I'm still in awe at the absolute blunder that is me calling Bruno, Omar, through the entire video. Pre-Cult please forgive me.

Chris was on the “we don’t talk about Bruno” train LONG before anybody else.

When the white girl went as a black girl to a clothing store for a job application they told her they weren't hiring but then she went as herself the next day and they were like YEAH YEAH we are hiring actually. That really hit her how fucked up the world is. I'll never forget that shit

Did we miss the irony of how racially ignorant and insensitive the "etiquette" class kids were when they went to the house? That was bad.

The work it must’ve taken to put them in full white/black face everyday for however long this lasted is wild

When she said "being black let's her be outrageous in a way" I about fell out

Having seen the show myself I have to say I can explain why Renee has a problem with Carmen. It’s not that she called her a bitch. It’s that she dropped it out of nowhere and then never apologizes. The closest Carmen comes to apologizing for any of her behavior on the show is with a “I’m sorry that you were offended.” THATS where the tension is coming from.

I have watched Jarvis Johnson and Jordan Adika react to episodes of this show. Knowing now that Bruno was an actor, rather than the husband of Carmen/her daughter's stepfather... idk if it makes me feel better or worse

9:31 wow she seriously questioned that boy’s sexual orientation in front of everyone like it was anyone’s business. What an ignorant fool.

I love how we parody our society with the most ridiculous concepts and a few years later it becomes our reality

So much respect for how you actually sat through 6 hours of this

How pissed was the make-up artist. Every actor with a massive hard on to immediately tell everyone they're undercover white/black lol

Holy shit,this hurt to watch just the commentary of it. You sir are a courageous man for enduring this for us.

i can not understand why you dont have more hype, you are one of my favorite youtubers but also in the future when you hit 100k I can say “I have been here since you had 3k”

7:55 "because I be listenin to like 50" "50s, 60s, 70s, 80s?" 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

I remember back when this was being promoted, Ice Cube was on a talk show and explained the intent was to make a modern version of “Black Like Me”. The book had seen a small resurgence in popularity thanks to references in several shows like Boy Meets World, so the pitch kind of made sense in the context of that time. (Not intended as a defense of the show) There was also an active push for black representation on modern networks, and pushback to tokenism and black characters that were stereotypes. Couple that with a lack of cultural awareness among whites of blackface, and that is where this tone deaf show (designed to make white liberals feel good) came from. Morgan Spurlock’s 30 Days has a veeeeeery similar vibe with it’s own set of problems. Worth looking into as a content mine.

The girls at the house, wearing the hats and clothes "YALL KEEPIN IT REAL HOMIE G" so painful to watch.. as a white person, I am so thankful I wasn't raised to think that sht was okay lol

you really blessed us with that lush hair this video chris

The face of the other kids dying inside when that girls rapping says it all.

Finally! I have been dying for someone to talk about this show, that I thought was a fever dream.

Something that shocked me is that they censored other cuss words except for the n slur

What the hell was Ice Cube thinking ? Did he really need a pay cheque that bad

I'm totally blown away that this was a REAL SHOW! Wtf?!? I don't remember it ever being shown in my country, and usually we get EVERYTHING from the US. Just wow

I thought this show was a fever dream. A hallucination. I drank too much Robitussin. Thank God you made this

You, Kurtis Connor and Drew Gooden post on the same day ?! My night is made rn. The Holy Trinity

Yall make me feel old. When this came out me and my brother were like how wtf

There is one thing embracing the moment and actually living like them and staying in role the whole time to learn to feel the difference in lifestyle and social standing but these 2 are another level of embrace. They are going deep into the role to see what they can get away with.

The literally made the black guy look like the Dave Chappell sketch 😂😂😂

Dude seriously how do you not have 5 million subs? I love these reviews and reactions to these old shows from my childhood. This is seriously a great channel, your a great character, funny, luscious hair. I can't wait for more people to see this.

