The first episode of Eoghan McDermott's new show 'Drunk' aired on our televisions last night, as the presenter investigated just what happens to us when we get absolutely sozzled. He is well qualified to host this as he does his hair while under the influence. It was all done under the umbrella term of science, it was for research you see, so we could all understand the consequences of having 'The Craic'.
First up, Eoghan and his hair told us that we would be meeting a group of 'interested volunteers' which actually meant a load of students - free booze lads, what's not to like? Their first challenge was a beer goggles test whereby everyone had to judge whether they, you know, would essentially, as a load of pictures of poor feckers of varying levels of attractiveness were projected onto a wall. Bit harsh like. They then sent the 'interested volunteers' off to get pissed for a while so they could come back later and do the test with the 'beer goggles' which inevitably would lead to more instances of 'I would, yeah'.
And pissed they did get. One girl was too drunk to even take the test and was seen throwing up on screen bless her, while another seemed to just pass out on the couch for a while. RTE telly is just MAD isn't it? It was like Ted and Dougal were in charge of scheduling for an hour.
We then left studio to head for Wexford town to some sort of frat house type of shenanigans where a load of mates were getting ready to go on a night on the tiles, and sure weren't they only having mighty craic. One fella even farted in another fella's face, I mean where would you get it. We came back and forth to this bunch throughout the show as their night went on and they all got even more wasted. A fight almost broke out at one stage but didn't get too out of hand. Most likely because they all realised there was a sober camera crew staring at them.
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We met more volunteers as the night progressed then back in the studio. One gang seemed to be getting on like a house on fire until the obligatory sound bloke turned agro on everyone. We would have sworn he was planted there just to piss everyone off, if we all hadn't encountered this specific type of drunk before. Riling people left right and centre so he was. Things definitely got a bit awkward for a while, until, like our Wexford friends, they all realised they were on telly and should probably reign it in.
Throughout the show we also had the token science dude coming in and telling us stuff we already knew but in an authoritative voice. Drink can impair our judgement, make us hornier, make us angrier, make us cry, make us text people we shouldn't.... make us hung-feckin'-over. Moral of the story? Alcohol gets you drunk, people, and if you drink a lot of it, you will get well and truly scuttered, Now. Don't say you weren't warned.
But he still didn't explain Eoghan's hair.
Did you watch 'Drunk' last night? What did you make of it? Have RTE lost the plot?
