Memories of watching Eurotrash in the 90s

some random drunk

What are yours?

In the days before internet porn, Eurotrash was the best thing around. I was 13 or 14 when I first heard about it. Mate of mine who was a renowned bullsh*tter started going on about a tv show where a girl had "Tits the size of beach balls". Naturally I didn't believe him, but still had to check it out, on the off chance it was true. Watched it once and Jaysus was I hooked. Never doubted him again . These are some of my best memories:

• Watching it with one hand on the remote, ready to switch channel when someone came into the room. Used to always switch to Sky News cos that was "safe". Except one time my Mam walked in, I quickly switch to Sky and by some absolute fluke they were doing a report on teenagers watching porn.
• Recording it for watching later. I got an old VHS tape of a football match and recorded an episode or 2 after the match. Then I'd rewind the tape and label it "Man Utd 0-0 Liverpool" so no one would ever watch it.
• One time I was over at a mates house and we were watching tv in his kitchen, which was showing the feed from their skybox located in another room. His (rather conservative) mum was in the kitchen too and was making some comment about the show we were watching when all of a sudden the channel switches over to Channel 4 and its showing a girl measuring fellas d*cks with a measuring tape. Turns out his sister was a fan of the show too!

So folks, who else secretly watched Eurotrash? Were you ever caught? What are your memories of the show?

TeddyTedson

Annoying voice over woman.

Anto

My name is URL

I remember it was shite

super_furry

Still find it weird that Jean Paul Gaultier was the presenter. Even then he wasn't doing it for the money.

Cienciano

The best fapping material back in the 90's. It's still repeated, Antoine is a legend.

Kurz

I liked when Antoine dressed up as Prince Charles with the ears and teeth. The Romeo cleaners also had me in stitches because they were so skinny and always looked freezing wherever they were.

Peepee and Poopoo the puppets were pretty funny too.

And boobs were good to see in the vast, boobless wilderness of early '90s television.

MJ23

Having a fap with sound only barely audible on the telly, with the sitting room door open, listening out for someone to walk in.
that was some serious multi-tasking.

fasttalkerchat

Series 1 is also now available on 4oD.

Fratton Fred

That was probably the point that people realised that the Belgians weren't so boring after all.

jester77

some random drunk wrote: »

a girl had "Tits the size of beach balls".

ah, Lolo Ferrari. Girl committed suicide not long after.

I remember the naked German house cleaners

some random drunk

I remember a segment about a fishmonger who worked nude in his shop. He was an aul lad in his 50s or so and going on about how he started it because he was tired of his clothes smelling of fish. He said business had improved since he started the nude thing, as his customers appreciated the whole naturism thing.

Er................I think it may have had more to do with the fact that his hot 18 year old daughter also worked naked there

Captain Danger

Was anyone else slightly disappointed on their first trip to Europe?

1ZRed

Just the 90s? I was watching this as my own source of porn when I was 11 in the noughties!

Back then when you'd change the channel the image would stay on screen for a second and wouldn't go blue until the next channel was on.

I remember when we had NTL before sky I'd make sure to change the channel twice because if you hit the yellow button after changing eurotrash, it'd go right back to it.

There was a thrill in playing Russian roulette with the sky remote, unlike fapping away to your phone in your room like nowadays :P

Captain Danger

I told a bunch of randomers in a pub that I had the box set a while ago. I don't, of course, but the look on their face was priceless.

CardBordWindow

I remember listening to the lads in school talking about it, and me just smiling and nodding, as I only had RTE at home.

DyldeBrill

haha yes!

Remember they had a comp between 2 women to see whos nipples were longer! Measuring tape and all was taken out haha.

I was caught many a time watching this by the rents:pac:

3ndahalfof6

Ill probably remember the eurotrash that is going on now more,when the time comes to remember it.

Da Shins Kelly

Sure, I remember my parents used to watch it and find it hilarious.

Larbre34

Yeah Eurotrash was the mainstay of teenage friday night fappage, long before kids of a similar age had the money to spend the evening drinking vodka in their friend's gazebos.......

I fondly remember it for that of course, but to widen the discussion, what other outlets of TV filth mongering do people remember from the pre internet age?

As someone who was 15 in 1990, Channel 4 was king, apart from Antoines and Jean Paul, you had racy american sitcom Dream On (which was actually very funny), various documentaries on all things filthy, famously they ran a Banned Season which contained all sorts of titillation. The Word was also a good source of naked hedonism

On a classier note, BBC2 were usually good for an adult french movie of a Sunday night, or they would have showed bold films like Henry and June long before Irish TV would dare.