The fact they didn’t use Robert Downey jr is criminal😂

@10:35 Omar is literally getting told he is insensitive as he completely ignores it and begins to talk over the other man, the irony is almost unbearable

At least 100 people had to collectively be like "yea, this is the one"

Chris- "Anytime you hear me say Omar just know it's Bruno" .... My brain - "We don't talk about Bruno no no"

the mother is also racist tbh, but the kind of racist that thinks they’re “celebrating the culture”. It reminds me of Ms Morello from the everybody hates chris show

I forgot how amazing that show was. The differences in growth between all the cast and the complete lack of growth from Bruno “The white dad”. He may be a “actor” but I do think he is the actual step father. Everyone in California is a actor. Rose has the most growth. Staring with scared to hug black Omar or Bruno to having a crush on dude from her class and realizing that racism is not all people see everyone as human beings. Amazing

Tons of respect for being honest about covering this first. Great vid.

Man this show had me on the floor laughing when it came out. Thanks for reminding me about this

This video unlocked a memory I tried to videotape over omg. In my last year of high school, 2016, I was in the band for my school’s bi-annual musical. This year was Hairspray, y’know, the once that has a major plot line about racial tension in 1960s Baltimore. But this was at a majority white upper middle class college in New Zealand-we don’t really even have African-Americans, there was definitely no black students in my year. So their solution? The darkest foundation Kmart sold set with cans of hairspray (no pun intended, that was the method). I had a friend (at the time, terrible person actually) on the cast who seriously thought she was one of those “MUA SFX” people, and she had out reference pictures of random black people in stock photos, using BLACK EYESHADOW to make “realistic” creases and things on the rest of the “black” cast. God it’s actually taking me a while to write this because I’m cringing so hard. I should be clear that I don’t blame the kids, they were just doing what they were directed to do by the white directors (although MUA friend had just turned 18, yikes). If that wasn’t bad enough, we have our own serious racial issues, mostly between the majority pakeha (white ppl) and indigenous people of NZ (Aotearoa), the Māori. There were Māori students on the cast, crew, and in the band. Obviously I cannot speak for them, but surely they and/or their parents were aware of the sensitivity of race and the callousness of the white teachers who led the production. The fact that the school administration, the city’s biggest theatre, the paying audience, and the newspapers that raved about the performance for weeks afterwards didn’t mention a single thing about the group of white teenagers in blackface in 2016 honestly appalls me. It was definitely noticed, but everyone overlooked it. Of all the musicals, they just *had* to perform Hairspray, and use blackface to do it. So blessed I’m too introverted to act and hid under the stage behind my drums the whole run.

Racism : *exists* Bruno : wrong, have you tried just vibing everywhere you go? If you vibe, you won’t experience racism

For the longest time, I vaguely remembered an advertisement of this show as a kid. But it felt so surreal, it was such an absurd concept, I thought i MUST have dreamed it. Thanks for finally setting the record straight for me.

Skin color is not the only thing that's makes white and black people different. Face shape and bone structure are different as well.

I just discovered your channel (more House Hunters content PLEASE) and I squealed when I saw this. I watched this back in 2006 and it was soooo cringe. Bruno was THE WORST. You didn't mention it, but the part where he and Renee go to the focus group and all of these black people are talking about their REAL experiences of being called the n-word. Bruno, in BLACKFACE and still determined to prove that racism is only in the minds of black people, actually tells a fake story about how someone once called him the n-word and he just laughed it off because he didn't want to give the person the power. It was bananas. It also came out that Bruno had a bunch of anti-black posts around the internet including a "rap" video basically about how black people are thugs and criminals and their own worst enemy. Ice Cube should be ashamed.

Well, holy shit. I could've gone my whole life without knowing this existed. Thanks, Chris! I hate it! Having worked in the production of several reality shows (i was just a grip), I can tell you that no, most of what you see isn't written. That's the whole point of reality shows; you don't need to hire guild actors, guild writers, or guild directors. Saves you a boatload of money. What is true is that producers absolutely manipulate situations. They goad, they ask ridiculous questions, and sometimes they send an intern out to go catch a raccoon and throw it in the house. The editors do the real magic, though. They can take a shot from four days ago, reverse it, zoom it in, and suddenly you have people reacting to each other in magical, impossible ways! Fact of the matter is; stick some crappy people in a crappy room, film what happens. Edit it. Television magic!

