It’s amazing how long Rockstar has skated despite consistently making some of the most customer-hating business decisions of the last ten years.

I have to give credit to Rockstar. They managed to not even reach even my lowest expectations.

Can confirm from working at Taco Bell. The false advertisement is real. They use set scoops for everything and often don't look like the pictures. 6 bucks for false advertisement is real messed up. As in crunchwraps being super expensive and often being near empty or lopsided af.

Weirdly enough, in Europe Mike's petrol pumping technique would work fine. Here you just drive up, select the specific nozzle you want, then fire away and pay afterwards in the shop.

False advertising law needs to be taken more seriously, the companies rarely get repercussions for it: it's usually a warning like" oh don't do that again" when they do it again but in a different way lol

That first part gives me of Blizzcon 2018 vibes, when blizzard announced diablo immortal on mobile, companies these days, all money & no passion.

As someone who works at taco bell it's insane how much they tell us we are over portioning when it's already not enough. Seriously we can get written up or even fired by putting a decent amount of meat on your taco. On top of that the prices keep going up especially at my location which is a franchise and the prices are already expensive here .

I live in a state where we have gas attendants that just come to your window. The first time I drove to a different state I sat in my car for 10 mins waiting for someone to come to my car. Not one of my proudest moments.

You know there’s quite a hullabaloo when Charlie starts using words like “goofy”

As a scientist, I can confirm that crazy brain is a technical term and it’s super scary, guys.

“First one’s always free, that’s how they get you” with the context had me rolling

8:18 Thank you Charlie for emitting a noise worse than most of Jerma's unhinged mumbles and grumbles

I was so excited about the possibility of getting a remake/remaster that I completely forgot for a brief second what Rockstar has become over the past few years. Goofy me.

8:19 moist man does big burp lol haha

9:14 First ones always free that’s how they get ya 😭😂

id love to see him make random openers from time to time. or maybe slowly overtime he could make an h3 story that if you played all together would be nice

Mike Pence is one of those people that nobody on either side of the aisle likes. It's actually impressive how he's managed to alienate everyone of every political persuasion.

Oh my god, I didn't know I needed to hear Charlie call the Take-Two CEO a vampire in a sweater. That made my entire night.

I found it interesting hearing you describe how not to use a pump but where I’m from you described exactly how they work. You pick the pump up and it’s ready to use.

another thing about taco bell, they took Taco John's (a smaller fast food chain) to court and basically bullied them to surrender their trademark on "Taco Tuesday" when they could've easily just stroke an agreement to use the phrase

As a former gas station employee and someone that has spent hours watching people pump gas, it's more common than you might think to not know anything about pumping gas.

There's infinite drama on the planet for Charlie to let us in on, all in one place. Thanks for curing the boredom

This needs to be a series!. This needs to be a series!.

The gas pump one is an amusing look into how it works in the US, woulda been fine in another country as that is how it works. Was interesting learning how US pumps work. It's all self serve here and you don't have to put a card in or select what fuel, US be wild.

We now got two legendary videogame quotes: "surprise mechanics" and "commercially accurate"

In regards to the Taco Bell story, having the item aesthetically look worse but still have the same portions is one thing. But, undercutting portions entirely is another. I think the lawsuit has some grounds here. How many times have we received a basic taco from TB and it have a few crumbles of meat rather than the amount shown in the product images? Way too often

I worked at a gas station and the most entitled people were those from states that didn't require you to pump your own gas. Though some just refused to pump their gas, some genuinely didn't know how.

Commercially accurate means they recognize there are enough dupes who will buy it at any price

I was super confused 😂 I assumed the game would be like $15-$20 at most, considering it came out more than a decade ago. Never imagined it would be $50. For a port....

As an Australian the whole mike pence thing went straight over my head, i have never seen a pump that requires your card to be inserted and our pumps have 2-4 nozzles to choose from for the different fuels

“Disconnected from reality” that pretty much some up politicians and celebrities.

You've really been on point with jokes lately keep it up

As an Aussie, I didn’t know what was wrong with the pumping at first because we do exactly that and pay after

If only it was more common that game companies actually revamped their games instead of doing things that are basically silly mistakes.