I know, I know, I shouldve got out more!

Rented Mule

There was internet porn in the 90s ........TRUST me.

seven_eleven

We had sky in the 90's? :eek:

I just had rte 1 and 2

1ZRed

Rented Mule wrote: »

There was internet porn in the 90s ........TRUST me.

No broadband though. Feck waiting 10 minutes for a high res photo slowly filling in from the top down :pac:

DwightSchrute1

The late night films on TnaG of a friday night, which were usually French used to be great for showing naked women! better then any porn site

CardBordWindow

DwightSchrute1 wrote: »

The late night films on TnaG of a friday night, which were usually French used to be great for showing naked women! better then any porn site

......if you don't have the internet.

norrie rugger

Rented Mule wrote: »

There was internet porn in the 90s ........TRUST me.

Super-Rush

The ten minute freeview on the Adult channel was much better.

Mellio

My first recollection of it was back in the 90's and I do remember one oepisode where they televised a man getting a penus enlargement, it was gross watching all the fat getting pumped in, was very odd looking bent like a banana when finished. well it was better than the two inches he had in the first place, wouldnt mind but his missus was hot with big babylons.

BrianD3

Larbre34 wrote: »

As someone who was 15 in 1990, Channel 4 was king, apart from Antoines and Jean Paul, you had racy american sitcom Dream On (which was actually very funny), various documentaries on all things filthy, famously they ran a Banned Season which contained all sorts of titillation. The Word was also a good source of naked hedonism

Remember the Red Light Zone, 1994 or 95 I'd say that was - several hours of potential titilation every Friday night which unfortunately rarely lived up to the hype. I used to tape it and fast forward through it to find any good bits which there rarely were.

Eurotrash was good - plenty of funny and good bits. I still have some of it on tape. Tapes used to get passed around in school.

The Word - often failed to live up to expectations but had the occasional good bit. Eg the singer of L7 dropping her trousers on live TV and the "never seen before on TV" Pamela Anderson Playboy video. IIRC this showing of the playboy video had been hyped up in the previous week's programme and there was a great deal of excitement about it in my school. VCR remotes at the ready!

The Girlie Show - not a whole lot of titilation but I still liked it, they had the "Wanker of the Week" and the "Naked Apes". David Hasselhoff and Shane Ritchie were two of the ****

French films - the two that I remember were Last Tango in Paris and Betty Blue.

If I recall, some of the tabloid press referred to the head of Channel 4 at the time as "pornographer in chief"

120_Minutes

I'll see your 90's eurotrash and raise you the softcore films that were on Sat1 and RTL on the auld analogue satellite dish circa '89.

Brain Stroking

Eurotrash = Eddie Wally

My hero.

fasttalkerchat

French films on TnaG were always good for a bitta tit.

fasttalkerchat

Could you get Channel 5 south of the border? It was a smutty Channel 4 and both were banned at my granny's house.

smash

Playboy 10 min teaser every midnight on sky. When I stayed in my friends house we used to sneak in to watch it. One night we didn't realise his dad was recording something though and we flicked it on, watched and reverted back to the original channel. The next day he says to us "I recorded the assassin last night, I know you're not old enough but you can watch it with us if you want"

We ran to the sitting room and say on the couch beside his mum and dad and sister. Around 25 mins into the movie the channel started to change and his dad say "ah Jesus, who was messing with the telly"... Que 10 mins of utter silence as the playboy 10 min teaser starts.

Nobody changed the channel, and nobody spoke, we just sat there sweating and waiting for it to end. When it did, his mother just said "we'll that was interesting" and his sister broke her heart laughing at us.

oranbhoy67

laughing at some of these memories.. yes Channel 5 was good on a Friday night too .. - always showed movies starring the buxom Shannon Tweed

I remember watching eurtorash too & i turned the volume right down in my room so no one knew.. only to hear faintly from the living room that my Dad was watching it... " durty auld bugger" i thought hahaha


I also remember the Red light zone weekends on channel 4 & the many foreign films.. which i would set the timer on my VCR in my room to record as they were usually on at 3 or 4 AM.. get home from school then the next day and watch it on fast forward to look for the elusive bit of boob or even better bush


But talking about VCRs .. they didnt half make some noise.. when you were watching something ilicit in your room late at night they seemed to make a noise like a jet engine during take off.. especially during rewind!!

smash

Before eurotrash there was the word. Guaranteed a bit of tit.

