I Asked 64,182 People About “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells”. Here's What I Found Out.
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Merry Un-Christmas, everyone! And thanks to Jack, do check out his channel if you don't know it. (One bit of minutiae that didn't make the video: Bart also sang it in the very first episode, but the lyrics were slightly different and the show wasn't a pop culture phenomenon back then.)
HELLO
Happy Un-Easter, everyone!
@@TheElvisnator hi!!
How you realize a Tom Scott Video:
Comment older than the video
Red T-Shirt(s)
@@theTOPSTARrap Howdy
"And the Joker saved the day."
That's no parental interference, that's straight up Joker propaganda.
BREAKING NEWS: Tom Scott is hired by Joker to spread Joker propaganda
The gamer version
It's "the Joker got away" DUH
The Joker ran away. No ballet involved. Although the image of the joker doing pointe is funny.
But which Joker? Cesar Romero?
Honestly, this could have been a Bachelor's thesis for a linguistics student
I mean, surely it'd have to cover a broader range of things.
Would've taken them years to collect this much quality data haha
Tom Scott's degree *is* in linguistics. Not computer science.
Bang your lingui-sticks on your ear-drums.
@@papagunit I feel like Tom has a slight advantage of having millions of people watching his content in that sense.
The "Uncle Billy lost his willy" part legitimately unlocked a long forgotten memory of me and my friends as kids nearly pissing our pants with laughter singing this.
“- on the motorway. Hey.”
Rest of what I know.
I was born in 2007 and this was still the version in my primary school.
@@NotMadA47.2yo, 'new' bottom surgery just dropped
@@qwaabzaBruh I laughed way too hard at that
I remember hearing that as "Uncle Billy had a ten foot willy"
Shout out to my second grade best friend who I made up "the joker did ballet" with. We felt so special. 1,500 other people sang that. My childhood is dead.
fr thats crazy
At least the version i made up in childhood wasn't mentioned
it was "joker farted away"
very lame childhood fart joke but at least it was "original"
Maybe you thought you made it but kids in our playground also sang “Joker did ballet”
We knew it too in the mid-Atlantic. That’s the version I always knew.
When I was a little boy in SoCal in the '90s, every single other little boy I knew also knew the exact same version, and it was "the Joker played ballet". Almost exactly your version, and I just assumed it was something that everyone knew. I've also never seen the Simpsons.
"Jingle bells, batman smells, Robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost a wheel and the joker got away!"
Is sung by the joker in the animated series.
And the joker got AYWAYYYYYYYYAHHHHHH
That's the version I've always known
Thats the version i know because i watched batman: the animated series.
Mine was that, except we sang and the joker did ballet
I knew that version before Batman: the animated series did it. Circa 1987/88 SW Missouri
The Batman Animated Series episode "Christmas with the Joker" featured the "Robin Laid an Egg" variant. It aired on November 13, 1992
This! Tom totally missed this clear other reason for kids to sing 'laid an egg'.
Also came here to post this. Mark Hamill's Joker sang this before the Simpsons episode.
Ha. I also came to say that. It has the wonderful "Crashing through the roof: In a one-horse open tree: Busting out I go: Laughing all the weeeeeeeee" second verse :D
Yes, i went to elementary school i. The 90s before the Simpson's episode in question and "robin laid an egg" variant was already the most popular by a long shot. I believe Tom's hypothesis is incorrect. That Simpson's episode may have changed how the UK sang the song, but in USA it has been "robin laid an egg" for a very very long time.
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The amount of British pride behind Tom’s delivery of “-but over here, he. flies. away.” is so powerful lmao
90s kid aussie here, we always sung it as "robin laid an egg. Batmobile lost its wheel and Santa got away" because Santa breaks into people's houses and is a repeat offender.
70's Aussie kid here. The one he showed here is the one of my youth. Robin flies away, and Linda Carter was left boobless. I went to the 13th Australian Scout Jamboree flying TAA, and half expected, at the age of 14 to see and American flag bikini top hanging over a seat somewhere.