The funniest part of this whole thing was you explaining how you mixed up the names! 😂😂 oh wow ty so much awesome video

I do not know how you can argue that racism no longer exists when the Civil Rights Act was in 1964-not even one hundred years ago. Voting Rights was 1965. Fair Housing was 1968. It’s not like people just stopped being racist when these were passed. It’s not like the generation of children that grew up during that time didn’t just erase the blackface and black stereotypes they saw on TV and memories of their parents participating in the murder of black people and accepted that every one is the same no matter their skin color.

"Is that one of the Jackson's!?" NO Carmen! That's Angela Davis! I'm as white as Wonder Bread and even I know that!SMH!

Just found this video after watching the calab video you did. I love the contact there’s just one thing I do have to say. When you talk about Renee, getting upset about the B word. If you if you watch back the episode and look at what Renee and Carmen both mouth, you’ll see that she didn’t just say the B word she said B N. Me and my partner were sitting here talking about it and we realized that you might’ve overlooked that because I’m sure the subtitles didn’t show it, but watch Renees mouth when she says the word and watch Carmen’s mouth and listen to the number of beeps that actually happened. I don’t expect that anyone will actually see this considering this video was a year old and I’m a geek. Anyway, love your content. Glad that I found you after watching gabi and your video.

I ain’t gonna lie, “ is that one of the Jackson’s “ was too funny 😂😂😂

I'm sure you get this a lot but you remind me of Leonardo DiCaprio. Just stumbled on your videos this morning and now I'm bingeing your stuff. I love the variety and your sense of humor. Literally laughing out loud... thanks for that!

I just found your channel the other day. You're gonna blow up soon your content is gold

“My name is Bruno and I became a black man” is a wild way to start a video 😂

They had us watch this when I was a freshman in high school. I forgot why, but we watched it in class.

8:46 being "black gives u permission to be more outrageous" !!!??? WTF DOES THAT MEAN?!?!

If this came out today it would be hella controversial but people would still watch it cause it's definitely an interesting premise for a show.

The white woman is being passive aggressive. That’s why it’s hard for most to pick up but catty women do this all the time no matter what race lol.

The cringe!!!!! The secondhand embarrassment was strong with this one

"endlessly curious and unexpectedly intelligent"? for real? and Ice Cube? for real?

Love your content, man. I watched all of these ridiculous shows, so it is fun revisiting them with you.

I actually watched this show when it aired. I’m glad you covered it because I've never found anyone who's watched it.

Thanks for watching it for me and prevent me from the pain of watching it 😂 I just discovered your channel a couple of days ago and I love every single review. We will get you to a Million subscribers 🙏💪🤘

I think your perspective is pretty different from that of a Black person. I was surprised there was no mention of Bruno dropping the "N" word many times, even after being told that it was inappropriate. Bruno and Carmen were highly offensive. 14:13 14:13

I lost my shit when the end credits played and you used the Ice Cube song

Man said he gets joy cause he puts joy out, racism is over apparently cause when someone insulted you you didn't give joy back

How do we fully learn about each other if we cannot walk in each others shoes? That’s what Ice Cube was going for.

Chris, did you actually ordrer the entire show on eBay?😂✌🏻 love the dedication you have for the craft!😂✌🏻

The early 2000's were so damn weird.

Lmfaooooooooo you accidentally referring to Bruno as Omar has me cracking up lmfaooooooooo so did he do a good impression? Lmfao don’t answer that! Haha trick question hahahahaahahahah

Encore! This is so awful. Even if Bruno is an actor, he is true to the breed, and there are many more egregious examples. My ex-husband used to start a sentence with, "I'm not a racist, but..." I could get whiplash from trying to stifle the eye roll. Six entire hours is nothing short of heroic, so thanks a heap. lol

One night the show was filming at my local bar/restaurant in La Cresenta, CA. It was so obvious that the “new bartender” was in full make-up and over acting. The production crew told everyone it was a “reality” show. I’m so happy I didn’t sign the consent form to be shown in the episode. I had forgotten about the amount of cringe this was!

Man, this show has been in deep storage in my memory 😂. I remember when this show came out when I was in high school. It was cringy then but good lord is it horrible now.

First guy: "...I became a black person." "But I kept my credit score. Bwahahahaha!!!"

