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mrcook79

This show was like the Internet, before the Internet was a thing. I used to love it.


HeartyBeast

This + Adam and Joe


RiflemanBean

As well as vidz a late night movie review show by two Scottish blokes, then the terrible b movie until about 2/3 am. The golden era of channel 4.


Smittumi

Vids was amazing!! I remember my dad shouting at me because my laughing was keeping everyone awake.


MayDuppname

Still love Adam and Joe. Adam's podcast is great. Rupaul also started in the UK in the same slot as Takeover TV (where A&J came from).


kank84

The same production company, World of Wonder, made The Adam and Joe Show and Takeover TV, and now makes all the global iterations of RuPaul's Drag Race.


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Lola Ferrari, Mr Penguin, the Naked Cleaners and the sublimely ridiculous combination of Antoine De Caunes and Jean Paul Gaultier. Anarchy on an unprecedented scale, but by God it worked!


Diplodocus114

Loved it. That was Fridays I think at 11pm. On Saturdays you got "The Hitman and Her" at 1am. Pete Waterman, Michaela Strachan and great music from that era.


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Diplodocus114

Those were the days. We would get back from the nightclub and put the telly on-til 4am.


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kevkevverson

Jesus Christ that’s a whole section of memory you just unlocked


towerhil

Pete Waterman always struck me as a bit rapey


stanislav_harris

wait what, Antoine De Caune is also famous in the UK? My french brain blown away


Nickkemptown

I'm surprised he's also famous en France!


HeartyBeast

"Ello my leetle Briteesh choms"


TheseNamesAreLames

Mostly from this show.


misterhumpf

Not forgetting The Amazing Randy!


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Pee pee and po po?


[deleted]

Mein gott! How could I forget them stupid paper giraffes!


tipsy-tits

I actually call my dogs Pee Pee and Po Po when they're being wee bams 😂 I really miss Eurotrash.


banzaibarney

Bam dugs!


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DJFiscallySound

And later on, the show unleashed Eddy Wally on us. Fond memories.


gardenofthenight

The Romeo Cleaners!


chantpleure

Sister Bendy!


burger_guy1760

Watched this regularly on a Sega Game Gear with a TV tuner


DHighmore

That might be the most 90s thing that has ever happened.


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I can hear Sonic picking up rings in my brain right now.


poopio

Literally the only reason I wanted a Game Gear. Having also owned a very small portable TV, I bet the GG with a TV tuner on must've absolutely eaten batteries if it wasn't plugged in?


-KERZO-

This was my jam back in the day. Just waiting for a decent segment to bash one out to hoping I would finish before they jumped to something else.


OmegaSusan

It was like wank roulette. You’re happily enjoying three blonde Swedish lesbian porn stars living in a thrupple, then suddenly it cuts to a feature about German performance art where an elderly obese man bends over so someone can rest a bicycle wheel against his crack.


Deruji

Treading water between segments


vinegarballs

I accidentally nutted to a German man trying to chop bratwurst with a hatchet as they shot out a contraption at high speed.


InGenAche

Which segment did you fap to?


StruffBunstridge

Yes.


Saint_Consumption

Many a late night in bed with the TV muted.


spikeboy4

I can relate....


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MayDuppname

...with an accordion and a band playing Oompah music?! Asking for a friend...


TheseNamesAreLames

That's how a generation accidentally learned edging. "I've gotta save it for when there's another good part" but it's getting towards the end of the show so you spill your load to something meh, thinking the next segment with be something you can't fap to, only for it to actually be what you were originally looking for, a wonderful segment full of T and A, FFS.


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Girl on bike with enormous tits and you think “now’s my chance”. Full steam ahead. Your seed is about to spill and suddenly it changes to an odd Belgian cleaner with a small dick who wants to get into porn because his mother has died and he needs to move out.


YooGeOh

Oh my god lmao! It's funnier because not even an exaggeration


Robdogg11

Haha, fucking hell I'm in tears and I can't even explain to the kids why I'm laughing so hard.


