Remember the guys who tried to copyright reaction videos on CZcams? They didn't get it done but still, copyright laws are a joke. I'm a music producer, so I follow this kind of stuff pretty closely, there's been songs that got sued for vibes, literally, the song had a simillar "vibe" to other song and that was enough to take it to court....
The copyright probably wouldn't stand in court which is probably why they never went after the magical bake-off like Captain D joked about. In all reality, they didn't need to do this at all, but probably just saw the copyright and didn't actually understand US copyright law.
I love that, as an American watching the US version on Netflix, I have never considered the show to be called anything but "bake-off", nor have I ever heard of "bake-off" in the context of Pillsbury or any of their products. Zero brand recognition. Great work all around, Pillsbury.
@@KyrieFortune This video is the reason I decided to never buy a product from Pillsbury:) ... okay that is not honest. I don't think they sell in Germany. And if you try that act in Europe (wanting to "own" a word like "bake-off", = Backen) you will end in a madhouse.
@@JohnAlexanderiii Wrong. Corporations are mini states, aka socialist entities. Private companies are the opposite. Private means it is owned by an individual and has no hierarchy, also receives zero funds from the state, aka stolen tax payer money
Yes, I absolutely understand this pain of those VFX artists. I have painted buildings to another color because cafe on ground floor didn't want that building to be recognizable. I have eliminated real reflections on eye and replaced with similar fake one with same shape but just moved little bit more to side, and I have replaced blury expiration date on old product package in commercial to newer blury one. But as You CD said, this is the life of VFX artist. If client wants it and you can do it - why not. I agree, most of those client wishes are unnecessary and I consider it as throwing money in the wind.
I live in the US and have been aware of and watched several times and discussed this show with friends and it's always been known colloquially as the "Bake-Off" What is confusing me is that if it's always been the "Baking Show" in the US, why do I know it's called the Bake Off? Why does "Baking Show" after years on PBS and Netflix sound wrong to me? If Pilsbury forced them to bend reality and erase "Bake Off" from my American existence why is Bake-Off what I know?
Huh, I only catch glimpses of it when my wife watches the show, but somehow I thought it was called "Bake-Off," probably because it sounds better than "Baking Show" and it's a _common_ thing that absolutely should not be copyrightable, like a community bake-off. Is Pilsbury gonna have its lawyers stomp on that school or church that has a bake-off fundraiser?
A thought brings me joy is imagining one of the contestants excitedly sitting down to a Captain D video after slaving away in the kitchen all Christmas Day, and hearing themselves described as an aggressively plain looking amateur 🤣
Sounds like an insult... Unless I'm missing something, it sounds like women talk to each other "you look great today, what an improvement! Must have taken you all day!" ^-^
@@J75Pootle No-one knows. The legend is that it's to do with the Hundred Years' war (which lasted well over 100 years and wasn't a really full blown war). Legend goes that English longbowmen were far more effective than French crossbowmen, which gave them a leg-up. When English soldiers were captured by the French, they would be returned but only after their middle and index fingers were chopped off. So, waving them back became an act of defiance.
You can't own words - you can own a trademark on words that stops other people using your brand name to mislead consumers which if you think about it makes perfect sense. I mean obviously none of us thinks Apple the company owns the word apple, but do you think someone else should be able to start a new company that sells computers and phones and stuff like that and call themselves Apple? Almost certainly not.
@@revivedfears Something like 200 hours of me just ABSORBING his knowledge - I got off cheap. In my defense, I was waiting till the bills ALL got paid... 😁
I HATE people that HATE other people. The comment I respond to did not spread HATE. That is good. BUT! I get a lot of HATE comments on my amazing videos and I HATE it. Please don't start spreading HATE. Do I have to HATE you too, dear qdam
No unfortunately he has one of the most unfunny channels on CZcams. To call Axxl dreadful is being too kind, this is how he begs for views, in comments in other channels that happen to be better than his (which is literally every channel that isn't his basically). He's an untalented idiot who calls himself funny & thrives on the hate he rightly gets....
The thumbnail made me think it was a show where Americans pretend to be British and the judges have to guess who the fake is or score contestants as to how British they appear
I was working on a Documentary back in the day, and I had to blur all of the great 80’s t-shirts being worn because there was no legal clearance department. So, Captain Disillusion, I have been there and done that, in an age when what you just did would have cost a million dollars and taken a team of 5 several months.
These are some of the unsung hero’s in the industry. Those who fix the stupidest of issues so that the entire show can go on. The host gets a title credit. The two person team that solely allowed the show to be aired gets a 0.63 second mention in the credit scrawl that is automatically skipped after the first episode.
This is a whole lot of cope for what is essentially real life manipulation. You should be disgusted people went through altering something to this extent.
@@booboo3161 wat. how does.. what. of all the things to get annoyed at, the people complying to some arbitrary standards set by a broken copyright system?
@@booboo3161 That is my point. The entire show could have been brought down by the stupidest of legal loopholes and it was saved by two people that will never get credit for it. And that kind of thing happens all the time. Some show that you absolutely love was made possible by some guy or girl fixing a copywrited T-shirt in an edit. You will never know their name.
@@rebchizelbeak5392 - The entire show couldn't be "brought down" because of the lame bake off trademark. They had dozens of was of dealing with this, and this is the avenue they chose. Some professionals with certain skills plied their trade (using tools by other people whose name you will never know) in return for monetary reward. We're viewing this on a website built and managed by thousands of unnamed people. This video is encoded delivered and presented using software by thousands more, again whose names you'll never know. Everyone stands on the shoulders of giants, and I guarantee the people who did a quick, paid gig to CGI a name difference don't care, at all, that they aren't given big credits.
Rob- I totally agree with you! My brother orchestrates music for big movies, and he told me that he thinks the ending credits at the end of any movie represent about 2/3 of the people who actually worked on it. There are so many ghost-writers and ghost-orchestrators and interns who do so much of the work. And there are already a ton of people in the credits! It's crazy.
We refer to it as "Bake Off" in America, too. Until this video, I thought it was just one of those things that we say incorrectly (and has stuck around because it's just better). I had no idea that was the actual name of the show in the UK!
