Did you stick?
Well, there we go. Just got back.
I couldn’t say before the film that it wouldn’t work on all of you, as expectation really helps it work. Apologies if the film didn’t work on you, and congrats if it did. We had about 50, 000 calls come in on the night. Even though clearly some of those 50k wouldn’t have stuck and were just phoning to mention their genitals, those clever people who understand how to calculate viewing figures (that’s done, amazingly, from a group of only 1000 people with special buttons on their TVs) and the like reckon that we are probably looking at about 10 times that number in terms of people actually affected. So perhaps 1/2 a million of you were affected – hopefully we’ll get a better sense of how many in the days to come. I say round it up to a BILLION though – it has a nice ring to it. But ask around, you should all know someone who it worked on (if it didn’t work on you).
Two people stuck in the TV gallery too, which was a cheap laugh for all of us.
Thank you so much for watching, I hope you enjoyed the show. Next week, pen and paper ready please.
x
Didn’t stick. Pity that afer the warning that if you were under 16 years of age don’t watch the film the first callers son was affected and was only 10 years old.
I’ve just left my mam’s at 2330 after watching the 2100 screening and she was the only one of five of us seriously affected. She became stuck immediately, panicked and was unable to move anything below the neck for almost an hour, despite watching the blue “release” screen. Slowly she has managed to regain control of her arms but still can not walk without somebody on either side of her as her legs are in complete spasm, as if in cramp but without the pain. I’m concerned other people who might have watched alone may still be stuck as this seems to be a severe but not exclusive reaction! Help Derren!
Did you put some subliminal flashes into Peep Show? I’m sure I saw flashes of a face and a man sitting down at varying intervals of it. I also saw some flashes after the hypnotic film had been shown during the ‘Events’ transmission. What is Derren up to?!!
Neither of us got stuck. I missed the end of the show as I went out to buy some popcorn…. 😉
It didn’t work on me, or the rest of my family, I was pretty disappointed about that. However, it did work on one of my friends. It Was a fab show; can’t wait until next week!
xxx 🙂
There were three of us watching here, and none of us stuck 🙁 I was looking forward to feeling under your control! So not fair.
Just a quick tally of the current comments on the site, just for giggles:
107 people were NOT STUCK
63 people were STUCK
The numbers are approximate: I made it a point *NOT* to include people who mentioned others (all I tried to notate was whether or not a particular poster stuck or not). As most of you can see, “mixed” effects are prediminant, in which case I specifically went with the poster’s perception as to whether or not the experiment did or did not work for him/her. That means if someone said “this totally worked although I only couldn’t move my arms” – that still went to “stuck” category, as the poster felt that the show was successful. Majority felt it DID NOT work, however.
Roughly 63% of the posters here did not get stuck during the show – more than 1/3rd was. That’d be all.
hey there great show, but unfortunatley didnt stick, really wanted to though watched it 3 times no joy. looking forward to next week!
just felt a bit heavy the first time, but watched it again straight away on channel4 +1 and i totally got stuck to the chair, was the weirdst feeling ever, i acctually couldnt get up as much as i tried, i could move my arms and my feet but my bum and back were glued!
also only caught the end of the unsticking part so scared me a bit, but got up in the end!
awesome show, well done!!!!
gutted i cant watch it again, would love to try it again
xoxoxoxo
absolutely nothing sorry, apart from it making me feel slightly queezy!
love you though!
@Hannah B: Didn’t notice any subliminals in Peep Show, but a few Tweeps reckoned there were some speeded-up bits.
It worked for me but not the first time. After watching it on Ch4 i was really disappointed that it hadn’t worked so watched it on 4+1. I was more relaxed the second time as i knew what was coming.
After the video had finished i remember thinking it hasn’t worked again. i was expecting a huge force to be pinning me down which wasn’t there. first of all i had a feeling of “i can’t be bothered to get up” then i kept saying to myself “go on get up then!”. Thats when i realized my lower back was stuck to the chair! i tried to push down with my arms but just didn’t have the energy. The more i tried the harder it got.