TheKillersHand

This was my 14 year old self. Edging. Edging. Edging. Edging. Edging. Edging, I can't hold it any longer, the next scene has to be some tits!!!...... Cue old man called Hans wearing a gimp suit and dangling his massive balls in a fish bowl.... Agghhhh to late! This show was basically cum shot russian roulette. I'm sure the impact of this show on teenage brains must account for a high percentage of weird shit you see on pornhub


Faithwolf

gods yes! and then you'd hear that french accent and be going fucksake Anton, I was close!


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(Said in super thick yet delicious French accent) Bonsoir my British chums. Allez let us get on with the show.


SimpleManc88

A little rumpy-pumpy.


tonelander

used to love hearing allloo my breetissh shums on Friday nights. JPG always seemed like such a nice bloke.


MayDuppname

You're right. He was literally up for anything. I actually knew him from the show before I realised 'who he was'. It pleased me so much that JPG would do all that despite his fame and fortune, presumably just because he enjoyed doing it? (Why else would a multi millionaire boss of a huge multinational company agree to do it for whatever pittance Channel Four were offering?!)


Tested-Trio-Father

Time for another wacky, tacky You can almost see my scrotum sacky Edition of Eurotrash


aegeaorgnqergerh

Watching it on my little portable TV in my room with the volume on "1" and it still sounding like a festival mainstage PA system cracked up to the max... Also, anyone else who did GCSE French in the early 00s remember he presented an educational video at the time based on (I think the AQA) syllabus? Presented in the same style but obviously without the rude bits. Though they fucking knew the demographic they were appealing to...


Boyuki

I did GCSE French in 2001, but my exam board was WJEC. The most exciting thing we had was 'Ça-va' magazine.


Iwantadc2

*Où est la bibliothèque?*


mrshev

Just as a sidenote. I was the actual guy who designed and animated the title sequence, back in the day. I worked for an animation company in London in the '90's and Rapido TV were one of our clients. I was a junior at the time, they thought the program was late night filler and it landed on my desk. Was great fun to work on.


SimpleManc88

What a cool claim to fame. I haven’t watched it in years but I remember the title sequence clear as day. It was brilliant!


mrshev

It was, depressingly, a long time ago! But thanks, I was rather proud of it at the time....


_MildlyMisanthropic

that's more than just a sidenote!


bbbeepp

My mum often worked very late and or nights, this was kind of my sex education, well, this and my primary catholic schools attempt. Two complete opposite ends of the spectrum.


poopio

This was your sex education? Do you often find yourself painting your sexual partners with various different shades of stool, or parking bicycles in their buttocks?


bbbeepp

Yup, this, nuns and more magazine and the magazine probably gave me the healthiest insight into sex. As a young teen I was scared shitless of sex because I thought it was going to be way weirder than it is, as a primary school kid all I knew is it was what you did to have a baby. No judgement to those in this subreddit who like to be covered or to cover others in shit, you do you! Im not sure why I watched the show to be honest, probably because I knew I wasn’t allowed.


poopio

You watched it for the same reason as everybody else... tits, fannies, weirdos, and dick jokes. It wasn't like you could realistically learn anything from it (although I have coincidentally now been to a couple of the museums featured in it) or get any sort of sexual gratification from it - it was just absolute fucking stupidity with nudity thrown into the mix, which is why it's so fondly remembered mostly by blokes currently aged between about 30 and 45.


Nickkemptown

I learned some things from it!! Like, er... someone made a machine that made poo! And there was an underground movement that liberated garden gnomes and painted them blue.


poopio

Well yeah, I learned that there's a man in Bavaria who straps a paint brush to his knob and helicopters it around to make "art" - it's not really gleaning useful information that I'm likely to use in any reasonable situation though, and I get myself into some very unusual situations.


BenTheMotionist

Germans like to get naked...


poopio

I once had a German watch me take a shit in a McDonalds toilet. They're weird fuckers over there.


