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Stupid Behavior: Caught on Tape (2003)
Don't believe it!
This show is pretty much the same as all the other ones which feature stuff 'caught on tape', with all sorts of funny clips being shown and an explanation given over the voice-over of what's going on, and then you see the clips again and again in slow-motion. There's a few jokes in there as well which are quite funny, like after a clip where a police officer got a man out of his car and the guy had backless trousers on so you could see his bum, the voice-over goes 'He's lucky he wasn't arrested for possession of crack'.
But the weird thing is, loads of the clips are from England (where I'm from) but several of them are either nothing to do with what the voice-over says they are, or just plain fake! For example, last night they showed a clip from the TV series Maid Marrion (if that's how it's spelt), not an outtake or anything, just a clip from the show where the guy's rapping and walks into a tree. But the voice-over goes, 'During a video shoot for his new single, Jamaican singer Danny John-Jules forgets to look where he's going'. Probably because Americans won't have seen the show they wouldn't know, but surely there's enough real clips out there that they don't just have to put scenes in from English comedy shows?
Wudja? Cudja? (2002)
Oh my days! What's wrong with these people?
I remember when this show first came out there was loads of advertising for it, even in the weird pikey place I was living at the time you'd see posters for it at bus stops and all that. But nowadays nobody I know seems to have heard of it, which is odd as it's repeated all the time. And now I see nobody's even commented on it! So what's it all about? Well the two presenters go around seaside towns asking members of the public to do unpleasant or humiliating things for cash, much like a tame version of the movie 'Bumfights'. What I find odd is the amount of cash offered for tasks is quite random, especially since the contestants only find out what they have to do after accepting the money. Like last night there was a girl who won £1000 just by eating three unpleasant things, I think one was ice cream with meat or something, then something else, and the final one was a hamburger (actually a Big Mac) and a pint of beer out of a blender. But then previously there was a bloke who got a 'Wudja Cudja' tattoo on his ankle for something like £50 or £100, which I would have thought is a lot worse than drinking a hamburger. And last night they taped a girl to a railing and put a bucket of poo all over her, on her face etc, which is bad enough, and then at the end they put the bucket over her head and left her standing there for ages, how foul is that?!
One of the weirder tasks was where a bloke got spaghetti in his underwear and had to go around and get people to eat it, I tell you if some bloke asked me to do that I'd think he was an idiot. Especially that one, he was pretty hairy if I remember correctly so... yuck.
Having It Off (2002)
Thank you IMDb!
Wow! I remember a few years ago watching this absolutely terrible sitcom and telling people about it, and couldn't remember the name of it. Also, nobody else I know saw it so I was left a bit baffled - surely it couldn't have been a dream (nightmare more like)? Anyway I was just thinking about Coronation Street when I realised it had that bloke from the factory in it, so a quick check on IMDb has brought me to this page! It's so funny seeing people from other countries saying English comedy's sophisticated when we have crap like this. And the jokes were so crude but without being funny, not sure if I can give an example here but trust me it was just rank and dull.
I think it was on BBC3, a bit after they showed Honky Sausage, which was brilliant and never got repeated, even though it had Big Mo from EastEnders in it! And why isn't it on the IMDb?
The Beach Girls (1982)
Crazy movie!
I bought this movie in Poundland at the weekend, they sell DVDs with two films on for £1 so I thought I might as well. It came on a disc with another film called Cavegirl.
I'd say it was certainly worth 50p, although I doubt I'll watch it again. There were two bits that had me cracking up, like when the girl asks the pizza guy if he's got a salami in his pocket or he's just pleased to see her, and he pulls out a salami.
Or the other bit where the geek gets a hot marshmallow chucked in his face, and he looks over and shouts 'food fight!', then the camera shows he's looking at a giant ketchup bottle fighting a hamburger. What?! And even weirder is a bit where a bloke gets given a bag of weed, and the weed SPEAKS and tells him it's actually just parsley a couple of times. So the bloke agrees, and then the bag of weed says 'marijuanna'. It's even more surreal because the rest of the film isn't surreal at all! And how come the uncle sleeps with those two schoolkids but doesn't get in trouble with the police, or even worry about it? Oh my god I've just realised, everybody gets naked in this film, but THEY'RE ALL SUPPOSED TO BE SCHOOLKIDS! Yuck! And that shy girl, the main one (can't remember the character's name), when she's talking to the main bloke she says "I don't know why they'd want to come to my house for the summer, they could go anywhere they want to". Hmmm, maybe they want to go there since it's by the beach, absolutely huge, has a swimming pool, in fact it's pretty much the coolest place in the world, apart from the weirdo gardener.
And a bit of info IMDb doesn't have, the film's rated 18 in England (just in case you were wondering).
Bad Girls Dormitory (1986)
Love it!
First of all, I have no idea why this film came on the same video as Scum back in the 90s, you couldn't get two more different films together if you tried.
Bad Girls' Dormitory is just so weird, I mean it's good but what is it all about? It's doesn't even look like it's in a prison, it's so obviously just filmed in a workplace or something! And what kind of prison can visitors just wander in and out of all the time and not even get searched for guns?
Not only that, but being in that prison looks like the most fun thing ever, just hanging out getting stoned and having a dance, plus your boyfriend gets to visit, why do they bother escaping at the end?