What on earth is the point of Channel 4’s “Rude Tube” programme? The kind of audience this show is aimed entirely at…are people who have the Internet and will have already seen all of the “Internet’s finest moments”. (Channel 4’s words, not mine.) And, AND given that these are all Internet clips and therefore filmed with cameras of (usually) rather poor quality, showing them on telly is going to make every video look like it’s been filmed in a snowstorm.
AND very few of the clips are actually particularly rude, so what’s with the name?
AND it’s fronted by Alex “failed at Popworld” Zane who is beyond irritating.
Sheesh. Let’s calm ourselves by watching the talking cats:
[youtube:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=z3U0udLH974]
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Channel 4: Rude Tube
Wow, so I look away for a minute — or okay, a week — and suddenly there are a million updates to read.
I am glad I am not the only person who had these exact same thoughts about RudeTube. It must rank as some of the laziest programme-making ever. In fact it could probably have been replaced by a two minute slot in which Alex Zane points at the YouTube homepage and mouthes the word “funny” a couple of times.
I don’t particularly want to be reminded of all the occasions on which everybody at work has been alerted to the fact that yes, I’m watching a hilarious video some wag has sent me, and yes, I’ve forgotten to turn the sound down, and YES, they’re actually doing a version of Michael Jackson’s Thriller dance at that wedding reception/prison/in that Bollywood movie. It is bad enough my email accounts are being spammed by people who mistakenly believe I’m incapable of surfing the internet for myself without being visually assaulted via my television as well.
It’s not just that the videos are usually shot with camera phones, but YouTube and other video sites compress and pixelate the images in order to make the videos load in seconds. Can there be anything more depressing for owners of state-of-the-art plasma HD TVs forced to spend Christmas watching these grainy, pixelated images blown up to horrifying proportions?
And the laziness of the programme reaches its zenith with the title, which is basically “YouTube”, where they got all the clips from, but with one word changed. “Rude” doesn’t even rhyme with “You”. The thought process must have been something like this: “YouTube… GlueTube? PooTube? YouBoob? RooTube? Rhubarb… FluBarb, MooBoob, MOONBoob… RudeBoob… RUDETUBE!” Morons.