“You cant get 98% of Americans to agree on anything” -Tom Scott 2020
The sad truth
Would you rather they were all the same and didn’t have differing opinions?
cant get 98 percent of any group to agree on anything perfectly.
You can probably get them to hate the Brits.
Except independence from Britain, we got that one right
@@synonymous1079 : Americans? No, we love Britain! And usually at least some actual British people.
Really didn't expect to see the Swedish version included here. Haven't heard it since I was a kid myself. What memories it brought.
Agreed! and it was honestly really well performed from someone who probably doesn't even speak swedish
8:10 - the pause in Jack’s playing is killing me right now... the abruptness, the death stare, and the casual continuation! 😹😹
"Robin laid a gun" is the most american thing that could've happened to it
So true
Excuse the technical term is _firearm oviparity_
8:12
I actually remember that version
More American if it was in a school
"Children are monsters" and "You can't get 98% of Americans to agree on anything." are my favourite lines from this video.
both are true.
Actually, you could probably get 98% of Americans to agree that you can't get 98% of Americans to agree on anything.
You can get
@@vg6761 you really think that when flat earthers exist?
@@CDCHexaku What does that have to do with water?
I was born in the USA. As a small child, in grade school, I learned "Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid and egg. The Batmobile, lost its wheel and the Joker got away, Hey!" and that would have been around 1976, roughly. But no later than 1979. Consequently, we also learned a little ditty that went, "Batman's in the kitchen, Robin's in the hall, Joker's in the bathroom, peeing on the wall"
I remember the version with joker peeing on the wall. I remember singing that as a kid I am glad someone else brought it up
I was looking for someone who heard that second part! I heard it with the joker and robin switched at the end, though, and I’ve heard both “the joker got away” and “the joker did ballet”. Very interesting!
FINALLY! I knew there was another verse, but I couldn't for the life of me remember what it was. Thank You!
'Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost its wheel and the joker got away' is the version I know
I was confused when he said did ballet
same, Wisco here
Im from New Zealand and thats the version that was sung at my school so who tf knows how that spread
same
@@keelysmash That's the version from Batman the Animated Series, that's were i know it from:
Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg, the Batmobil lost a wheel and the Joker got away.
Crashing through the Roof, on a one Horse open Tree, busting out i go, laughing all the way.
"Robin laid a gun"
America yes.
@@flip502 do you mean the sponsor of this comment RAID SHADOW LEGENDS THE BEST RPG US MORTALS CAN EVER WISH TO PLAY
I knew it as "Robin got a gun"." Never heard this weird laid version.
@@NiquelBones Correct
i'm guessing it originated from the "laid an egg" version when some edge lord wanted to parody the parody.
8:10
“Robin laid a GUN.”
The keyboard slam just straight up killed me.
"Keyboard"
Galia Del Rio Yes, in English that part of the organ, piano, etc, is called 'keyboard'.
@@Dicen_Delirio that's what it's called. Its been called keyboard long before computer keyboards came around.
LetoDK they weren’t called keyboards before the piano and harpsichord, though. In organs, they’re called “manuals”, and you typically have 2 to 5 of them.
I know, I know, etymology isn’t relevant, but it is also the subject of this entire video.
Umm, it’s called a Letter table
The joy on your face when you get to tell the audience that your hypothesis was correct is so wholesome
I’m from the UK and grew up with “Kojak lost his lollipop on the M6 motorway” although I never actually knew who Kojak was. I quickly learned about Uncle Billy losing his willy in primary school
So did I! And I also never knew who kojak was and how to spell it hahaha
How the hell would so many people learn this Kojak version? If it wasn't on TV or radio, I mean.
@@ajs41 parents!
