Just on the off-chance that someone thinks this is real... it's from a comedy mockumentary about small town life in rural Ireland called Hardy Bucks. It's hilarious and, to be fair, it's pretty accurate...

/shameless self related
*related=http://videosift.com/video/Hardy-Bucks

Mockumentaries

Really, short of stealing the actual gags to the letter, they've couldn't steal more than the exact concept replicated in a new Olympic city. I read comments from Clarke that they saw it as lifting the essence of The Games, and he saw it as a theft in spirit, even if he couldn't prove it in law. I tend to agree with this. And while I take your point, I really think the 'in defence of art' argument is the last refuge of the one-eyed.
In reply to this comment by gorillaman:
Well, we can start with the understanding that faux-documentaries are now fairly common, and that the olympics as a huge public event is very attractive to satire. So two different shows being produced along these lines isn't completely unlikely, and once you have those two shows then there are always going to be similarities.

I don't know much about the idea that The Games was being pitched to the BBC and who from those meetings went on to produce Twenty Twelve. There is a suggestion that the makers of The Games had gone so far as to lend the writer of Twenty Twelve DVDs of their show before he went off and wrote his, which is pretty hilarious.

Regardless I think it's fair to say Twenty Twelve isn't a direct copy of The Games; it had its own tone and told its own jokes. (Whether you think those jokes are funny or not.) Stealing the general idea 'satirical mockumentary about the olympics organisers' would actually be totally legit - that happens all the time and is pretty much how art advances, by building on earlier ideas; stealing lines and situations wouldn't be, but I don't see that happening. If I were plagiarising The Games the genetically-engineered horse and 94m 100m track would have gone straight into my script, for starters.

In reply to this comment by kymbos:
Ok, I've only watched one episode, but the similarities were overwhelming to me. How is it different?

Well, we can start with the understanding that faux-documentaries are now fairly common, and that the olympics as a huge public event is very attractive to satire. So two different shows being produced along these lines isn't completely unlikely, and once you have those two shows then there are always going to be similarities.

I don't know much about the idea that The Games was being pitched to the BBC and who from those meetings went on to produce Twenty Twelve. There is a suggestion that the makers of The Games had gone so far as to lend the writer of Twenty Twelve DVDs of their show before he went off and wrote his, which is pretty hilarious.

Regardless I think it's fair to say Twenty Twelve isn't a direct copy of The Games; it had its own tone and told its own jokes. (Whether you think those jokes are funny or not.) Stealing the general idea 'satirical mockumentary about the olympics organisers' would actually be totally legit - that happens all the time and is pretty much how art advances, by building on earlier ideas; stealing lines and situations wouldn't be, but I don't see that happening. If I were plagiarising The Games the genetically-engineered horse and 94m 100m track would have gone straight into my script, for starters.

In reply to this comment by kymbos:
Ok, I've only watched one episode, but the similarities were overwhelming to me. How is it different?

So heres the current list with my own interpretation of the subjects of each.

COFFEE MAKES ME POO = bowel movements
Eddie Izzard - Do you want a cup of coffee? = mating rituals
The Most Expensive Coffee in the World = civet droppings
South Park on Coffee = caffeine's affect on kids
Charlie Brooker vs. Nescafe - (VideoSift Coffee Mug Compo) = commercial/advertising
The latte zoo- (mixed animal latte pours) = drinkable art
Kramer CaffeLatte -- Seinfeld = caffeine's affect on racist comedians
The Office - Coffee and Cocaine = caffeine's affect on business quotas
The Simpsons - Beer Coffee = stereotypes of Aussies
Wish I had this coffee maker! = middle American consumerism
Coffee Snobs - snobby hipsters
This is Coffee (1961) = **coffee**
How to make Iced Coffee = what ice is used for
Six million dollar man coffee commercial = commercial/advertising
The Clover Coffee Machine - Hand Built By Stanford Engineers = Engineering
Denis Leary - Coffee = douchebag
How Sherlock Likes His Coffee (Sherlock BBC) = a fictitious characters taste/preferences
Dr. Cox and the Coffee (Scrubs) = flirting
How to make cold brew coffee the homemade way! = how to throw off the shackles of consumerism
Chad Vader Coffee = Star Wars copy right infringement
Austin Powers' coffee mix-up = the old Switcheroo comedy bit
History of Coffee = average joes bid for youtube attention
Join the Coffee Achievers! (Weird1984 coffee ad with Bowie) = commercial/advertising
Mad TV Coffee Maniac = caffeine's affect on Keanu Reeves
Coffee Panda = drinkable art
Charlie Chaplin Drinking Coffee = bowel movements
La recette des cupcakes jamais vus... au tiramisu = Tiramisu
Vodka & Coffee = alcoholics
Latte Art - Swan Lake = drinkable art
How To Cold Brew (COFFEE) = commercial/advertising
How to Pronounce Cappuccino = Linguistics
Strange To Meet You = caffeine's affect on European Directors/Actors
Columbian Coffee Crystals = commercial/advertising parody
Juan Valdez ~ Colombian Coffee 1982 = commercial/advertising
Coffee and the Brain = health benefits of caffeine
Milk With Your Coffee? = how boobies lactate
"The Coffee Wars" - (Mockumentary) = dangers of caffeine addiction
60 Cups, 1 Bald Head = how German scientists are full of shit!
It puts the coffee on its skin... = dangers of caffeine addiction
The Journey of the Coffee Bean = **coffee**

