+Disappointed Turtle "There are five of us armed with knives, and I'll tell you who they are for $1,000." "I don't believe you." "If you don't tell where the knives are...If I don't give you money...unless you give me the knives...Ah, the money, we'll kill you and crash this plane into the World Trade Center, killing everybody." "Including you." "(shit, didn't think this through) I'll tell who they are for a dollar."
I was on a flight home to Glasgow from London and the captain came on with the same Scots dialect Eric Idle is using and I laughed thinking of this sketch. I tried to explain the joke to the nice English woman next to me ('I'll tell you where the bomb is for a pound!') but she was shocked and disturbed. I had forgotten that there had been a failed terrorist attack at Glasgow airport the month before and non-Scots were still nervous... Whoops.
Please, even if you don't go back to Noh plays (which are as far as I can remember the first instances - the reason ninjas are known to use pitch black outfits with masks and shit are because of how Noh plays broke the fourth wall with them), Duck Amuck was fucking famous for it and it's from the 50s.
Actually you're not understanding correctly. " its become so common place now its dull." " I wouldn't say dull. More like it is oversaturated." "in 2016 its very very old to be doing.". I've yet to see anyone refute that they all find it hilarious still I'm assuming you're the first? The flow of the conversation seemed that everyone just agreed on the fact that it's not that great as it used to be. Which the term 'used to be' is relative which relative to the first times they originally heard of the joke, but now that it's saturated to them it's relatively 'dull' 'saturdated' 'limited' 'very old'.
I have flagged this video, and I'll tell you how to stop it for a thousand pounds. If you don't tell me who flagged this video... if I don't give you the money... unless you give me a flag.... The money. Unless you give me the money, this video will dissappear, boring everybody.
"I will tell you when to expect the Spanish Inquisition for a pound!" "Alright" (gives him pound) "Right, so the Spa..." (Spanish Inquisition enters) "NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!" "Well, that was unexpected... Right, here's your pound back."
"Oh, wait a tick, wait a tick... My first is in Glasgow, not in Spain My second is in steamenr, but not in train My whole is in the luggage compartment on the plane." Oh damn, now I have bricks in my pants.
'Its' is already possessive, like 'his' or 'her'. You would need to use an apostrophe in 'Tom's wheel' because you need some way to show possession by Tom. However, 'her', 'his' and 'its' are designed to show possession, hence, you do not need to use an apostrophe to do this.
Even in their throwaway sketches (like this one for instance) they still manage to be clever and funny!
"Our destination is Glasgow, there is no need to panic"
Imagine if 9/11 happened like that.
Perfect likes
Good explanation as any.
+Disappointed Turtle "There are five of us armed with knives, and I'll tell you who they are for $1,000."
"I don't believe you." "If you don't tell where the knives are...If I don't give you money...unless you give me the knives...Ah, the money, we'll kill you and crash this plane into the World Trade Center, killing everybody." "Including you." "(shit, didn't think this through) I'll tell who they are for a dollar."
***** You should be a comedy writer. That was Monty Python-Quality humour. Mind if I make a sketch out of it?
You can make a sketch out of it if you give me a Canadian loonie.
I will not dislike this sketch for a pound.
Here's yer pound.
This whole episode was hilarious, he started ending all of the sketches because they didn't give him moneyz
I was on a flight home to Glasgow from London and the captain came on with the same Scots dialect Eric Idle is using and I laughed thinking of this sketch. I tried to explain the joke to the nice English woman next to me ('I'll tell you where the bomb is for a pound!') but she was shocked and disturbed. I had forgotten that there had been a failed terrorist attack at Glasgow airport the month before and non-Scots were still nervous... Whoops.
It's a real testament to their talent that this is still funny even after 9/11.
"Our destination is Glasgow... there is no need for panic." BURMA!!! (Sorry, I panicked.)
+Nuthine Atholl Did you had your tea?
I'm Scots and I love this - and Eric Idle's Lowlands accent.
Never got the "you'll have had your tea" joke before now
Eric Idle is my favourite Python! His ability to play with words is amazing :)
I wont torture you blasphemers.... for a pound.
+TheSpanishInquisition Well I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.
Isaac Kim i will come expected. for a pound.
+TheSpanishInquisition I will not say, "Ni." for a pound.
Isaac Kim Aright eres yer pound.
+Isaac Kim and I will not sell you dead parrots for a pound
monty python invented the 4th wall
***** I wouldn't say dull. More like it is oversaturated. It can still be good but people don't seem to be using it in a way that is new and creative.
Please, even if you don't go back to Noh plays (which are as far as I can remember the first instances - the reason ninjas are known to use pitch black outfits with masks and shit are because of how Noh plays broke the fourth wall with them), Duck Amuck was fucking famous for it and it's from the 50s.
Actually you all are missing the point. It's not funny because you now have the knowledge, and awareness of such joke exposing the 4th wall.
Actually you're not understanding correctly. " its become so common place now its dull." " I wouldn't say dull. More like it is oversaturated." "in 2016 its very very old to be doing.". I've yet to see anyone refute that they all find it hilarious still I'm assuming you're the first? The flow of the conversation seemed that everyone just agreed on the fact that it's not that great as it used to be. Which the term 'used to be' is relative which relative to the first times they originally heard of the joke, but now that it's saturated to them it's relatively 'dull' 'saturdated' 'limited' 'very old'.
... so many directions I can take this in.
i love this
I have flagged this video, and I'll tell you how to stop it for a thousand pounds.
If you don't tell me who flagged this video... if I don't give you the money... unless you give me a flag....
The money.