Everyone I know in the USA calls it “British Bake Off” which is hilarious because try as Pillsbury might to control the term commercially, they can’t control how people use it as a common generecized word in everyday speech. I’ve known people who learn it’s “Baking Show” after a while and are like “… no that’s dumb. It’s bake off, I don’t care what the title actually says.”
This is enough to prove in court that the trademark serves no purpose and just infringes on competitors ability to create products. Seriously, if more people associate the term with TGBBO then pilsbury really has no leg to stand on in court.
@@Burger_pants Very much the contrary. If Pillsbury where to NOT fully defend their trademark as they are doing now, then that would be a reason for the courts to dissolve their trademark rights. „You don‘t seem to care that others use your trademark, so lets just get rid of it.“ Not saying it’s right, but Pillsbury is doing what they need to do, given the current laws. Full disclosure: I think that current copyright and trademark laws are important, but in many ways completely broken.
oh shit, i've scrolled past it on netflix a few times and thought "why would i watch some great british baking show when bake off exists", never even considered that it was the same show with a rename lmao
WHAT??? YOU are not WORTHY of the Name NachoMist! Lemme take it! (unnngh... uhhnnngahhhh) I will modify my own name (MachoMist)!! There! Wait... my wife will NOT want me to name my gasseous emissions. You can have your name back.. and my stolen copy too!
Reminds me of when King decided they own the word "Candy" because they made "Candy Crush Saga" and so they started an ill-fated lawsuit. A bunch of game developers held a "candy jam" and rapidly made a ton of games with "Candy" in the title, bonus points for also using "crush" or "saga". It was fun.
That's just how American -copyright- trademark laws work... You are required to actively piss-mark your territory, otherwise you can lose a case due to inactivity or have your -copyright- trademark limited to a tiny nich
I watched through all your videos recently. I think what you've tried to do here is wonderful, and even better is the honest self criticism through it all. What a lovely journey.
As someone who has had to tell the CG artist that, yes they will have to mask the logo of a certain yellow branded fast food company and replace it with an updated logo after the ad had already been shot, this hit me on a personal level.
The funny thing is, even after all the editing; I had no idea it was called the Great British Baking Show in America. I’ve always only heard it referenced to as “Bake-off” here in the U.S, and never even noticed the branding changes.
This person modelled an entire doll, created a full environment, animated the doll and comp-ed it perfectly with his hands, just for a "hey man!" gag. Ridiculous!
@@Datboichannel wouldn't surprise me, he is meticulous when it comes to his content. I just thought it was an already existing thing, but I'd totally believe it was remade 100%
being subbed to the big d is a never ending cycle of forgetting he exists and getting super excited when he uploads and i don’t blame him, his special effects are perfection
I've always *hated* American trademark law. An example that's similar to this ridiculous Pillsbury one is of a place that used to be called "McCoffee". It was -- you guessed it -- a coffee shop (cafe). The woman who owned it named the shop as a homophone of her own name, McCaughey. After being in business for 17 years, she was sued by McDonald's because of her use of "Mc" before the word "coffee". McDonalds had no "McCoffee" product, but they decided to create a "McCafe" product, so they apparently felt justified in shutting down anyone/anything that was even remotely similar, regardless of the space that person/product was in. McCaughey didn't use the famous arches in her logo, and she didn't sell fast food. But the corporate slimebags just had to **** up her business. This is one of countless examples where corporate lawyers justify their existence based on laws that fly in the face of common sense. No human being with working brain cells would've seen her small cafe and thought, "Oh, I must be able to get a McDonald's McCafe here!" It's just corporate America blinded by irrational greed.
@@johnsmith0800 Kinda, but it's all tied up with fair use clauses. In this instance, the similarity to McDonald's product naming convention would be enough for a challenge, even without there being branded McDonald's coffee involved. Unfortunately 17 years as a business is not a even close to the age of the product naming convention, but had her shop predated McDonald's product naming convention, she could have won. At least, if she could prove her shop was called McCoffee before McDonald's first use of the naming convention, she should, in a UK court.
The thing is that in a civilized country it would be McDonalds that paid her for the right to the name. I worked at a consulting firm (IT) that had a name similar to a newly introduced brand of low cost groceries here in Sweden. There was no real conflict, but confusion made out company change their name, I am not sure if there was compensation involved or not. And I am also not sure if Sweden is any more civilized.
@@berthulf What about Scotland? (Just to use a stereotype.) The Mcs and Macs there (oh, I found another big company name infringing on ancient family names in this sentence) might take issue that corporations infringe on the value of their family businesses brand.
@@berthulf the similarity to McDonald's product naming convention would be enough for a challenge only in a corporate hellscape like america where laws don't matter and you can win court cases not by proving your claim but by making it too expensive for your opponents to defend themselves. mcdonalds does not and has never owned the letters "mc" being in front of a noun
Some countries need an overhaul of their legal system to prevent abuse and allow reasonable common sense to prevent loophole abuse raking in money for a few individuals. Dystopian af
Imagine how the person who spent hours making that sneaker cake for a 2 second gag felt when they found out they had to make 2 that were visually identical.
As a Brit, i was almost offended when I saw the title, thinking he would call our beloved bake-off "fake". But I'm glad I clicked, I had NO IDEA this was the case 😂 Oh my goodness
Honestly, this re-contextualizes the really clunky editing on the Netflix version. The scene he used as an example of trimming the dialogue was a stand-out moment of unnecessary tension-building when I initially watched the series.
I remember watching GBBO on Netflix and I noticed the title morphing strangely on the engraved cake stand, and I already thought it made no sense for them to change the title of the show for the US, so I was absolutely appalled that they would go through the effort to do that effect on the US version. The instant I saw this video appear in my feed I knew EXACTLY what you were going to be talking about, and now I finally know it was because of horrifying corporate greed, cynicism, and pedantry! Thanks, Capt---- uh, Mister Explain.
Actually, the sad part is that visual effects artists get paid so little that it's easier to have them do all that stupid work than pay the lawyers to challenge Pillsbury's totally BS claim on the phrase "Bake Off" (or pay the dough-boy for licensing).