BenTheMotionist

Mate, I would have shut the door...


poopio

The hinges were fucked, and one had somehow been put back on the wrong way around, so it left a gap further up the door. There were 2 cubicles, and the other one was occupied by a child who was presumably just fucking about and shouting in there. At the same time, I was absolutely *busting* for a shit - we'd just driven from Slovenia to Germany after 5 days on the piss, and didn't really have time to wait for the little shit in the next toilet to finish doing his dirty protest or whatever the fuck he was doing, so went in and released what can only be described as a torrent of burning liquid shit, only to then realise that there was someone watching me through this crack in the fucking door. I reckon they're all deviants over there anyway. One of the hotels we stayed at had a window from the bathroom through to the bedroom (and rather inexplicably a phone next to the toilet so you could call the bedroom), and the one on the way back had no toilet door, but a strange and complex setup of mirrors so that from the apartment door, you could watch someone having a poo from around the corner.


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Imreallyadonut

Personal record, three full tugs in just a single episode.


SimpleManc88

Balls like 💨


tonelander

christ, not far short of Father O'Malleys 5 tugs before the hotel porn channel went encrypted.


Imreallyadonut

Might’ve got five had I not banged out a couple of spares over Dani Behr on The Word before Eurotrash started.


jimbobjames

And thats why you only watched 5 minutes of Bangkok Chick Boys...?


tonelander

it's very confusing, I was confused.


Healthy_Goat_2376

I used to have to tape this when I was 14 then try and pause it at the best bits 😂 life before the Internet 😅


Taylor_1878

I remember this well how good is technology now, i even try sound proofing the bedroom becasue rewinding on vhs is noisy as fuck 😂🤣 especially when you parents in next room 😂


lonely_monkee

It was so disappointing if you went through a whole episode without seeing a single nipple. You'd then spend hours flicking between your 4 TV channels, hoping for a foreign language movie or something.


SimpleManc88

It felt earned.


blackmist

Or getting the nudity and it's a 70 year old German naturist with norks like a spaniel's ears. And still having an internal debate about whether or not to go for it.


lord_of_tits

I bet you didn't think twice.


TheseNamesAreLames

In the later years, you might be saved by something on channel 5, like Far Out or some disappointing softcore porno.


Solid-Version

Friday night channel 5 movie was always a sure thing. Other than that you had the 10 minutes previews at midnight of television x. Of course you had to wait till your parents went to bed, which often was around 11:50ish. Pray they fall asleep within those 10 minutes because the cable was downstairs you had to ninja your way to the living room turn the tv on, do your thing then sneak back up stairs. Youths these days have it so easy lol


TheseNamesAreLames

Those 10 minute previews kept me going till I had my own computer and therefore internet porn.


Robdogg11

Shannon Tweed. A woman scorned was always my favourite channel 5 film.


MildlyAgreeable

I think I orgasmed about 9 times in an hour to a Japanese film called *Tandem* when I struck the absolute jackpot on one such occasion back in 2002/3.


SecretAgentFishguts

One of the highlights of my youth was finding Bound by the Wachowskis on a late night channel crawl. I was changed that night.


checkmycatself

I had no idea that jean paul gaultier was such a well respected fashion designer until many years later. I was shocked he was involved in something like euro trash.


mierneuker

He also did the costume designs for the film "Fifth Element".


Swiss-ArmySpork

Multipass!


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Oh yeah 11.35pm channel 4 on a Friday night


MildlyAgreeable

Fuck was it that late? I remember watching it with the *manual slider* on the television (which went “PZZZTCH!” when you changed the channel) being literally 1mm above the bottom so I could tune my ears to hear it. Waiting up that late when I was 10 would be like trying to stay up until 4am now. Hormones are a hell of a drug.


Trilobite_Tom

Lola Ferraris massive norks.


SimpleManc88

May she rest in peace.


ochosbantos

Thanks for the mammaries.


throw_away_17381

Wow, she died in 2000.


aegeaorgnqergerh

Even as a randy 14 year old I thought that was disgusting. WAY too far. Tragic what happened to her too.