@@ajs41 I have no idea to be honest, I guess it just got spread down from parents to their children and so on?
i didn't even know who robin was, i've never been into superhero comics so i just kinda went with it. i thought uncle billy might've been someone specific too. felt bad for him, even if i didn't actually know what a willy was at the time :(
Jacksfilms on tomorrow's YIAY: "Describe Batman's body odour in just 4 words"
Goose if you are right, wth
30 likes in 1 minute
NEVER would have expected to see a jacksfilms and tom scott collab video. my likey
@@Neymarinet it's a very me me big brain moment
you misspelled LWIAY
why did i just realize that “robin laid an egg” was a bird joke..........
I'm not mad, just disappointed
Lmao imagine James a Garfield pulling the not mad, just disappointed card on you
Glad I'm not alone
Same tho, don’t worry
Dready ha I don’t care my dad has been disappointed in me for the last 15 years!
Having Jack do this is like getting an honorary bonus track to Royalty Free Christmas Songs.
Your measurements in the UK are genius especially using the Simpson episode. This is similar to using an “instrument” to test for causal change. I grew up in Boston in the 70s. We sang “Robin laid an egg”. This was way before the Simpson’s episode. However, some of the Simpson’s writers were growing up in the Boston area during the 70s as well.
It's amazing how conformist the United States is on so many things. I think it's to do with the puritanical history of the country. Anyone trying anything different gets shouted down, metaphorically speaking.
"Joker saved the day" is a variation only found in WB Kids' version, where the _Joker_ is the one singing that part
What episode was this? I didn't watch the WB episodes too much.
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@@BashoftheMonth christmas with the joker
But in batman the animated series it's the joker got away so it depends
@@BashoftheMonth think it may have been between shows or something like a promo
Robin laid a gun...
*america noises*
This is America
We have our priorities set correctly here
i was one of the 93 that submitted that, but I'm from the midwest not the Pacific Northwest
*Star spangled banner starts to play*
I actually heard this one in elementary school a lot
I like this video because it really breaks down not only the song, but the whole concept of collecting data from a large group of people, and then analyzing it.
The version I always heard in Nz was “the Batmobile lost it’s wheel on the motorway” which honestly makes a lot more sense than any of those other things various people were supposedly losing on there lmao
“Robin laid a _GUN.”_
*‘Murica*
8:13
"Robin shot a guy"
Okay seriously I remember that a kid in my elementary school really wanted to add someone being shot in the song. He's now "an operator" and has more guns than sense.
To be fair, it could be interpreted as a 2-level pun: "Robin laid..." sets up an expectation that it's going to be "...and egg", but guns can be laid, although in that sense it refers to aiming the gun, and gun laying is usually for large caliber artillery pieces, which doesn't gel so well with "shot a tree". But yes, "laid a gun" is a term of art.
I love this country
Hell ya
“Jingle-bells Batman smells, robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost a wheel and the joker got away, hey!” is the only way I ever knew it
Yes
Same
same
Same
"The joker took ballet" is the nonsense version that I learned
8:20 "firearm oviparity" is a truly incredible line
I learned it from the Junie B. Jones Christmas book! I'm only a few minutes in, but so far I feel like that's been overlooked as a source for this version solidifying itself in the minds of many children, although I highly suspect the author was using the version from the Simpsons, so that's likely still the true originator of this 'full version'.
Same here!!!
Same. I didn't know the Simpsons ever did it
"Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg. The Batmobile lost a wheel and Joker got away" was also sung by The Joker in "Christmas with the Joker," the second episode of Batman: The Animated Series from 1992. That's the closest to canon we've gotten, as far as I'm aware. It's also notably before The Simpsons.
that is the version I learned, probably in the 70's (US)
Needs more upvotes
I heard this somewhere between 1965 and 1969 and was “Robin laid an egg”. (USA.)
I watched that version. 😀 The Joker escapes on a rocket. 🚀
Kenny Williams sang this version loudly in Mr. Mattus’ class in 1981. Ray Wiznowski tried asserting the ‘Joker did ballet’ version but Kenny said that was (homophobic slur) and so it was dropped. Correction not 1979 it was 1981.