“Such is the life of a visual effects artist…” I learned this in great and agonizing detail recently. My friend from high school became a VFX artist, it was always her dream! She went to Full Sail, did dozens of online courses, animated hundreds of videos and her dream of dreams was to one day work on something like the LoTR trilogy. We hung out recently and she complained for HOURS about how annoying and shit her job is. Apparently she recently spent days on adjusting the bulge on an overweight guy because “it looks weird and uncomfortable and draws the eye.” and that was all the note she got. Fix a fat guys mushed up lumpy bulge. She also meticulously adjusted a few beards and mustaches, adjusted cleavage, removed acne or blemishes, and apparently had to give a guy a very specific “farmers manicure” digitally for an AD she worked on and they said the hand model didn’t match… She complains and hates _what_ she’s forced to work on, but apparently she still loves VFX and loves her job. It’s just part of working her way up the ladder! She actually got work adjusting food and drinks for some ads and apparently that’s a good thing?! Like a step up? Idk… she seemed fuckin *stoked* about about adding orange juice to a commercial and acted like it was her big break, even though I’ve seen her animate photo realistic Autobots transforming and made a CG clone of herself that fooled her own mother. But the juice… was… good? I dunno. VFX as an industry is bizarre when you think about it and I respect the people who choose to do it for a living!
@@KasumiKenshirou You mean they removed Chris D'Elia after he was exposed as a sexual predator? You do realise you're trivializing rape with condescending terms like "MeTooed?" Chris is not the victim. Grow the fuck up.
@@coder0xff Calm down my friend, it's Christmas. The victim isn't Chris, it's the VFX artist who had to spend all that time digitally replacing him in all his shots (and the person he abused).
Looking for something to listen to while trying to sleep and found this wonderful channel, but it would be a waste to just listen to it, rather come back tomorrow morning and marvel at this amazing editing!
For some years my main vfx job was doing screen track and replacement on smartphones, and the more clips of the trophy you showed the more terror came over me.
I actually wondered why it was called Great British Baking Show in America since I've always known it as Great British Bake Off here in Australia. I can't believe a company can own the term "Bake Off".
Well, the expression "bake off" did not exist in English previous to Pillsbury inventing it in 1949 for a recipe competition, I presume based on the expression "show off", so... If it's in common usage for a competition in the US, you can argue it's become generic, but that would likely have to end up in court.
hey captain, im a new fan. since youtube slid this video onto my feed a few weeks ago i've been watching your backlog and following along, excitedly getting my partner to watch your beakman episode (which led to a cute morning of being introduced to beakman! i was strictly a pbs kid so i missed out). anyway, i just wanted to leave a comment so you know that whatever you're doing, it's working. you're a talented, compassionate artist and educator and i'm glad you are here. i know creative work like this gets exhausting so it makes the energy you put into your work so very special.
I work as a visuel effects artist full time and I can say: Yes - Stuff like that is my life. :-D I worked on a music-video for Rammstein, where they filmed with 5 Camera-Man at the same time. And surprise-surprise - In every shot there was one ore more of the other camera-man in frame. And then we worked on removing them in about 30 shots. :-D Stuff like that. *sigh*
I'd love to know if the "Doughboys" bakery actually LOST a court case or if they just settled because they couldn't afford to defend themselves. Nintendo had a trademark for the term "Wii Remote" rejected on the basis that it implied that Nintendo owned the word "remote", I wish such standards were evenly applied.
Absolutely. Intellectual property law (as in trademarks, copyrights, etc.) famously turns into a dodgy patchwork once you start crossing international borders. It sort of makes sense if you understand the background, but it creates all these weird results that look more and more stupid as the internet makes everything more global.
It was most likely the latter. These big corporations can afford to pay lawyers to drag court cases on for fucking ever, meanwhile small businesses would go broke trying to keep up with paying their lawyers. In addition, being a civil case if they lost the small business might be on the hook for Pillsbury's lawyer fees.
Thanks a lot Alan!! Indeed that's what many of us VFX artist do each day... been there, done that. License Plates, wires, Logos. Even had to remove a rat from several heads once, because the TV station decided after shooting that it would be a bad idea for Zombies to have living rats on their heads... keep on doing what you are doing!!
Right? Like was he the last person they asked after all other stones were overturned? Is he a huge fan of pastry and we never knew? WHY JEFF FOXWORTHY?!!?
Wow. This got me thinking, does the edit actually officially turns the US version into fiction? When you think about it, the "Great British Baking Show" is not a real competition, it never existed. It is something that exists exclusively on tv.
“The Great British Baking Show” is the name of a real competition, just as “bake off” is as well, just because something’s online name is different than its real name doesn’t make the real competition fake. And even if the competition named,”The Great British Baking Show” was somehow fictitious, there are tons of titles of nonfiction things that aren’t real in it of themselves, like “Silent Spring” one of the most famous nonfiction books of all time.
@@majoritarian7864 Yes but it's not just a rename, they went through the effort of changing the trophy, so scenes of winners holding it are fabricated images of something that never truly happened.
@@KombatGod it IS just a rename. When Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was renamed to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone for American audiences, J.K. Rowling also changed the name of the object throughout the novel. The winner’s holding the trophy with the renamed version of the show is no more “fabricated” than the fact that the show had cuts and color grading, etc. If you were there in real life, it wouldn’t look like how it does on the show, but does that make it fabricated? Obviously not, just like how changing the name due to copyright doesn’t make it fiction.
I bet the VFX guy who did the bake-off trophy is so greatful somebody finally noticed all the work they put in
Imagine dreaming of working at ILM or a similar place and ending up changing cake stands for legal reasons.
Especially if they make a compass spin because of "magical lasers"
@N W they’re just saying the bread and butter of the industry is not the work most want to be doing
Grateful?
Almost as funny as in the Jingle All The Way 1996 popcorn guy :D!
The fact that a company can own the phrase bake-off is absolutely absurd
Just wait until you find out about Real cheese!
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Remember the guys who tried to copyright reaction videos on CZcams? They didn't get it done but still, copyright laws are a joke. I'm a music producer, so I follow this kind of stuff pretty closely, there's been songs that got sued for vibes, literally, the song had a simillar "vibe" to other song and that was enough to take it to court....
The copyright probably wouldn't stand in court which is probably why they never went after the magical bake-off like Captain D joked about. In all reality, they didn't need to do this at all, but probably just saw the copyright and didn't actually understand US copyright law.
