I fucking love that the first lines of her sales pitch are supposed to lower his defenses and Jez doesn't even understand that his defenses should be up.
You can be so depressed you're drinking whisky on the shitter, but never so depressed you can't drag someone who's bought into a pyramid scheme kicking and screaming back to reality
I love how he trails off in mid sentence "it's network marketing and it's a guaranteed moneymaking..." leaving the sentence hanging where the word 'scam' would go.
If you think about it, asking "what is pyramid selling?" after they say its not, is genius. They will then precisely describe their business model, checkmate, mate.
videoomaster - I agree. The only problem is that pyramid scheme recruiters rarely use the word “pyramid” unless the mark asks if the business is a pyramid scheme. They use euphemisms like “network marketing” or “multi-level marketing”, which sound legitimate.
"have you forgotten about the phone call yet?" it's great how many little subtle gags like that are peppered into this show that you don't necessarily notice first viewing
First time for me to appreciate a fantastic joke that easily slips by: "have you been talking to Mark?" (implying Jez is worried he might have done something like washing up without washing up liquid that Mark complained about)
As soon as someone says “This is NOT pyramid selling”, is when you should go for the exit. When someone says “It’s not pyramid selling, because the courts decided that the 450,000 claims that our company IS pyramid selling were settled out of court”, you should RUN for the exit.
I had someone try selling me a pyramid scheme a couple times in my life. One time they started with the same line "This is not a pyrammid scheme" I then knew it was one.
Shamic Entertainment Is that the breadlike part? Until I read your comment I thought she was talking about something separate from the pie. Like small pastries haha.
Word to the wise. When someone is trying to recruit you into a pyramid scheme, don't call it a pyramid scheme in an attempt to back out of it. These guys are indoctrinated with the "It's not a pyramid scheme" line (The writers here were bang on). Call it multi-level marketing or an MLM. They at least agree it's that. You can say you aren't interested in MLMs and you can both move on (or at least you can).
If you're ever on a beach, and you have some washing up to do, try some sand in the surf. Works very well. If you have a boat, like I do, tie the dishes etc in a net, and tow that for a while. Very clean. Definitely not a pyramid selling scheme.
Let me guess. He goes to the job interview and it turns out to be an Amway/pyramid scheme presentation. That ACTUALLY fucking happened to me in the 1980s. 😱
its kooky! definitely jez's idea, with mark being dragged along reluctantly as usual saying things like "what's wrong with having a drink on the sofa like a normal person? that's not cool anymore I guess. have to get drunk in the bathtub like russian squatters"
No way. It was consistently brilliant but the later series were great because while there was no character development (and who needs it, since that implies a personal development nobody wants to see, right?) there was plenty of character history to call on to build their world and some good story arcs like Mark and Sophies trajectory.
True Story. Pyramid selling! My best mate in the fifties, went berserk & broke the family savings on Pyramid stuff. Asked me to look in his garage, and 'hey presto', three thousand pounds (before $ became Australia's fare) worth of cleaning stuff! That in today's money is about $60K ! So Jeremy (like this damned Pandemic) is beyond reason & beyond help. He's 'stuffed up' in order to stuff up a shiela who might have 'given out' just to sell him on the Global Pyramid Scam.
Don't blame him too much. It's a system designed to hook you and back then there was neither much information about nor particular regulation of that kind of scam, at least nothing close to what he have today. It works like a cult and it looks like it could never happen to you from the outside but it's exactly that certainty they count on to get you. Here is an analysis you might find helpful. The creator is a qualified therapist with a background on on psychology. Hewrites some excellent long-form articles of that kind and publishes them in video form: th-cam.com/video/IaUhR-tRkHY/w-d-xo.html
there's so much that is endearingly rubbish about this comment. the apostrophising of any 'remotely racey' or slang-adjacent phrase. excessive brackets, as if they're making asides to an audience in the globe theatre. the capitalising of anything requiring it and quite a lot that doesn't. spelling "sheila" wrong when it's their own country's most famous cross-cultural slang. oh, it's all so wonderful
I've been approached before. What a let down, he was a favourite customer of mine. Bloody Amway - they're the root of all evil. Well, them and Scientology.
