Whats the most legendary and classic YouTube video in your country?
September 29, 2024
So in Poland we have a few ones, but if I had to choose one, I would choose a video titled ”Paweł Jumper" on the video you can see an attempt to jump from 1.5 meters on a bike. Unfortunately the stuntman falls from the bike (its fucking funny tho)
What makes it so funny is that you encounter quite a lot of these kinds of people, and seeing one of them scream their way into a corner feels like poetic justice.
First one that popped into my mind is the legendary [Unreal Tournament Kid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKSj0Z0spqo). I think that got some international infamy as well.
Easily [Pik Træet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYSu9D-LSiU) [lit. “the cock tree”]. It’s a nonsense Harry Potter parody, but it went viral in the early days of YouTube because of it’s memorable lines, such as *”did you know I’m the only one who knows the dove-out-of-the-ass-trick?”,* and thus has 2.7 million views, which roughly corresponds to almost half of the total Danish population.
Some flooded street, half-naked guy escaping a beaver, someone fishing and smoking nearby, everything spiced up with a primitive disco polo tune. Pure gold, resembling alternative cinema.
Probably Linas Hermanas ranting about how his delivery driver didn’t have change for the €20 note and blaming Jews, NKVD and former Lithuanian president for it: https://youtu.be/HHVlfKFXQws
Serbia has had so many I genuinely wouldn’t know where to begin. Probably Bobo Smrade (Lotr parody), or Kita u Bila (Kill bill parody) or a guy who called a random peasant for years to troll him, or Živ je Karađorđe or a bunch of others
In Finland, I think this one with a man [swearing at a bear and threatening it with a broom](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7_pVrIshxA) is probably one of the most well known. To me the funny part is that he’s so upset with the bear, and that he’s talking to it like it’s a misbehaving person. I guess if you are alone in a cabin for too long you become a bit weird lol. I don’t know if it’s funny if you don’t understand the language…
[I recon it would be the pocahontas dub.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHiUvGYSHrg) It’s largely absurd, but features quite a lot of iconic lines and a hilarious version of Colors of the wind. It was briefely featured in the news at one point, due to concerns about kids watching dubs with «innapropriate language»- notably the word kukk (=cock/dick)
Our poor [Baptiste was invoking a demon in his room](https://youtu.be/rwQxfMLRTY8) and invoked his mother instead. It is worth noting little Baptiste is also high at the time of recording.
*”Baptiste what is wrong with you!? You’re not clear!”*
It’s a video of a young boy on his bicycle falling into a barely frozen creek lol. He keeps cursing and throwing a fit because he’s stuck, and his friend just keeps saying “ui juma” (it means something like “oh damn”) while filming the whole thing instead of helping him. It’s an old video but it gets referenced all the time.
Spain has so many, this guy made a [compilation](https://youtu.be/7JLQ0jiUkO4?si=d6IVctjzkdbnZbs2) here. My favorite of all time are still the ladies from the Roman Baptistery. “¿A quién no le va a gustar un imperio romano del siglo primero, a quien no le va a gustaaaar?” (Who wouldn’t like a 1st century Roman empire, who wouldn’t likeeee it?)
There are a few clips from _Man Bijt Hond_ from back in the day that have acquired a bit of a cult status. The TV programme mainly focuses on everyday trivial news and unknown people.
One of most notable Czech candidates is [The Wedding of Jiří Kára](https://youtu.be/0ro6yiJqKTU) (Svatba Jirky Káry in Czech), an authentic recording of a wedding ceremony of an alcoholic/junkie pair attended by their friends. The video gained sort of a cult status because of many bizzare catchphrases and the contrast of the formal ceremony versus spontaneity of drunken white trash wedding guests. Many of the participants are dead now because of their lifestyle – the wife was murdered later (the husband has alibi as he was on a drinking spree), one of the guests fell into a light well when trying to climb home while drunken etc. Aside of the ceremony being kind of funny, there is also the fact that the video represents a slice of life of a social class that was well outside of social circles of most people who were watching YouTube in the early 2000s. It has some documentary value that is hard to achieve in professional social documentaries, but was mostly shared because people considered it hilarious – sometimes with contempt, sometimes with a sort of respect reserved for people who just manage to be themselves and tameless even in a formal setting.
