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Season 1

  • S01E01 Pranks And Stunts

    • November 5, 2008
    • Channel 4

    This show is about the internet's best pranks and stunts. Featuring interviews with some of the adrenaline junkies and jokers responsible for them.

  • S01E02 Freaky Skills And Geeky Thrills

    • November 12, 2008
    • Channel 4

    Freaky skills and geeky thrills celebrates the people around the world who can do the things you can't do, won't do or shouldn't do.

  • S01E03 Celebrity And Wannabe

    • November 19, 2008
    • Channel 4

    This show features the best 20 examples of internet fame and features interviews with the stars behind them.

  • S01E04 Naughty and Naked

    • December 3, 2008
    • Channel 4

    Rude Tube celebrates some of the most outrageous and hilarious flashes of flesh to have graced the web; featuring the exhibitionists and mischief makers responsible for them. It's a spectacular mix of the titillating, cringe worthy and shocking - with dirty ditties, moments of shame caught on camera, seductive songs, and a boob tube workout all under one roof.

  • S01E05 Animals and Kids

    • December 10, 2008
    • Channel 4

    Animals and Kids celebrates some of the best-loved and funniest internet videos of all time; featuring the adorable children and remarkable creatures made famous online. It's a spectacular mix of bad behaviour, prodigious talent and animal magic: swearing babies, kamikaze dogs, break dancing toddlers and motor biking monkeys.

  • S01E06 Drink And Drugs

    • December 17, 2008
    • Channel 4

    Drink and Drugs celebrates the simple truth of internet clips: that it's essential not to engage in any foolish drunken behaviour, unless of course there's a camera rolling. Featuring some of the most notorious videos of all time and the heavily hammered people who star in them, it's a spectacular mix of the outrageous and often disastrous - with astounding feats of drinking, celebrity spoofs, semi-naked strutting and a drunk squirrel all under one roof.

Season 2

Season 3

  • S03E01 Epic Fails

    • October 6, 2010
    • Channel 4

    This show counts down the top 50 epic fails - a moment when things don't go to plan, but with such magnitude it can no longer simply be called failure. Cruel, but funny clips include the best man at a wedding getting taken out by a windmill, the guy at a music festival who mistook the urinal for a sink, and the church pastor who regrets going for a motorbike ride inside church. Tune in and find out who will be crowned the most epic fail and achieve the prestigious number one slot.

  • S03E02 Animal Madness

    • October 13, 2010
    • Channel 4

    This show features all things furry, furious and just plain funny, as we countdown Rude Tube's top 50 clips of internet Animal Madness. These are the moments when man, armed with only the humble video recorder, finds himself face- to-face with the light and the dark sides of the animal kingdom. From Mischka the talking dog, to a Great White who tries to lunch on a couple of terrified cage divers, the now world-famous OMG cat, and the rasping rooster who has become a star on Germany's Thrash metal scene, Rude Tube: Animal Madness brings you the animal kingdom's video clips that were born to survive - and decides which will be crowned the most incredible of them all.

  • S03E03 Ultimate Champions

    • October 20, 2010
    • Channel 4

    This episode features the top 50 Ultimate Champions, individuals who have become champions of the online universe simply by being the very best, or indeed the very worst, in their chosen discipline. We all know that Usain Bolt can run pretty fast, but can he pick his nose with his own tongue? Our Ultimate champions have yet to gain olympic recognition, but after this show you'll feel they should. From the world's greatest petrol pump attendant to the world's most emotional man - blubbing uncontrollably at a rainbow - these champions come in all shapes and sizes and have expertise that's equally varied and outrageous, from head-kicking to tooth extraction. Fearless, courageous or just insanely misguided, all these acts are special in their own right. But only one will be awarded the gold medal and be crowned Rude Tube's Ultimate Champion.

  • S03E04 Total Stunts

    • November 3, 2010
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane presents the top 50 Total Stunts - bringing the very best adrenalin-fuelled anarchy that's shaking up the internet. Forget Evel Knievel and David Blaine, the amateur stunt artists on the web are leading the way. Rude Tube brings you the people who risk life and limb for a moment of internet immortality, with hilarious results.