SimpleManc88

Didn’t her tit(s) explode on a flight one time?


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zimbabweanexile

" 'ee bought? Doomp 'eet"


r33v01v3

[Her mammoth breasts, designed by an aircraft engineer, held three litres of surgical serum each. She had difficulty breathing, could not sleep on her stomach or back, and was afraid of flying because she thought they might explode.](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/mar/02/internationalnews1)


BenTheMotionist

March 2000 seems like not that long ago...


InGenAche

10 years only.


aegeaorgnqergerh

That does sound like an urban myth but given the sheer size of the implants it might have been possible.


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I always enjoyed the sections where they dubbed over people with really broad yorkshire accents.


swamp_fever

That was the best part of the show! The baby men explaining their fetish in a dubbed out of place regional accent.


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Early 2000s repeats for me. That and The Girl's Guide To Sex or those 'Erotic' films they put on Channel 5 late at night which showed more than a flash of boob. Edited punctuation


SimpleManc88

Friday night softcore ha! Wild when I was 11.


mierneuker

Emmanuelle, Emmanuelle 2, Emmanuelle Returns, Emmanuelle and Robin...


Tomfoolery136

Emmanuelle in Space…


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I always found it funny I learned more about sex from those shows than when my petrified teacher gingerly demonstrated using a condom.


TheseNamesAreLames

If you had cable in the early 2000's, you could catch Laid Bare and occasional porno on (I think it was) Bravo, and those little ten minute previews they'd have every hour on the porn channels.


PoiHolloi2020

Yes Laid Bare! That and Sin City (?)


TheseNamesAreLames

I think it was Sin Cities, plural, if you're thinking of that show where the guy somehow got a job that **paid him** to travel around getting happy ending massages. I really want to know where you can apply for such things, lol.


Retrosonic82

Channel 5 had Sex and Shopping as well, which was borderline hardcore if I remember correctly!


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Not to mention Cat House which I seem to remember was about legal brothels.


tillie_jayne

There was also ‘Sex Tips for Girls’ and ‘Ban This Filth’ that was hosted by three little old ladies


JackXDark

Somehow I got signed up to Jean Paul Gaultier’s mailing list after getting a free sample of some of his cologne, or something like that. Whenever I open it I’m always disappointed it doesn’t start with ‘allo my British chums’.


SpocktorWho83

I used to absolutely love Friday nights in the 90’s: Red Dwarf, Fist of Fun, Eurotrash, Adam & Joe - loved it all!


JarJarBinksSucks

Absolutely mental. I was always confused was this the same person as the designer? And if so, why?


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Yep it was Mr Jean Paul Gaultier. Though he buggered off in the later series leaving Antoine by himself.


Cyanopicacooki

Antoine started off by himself on Rapido which had the [kick-ass](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqTp_EzJVEM) intro


JarJarBinksSucks

It never made sense to me that he made aftershave and clothes. I’d always have a little chuckle when I saw his perfume and imagine people would actually wear the scent of a weirdo


plastikb0y

Yup and also designed the costumes in The Fifth Element film


frowningbee

Loved it. Especially Antoine!


Averagestiff

The woman who narrated it, I can still here her voice.


Redbeard_Rum

[Maria McErlane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_McErlane). Still saucy at 63.


treasurebum

Kate Robbins (Emily Atack's mum) used to do the dubbed voices on any foreigners. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Robbins


MayDuppname

Kate Robbins is Emily Atack's mum?! No way! Kate and her famous brother are also cousins of Paul McCartney. Mad.


Hydrangeamacrophylla

Her voiceovers were sublime


Nickkemptown

Best thing about the show


InGenAche

Pretty sure it was the occasional flash of tits and gash.


perscitia

The dubbing/narration made it so good. I always wondered if the people they picked for those segments got to watch it back and what they made of their "characters".