And it's another one from me

I upvote as this is making the rounds and being treated as true.

I have a HUGE fucking skeptic hat on right now. HUGE Mudderfudder hat on which is causing me to

a) get bad hat hair
&
b) call this out as a mockumentary/hoax/fake/not realsies

You got this just about exactly right. Three sentences in 7 minutes of talking.


>> ^Kofi:

Verb - noun - noun - pronoun - adjective - verb - political keyword - noun. Pronoun - adverb - noun - noun - noun - freedom - adjective - pronoun - current location - adjective - noun - God. Verb - noun - noun - enemy demographic - adjective - noun - noun - America - adjective - noun.

Me neither.>> ^kymbos:

No.

What, no * documentary tag?



For those who are not aware of this gem of a show, it's a mockumentary that follows three bumbling losers who live in a trailer park in Nova Scotia and subsist on usually-failing schemes to make profits from some petty crime or other. Julian is NEVER seen without a rum and coke in his hand, Ricky gets shot in the ass a lot, and Bubbles provides more naive innocence than a full season of My Little Pony. There's various supporting characters including ex-cop alcoholic Lahey who "runs" the park and hates Ricky and Julian.
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One of the worst tragedies of my lengthy TV-watching career was seeing some moron in the US start broadcasting this show with all of the profanity bleeped out. Often you'd get a ten second beee-e-e...eeep when Ricky got fired up.

Well then I'll definitely have to see it. I'll probably have to stream it, seeing as my town has NO more video stores. Or you could send me the DVD. Shipping it here shouldn't cost more than a first class plane ticket, I imagine.

In reply to this comment by Ornthoron:
I have seen it, and it is hilarious! The opening could fool you into thinking you are watching a bad parody of The Blair Witch Project, but you would be sorely mistaken. It's mostly a parody of conspiracy theories and naïve journalism students. Some of the humour is based on references to norwegian folklore and funny norwegian synonyms for 'troll', but a lot of it is accesible to foreigners as well. Otto Jespersen (a well-known norwegian comedian) is brilliant in his parody of a grumpy old loner. Besides, you get a lot of bonus footage of beautiful norwegian nature.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Have you seen this, or heard anything about it? It looks like fun, but sometimes mockumentaries just fall flat.

I have seen it, and it is hilarious! The opening could fool you into thinking you are watching a bad parody of The Blair Witch Project, but you would be sorely mistaken. It's mostly a parody of conspiracy theories and naïve journalism students. Some of the humour is based on references to norwegian folklore and funny norwegian synonyms for 'troll', but a lot of it is accesible to foreigners as well. Otto Jespersen (a well-known norwegian comedian) is brilliant in his parody of a grumpy old loner. Besides, you get a lot of bonus footage of beautiful norwegian nature.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Have you seen this, or heard anything about it? It looks like fun, but sometimes mockumentaries just fall flat.

Have you seen this, or heard anything about it? It looks like fun, but sometimes mockumentaries just fall flat.

It's from "The Brass Eye", probably the greatest mockumentary show that ever existed.

And if anything portrayed in those links would have happened do you actually expect that people wouldn't have brought it up? Seriously? It's national news and it's important to discuss even if you don't agree.

And by the way, you're the one bringing attention to the video you're complaining about by posting a link to it in an unrelated thread...

>> ^quantumushroom:

Who here is responsible for returning ancient sifts like this to the top of the queue, in order to join the lamestream media in trying to pin the murderous actions of a lone, mentally-ill vermin on Sarah Palin, the Tea Party or the Right?
You're better off with a different approach. Seriously.
How quickly we forget:
Hanging Palin in effigy

"Mockumentary" about Bush being assassinated
Death Threats Against Bush at Protests Ignored for Years

The days of the left fooling too many people too often via media monopolies are over. Someone tell that punk Soros on your way out.