I fucking love that the first lines of her sales pitch are supposed to lower his defenses and Jez doesn't even understand that his defenses should be up.
He’s guard is up against Mark instead haha.
😀
That cafetière transition is so funny
Yeah it doesn't get enough credit.
amen
You can be so depressed you're drinking whisky on the shitter, but never so depressed you can't drag someone who's bought into a pyramid scheme kicking and screaming back to reality
The cut to her carrying the cafetière after the bong line is brilliant
"This is definately not pyramid selling"
"Right, good. Whats pyrmid selling?"
Toni then proceeds to explain how it's pie selling instead.
Famous last words
Favourite bit is when Jez chuckles to himself a little
Mine too, I'd like to play him at poker.
it's so perfectly delivered
I started doing this as a joke & now I do it involuntarily
Toni is so delightfully bonkers. A classic Peep Show character.
She's so hot though, I'd put up with it
Don’t make women like that anymore :(
She's deffo into Crypto now.
Wtf?!? She’s not just some next door coin jar
@@andreaholcock8992 Sympathy for the scammer?! The implication is that crypto is also one, btw...
@@jamesthecat calm down
Now it’s NFTs 😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😅😂😅😂😅😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂
"And it's like a big lovely club with free money for everyone." Same story every time.
I love how he trails off in mid sentence "it's network marketing and it's a guaranteed moneymaking..." leaving the sentence hanging where the word 'scam' would go.
I love how quickly Mark figures it out
it was hardly a series of hieroglyphs, was it? jez told him almost immediately what it was(n't)
@@DaveDexterMusic I found Mark
Well as soon as someone says the words 'pyramid selling' even if it's 'not pyramid selling' you bet your life there's some pyramid selling going on.
To this day, no comedy series has come even close to topping this masterpiece.
If you think about it, asking "what is pyramid selling?" after they say its not, is genius. They will then precisely describe their business model, checkmate, mate.
videoomaster - I agree. The only problem is that pyramid scheme recruiters rarely use the word “pyramid” unless the mark asks if the business is a pyramid scheme. They use euphemisms like “network marketing” or “multi-level marketing”, which sound legitimate.
@Peter T Stir Crazy? Or See No Evil, Hear No Evil? Either way, I still feel kinda smug that I at least half got the reference.
@Peter T Black hole of Calcutta
Toni was such a great character
Yeah and she was quite hot to!
self involved sociopath but kind of realistic
@@HolloVVpoint Hot to what?
@@BenjaminGoose ♥️ two days later i had the same idea haha
@@BenjaminGoose Trot
"It's not shaped like a pyramid, it's a pie!"
Yeah, a pie-ramid
I'll get me coat..
This show is so beautifully written and the characters are just perfectly acted
the camera shot that represents jeremy scanning the graphs mid conversation is so so accurate
I’m not about to piss on all over myself. That’s some foreshadowing right that.
Let’s go to church!
"have you forgotten about the phone call yet?" it's great how many little subtle gags like that are peppered into this show that you don't necessarily notice first viewing
"Nothing you want is ever going to happen"
First time for me to appreciate a fantastic joke that easily slips by:
"have you been talking to Mark?"
(implying Jez is worried he might have done something like washing up without washing up liquid that Mark complained about)
Thanks... for that explanation.
It doesn't slip by. It's a joke made with words. You're not special.
@@imnothere220In a show that is unusually thick with words, quite a lot can slip by.
Mark definitely strikes me as someone who would complain to a flatmate about the poor standards of their washing up.
3:40 I can relate to this so much, thinking of something funny and inadvertently laughing like him in a bad situation
Crazy Mary was scary in her own way - but Toni is just a dangerous and volatile person.
Hot and dangerous though
It’s Amber
There's "crazy dangerous" then there's just plain crazy mad.
