the funny eye guy" The infiltrating paedo activist was nonother than Simon Pegg. HOECS games. Hoax games lol. Reminds me of 'Cake is a made up drug." Please put JAM on the list at some point, it's by Chris Morris, has a lot of the same cast and creatives behind the scenes, and is just as mental as Brass Eye, if not moreso. Really surreal sketch show with the same mind behind this and Four Lions. A sample: MR LIZARD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u4GS2gHQV4&ab_channel=badgermonster

lemmy101

This episode received a record number of complaints at the time! I think they should be proud of that lol. Will you be doing The Day Today next? The predecessor to Brass Eye, it's not quite as punchy but still very funny.

Sam Reeves

Now your ready for Monkey Dust

collo

It was made in 2001 so to an extent I can understand how easily the celebrities believed all the stories about flash games with hidden webcams, but then again the entire world seemed to fall for the same thing with Talking Angela in 2014.

Neil J

It's an utterly amazing piece of satire that skewers the media's obsession with the topic, which, at the time of release was at fever pitch. It got exactly the kind of response you'd imagine, with Channel 4 receiving thousands upon thousands of complaints and self-righteous columns in the newspapers that pedaled the kind of sensationalised coverage the show targeted. I think it might've had the honour of receiving the most complaints of any TV show until Jerry Springer The Opera was shown a few years later.

Neil J

Well according to Wiki.... Channel 4 were forced to apologise, with Brass Eye being cancelled not long after.

Did you notice the guy who got captured in the studio (who refused to have sex with Chris's son) was Simon Pegg?

Tom Merson

I don't know if you caught it, the two pictures of the paedo who changed his appearance was actually of Hall & Oates

Manly Stump

Funny. Very naughty...and funny! Yeah...the rapper was hilarious.

Hannah

I knew it wouldn't disappoint :D

Manly Stump

I've never seen this one all the way through so I've been waiting for it to come up. It got a lot of complaints at the time from people that just didn't get it. It's brilliant piss take out of the MEDIA and their sensational reporting.

Hannah

This caused an absolute shit storm when it first aired 😂

Dave Barratt