There’s a few
[Za božič je najraje doma](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Am-lxGyY8) – a young woman keeps saying that she will be celebrating christmas with her family at home. Then she says that maybe they won’t be celebrating because her parents are mostly working for christmas but everyone will be celebrating at home with family every night for christmas at midnight even if they’re at home… etc. Confused? Yes.
[St. Martins](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIPTvxsDpqY) a drunk man singing “Zdravje Martinu, meni pa vinu” – health to (st.) Martin, wine to me for, St. Martins day in Maribor.
[Albanian bakery](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuCD4FMsQGY) Journalist intervies an owner of an Albanian bakery in Šentjur and sees a mice in the flour storage room. She asks him if they cleaned the room, he says it’s clean (?), she says there’s still mice there and he says “I’m not a cat that would catch mice”.
[Požigalec](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQqVEjypglE) probably the most well known one about an arsonist. An eyewitness is describing catching an alleged arsonist and says he asked him now a very famous line “what do you need a bag for if you bought a bike?” and then they looked in the bag and saw gasoline and one of the guys said “you’re definitely the arsonist” and “he started heavily sweatingl”.
[Maturantke](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX1ZVFd_vs4) this is a video of high schoolers presenting their class at a graduation dance. This girls are from a school for hairstylists, so not too bright. They decided to present their classmates with rhymes and they’re not exactly good rhymes.
[The real Slovene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IjjT8NcpT4) Guy says he drank 24 L of alcohol, journalist asks him where he’s going and he says he doesn’t know because he doesn’t know where exactly he is.
[Hungry grandma](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVpy1K2wbXo) old lady complains about too many commercials on national TV. She says she’s watching a nice movie in the evening and then they throw in commercials about ground meat and drumsticks and she becomes hungry instead of going to bed.
[Bank robbery](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efs7DfX35AI) police is describing a bank robber while woman (?) in the back is wearing very similar clothes to what is being described.
ouch this is a long list
[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrGZR5LRxLk) is probably difficult to grasp if you don’t understand Finnish. Basically, the creator took a commentary track of legendary sports commentator Antero Mertaranta and put it on a video showing goaltending coach and former hockey goalie Pasi Nurminen arriving home “tipsy” after Finland had won the 2011 Hockey World Championship.
I’d say this song, but I have no idea if I’m aging myself horribly here 😂 parody of “big girl (you are beautiful)” but sung by two homeless guys about cheap canned beer.
[Svatba Jiřího Káry](https://youtu.be/0ro6yiJqKTU?si=9kkk1urD16j1k7FC) – a wedding video from 2001 celebrating the special day when two toothless neo Nazi junkies enter into “holy” matrimony. The groom and their friends openly do the Hitler salute (with the words) as well as say other outrageous and hilarious shit.
This one is truly legendary and many lines from the video are often used in daily life (not the nazi shit). I pity everyone who can’t speak Czech and therefore cannot enjoy this cinematic masterpiece. I might as well go and rewatch the whole 25 min thing again right now.
Note: both the videos I linked are reuploads, the originals are both 10+ years old.
There’s a few videos that are known as ___turken (the ___turk) which are videos that have someone speaking with a clear accent indicating they are of middle eastern origin but doing different things.
[fågelturken](https://youtu.be/zQ2Q5JGaghc?si=cW3kSx9hZR7Wepov) (the bird turk) is a video of a man trying to get a taxi driver to stop and take care of the bird that has gotten stuck in the car’s grill. The way he says for example “du har en fågel” (you have a bird) has become somewhat of a meme over the years.
[Snöturken](https://youtu.be/XG3WfCWU9D0?si=kXXpNTu-4TKeU0Ik) (the snow turk) is an interview on the street with a man who has REALLY dressed for the weather and who clearly doesn’t speak much Swedish but still does his best in the interview.
[laserturken](https://youtu.be/esVuKP7k974?si=riSKZUehn_N2byCU) (the lazer turk) which is an interview from a Norwegian TV station where they were doing a story on a serial killer who mainly targeted dark skinned people and who became known as Lasermannen (the lazer man) in Sweden. They went to one of the largest percentage immigrant areas of Malmö and talked to one man in a car who went into great detail of all the things he’d do to the serial killer if he could find him.