Omg Chris, I never heard of this show yet I am glad u did a video about it. I'm almost interested but just from the snippets you shared I can see myself being angry as hell the whole time. The racially insensitive behavior of those kids when they found out Nick was really black infuriated me! With that being said, I get that experiments like these are done in order to bridge gaps and open the hearts and minds of the racially "sleep" but I wanted to fight!!😡🤭🤭Anyway, so far I'm diggin' ur vids man. Stumbled upon you and have watched a couple of your videos. You really crack me up with your sarcastic sense of humor. I love it!! You may have found yourself a new subscriber!😏😜

I remember watching this show. The premise had so much promise, but it was executed poorly. The theme song Ice Cube made was nice tho

At 4:40 the bleeped-out word sounds like it has two syllables and does not sound like B****. It Sounds out Like the N-word The second time the white woman is obviously saying "Yo B****". At 4:47 when Renee's words are bleeped out watch her lips, again it seems a lot like two syllables. My limited ability to read lips tells me she's saying N****R. My initial thought was also that the white woman had dropped a heavy racial slur based just on how everyone there reacted. It would also explain why Renee refused to let it go. The showrunners obviously liked the intensity of the drama it caused but, didn't want viewers to know they were playing with words they shouldn't be encouraging people to use.

Love your videos! Btw, that was 2 decades ago! Could you possibly imagine if they did that today? Oh my God. The shit storm that would follow!

I remember this show vividly. Watched it on TV when I was like 13

We watched this in my high school sociology class. In 2013. At a mostly white catholic school. You can imagine how the discussions went afterwards. I cringe to this day

We don't talk about Omar

I love your content, Chris! You deserve a LOT more subs. Your production value is amazing!

I wouldnt be able to sit and watch this embarrassing show for 14 minutes if it wasn't for you. You are outstanding my good sir.

The blackface almost kind of sort of looks acceptable. Like I wouldn't just instantly assume they were white before they started talking. I would probably assume the dad was a really dark Indian or something but at a glance it isn't the worst makeup I have ever seen. The whiteface on the other hand made those people look like ghouls.

Is there any show that’s more 2006 than this show?

that 2 second snippet was enough to get that goddamn "race card" song stuck in my head and then the mental telephone of having it repeat for several weeks straight has turned it into "racecar" vroom vroom ice cube go vroom

Bro bingeing this videos are making my wife crazy because I can't stop laughing so hard lmao I'm dying

This is as good as your House Hunters vlogs 😉 When the white woman touched the black woman's hair .. oof. ((cringe))

This show would actually be a great idea even today, some folks would realize how they look and act when they think they're doing something as an 'aly' when in reality you're acting batshit ludicrous.

I remember this show and didn’t see anything wrong with it but now that I’m an adult this show is so cringey but hilarious 😂

Bruno looks like he could be an extra in Tropic Thunder. Thanks, I hate it.

There was a part where both dads went out as black guys and acted like they needed a battery jump. The real black guy was skeptical about people helping. Everybody helped.

Are we sure that she did say "bitch?" I honestly wouldn't be surprised with the power of TV editing if she used something else and the producers maybe tried to soften it? But the reaction still stayed the same.

I forgot this show. We had to watch this in junior year psychology. Like, for a grade. 2007 was a strange time. It might have been part of Anti-Bias Week activities, which makes it even funnier.

I remember this show. Lmao the scrapbook making scenes had me cracking up.

I actually just watched the entire season last week! All I wanna say about it is they ALWAYS pick the wrong white family. Edit: "if you a zebra better come out them stripes" 😆

Obviously doing blackface isn't socially cool even though I still think they killed it in tropic thunder. Nobody wants to talk about white facing I don't understand how that's not offensive like the Wayans brothers dressing up like white chicks in that one movie , I can't remember the name of .. I think people should be equally offended.

theme song made me laugh because after 37 years, I DID get my race card! thanks to the canadian government doing a genocide I only learned I wasn't white a few years ago, so along with my status card, I got a shitty settlement for loss of heritage.

Hours putting on that makeup and no one stopped to say…nah the world doesn’t need anymore racism? 😂

I think it was a great concept with poor execution that should possibly be revisited. It's a great social experiment into each others actual views if the make up could be better.

*pokes with stick* Be Black

“So much was okay back then for some reason.” I say so little is okay today for no reason.

I think there is a good idea here exploring perspectives and experiencing things like systemic racism. It's just that I don't think there's a way to really explore that as going around as the other race without it being problematic.