YMMV / Brass Eye

• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • The Paedogeddon special being the crowning example. Especially in the clip where a pedophile is shot into space, but the controllers are so totally inept that it turns out an 8-year-old boy somehow ended up inside the spaceship with the paedophile without anyone in charge noticing.
    A spokesman said, "This is the one thing we didn't want to happen."
    • Another really incredibly dark comedy moment comes when Chris has Gerard Chote (played by Simon Pegg), spokesman for a militant pedophile organisation, in the studio (who for safety reasons is locked in a pillory as Chris interviews him):
      Chris: What do you believe?
      Chote: I believe that inter-generational sex is-is appropriate within—
      Chris: (outraged) Sex with children?!
      Chote: Yes!
      Chris: Stop right there! (beckons someone off-screen over) Come on... (a boy enters the frame) Well done, mate. Okay. (turns back to Chote as he points at the boy) That's my son, Johnny, all right? Have a look at him! Now, are you prepared to tell me that you want to have sex with my son?
      Chote: No!
      Chris: You're ashamed, aren't you?
      Chote: No, I'm not ashamed.
      Chris: All right, then tell you want to have sex with my son!
      Chote: I don't!
      Chris: Why not?
      Chote: I don't... I don't fancy him...
      Chris: (baffled) ...What do you mean?
      Chote: I just don't. I don't find him attractive. I'm sorry.
      (Chris is briefly at a complete loss for words)
      Chris: ...Good! (laughs nervously) Actually.
  • One memorable segment of the "Drugs" episode features fooling a primary-school age girl into thinking her parents died from a drug overdose in order to put her off attempting to take drugs in the future. Including staging a fake funeral and burial.
  • The Drugs episode featured Drumlake School school (a parody of AS Neill's Summerhill School) which sold drugs to its own students, with the idea that they'd eventually get bored of them. A skinny teenage girl goes to the head teacher's office and admits that she's run out of drug money, and was hoping he could help.
    Head teacher: I can't start telling you how to spend your money and how to save it, can I? It's your problem. Can't just walk in here and expect me to sort this out for you just like that. [Pause] You know Mr. Phillips?
    Girl: He's the geography teacher.
    Head teacher: Yes. Mmm. You know his wife died a couple of months ago, don't you? Well, he's been very lonely. [pause] He's been very depressed. Why don't you have a word with him? Go and see him. Explain your problem, and, um, he'll explain his problem to you.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Especially given the show's Paedogeddon episode, it is now somewhat awkward to see Rolf Harris talking about the safety of children during the Drugs episode. (He subsequently became one of the higher-profile celebrity paedophiles to be unmasked following the Jimmy Savile scandal).
  • Neil Fox talking about crabs in Paedogeddon is either this or Hilarious in Hindsight given his own (unsuccessful) prosecution on indecent assault charges.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In the 2010s, a number of unsubstantiated rumours did the rounds on social media regarding mobile games that supposedly spy on children in a manner very reminiscent of a HOECS game. The reason this belongs here and not under Harsher in Hindsight is that no such app has been proven to exist.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Future Outnumbered stars Hugh Dennis and Claire Skinner make appearances in two separate episodes ("Science" and "Decline" respectively).
  • Simon Pegg appears in Paedogeddon as Gerard Chote.

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