Television is a Confusing, Expensive Mess
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At first I was just confused, but now I'm mad.
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Yeah this comment got pinned. Big deal.
Yeah I replied. Big deal.
Also top 10 anime predictions
Oh shit u right
This shit works
Yeah it’s cool I guess
Yeah of course, I can’t say I didn’t see this coming
So, I'm in a screenwriting class, and the professor used to write freelance for star trek, and he says that if you compare your idea to something else, a producer is more likely to pick it up, but you have to specify what makes it different from the original show, too. So what I'm getting at is "American idol, but they're in costumes the whole time" is actually something a producer would eat up.
Oh my god yes! That’s exactly how it works.. every time you pitch an idea you gotta be like “its like *movie title* meets *movie title*”
I guess the idea to the producer is, "well that was successful, so an idea that is related to this successful thing is more reliable than a completely new idea"
@@esquared722 which, that's actually just a psychological idea so I assume it doesn't work out realistically for most movies unless the audience is able to relate those concepts
We call them "comps" and it's a way to make sure your idea will find an audience, since the comparable has been a success, but also with a fresh spin. Most creativity is combining known concepts in a new way !
Late, but this also served to launch the original star trek show. It was marketed as "a Western, but in space". 😂
the masked singer is actually a reboot of “the king of masked singer”, a korean singing competition. in the korean version, the contestants can be really famous or pretty unpopular. the point of the show is to display that popularity ≠ quality. the american version kinda bastardized the concept imo
Korean version: the message
American version: $$$
Same with I can see your voice, the Korean version is actually really fun to watch, but the American... everything is just so over the top, it feels like it's parodying the actual show
definitely! the korean version has some very iconic and quality performances
I'm glad you shared this first bc I was about to as well lmao
Goddamnit America
As a funeral director, i often have to help people identify what assets/liabilities people need to wrap up soon after someone dies. Something i learned pretty recently is that most cable companies want an official copy of someone’s death certificate before they allow you to cancel their cable subscription.
"Well, *we* think you aren't dead, so you have to keep paying us. (^.^)"
that's kinda shitty from a purely moral standpoint, like who the hell is faking their death to cancel a subscription service??? if anything that would be a negative reflection of their company if they think someone would seriously consider that
masked singer is based off a korean show which is designed to highlight great vocalists in unappreciated/unpopular kpop groups which makes the format make a lot more sense rather than just random celebrities.
why would it make more sense ? the whole point of the show is to guess who it is it doesn’t matter like 😭😭😭
It’s somewhat of a competition show so although yes, they are trying to guess who the singer is, the main point of the Korean show is the competitive part and the singers showing how good they are before revealing their identity. It’s quite funny watching the difference between the original and spin-offs in the us and uk because damn do they turn the wackiness up to ten.
One of my favorite singers from my favorite band was on that show, and it was amazing
Came here to say this too!
@@ongakira In South Korea, kpop group members cannot be said to be "singers", they are idols who sing. In the past, for the majority of South Korean people, an idol singer was not a real singer, idol vocal abilities were questioned, and not a few thought idols could not sing. If there are idols who have good vocal skills they understand it's all because of the needs of the group, they know there are at least one or two people who can sing well, and the rest are just beautiful people dancing. That's why Masked Singers are very important for idols back then, even in the early episodes many underestimate idols, if someone has a good voice they will guess that the person is an actor or comedian and not an idol. Solji EXID's victory in masked singer was like a hard blow to South Korean viewers because they didn't expect that she's an idol in a group with sexy concept. Unless they are soloist idols, then their singing skills are not in question.
Reminds me of those articles that are like “young people are killing the cable industry” but they real thing killing the cable industry is them refusing to adapt to the market and continued use of sketchy business practices
ChaoticStarWhale PREACH
Well advertisers still pay to much vs online. A million views on TV is sick money, while on YT its like 1 grand only.
They’re stuck in the 80’s/90’s lmao
Wow this is nice tea you've spilled
Yeah, but that's the reality of almost every failing industry that's being blamed on millennials.
“In 720p, censored and constantly interrupted by”
An actual ad played at that moment. What a talent
dude same lmaooo
You know you can choose where the ads go on CZcams right?
ManiacX1999 obviously lol does it on purpose and its highkey entertaining i dont even mind it when he does that lol
@@prestowand indeed it makes the ad more "paletable"
that’s the joke
The way companies play the victim for being _F O R C E D_ to extort their own customers is absolutely hysterical in a dystopian way 💀
They have no choice 🥺 how will the CEO buy a new yacht 🥺 (or idk whatever rich people buy)
@@caitlinwheeler7915 Lambo Huracan (more expensive models are not enough for them)
Extort? How so? Just don't watch it. Or buy it.
@@kenalba5641 na bro. Pagani zonda is what they buy
@@SeraphsWitness true for cable companies but internet companies are actual extortioners. In a lot of areas you only have one choice of internet provider so they can charge you whatever the hell they want and you have no choice
as a lover of criminal minds, the fake episode drew made easily could be in any of the seasons and I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference
Fr the mc in the sketch was literally spencer
Literally and CSI too
i love criminal minds 😭😭
@@Random-sk6hm they made a sequel?????
This is a. joke, ik it sucks mega ass
There's so many CSI sequels bro@@LocseryuOfficial
"Millenials and Gen Z are ruining cable!!!" No I think cable is ruining cable.
If anything Gen X is ruining cable. Millenials and Gen Z don't even watch cable we stream.
@@yahstino Yeah exactly you can't get mad at the younger generations for "ruining" something when you, the company, refuses to change as the world changes around you lmao
@@grayyoung8033 lol exactly...they're making the Blockbuster mistake. Cable comes free with my rent but I can't think of the last time I actually turned on the receiver box lol. There's nothing at all worth my time on regular television that I can't just watch on a streaming service I already have...with NO COMMERCIALS.