Unless you give me the money, this video will dissappear, boring everybody.
Including you?
I'll stop the flag for a pound.
CPCoulterTweedles Here's your pound, now where is the flag?
kamikazadude2
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I can't remember.
The Drunken Coward You forgot?
"I will tell you when to expect the Spanish Inquisition for a pound!"
"Alright" (gives him pound)
"Right, so the Spa..." (Spanish Inquisition enters)
"NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!"
"Well, that was unexpected... Right, here's your pound back."
Bring in... THE COMFY CHAIR!
Why are you talking to yourself?
Bit of chemistry there between Michael & Carol.
East Scottish Airways must mean Edinburgh to Glasgow, what a very short flight, its a wonder he even had time to make the threat!
£1 note, making me nostalgic.
I can't understand how this skit could have gotten more than 0 dislikes. I just can't.
This guys were and are brilliant! Love them.
I'll comment for a pound.
I'll like the comment for a pound.
supergreatsuper I'll comment on the comment who was liking the comment in which he said that he would comment for a pound. For a pound.
I won't mess up this comment line for a Pound
okey you win, now give me your pound
All these pounds, I never knew that comments could be so heavy.
This is a completely free interruption and no money has changed hands whatsoever
This is great.
Don't start an argument you can't win. Take it from me - walk away
I'd have paid any price at all to have had Carol Cleveland back then.
"Our destination is Glasgow, there is no need to panic." :DD
So misunderstood... people will never truly except this sort of humour
"There's a dirty great big bomb aboard this plane!" "Of course there's a bomb aboard, this is a B52...You boarded the wrong plane..."
And yet he was able to make the bomb.
Now it's like:
"i'm a simple traveller on my way to your destination"
"i don't believe you, where are you hiding the bomb?"
Carole looked good no matter what she was wearing...: )
Oh for some time in the company of Air Hostess Carol Cleveland...
Carol really was absolutely gorgeous back in the day wasn't she.
"Is this character giving you any trouble?" Brilliant.
Its actually a reference from an earlier sketch were the pilots are messing with the passengers.
the only episode of flying circus that i have seen on tv
Our destination is Glasgow, there is no need to panic.
I won't laugh my ass of for a pound.
I don't believe you.
Mr. Badger is hilarious! XD
If D.B Cooper was Scottish.
0:50 - sounds like 'you better have your poon back'
It's called comedy for a reason
Ah well, these things happen. At least you weren't arrested, right? LOL
"Oh, wait a tick, wait a tick...
My first is in Glasgow, not in Spain
My second is in steamenr, but not in train
My whole is in the luggage compartment on the plane."
Oh damn, now I have bricks in my pants.
Give it a pound!
You'll have had your tea!
Clearly the bomber didn't think this plan through.
You tell 'em Tryclyde!
@ItsOttis That's part of the reason it is so humourous. And it is also what makes them different. Nothing is sacred, not even their format.
Is this a five minute argument or the full half hour?
Utterly perfect.
You do know this is from the seventies... don't you?
I wouldn't have thought it'd take a google search tbh
our destination is Glasgow, no need to panic
i was going to say something too, but then I was like, No you pretty much said it all. haha
...It's afraid. ITS AFRAID!
Lucky Michael Palin here.
☮
true classic! :D
thank you
Damn, I left my universal translator in my other coat! Oh well, we'll just have to muddle through. O.o
Won't is in fact a contraction of "will not". Would not is actually wouldn't.
The Wright Brothers filed the first patent for the aeroplane. Who knows who invented it.
Those 70 people who did not like it must be the passengers!
Eric Idle did a brilliant Scottish accent. Less so John Cleese. Odd since John Cleese does a great Scottish accent in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
You sir or madam, have just lost yourself a pound.
I think it's trying to communicate.
"She is wont to rise at dawn" is a proper sentence.
And in case you didn't know, wont means habit (close to atleast)
I wouldn't address them as "sir" by any stretch
There's no such thing as a fourth wall in monty python!
My first is in Glasgow but not in Spain,
my second is in seamer but not in train,
the bomb is in the luggage compartment on the plane.
anything apart from just stop him from enetering the room ''leaving the room'' yes
A thoasand poands.
@1234Agen I think he says "the whole is in the luggage compartment..." anyway it´s tu fun
OMG this is funny, I've never seen it before! How come?!
this was before all that...
I share your desire... and I'm not even British!
Laffin? Is that some crazy addative in modern supermarket food?
airplanes were invented in america, so you use the correct word.
that that TSA
Palin's so pretty.
haha this is awesome
If only it were two smart British fellows flying those planes on 9.11.2001 you might have been able to keep those two lovely towers :/
'Its' is already possessive, like 'his' or 'her'. You would need to use an apostrophe in 'Tom's wheel' because you need some way to show possession by Tom. However, 'her', 'his' and 'its' are designed to show possession, hence, you do not need to use an apostrophe to do this.
If only everything was a Pound...
I came for the comments...
no no no wait a tick wait a tick
its a contraction of will and not
Mind you ,in the early 70,s,even a Scottish pound with fingerprints was a lot of money.
gavin reid yes they never left the wallet
the obvious troll is obvious
..............I'll tell ye where tis for a pound! Gotta love the scottish
No. He gives us a bad reputation.
Careful... he might explode the bomb.
Man...carol =P
If only we had more Pilots like this and the terrorists had more men like him.
I won't comment asking for a pound, for a pound.
I'll tell you where the bomb is for a pound.
Well, i dunno. Bomb threats were pretty serious back then, too. (PLO ring a bell?)
So does, "ein Flugzeug".
You'll have had your tea...