Memes: Where Are They Now? found Tish
The show returned from a week apart with another success in its hunt for the real people behind famous internet clips.
This time:
“I’m in my mum’s car. Broom broom.”
Scott and Chris tracked down Tish, who had filmed the clip in 2014 when he was only 17.
He had posted it casually.
Within days, it exploded.
Years later, the phrase was still instantly recognisable to millions of people.
Tish was still recognised in public
Some meme stars fade back into normal life.
Tish still got stopped.
People repeated the line.
Some businesses had even recognised him and given him things for free.
Scott asked whether he had ever deliberately dropped the phrase when somebody had not immediately realised who he was.
Tish admitted he had.
Why waste the cultural currency?
He wanted the meme to outlive him
Scott had already developed a theory that meme stars should embrace the thing which made them famous rather than pretending it never happened.
Tish agreed.
He joked that the meme might end up on his gravestone.
Scott went one step further and imagined some kind of car-shaped memorial.
Tish’s mother had initially found the attention difficult to process.
Now the whole thing was simply part of family history.
The programme even got him to perform the line again live.
Seven years later:
still perfect.
Scott drank camel milk without realising
Scott then told a story from a trip to Dubai.
He ordered a latte.
The man behind the counter asked whether he wanted the milk hot or cold.
Scott chose hot.
He drank the whole coffee.
Then the server asked whether he had enjoyed it.
Scott said yes.
Only then came the explanation:
the milk was fresh and warm from a camel.
Scott had not noticed.
The cup itself apparently even carried branding which should have given the game away.
Camel milk was salty, nutty and surprisingly normal
Scott’s problem was mainly psychological.
When drinking cow’s milk, he does not sit imagining the cow.
The moment somebody said camel, the image became impossible to ignore.
Chris learned camel milk was common in parts of the Middle East and could taste slightly salty and nutty.
Scott’s verdict was less dramatic than expected.
It had simply tasted like a perfectly decent latte until somebody explained the source.
Francis the train guy and The Who Game returned
The show also caught up with Francis Bourgeois, whose train enthusiasm had continued spreading across the internet.
The Who Game returned after the break.
Don’t Look It Up included strange international television and songs performed entirely through whistling.
November had resumed with the programme exactly where it had left off:
memes, niche obsessions and one drink Scott wished had come with clearer labelling.
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