The program was a combination of humoristic commentary on archive footage taped from the Flemish TV channels VRT and its rival vtm and sketches starring the four hosts.

The footage often focused on lapsus, language errors, verbal tics, new media trends, odd mono- and dialogues or unintentionally funny moments.

Guy Mortier, who was mostly a famous face to readers of his own magazine Humo and people who'd listened to the 1980s radio show De Taalstrijd became more well known with the general public.

He gained such popularity with audiences[6] that he received his own TV show a year later, De XII Werken van Vanoudenhoven (1998-1999), which managed to become a colossal ratings hit.

By the time the second season of Alles Kan Beter aired Vanoudenhoven was a huge media star, which irked Uytterhoeven somewhat since it destroyed his original intention of introducing an unknown face in the show.

In the fall of 2001 Uytterhoeven and Vanoudenhoven also hosted the humoristic talk show Alles Komt Terug, which also combined amusing archive footage with parody sketches.

Alles Kan Beter has never received an official DVD release, since so much of the footage parodied in the show was taken from rival TV channel VTM, which would lead to copyright issues.