"Why are you filling up your car?" "Out of gas." Is the funniest fucking thing I've seen in months

I love to think that some ancient Mayans were creating their calendar and thought "Right, all the way to 2012. This was hard to make, but I'm sure that the people of 2012 won't mind making a new calendar once this one's time is up.".

“Women don’t have much to do with computers” Literally the first ever computing machine was partially made by a woman, Ada Lovelace in THE EIGHTEEN FORTIES!!, who is also considered to be the first if not one of the first programmers, like. My dude. Check your mfuckin facts

To be clear, the Y2K bug absolutely was a thing and a lot of talented programmers and computer engineers worked their asses off to fix the problem. It wouldn't have been the end of the world, but it would have caused a lot of problems if left unchecked.

the why two k joke is legendary. i don’t make the rules. no one will ever make a better joke. this is it.

"Why are you filling up your car?" "Outta gas"

I remember we were having a New Year’s party on 12/31/99, and the moment the countdown finished, my dad turned off all the power to the house. The panic from all involved was palpable.

The "threaten your physician" part is batshit, but the whole thing about not being able to get a reasonable amount of extra medication to keep on hand for emergencies is an actual concern for the disability community. A disaster can mean pharmacies not receiving stocks of meds, or us not being able to pick up our refills, but thanks to excessive gatekeeping our lives are put at risk by not being able to plan ahead.

that clip of "why are you filling up your car?" "out of gas" is so fucking funny i can't believe it's real

I've actually seen "The Last Stand Mixer." It turns out that they were actually Adam and Eve.

Yes we were fine - however it wasn’t because it wasn’t an issue - it is because thousands of people in the IT industry patched all of the systems in time. Believe me it was a major effort that everyone worked on until the final hours. I was present in the healthcare industry during Y2K.

as a pastry cook, i think i would genuinely pass away if all stand mixers stopped working

To be fair, putting the word FOOD on a label makes me immediately suspicious that the contents are not really food.

"They put two k's instead of one. Which begs the question... Y2K?" That is the best pun Kurtis has ever made, maybe ever

Fun fact Y2K was a diverted emergency. Things really were going to stop working but a team of computer engineers worked together to fix the issue with the computers and diverted the problem

I remember hearing my grandparents talking about how we would have to get horses after y2k, because all the cars would stop working, and let me tell you... I was so. Fucking. Excited. I wanted that damn horse.

I’m kinda upset that I’ll never get to hear that “why two k?” joke for the first time ever again.

his moustache-hat-mullet combo makes him look like a trucker that'll give me some solid life advice while also teaching me the ways of the eighteen-wheeler world

My anxiety definitely stems from growing up with the media constantly going through apocalyptic messaging. It's just ingrained in me now. Y2k, the blackout, 2012, Sars, 911, covid 19... I'm not sure if there's more but I can remember each of these issues like it was yesterday.

Aight not to be a nerd but basically, the concern with Y2K was that when the digits flip over to 00, it doesn't just look weird, the computer actually reads it as 1900 rather than 2000. So if you had a medical record of someone born in 1901, then when they visited the hospital next, the computer would think granny caught a cold a year before she was born. It COULD'VE been an issue, but thankfully it's a fairly easy fix. Helps that we had a good amount of warning in advance, seeing as we don't change centuries terribly often.

Missed opportunity in the trailer to use “it’s a whisk I’m willing to take”

that fucking “y2k?” joke was so insanely perfect i think died for a second.

Y2K WAS a real thing, it took hundreds of people thousands of hours to update every system so nothing would crash when the clocks ticked over. If they did nothing, then everything woulda been fucked.

I was 6 when Y2K hit. Thankfully my family was sensible, and my father at the time was a sysadmin so he was actively working on making sure systems wouldn't break - and so we knew it was going to be harmless. Fun fact - Y2K only affected Windows workstations, as at the time Unix systems ran a 32 bit integer of seconds since January 1st 1970 (no, that date has no meaning, it was chosen randomly) - which means they would have been fine until 2038. (And now we're running 64 bit systems so we're good for a LONG time) 2012 hit different though. Has anything really felt real since then?

I’m fucking dying at that clip where everyone thinks the world’s ending and this absolute legend is just like “outta gas” with some dumb lady asking him why he’s getting gas as if there’s any other possible reason....