A Primal Nut

Haha it's funny to hear how many people were in the same boat as teenagers pre-internet.

I remember RTE Airtel had reviews of all films on all the terrestrial channels (including BBC, UTV and Channel 4). I used to read the reviews and look out for the word erotic. "Erotic Drama" or "Erotic Thriller" was enough for me to tune in. The films themselves were usually ****e, though, but there was just about enough nudity to make it worthwhile.

But yeah, Eurotrash was the only guaranteed nudity I remember. Me and my friends considered it porn.

Where To

Anyone remember the adult zone on ITV teletext?:pac:

Never watched Eurotrash, German porn on the Astra satellite, our local pub used to show it after the barman's mother went to bed.

Martyn1989

Lol Eurotrash was great, except when they had naked aul lads on it, which was extremely common.

Anyone see the one with the aul one who had the longest pubes in the world, it was simply disgusting.

I remember a mate brought a selection of page 3 pics in to show around, he got really pissed off when about half of them were pocketed and no one would own up.

McChubbin

Eurotrash was the balls. I used to sneak into the living room aged 10 toi watch it out of sheer fascination. First time I ever saw a cock was when they had the guy with the world's largest on. Needless to say, it left me with some dubious expectations in my adult life...

Celly Smunt

trying to crack one in five seconds hoping it wouldn't switch back to the french fella if there was a girl with no knickers on

Ares

I remember TG4 always had a foreign film on Friday night after the Western. Was the best thing ever when I was 10-14.

I watched the Western one night with my Dad and we were both chatting away anyway after the film finished, too lazy to change the channel and this Chinese film comes on with an absolute load of sex, 5 minute long stuff here with moaning and boobs flapping everywhere. It was bliss.

I looked over to my dad not sure as to how this awkward situation was going to resolve itself as I was only turned 11 at this stage.

He smiled, got up off his chair, ruffled my hair and said, 'ah if only we had this when I was your age.'

He wished me good night, went to bed and told me to take it handy and not stay up too late because we'd jobs to do in the morning.

And so my first ever **** was had watching a Chinese film on TG4 with the subtle approval of my father.

flutterflye

The guy with the biggest dick in the world.
He wore tight cycling shorts, and his dick wrapped all the way around his hips.

BrianD3

Where To wrote: »

Anyone remember the adult zone on ITV teletext?:pac:

Yes, it was called After Hours It was shortlived though - it was first broadcast in January 1993 (after ITV switched Teletext operators) but lasted only a month or two.

Rented Mule

1ZRed wrote: »

No broadband though. Feck waiting 10 minutes for a high res photo slowly filling in from the top down :pac:

What's your hurry ?

Capt'n Midnight

TV3 show it

ollaetta

Crazy crazy programme. Naked deformed house cleaners, Lolo's bazookas, beige Belgian Eddie Wally and Ralf the Magician who used his flute covered in latex as his wand. :eek:

For anyone daft enough to want an episode guide: http://www.rapidotelevision.com/shows/shw.68.php

Jimoslimos

Ah the mammaries memories, back when C4 actually had interesting (if somewhat bizarre) programmes. Now it's all property and reality tv shíte.

I recall having a tv with no remote control, had to sit within arms reach in case anyone came in!

Sergeant

There was a lad in our secondary school class who recorded about 3 hours of the Playboy and Adult Channel teaser previews. The money-thirsty fúcker used to rent it out. Payment could be in cash, with discounts offered for payment in cigarettes or alcohol.

"It's deadly, you can see Pamela Anderson's gee in it".

pablomakaveli

Used to watch eurotrash a bit but it was pretty ****e to be fair. Too many naked old lads.

Anyone remember that channel Bravo. They used to ave good stuff in the evenings. They used to have a softcore film after 12 on saturday nights. I remember my favourite one was called 13 erotic ghosts because there was a few seconds in it where they showed some vag.

All this makes me really grateful for internet porn. There are people alive today who will never know how hard it once was to find something to fap to.

Eve_Dublin

Twiddling before my dad caught me.

whiskeyman

Jimoslimos wrote: »

I recall having a tv with no remote control, had to sit within arms reach in case anyone came in!

Same here. Awfully tough trying to change button, or even twist the button to tune to next channel. Would have given anything for a remote back then!
My sense of hearing and reactions was super tuned back then