But completely believable...
I love that, as an American watching the US version on Netflix, I have never considered the show to be called anything but "bake-off", nor have I ever heard of "bake-off" in the context of Pillsbury or any of their products. Zero brand recognition. Great work all around, Pillsbury.
Same
This video is how I discovered Pillsbury EXISTS
@@KyrieFortune This video is the reason I decided to never buy a product from Pillsbury:)
... okay that is not honest. I don't think they sell in Germany. And if you try that act in Europe (wanting to "own" a word like "bake-off", = Backen) you will end in a madhouse.
@@KyrieFortune I’ve only ever heard of the Pillsbury Doughboy. So I guess he’s doing his job if nothing else.
My American family refers to the whole show as "Bake-Off" as in "Do you want to watch Bake-off tonight?"
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Ironically, the fact that Pillsbury requires all this nonsense really diminishes their brand value in my eyes
It bothers me that it was cheaper to VFX the name out than to simply license it from Pillsbury.
@@jeremiahbullfrog9288 I have a lot of respect for things done in the name of spite.
they don't care, because they are a corporation. They aren't a private business, which would have to worry about their reputation
@@JohnAlexanderiii Wrong. Corporations are mini states, aka socialist entities. Private companies are the opposite. Private means it is owned by an individual and has no hierarchy, also receives zero funds from the state, aka stolen tax payer money
@@AverageAlien What is your nationality? Your assertions make no sense within the US nor applied to Pillsbury.
A wonderful Christmas present from the Captain.
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Agreed
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Don’t you mean Mister Explain
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
Yes, I absolutely understand this pain of those VFX artists. I have painted buildings to another color because cafe on ground floor didn't want that building to be recognizable. I have eliminated real reflections on eye and replaced with similar fake one with same shape but just moved little bit more to side, and I have replaced blury expiration date on old product package in commercial to newer blury one. But as You CD said, this is the life of VFX artist. If client wants it and you can do it - why not. I agree, most of those client wishes are unnecessary and I consider it as throwing money in the wind.
or throwing money to you lol
I live in the US and have been aware of and watched several times and discussed this show with friends and it's always been known colloquially as the "Bake-Off" What is confusing me is that if it's always been the "Baking Show" in the US, why do I know it's called the Bake Off? Why does "Baking Show" after years on PBS and Netflix sound wrong to me? If Pilsbury forced them to bend reality and erase "Bake Off" from my American existence why is Bake-Off what I know?
Cause everyone knows the show is British and was originally called bake-off, so that’s the name that stuck even if they changed it in the eidt
Huh, I only catch glimpses of it when my wife watches the show, but somehow I thought it was called "Bake-Off," probably because it sounds better than "Baking Show" and it's a _common_ thing that absolutely should not be copyrightable, like a community bake-off. Is Pilsbury gonna have its lawyers stomp on that school or church that has a bake-off fundraiser?
A thought brings me joy is imagining one of the contestants excitedly sitting down to a Captain D video after slaving away in the kitchen all Christmas Day, and hearing themselves described as an aggressively plain looking amateur 🤣
Merry Christmas Rohin!
Certainly not niche here in England either, can't avoid hearing it talked about even when I try
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For Captain D, any face less than 50% silver is aggressively plain looking.
@@ThePhantom4516 that was the joke, dw it's not niche here either :P
Using the microwave spinning plate for the trophy look alike was really the most genius part of this video.
LMAO!
Sounds like an insult... Unless I'm missing something, it sounds like women talk to each other "you look great today, what an improvement! Must have taken you all day!" ^-^
@@SLRModShop It's not passive aggressive sarcasm. It's just sarcasm
@@nakedsquirtle i dont think it was sarcastic at all, it worked really well and was creative
Whoa wait they’re different??? I didn’t even notice that….Why do they care???
Anybody confused by the "two pounds" joke, the gesture of two fingers shown backwards is like a slightly-less offensive middle finger here in the UK
Ah but do you know why putting your fingers up at someone like that is offensive here?
@@J75Pootle No-one knows. The legend is that it's to do with the Hundred Years' war (which lasted well over 100 years and wasn't a really full blown war). Legend goes that English longbowmen were far more effective than French crossbowmen, which gave them a leg-up. When English soldiers were captured by the French, they would be returned but only after their middle and index fingers were chopped off. So, waving them back became an act of defiance.
i'm more confused by the mi5 spooks thing tbh. what don't they like?
@@dariusftw3378 "That word" is a racial slur in America lmao
@@jerrysfatnuts Racial slur for what? Ghosts?
Man, I miss him. Already five month since the last video. Come back to us, Captain.
there is a new video coming soon, look on his insta
@@zitsumo9140 Thanks for the info mate. Will do. 👍
He's probably working on another big Flight of the Navigator type video
Guess the fish restaurant sued him into oblivion ):
(jk)
Premiere scheduled for 2 hours from now :)
I guess this would be *The Great PBR Texture Bake On*
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Merry Christmas fictional asian woman
Get out.
Hello!
😂 merry Christmas to you too Ami
BRILLIANT! Never apologize for BRILLIANCE!!
it makes no sense to me that they allow a company to own those words..
Which company? The TV company or the food company? Or the bakery? They are all companies.
@@Luxalpa The one that owns the words…
You can't own words - you can own a trademark on words that stops other people using your brand name to mislead consumers which if you think about it makes perfect sense. I mean obviously none of us thinks Apple the company owns the word apple, but do you think someone else should be able to start a new company that sells computers and phones and stuff like that and call themselves Apple? Almost certainly not.
@@StreakyBaconMan I know that and the company in question isn’t called “Bake Off”, is it?
@@crabmilk And Disney isn't called Mickey Mouse. Did you have a point?
A small contribution to express my appreciation for all the times you made me think, smile and laugh 😃
Whoa that's amazing of you!!!
Small? Shot ya boy 50 quid mate
@@revivedfears Something like 200 hours of me just ABSORBING his knowledge - I got off cheap. In my defense, I was waiting till the bills ALL got paid... 😁
@@revivedfears how much is 50 squids in real money though?
Isint like 20$ of that go to yt?