  • S03E05 Rude Tunes

    • November 10, 2010
    • Channel 4

    In this show, Alex Zane counts down the internet's 50 best Rude Tunes, featuring people who have used the planet's biggest media platform to shoot to musical stardom from nowhere. Forget the manufactured tunes spoon fed to us by the record companies - this selection offers raw musical talent at its very best. Between them they have more than 100 million internet hits, including rappers who are bad in more ways than one; George W Bush doing a cover of a U2 number; and a 75-year-old man's psychedelic video remake of Katy Perry's California Girls. There are some fantastic wannabes out there, but in this countdown, only one can be voted the best Rude Tube Rude Tune.

  • S03E06 Viral Ads

    • November 17, 2010
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane presents the most sublime, bizarre and ridiculous commercials found on the internet and counts down the top 50 Viral Ads - the online commercials that make the web the most exciting, comical and risqué shop window the world has ever known. With two billion potential customers online, if you've got something, in fact anything, to sell, then the internet is the place to be, whether you're a multinational or just one man with an aching heart. From the super slick, to the home-made moments of genius this is the advertising of the future, so open your minds to The Surfing Sheep, Sandy Balls, Cute Girls on Pogo-sticks, Darth Vader Tom Tom, Shark Attack in Venice and the Running Shoes that Walk on Water.

Season 4

  • S04E01 Mashed 'n' Mixed

    • September 12, 2011
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane counts down 50 different internet video mash-ups, in which original footage ends up being given a comic twist.

  • S04E02 Total Fails

    • September 12, 2011
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane presents the top 50 wondrous bits of Internet magic in which one persons total disaster is another's unmitigated joy.

  • S04E03 Epic Skills

    • September 26, 2011
    • Channel 4

  • S04E04 Utter Pranks

    • October 3, 2011
    • Channel 4

  • S04E05 Love Bytes

    • October 10, 2011
    • Channel 4

  • S04E06 Ultimate Stunts

    • October 17, 2011
    • Channel 4

  • S04E07 Rude Zoo

    • October 24, 2011
    • Channel 4

  • S04E08 Extreme Rides

    • November 14, 2011
    • Channel 4

Season 5

  • S05E01 Utter Fails

    • September 11, 2012
    • Channel 4

    A look at the Top 50 Internet video fails

  • S05E02 Animal Anarchy

    • September 17, 2012
    • Channel 4

  • S05E03 Serious Skills

    • September 24, 2012
    • Channel 4

  • S05E04 Daft Stunts

    • October 2, 2012
    • Channel 4

  • S05E05 Totally Mashed

    • January 17, 2013
    • Channel 4

    Alex presents the fifty greatest mash-ups on the internet including Casetteboy taking on the News, Darth Vader playing the bagpipes and Tupac Shakur being brought back from the dead.

  • S05E06 Complete Prankers

    • January 24, 2013
    • Channel 4

    Alex takes a look at the world of world of Complete Prankers as he presents the 50 greatest online video pranks.

Season 6

  • S06E01 Web Stars

    • July 23, 2013
    • Channel 4

  • S06E02 WTF

    • July 30, 2013
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane continues his exploration of popular online videos with 50 of the internet's most extraordinary clips - the very weirdest of the world wide web. The countdown includes rodent toothbrushes, a Swedish bear dance and an unusual method of unblocking a toilet

  • S06E03 Rom Dot Com

    • August 6, 2013
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane continues his exploration of popular online videos with a countdown of 50 clips on the theme of romantic comedy. Featuring some hilarious wedding disasters, the craziest marriage proposals on the internet and a strange act of adultery

  • S06E04 Dumb and Dangerous

    • August 13, 2013
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane presents a selection of popular online videos on the theme of dumb and dangerous, featuring unwitting contributors to their own downfall and others who have hit the self-destruct button deliberately in the name of internet glory. The line-up includes Man v Cactus, Woman v Water and Girl v Bus Stop, plus a humorous hair tutorial

  • S06E05 Rude 'lympics

    • August 20, 2013
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane continues his exploration of popular online videos with the inaugural `Rude'lympics' - 50 memorable examples of sporting success and failure. Featuring the Tenerife pool towel dash, a shopping centre Base jump and the world record for a dog licking a man's face