Bruh millennials and gen z can’t even afford cable
Pretty sure no one has ever said that.
My favourite genre of cable tv is "women married to somewhat succesful men": Hockey Wives, Baller Wives, Baseball Wives, Mob Wives, Married to Medicine, Second Wives Club, The Real Housewives of (insert location here), and so on and so forth
real housewives of the Patomac 😂
WAGS
Wow what is your standard for success
lol more like married to wildly successful men
@@no_peace lol they even verbally and physically attack the ones who aren't married yet especially in wags
If anyone’s curious, the Disney XD show where they basically just play CZcams clips is called Player Select, very good for small kids who want to watch CZcams but their parents won’t let them because it’s too inappropriate. The show features censoring, ridiculous special effects, the same clips in almost every episode, SO MUCH FUCKIG FORTNITE, the clips are usually less than 5 minutes for each youtuber and you have no idea what happens in the end of the video, and ads every 3 minutes. :)
Seems better than actually letting them on CZcams there's so much shit on YT
@@idontneedaname318 yeah definitely. It was the only thing my little brother watched for a while
The funniest part is that, when you say ads every three minutes, I'm willing to bet that you mean ads for other Disney media. Because that's one that I remember from the Disney channels. They never had any non-Disney commercials.
And it always struck me like... why would you spend so much time advertising your other stuff? I get that it's marketing and that they're a big corporation so they can get away with it, but why not like 1 ad break in the middle of the show? Why repeat the same commercials over and over ad infinitum? Maybe it's a ploy to increase viewer retention without needed to make more content to fill in the gaps where the ads are... but also why would they need viewer retention when they aren't getting paid for the ads??? Most of the ads are for other shows or movies which show up on that channel or one of the other ones like it.
Sorry for the rant, it's just always confused the hell out of me.
@@idontneedaname318 YTkids exist
YTKids is mostly hot garbage too. Instead of actual educational things for kids, it's just brain numbing content which sole purpose is to make kids quiet when their mom is doing something
A crime show series must have:
A recurring serial killer that torments the main characters
An episode where MC gets kidnapped
An episode where MC gets shot
Christmas special! Santa dies.
An episode where MC shoots and kills a bad guy and feels really awful and sad or smt
An episode where MC gets framed
A cryptid episode where it looks like someone was murdered by Bigfoot, a yeti, wendigo, werewolf, etc
episode where a character/a character’s family member is in a hostage situation (usually bank robbery)
bdsm :x
trauma so much trauma
As someone who used to binge crime shows with my mother, I’m kind of an expert.
Also:
The Christmas special where there’s the possibility of Santa being real. You’re welcome
and if it's criminal minds the main character in all these scenarios is reid /j
@@celestialdetective I’ve been bingeing criminal minds again like craazy this comment brings me much happiness you are so right LOL
mc is tortured and traumatized, you’re right, I’ve definitely seen that several times
can’t say I’ve seen another crime show where a character gets addicted to drugs though :x
oh my god, i thought that i was the only person who binge watches crime shows with their mother
@@celestialdetective Reid rlly being mistreated 💀
“When I was a teenager I would come home almost everyday”
Sometimes he didn’t come home.
that's what i was thinking! xD
Same
What about the OTHER DAYS????
pretty common for kids trying to avoid their abusive parents. not saying that's his case
@@neal2399 wow okay, so we didn’t even think he’d have friends or hobbies but no he had abusive parents
The ad after he said “they’re constantly interrupted by commercials” was the best place to put an ad
Lol yea it made me laugh so hard 😂
yeah i loved that
I thought it was a joke at first and he made the ad.
Oof can't relate 🤣
ikr he did it in sum vids before i think thats so funny and it made ads on yt kinda chuckle worthy, so creative
I cannot explain the feeling I got while Drew was listing the “cops that catch bad guys” show and I knew every single one of them lol
Which is the best you would recommend?
@@berthaantoinettamason9207 Honestly all of them are kinda the same,but if you want something you can watch out of order I’d recommend the Special Victims Unit
@@Sunflower_BY Thank you. I'll add it to my list of shows to watch.
@@Sunflower_BYso real. SVU is the better of the slop.
@@berthaantoinettamason9207I would say SVU, FBI Most Wanted (not the regulad FBI, although FBI international is kinda nice as well) and my favorite Criminal Minds!
This is like a masterclass in why monopolies ruin consumers.
Everyone needs to watch the original Korean “Masked Singer” where Ryan Reynolds came on to sing and promote Deadpool. The judges were so confused lmao
That actually sounds worth it
They were so excited lmao and one of the judges guessed donated trump 💀
Yazhi D O N A T E D T R U M P
@@yazhibaa7320 *_d o n a t e d t r u m p_*
Idk But ok wait i didn’t even realize- DONATED
Got Talent: Hey what if we make american idol but let the singers compete with other unique talented acts but in the end we let the singer win anyway?
let the 13 year old girl/boy singer win**
@@burgerpowder8 let the 13 year old girl/boy singer with a sad backstory win
G-Han Bax i dont think they care about dislikes, they cant even see it . You just got a dislike too btw
I know right it's bullshit I've been saying it for years!! There's way too many singers... They cut way better and original acts everytime...
What's the point when there's already tons of singing competition shows...
Unless it’s Brian Justin crum. I will never be over him not winning
Every time he does the Haley Joel Osment bit and he’s just like “alright, why not? I’ll go with you guys” I crack up.