Rediscovering Captain D is like finding an old photo album in the attic and later spending hours flipping through the pages
the fact that they can literally own the word bake-off is downright mental. it's like when the fine bros tried to own the word React.
On when game Workshop tried to own the phrase "Space Marine".
Or when the makers of Candy Crush Saga tried to claim Saga.
Or when the makers of No Man's Sky were in constant kahoots with a certain UK satellite broadcaster named Sky.
@@Allanbuzzy
Did they tried to trademark the word "sky"?
@@remliqa In a sense, yes. Microsoft's SkyDrive had to change into OneDrive because of Sky.
Wow. Just wow. A video on this is exactly what I didn’t know I needed. Thank you!
I HATE people that HATE other people. The comment I respond to did not spread HATE. That is good. BUT! I get a lot of HATE comments on my amazing videos and I HATE it. Please don't start spreading HATE. Do I have to HATE you too, dear qdam
@@AxxLAfriku Did you read my comment? I’m literally praising the video. Why are you trying to be mean to people who enjoyed the video?
@@PuppetNerd i think its a bot, possibly a failed attempt a guilt tripping
@@ghostcustoms3968 nah i think they legit with videos such as toenail gender reveal and injecting myself with horse poop
No unfortunately he has one of the most unfunny channels on CZcams. To call Axxl dreadful is being too kind, this is how he begs for views, in comments in other channels that happen to be better than his (which is literally every channel that isn't his basically). He's an untalented idiot who calls himself funny & thrives on the hate he rightly gets....
The thumbnail made me think it was a show where Americans pretend to be British and the judges have to guess who the fake is or score contestants as to how British they appear
Would like to see stuff like that, British one would be the opposite. Both have to play and dress to the stereotypes.
I was working on a Documentary back in the day, and I had to blur all of the great 80’s t-shirts being worn because there was no legal clearance department. So, Captain Disillusion, I have been there and done that, in an age when what you just did would have cost a million dollars and taken a team of 5 several months.
Kind of seems like the legal dept. would have been cheaper
@@Connection-Lost You seem to be imagining a “budget” to pay lawyers with. I was the cost effective option.
Thanks *Mister Explain for another awesome video!
OVERWERK in the wild! Love your stuff man
In Mister Explain We Trust
nice to see you here OVERWERK!! :D
"call me steven"
Mister Explain is my favourite CZcams channel.
mister explain did a great job with this one
Missed Opportunity: "Major Breakdown"
@@wash0ut You're totally right. All this time and work he should've given himself a promotion!
Your verified mark doesn't make you relevant. We can see your desperation.
Chill
Sir Debunk
2:08 the flash text here is "2 whole cakes made for the 2 takes"
I remember saying your channel is heavily underrated. Glad to see you're now in the millions
These are some of the unsung hero’s in the industry. Those who fix the stupidest of issues so that the entire show can go on. The host gets a title credit. The two person team that solely allowed the show to be aired gets a 0.63 second mention in the credit scrawl that is automatically skipped after the first episode.
This is a whole lot of cope for what is essentially real life manipulation. You should be disgusted people went through altering something to this extent.
@@booboo3161 wat. how does.. what. of all the things to get annoyed at, the people complying to some arbitrary standards set by a broken copyright system?
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That is my point. The entire show could have been brought down by the stupidest of legal loopholes and it was saved by two people that will never get credit for it.
And that kind of thing happens all the time. Some show that you absolutely love was made possible by some guy or girl fixing a copywrited T-shirt in an edit. You will never know their name.
@@rebchizelbeak5392 - The entire show couldn't be "brought down" because of the lame bake off trademark. They had dozens of was of dealing with this, and this is the avenue they chose. Some professionals with certain skills plied their trade (using tools by other people whose name you will never know) in return for monetary reward.
We're viewing this on a website built and managed by thousands of unnamed people. This video is encoded delivered and presented using software by thousands more, again whose names you'll never know. Everyone stands on the shoulders of giants, and I guarantee the people who did a quick, paid gig to CGI a name difference don't care, at all, that they aren't given big credits.
Rob- I totally agree with you! My brother orchestrates music for big movies, and he told me that he thinks the ending credits at the end of any movie represent about 2/3 of the people who actually worked on it. There are so many ghost-writers and ghost-orchestrators and interns who do so much of the work. And there are already a ton of people in the credits! It's crazy.
As someone who lives in the UK, we refer to the show as 'The Bake Off', so seeing it as 'The Great British Baking Show' really unsettles me.
It’s like peering into another reality hey? Especially when the changes are done so well.
We refer to it as "Bake Off" in America, too. Until this video, I thought it was just one of those things that we say incorrectly (and has stuck around because it's just better). I had no idea that was the actual name of the show in the UK!
What really unsettles me is the extra letters you cram into your words. "Programme"? What the hell?
Ha, we call The Open Championship _The British Open_ just to confuse you.
You need thicker skin...
Haven’t seen this channel for many years. So glad it’s surviving and thriving! Much love from a viewer from looooong ago!
Where has Captain D gone?
Everyone I know in the USA calls it “British Bake Off” which is hilarious because try as Pillsbury might to control the term commercially, they can’t control how people use it as a common generecized word in everyday speech. I’ve known people who learn it’s “Baking Show” after a while and are like “… no that’s dumb. It’s bake off, I don’t care what the title actually says.”
This is enough to prove in court that the trademark serves no purpose and just infringes on competitors ability to create products. Seriously, if more people associate the term with TGBBO then pilsbury really has no leg to stand on in court.
i 100% thought it was Bake Off
They kind of created a "Streisand effect" 😅
My GF watches this show religiously and I was today years old when I learned the US aired version is called Baking Show.
@@Burger_pants Very much the contrary. If Pillsbury where to NOT fully defend their trademark as they are doing now, then that would be a reason for the courts to dissolve their trademark rights. „You don‘t seem to care that others use your trademark, so lets just get rid of it.“ Not saying it’s right, but Pillsbury is doing what they need to do, given the current laws. Full disclosure: I think that current copyright and trademark laws are important, but in many ways completely broken.
oh shit, i've scrolled past it on netflix a few times and thought "why would i watch some great british baking show when bake off exists", never even considered that it was the same show with a rename lmao
WHAT??? YOU are not WORTHY of the Name NachoMist! Lemme take it! (unnngh... uhhnnngahhhh) I will modify my own name (MachoMist)!! There!