  • S06E06 Bad Trips

    • August 27, 2013
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane concludes his exploration of popular online videos with a countdown of 50 clips on the theme of travel, featuring a man who lives on his bike, the world's most enthusiastic trainspotter and an entertaining taxi driver. Last in the series

Season 7

  • S07E01 World of Fail

    • September 8, 2013
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane returns with a top 50 countdown of the latest internet clips featuring comical online catastrophes. Merry mishaps include a parallel parking fail marathon, the infamous Wealdstone Raider, a scary ice-cream van and a memorable television news debut

  • S07E02 Kick-Ass Animals

    • September 15, 2013
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane presents a top 50 countdown of the latest `kick-ass animals' of the worldwide web. The amusing clips feature a woman swimming with a great white shark, a mad Brazilian goat, a T-shirt stealing orang-utan and lots of playful cats

  • S07E03 Badass Stunts

    • September 22, 2013
    • Channel 4

  • S07E04 Mashed Up

    • September 29, 2013
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane presents a top 50 countdown celebrating the greatest internet mishaps. There is a sizeable collection of video mayhem featuring angry actresses, Ryan Gosling refusing to eat his breakfast and an appearance from Orlando Bloom

  • S07E05 Super Pranks

    • October 6, 2013
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane delivers a fresh selection of top 50 pranks from the worldwide web, featuring a band of brave jokers attempting to reach new extremes, and a scene in which actor and singer Zac Efron becomes the victim of a trick in his own limousine

  • S07E06 Internet Incredibles

    • October 13, 2013
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane presents a top 50 countdown of `internet incredibles', in order of their online popularity. In response to Hollywood's legions of superheroes, the web is fighting back with some heroes of its own, featuring the world's loudest female belcher, a human Wikipedia and a swimming baby

  • S07E07 Gods of Geek

    • October 20, 2013
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane highlights another selection of bandwidth-grabbing videos from across the internet, this time focusing on the antics of would-be mad scientists, who have uploaded clips of DIY experiments for the world's viewing pleasure. Devices exhibited include rocket-powered shopping trolleys, a treadmill on wheels and a toilet brush revolver

  • S07E08 Web Celebs

    • October 27, 2013
    • Channel 4

  • S07E09 Christmas Cracker 2013

    • December 27, 2013
    • Channel 4

    t's Christmas done the Rude Tube way as Alex Zane presents 50 brand new Crimbo clips.

  • S07E10 Welcome to 2014

    • January 3, 2014
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane welcomes in the New Year with 100 cracking internet clips. It's a mix of brand new alongside the very best from the past year. Featuring Vine sensation Bat Dad, the massive viral hit LED baby, and Granny Grand Theft Auto.

Season 8

  • S08E01 Planet Fail

    • November 11, 2014
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane presents a top 50 of the greatest online fails featuring selfie, gadget, and even exorcism fails

  • S08E02 Bad Ass Beasts

    • November 18, 2014
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane presents a top 50 of the greatest animal clips online featuring base-jumping marsupials, randy walruses and a raving ostrich

  • S08E03 Viral Idols

    • November 25, 2014
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane presents the top 50 internet stars, featuring an echo voice waiter, a beatboxer and the creepiest family band in the world

  • S08E04 Massive Prankers

    • December 2, 2014
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane presents the top 50 of the best online pranks, featuring selfies, an intervention and the greatest horror prank

  • S08E05 Fearless & Foolish

    • December 9, 2014
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane presents a top 50 of the best online stunts, featuring a shark dancer and the world's highest building climb

  • S08E06 World Wide Weird

    • December 16, 2014
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane presents a top 50 of online oddities including the world's stupidest tattoo and the weirdest public information film ever made

  • S08E07 Arena of Awesomeness

    • December 23, 2014
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane presents a top 50 of sporty clips including flying press ups, the bikini wax race and the greatest tackle ever

  • S08E08 Rude Tube Christmas Cracker 2014

    • December 24, 2014
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane presents a very festive collection of brand new internet clips from around the globe, including a mashed-up Monty the penguin and Mariah Carey... with a beard!