Batman: Loses parents to a gun
Robin: BECOMES parent to a gun
We're through the looking glass here people.
HAHA
I prefer gun.
I am american and was born in the 90's, but I prefer gun now.
Because I'm a '90s kid, I read "We're through the looking glass here people" in Milhouse's voice.
I remember hearing "and the joker had a baby" with "baby" having am elongated 'a' sound and the 'by' part hitting on the last note. This was back almost 20 years ago at this point.
You should do the “Trick or treat, smell my feet” song next.
im convinced that those 10 people are just a friend group that are far apart from each other
Yes, and how crazy would it be to see the particular version that you and your friends made up called out on a CZcams video?
And the Mr Bloppy one
@@MM-jf1me if they were friends I can see them messaging eachother the link of the survey but i dont see all of them doing it
Joker himself said “Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost a wheel and the Joker got away” in the Batman: the Animated Series episode “Christmas with the Joker” which aired in 1992. So I’m counting that one as correct
And this happened the previous year from the Simpsons episode. Due to the timing it is likely that the Simpsons got their reference Batman: the Animated Series.
That’s where I’ve heard it!
"Crashing through the roof, on a one horse open tree, breaking out I go, laughing all the wheee!"
I've never heard that continuation of the song anywhere but that show.
Thats the one I know
That’s the exact version I know!
Three years late here, but the version on the Simpsons was definitely the one I heard/sang as a kid, and that was long before the Simpsons came out (I was in high school when Simpsons started). The Joker also sang it in Batman:The Animated Series in 1992.
holy cow i grew up in the pacific northwest and i remember that one, one of my neighbors taught it to me and it was mildly popular in school.
me too! it unlocked a few memories when i heard it, i completely forgot it existed. i remember it being my favorite version but being told off for singing it
You called
“Accumulated heatmap of egg responses” was not something I thought I’d read today.
Might very well be a new sentence.
bwehehehe
"Firearm oviparity" is a doozy as well
The sheer amount of scientific rigor that went into this arcane and useless topic is exactly what makes CZcams great.
Welcome to 2020
"You can't get 98% of Americans to agree on anything" - My personal favourite line in this video.
they can agree on the fact this is the only time you wanna go back to school
What about “Children are monsters”
Mine is “Children are Monsters”
@@void1313 no, sadly. . . :(
That two percent are Republicans 🤣🤣🤣
Regarding the “Robin laid an egg” verse...it most certainly existed by AT LEAST 1975 in Philadelphia, PA, when I remember singing it on the school bus and in the schoolyard. Also, there was no other ending lyric than “the Bat Mobile lost a wheel and THE JOKER GOT AWAY!”
Regionalism is very uncommon across many things in America, which is surprising considering how big the country is. One difference is what people call a "soda".
Yesterday, I asked you: “Fill in the blank: Jingle bells, Batman smells, __________.” Here are your best answers.
This is why Jack is the perfect person for this
@@TheBestcommentor it's a perfect collab
robin lost his pants in the middle of france
Never did I ever think that the JohnsVideos community and the Tom Scott community would come together like this and I’m so proud to live in a time where I can see that happen
Andromeda we live in wild times
For me it was:
“Robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost its wheel and *the joker got away*” I assumed it was like this everywhere at least in the US
Same, i was in California when i learned it
Thats how it was in Colorado
Seattle too
Brooklyn too
New Hampshire, same.
Never saw it on the Simpsons
Another influence in the 90's could have stemmed from the Batman franchise itself. There is a Christmas epiaode of the animated Batman TV show where the Joker sings that song, and he also uses the "laid an egg" version.
Oh my gosh, Australia has a series of books like that British one. Someone catalogued childrens playground rhymes for posterity. Books in the series were: Unreal Banana Peel, All Right Vegemite, Far Out Brussel Sprout etc.
Also my region called tag ‘Tips’
The only version I've ever heard was "Robin laid an egg" -- didn't even realize there *were* other versions until today! Which I guess makes sense if the "flew away" version was primarily British.