[körkortsturken](https://youtu.be/YO__alwymYQ?si=FS2bFxES6BNWiMp4) (the driver license turk) which comes from a Swedish TV show with a couple of well known Swedish presenters who have done all kinds of things through the years. In this case they were taking the driver’s license test themselves for the show iirc.
But outside the building they are supposed to start at they end up meeting a man who just took it. As they converse he says he just got his driver’s license so they ask him if he’s going to go out and drive for fun for the rest of the day and he says he has his car parked here and that he drove it to where he took the test. (Despite not having the drivers license before taking the test) Eventually the presenters ask him what he works with and he replies “driving cars”. The absurdity of the whole interaction is what has made it part of this series of videos.
Belgium here, one of my favourites is this one: [ West-Vlaamse boeren op Man Bijt Hond ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWD3GqLOTgk)- on educating Polish guest workers on exploding WW1 shells.
My favourite one is a pointless segment of a TV news show where they talk about different pets diets. So there is a woman explaining what she feeds her dog etc…, meanwhile an older lady carrying a bag approaches her and asks if the dog would eat a dead pigeon. The woman is surprised and just laughs it off. The one with the pigeon adds “well, it’s blood”. The woman with the dog then refuses the offer, the old lady gets offended and yells in a high-pitched voice “but it’s dead”. The way she says it, using “ma” which is a rude way to address a woman, is great.
A Romanian politician takes a fall on live TV. He was the mayor of Cluj at the time (2003), then he was PM for while and now he’s the mayor of Cluj again.
Mr. Dobkin, than Kharkiv’s major, makes official footage with a little help from his swearing team. “You have a boring face, nobody will give you money, Misha” – everybody knows these words now https://youtu.be/9N_GRbbfK9Y?si=ExC_tyXFCbq8iGga
I’m possibly talking for the whole balkan trinity (bosnia and herzegovina, serbia and croatia) and maybe beyond (montenegro) but for me it’s movie parodies. To be specific “Bobo smrade”, a lotr parody. I think that’s the most famous. The scene that is used is when Boromir is with Frodo in the woods and Boromir is talking about the ring, in the parody he’s talking about fucking him in the ass and Frodo is rejecting him becuse he wants to try something wilder and not just anal sex. “Bobo smrade” means “bobo” as a name and “smrade” is a derogatory word, literally means stinker but it actually means something like bastard.
I like “kita u bila”, a kill bill parody. A song the guy in kill bill is singing goes:”U mog strica 8 kobasica, 7 prži, 8. strina drži.” It means:” My uncle has 8 sausages, 7 are being pan fried, the eight is being held by the aunt.”
Oh yeah i forgot a big one. “Yusuof”, a “Yu gi oh” parody. That one is my favourite. I watched all of them now, i just need a reason.
Another video is “na vrh brda vrba mrda 1 deo”, you can see by the video quality that the video was taken 20 years ago. The video is about a young gypsy trying to say tounge twisters (Na vrh brda vrba mrda meaning on top of a hill a willow is shaking).
Portugal:
“I will have to leave” – A guy has a wild fire 5 meters from his house, and indifferently tells the reporter that he will have to leave, because he has a medical appointment at 5 p.m. – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoC8Wvf1Dwo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoC8Wvf1Dwo)
“Say one” – During a debate about football, a clearly drunken commentator is trying to force another to name one member of the direction of Benfica Lisbon that attended his book launch, by yelling repeatedly “Say one! Say one!” – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUtMwiCnVCE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUtMwiCnVCE)
“I know no fear” – Some guy proudly announces that he “knows no fear”, before trying to skate in a road for the first time. The rest of the video needs no explanation – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMJydcVsaNs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMJydcVsaNs)
We have oh so many, a few examples are:
Germano Mosconi videos (a notorious newscaster who used to hurl blasphemous phrases during bloopers who were then leaked online making him a legend, died in 2012 but still one of the biggest Italian memes)
YTPs by Nocoldiz, an Italian YTPer whose original channel was sadly struck down in 2019
Andrea Dipré, a man with an… *interesting*, to say the least, life whose main hobby 10 years ago was to interview the trashiest people Italy had ever had the (dis?)pleasure to host. Last I’ve heard of him, he escaped in Germany due to drug use charges.
Richard Benson, a rockstar-turned-TV-host notorious for his weird metaphors, random screaming and overall 100% hammy and memey acting. Died in 2022 due to illness.