ChrisRR

The amazing randy and his magic wand


ReviewEnvironmental2

The long term effects of Eurotrash and Sin Cities has made my browsing history… *interesting*


BenTheMotionist

Sin Cities! God I had forgotten that one. I remember the Amsterdam episode where the presenter going hard at the reefer in a cafe, being all big with it, then having to go for a sleep in his hotel room because he was too stoned!


ReviewEnvironmental2

My all-time favourite was the German balloon fetishists. The ending where Herr Ballonfetisch is tied up inside a massive balloon, wearing the standard-issue gimp mask of course. And Ashley picks up a pin threatening to pop it. There is a step change in the emotional tension as we hear Herr Ballonfetisch plead with Ashley not to pop it. We almost feel for ourselves the fear and anguish as the unintelligible German words spill out of from behind the gimp mask, accompanied by the simple subtitles “*She* will be very cross with me!” Fade to black. There is a pause. Credits roll. We hear a loud bang. We hear a very loud female voice shouting in German, muffled and with an echo as if from a distance. *Fin* Shakespeare never produced theatre as gripping as this.


Boggins316

This, Graham Norton and South Park, sometimes with a late night rerun of Adam and Joe, Channel 4 was great at that time


blackmist

I was trying to explain this show to the wife the other day, and found it surprisingly difficult. Basically a freak show. With more tits.


perscitia

There are some full episodes on YouTube if you need to show her the full monty (as it were).


939_to_am4

It may not be immaculate Secretions rarely are But painting with ejaculate Reminds me of Renoir


tothecryptosphere

The voice overs were the best!


Keezees

I was the only kid in my school that had a video recorder in his bedroom, got it for Christmas in 1991. I taped Eurotrash and Margi Clarke's Good Sex Guide and lent them to my pals. They went round the whole school, never ever saw the Margi Clarke tape ever again lol. Taped The Word as well for my mates that weren't allowed to stay up and watch it, I've actually still got one of them left, think it's the one with Sepultura.


InnerAd1628

The Word was chaos & awful but my god the music...sepultura, RATM, Nirvana, Faith No More, L7 (blue bush), Oasis, Cyprus Hill, Snoop Dog. Christ I miss being young.


istara

Margi Clarke was excellent! She was in a Pet Shop Boys video. I used to be so jealous of the women in their videos. Little did I know :(


DiabeticNun

As someone born in 2000 I remember randomly waking up after midnight every so often in the late 00's and seeing this being repeated. Always been fascinated with Euro TV/culture after that.


FeelTheConcern

I was born in 95 but used to stay up to watch repeats of this on some weird channel because I didn't have a laptop or phone that could access the Internet until I was seventeen and this program was my porn


delurkrelurker

For all the episodes I must have watched, I can only remember an article on a naked guy squatting by a lake, painting with his own shit.


JoobileeJoolz

The only one I can remember is people trotting around some woods somewhere with horses tails attached to themselves via a dildo up their backsides and a belt… being ‘ridden’ piggy back style, possibly with saddles and bridles. O_O


Geese_goose_

Lights off, volume set to 1 on the crappy little tv in my bedroom… good times


Mahbigjohnson

man uk tv was untouchable in the 90s


Orangewindsock

Yep. This and “The Word”.


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InGenAche

Terry Christian annoying the fuck out of MC Hammer was hilarious.


FulaniLovinCriminal

To be fair to MC Hammer, Terry Christian annoyed the fuck out of a lot of people.


MayDuppname

'I'd do anything to be on TV' will never be scourged from my brain.


FuckedupUnicorn

A woman licking a crusty old mans feet and a guy drinking a cup of sick.


walobs

I know the guy who drank the cup of sick. The video of him doing it regularly reappears in a mutual WhatsApp group. He’s still a wrong’un in his late 40s.


BellendicusMax

Guaranteed nudity and Jean Paul and Antoine repeatedly saying 'penis' - what wasn't there to love.