That "why two k?" joke was the best y2k joke I have ever heard.

"women don't understand y2k" My mother, a software engineer, literally was part of the team that spent months solving the date problem in the company she was working in at the time

My mother was very nonchalant about the whole thing- I was 10, and our whole family grew up in the woods near a major river here in Alaska, so we were used to expecting difficult events and my own mom survived multiple events to include the Alaskan 1964 earthquake. We woke up the first morning Jan 1, 2000, shrugged, moved on, and about ten years later I saw my first internet cat video. We all turned out to be fine after all 😂 🐈

Reporter: "why are you filling up your car?" Man: "Outta gas!" Wow, riveting journalism!

When my great grandma died my parents went to go clean out her house. They didn’t keep much, but what the did keep was a 2 liter bottle of 7 up filled with water labeled Y2K. We still have it in our house 20 years later. It is my favorite family heirloom.

17:00 Completely right. In Fallout games, bottle caps are used as money because they decided they're valuable

I worked as an IT professional in the late 90's, and let me tell you that the reason Y2K never became an issue is because we worked around the clock from about 95'-97' to patch every single system with updates that fixed the potential issues. It "didn't happen" because we fixed it. Also I'm a bit late to the party. Do I need a patch?

Lmao , Kurtis that "why two K?" joke was legitimately the funniest thing I've seen in months lol

Imagine kurtis just sitting in front of his computer, writing the new script, and he notices the 2 ks. A single tear rolls down his face.

fun fact: the US federal reserve actually had a Y2K disaster response team that worked to keep the economy from collapsing in the event that all the computers stopped working and poured billions of dollars of US government money into modernizing financial computer systems across america. the team had a command post in the fed's william mcchesney martin building on the night of the new year, where approximately 100 people monitored the world's transition into the 2000s. the government prepared for a complete recession, stockpiling cash at 90 locations around the US and releasing billions of dollars worth of liquidity into the US banking system. the disaster team stayed up all night to make sure that the country transitioned smoothly into Y2K.

I was 16. I think I remember this exact BS video. My poor grandmother was terrified. She bought cases of Coleman propane tanks and some -20 degree sleeping bags. Maybe we were going to die, but weren’t going to die cold.

Dude. That “Why two k?” joke may have been one of the greatest jokes ever written. Not just YOUR greatest joke, kkurtis.

Men: "women don't understand computers or math or time or dates" Women in the early 1900's who literally held the job description of Computer: "Sorry what was that? I was busy running complex mathematical operations by hand." Women in the 1960's: "Sorry, what was that? I was busy doing math for NASA to make sure the moon landing will actually work."

I'm sure others have said this but the only reason nothing happened on the year 2000 was because there was a ton of attention that went to the problem. Countless numbers of people worked really hard to prep computer systems, update software, and set up new systems in order to ensure that everything kept working. The risks were very real although some, like all the nukes launching were complete fiction, but if we hadn't done anything there would've been significant problems. So credit to all the people who worked hard to avert any issues with Y2K.

Truth about y2k was that it was set to happen, but everything that didn't matter was dropped so that the main computers that actually mattered were updated to avoid it. Didn't stop my dad from shutting off the TV around midnight. He had a ear to ear smile when my 10 year old face turned to wonder and shock that it actually happened. At which point he pointed out the lights were still on and just started laughing.... old man definitely got me there.

if kurtis had a second name starting with “f” his initials would be “KFC”. end of the communication.

That “outta gas” guy is a most chill person I’ve ever seen

Y2K is a joke because 300 billion dollars was spent to ensure nothing happened. Lots of updated firmware, my dad was working in factory robotics at the time, apparently it was a big deal for corporate and industry but not nearly as big a deal for average people. It was better in the long run, cause it meant we stopped using systems from the 1960s.

What's funny to me is that people were probably freaking out about Y2K right up until midnight, meanwhile it's almost 24hours ahead in Australia and they were straight chilling and nobody seemed to think about calling over to ask if everything was good over there

Kurtis, your parents went to an “end of the world party” instead of hanging out with their kid... on the night when the world may have ended. Are you ok?

