What Were They Stinking?

Bingo reviews baffling creative or commercial decisions and asks what their makers were thinking.

Appearances

• Episode 253 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 3 minutes, 35 seconds.
• Synopsis: Bingo reviewed a baffling item and questioned the thinking behind it.

• Episode 235 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 16 minutes, 1 second.
• Synopsis: Bingo reviewed a baffling PETA campaign and other questionable creative decisions.

• Episode 234 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 7 minutes, 34 seconds.
• Synopsis: Bingo reviewed baffling products and designs and asked what their creators were thinking.

• Episode 229 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 12 minutes, 2 seconds.
• Synopsis: Bingo revisited a shelved What Were They Stinking? bit built around a deliberately unfunny sketch from the very first episode of Saturday Night Live (an Albert Brooks spinning-newspaper short), reciting it live after the original SNL clip audio kept getting copyright-flagged on YouTube.

• Episode 227 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 13 minutes, 18 seconds.
• Synopsis: Bingo examined baffling media and design choices and tried to reconstruct what their creators were thinking.

• Episode 209 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 6 minutes, 1 second.
• Synopsis: Bingo examined a strange and threatening-looking Tires Unlimited display and asked what its creators were thinking.

• Episode 191 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 14 minutes.
• Synopsis: Bingo examined strange fort names and other baffling choices while fictional presidential and Casey calls repeatedly interrupted.

• Episode 190 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 16 minutes, 34 seconds.
• Synopsis: Bingo reviewed the disastrous Willy’s Chocolate Experience in Glasgow, its AI-heavy advertising, bleak warehouse, and the Unknown character.

• Episode 187 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 21 minutes, 51 seconds.
• Synopsis: Bingo reviewed the unsettling Chicken Pops incubator-baby toy and grotesquely modified custom action figures.

• Episode 181 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 57 minutes, 48 seconds.
• Synopsis: Bingo reviewed Variety’s 100 greatest television shows list while birthday calls and voicemails repeatedly interrupted.

• Episode 170 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 11 minutes, 29 seconds.
• Synopsis: Bingo reviewed a cleaning-service advertisement, skull-shaped toilets, and a suggestive Piada advertisement.

• Episode 159 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 11 minutes, 5 seconds.
• Synopsis: Bingo examined baffling products and advertisements and asked what their creators were thinking.

• Episode 148 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 7 minutes, 55 seconds.
• Synopsis: Bingo examined baffling graphic-design and advertising choices.

• Episode 147 — (Watch segment - YouTube) · Segment length: 10 minutes, 11 seconds.
• Synopsis: In the segment’s premiere, Bingo reviewed Todd McFarlane’s grotesque Twisted Land of Oz action figures.