And so many more… God, I miss pre-Tiktok Internet 🙁
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Brit Reddit is obsessed with [Ronnie Pickering](https://youtu.be/r0dcv6GKNNw?si=rOcMpTUsKMWhduz9).
What makes it so funny is that you encounter quite a lot of these kinds of people, and seeing one of them scream their way into a corner feels like poetic justice.
There’s also [FENTON OH JESUS CHRIST](https://youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU?si=0D3jCAPA71Qrb5JF) and [Read the standing orders](https://youtu.be/lgGmYeAm0jk?si=CfCOW0TjIAQdBFMM&t=4m20s)
First one that popped into my mind is the legendary [Unreal Tournament Kid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKSj0Z0spqo). I think that got some international infamy as well.
Easily [Pik Træet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYSu9D-LSiU) [lit. “the cock tree”]. It’s a nonsense Harry Potter parody, but it went viral in the early days of YouTube because of it’s memorable lines, such as *”did you know I’m the only one who knows the dove-out-of-the-ass-trick?”,* and thus has 2.7 million views, which roughly corresponds to almost half of the total Danish population.
Probably the [Castletown Donkey Derby](https://youtu.be/8XtVm8z28e4?si=6aav9Eo1dLxZVV4p)
Peak 90s Irishness.
[Wealdstone Raider – you want some? I’ll give it ya!](https://youtu.be/VQDlKN7HYLk?si=To0orLt5G1OKqcn5)
In Ireland it’s the lad from the news who slept and fell on the ice https://youtu.be/oT9z87GNL_g?si=qhf4NoHOlW57hq2f
Have never heard of the Paweł Jumper and it might be a generational thing, but [this video](https://youtu.be/xWwguG9MyYc?feature=shared) has lately stolen my heart.
Some flooded street, half-naked guy escaping a beaver, someone fishing and smoking nearby, everything spiced up with a primitive disco polo tune. Pure gold, resembling alternative cinema.
Not legendary but a classic for sure and first one that came to my mind :
[french police](https://youtu.be/pEss6uttxbA?si=y4hAzge56CIXsEgu)
Probably Linas Hermanas ranting about how his delivery driver didn’t have change for the €20 note and blaming Jews, NKVD and former Lithuanian president for it: https://youtu.be/HHVlfKFXQws
Serbia has had so many I genuinely wouldn’t know where to begin. Probably Bobo Smrade (Lotr parody), or Kita u Bila (Kill bill parody) or a guy who called a random peasant for years to troll him, or Živ je Karađorđe or a bunch of others
But I guess this should be the #1 https://youtu.be/RLHOwdEdbbM?si=bhmE_bxO7lj3MUYo
In a similar vein as the German Unreal tournament kid, in Italy we had the [blasphemy gamer kid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW1b9_VRJkM&ab_channel=gabrixyo)
In Finland, I think this one with a man [swearing at a bear and threatening it with a broom](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7_pVrIshxA) is probably one of the most well known. To me the funny part is that he’s so upset with the bear, and that he’s talking to it like it’s a misbehaving person. I guess if you are alone in a cabin for too long you become a bit weird lol. I don’t know if it’s funny if you don’t understand the language…
[I recon it would be the pocahontas dub.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHiUvGYSHrg) It’s largely absurd, but features quite a lot of iconic lines and a hilarious version of Colors of the wind. It was briefely featured in the news at one point, due to concerns about kids watching dubs with «innapropriate language»- notably the word kukk (=cock/dick)
Our poor [Baptiste was invoking a demon in his room](https://youtu.be/rwQxfMLRTY8) and invoked his mother instead. It is worth noting little Baptiste is also high at the time of recording.
*”Baptiste what is wrong with you!? You’re not clear!”*
*”But, nooo… I’m very cleaar”*
*”And what’s this on the [bedroom’s] floor?”*
*”It’s sand”*
[“Mähän sanoin että mä en vedä vittu enää kertaakaan”](https://youtu.be/UKMQMVYQNmI?si=Dx6bvCgHjM8QimRb)
It’s a video of a young boy on his bicycle falling into a barely frozen creek lol. He keeps cursing and throwing a fit because he’s stuck, and his friend just keeps saying “ui juma” (it means something like “oh damn”) while filming the whole thing instead of helping him. It’s an old video but it gets referenced all the time.