I use spectrum for internet (only option in my building) and mobile and overall am happy enough with those services but one time they gave me a free month of tv as a "reward" and then tried to add tv to my bill on the next month. Needless to say I was pretty pissed off
ah the joys of a free market where you have all these options but oop sorry only this one company services your area so you actually have no options and are forced to pay way too much for way too little
Half the video is just him ranting about how sucky cable prices are, and I’m here for it.
Convinced my parents to get rid of cable and get Netflix and Disney + full time. Thanks Drew
Cable is a scam.
@@justapen9316 did yu show them this video for reference proof? because @ 11:00 sums up a good reason to get rid of cable alone
The idea of Ken Jeong telling really bad jokes on a set with no audience members and contestants standing around in awkward silence is hilarious to me.
That's what I was thinking 😂🤣
Ken Jeong:Hi, I'm saying a bad joke.
Contestant:
Ken:
Contestant:
Ken:
Empty seats:
Ken:Alright moving on, here's a dude lipsycning to some popsong
that was the real comedy all along
Contestants standing around in awkward silence after a Ken Jeong joke is how it was even before the pandemic.
on godddd yeah
I rewatch this video a lot just to hear Drew scream at Spectrum Internet. It's oddly satisfying.
So fing true😊
I hate Spectrum!!!!!!!!!!!
Every morning at 2:00 AM the internet just stops working for an hour which is not great for college students!!!!!!!
7:39 the throwaway joke "if you're white, there's HGTV" got me choking & coughing. Drew caught me off guard w/ that one 😅🤣🤣
Tv is going through the dying phase that radio went through of “no one is watching this. We can do whatever we want”
Radio is still going strong
@@filipsperl Honestly, as long as cars are around, the radio will never die. If you go for a long ass road trip, you will want to hear some new shit, or some throwbacks you completely forgot about, and that's when the radio shines.
@@VideoGamesRus100 workplace radio is still very much alive as well. Every shop I've ever worked at has a radio playing. The station we listen to is world famous. Its certainly not going anywhere anytime soon
I would compare it more to phones. Like how most people had landlines and cell phones in it's infancy stage that charged by the minute. You could even lease phones from your provider (my great grandma had a rental rotary phone she was paying for all the way up to her passing in 2005.) Now you can get a plan of unlimited talk, text and internet for $50/mo. Just like cable, landlines aren't really needed, unless you're using it for a business
fun fact: “the masked singer” and “i can see your voice” are based off the korean tv shows “king of masked singer” and “i can see your voice” ! i prefer the korean versions tbh as they seem less awkward n staged and are more funny in my opinion
Came here to say that!
Also I feel like it makes more sense in korea since idol culture is bigger over there but in America I feel like most people won’t know the individual singers as much and won’t be as invested in the show bc the audience doesn’t know who will show up... whereas in Korea they might not know the singer but might have heard of their group (if they are part of one of course)
I just commented the same thing! Great minds think alike lol
Honestly, Korea has p good standards for entertainment. As much as a whole lot of competitions and reality tv is staged, it has such a different energy from western tv. Of course it does matter what dramas/shows you watch bcos the Low budget ones are always shitty, tho
Itz Sh0ckerz yeah its definitely way more satisfying that way than the American one is, plus its less cheesy lmao
This video is really making it clear to me why my dad got rid of our cable when I was in preschool and never got it back since. Who in their right mind would pay that much money to watch an episode of a show broken up by obnoxious ads every five minutes making the action of watching one episode a (at least) hour process.
I'm gonna be honest, for years I thought "I can see your voice" was Drew just riffing on the name structure because all these shows sound the same. It was only today that I learned it's unironically actually a real name for a real show and I am stunned
I got an ad after you said “constantly interrupted by commercials.” Your comedic timing is impeccable.
Same lol
same lol
Yeah that was pretty funny lol
Same fucking hell
Immediately
This guy is pretty funny. I'm one of those "old people" this kid is talking about. My daughter had me watch him, and he makes a lot of sense.
hi Lori, welcome
welcome to the little stinkers
hello lori welcome to the lil stinkers
welcome to the lil stinkers.
hi Lori, welcome to the show
It's sad how G4 turned out to be honest. Many Scott The Woz fans such as myself were so excited to see him on TV, then when we all tuned in to see him on national television, they ended up just not airing the episode which lead to a very funny tweet by Scott where he and all his friends in suits stared at a disappointed screen showing G4 but with no Scott. Then, after only a few months of airing Scott The Woz episodes, they fucking disappeared, which actually left a lot of people without jobs. At least from what I can remember. Rest in peace old Scott The Woz intro/outro music that got canned because of copyright, at least the new one slaps.
So I watch criminal minds and in its defense it plays with formats between kidnapping and murder (I’m not going to list more) and some episodes are focused on finding the culprit, some focus on the team and culprit equally, and some are like a high steaks interview with them. They do a good job of fleshing out characters and make them feel real.
I love criminal minds! I’m currently rewatching it lol
high steaks
@@mintee119 chicken fried
@@mintee119 that must be why it's so fleshy, I mean fleshed out.
im on season 5 and i cant stop watching
“The way a movie should be watched... in 720p, censored, and constantly interrupted by advertisements.” (Cuts to ad). Nicely done, Drew.
Exactly! XD
Lol same
Comedic timing on point
i laughed when it cut to an ad and said "oh, i see what u did there"
glad i have no idea what you're talking about with my trusty ad block
Actually the masked singer isn't a rip off of American Idol.
It's a rip off of a korean show... called the masked singer.
And that's creativity at its peak right there.
Hi! Some edits:
1. I am aware that it’s licensed so not technically a “rip off”, however I think everyone who’s seen the original from Korea can agree that its a lot better than whatever the hell America did to it
2. Idk why people see “Korean” and immediately think kpop, but a lot of the people on the show aren’t idols at all! Also, let’s not bash an entire genre of music especially if you’re not really familiarized with it!
