‘I HAVE NO IDEA WHY THAT WENT VIRAL TO THIS DAY’
Jun 27, 2022
3 minutes
Words: Steven MacKenzie
“We’re just normal men.”
“What do you mean, normal men?”
“We’re just innocent men.”
Such are viral videos made of. A forgotten moment from CBBC in 2016 became a pop culture touchstone in April this year. In the 18-second clip, brazen puppet Hacker T Dog (performed by Phil Fletcher) makes co-presenter Lauren Layfield crack up with the most bizarre exchange a children’s television live link is likely to have ever had. The delivery so plaintive, the attempt by Layfield not to laugh so infectiously funny.
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