“Are you filling up your car because of Y2K?” “Not at all, I’m not worried.” “Why are you filling up your car?” “ *Out of gas.* “

I remember this, well, not this instructional video but the whole Y2K crisis. I remember all the older generations saying “see this is what happens when you rely on all this ‘TECHNOLOGY’” usually with dramatic air quotes around technology. People thought everything in the world was just gonna stop and we were gonna go back to the Stone Age. And then midnight rolled around and literally nothing changed. I remember my uncle who was chemical engineer but was also like brilliant about everything really didn’t think anything was going to happen. So I wasn’t that scared. Everything scientific wise I have ever asked him has been right from what my memory serves me. But it was a huuuuuuuuuge deal.

I would totally watch 25 minutes of Kurtis listing names of apocalyptic movies

Fun thing: My dad absolutely believed that Y2K was going to happen, and he placed gallons of water all throughout the house. My mom called him an idiot on January 1st, 2000.

dude with his most 2000s chill ever responded "outta gas" as casual as his lack of fear is my spirit animal from now on

i would pay for kurtis to review every single apocalyptic movie

In 1999, I was 25 and working in medical records. I was largely sure that Y2K wouldn't change anything, but in the back of my mind I was worried about having to use paper medical charts again. Those things suuuuuck. Also, I got blackout drunk that NYE and was hungover for a full 48 hours. Good times.

kurtis is the only man with a mullet, mustache, and home improvement hat combo that i trust

As a female Computer Engineering student, I can confirm that I know nothing about computers.

So my Grandma was working as a head IT in a huge food distribution warehouse leading up to and after 2000, and she once told me that one of her coworkers asked her what they were going to do on y2k, to which she responded “I’m going to come to work, and you’re going to come to work, and if anything is wrong we’ll fix it before the warehouse workers get here”

I almost ate radium the other day because it had the label "food" on it but then i remembered this video. Thanks, Kurt.

Kurtis: “the world could end from an alien attack, or like a big...” Me: Asteroid? Kurtis: “Shark.”

“Women no understand computers, date, time.” The woman who invented wi-fi: 🤨

I wish I could find anything about Jim Lord after the year 2000, but everything I can find about him is from the 90s. Did he blip out of existence on Jan 1, 2000? Was HE the one that was not Y2K compatible ALL ALONG?

My parents mentioned next to nothing about Y2K until the 2012 scare when my mom offhandedly mentioned it. Neither of my parents believed any of the doomsday crap anyway. I graduated high school in June of 2012. 2012 was all what half my school was talking about. My senior class started calling us the "Doomsday Class" since we were going to graduate then "die" in the fall. The graduation parties that were held was wild.

“the last stand mixer” was like an snl level sketch dude holy shit

that “why two k?” joke is perhaps the funniest thing anyone’s ever written… john mulaney who??? i only know kurtis conner

Y2K actually did almost happen, programmers and pretty much anyone whose job was computer related were working their asses off day and night to save us, only for for people today to say "haha, it never happened, we were so silly"

19:55 that was such a good joke! i did not see that coming bruh!

The thrown baby bit's audio was way too good it caught me off guard.

can we all just appreciate how the universe came together specifically so Kurtis could make the best y2k joke of all time

I was working for a small company as a database developer during Y2K. I was pretty much the only tech/ developer, and management insisted I spend the night at work on 12/31/1999 to make sure everything was okay. Being alone at work with high speed Internet all night gave me the perfect opportunity to download music and play games. We did have some issues with our billing system, but I had fixed those months in advance. And yes, all I had to do was test our code with future dates to figure out what needed to be fixed.

I remember in 2012 on the day the world was supposed to end my 2nd grade teacher decided we should, instead of school stuff, watch Ice-Age to prepare or something(?)

So tired of Hollywood casting adults as kids on movies, that kid in "The Last Stand Mixer" was obviously over 15.

Thinking about how my dad saw this, believed it, followed it and then locked himself in a bunker with my mom that night. Anyways my parents got divorced.

People definitely hoarded toilet paper during Y2K. I know this because there was a King of the Hill episode about it.

The “Why are you filling up your car?” “I’m out of gas!” exchange has the same energy as when someone asked my mom what she’d be doing on December 21 2012 for the end of the world, and her response was “Celebrating my son’s birthday, because IT’S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD!” Can we all give my mom a round of applause?

“why two k?” ...what are we going to do now that kurt has made the best joke he’ll ever make?