3. Please keep telling me about how this show is even worse in your country I love it haha
And they are recreating all of these in Europe... personally I think masked singer (in France at least) is extremely cringey, lots of silly talking and barely any singing, there's more and more ad breaks
they probably bought the rights for it
Licensing isn't ripping off tho
It's an adaptation basically
Same with the guess if they can sing show.
I like how in all the spectrum ads it says “no hidden fees” and it makes fun of T-Mobile and AT&T by making them always say “hello but our internet for hidden fees”
I asked a friend of my mom why they had cable. She answered she enjoyed having something random to throw on tv just to make some noise(she mostly watched the local version of HGTV, and her husband slept to sports channels). They advertise that package like it's absolute gold. They think it's super cheap and it's baffling to me.
"If you're white, there's HGTV" This killed me.
chicagoakland HGTV is everyone’s guilty pleasure
@@sydgrim honestly lol. im not white or americsn but i love me some house related shows
House Hunters hits different and I’m black, I watched an episode with my sisters and we made a story about the rancher dude who wanted +300 acres was a drug smuggler who hid the drugs in cows
@@sydgrim I hate it
Christian B you’re wrong (jk jk)
Just hearing “Spectrum” sent me into fight or flight mode. They are the only internet provider in my rural area and they know it. They charge insane amounts for WiFi and randomly send mystery charges to my card and overdraw my bank account, which then causes the bank to charge me massive overdraft fees. When I call to contest charges I’m on hold a few hours and get transferred an average of 4 times. No one ever knows what’s going on when you call. They deactivated my WiFi for no reason on accident and I spent 4 hours on the phone until 2am and got transferred 6 times and nobody could figure it out. When I finally got to the last person they figured out that the person three transfers ago put the issue into the computer wrong and listed it as an issue a tech would need to come to my house to fix. Unfortunately only she could fix it and their department closed while I was winding through the next few transfers. I had to call the next day and do the whole thing over again. They promised they wouldn’t charge me for this mistake. They charged me $150 dollars the next day and overdrew my bank account for the millionth time.
EDIT: THEY DID IT AGAIN TODAY. WHAT ARE YOU CHARGING ME FOR I HAVE DONE NOTHING AHHHHHH
i hate them so much. thankfully they aren’t the “only” one in my small area but they are one of the bigger ones. i bet they wont be around for much more, maybe not even 5 more years. people are fed up and i bet theyll get sued to hell n back
Just reading this gave me extreme levels of anxiety.
Yep they have a monopoly in my area.
Pretty sure most of this isn’t even legal? I’d file a lawsuit for these “mystery charges”.
Good lord, that is just insane! I feel so bad for you
the way he put an ad directly after he said “constantly interrupted by commercials” is genuinely so funny to me 9:37
No one talks about the little things, like how he put a mid roll right after he said “and constantly interrupted by commercials”
So many people in the comments are talking about that tho lol
I noticed that immediately lol
the "no one talks about" or "are we just gonna ignore" lines are always used to describe the thing literally everyone noticed and is talking about
That cracked me up lmao
Are we just going to ignore that shit smells bad?
i’ve never heard anybody talk about it, but Masked Singer is an unfunny rip-off of a korean singing/variety show, the english title being King of Mask Singer. one of the most noticeable differences is that in the korean ver, the singers are already known to be in the music industry; whereas in the american version, the contestants are people like ninja and in no way are able to be guessed, which is the entire premise of the show. also ryan reynolds was on an episode of the korean version for some reason lol
no seriously, when ninja was revealed my family and i were so confused because we had no idea who the hell he was lol. also it's only entertaining when its either 1) actually good singers and 2) celebrities that are actually mainstream. i just hope as seasons go by, that there's better celebrities on it. but this is definitely the only stupid show that i just mindlessly enjoy.
@@jennym7786 yes, that's my main problem with the U.S version. How the fuck am I suppose to guess who is singing when I hve NEVER heard any of these people sing before. In the Korean version since they're all idols I may hve heard their voice or ATLEAST heard of their name or group before.
Also you can tell it really shifted away from the music and more to the most unique/flashy outfit in this version. While I don’t think it’s bad to do such fun looks you can tell where they are placing the emphasis compared to the Korean version.
the deadpool marketing team is wild lmao
That was Deadpool
5:31 I didn’t even notice this, because I’m Canadian, but he played the Canadian national anthem with a picture of the USA flag. Comedy.
My parents still have cable (for some reason) and I try to watch it there and when I'm in hotels. It is SO PAINFUL trying to watch anything. It seems to be 5 minutes of show, then 5 minutes of ads. And it does that forever. And sometimes you'll get the same set of ads every time. It's so great...
"Masked Singer" and "I Can See Your Voice" are exact rip offs of Korean shows, except they're actually good and popular there 😭😭
Even Ryan Reynolds was on the original Masked Singer and it was great!
No one can top leetuek and the other hosts on I can see your voice lol
I was wondering which one came first : Korean or American?
@@endergirl876 the Korean "Masked Singer" and "I Can See Your Voice" have both been on for a good while now - both American series are spinoffs of the Korean shows (which in my opinion are much better and seemingly less fake - but to each their own)
@@Emma-wi8nz oooo nice thank you
They should make a singing competition where you can’t hear the sad backstory of the singer before making your decision
"Alright, the judges have selected kristin as the winner, let's here her story! did she survive cancer? bullied throughout school perhaps?
"I have a peanut allergy."
"Wait, that's it?"
"Also, I'm a convicted murderer."
"...We are so getting cancelled"
Fucking brilliant
Or they hear their backstory and have to decide whether they think they are good or suck at singing then they sing after the decision. So there could be possibilities like they have to go home even if they can sing or go to the next step in the competition even though they are terrible lol.