Spain has so many, this guy made a [compilation](https://youtu.be/7JLQ0jiUkO4?si=d6IVctjzkdbnZbs2) here. My favorite of all time are still the ladies from the Roman Baptistery. “¿A quién no le va a gustar un imperio romano del siglo primero, a quien no le va a gustaaaar?” (Who wouldn’t like a 1st century Roman empire, who wouldn’t likeeee it?)
The only link I found of it with English subs in on [Facebook](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.facebook.com/Superbritanico/videos/baptisterio-romano-english-subtitles/3386397028114209/&ved=2ahUKEwid9pih_eiIAxVsmIkEHfW-EHQQwqsBegQIERAF&usg=AOvVaw3u8b6cDM4F7RjXo6w-dBXE) though.
Not from my country, but I always lol even thinking about ‘Catch the ice dude’
MEIN ARSCH!!
https://youtu.be/zd7c5tQCs1I?si=-KkNmRFP7Tp3p-GR
There are a few clips from _Man Bijt Hond_ from back in the day that have acquired a bit of a cult status. The TV programme mainly focuses on everyday trivial news and unknown people.
* [Old man parks car](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvGKxDlXgvQ)
* [Jozef and Johnny driving lesson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkN7QFco9WI)
One of most notable Czech candidates is [The Wedding of Jiří Kára](https://youtu.be/0ro6yiJqKTU) (Svatba Jirky Káry in Czech), an authentic recording of a wedding ceremony of an alcoholic/junkie pair attended by their friends. The video gained sort of a cult status because of many bizzare catchphrases and the contrast of the formal ceremony versus spontaneity of drunken white trash wedding guests. Many of the participants are dead now because of their lifestyle – the wife was murdered later (the husband has alibi as he was on a drinking spree), one of the guests fell into a light well when trying to climb home while drunken etc. Aside of the ceremony being kind of funny, there is also the fact that the video represents a slice of life of a social class that was well outside of social circles of most people who were watching YouTube in the early 2000s. It has some documentary value that is hard to achieve in professional social documentaries, but was mostly shared because people considered it hilarious – sometimes with contempt, sometimes with a sort of respect reserved for people who just manage to be themselves and tameless even in a formal setting.
There’s a few
[Za božič je najraje doma](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Am-lxGyY8) – a young woman keeps saying that she will be celebrating christmas with her family at home. Then she says that maybe they won’t be celebrating because her parents are mostly working for christmas but everyone will be celebrating at home with family every night for christmas at midnight even if they’re at home… etc. Confused? Yes.
[Tou tü nede](https://ptujinfo.com/novica/scena/video-so-viralni-slovenski-posnetki-ob-katerih-se-boste-nasmejali-iz-srca/74051) this woman from Prekmurje (region specificially known for its dialect) saw that marking pole but no one asked her permission, so “Tou tü nede” which I guess it means “this won’t be here”.
[Tu je Slovenija](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_UlCOBKtdQ) woman screaming “This is Slovenia!!! My country!!!!111” while hitting the ground with a flag on a pole.
[St. Martins](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIPTvxsDpqY) a drunk man singing “Zdravje Martinu, meni pa vinu” – health to (st.) Martin, wine to me for, St. Martins day in Maribor.
[Albanian bakery](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuCD4FMsQGY) Journalist intervies an owner of an Albanian bakery in Šentjur and sees a mice in the flour storage room. She asks him if they cleaned the room, he says it’s clean (?), she says there’s still mice there and he says “I’m not a cat that would catch mice”.
[Požigalec](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQqVEjypglE) probably the most well known one about an arsonist. An eyewitness is describing catching an alleged arsonist and says he asked him now a very famous line “what do you need a bag for if you bought a bike?” and then they looked in the bag and saw gasoline and one of the guys said “you’re definitely the arsonist” and “he started heavily sweatingl”.
[Maturantke](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX1ZVFd_vs4) this is a video of high schoolers presenting their class at a graduation dance. This girls are from a school for hairstylists, so not too bright. They decided to present their classmates with rhymes and they’re not exactly good rhymes.
[Čünika](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDVzspo7p70) a guy finds a pig in his back yard and uses funny baby language in a funny dialect to call it.
[The real Slovene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IjjT8NcpT4) Guy says he drank 24 L of alcohol, journalist asks him where he’s going and he says he doesn’t know because he doesn’t know where exactly he is.