Imagine you are high up on the outside of a building, trying to cling as tight as you can to the wall. That is what my back was doing to the chair! Crazy crazy crazy!!!!!!
Gutted! Didn’t stick….even on C4+1 🙂
Great show Derren, I still don’t know what it is you do, but I like it!
My legs were stiff, and I felt a little like that dog must feel in the photo, but I could still stand up. I think if my sister hadn’t been distracting me at the time, I would have stuck (I’d guessed that you were going to make that woman choose a toy giraffe as soon as you mimed it with your hand, and my sis was proudly proclaiming, “Oh my God, Jess, you’re psychic!”)
Despite that, I loved the show, and I’m really pleased the film worked on so many other people. Just not on me…..(Why?! I really wanted it to happen!)
I watched it with 5 friends and none of us stuck to our seats – and we were all really concentrating on it. Really annoying as I was with a Derren Brown hater who I was trying to convert.. Fail
Not writing this under my usual username because I am actually a bit ashamed of myself; I understand what Derren’s doing, I have read extensively about suggestion (including Derren’s book!) and know how it works and I’d told myself it probably wouldn’t work. I even knew it had nothing to do with the film, just the bit before hand where he basically told us to go stick ourselves.
But nevertheless, it seemed to work. It felt very odd, I knew somewhere in my head I could get up if I wanted but I didn’t want to, everything felt heavy and weak. I could lever myself up a bit but it took massive effort.
I thought it might just be that I was tired but as soon as he told me I could stand up, it was like all the tension disappeared. Bizarre. I didn’t think I was a suggestible person! Oh well…
i didnt stick.. even though i really wanted too.. but stupid husband was distracting me and making me laugh lol… i do think what you do is amazing.. i must say mr brown is certainly a genius :)…
i would do ANYTHING to be one of his victims erm… i mean volunteers lol..
much love xxx
What a load of bull. Totally lost respect for you after watching your lottery prediction on Wednesday and the use of a split screen.. This just made it worse.
The video with lines didn’t get me at all but the screens of don’t panic and congratulations made me focus on everything that was meant to be sticking and even though i said between the videos when Derren was interviewing I was saying i could stand but didn’t want to, with those ghost-like callers saying things i was only half listening to, this is when I really got stuck… my heart was racing and i felt totally altered mentally. absolutely amazing, upon rewatching in HD i got shivers all down my back expecting the same experience but didn’t happen. the fact that i was in a room with other people who didn’t stick perhaps encouraged me more and watching alone didn’t have the same effect. genius.
love you.
well I got stuck, and started thinking about it and thinking logically making an imaginary flow chart. The video itself made me calm and open and the flashes with the tied-up man in a chair made the experience more intense. By the time I realized what made me stuck I could stand up easily. It kind of help me understand what goes in my mind. Finally I would like to add that if Derren’s voice wasn’t what it is so calming and persuasive and if I hadn’t persuaded myself to be part of it none of this would happen so thank you Derren great experience for me. I consider u as a great thinker and a great artist (hope that I’m right) hope that this worked for many other people too and I ope that they were able to understand it. Thanks agai goodnight from Greece.
Oh my god it was well weird. As soon as DB started preparing us for the movie my ankles and calf muscles began twitching. When the movie finished, my back, bum, thighs and hands were stuck solid! I couldn’t move them an inch. It was scary at first and didn’t actually unstick until about the first few minutes of the Peep Show.
Can’t wait for next week’s The Events!