@@Inthemixmedia She hit the wall pretty hard tho
Mark: I'm trying to protect you from pissing all over yourself
5 seasons later
Mark: You're gonna have to piss yourself
As soon as someone says “This is NOT pyramid selling”, is when you should go for the exit. When someone says “It’s not pyramid selling, because the courts decided that the 450,000 claims that our company IS pyramid selling were settled out of court”, you should RUN for the exit.
Exactly. Only join an organisation which specifically says it IS pyramid selling.
Network marketing
What if it's my older brother who tells me it's not pyramid selling???
Fuck it, I'll say yes to everything. She obviously wants me.
"Has Marc been talking to you?"
Lmao 🤣🤣
1:38 The best short lesson in economics that I have ever heard.
I love Toni, such a great actress
I had someone try selling me a pyramid scheme a couple times in my life. One time they started with the same line "This is not a pyrammid scheme" I then knew it was one.
17 years ago … this was uploaded 17 years ago. 😮
"I'm trying to protect you from pissing all over yourself"... Oh that's ironic, Mark 🤣
This show is such a gem.
absolutely pivotal scene (+ foreshadows the church years later)
What? Has Mark been talking to you?
Pastry is my favourite part of the pie
Shamic Entertainment Is that the breadlike part? Until I read your comment I thought she was talking about something separate from the pie. Like small pastries haha.
@@ShabazzTBL Same.. As a non native speaker.
@@ShabazzTBL yeah it is
That is abnormal tho
Holy shit, it's the BMX Bandit!
Angel Summoner is in this show too!
you should watch all of them
+pooperface They seem like the baddies. Are they the baddies?
Nicolle Kidman?
Mark may be a paranoid weirdo who has absolutely no control over his impulses, but even he isn’t stupid enough to fall for the scheme.
Boo-hoo, Johnny and Sally!
Are you with me?
@@petrichorjournal8866 replying to a 11 year old comment, thank you for keeping it all alive.
Damn that was 12 years ago. Are you here now?
@@AsRiHack3x2 We'll see each other in 11 more years.
Barbara, how much washing up do you think you could do without any washing up liquid?
Do I have any shampoo left?
Underrated comment this
I thought that was a good life reference! I'm showing my age
3:41 ... epic
If they tell you it's not a pyramid scheme, it's a pyramid scheme.
Same with cults
See also "I'm not racist but".
“There is no bonfire, Jeremy!”
because you keep pissing on it
one of my relatives sold Amway...most embarrassing/humiliating thing in the family tree.
Not as embarrassing as buying the shit
@@zapkvr0101 astounding that amway and its business model still exist after all these years.
@@rwhirsch not really. There is literally one born every minute
I love how on board Toni is with screwing over the downline lmao
Like how jes says “I’m not about to piss.. all over myself” while lying in a bath tub
The cafetière beats the bong every time for me.
Yeah me too now I'm in my 30s.
Yeah and I'm in my sixties
Turn up , log on and grind out, says a lot more than the bible ever did
Damn 14 fuckin years old. One of the oldest videos this, bravo mate
I gotta get in on this.
'Nothing you want is ever going to happen.'
Toni is too attractive
Mark looks completely broken at 2:04
Oh to be that age again 😭
It most definitely is; with the Two Toni's making up the pyramid.
"Free money for everyone? JÁ!"
Is it ever addressed why they're drinking in the bathroom?
What a weird question. Why would they not be drinking in the bathroom?
It's crazy how attractive she is
are you british
@@bastobasto4866 no
@@chadmoonstone7486 that's surprising
All of the chicks on this show are ugly as death, except for suz and april which are still not crazy hot
"Big lovely clubs with money pie." -- Nigeria...
Word to the wise. When someone is trying to recruit you into a pyramid scheme, don't call it a pyramid scheme in an attempt to back out of it. These guys are indoctrinated with the "It's not a pyramid scheme" line (The writers here were bang on). Call it multi-level marketing or an MLM. They at least agree it's that. You can say you aren't interested in MLMs and you can both move on (or at least you can).
Any one think off this scene after watching the LuLaRoe Documentary.
Or that documentary with Kirsten Dunst?
If you're ever on a beach, and you have some washing up to do, try some sand in the surf. Works very well.