Let’s get a film studio
@@fanfaretloudest Idk if you meant to do this or not but you just perfectly described I Can See Your Voice lmao
Edit: ok upon rereading it I think you totally meant to do that, please disregard this comment 😭
The TV station law thing is BS too. I'm a law student and we just read that case on Free Speech. The cable companies argued that the government infringed their free speech by making them host broadcast stations for free. The government was concern that broadcast (which is free) would become inaccessible since advertisers were leaving broadcast channels. In the interest of providing free public interest channels, Congress forced cable to host the broadcast channels. They whined about it as taking up a channel spot that could have hosted a cable channel. So it doesn't actually cost them money, it just takes up one of their channels which now they can't use to make money.
"For $12.99 a month I can get Netflix a massive internet library with a billion movies and tv shows that *i can share with someone else and we can watch two things in different places at the same time* " Didn't age well
"King of Masked Singer" is a korean singing show competition that the US bought for "Masked singer". What was cool about the korean one is that it gave visibility to talented people who the public didn't know about (like kpop star Solji from EXID). The costumes aren't laughable (though they are decorative) and overall the U.S. spin off ruins the original
yes and ryan reynolds went on it and everyone was shook at such a huge american celeb being there instead of a korean celeb lol his voice is nice too
I was about to say something like "hey haven't I watched something similar to The Masked Singer on KTV" because my directv shows korean shows, and lo and behold I was right and now I hate America even more
i can see your voice is a korean show too
YES!!! i really hope this gets more likes
The Korean version of "I Can See Your Voice" is actually great. The problem with the concepts for these shows is when they get Americanized.
"and constantly interrupted by commercials"
me: **immediately gets ad**
me: *you comedic bastard.*
i was wondering if anyone else got an ad right then
I died 🤣🤣
ok I'm not the only one lol
he def did that on purpose lmfao
came straight to the comments
personally, im obsessed with criminal minds and ncis, any version, cause i like crime and stuff like that, now knowing that people think theres so many crime shows like that because its “propaganda for us to think the government is the good guys” is so funny to me
Well the part with Netflix having the most selection aged like milk
At this point, he should just teach us how to pay taxes
I'd fuck with it honestly
I would listen
anywhere I can pay drew to see this comment?
can he become my teacher plz is that possible
Profile picture? Beautiful.
I honestly cannot believe that the cable industry is still around. The only people that I know that still have cable are over the age of 50. It’s the biggest ripoff right next to overpriced internet.
My grandmother has cable because she doesn't understand streaming, my dad is her caretaker and got a smart TV and she tries to change the channel when we're streaming things. They took away her Turner Classic Movies channel from the basic package and she was so sad and confused 😭😭
My parents have cable, but only cuz they get it for free (my mom works for cox) but yeah she always say that if it wasn't free she wouldn't have gotten it.
Drew, you are my favorite of your generation. You have made me giggle out loud soooo much. Even though you don't know what a garlic press is, you do research on a lot of other stuff and entertain the sht outta me.
I'm loving drew just ranting about spectrum lol
NCIS is my grandfathers favorite show. Because it’s so formulaic, even with dementia he’s able to keep up with it.
LMFAOOO BEST COMMENT
NCIS is my sister's favorite show same case except she doesn't have dementia she's just weird
@@winnie8516 lol
Aww, this is weirdly wholesome.
my dad likes criminal minds because he always falls asleep in the middle of the episode and can still understand when I wake him up for the end
My dad won't get rid of cable because he likes that he knows it's 8pm when Judge Judy is over. It keeps him on schedule.
That's a pretty expensive clock
Has he heard of the concept of a clock?
Can you fucking hug him for me?
My dad is the same with Spanish telenovelas
Honestly, that’s wholesome af and reminds me of growing up in the 90s..I always new what time it was when the evening new turned into Jeopardy or when they did the powerball.
Having been working for a cable company, we lose money on TV services. It costs us more to provide TV to customers than we can recoup in advertising over 3 years. Typically the pricing is at cost and the only way to get any profit is to tag on the additional fees or get you to add internet. Then we cross our fingers and hope you don't call for a truck roll to your house since statistically you're likely to have a truck rolled to your house within the 2nd year of service (hence the 1 year contract rate)
FYI, I installed my own DirecTV dish way back in 2001 when you could hack the access cards and the FCC ruled that a landlord cannot prevent a tenant from installing a DBS dish on their property. There are some rules to it but basically if they say you can't have a dish, you can introduce them to a lawyer and the beautiful bureaucracy of the federal government. I printed out the regulation published by the FCC and my apartment complex stood down.
CZcams: “Hey watch this ad and everything is free.”
Cable: “Hey pay us $200 so you can watch 100 ads every 30 minutes while you watch ghost hunters, which totally isn’t fake. 😀👍”
I mean there's DVR
Buick Debaron if you pay extra
@@ganas11giants I mean, you gotta pay about the same amount extra to watch Hulu without being forced to watch the same 3 ads 5 times an hour 🤷♂️
Buick Debaron Hulu costs $200/month without ads?
@@blazaybla22 this is precisely why I'm super not a fan of Hulu. I only have it because Spotify gave me a free basic subscription l, so I'm not actually paying Hulu for the privilege of watching ads.
plus the masked singer and that other one with the voice weren’t even spin-offs of american shows, they were spin-offs of korean shows (edit: oops i meant i can see your voice not the voice)
Yeah exactly, i was looking for a comment like yours
The masked singer is pretty good imo
the korean versions are so much better too
Yess the Korean version is so entertaining. The American version just has no soul, plus the costumes are... Maybe too much lol
@@LeilaleilaZ I feel like they are too much in a bad way lol
18:16 Danny would have done this too. Good job Kurtis!