Whoo! Derren…you are one cool dude. I hope you realised that you almost gave me a heart attack this week! The first time I watched it, I was so completely and totally petrified and it didn’t have much effect :p But then I watched it again, and started feeling a bit of something. The third time I watched it, I still didn’t stick properly, but my legs went dead and my hands froze completely! It was so weird and so cool…YOU RULE! So yeah, I am very very impressed! 😀 EEEEK! The first time as well, my boyfriend got totally stuck x3 So I was just prancing round the room laughing at him, and to prove to me that he was completely numb and everything, he made me pinch his hand really, really hard with my nails and it had no effect on him! Weird x3 I bet that’ll leave some bruises… D:
Sorry Derren, didn’t get stuck, but then you freak me out a bit so I can never fully let my guard down while watching your shows. You did stick my auntie but she was hypnotised a few years ago on holiday too so we already know she’s suseptible to suggestion.
I reckon it would have worked if I had allowed myself to relax into the right frame of mind first.
Oh plops it posted with my avatar. Any chance you could delete these posts? I don’t know why I’m so ashamed, I guess it’s knowing I convinced myself to do something apropos of fuck all. 😀
I stuck! I think my boyfriend thought i was pretending as it did’nt work on him. It felt like the muscles in my legs had gone weak, my arms were fine and I was trying to push myself up but I could’nt. Also, I could’nt stop laughing, up until i spotted a spider in the room and freaked as i couldnt run away from it. (but it’s cool because my non-stick boyfriend caught it). awesome show!
Okay I had to start a new comment ’cause I’m typing too much, hehe! I’m just so hyper now! 😀 I’m still trying to calm myself down actually, haha! Anyway, love you Derren! Can’t wait to see you in March! I’ll wave! Heeee! You should totally stick us all to our seats then :O Liverpool btw, 3rd of March…we’ll BE THERE!!!!!!!!!! x
I didn t stick but had a very strange heavy feeling and took longer than usual to get up. My son also {who wasn t with me } did it and he said he didn t stick but had a the same feeling as I did. Derren you are great xx
Can I use this as a viable excuse for being off work? ‘Derren stuck me to the chair!!!!’
Bah, I had to watch it at my dads…. in the middle of the ads just before it started, he decided to get up and go and get some crisps, so for that VITAL ONE PRECIOUS MINUTE it was a total #failwhale scenario for me as all I could hear was *munch, munch, munch*.
I always think to myself, “There’s no way Derren could do this to me!”, but I was really wanting to give it a chance tonight… unfortunately, I think my dad was AFRAID it would work on him. 🙂
Well done Derren, excellent watch as always and as a marketeer, I was taking notes!
Help my cat watched it and now he’s rigid!
My theory is that the lines were just the placebo effect, he sliped in PLENTY of subliminal messages with the position that you were supposed to stay in during the show. I personely didnt stick but I was thinking about lots of things and got distracted.I was hesitating about this theory until i heard one of the phone calls, “…I was going to get up in the advert break but i just stayed in that position.” This man is one of the worlds leading phycoligists and has proved himself many times from trick or treating, to paying for a platinum ring with paper. Tonight he has slipped in some very cheeky hints to an unnoticed eye. If all of these subliminal messages are seen without being noticed then followed by peacefulness, curiosity and a strange white noise anything can happen.
Didn’t work on me but my friend Steven, who’s a physicist and so you would imagine would be naturally sceptical, remained rooted to his chair throughout. In fact, he hasn’t moved a muscle since the programme. He’s just grinning at me over his spectacles.
Wow Derren, you really are magic!
i did it with 3 friends my first friend stuck a bit but after a couple of minutes effort could stand, I experienced my lower half being stuck but no matter how hard i pushed on the sofa with my arms i could not stand up until the commands to relax came through.