I think the big difference with the food advertisements between taco bell and McDonalds or Wendys is that when you see an Ad for a whopper or a baconator you see a burger with X amount of patties, and toppings, which is usually what you get even if it doesn't look as good. With a crunchwrap you see something that looks burrito level thickness but when you get it, its barely 1 inch thick.

As a HUGE life long Taco Bell enthusiast, everything is half the size of what it should be. It’s become 50% tortilla no matter what.

What's really crazy is just that all of these restaurants are allowed to get away with false advertising just because "Nobody thinks the food would actually look like that."

Charlie please start translating the news for us more often. You would make such a great anchorman!

The only time the Crunchwrap has been close to the image advertised was when they had the "Triple Double" Crunchwrap, they FULLY loaded that thing it was great.

5:08 you can hear it telling him to choose a gas 😂😂😂😂

What makes the $50 price tag even worse is that you can buy the game right now for the Xbox for less than that (Digital or physical) and get actually a better gaming experience, as the ports won't even have the multiplayer aspect.

Fun fact: In Europe we pump the gas then pay so many wouldn't find that ad to weird. Mostly in the UK and Ireland where most gas stations don't even have the option to choose an octane level

"Vampire in a sweater " 🤣 i just screamed laughing! I'm so glad I found this channel today.

Love thinking about how the random teenager being paid minimum wage to make a Crunchwrap supreme at Taco Bell probably will never know that the entire company he works for was sued for it

I am sure the gas pump thing could be explained by it being a recording. Without knowing how many takes they were going to have; they probably didn't want to keep paying for gas until they got it right. Maybe he already filled up his truck from take 1, and though they could get away with pretending for the rest.

I would love to see Charlie making shampoo tier list or making an ad with shampoo, like his hair deserves it

This has to be a weekly thing!

3:03 I heard they stuck ice cream up there, at least that's what my pastor said.

Charlie's ability to make a 14-minute complaint video entertaining is immeasurable. I don't know how he manages to keep this up consistently for years.

One thing me and my friends have noticed with Taco Bell, is that even if we get the same order, the amount of fillings are WILDLY inconsistent depending on the day and employee making it. Sometimes we’ll get a burrito that rivals the ones at Chipotle, sometimes it’s barely any bigger than a taquito with the bare minimum of “that’s what you ordered” amount of filling

Pence wasn't even holding the gas hose trigger. My head canon is that Pence didn't want to pay for gas.

To clarify with regards to the gas pumping thing; a few states, such as New Jersey, it's illegal to pump your own gas. The stations all have attendants and you are required to let them do so. As someone who lived my whole life in NJ I had no clue how to pump my own gas and actually had to look up how to do it before leaving the state. On top of that, of the two gas stations I've used outside the state one of them required you to pay inside as opposed to at the pump, you still needed to pay first. In regards to him not pumping the gas properly, as others have stated, it was probably a case of they did multiple takes and didn't want to pay for multiple times at the pump especially not knowing exactly how long each take was going to be. In the end he still looks like a total goof though because of it, they could have easily had the station kill the pump for the amount of time he was filming so that it wouldn't sound ridiculous. They also could have recorded the video and then dubbed it over later to cut out some of the wind and car noises as well as the pump's beeping.

The funny thing about the gas-pump thing is that what he did would actually of been fine in Australia. You just park at the pump that has the fuel you want, fill it up, then go and pay in the store for how much you pumped.

The thing about food in advertising is it's often not even edible, as they're often dressed up for photoshoots/commercials. We're talking glue added in to pizza cheese to make it look more melty and whatnot. An instructor I had back in college with experience in the industry mentioned you'd pretty much not want to eat anything in adverts.

3:36 that "lord have mercy" sounds so genuine terrified for these peoples souls

I live on a lil island where u roll up to the gas station, put the nozzle in, flip something up, put how ever much gas you want in and then pay at the end by going inside. I just realized we dont select what kind of gas either lol

8:00 I can, unfortunately, verify that is not the case lol. I bumped into someone at a gas station that looked so confused with the gas pump. She was pretty shy in asking how to work it, but she also mentioned she was from Oregon and I had to remember that places exist that you couldn't pump your own gas. Something so obvious to a lot of us was brand new to this person.