Wait... my wife will NOT want me to name my gasseous emissions. You can have your name back.. and my stolen copy too!
@@jum5238 uhhhh are you ok there bud
@@jum5238 are you okay there mate?
@@jum5238 ok wannabe AxxL
@@jum5238 what did I just read
I just want to say, I appreciate both the talent and amount of work you put in these Videos Mister Explain. You're amazing
Your videos are of a higher quality than most tv(streaming) content. Thank you for the work you put into producing high quality content.
Reminds me of when King decided they own the word "Candy" because they made "Candy Crush Saga" and so they started an ill-fated lawsuit. A bunch of game developers held a "candy jam" and rapidly made a ton of games with "Candy" in the title, bonus points for also using "crush" or "saga". It was fun.
did they try to sue any king for using the name of the company ?
Sounds like King Candy…
😎
Got crushed.
A videogame bake-off if you will
That's just how American -copyright- trademark laws work... You are required to actively piss-mark your territory, otherwise you can lose a case due to inactivity or have your -copyright- trademark limited to a tiny nich
@@ElectariumTunic trademark, not copyright
i would 100% binge a tutorial channel from you
aayyyy mysticat!
Didn't expect to see you on a Dr D vid. Your tutorial channel is awesome! My server thanks you!
Oh look it's the cursed circle guy
Ayyyyy
congrats on a mil
Thanks, captain. You have gotten me into VFX, you are one of my biggest inspirations.
I watched through all your videos recently. I think what you've tried to do here is wonderful, and even better is the honest self criticism through it all. What a lovely journey.
As someone who has had to tell the CG artist that, yes they will have to mask the logo of a certain yellow branded fast food company and replace it with an updated logo after the ad had already been shot, this hit me on a personal level.
Ah yes, my favorite fast food chain: WcDonald's (or was it WcDenald?).
I used to do matchmoving work for The Onion and I remember having to track almost every surface of an entire shopping mall to remove the logos lmao.
@@JLCL01 McDowell’s
@@nate_storm I sure coud go for a Big Mic right about now
@@kanjakan damn, from back in the days when the Onion actually had a budget and everything?
The funny thing is, even after all the editing; I had no idea it was called the Great British Baking Show in America. I’ve always only heard it referenced to as “Bake-off” here in the U.S, and never even noticed the branding changes.
Sadly though id imagine you are in the minority. lol
@@LionheartTM i was thought it was the same name as the UK version too... probably because I watched on CZcams not television
ditto Canada and New Zealand by the way
He said it was only on pbs and netflix.
Dude I thought it was bake-off in America as well.
This episode is SO good. I've watched it like 6 times. I love you, Mister Explain!!!
Another amazing video captain. Always a pleasure and look forward to supporting your work in the future.
I love how fun you make these to watch
Yes
4:24 and awesome sound
It's some of the highest quality shit there is!
@@nolandaniels5319 :c
@@megantn What’s with the long face?
This person modelled an entire doll, created a full environment, animated the doll and comp-ed it perfectly with his hands, just for a "hey man!" gag. Ridiculous!
Welcome to the channel!
Wasn't that an already existing part of an ad? I am certain I've seen it before.
@@Muzly I think captain D remade it
It was beautiful. I loved it. I wonder who voiced him
@@Datboichannel wouldn't surprise me, he is meticulous when it comes to his content. I just thought it was an already existing thing, but I'd totally believe it was remade 100%
That final shot is the best track I have ever seen. It is flawless beyond maybe two frames. I cannot get over how much it looks like real writing
I keep checking back on the channel now because his videos are so spontaneous 💀
being subbed to the big d is a never ending cycle of forgetting he exists and getting super excited when he uploads
and i don’t blame him, his special effects are
perfection
I've always *hated* American trademark law. An example that's similar to this ridiculous Pillsbury one is of a place that used to be called "McCoffee". It was -- you guessed it -- a coffee shop (cafe). The woman who owned it named the shop as a homophone of her own name, McCaughey. After being in business for 17 years, she was sued by McDonald's because of her use of "Mc" before the word "coffee". McDonalds had no "McCoffee" product, but they decided to create a "McCafe" product, so they apparently felt justified in shutting down anyone/anything that was even remotely similar, regardless of the space that person/product was in. McCaughey didn't use the famous arches in her logo, and she didn't sell fast food. But the corporate slimebags just had to **** up her business.
This is one of countless examples where corporate lawyers justify their existence based on laws that fly in the face of common sense. No human being with working brain cells would've seen her small cafe and thought, "Oh, I must be able to get a McDonald's McCafe here!" It's just corporate America blinded by irrational greed.
@@johnsmith0800 Kinda, but it's all tied up with fair use clauses. In this instance, the similarity to McDonald's product naming convention would be enough for a challenge, even without there being branded McDonald's coffee involved. Unfortunately 17 years as a business is not a even close to the age of the product naming convention, but had her shop predated McDonald's product naming convention, she could have won. At least, if she could prove her shop was called McCoffee before McDonald's first use of the naming convention, she should, in a UK court.
The thing is that in a civilized country it would be McDonalds that paid her for the right to the name.
I worked at a consulting firm (IT) that had a name similar to a newly introduced brand of low cost groceries here in Sweden.
There was no real conflict, but confusion made out company change their name, I am not sure if there was compensation involved or not. And I am also not sure if Sweden is any more civilized.
@@berthulf What about Scotland? (Just to use a stereotype.)
The Mcs and Macs there (oh, I found another big company name infringing on ancient family names in this sentence) might take issue that corporations infringe on the value of their family businesses brand.
@@berthulf the similarity to McDonald's product naming convention would be enough for a challenge
only in a corporate hellscape like america where laws don't matter and you can win court cases not by proving your claim but by making it too expensive for your opponents to defend themselves. mcdonalds does not and has never owned the letters "mc" being in front of a noun
You underestimate the . . . of people. I'd say that a lot of people would think that McCoffee would be affiliated with McDonald's.