If you have a boat, like I do, tie the dishes etc in a net, and tow that for a while. Very clean.
Definitely not a pyramid selling scheme.
Need to see the interview
Pissing into the big time
Let me guess. He goes to the job interview and it turns out to be an Amway/pyramid scheme presentation. That ACTUALLY fucking happened to me in the 1980s. 😱
Nope, it's a normal interview where he fakes a facial spasm and tries to get the interviewer involved in his pyramid scheme
@@jockmackay9582 and did he get that job?
@@behb3425 he did not
NFT sellers telling you your jpg is unique 😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂
" Pissing into the Big Time ..."
ive always wondered why do they have a drink with halflight in the bathroom one sitting on the WC and the other in the bath?
its kooky! definitely jez's idea, with mark being dragged along reluctantly as usual saying things like "what's wrong with having a drink on the sofa like a normal person? that's not cool anymore I guess. have to get drunk in the bathtub like russian squatters"
lol and the youtube algorithm wants me to click and watch fifteen years later. uhhhh ok
My mum uses laundry powder
I'm tripping
Crying with laughter. Series one pisses all over the later series.
No way. It was consistently brilliant but the later series were great because while there was no character development (and who needs it, since that implies a personal development nobody wants to see, right?) there was plenty of character history to call on to build their world and some good story arcs like Mark and Sophies trajectory.
It’s all great
It was good up to Season 4 then they run out of gas, but agree S1 was the best
Stop pissing on my bonefire
Bonfare
@@zapkvr0101: bonfire
Wait, why did he spray water into his drink?
For a mixer. Same reason you'd add tonic water. Basically dilutes it so you're not just gulping huge amounts of hard liquor.
Mistery flesh pit
great video
She seems like the female version of Johnson!
he's black, in case you hadn't noticed.
@@DaveDexterMusic your point is?
I was referring to mannerisms - you realize that??
NFTs
They look like babies :’)
Jeremy pissed on himself at the wedding😊
network marketing is the business of the future
What? Has mark been talking to you hahahahaha
Use dirt ...
See is the circus in rober town
True Story. Pyramid selling! My best mate in the fifties, went berserk & broke the family savings on Pyramid stuff. Asked me to look in his garage, and 'hey presto', three thousand pounds (before $ became Australia's fare) worth of cleaning stuff! That in today's money is about $60K ! So Jeremy (like this damned Pandemic) is beyond reason & beyond help. He's 'stuffed up' in order to stuff up a shiela who might have 'given out' just to sell him on the Global Pyramid Scam.
Don't blame him too much. It's a system designed to hook you and back then there was neither much information about nor particular regulation of that kind of scam, at least nothing close to what he have today. It works like a cult and it looks like it could never happen to you from the outside but it's exactly that certainty they count on to get you.
Here is an analysis you might find helpful. The creator is a qualified therapist with a background on on psychology. Hewrites some excellent long-form articles of that kind and publishes them in video form:
th-cam.com/video/IaUhR-tRkHY/w-d-xo.html
Australians calling women sheilas never gets old for me
@@willnash7907 thanks. I'll read up on it. Although it's illegal in Oz in it's current form, their are 'chancers' are always trying for a loophole ..
there's so much that is endearingly rubbish about this comment. the apostrophising of any 'remotely racey' or slang-adjacent phrase. excessive brackets, as if they're making asides to an audience in the globe theatre. the capitalising of anything requiring it and quite a lot that doesn't. spelling "sheila" wrong when it's their own country's most famous cross-cultural slang. oh, it's all so wonderful
Have you seen the Netflix doco "On becoming a God in Central Florida" with Kirsten Dunst? Friggin brilliant
Or multi level marketing 😂
I've been approached before. What a let down, he was a favourite customer of mine. Bloody Amway - they're the root of all evil.
Well, them and Scientology.
The love of Amway is the root of all evil
But I don't do drywall ....you mean...dope ...er ahh...sope....
She's pretty eh
Toni was hot and a good character
ah
Has Mark been talking to you 🤣
🤣