My other friend how ever could only move from the neck up it was very bizarre but highly entertaining for all of us.
much love Mr Brown, much love
Hi Derren, watched you the first time toinght, enjoyed the show. got the inference to the Girrafe and also new 19 would be the number due to how many times you mentioned it in your chat with the girl Nicki/nicola? Didn’t get affected by the ‘stick’ the first time but watched the last ten mins of the show on 4+1 and my legs wouldn’t move, particularly the back of my thighs. Know you’ve tricked me somewhere along the line, just not sure how and now feel like I’ve done a 10 mile bike ride! Saw you live in Salisbury, and loved the show, always watch you on t.v, have one of your books to try and find out what the bloody hell’s going on in your head as you facinate me, we were born in the same year,….surely that qualifies for you to take pity on me and send me tickets for your show in 2010?? x
Didn’t get stuck.. felt really floaty and light as air and back pain that i’ve been feeling for weeks has gone.. my back went red hot – thankyou hehe 🙂 x
I personally did not stick, but maybe the fact that i coated myself with copious amount of teflon and butter earlier in the night may have something to do with it?
However All i know is when i put on +1 , and later came downstairs i saw a mountain of frying pans piled up on my living room chair, i couldnt pull these off the sofa till nearly 11.00pm (which i got a right rollocking for thank you mr Brown)
If only your brother Gordon could learn the trick ‘how to get british public OFF the sofa’ 🙂
we watched the show in a group of six, and 2 of us stuck completely.
we then watched it again on 4+1, and the same 2 stuck. we don’t think the others stuck because they were giggling,
you’re a genius. absolute legend!
I didn’t stick but i couldn’t stop laghing through the tape so i think that is why enjoyed the show though 🙂
It didn’t work for me, my Mum or my Dad.
But then again, I do believe that we’re just not susceptible on any level.. {well not me or my Mum anyways}
I was curious as to whether this affects different people depending on their brightness {not intelligence}
Can anyone shed any light upon this?
Thanks ^^’
I didn’t get stuck 🙁 damn, i though I was suggestable 🙂
I just watched the repeated show. Stuck to my seat again. That’s twice in one night. I didn’t expect it to work the second time but it did. Felt like the effects were a little stronger but lasted less time. I’m clearly very prone to these things! Felt like weights were tied to my feet again…
I didn’t get stuck, but my chair did, and now I cannot remove it from my trousers.
Please help.
tried twice and failed, I know 7 folk that have tried it and it never worked for any =(
I think the clip should be shown in cinemas before films, the big screen, surround sound and dark enviroment may help it work and if it did then people would be stuck watching the film lol
Seriously though I’m going to try again tomorrow and I think you shoud seriously consider my idea =D
I didn’t get stuck and no one I have spoken to since got stuck either (about 20 people.) It was an interesting show though, just mildly disappointing.
didnt work on ME but it worked on loads of people i know, nice one
I really really wanted to get stuck, didnt watch it the first time but i watched the repeat just there on channel 4 and didnt get stuck! One of my friends did but I wasnt with him while he watched it! I believed I would stick and Im all sad now that I didnt! 🙁 Still think hes brill though! 🙂
I can’get my head around this, It’s fantastic! I was sitting Nose to Nose to my TV willing to be glued to the chair i placed an inch from the telly. After the video I stuck for about 6 seconds or so. My heart inside was going like the clappers, But then it said yo calm down so i tried then i started to slide off of my chair and fell to the floor with a thud.. I was utterly amazed. You are one amazing man, Derren. ^^
I might have got stuck….but it felt to me like in the morning when i awake for work and i play these silly mind games with myself where i count back from 10 and tell myself, when i get to 1 i will get up. When i get to 1, i start again from 10…..this goes on a few times and then i just get up.
that is wht happened tonight.
I sat on the chair so relaxed…i did not want to get up….but when i told myself to move …. i did.
x
Very good show…………….much better than the lotto one……this comment from one of Derrens BIGGEST fans. x
Yes! Got stuck, it was really strange my whole body stiffened and it took a good few tries before i could even get my arms working! I also had a moment of overwhelming emotion, which went as quickly as it had came :S:S i was only fully able to stand up when they played the clearing tone and even now my shoulders and back are still extremely stiff! Amazing stuff,can’t wait for next week’s 😛