Wow, I can't believe people spent time changing something so utterly pointless. Awesome job Captain!
patent/copyright trolls are the bane of the US entertainment industry
@@danilooliveira6580 their petty trollishness goes far beyond the entertainment industry.
To put some money into someone's pockets, I suspect.
Some countries need an overhaul of their legal system to prevent abuse and allow reasonable common sense to prevent loophole abuse raking in money for a few individuals. Dystopian af
@@danilooliveira6580 you almost got it! it's trademark troll in this example
every video on this channel is incredible
I can't get enough of your videos. :)
Poor Noel, I imagine him rereading his contract off-camera just before the reshoot.
He had more facial hair than the UK cut so I bet the reshoot was taken a day or days later. Not an issue for Matt Lucas tho.
Yeah Noel didn't look too happy in the US cut footage. Send in the EELS!
Imagine how the person who spent hours making that sneaker cake for a 2 second gag felt when they found out they had to make 2 that were visually identical.
Usually sneakers come in pairs. ;-)
@@EzeePosseTV He should have done the re-shoot as black faced Papa Lazarou to avoid problems in America.
As a Brit, i was almost offended when I saw the title, thinking he would call our beloved bake-off "fake". But I'm glad I clicked, I had NO IDEA this was the case 😂
Oh my goodness
Yeah it's a bit click-baity of CD to imply that there is some more significant fakery going on.
I thought he was going to say that the editors had changed the cakes to make them look either better or worse to make the show look more *dramatic*.
Honestly, this re-contextualizes the really clunky editing on the Netflix version. The scene he used as an example of trimming the dialogue was a stand-out moment of unnecessary tension-building when I initially watched the series.
No worries, it was the colonies that faked it.
Offended for a dumb show amazing 👏
We miss you, Cap
Amazing as always. Man, you don't release often, but when you do, these are awesome.
I remember watching GBBO on Netflix and I noticed the title morphing strangely on the engraved cake stand, and I already thought it made no sense for them to change the title of the show for the US, so I was absolutely appalled that they would go through the effort to do that effect on the US version. The instant I saw this video appear in my feed I knew EXACTLY what you were going to be talking about, and now I finally know it was because of horrifying corporate greed, cynicism, and pedantry! Thanks, Capt---- uh, Mister Explain.
pppm
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Actually, the sad part is that visual effects artists get paid so little that it's easier to have them do all that stupid work than pay the lawyers to challenge Pillsbury's totally BS claim on the phrase "Bake Off" (or pay the dough-boy for licensing).
I would have made the editing painfully blatant. Black bars, Pixelation and Bleeps. And been 100% honest about who made you do it.
INCREDIBLE! Thank you for the constant inspiration Captain. Your videos have changed my life as I’m sure they have many others.
19 hours ago what?!
@@lilpig6534 Patreon
@@lilpig6534 Turns out, as I suspected, that Jack Gordon is also a Superhero with time-bending abilities to boot.
That's awesome Jack! In what way has it changed your life?
"constant" seems like a bit of an overstatement.
Wow it has been a long time since the last upload...
welcome to his channel then? it's always been this way
What a wonderful episode. Thank you, Mister Explain!
“Such is the life of a visual effects artist…”
I learned this in great and agonizing detail recently. My friend from high school became a VFX artist, it was always her dream! She went to Full Sail, did dozens of online courses, animated hundreds of videos and her dream of dreams was to one day work on something like the LoTR trilogy.
We hung out recently and she complained for HOURS about how annoying and shit her job is. Apparently she recently spent days on adjusting the bulge on an overweight guy because “it looks weird and uncomfortable and draws the eye.” and that was all the note she got. Fix a fat guys mushed up lumpy bulge. She also meticulously adjusted a few beards and mustaches, adjusted cleavage, removed acne or blemishes, and apparently had to give a guy a very specific “farmers manicure” digitally for an AD she worked on and they said the hand model didn’t match…
She complains and hates _what_ she’s forced to work on, but apparently she still loves VFX and loves her job. It’s just part of working her way up the ladder!
She actually got work adjusting food and drinks for some ads and apparently that’s a good thing?! Like a step up? Idk… she seemed fuckin *stoked* about about adding orange juice to a commercial and acted like it was her big break, even though I’ve seen her animate photo realistic Autobots transforming and made a CG clone of herself that fooled her own mother. But the juice… was… good? I dunno.
VFX as an industry is bizarre when you think about it and I respect the people who choose to do it for a living!
Get that juice girl, I’m rooting for her now
There was a movie called "Army of the Dead" where they digitally replaced one of the actors after he got MeTooed.
@@KasumiKenshirou Not gonna lie, that sounds petty and stupid.
@@KasumiKenshirou You mean they removed Chris D'Elia after he was exposed as a sexual predator? You do realise you're trivializing rape with condescending terms like "MeTooed?" Chris is not the victim. Grow the fuck up.
@@coder0xff Calm down my friend, it's Christmas. The victim isn't Chris, it's the VFX artist who had to spend all that time digitally replacing him in all his shots (and the person he abused).
I'm always amazed at the amount of planning and effort that Mister Explain puts into these videos.
Looking for something to listen to while trying to sleep and found this wonderful channel, but it would be a waste to just listen to it, rather come back tomorrow morning and marvel at this amazing editing!
Wow, congrats on finally winning the Mister Explain award! I know how much this has meant to you, and you finally did it!!
For some years my main vfx job was doing screen track and replacement on smartphones, and the more clips of the trophy you showed the more terror came over me.
I actually wondered why it was called Great British Baking Show in America since I've always known it as Great British Bake Off here in Australia. I can't believe a company can own the term "Bake Off".
Yanks, for ya :P
@@thhseeking no, blame capitalism.
Well, the expression "bake off" did not exist in English previous to Pillsbury inventing it in 1949 for a recipe competition, I presume based on the expression "show off", so... If it's in common usage for a competition in the US, you can argue it's become generic, but that would likely have to end up in court.
@@sweetypuss Well, yes, trademarks are necessary for capitalism.