The "Broadcast TV Service Fee" baffles me so much because those are the channels you can get for free as long as you have a tv antenna (which can be purchased at Walmart for as cheap as $20). My family has never had cable, and we still get a decent amount of channels with just our antenna. THESE CHANNELS ARE FREE. How are cable providers charging customers for channels that they could get for free without cable? It makes absolutely zero sense.
“I can see your voice” and “masked singer” were both ripped straight from korea, who’s been doing them for years. The laziness is impeccable (edit: I’ve never gotten this many likes on anything ever, I’m glad to see y’all agree with me)
The voice is Dutch, while X-Factor, Got Talent and Idols are British. Almost none of these concepts are actually American.
RIP
@@fuzzybunnysbiteu they weren't contesting op's point, they were adding to it
나는 누구야 yea they were adding to that point
@@fuzzybunnysbiteu I said The Voice. That's another show. 😋
Fun fact: The masked singer is actually derived from the Korean show "The King of Mask Singer" that started in 2015, so yes us Americans either stole it to reuse, or what my mom says every time this happens is "the Korean version became so popular, it came to the US". Same thing with the Good Doctor and Samsung Widgets.
Same with I can see your voice
MBC title card is in the end Ken Jeong went to Korea to promote. I think it was mutual. No stealing, just an American version
@@Yana-qq7yc not really stealing they bought the rights to air it in the US as well (as did Germany too btw)
They license them. Not that the remakes are any good, but they do pay for most of them.
we get it, Korea good America bad
10:16 this didn’t age well😂
Another CZcamsr I follow ended up on American Idol and gave a breakdown of how totally fake it is. There was no audience when he filmed, all of that was added in post. The judges responses were edited. His performance was cut down only to the gimmick part, and all of the actual talent on show was cut out, as a mocking and laughing audience track was added in post. 90% sure this was all before COVID, too. That's just how they make these shows.
They edit everyone to make them look worse or better, and they invent the audience reactions in editing. The audiences are apparently filmed separately and just given cues to follow (or they just don't have audiences at auditions and just use a clip library from actual live events). So I daresay the level of fakery and pre/post scripting is about on par with every other damn "reality" show.
Fun fact: in Italy we also have the "priests and nuns" category. There's many of those show and they're often a mash-up with the police ones, since the priest/nun sometimes acts as a detective.
I'd watch the hell out of that, to be fair.
@@angelamaryquitecontrary4609 "Don Matteo" is the most famous one, check it out (I mean, pictures... because of course it's even been only in Italian I think). STARRING TERENCE HILL
@@caterinascannapieco5611 Thank you! I'm going to go for it. I can understand some Italian, because I'm fluent in French, and I studied Latin too. In fact learning Italian properly was at the top of my list of things to do during lockdown, along with losing weight, painting the sitting room, writing my novel... I can only laugh, wryly. But I will watch it! Grazie mille!
@@caterinascannapieco5611 oh i remember that! I used to watch it as a kid (dubbed)
GRANDE DUO DON MATTEO E BICICLETTA
The American Masked Singer is so weird. The Korean version usually has actual singers and you're supposed to guess which one it is by just the voice.
The American one weirdly just takes anyone in existence and puts a mask on them and forces them to sing seemingly at gunpoint.
Honestly what I liked about the Korean version was that it gave artists a platform and recognition. For example thanks to Jihyo going on the show she became trending on Naver and helped break the narrative that Twice was just a group of “bad singers”.
@@peachcherryblossom_8264 wait, Jihyo was in Masked Singer?
Renz Ryan Vapor yeah you can look it up. She went back in 2016 during Cheer Up promotions since people were ridiculing Twice for their vocals.
It’s not anyone. Celebrities choose to be on the show. And that’s what makes the US one fun. Celebrities like Wayne Brady who aren’t fully known for singing get recognized. It’s more open.
And they get to choose their characters. They sing, rap and dance.
As a young adult who has never had to pay for anything yet, but will have to soon, this is actually really helpful and entering at the same time
I agree with everything you said on those cop shows, but Criminal Minds and Law and Order: SVU is way more complex than the others imo. They do have some repeating themes in the episodes, but still way more interesting.
I still love the rest of those shows nevertheless tho lol. I’m still young, I’m 16, but I didn’t grow up with cable TV and they were the only things I was able to watch with the Antenna TV.
Chicago PD, although lines up with what he said sadly well, has some REALLY stand out episodes. Especially when it comes to political commentary without feeling like its too preachy. On the other hand there are some that does go too heavy handed sadly.
They can be entertaining at times, but like, 7/10 times it's just copaganda ngl
@@Nerdsfeed yes I agree.
@@rando843you’re right. But I was too young to really pay attention to any of that. I just liked the murder mystery. Especially in criminal minds.
There are some good things about Law and Order: SVU, but unfortunately they often take real victims' stories and dramatize them, sometimes to the point of invalidating/diminishing the real situation.
Fun fact: “The Masked Singer” is an American adaptation of the Korean show titled “The King of Mask Singer”. It’s super entertaining and I highly suggest checking it out.
yeah and i can see your voice is korean too! i have seen it once and it was actually fun
@@anwiwiat20s I Can See Your Voice is so entertaining omg. Even without understanding everything going on, it's great lol
Thank you Tittygod69,Very cool
most american shows are ripped off from asia
I love I can see your voice so much (in Korea) but I have never seen the American one. I assume it sucks
The whole genre of crime shows actually caused a mega problem for forensics. When shows like NCIS and Law and Order became super popular, people were being called up for Jury Duty and legitimately using what they had watched on TV as reasons for deciding whether or not someone was guilty. It's super interesting! Like, collecting DNA and examining it can be super long process but because the shows made it look like such a quick turn around, the juridical system had a mega problem with people demanding particular types of evidence...because they'd seen it on tv.