I've always wondered when Taco Bell would get a false advertisement lawsuit. I thought my local Taco Bell just shorted us everytime until I went to another on the other side of the country. Their crunchwraps were basically all lettuce, wayyyy to much cheese and like a teaspoon of meat.

LMAO That belch…amazing. I actually laughed out loud.

Nier Automata on Switch is $40 which I think is a pretty good benchmark. Ports do take a lot of work but they really should have looked at other ported games for an idea of what customers will accept as a fair price

6:23 yo charly here in europe you do indeed just roll up to the pump, take the one you need and pump gas, then you go into the store and pay

Honestly, I feel like the food industry has gone too far with display photos for food. The food pictured doesn't have to be a 100% identical meal, but when there's zero chance your meal is gonna look like the photo, that's false advertising.

Bro I watch you because your roasts are like from another dimension and this videos proves it.

Ngl I been pumping my own gas for 3 years and still don’t know wtf is happening everytime I try to get has

The Taco Bell thing is 100% believable. I ordered a crunch wrap one day because the ad made it look scrumptious, got it, and it looked like someone sat on it.

Honestly the constant disappointment coming from AAA studios is becoming increasingly tiring and I've been switching over to the indie scene for some time now because of it.

I remember when I received my first free shipping sized parcel of cocaine, it was all over for me then - those sharks are in for long journey 🤣 great coverage man enjoyed the video!

The beeping sound also comes on after you pay and remove the pump asking to choose your octane level of gas.

I just found out how US gas pumps work. Where I live in the EU you just grab the nozzle of the gas you want to pump and you start pumping it (the machine detects automatically what nozzle you used). When you're done pumping you go inside the gas station to pay for it (people don't run away without paying because that's only gonna lead to police knocking on their door). Most gas stations don't have a card reader on the pump itself.

Actually when Oregon(one of two states that you couldn't pump your own gas in) said it was no longer mandatory for gas stations to have an attendant, people were losing their minds because they didn't know how to pump their own gas and thought it was too dangerous.

Loved the jeeves and wooster reference!

Fun fact about emulation. It itself is not illigal (in the USA). When you purchase a game, you own a right to that file. However, you do not have the right to distribute it. You can legally emulate any game you own. Which Nintendo has been trying to ban for years.

Here in Germany, Mikes gas station session would have worked because at most gas stations you can just start filling up your car and then pay afterwards

I think the theme in this (apart from the shark story) is how pathetic, out of touch and untrustworthy corporations and politicians are.

I had to pause the video to ask this question - you mean you choose which type of fuel you'll have digitally? That's so fascinating (I'm not from the US and stuff). Where I live, you pick which pump number you are, and usually each station has three hoses, and you can use any one of them as long as they're connected to your number of pump. Which makes it so easy to put the wrong fuel - they're color coded so that's good, but I always get that stress spike of "which one is it I want again" OTL

As a former gas station worker in washington state, can confirn ive had grown adults from oregon politely and embarassedly ask me to come pump their gas for them because they dont know how and never have. Ngl, at first i had the same reaction in my head "dawg thats sad", but ofc visually i was polite and helpful, and i instantly changed my perspective when they explained it to me: So in states like Oregon and others where there are gas pump attendees (Washington is not one of those), the reason that position exists AND they enforce it, like, to the level people are not legally allowed to pump their own gas, as a measure of job protection is how it was explained to me, as well as a safety measure for the gas station lot+avoiding gas hoarding or stealing. Which makes a lot of sense to me when I think about it. So yeah, there are generations of people who unless they went out of state a lot, never have pumped their own gas. And as an addition to that story I of course showed them how, explained it, so that they wouldnt have to ask if they didnt want to in the future. And in Washington im not actually supposed to do that beyond for disabled people regularly, since it often leaves the inside of the store unwatched. Ofc exceptions like this existed. Edit: Im not really all that political leaning to any extreme nor can I say i care much about Pence since tbh i only know about him when others talk about him so i consider my information fairly invalid. But in terms of why that Ad went so wrong, i mean, hes doing an ad and probably didnt need gas there so ofc hes not gonna buy gas he doesnt need, hes making an ad. Not a literal stop. BUT, if your gonna make an ad and try to be relatable, maybe a bit better of setup and thought into it all could have served that ads effect drastically x,D and been not nearly as goofy Like personally? I would have got a fuel efficient car, emptied it and then showed just how much it costs at a regular stop, not the best, nor worst ones, and let the impact of the rising numbers do their work in hitting us all in a very familiar pain, and then delivered everything else he said, paying for the gas and then adding "While that doesnt hurt me the same it hurts all of you, I understand that this number here is a agonizing reality for all of you, and i want to change that" Think of how dramatically more that would have hit?