The only one I’ve heard is uncle billy lost his Willy on the motorway 😂
@@zachprime4683 wot
@@penguosk jingle bells, batman smells
Robin flew away
Uncle Billy
Lost his willy
On the motorwaaayy HEY
@@zachprime4683 I couldn’t remember the version I knew until I heard him say that 😂
I thought it was someone how both, like maybe it looks and it's the other one
"Children are monsters."
- Tom Scott, twice.
It's an important lesson.
Children ARE monsters.
Feel free to ask any parent that have spent the last 2-6 months* with their children under lockdown.
@@juliansenfr 😭😭😭😭
Kill us.
Kill us, now.
Agism is an invisible enough issue that I don't by any means like Tom less for this, but I hope it becomes less so in the future, enough that people look back on this and think it aged poorly. Youth rights!
@@otakuman706 And we all have one in our heads.
I knew this would be an incredible video from the title and it was exactly as awesome and hilarious as expected!!!
I did not expect jacksfilms here! Justice for jacksfilms
Jack: "Today's sponsor is.."
Tom: "We don't do that here."
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Today in lockdown: Tom Scott and Jacksfilms drop Royalty Free Christmas Songs 7 at the furthest possible point from Christmas
Not Alfred that’s a great way to understand it
It was a banger
Who knew
December 26th
Can't wait
This is such a great topic, especially everyone of us experienced how something spreads around by mouth in school but we often didn't know where it originally came from.
Your face when you saw that data was so happy and adorable!!!!! I was so hpapy for your hypothesis being right XD so cool! thank you for tracking this! saw the simpsons episode and thjought of you and had to come back!
The fact that Jack hits the "Heyyyyaaaayy" the same way every time.
Except for the motorway
Simpsons S1E1
"Children are monsters"
- Tom Scott 2020
he's 100% correct
And that's a fact
SAPPYFX
LMFAOOO
@@Kaktanternak YES.
Reawakening some memories here. I'm Canadian, and I TOTALLY forgot about the verse about the broken skiis until you brought it up, and it was exactly the version I knew as a kid.
Also interesting to me was that you mentioned the "robin layed an egg, batmobile lost a wheel and the joker did ballet" version but not the variant of "the joker got away" which I'd say were split about 50/50 (in my time and location).
8:47 "The Lore and Languaje of SchoolChildren" 💀💀🤣🤣
Friend: "Robin laid an egg"
Tom: "Its Robin flew away"
Friend: "No it's not!"
Tom: "Let me ask 64,182 people"
This is just him getting back at Gary for the last season of One of these people is lying.
@@JrgPt96 one of these people??
@@Lo33y_ There's the infamous "one of these people is lying, one misunderstood the article, and the third made up an answer that's the most accurate" game.
@@iabervon oh tromso
It was probably Matt
Tom Scott and Jacksfilms was a crossover I was not expecting but I greatly appreciate
The sponsor joke was brilliant
Same
The forehead boys duo we didn’t know we needed
Dude same
Considering it was going to be a live performance, was Jack supposed to come on stage at some point?
Hey Tom! I know this is an old video, but I was one of the few that had a "broken skis" verse. The full version went:
Jingle bells Batman smells
Robin laid an egg
Batmobile lost a wheel
And joker got away
Crashing through the snow
On a pair of broken skis
Through the hills we go
Breaking both our knees
The snow is turning red
I think I might be dead
And all I want for Christmas
Is a hospital bed
I grew up with a similar second verse but it goes more like this:
Dashing through the snow, on a broken pair of skis
O'er the hills we go, crashing into trees!
The snow is turning red, I think I'm almost dead
I woke up in the hospital with stitches in my head!
Oh 911, 911 someone call the cops!
Take me to the hospital and feed me lollipops hey!