@@sweetypuss Capitalism doesn't create trademarks, governments do
hey captain, im a new fan. since youtube slid this video onto my feed a few weeks ago i've been watching your backlog and following along, excitedly getting my partner to watch your beakman episode (which led to a cute morning of being introduced to beakman! i was strictly a pbs kid so i missed out). anyway, i just wanted to leave a comment so you know that whatever you're doing, it's working. you're a talented, compassionate artist and educator and i'm glad you are here. i know creative work like this gets exhausting so it makes the energy you put into your work so very special.
I don't know how you are spotting these differences! That's amazing.
This isn't a crossover I saw coming but I am HERE for it
Hello Simon!
Dr. Simon Clark :O
Simon!
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Is this a crossover?
I work as a visuel effects artist full time and I can say: Yes - Stuff like that is my life. :-D I worked on a music-video for Rammstein, where they filmed with 5 Camera-Man at the same time. And surprise-surprise - In every shot there was one ore more of the other camera-man in frame. And then we worked on removing them in about 30 shots. :-D Stuff like that. *sigh*
Cool, what music video was that?
@@SgtZaqq It was "Deutschland". :-D
Wow. Just. Wow.
Do you mean to *sigh* at the end? lol
@@TheJunky228 Lol. *sight*
God, the videos are just incredible every time. Keep it up, Captain. Keep it up.
This continues to be the best produced show on CZcams.
Studios usually: Half Ass
Studios when they gotta dodge copyright: Whole Ass
2 cakes for 2 takes
No wonder Noel is unamused, he didn't get a single bite while Matt ruined both of them with just a tiny nibble!
Nah, the whole cat eats everything on the show, nothing gets wasted. Unless it’s like horribly burnt.
@@HarryRobins
I do like the cat
@@-ZH Best part of the show.
Always looking forward to your videos. Thank you!
Everything on this video is mind blowing! Thnaks Captain D!!
I'd love to know if the "Doughboys" bakery actually LOST a court case or if they just settled because they couldn't afford to defend themselves.
Nintendo had a trademark for the term "Wii Remote" rejected on the basis that it implied that Nintendo owned the word "remote", I wish such standards were evenly applied.
Absolutely. Intellectual property law (as in trademarks, copyrights, etc.) famously turns into a dodgy patchwork once you start crossing international borders.
It sort of makes sense if you understand the background, but it creates all these weird results that look more and more stupid as the internet makes everything more global.
I think it's safe to assume that this never even went to court in the first place.
That "standard" is basically you can't own trademark on a word that directly reference the product, and a dough isn't a bakery.
@@spiralhalo The bakery isn't the product. The bakery is merely a place which sells products, and the products are almost entirely dough based.
It was most likely the latter. These big corporations can afford to pay lawyers to drag court cases on for fucking ever, meanwhile small businesses would go broke trying to keep up with paying their lawyers. In addition, being a civil case if they lost the small business might be on the hook for Pillsbury's lawyer fees.
it HAS to be christmas! because a new Captain D video is the most wonderful time of the year.
Hey wait, I know you from a chocoTaco video with an allchat moment on sanhok some time ago 🤔 why the f* would I remember that 😂
3:07
Just a fantastic frame.
Just... Awesome!
Thanks D and happy new year :)
Fully appreciate the spoiler warning at the beginning
The amount of work put into a 4 min video, someone please give this man another trophy ! and 100 thousand dollars.
My god he's so good with effects.. it just blows my mind how easy he makes it seem when he uses complex effects for a few frames
Great video Captain D, as always!
Thanks a lot Alan!! Indeed that's what many of us VFX artist do each day... been there, done that. License Plates, wires, Logos. Even had to remove a rat from several heads once, because the TV station decided after shooting that it would be a bad idea for Zombies to have living rats on their heads... keep on doing what you are doing!!
I first read that as "I even had to remove heads from several rats once" and I was very concerned 😅
Yay a Captain D video on Christmas!
Yay a *Mister Explain video on Christmas!
Shows up as often as my dad
This video could have lasted 40min and i would watch it at least twice. So much information so fast i love it!
This channel is GOLD
I'm so glad Mister Explain came out of his slumber to gift us a great Christmas Gift 🎄🎁
What I find amazing is that a small show that was initially made to fill a very niche audience, has gone on to be an international sensation.
Oh man that eyeball alone was worth a like! Love your stuff, CD!
Good to see your still uploading
I can’t go on living knowing that *Jeff Foxworthy* was on an American version of bake-off.
Right? Like was he the last person they asked after all other stones were overturned? Is he a huge fan of pastry and we never knew? WHY JEFF FOXWORTHY?!!?
Always heard of things being altered or removed in post. This shows just how much work that can entail. Thanks!
This video is such a pleasure to watch! Thanks 🙏!
Love your videos, hope you're able to and enjoying making more of them
This is some next level vfx voodoo you pulled and then showed. Why aren't more people paying you?
Because they are terrified of what he would uncover.
I laughed so hard at the giant eye attached to the tiny brain that I had to pause the video. That joke works on so many levels.
Hey Capt. D. Just came here to say I miss you...
About time for a new Captain D video!
Wow. This got me thinking, does the edit actually officially turns the US version into fiction? When you think about it, the "Great British Baking Show" is not a real competition, it never existed. It is something that exists exclusively on tv.
"Based on a true story"? 😄
“The Great British Baking Show” is the name of a real competition, just as “bake off” is as well, just because something’s online name is different than its real name doesn’t make the real competition fake.
And even if the competition named,”The Great British Baking Show” was somehow fictitious, there are tons of titles of nonfiction things that aren’t real in it of themselves, like “Silent Spring” one of the most famous nonfiction books of all time.
@@majoritarian7864 Yes but it's not just a rename, they went through the effort of changing the trophy, so scenes of winners holding it are fabricated images of something that never truly happened.
@@KombatGod it IS just a rename. When Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was renamed to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone for American audiences, J.K. Rowling also changed the name of the object throughout the novel.
The winner’s holding the trophy with the renamed version of the show is no more “fabricated” than the fact that the show had cuts and color grading, etc. If you were there in real life, it wouldn’t look like how it does on the show, but does that make it fabricated? Obviously not, just like how changing the name due to copyright doesn’t make it fiction.
Think harder... A lot harder!
Love this! And also hate the fact that it all had to be done in the first place!
I really love your videos and i love binging on them thanks alot captain disillusioned
Great to hear from you again!