They literally call it the CSI effect
Lola yeah!! Wild
Is there a thing called the Grey's Anatomy effect? lol
Demi Robertson it’s crazy how TV has such an impact on cultural phenomena.
@@lovesick3317 i'm in the same boat dude. currently watching this video rather than do the fingerprint homework due tomorrow lol.
i want drew to make an updated version of this video now that streaming services are full of ads
The voice is actually a show from the Netherlands called the voice of holland, the guy who made it even won an Emmy for it. But a few years ago, it came out that there was a lot of sexual harassment happening on set, one coach was a r@pist, an other coach on the ‘voice kids’ was accused of p€dophilia (they’re still investegating)
So even tho that show is of Dutch origin, I don’t think it will air here again
When my mom tried to cancel the cable, the lady on the phone was trying to get her to keep it by giving her discounts for a month or other stupid options. It was quite pathetic
She should’ve probably still said no because anything would still be cheaper than cable but it’s way better
@@bazil4146 oh we quit the cable
:( i work as a customer service when ppl call and i can confirm that sometimes is very frustrating that ppl literally just wanna quit but we need to keep offering shit
Yeah that's her job......
My grandpa used to tell them he was switching services just so they’d lower his price. I don’t have cable.
I bought a tv antenna that that works pretty well for getting basic channels, that I use once a year to watch the thanksgiving day parade so I can talk about it with my Grandmom
ive never had cable. when i was like 15, we got it in the living room bc internet was cheaper if you got the package deal (for about a year at least), but i wasnt allowed in there while my dad was home bc hes a dick. i watched it occasionally while he was on work trips and it was so lackluster. its so hard to figure out, theres wayyyy too many channels (i wish you could remove them from the menu at least), there was never anything on *somehow*, and im convinced all the channels fkn sync their ads. the ad times have gotten so much longer too. i watch regular tv with an antenna when im at my moms bc the only internet companies where she lives are scams (above average prices for internet that takes 20 minutes to load a 5 minute video on a good day). we watch Laff, which is basically just that 70s show, how i met your mother, according to jim, and a couple other old reruns in between. we just have netflix and youtube premium, so when she comes to pick me up (which is like every 2 days lmao) we download a bunch of stuff on both. i have limited data so i use that for social media every now and again, but tbh its a nice break. so even without internet, cable still loses lmao. they can get decent cable, but no one around there really has it bc its easier to do it this way
man that's wholesome af, i miss my grandma :(
Heyy love your channel! Been watching for YEARS!
I’m genuinely about to invest
i grew up with those tv antennas that pick up free channels, pbs kids shows are pretty good :)
16:54 I live in an area with poor internet connection...it is 100% better to just get streaming services rather than cable.
Yes, sometimes it means no tv exactly when I want it. But our cable options are all predatory companies (and we're unable to put up the satellite dish for direct TV due to not having a backyard in the apartment complex.
Our wifi is at a set price every month, same with the streaming services. It really makes a difference. Not just in price, but in overall mental health knowing we're not struggling to keep up with all the cable mess.
It's so frustrating to me when shows like Masked Singer or Good Doctor get popular, because they are direct ripoffs of Korean shows
Well, technically it's not a ripoff it's a remake
Wait till you hear about The Office
I'm frustrated that The Good Doctor is seen as a good and respectful depection of autism.
@@electrogeek77 When I was diagnosed with autism (got diagnosed late in the game because of the bias against diagnosing females with autism, how fun), the doctor had asked me if I had heard of a show called The Good Doctor, and I said "All I've heard about it is that it portrays autistic people really badly." and she just kinda stumbled over that part and went on with telling me my diagnosis. I am so sorry, doctor, but that's all I had heard about the show! I didn't mean to make her feel so awkward!
no ripoffs, jus american spin-offs😭 american entertainment industry isn’t the first people to do this
“Constantly cut off by commercials- ARBY’S WE HAVE THE MEATS
Desi Door I got a trump ad 😂
I got "SIMON AND JOE BOTH TRADE IN STOCKS. SIMON USES E T O R O"
mine was the betmgm ad 😭
haha i got an add for detergent
:^ youtube premium has its perks-
TV is dead, but CZcams is a dystopian hellscape.
But at least it's free!
Cable is Doom 1 and CZcams is Doom Eternal
Yea I only watch ty at this point except a few shows
@@shydh3106 did you mean yt?
incorrect use of but
I grew up watching those crime shows, I’ve learned to love them. NCIS has a special place in my heart
9:36 literally the second he said this there was an ad. Nothing has changed, time drives us in a flat circle
Why did I pay a $50 installation fee to xfinity when all they did was leave a bag with the motem at my door.. the bag was reusable tho so worth it I guess
Hey hey hey, who said you could reuse that? I work for xfinity and I'm gonna have to let them know you didn't send that bag back in, expect an additional fee this month and a non negotiable $150 professional consultant charge for me writing this comment.
@@copiagueeagle i applaude you, everyday people are becoming too selfish
we need to punish these criminal scumbags
I hate being That Guy, but it’s modem. Short for MOdulator/DEModulator. It’s dumb.
Got that same reusable bag for picking up the self-install kit from the store lmao.
In my area, they charged me $100. I own my own modem and router. They did not do a single thing to “activate” my service other than turning it on lol.
The worst thing about commercials is that they don't even update them. Like commercials from 5-3 years ago are still playing on cable. I bet there's a dead company that still has it's commercials playing.
The best thing about having a DVR is that you can skip the commercials.