I can't believe how little people knew this, Ive always thought it was maybe from a TV show or something and was widely known when I learned it in school. (Nebraska btw)
The algorithm is showing me this on the heels of November 2022. I love this and I wish I could have been a part of the survey! Thanks, Tom! Hope you enjoy your holidays!
I'm not sure how this affects the data but Joker in Batman the Animated Series in the 80's sang this song and there it was "laid an egg".
*90's. Sorry about that. '92 to be exact*
That was in the 90s, not the 80s. (TAS began airing in '92.)
Yes
That's where I learned it from!
I never saw the Simpson episode but I grew up on the Batman Animated Series :D
Right, I don't remember the Simpsons being where I learned it but rather "Batman: The Animated Series". I seem to think I actually heard it on the playground before I saw it on Batman. Now I see that "Christmas With the Joker" aired in November 1992 so Simpsons didn't change it.
@@williwonti The batman animated series likely never aired in the UK and it was likely always laid an egg in the US, the UK was different and changed by the simpsons for a period of time.
"It's 2020. Time is meaningless" -Tom Scott, 2020.
I think you mean -Tom Scott 1981 (“ *HEY* ”)
Its 2020 , the comments section is pointless - everybody
At the start of this video, I remembered it as 'Robin laid an egg' but then I heard the 'Robin laid a gun' and remembered that's the one that actually filled up my entire childhood and I didn't remember it
Darn you, REPRESSED MEMORIES!
I was born in 1998 and grew up in Maidstone, Kent and “Robin laid an egg” was always the version I heard as a kid! I think it usually ended abruptly immediately after that line, but the bit about Uncle Billy losing his willy on the motorway does sound vaguely familiar too.
The “Robin laid a gun” one is probably mixed from the version “Jingle Bells, shotgun shells, granny had a gun...”
what wrong with your country
I thought it was “911 911 grandma has a gun”
“...shot me in my underwear in 1991” is how it ends, I think. It probably varies from grandmother to grandmother though.
I’ve heard “911, 911, Santa’s got a gun! Shot a deer in the rear in 1981” as the addition to the broken skis variant
i'm from the us and i've never even heard this
As a german who never liked singing it was "Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, [mumbling]..., Hey"
Haha, I love this
There is no such Jingle Bells parody in German-speaking countries, right?
I only remember parodies of the “Advent, Advent” poem with different outcomes.
As a German, I'd be surprised if many Germans actually knew how the lyrics continue after 'Jingle Bells'.
@@viktorg6823 „Weihnachtszeit, Weihnachtszeit, sag allen Bescheid!“
s4ndwichMakeR Leise rieselt der Schnee / Christkind fährt mit ˋnem VW / höret wie leise es kracht / Christkind hat ˋnen Unfall gemacht
I was born in late 90s USA. While I would’ve answered the “laid an egg” version of the default I def remember kids using the “laid a gun” version as a spoof. I reckon if you’d asked people for any alternate versions they knew they’d have given that one a fair bit
US, senior citizen, and traveled to Europe during my "tween" years... the game is tag and the version I've known since sometime in the late '60s was always "Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost its wheel and the joker got away..."
Tom Scott and Jacksfilms, the crossover no one really asked for, but the one everyone loves.
My sentiment exactly! When I've noticed link to Jack in the description, I was WTF?
Jack is exactly what this channel needs
I would have never expected it, but it turned out amazingly.
@@MeGaDwarf2008 i, for one, didn't know who that guy was. For people like me (who I guess are strongly in the minority), that's much appreciated
Copied
As an Australian this unearthed so many memories... Christ we were violent
I wanted to see the results for what Australian's call "tag". I always knew it as "tiggy" growing up in QLD for whatever reason.
@@yellaturd I would have liked to see that too. In Sydney we called it 'tip', at least in southern Sydney where I grew up. Northern suburbs had a high expat community, especially from South Africa particularly, where they called it 'it', and my parents had friends up there, so we often called it by two names
@@yellaturd Tiggy in Victoria too. I'd love to see all the data! Did you by any chance have 'the batmobile lost its wheels, all on Christmas day, hey'?