Charlie gonna go wild when he finds out that in Australia we literally pull up and fill up our car BEFORE we pay lmao not only that be we have to go in store and talk to someone to pay, we don't have machines on the pumps. I was so confused at that point till he explained.

In almost all cases fast food looks nothing like ads. There's literally a profession called "food stylist" the food is typically under cooked and has hidden pins, glue, and other non edible ingredients to make it look better.

Oregon just decriminalized pumping your own gas this summer and I can assure you that there are a lot of folks who have absolutely no idea what to do at the pump

Most food photography is done with the actual food item and amount but arranged differently to look better.

charlie letting out his demons before talking about cocaine sharks was something interesting

6:11 to 6:28: In Australia petrol pumps actually work exactly like that (kinda): You rock up, there's 4 different pumps for each type of fuel and you just pick which one you want and start pumping. You don't pay at the pump but at the register inside the station, they have number plate recognition so they can still see if you don't pay

in oregon, my whole life we’ve had people pump gas for us in most of the state BUT everyone still knows how to do it, especially because we’re surrounded by states where you pump your own

"Rolled a 1 one the charisma check and delivered it with no enthusiasm" had me dying

"Crazy brain" feels like the writer was gonna google the right term when he was done writing that part and forgot, and just left in crazy brain by accident lol

These companies never seem to factor 'goodwill' into their calculations. It’s valuable and important and once you’ve lost it it's very hard to get back.

I never even knew they beeped if you took the pump put before putting I by our card. I just always put the card in first.

In and out is the only fast food chain to where the food that you get actually looks like the picture. In and out is the best

In Australia, most people are super familiar with just rolling up and choosing from the 3 or 4 pumps and slotting that bad boy in the car then paying for it inside, I totally didn't even realize he was doing anything wrong lol

Id love to see Charlie at an Australian gas station. Bro would be flabbergasted.

Charlie being a Taco Bell shill makes me think he hardly ever gets food from Taco Bell. I have ordered Taco Bell through DoorDash on multiple occasions and there's almost always hair in my nachos because they care that little about the food they make

8:18 what a fucking BLAST to shot at us out off nowhere, such a power move

I'm glad you explained the petrol pump situation as I'm from the UK and had no idea what he was doing wrong. We don't have many of the pay first then pump pumps if that makes sense, and I stay clear of that voodoo if I come across one which is very rare.

I was confused what was wrong with the gas pump at first because in Australia you literally do just grab the nozzle and put it in the car. there's separate nozzles for different types of petrol/diesel and you just grab it, put it in and pull the trigger one thing i only learned recently from a friend working at a servo is that the staff will press a button on their end to allow the fuel to start flowing. afterwards you go into the store part to pay for your fuel and you tell them what number pump you're at some servos have an app you can use to pay so you don't have to walk over after - especially handy if you ride a motorcycle so you dont have to take the helmet off

The man wasn't even pulling the trigger to pump either 🤣🤣

They're so nice to take Mike out to play car on his free time.

I think there are still a multitude of places in the US, especially rurally, that allow the pumping of gas on the honor system of paying after you pump. Gas thieves aren't exactly common in these areas because if they steal, they'll not only be immediately apprehended, but also be cutting themselves off from one of the few gas stations in their locale.

Around 11 years ago I think some images of McDonalds "ad vs actual" food went viral and they got a lot of criticism to the point the McDonalds Canada Director of Marketing went and made a video that's still up to this day (with comments turned off lol). She "explains" that the food in the ad contains exactly what they'd give you at a restaurant, but they push all the ingredients to the side that will be photographed. If they got away with that, I'm sure pretty much every other restaurant will use that same excuse.

Jersey has laws against pumping your own gas. Seeing people come over the bridge to Philly and staring at a pump like it's some advanced chem station is fn golden.

“This is so goofy” just applies to anything at all. Life is absurd.