  • S08E09 Cats and Dogs

    • December 30, 2014
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane presents the final show in the current series with a top 50 countdown of the greatest cat and dog clips, including Wolverine cat and Jiff, the world's cutest dog

  • S08E10 Welcome to 2015

    • January 1, 2015
    • Channel 4

Season 9

  • S09E01 200% Cats

    • August 2, 2015
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane kicks off the new series of fine clips with a whole show dedicated to cats. There are angry cats, devilish cats, zombie cats and even a flying cat!

  • S09E02 Masters of Disaster

    • August 9, 2015
    • Channel 4

  • S09E03 Internet Icons

    • August 16, 2015
    • Channel 4

    Alex countdowns the top 50 Internet Icons.

  • S09E04 Cunning Stunts

    • August 23, 2015
    • Channel 4

    Alex presents the most daring, dangerous and downright deluded stunts currently available to view on the internet.

  • S09E05 Prank Bank

    • August 25, 2015
    • Channel 4

    Alex countdowns the top 50 clips featuring the best and freshest pranks from the world wide web.

  • S09E06 Kick Ass Critters

    • September 1, 2015
    • Channel 4

    Alex countdowns the top 50 clips featuring the latest and greatest Kick Ass Critters on the internet.

  • S09E07 OMFG

    • September 8, 2015
    • Channel 4

  • S09E08 Love Sexy

    • September 15, 2015
    • Channel 4

    Alex countdowns the top 50 clips featuring videos devoted to love, sex, marriage, dating and everything in between.

  • S09E09 Ultimate LOLs

    • September 22, 2015
    • Channel 4

  • S09E10 200% Dogs

    • September 29, 2015
    • Channel 4

  • S09E11 Welcome to 2016

    • January 1, 2016
    • Channel 4

Season 10

  • S10E01 Daredevils & Dummies

    • January 11, 2016
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane presents a top 50 of the internet's craziest clips, featuring a daredevil kissing a cobra and a dummy surfing on the roof of a train.

  • S10E02 Clan Anarchy

    • January 18, 2016
    • Channel 4

  • S10E03 Mashed 'n' Trashed

    • January 25, 2016
    • Channel 4

  • S10E04 Rudelympics

    • February 1, 2016
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane presents 50 clips from the internet showcasing the funniest and greatest alternative sporting and athletic heroes and fails. Featuring cats doing a workout, a woman who laughs her way to a six-pack and a weightlifter with a unique hands-free technique.

  • S10E05 Feasts of Fury

    • February 8, 2016
    • Channel 4

  • S10E06 Animals Unleashed

    • February 15, 2016
    • Channel 4

  • S10E07 Man v Machine

    • February 22, 2016
    • Channel 4

  • S10E08 Epic Legends

    • February 29, 2016
    • Channel 4

  • S10E09 Cats v Dogs

    • March 7, 2016
    • Channel 4

  • S10E10 World Wide Weirder

    • March 14, 2016
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane counts down 50 weird clips, including a bizarre remake of The Shining. Last in series.

  • S10E11 Welcome to 2017

    • December 30, 2016
    • Channel 4

Season 11

  • S11E01 Animals Assemble

    • May 16, 2017
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane presents a new To 50 countdown of online animal moments including the bear burglar, a gangster crab and the raccoon takeover.

  • S11E02 Face Palms and Face Plants

    • May 23, 2017
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane presents some fresh, jaw-dropping Internet clips featuring the worst wedding intro ever, and a head stuck in a pumpkin.

  • S11E03 Weird v Weirder

    • May 30, 2017
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane presents a fresh Top 50 countdown featuring brushing teeth with fireworks, the most bonkers wrestling stunt ever and the incredible vegan rap.

  • S11E04 Superstars of Stupid

    • June 6, 2017
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane presents some downright online idiocy. There's a sleepover in Ikea, a painful Mentos rocket to the face and a never seen before BMX stunt.

  • S11E05 Ultimate Legends

    • June 13, 2017
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane presents the internet's biggest sensations including the best entrance to a dance tent, the chicken shop reviewer and Korean Billy speaking Roadman.

  • S11E06 Cats v Dogs: The Rematch

    • June 20, 2017
    • Channel 4

    Canine and feline face off to decide who rules the Internet. Includes a bulldog addicted to licking his owner's head and America's angriest cats.