It makes me so livid when men claim women don’t understand computers when it was women who pioneered computer science in the first place, it wasn’t a respected field until men noticed how useful it was and swooped in to steal the credit 😐

Fun fact: the Y2K bug was a real thing. It mostly affected banking systems and anything that relied on the date to calculate something. Say for instance you had $10000 in the bank with a 0.05% interest rate. Suddenly the system has to calculate how much interest you got, but it thinks the date is 100 years before you added the money. Shit gets fucked. While it was a real thing, all bank systems were updated before the millennium. There was no concern about nukes going off, or cars shutting down, or planes stopping mid flight. And it was identified and fixed before the bug affected anything major.

My grandma bought a replica Aztec calendar for decor in 2012 for the aesthetic. My family had a great sense of humor tbh

'Why are you filling up your car?" "Outta Gas" Took me out

I was 20 during y2k. I remember when the clock struck midnight we all just kinda whispered *happy new year* when nothing happened we all cracked up and went on partying 😂😂

10:15 im gonna CRY WTF IS THIS KURTIS YOU WERE OUR MAYOR I TRUSTED YOU NOT TO SLIP IN A VIDEO OF A MONKEY PISSING KURTIS WHYYYYYYY

13:59 W bidets L Toilet paper

That "why are filling up your car?" question had the EXACT energy of the "how do you manage to keep your pants from falling?" vine

I’m disappointed that Kurtis didn’t make a “mixer? I hardly know her” joke

History video said one of the three creators of ibm found y2k in the mid 60s and pointed it out. And they all continue to do nothing. The adults who were afraid of Y2K are just people who figured out how to use a computer when Facebook came out. If at all

Kurtis is literally 18 during 2012 lmao made me question our age gap

So the morals here are: • Keep two liters of water hidden around your house. • Just because something says food on it doesn't mean it is food. • In case of emergency, threaten and/or beg your doctor for more prescription meds. • Women can't grasp the concept of time. • The kids were Adam and Eve the whole time.

My 4th grade teacher believed in Y2K catastrophes and when kids said they’d “see her next year” for Christmas break, she just said “no you won’t.” First day back: awkward

They knew nothing was gonna happen, they just trolled the world to see what people would do. 😂😂😂

20:09 WHAT LMAO

y2k can never be not funny, it’s like the early, “a.i. turning against humanity” scare

I was almost 8yrs old when my unstable mother kept me and my younger sibling up ALL night for Y2K. She was convinced-and excited-that we were all ‘going to die and go to Heaven’. Then when the ball dropped and Y2K happened, she just smiled softly, shrugged, and put us to bed?? No apology, no explanation, just took the L and moved on. I’ll take Things To Never Do To Your Kids for 500. 😩

I had a college job at a call center for Bank of America. For about 6 months they had a number for people to call for ytk. They got me. Weird time in my life

The Prince song had nothing to do with the Y2K bug. The lyrics were just "party like it's 1999". That was lunacy people made up about it in 1999 when the general population started hearing about it (it was brought up in sitcoms and local news segments as filler content). In '95-'97 it was only computer geeks who knew about it. By the time the public heard about it computer engineers were relieved that it would (probably) not be a problem.

I don’t even care, that “why two k” joke was the peak of his career. I’m unsubscribing now

This guy is cool. He should be a mayor of a town or something

I was born in 1998 so I don’t remember Y2K but I do remember 2012 and it was absolutely hilarious being in English class as a freshman and us watching the clock as it ticked past the minute the world was supposed to end

11:08 these ppl telling u not to panic over the apocalypse reminds me of the media telling us to not be anxious or depressed during the Covid-19 pandemic, and then going on to tell us how many people were currently dying while we were simply trying to enjoy our instant noodles.

I was ten when this went down. My parents literally cried and said their goodbyes to us. It was really traumatic and my four year old brother was so scared so I lied and said they're all just overreacting and we'll be fine. Little did I know..

I died at the "why are you filling up your car?" "Out of gas" that guy is my hero.

knowing that there were probably so many people who missed out on celebrating the MILLENIUM, a literal once in every 10 lifetimes event, because they were too busy worrying about a couple zeroes on computers is insane

I was in high school in 2000, and I had family that genuinely thought the world was over. We knew someone who liquidated nearly everything they had to invest in survival stuff and live "off-grid". He sadly got sick, cancer if I remember right, with not much to support himself. He's been gone for around 20 years now.