(remote clicks)
- You wanna watch the Amazing Welch Broiling Tournament?
- Seen it.
- What about a documentary about Jack the Ripper
that's supposed to have never-before-seen footage?
- Binged it.
Twice.
Oh wait, Netflix got the rights to Chums.
That's my favorite show growing up!
- Oh yeah, Chums!
My mom used to never let me watch it.
- That's like my entire identity when I was 10.
- Wow!
- That's like the definition of comedy in the 90's.
Play an episode.
- Okay.
(remote clicks, show starts, audience cheers)
- Okay, so this is Ronald, he's like an architect.
- Uh huh.
- He's so funny and so neurotic.
(man in blue shirt laughs)
He kinda reminds me of you!
(man in blue shirt continues laughing)
- [TV] Wait, you're a male secretary?
What are you, gay?
(TV show audience laughs)
(TV character speaks in foreign language)
- I don't remember that line.
- This was your entire identity growing up?
- This is probably like a weird episode,
from like a later season.
Uh, let me show you, where's the remote, give me the remote.
(remote clicks)
- Making Fun of a Foreigner.
(remote clicks)
Jonah Accidentally Says the N-word?
(remote clicks)
A Guy Acts Feminine?
- That one won an Emmy.
- Okay.
All these episodes seem to be a little "weird."
- Okay, no no.
This one here, okay,
it's a good showcase of the Chums that I remember, okay.
- Oh, Ronald has a baby.
- Here we go, okay, here we go.
(remote clicks)
- [TV Man's voice] I know you just had a baby,
but could you stop being so naggy?
- [TV Womans Voice] Too bad, Lester,
that's just how women are.
(TV audience laughs)
(red shirt laughs awkwardly)
- Is every single punchline like this?
- No, it's a super witty show.
- [TV Man's Voice] Could you BE any gayer?
- Jesus!
- I'm so, I'm so sorry.
It's not how I remembered it.
- Also, there are like zero people of color in here.
- No, there's one in this episode.
(remote clicks repeatedly)
Okay, I mean, sorry, I mean the next episode.
(remote clicks repeatedly)
(remote continues to click repeatedly)
Maybe it's the next season.
- (sighs) I can't
- It's a different time, it was a different time back then!
Okay, here we go.
(remote clicks)
- [TV Female Voice] Oh, you must be the janitor!
- Oh come on!
- Oh, but here come Alaister, okay, the classy intellectual.
He's not going to say anything wrong.
- [TV Alaister] I'm not racist,
I just hate Martin Luther King.
(TV audience laughs)
- You, what?
I can't believe that's a real line on the show!
- Oh my God.
The show I grew up loving is nothing more
than just a series of easy racist, homophobic jokes.
- Well, I mean, it's okay, you're different now.
- I used to quote the show with my friends.
Become friends with people who quoted the show.
I broke up with my girlfriend when I was 18
because she didn't like it.
- Whoa, yeah, that was a mistake.
But look, this show is a product of it's time.
I mean, any show that's looked at as liberal in the past
is gonna be seen as backwards in the future.
The most important thing is just recognizing it now.
- Yeah, yeah, you're right.
- Yeah, of course I'm right.
- We don't need to watch this show.
- No.
- Let's watch something else.
- Yeah.
- Here ya go, pick whatever you want.
- Ohhhh, they got Marry a Prince now!
The show where they trick women into thinking
that they are actually competing to marry a prince!
I used to re-watch this over and over and over again,
until my VCR broke.
- [TV Host] Ana, this isn't Prince Charles,
it's a construction worker from Dayton, Ohio.
(man in blue laughs)
- [TV Ana] It's all a lie?
But my father exchanged me for a (mumbles) already!
- Okay, I am shocked that this show doesn't hold up either!
- We just kinda jumped to the last episode.
- You know what, maybe that's it.
We should've watched it for context.
- I don't need to watch it from the beginning.
- We'll start from Episode One.