When I was watching some house flipping show with my parents by the 3rd commercial break I realized that we were just being shown the same ads over and over again, in different orders each break. It was ridiculous
There’s a RV place in my town that’s been playing the same commercial they made in the 90’s til this day... mullet and stache with saxophone music and all
@@nyancatsnads There's like 4 stoplights in your town max huh?
@@emiwarble is it any different from youtube ads
i know how late this is, but spectrum is literally so evil. also i apologize for how long this will be. my dad is an older man, lives in the middle of nowhere, and isn’t super up to times in terms of new tech. he pays $313 A MONTH for a house phone, internet, and cable. spectrum’s internet doesn’t work in the middle of nowhere, when we asked them to give us literally any connection, they said there was nothing better for our area (none of our devices will even connect to the wi-fi) but they STILL charge us monthly for the internet that doesn’t even exist at our house. my dads a farmer, so he’s not exactly bringing in the big bucks, it’s so evil that he’s being taken advantage of like that. i don’t even know how to go about getting money back/cancelling the package for something else because i don’t live anywhere near him/know the info. this is your psa to avoid spectrum at all costs!
I'm British, so this is all very strange. In the UK there's Freeview, which gets you access to a basic set of TV channels with ads for free. There's also several streaming services connected to TV channels that allow free access to their library with adverts, or you can pay to watch without adverts, like CZcams.
Drew talking about watching movies on cable: “Constantly being interrupted by commercials.” *ad interrupts video*
very funny drew
Same lol
Exactly
YT Vanced
Ariel Rose very funny drew. I laughed
Peak television is not knowing if "Rugrats, MD" is a joke or not
a very good boi I mean there have been talks about a Rugrats reboot
My thoughts exactly haha - I was like did drew make that up
Lol imagining Tommy Pickles in scrubs and a diaper throwing his ball against the office wall like House.
"HOW WILL I FIX THE HURTY MAN?"
I definitely searched for it
Drew, I went through this and so much more. A absolutely nightmare. I was screwed 2x by different providers over 2 years later saying I never sent equipment back. They sent me to collections but I still refused. I fought for about a year and won only because I flying found receipts of when I turned in equipment. All I got was sorry for the confusion. I demanded compensation and got none until I filed with bbb. Then they called me and gave me everything I was dry due. Comcast is known for this. And I learned Verizon too. My advice, save all docs. It saved me about 709
I've seen all of drew's videos at least 3 times at this point but I’m still rewatching them
He forgot to mention that when you're laying on your couch in a vegetative state at 3am, cable starts playing 30 minute advertisements for an adult toy website *twice in a row*
That's pretty messed up considering the majority of the people who watch cable are either really young or really old, so I don't think Tiny Timmy or Grandma Gertrude wanna see that shit lmao
@@cashwin45 You're underestimated Grandma Gertrude's insatiable lust that hasn't been fulfilled since Poppop passed.
@@comicconcarne Lmao 2 things, one nice pfp, I love Zelda, 2, I just realized I said they're really young twice lmao.
As a kid, the ‘Magic Bullet’ 30 minute display at 3am was my favorite 😂
The ratings for that program went way down when they put it in the middle of the night. It's just like what those bastards did to Firefly!
The first part is even funnier when you realize that both the Masked Singer and I Can See Your Voice are directly taken from Korean shows of the same name and concept that have been on for years. Seriously, they literally changed nothing, not even the titles.
This is how TV works. Someone creates a show and channels worldwide buy the license. They are not even allowed to change the concept much.
And the thing is, the originals are actually good shows!! Because they invite actual singers to be the performers and you have to guess their identity based on their singing and you get to actually objectively judge their abilities because you don't know their identity or if they're some superstar or an idol or whatever and that's pretty cool!!
@@srishtis6209 yea that’s what the american one does too
@@srishtis6209 meanwhile the american version invites youtubers…
This is the case with The Good Doctor as well.
9:36 alright I DID laugh when an ad started playing
Wow I never realised how good we have it in the UK with freeview and the BBC
And the US has free channels, the selection of which is getting smaller and smaller since their peak in popularity. You can still buy antennae with different channels available in different areas
Next, a singing show where you can't see or hear the singer, but you can smell the sweat of the spectators and have to judge them based on pheremone production.
honestly i’d watch it...
we love crappy television
When I read pheromone, I immediately thought:
_Over, and over_
_The pheromones_
_The overwhelming harmony_
_Consuming the colony,_
_The circle rules your life_
Next, a singing show where you can't see hear to smell the contestants but you can lick them and you have to guess based on the audiences reactions
I love HGTV because every home design is so different and creative! The other day they removed the living room wall to create an open floor plan and added an island to the kitchen, how did they even come up with that?! Genius!
this has to be satire
Omg
This has to be sarcasm 😂
@@EddyGraphic no shit
You had us in the first half not gonna lie...
My parents and I love crime tv shows, but I personally prefer the vintage ones, Columbo, Diagnosis Murder, Hart to Hart, and so on. But my dad especially loves watching those crime tv shows, from then and now, all of them 😂 I think I recognised every single one Drew mentioned when he gave the examples, cos my dad watched them. We live in Austria, so we also get German and Austrian crime shows and films. And my dad also likes watching the British and French crime tv shows/ flicks; and also that one Canadian one "Hudson & Rex" which is an adaptation of our famous Austrian crime tv show "Kommissar Rex" from the 1994-2004, which my dad also watched, obviously lmao. My dad would watch any crime tv show (or film) from any country, it only has to be broadcasted on tv lol; cos my parents and I don't use streaming platforms like Netflix. I do use streaming portals sometimes, but rarely, most of the time the free ones, or everyday just CZcams lol.
I’ve watched this video a bunch of times and more and more I realize just how well written it is. He does a great job structuring an argument, getting you invested in his message, while also being really really funny and entertaining.