It's Chasey. Fight me irl
@@yellaturd It was 'chasey' at my primary school in SA in the 00s. I had no idea there was so much variation across the country!
12:24 I love how aware Jacksfilms is of how annoyed his fans get when he stretches the sponsorship segment way too much, but continues to do it anyways because it is funny
I just watched this again 2 years later. It's absolutely brilliant.
“Robin laid a gun” unearthed so many childhood memories I didn’t even know existed until now
a traumatic flashback? I hope you're just getting nostalgic, but that version kinda creeps me out. What kind of twisted mind would make that up?
SAME
The logistics of laying a gun are incomprehensible.
@@squirlmy children where firearms tend to be a realitively common thing lmao
@@aureliabackup7313 kids think its funny to lay a gun and most kids don't think about logistics
When you said “children are monsters” I was confused until I remembered that there was a song at my elementary school were you beat Barney to death with a bat.
Was it "I hate you, you hate me, let's team up and kill Barney. With a baseball bat to his head. Now Barney (something something) dead."? It's been years since I heard it!
Lord Psi yep exactly that!
Flushed his body down the potty...
When you mentioned the Barney song this popped into my head but I'm struggling to remember the other words we used.
@@lordpsi99 the one I had was a bit different I had
"I hate you, you hate me, let's team up and kill barney, with 1 shot 2 shot 3 and 4 no more purple dinosaur"
"With a baseball bat and a needle(?) up his nose, no more purple dinosaur "
This video was my introduction to Tom Scott. Since then, I've come to expect and be satisfied by more and more insane things like this.
Brilliant stuff!
You have admit, Robin laying an egg is a more humorous image than just flying away.
Yet laying a gun just surprised me
Absolutely
Where tf did the gun come out of
@@Pepperjack57IsAwesome Robin, it came out of Robin.
They are both bird puns
In Finland we had one rhyme it went along the lines of: "Batman oli mielipuoli, hyppäs katolta ja kuoli."
Which is translated to English: "Batman had a mental breakdown, jumped down from roof and died."
*And yes, kids are truly monsters if you ask me.*
XD
Just Finnland being Finnland
If you think that’s bad, here in America, we had at least 5 different variations of Barney the dinosaurs death through songs
Another one is "Kevät tuli, lumi suli, lumen alta esiin tuli Bätmään!" ("Spring came, snow melted, from under the snow appeared Batman")
But both of these are sang to the tune of the old Batman theme song
_oh_
I was getting so stressed by you not mentioning the TAA line 🤣🤣🤣
Ive always know it as "Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, Robin flew away, landed on a football pitch and didn't know how to play." Born 2005, and from the UK.
I was born in 2005 and live in Michigan, no one ever used the “flew away variant” everyone agreed that it was “laid an egg” the real divide was “joker got away” vs “joker did ballet”
I knew of "and the joker lost his head, hey"
laid an *gun*
Flew away makes more sense to me because all of the endings I know rhyme with it
I too was born in 2005 and I live within the UK. Everyone in my area would say “laid an egg” and the most common version we had was “Uncle Billy lost his willy”. However, we would occasionally hear “The batmobile lost it’s wheel and the joker got away”
2004 in Alabama, and the Joker ballet variant, while rare, was still a version I had heard. Same with the Saved the Day variant
"Let's talk about jingle bells in the middle of summer"
As an Australian, I see no issues with this statement
lmao mood
I know, right!?!
As a Malaysian, I never knew about other seasons until 7 years old.
a message from >south hemisphere gang
Sustained
Lmao this is absolutely brilliant. Glad I’m not the only one who did the uncle billy version, but I sometimes switched it for Milky Way which I may have picked up from someone older.
