My biggest pet peeve with shows like these are the near panicked voices the "professionals" are making. Like this is the first time they have incountered this scenario.
@@user-tr2dh4xx6u Of course you wouldn't have a firefighter flapping their arms around screaming like they've just seen godzilla. They're supposed to think rationally for the situation, and panicking is really not going to help at all
Makes me think of an ex-cop patients wise words. "Never trust the general public cus they're stupid". You start to really understand how stupid people can be when ya get into the glories of Nursing.
This is honestly so much better than the usual "[skilled professional] reacts to [media portraying that profession]" style videos where they just sit and talk
There's no explanation here though, it has to be deduced.Easy for some people but not all. Videos with clear explanations as to how they came to the conclusion are far better at conveying info. This is more entertaining so it's better in that sense, but the sit and talk ones have a lot of value because they're more informative.
@@BloodChampagne You're right, to a point. I've often said, "A joke isn't funny if you have to explain it." These are videos made largely for an audience with a certain amount of prior knowledge that a lot of people don't have. To those who do have it, like me, they're hilarious. To people who don't, there's a lot of other stuff out there. There's something for everyone.
These tv shows basically summarized “Dumb people get in accident, firefighters “help”. And then there is the other firefighters that say that they have commands to “take over”
"I appreciate the fact that you guys were fighting over who could rescue people first but incase you guys forget... *THE NEIGHBOURHOOD IS LITERALLY BURNING TO THE GROUND* "
The "house with the flowers" bit could have been a funny moment. Like they could have had the characters actually acknowledge "House with the flowers? What the heck?" And then it turns out that there's no other houses with a lawn or something, or it's got a really distinct display of flowers, and they say "oooh, THAT'S what they meant". I'm guessing that's not what they do in the episode though.
Back when Emergency! was in production, Jack Webb made sure everything was accurate as could be. They borrowed a fire engine from LA county, got a firefighter with SAG credentials on the show to drive it, both Kevin Tighe & Randolph Mantooth went through the full paramedic training course(they stopped shy of actually taking the final certification exam). This was when the paramedic program was in its infancy, the public still didn't trust the system & they had to show exactly what it was like to promote a needed system. These shows you spoof are probably written by the type of viewers who think Emergency! is "boring" & that such shows need more excitement. They also have 5X the budget & could look up real info online for free, but choose to phone it in because viewers eat it up anyway. Then someday someone watching these shows tries what's seen on them to save a life & ends up killing someone because it's all wrong.
I'm sure they research they do is for that one-in-a-millon case that happened somewhere at some time or a repot of what could happened but hasn't happen and probably won't happen
Writer here! In defense of my people, while these shows could be less terrible with better writing, this nonsense tone is really to be blamed on producers and network exects. They pick the programing and have the power of veto over pitches, concepts, and entire episode scripts. They were the ones who decided the world was in need of a an first responder TV show. And either didn't care to hire people who knew how the work is done, or activelly sought people who would be willing to write sensacionalist nonsense. I mean you can only really blame the writing team for bad content for the first season of a given show. After that, you need to blame it on the people who haven't fired those writers. Or if you want to be really cynical, blame it on the people who give this nonsense ratings.
I was actually only a firefighter for about 6 months. I got hired by my hometown department by some miracle when I decided that I'd apply for my childhood dream job. They're actually a very high standard department so I had done my research and knew what I was getting into as a career but not quite what they demanded. I made the mistake of showing weakness early, when I was caught off guard by some drills that triggered some anxiety issues I didn't know I had. They (very safely) tested the limits of that anxiety issue and found that I didn't quite have what it took for worst case scenarios (COMPLETELY UNDERSTANDABLE, don't get me wrong). Even still your videos trigger a nostalgia that brings all that incredible training and rookie experience back ESPECIALLY that I can hear jokes about fire science. Thanks for filling that void I'm kind of ashamed to explain I have.
@@GhostBear3067 So.... I'm not sure how to break it to you... But, there are two types of smoke during Pope's selection. White one and 5he black/gray one. The white one indicates that Pope was selected the black one indicates that the Pope wasn't elected so there will be another vote... The original comment refers to the smoke indicating "not elected yet - need more voting" black/gray smoke
imagine you just got into a car crash with your loved one on the ground next to you and the firefighter says, "JEEZ HOW MANY TIMES IS THIS GUY GONNA GO INTO SHOCK?"
You’d get along so well with my dad. He’s a retired paramedic and watching any emergency/medical show with him is delightful 45 minutes of “that’s not how you put a respirator on a patient. That’s not where that vein is. Who wrote this”
It generally baffles me that movie directors and writers don't just find people like this guy, that can give them proper information and tactics that first responders would actually use...itd make up for an awesome, realistic and immersive movie. Same goes for like, every modern war movie too...they should get actual soldiers and experienced people to direct and give tips for the scene
The problem with that is that an accurate portrayal of anything is boring. Just imagine the pulse pounding Report writing section in a police show while they wait weeks for a forensic report. While i agree that some inaccuracies are more egregious than others, what makes or breaks these shows is the drama or the intrigue they can create and real life is seldom exciting.