[Kučan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL0ytZRhzbI) ex president sits in the wrong side of the car
[Hungry grandma](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVpy1K2wbXo) old lady complains about too many commercials on national TV. She says she’s watching a nice movie in the evening and then they throw in commercials about ground meat and drumsticks and she becomes hungry instead of going to bed.
[Bank robbery](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efs7DfX35AI) police is describing a bank robber while woman (?) in the back is wearing very similar clothes to what is being described.
ouch this is a long list
[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrGZR5LRxLk) is probably difficult to grasp if you don’t understand Finnish. Basically, the creator took a commentary track of legendary sports commentator Antero Mertaranta and put it on a video showing goaltending coach and former hockey goalie Pasi Nurminen arriving home “tipsy” after Finland had won the 2011 Hockey World Championship.
https://youtu.be/5_LcFlTNopA?si=-XhnHiKmvCiZTN8X
I’d say this song, but I have no idea if I’m aging myself horribly here 😂 parody of “big girl (you are beautiful)” but sung by two homeless guys about cheap canned beer.
Rip to the line “costs less than €0,50” though 💀
Either [Svarta jump](https://youtu.be/q0gfoK0GtOQ?si=xvVTD_nwGG0a-thU) where a wasted dumbass jumps off a garage injuring himself while his two buddies provide hilarious commentary or
[Svatba Jiřího Káry](https://youtu.be/0ro6yiJqKTU?si=9kkk1urD16j1k7FC) – a wedding video from 2001 celebrating the special day when two toothless neo Nazi junkies enter into “holy” matrimony. The groom and their friends openly do the Hitler salute (with the words) as well as say other outrageous and hilarious shit.
This one is truly legendary and many lines from the video are often used in daily life (not the nazi shit). I pity everyone who can’t speak Czech and therefore cannot enjoy this cinematic masterpiece. I might as well go and rewatch the whole 25 min thing again right now.
Note: both the videos I linked are reuploads, the originals are both 10+ years old.
Definitely the [internetgekkies compilation](https://youtu.be/-9SXtQqVp9Q?si=cCNMi2BZurAasxJj). So many phrases from this compilation have seeped into day to day conversations.
There’s a few videos that are known as ___turken (the ___turk) which are videos that have someone speaking with a clear accent indicating they are of middle eastern origin but doing different things.
[fågelturken](https://youtu.be/zQ2Q5JGaghc?si=cW3kSx9hZR7Wepov) (the bird turk) is a video of a man trying to get a taxi driver to stop and take care of the bird that has gotten stuck in the car’s grill. The way he says for example “du har en fågel” (you have a bird) has become somewhat of a meme over the years.
[Snöturken](https://youtu.be/XG3WfCWU9D0?si=kXXpNTu-4TKeU0Ik) (the snow turk) is an interview on the street with a man who has REALLY dressed for the weather and who clearly doesn’t speak much Swedish but still does his best in the interview.
[laserturken](https://youtu.be/esVuKP7k974?si=riSKZUehn_N2byCU) (the lazer turk) which is an interview from a Norwegian TV station where they were doing a story on a serial killer who mainly targeted dark skinned people and who became known as Lasermannen (the lazer man) in Sweden. They went to one of the largest percentage immigrant areas of Malmö and talked to one man in a car who went into great detail of all the things he’d do to the serial killer if he could find him.
[körkortsturken](https://youtu.be/YO__alwymYQ?si=FS2bFxES6BNWiMp4) (the driver license turk) which comes from a Swedish TV show with a couple of well known Swedish presenters who have done all kinds of things through the years. In this case they were taking the driver’s license test themselves for the show iirc.
But outside the building they are supposed to start at they end up meeting a man who just took it. As they converse he says he just got his driver’s license so they ask him if he’s going to go out and drive for fun for the rest of the day and he says he has his car parked here and that he drove it to where he took the test. (Despite not having the drivers license before taking the test) Eventually the presenters ask him what he works with and he replies “driving cars”. The absurdity of the whole interaction is what has made it part of this series of videos.
Belgium here, one of my favourites is this one: [ West-Vlaamse boeren op Man Bijt Hond ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWD3GqLOTgk)- on educating Polish guest workers on exploding WW1 shells.
