Every Pump Up The Jam “Fact” From Cunk on Earth

I found the joke dense mockumentary Cunk on Earth endlessly hilarious. Like actually laugh out loud funny. But perhaps the biggest delight was the running gag of referencing Technotronic’s 1989 tecno anthem “Pump Up The Jam” each and every episode.

If you were likewise too busy laughing, and grooving, to actually catch the corresponding “facts” about the hit song, well here they are:

Episode 1 “In the Beginnings”

No “facts,” just the song.

Song appears at: 24:00

Episode 2 “Faith / Off”

Additional “facts”:

• Technotronic’s other hits include “Get Up! (Before The Night is Over)” and “This Beat is Technotronic”.
• “Pump Up The Jam” has a BPM of 125, the same as the heartbeat of a cat at rest.
• This song is the National Anthem of Canada.
• The lyrics give clues to the location of a buried golden hare that has never been found.

Song appears at: 5:30

Episode 3 “The Renaissance Will Not Be Televised”

Additional “facts”:

• This video is based on a 72-page treatment by William Goldman, Oscar-winning screenwriter of All the President’s Men.
• Technotronic got their name by combining the word “techno” meaning a sort of dance music, and “tronic” meaning “tronic”.
• The original 12-inch release of “Pump Up The Jam” came with a free horse.
• At 7:16pm on December 28th 1879, Dundee’s Tay Bridge collapsed as a train passed over it. 60 passengers lost their lives.

Song appears at: 16:50

Episode 4 “Rise of the Machines”

Additional “facts”:

• Other musical acts whose name begins with the letter “T” include The Cure, The Isley Brothers, and The Velvet Underground.
• When this video was first broadcast, audiences feared it was real, and that jam would be pumped into their homes through the screen.
• If you’re going out can you get me a Coke Zero and a Twix?
• Sorry – meant to text that to the runner.

Song appears at: 21:50

Episode 5 “War(s) of the World(s)?”

Additional “facts”:

• “Pump Up The Jam” is an anagram for “Jam Up The Pump”
• This song was played five times in a row at the funeral of director Stanley Kubrick.
• Technotronic’s home planet, Earth, consists of 70% water.
• If you isolate the individual drumbeats from this song and arrange them in a circle, it unlocks a cheat mode that allows you to pass through solid surfaces at will.

Song appears at: 21:40

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