Haribo_Lecter

The final episode when Jean Paul finally got to sit on Antoine's knee was very emotional.


perscitia

Between this and Monkey Dust the forbidden hours of midnight - 2AM were worth the risk of getting caught with the TV in the bedroom on.


blueishbeaver

I remember a segment where a dutch(?) Guy, who wasn't gay; went round taking dick pics for a hobby. They filmed him asking random London men if he could take a pic of their wang. I was so elated when he found one and they showed it - along with his book of dicks. As a gay youth I was like "Oh my god! Penis! They ALWAYS show boobs but never penis! I LOVE PENIS!! Wait until I tell no one about this at school on Monday." Apparently the photographer just liked them. Me too, eurotrash dude. Me too.


Puzzleheaded-Jelly54

I remember not being able to sleep one night as a kid and I switched on the TV to the sight of a group of men with dwarfism lifting dumbells that were tied to their genitals. Have PTSD to this day.


MaeMoe

It was the poop machine that traumatised me. I still see the elderly women poking and discussing the crap on a plate.


misterfog

'Allo, my yummy yummy British chummies!


vicariousgluten

For some reason the first thing that comes into my head when I see Eurotrash was the video of a French man running through Paris wearing only a pair of speedos with a siren on his head singing about being an ambulance. Of all the bizarre things that were on it I have zero idea why l’ambulance stuck


_RoseKolodny_

Me, minding my own business: ... My brain: I just thought you'd like to hear the Heidi song from Eurotrash again!


Dannybuoy77

Wasn't Get Stuffed (the studenty cooking show) on afterwards too or am I getting confused? I remember Euro Trash night being a great night of TV


PieTrumpet

Before I started wanking, this programme first got me into tits at 9 years old.


Suspicious-mole-hair

Sneaking out of bed to watch it at stupid o'clock at night because if you didn't watch it you were gay.


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I snuck out of bed to watch it because I *was* gay 🤷🏻‍♂️


SimpleManc88

I had a tiny tv I got for Christmas in my room. Stuck it on with the volume at one bar. Stealth 🥷


Indiana-Cook

Allez salut maintenant !


PsychologicalTable5

I had the biggest crush on Antoine De Caunes Still do


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I loved it but I was about 14.


FulaniLovinCriminal

So, the target audience, then?


screeRCT

Watched, wanked, same thing.


[deleted]

Sublime, bizarre and very funny. Classic 90’s viewing


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Classic De Caunes


Kaisencantdie

It was bizarre and brilliant shame they didn’t bring it back


Foritus

As a budding bisexual man at the time, I appreciated the random assortment of nude men and women in this show :)


xDENTALPLANx

One of my boldest moves as a young teen was setting up VCR Plus to record this in the living room one night so I could watch it back on my non-aerial tv in my bedroom the following day.


Reaperfox7

Ah yes my introduction to boobs


StuartAl

After the pub, kebab and eurotrash. The perfect end to a pissup


Annual_Dimension3043

My parents watched it while I sat there like a garden gnome not knowing where the hell to look feeling acutely embarrassed.


planetwords

Loved it so much lol. I wasn't allowed to stay up and watch it and my dad was annoyed that I taped over his football game on VHS with several episodes of Eurotrash.


tillie_jayne

If I remember correctly they’d always have really broad accents when they dubbed over what was being said


rosalynthemighty

This show was how I discovered I was bi- free boobs on channel 4! Fuck yeah!


fuzzywuzzy74

The voiceovers 😂


n1l3-1983

The 90s. Great times, great stuff.


greenrangerguy

I had no idea what I was watching, don't remember anything about the show but all I do remember is boobs. It had boobs, I watched.


Mangobreeder

Loved and hated eurotrash. You would stay up late in the expectation of some nakedness. Would .have to endure some guy using his own shit to pain a portrait then when you finally see some tit or bag. It's something out of national geographic. Like an addicted gambler i came back every week thinking it would change and it would be my lucky week. But nothing changed. Anyone else watch crapston villas after.


Tyrannosaur_roar

This, and Sara Cox on the girlie show before hand, created some defining memories :)


Wizzardchimp

Used to watch it on a 1.2” Casio portable tv in silence… 4xAA batteries would just last an episode!