You brought back so many memories with the broken skis verse. thanks
"you can't get 98% of Americans to agree on ANYTHING!" so, so true
Jack's singing is hilarious here, especially the gun version
Not even 80%
*GUN.*
@@TheCobaw *G U N.*
He's having waaayyy too much fun with that singing lmao
8:10 you're welcome ;3
Personally I think this should become a series “Tom Scott sends random surveys to a lot of people and rambles to the camera about his results for 15 minutes”
And it will still be more regular than "YGS every Friday"
truthbegins such an underrated comment
Yes!!
I loved this, so I'd watch more!
I live in the UK, specifically west-southern England, and my initial thought was ‘Robin few away’ and that’s it. However, after hearing a certain version, it all came flooding back to me… My primary school’s Not-Jingle-Bells goes like this:
“Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away, uncle billy lost his willy on the M1 motorway, hey!”
I asked my group chat how they would finish it and they agreed with me on most fronts, apart from no one mentioned the M1, just no specific motorway.
10:27 australia generally calls it tag but ive also heard it called most of these too but the weird thing is is that it varies family to family instead of regionally
I grew up in Sydney, and in my cohort as a kid it was called "chasings"
The timeline where jacksfilms sings ‘mr blobby did a jobby’ in a Tom Scott video is the best one
Ffs😭
Gotta say, I thought “a jobby” meant something much more demonetized than what Tom said
CW MD I believe it is
the prime timeline
@@JakubS over here we call it the Steins;Gate
This is absolutely amazing!
American raised in Belgium under a British curriculum. I learned a few different ones but "robin laid an egg,uncle billy lost his willy on the motorway" stuck because I have an uncle billy (not william or will or bill) uncle billy. Good times
Edit: I also called "tag" "keep away"
...You forgot to mention one key factor. Batman The Animated Series did “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells” and it mentioned the fact that Robin laid an egg, but also that the Batmobile lost its wheel on a German Motorway.
But it came after the Simpsons.
@@arcanics1971 still important to consider
Which explains Kraftwerk's lyrics "Wir fart, fart, fart auf der Autobahn."
@@arcanics1971 but it was in an actual batman show and performed by mark hamil, so it is infinitely more memorable since this version is directly associated with batman.
@@enemyinc.6741 the song was also sung by Bart in Christmas with the Simpsons in 1989.
"Time is meaningless, let's talk about Jingle Bells in the middle of summer."
Sounds like a typical Christmas in the southern hemisphere
Exactly, it's more of a winter song than Christmas; in fact, it was originally written for a different winter holiday (Thanksgiving, celebrated at the end of November, which is already winter where it was written in the northeastern USA). So perfectly appropriate in Australia (and New Zealand, South Africa, etc) now.
Toby Bartels Haha no we only sing Jingle Bells at Christmas time in Australia. Very few parts of Australia get cold enough to have snow in winter
What do you mean? It is not summer in the southern hemisphere right now.
@@tobybartels8426 have you ever seen snow? Cause where I live (north west of melbourne) it only snows once every 2 years
@@jenniferflorance944 What about the
Rusty Holden Ute variant?
This is genuinely fascinating
Ever since i was in primary school here in west wales its always been jingle bells, bat man smells, robin flew away. Uncle billy lost his willy on the motorway. I turned 16 earlier this year if your interested.
I was today years old when I realized that “laid an egg” was a bird joke. I always thought it was that Robin farted (why else would Batman smell?). “Who laid an egg?” was slang to ask who farted at the time.
is it not a double entendre ??
@@kisinja4582 yes
It had also never occurred to me that it was a bird joke. I wonder- is "laid an egg" a slang term for farting in Britain, or purely North America? As a fart joke, only laid an egg makes sense. But if "laid an egg" isn't common slang in Britain, it makes complete sense they have a different version-- as a bird joke, "flew away" rhymes better and is just as sensible.
THATS WHAT I THOUGHT
Tbh, I just realized conciously now. I always thought to myself as a kid "why would robin be laying an egg???"😂
The parody version overall just confused me cause I would always overanaylze it in my head. I have a learning disorder that has the side effect of sometimes taking words/phrases very literally, though, so thats probably why🙃