the bbc goes all MK !

[Quiet Stranger]

Yes it is but since you saw it could you describe it to the less fortunate?

Err, ok I'll give it a whirl, bear in mind of course this will not convey the funny.

Spoiler: What the vid is about...

It's about University Challenge, a quiz game for university teams.
It's set up with an old school mortal kombat visual, the health of the quizzer (jeremy paxman) vs the health of one guy from one team. The guy is clearly a pretty knowledgeable. Quick fire questions and answers through editing, get them right = paxman loses health, wrong = guy loses life. Guy has a huge "handicap" (he deals little dmg, paxman deals loads).
MK sound effects and visuals, the MK announcer saying "combo" etc, as well as the stonking hard and nearly unintelligible questions, and him getting them right, make it funny.

Cant we just go to the main BBC website and see this video?

 

[Flour]

Its stupid enough that the Americans get blocked but the Irish get it blocked too! Thats just stupid.

It's blocked everywhere but the UK.

 

[Erja_Perttu]

Aw man that was awesome. Good to see my license fee being used for something I'll enjoy for once!

 

[BluenetteDiviner]

yay I love seeing Paxman get owned. He's a bit of an a-hole.

 

[Joshimodo]

The BBC hates us of the US.

We can't watch NBC or pretty much any of your networks online here.

 

[BlueTomfoolery]

It's blocked for me and I got BBC on my TV!

 

[kurupt87]

Cant we just go to the main BBC website and see this video?

I don't know? I can see it already so...but I wouldn't have thought so.

Aw man that was awesome. Good to see my license fee being used for something I'll enjoy for once!

Amen brother, the beeb does little enough to justify it. Top Gear, any decent footie they get and the occasional doctor who is all I ever watch.

 

[Booze Zombie]

Ha, ha, ha!

Funny stuff.

 

[Ryuzaki]

That was a good video, it's a pity that it is blocked outside the UK.

Yes it is but since you saw it could you describe it to the less fortunate?

Err, ok I'll give it a whirl, bear in mind of course this will not convey the funny.

Spoiler: What the vid is about...

It's about University Challenge, a quiz game for university teams.
It's set up with an old school mortal kombat visual, the health of the quizzer (jeremy paxman) vs the health of one guy from one team. The guy is clearly a pretty knowledgeable. Quick fire questions and answers through editing, get them right = paxman loses health, wrong = guy loses life. Guy has a huge "handicap" (he deals little dmg, paxman deals loads).
MK sound effects and visuals, the MK announcer saying "combo" etc, as well as the stonking hard and nearly unintelligible questions, and him getting them right, make it funny.

Cant we just go to the main BBC website and see this video?

Well I doubt it, iplayer can't be viewed outside the UK either. I'm not sure if it will work, but here is the link to it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/extra/video/p007bbsg

 

[Liberaliter]

I LOVE JEREMY PAXMAN!

 

[BeeRye]

It's blocked everywhere but the UK.

I know, it just tickles me that I can go to my living room right now and turn on the BBC on my sky package. In fact I can actually get the BBC on terrestrial as well with the right tuning. That's all really, I'm not familiar with copyright law but I just find it amusing that I can watch everything they broadcast on tv but nothing they put on the net, like the iplayer and such.

 

[the_tramp]

In a nutshell, UK has to pay a TV license that extends to BBC iPlayer on the internet (an on-demand service to watch shows that have been broadcast) and obviously any other internet medium. This was commissioned and made by the BBC so requires a TV license, USA/Canada/etc doesn't pay the UK TV license so it's limited.

 

[tehweave]

Blocked? This is the US! Why is it blocked in my country? This makes no sense...

 

[FightThePower]

That was awesome. Shame non-UK people can't see it.

 

[Strykz]

Americans wouldn't get the joke anyway. Awesome video though.

 

[Soxafloppin]

Nice very funny, but now i want to go play Mortal Kombat.

 

[NeutralMunchHotel]

Americans wouldn't get the joke anyway. Awesome video though.

Agreed. Actually, it's not that funny if you don't watch University Challenge. Which rather limits the audience.

Anyway, Round 2 - Guttenplan v Trimble?

 

[PureChaos]

ha, that's funny

 

[razerdoh]

ever heard of proxy servers? -.-

 

[Joe Deadman]

Man that was awesome someone over at the bbc is obviously a massive nerd ^.^
Loving the end and the poorly done fatality.