Brass Eye

Brass Eye (1997, 2001) is a Channel 4 satirical spoof documentary show. The series was created by Chris Morris and written by him, David Quantick, Peter Baynham, Jane Bussmann, Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan.

Series I

Animals

Fox Hunter: The fox feels nothing. It's made of... string.

Chris Morris: Institutionalised cruelty is one thing, but the twisted brain-wrong of a one-off man-mental is quite another. Ted Maul disturbs.

Drugs

Chris Morris: If time's a drug, then Big Ben is a huge needle injecting it into the sky!

Chris Morris: Luckily, the amount of heroin I use is harmless. I inject about once a month on a purely recreational basis. Fine. But what about other people less stable, less educated, less middle-class than me? Builders or blacks for example. If you're one of those, my advice to you is leave well alone. Good luck.

Chris Morris: People say that alcohol's a drug. It's not a drug, it's a drink!

Sex

Chris Morris: If this were really happening, what would you think?

Sir Hugh Maharggs: Homosexuals can't swim, they attract enemy radar, they attract sharks, they insist on being placed at "the captain's table", they get up late, they nudge people whilst they're shooting. They muck about. Imagine... the fear... of knowing you have a gay man on board a boat, when you retire at night you think to yourself "God... will I wake up and find everybody dead?" You can't run a ship like that.

Crime

Chris Morris: For the cops it's a jungle, where dangerous animals speak swearhili.

Decline

Chris Morris: The most likely explanation is that people are just seeing some blue light bouncing off a strut. But try telling that to these bog-brained murphies. You'd have more chance of getting a blowjob from the pope.

Chris Morris: Your phone calls tonight have been described variously as "rabid", "pig-ignorant" and "stutifyingly ill-informed". Thanks... for those.

Paedophile Special

Chris Morris: You are a paedophile, you are a nonce, you're a perv, you're a slot badger, you're a two pin DIN plug, you're a bush dodger, you're a small bean regarder, you're an unabummer, you're a nut administrator, you're a bent ref, you're the crazy world of Arthur Brown, you're a fence foal, you're a free willy, you're a chimney bottler, you're a bunty man, you're a shrub rocketeer...