From Scotland, not England, but [this one is iconic](https://youtu.be/MHzREY32tYQ?si=P7J5Tm_fYYi1yzeN)
My favourite one is a pointless segment of a TV news show where they talk about different pets diets. So there is a woman explaining what she feeds her dog etc…, meanwhile an older lady carrying a bag approaches her and asks if the dog would eat a dead pigeon. The woman is surprised and just laughs it off. The one with the pigeon adds “well, it’s blood”. The woman with the dog then refuses the offer, the old lady gets offended and yells in a high-pitched voice “but it’s dead”. The way she says it, using “ma” which is a rude way to address a woman, is great.
[here it is](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4Ca0JFsgik&pp=ygUV0YPQvNGA0Y_QuyDQs9GK0LvRitCx)
There are ones that are definitely more legendary but would be difficult to translate and explain.
https://youtu.be/bbTH4bHVYQ8?si=O_myLLkwxWExuXBk
A Romanian politician takes a fall on live TV. He was the mayor of Cluj at the time (2003), then he was PM for while and now he’s the mayor of Cluj again.
Ukraine: teenage girl Masha and ice-covered street https://youtu.be/08xEDbyjyVI?feature=shared
Mr. Dobkin, than Kharkiv’s major, makes official footage with a little help from his swearing team. “You have a boring face, nobody will give you money, Misha” – everybody knows these words now https://youtu.be/9N_GRbbfK9Y?si=ExC_tyXFCbq8iGga
Yarik, a countryside gentleman, with his cameraman friend, broke the car (absolutely untranslatable words and enotions) https://youtu.be/SZJYwDAVDVg?si=CDyNA-puoJglgmXS
I’m possibly talking for the whole balkan trinity (bosnia and herzegovina, serbia and croatia) and maybe beyond (montenegro) but for me it’s movie parodies. To be specific “Bobo smrade”, a lotr parody. I think that’s the most famous. The scene that is used is when Boromir is with Frodo in the woods and Boromir is talking about the ring, in the parody he’s talking about fucking him in the ass and Frodo is rejecting him becuse he wants to try something wilder and not just anal sex. “Bobo smrade” means “bobo” as a name and “smrade” is a derogatory word, literally means stinker but it actually means something like bastard.
I like “kita u bila”, a kill bill parody. A song the guy in kill bill is singing goes:”U mog strica 8 kobasica, 7 prži, 8. strina drži.” It means:” My uncle has 8 sausages, 7 are being pan fried, the eight is being held by the aunt.”
Oh yeah i forgot a big one. “Yusuof”, a “Yu gi oh” parody. That one is my favourite. I watched all of them now, i just need a reason.
Another video is “na vrh brda vrba mrda 1 deo”, you can see by the video quality that the video was taken 20 years ago. The video is about a young gypsy trying to say tounge twisters (Na vrh brda vrba mrda meaning on top of a hill a willow is shaking).
Portugal:
“I will have to leave” – A guy has a wild fire 5 meters from his house, and indifferently tells the reporter that he will have to leave, because he has a medical appointment at 5 p.m. – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoC8Wvf1Dwo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoC8Wvf1Dwo)
“Say one” – During a debate about football, a clearly drunken commentator is trying to force another to name one member of the direction of Benfica Lisbon that attended his book launch, by yelling repeatedly “Say one! Say one!” – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUtMwiCnVCE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUtMwiCnVCE)
“I know no fear” – Some guy proudly announces that he “knows no fear”, before trying to skate in a road for the first time. The rest of the video needs no explanation – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMJydcVsaNs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMJydcVsaNs)
We have oh so many, a few examples are:
Germano Mosconi videos (a notorious newscaster who used to hurl blasphemous phrases during bloopers who were then leaked online making him a legend, died in 2012 but still one of the biggest Italian memes)
YTPs by Nocoldiz, an Italian YTPer whose original channel was sadly struck down in 2019
Andrea Dipré, a man with an… *interesting*, to say the least, life whose main hobby 10 years ago was to interview the trashiest people Italy had ever had the (dis?)pleasure to host. Last I’ve heard of him, he escaped in Germany due to drug use charges.
Richard Benson, a rockstar-turned-TV-host notorious for his weird metaphors, random screaming and overall 100% hammy and memey acting. Died in 2022 due to illness.
And so many more… God, I miss pre-Tiktok Internet 🙁