It’s definitely better if the writer consciously decides to forgo realism than if he is just totally ignorant and writes something totally detached from just anything
By far, even more than the ridiculous situations, the funniest part is how much they just... stand there. Talking. Simulating the days before radios, or simple multitasking. The real reason is totally because very few actors would be capable of taking multiple shots while sprinting around, yelling, carrying the extremely warm and heavy gear.
I did learn that 10 cm proximal of the wound should be enough, of coure there ist enough, and no joint. In the army i did learn the same, to take the whole limb.
@@1Rabenauge1 Also, do you ever really have a lot of choice of where to put it? Been taught in the army to only put it the upper arm/upper leg, since the lower half have "two bones" (not too but bones that split up and leave room for blood vessels in the middle where the tourniquet can't shut off blood flow).
@@hugowijk3676 You mean the fibula and the tibia in the leg and the radius and una in the arm? (Genuine question, I didn't realize how vessels between those wouldn't be affected)
To be fair, that might be the only information that the dispatcher could get out of them (whoever that was). The information dispatchers give out is highly dependent on what is given to them. Any info is better than no info, but that's when they ask whether it's possible for clarification or some other way to navigating. Luckily they weren't in black smoke, so they could take their time to figure things out.
@@KingHoborg That's true but hopefully the dispatcher would be smart enough to ask the color of the house before getting information about its gardening.
@@C.H.V. Easier said than done. I can't tell you the number of times I've been creeping down the road in the ambulance or engine trying to figure out which address we are going to. People just don't care about posting their street address in a conspicuous place... they NEVER consider that it is for their own safety when first responders are trying to find them. Sometimes they don't even put the outside lights on!
I once got sent to an incident that was dispatched out as being, and I kid you not, "next to the vineyard"... This was in the Napa Valley, you know, California Wine Country? The Dispatcher did have the decency to be apologetic, and said they were working on getting better information from the caller! I actually guessed correctly where it was, because it was about the only place along that road where ONLY one vineyard was visible!
As a cigarette smoker with early stage COPD because I'm an idiot and started smoking when I was younger: I'm calling bullshit. I mean, I know he's being sarcastic, but still. Cigarette and weed smoke? Both very light-colored. Also both not great for your lungs.
@@kanad.9397 Why not do it properly? If the show you're advising became a big success or gains renown for its accuracy, that means you're potentially in for the long haul, you can easily bargain for a raise, and you can put it on your résumé when you move on to other shows. And you're literally just talking about your real job as a side gig, too. Easy work for more and fatter checks, and free experience working as a consultant.
2:02 that's exactly like in the witcher 3 when you need to kill a monster in someone's house and the person says "uh yeah my house is in the west direction from here"
My new favourite channels are people who actually know what they are talking about reacting to people who don't. Informative, salty and funny. The three great flavours
@@shelbyhaase9754 that's actually good advice tho, just look for the big blue daisies, cuz if you touch it you get ice powers and can put out that fire easy peasy!
I’ve been thinking hard about going to Fire Academy and I’m SOOOOOOO glad I found this channel 😂😂 thank you for your service and thank you for your light heart ☺️
"The house with the big flowers!" Oh, you mean the ones that most likely aren't there anymore due to the fire that's burning down the entire neighborhood?
Well, not really, since most movies like this have a blaring huge ass "ALL THE STUNTS IN THE MOVIE ARE NOT FUCKING REALISTIC DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME YOU FUCKING IDIOTS, THIS A MOVIE, NOT A FIRST AID CLASS”, so yeah, no one will try that shit unless their idiots, and even then, the one to blame is the one who actually thought the movie was educational and real.
@@omransaeed1988 Do you have ANY idea, how many people I talk to that think ALL of the sprinklers go off at the same time, because of this type of BS?? We have people that put glue in their hair. Yes, I really believe that people think this shit is real.
@@omransaeed1988 Sadly, even if people get shown a disclaimer at the beginning of a movie, they are still going to believe it is real. That's just how the average person works. This is why it's so easy to control a populace, since you show them that the world is on fire, by showing them a forest fire and you can bet that there will be a few people who are going to kill themselves, before the phantom fire reaches their house.
The thing that annoys me is I know it's harmful but when there are forest fires and the AQHI is 10+ (and no clean air shelters are created) what are we supposed to do? And how + is it!? Am I going to lose a year off my life? Am I going to develop lung cancer? Or am I going to die instantly? You say it's bad but you are still letting businesses force me to work...
@@Oblithian Funny you should ask, because the answers to all of those questions is "maybe?", so enjoy wondering how much lung damage you got because your boss is an asshole.
