Lieven Scheire caused disgrace with ‘The Side Effects’ in ‘Man Bites Dog’: “It was impossible to club that teddy bear” | TV

Lieven Scheire, Jonas Geirnaert, Koen De Poorter and Jelle De Beule once formed the successful foursome ‘De Neveneffects’, with which they provided a humorous note in the VRT program ‘Man bijt hond’, among others. Although this was not always appreciated by everyone. In the ‘Without hands’ section, Lieven and Jonas appeared in rabbit suits, who clubbed together a life-size teddy bear to the sounds of the Rage Against the Machine hit ‘Bombtrack’. It led to a big discussion. “They all thought that was very funny at Woestijnvis. We weren’t working there yet. We were one-time guests then. And the VRT then made a great shame of it. A parliamentary question was asked about this. Whether that was possible, that kind of TV, if children were still watching,” Lieven tells ‘Supercontent’ on TikTok.

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The VRT immediately took measures to prevent undesirable things such as ‘senseless violence’ from being shown on TV in the future. “The tape of ‘Man Bites Dog’ had to be delivered a little earlier since then because the man had to watch it in advance. The VRT said: things are coming on the air that come from an external production house that no one from our own house has looked at. Unfortunately, we have increased the work stress of the ‘Man Bites Dog’ editors. But that was also useful for us. The reprimand did not reach us.”