  • S11E07 Planet Prank

    • June 27, 2017
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane has the best mischief and mayhem from around the globe, including Paige Ginn, a top classroom prank and a scientific discovery from a ladder prank.

  • S11E08 Heroes of Fail

    • July 4, 2017
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane presents some fresh heroes of fail with the worst wedding ring delivery ever, the world's worst football miss and the funniest cross trainer fail.

  • S11E09 Creature Chaos

    • July 11, 2017
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane presents a fresh Top 50 countdown of Internet clips with a collection of animals, beasts and critters gathered from the burrows, nests, zoos and wilderness of the world wide web.

  • S11E10 Greatest Hits

    • July 18, 2017
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane presents a fresh Top 50 countdown of hilarious and jaw-dropping Internet clips. From the Rude Tube vault, there are legends such as Tron Guy, David at the Dentist and bad lip reading.

Additional Specials

  • SPECIAL 0x1 Rude Tube: Pilot

    • Channel 4

  • SPECIAL 0x2 Rude Tube: 2009

    • January 2, 2009
    • Channel 4

  • SPECIAL 0x3 Rude Tube: 2010

    • January 2, 2010
    • Channel 4

  • SPECIAL 0x4 Rude Tube: 2011

    • January 7, 2011
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane kicks off the New Year with a top 100 Rude Tube countdown, combining the very best clips from Rude Tube 2010 with a special gift of 50 brand new, never-before-seen clips. What a year 2010 was for internet videos - there were Fails, Stunts and Animal Madness galore. After sifting through tens of thousands of internet clips, this show compiles the best in order of online popularity. Among the featured clips are: Rick from Hedonism 2; The Tortoise Dancing with a Toothbrush; The Incomparable Urinal Fail; and Geordie Pants Man. And look out for some new clips destined to become classics, including The Ultimate Wedgie and The Cheeseburger Fight; as well as a few festive numbers such as a girl playing Jingle Bells with her cleavage. Only one act can be crowned Rude Tube 's top 2010 clip, but with over one hundred million internet hits between them, this is guaranteed to be the most outrageous and entertaining end-of-year show around.

  • SPECIAL 0x5 Epic Christmas

    • December 25, 2011
    • Channel 4

    A countdown of 50 Christmas themed clips.

  • SPECIAL 0x6 Christmas Cracker

    • December 25, 2012
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane introduces 50 of the finest festive clips from the winternet featuring the very best moments of yuletide hilarity and insanity. Featuring the world's worst and sexiest Santas, some very alternative carols and the best Christmas surprise ever

  • SPECIAL 0x7 Welcome to 2013

    • January 11, 2013
    • Channel 4

    In this New Year special, Alex Zane introduces 100 of the web's very best clips from Rude Tube past, present and yet to come, as cats with boobs and hamsters pretending to be shot rub shoulders with President Obama's rapping MC Hammer.

  • SPECIAL 0x8 Web Stars

    • July 23, 2013
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane presents a countdown of internet A-listers - people who have achieved celebrity or infamy just by appearing on the web. The show features the so-called Simon Cowell of online songs, a man who threw a house party in a furniture shop and the Jesus lookalike who was removed from a darts tournament

  • SPECIAL 0x9 Badass Stunts

    • September 22, 2013
    • Channel 4

  • SPECIAL 0x10 Christmas Cracker 2015

    • December 24, 2015
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane and Tiny Tom present special Christmas clips including the best way to undecorate the Christmas tree, the guide to what not to buy your girlfriend, and a turkey with a boob job

  • SPECIAL 0x11 Christmas Cracker 2016

    • December 24, 2016
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane and his little doggie helper Bah Hum-Pug provide a selection box of 50 seasonal clips including festival fails galore, a rocket-powered reindeer and Christmas dinner in a tin

  • SPECIAL 0x12 Welcome to 2017

    • December 30, 2016
    • Channel 4

    Alex Zane welcomes in the new year by celebrating the best 100 clips of the year. Featuring a zombie apocalypse, the boxer dog mannequin challenge and a classic with wine and a treadmill.

  • SPECIAL 0x13 Welcome to 2012

    • February 6, 2012
    • Channel 4