*WAIT.* We tourniquet *LIMBS*?!? I was taught in EMT class, PHTLS and basically every other clinical setting that we just slap a TQ on the neck and call it good. I mean... the bleeding will stop... for good. Right? Fuck me, I've been doing it wrong all this time! DAMN YOU OEMS!!!
One day while reviewing scenarios at my volunteer department, the chief asked us: what should you do if the patient has a serious neck injury with heavy bleeding? My answer? Neck tourniquet!
I can imagine how much fun you guys have around the station. You definitely have a 2nd career in comedy or consultant.. love your skits. Keep them coming!!
This is gold. 😂 The good thing about being a German firefighter watching American firefighter series is that our tactics and equipments are so different, that it's easier to overlook the Hollywood bullshit. But station 19 is so damn stupid that I couldn't make it through the first season. My favourite was the blue fire. 9-1-1 was slightly better. But I really like Chicago Fire. I'm sure it's also unrealistic as hell, but at least they wear their masks and they don't switch their cars in every incident. Greetings from Germany. 😃
Wenn man drei staffeln "Feuer und Flamme" gewöhnt ist und sich dann das Zeug ankuckt sieht man erstmal wie verwöhnt wir mit unseren Sendungen sind haha.
These types of shows make the human race look stupid. I like to think in space, a ship just watched one of those shows, and passed us over for safety reasons.....
They don't make Firefighters look stupid. If you don't know about Firefighting, you don't know it's wrong. If you know about Firefighting, it makes the Film makers look stupid.
@@sussertheoriginal But if you don't know anything about fire fighters, you might make the incorrect assumption that the film makers do. Its the film makers reflecting reality to responsibility to bring forth a product thats reasonably true to life. (Unless its a show about a fireman alien that eats the fire.) That show if garbage all day long. Full disclosure, I have never watched an entire episode, the promo reels were so horrible, I generally jumped as soon as it came on.
@Dannys Suarez Yeah, they all use the same drama show formula that was modified for cop shows. This is probably why you see stupid cop show tropes, like arguments over jurisdiction between different stations.
This reminds me of why my siblings and I hate watching medical shows with our RN mom. It'll be (for us) super emotional and dramatic and she's off to the side yelling at the TV about all the things they're doing wrong.
Oh, I hear ya! Watching science-based scenes. Dad walked in mid-scene, “Why did he put a skull in a microwave?” And I lost it laughing! Not sure what the microwave was supposed to be but… yeah I often yell when shows call a blade the wrong name and then correct them. Epée vs foil vs rapier…
Clearly you only watching it to have a fake cry but when something real happens in your life not one tear for anyone you actually know because they did not do enough for you.
And the fact that the firefighter on the wood chipper scene who is doing the medical stuff was a former surgical intern so he SHOULD know how to do a proper tourniquet is just mind boggling
Can't believe it took me this long to find this series. The guy who runs these is incredible. And yeah, if the guy went into shock that fast it's because he instantly lost a rather large amount of blood. Might as well start checking for a will, you ain't saving him at that point.
OMG. That guy who got eaten by the mower is SO wrong. That is essentially a beefier version of your regular lawn mower. One really big, really thick blade spinning horizontally. The only way to get trapped in it is to lower it down on yourself. Also, the blade doesn't spin unless someone is IN THE CAB manipulating the controls to send hydraulic fluid through the attachment. It is, in that way, much safer than you gas-powered lawnmower. Even if they guy was that much of a moron to stick his hand under that very loud mower deck while it was running, he would not be stuck. He would be bleeding out of the mangled stump of his arm, lying in front of the machine and an arthritic corgi could pull his arm out from under it. - - Sorry, worked with heavy machinery some years back, and I know you'll cover all the medical and firefighting stuff they do wrong. Just adding my rage, er, two cents worth.
@@barklet6110 i thought it was the inside of a tractor motor. Which ive never seen before but if anything had to be the inside of a tractor motor, it'd be that right
I stopped watching tv because of shows like this, well that and 45mins of commercials. But i'd rather watch your guys content. It's always for a good laugh and no commercials.
@@mollyh80 Of course. I hate the fact that they pretty much butchered everything and everyone they mentioned, but the drama is on point. Still gonna talk shit about them though.
Me and you both. First who have sex in a firehouse? Never seen so many promotion to one person so first. What the hell the other fire fighter doing. And how the hell you go from battalion chief to starting all over again. Really
@@mdpo6419 Don't you just hate it when you spent 12 years in the force just so that a brat from nowhere came in and bam, he now has your job and you would be lying in a ditch somewhere.
Thank you for your service! My dad was in the Air Force, it bugs the heck out of him whenever military movies get things wrong; everything from how they almost never get the rank insignia on the uniforms correctly, to characters routinely making decisions that would very, very easily get them court-martialed.
I hate soap operas, but I stuck to watching Station 19 for some reason, and absolutely every episode has at least three of these "uhm, what now?" moments 😂 You nailed these! This is fantastic 👏🤣
