I’m a scouser, it’s a great comedy sketch by Harry Enfield, It featured a set of stereotyped Liverpudlian characters or Scousers, "Ga'", "Ba'" and "Te'" (Gary, Barry and Terry) played by Gary Bleasdale, Harry Enfield, Joe McGann, and Mark Moraghan. The original inspiration for the Scousers sketches were Barry Grant and Terry Sullivan, two characters from the Channel 4, soap opera Brookside, set in Liverpool. Bleasdale, McGann and Moraghan are actually from Liverpool. Bleasdale actually appeared in Brookside in 1995 as a character called Donnelly. The Scousers were usually depicted with Kevin Keegan bubble perm hairstyles that were popular in late 70’s & 80’s,and bushy moustaches, wearing shell suits, usually top designer ones that Scousers got on their football travels in Europe , and speaking in exaggerated Scouse accents. Common catch phrases they came up included "Eh? Eh? Eh?" "Dey do dough don't dey dough" ("They do though, don't they though"). "Calm Down!" edit Most sketches saw two of the trio develop an argument, with the third member stepping in to break up the argument (and frequently finding himself pulled into another disagreement). Whenever a potential problem or dispute arose, this would result in The Scousers repeating to each other their most famous catch phrase: " Eh! Eh! Alright! Alright! Calm down! Calm down!" This catch phrase was Bleasdale's input as he changed the scripted original, which was "Break it up 'ey, come on, break it up", during the first rehearsal. McGann brought "Dey do dough, don't dey dough" to the sketches. The characters had allegiances to the city's football teams with "Ga'" being an Everton fan while "Ba'" & "Te'" were Liverpool fans. This leads to even more disagreement. During the holiday in Spain, Ga wears a Liverpool football shirt showing their fluid support. But tho I didn’t like brookside I did love Harry Enfields piss take
When the Dalai Llama visited Liverpool, he was reportedly impressed that the locals had distilled the wisdom of centuries of Buddhism into four words; "Calm down! Calm down"
This is the caricature image of Scousers from the 1980s being a bubble perm, a moustache and a shellsuit. It was based mostly on 2 characters from soap opera Brookside, Barry and Terry, but as with all caricatures while it was an exaggeration of reality it was also true to some extent.
The Scouse stereotype from the 80's and 90's is one of the men wearing shell suits with badly permed hair who flip at the slightest slight. As I said it's a stereotype but still continues to this day.
It's a parody of an 80's soap opera set in Liverpool called brookside. Half the cast (and most of the Liverpool football team at the time) had the tash/perm combo. 😂
lowest crime rate? the amount of hubcaps i've lost going to away matches in the 90's. luckily i paid the kids in the car park to looouuk after my car, otherwise i would have lost my wheels too. lol.
Do you not remember the two guys Barry the Baptist hired to steal the guns in, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels? They were Scousers. Remember what one of them said about how much he'd paid to have his hair done? (in a typically Scouse style perm) . And then gets it shaved by a shotgun.
Hey hey, dey do dough don't dey dough? To be fair what was actually said was it's often voted the friendliest city, and has less crime than other big cities. No mention of a low crime area, no such city or medium sized town in the UK.
Joe McGann (Barry) and Gary Bleasdale (Gary) are both genuine scousers. McGann, who has three acting brothers including former Doctor Who Paul, was replaced by another scouser, Mark Moraghan in Harry Enfield and Chums sketches. The man in the pub/first Doctor in the hospital sketch is writer Charlie Higson who starred in The Fast Show with Paul Whitehouse. The kid with the saucepan on his head is "Little Brother", the original version of Kevin the teenager.
The reason the Old Gits are in the hospital sketch is that Harry Enfield often does mass crossover sketches with multiple characters in one location like the airport, a retirement home, a supermarket opening etc
There was a really funny sketch that I haven't been able to find on RUclips. It's one where the Scousers go on a trip to "That London". Anyway they get absolutely hammered as you'd expect and Gary with his beer goggles working full strength goes back to this woman's place for a night of unbridled passion. It's his face the next morning that's the real killer when he realised that he'd actually picked up a man in drag. He sat in the bus all the way back to Liverpool with the same stunned expression on his face without saying a word. 😂
The tracksuit ( or shell suit ) came from us Scousers in the 1980’s - because we had massive success with our football teams in European competitions , we got to travel a lot in Europe - and we came back with the latest sports gear before the rest of the UK. For some other reason , permed hair and moustaches were also a big thing in Liverpool :-)
Have you ever seen the state of the Liverpool players in the 70s and 80s? The perms and taches are 100% accurate, the perm stereotype even gets played for laughs in Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels. BTW, you guys really should have paid for some of the sports gear you brought back from the Continent...
@@darthwiizius 🤣 fair comment - there was a lot of Sergio Tacchini and other brands “liberated” from European outlets. Yes , the hair and moustaches were epic , see Souness,Keegan,Mcdermot etc
@@ScowlerJase Them were the days (that we won bugger all) you lot won bloody everything. Between the mullets and perms and super fluffy side burns, them were the days.
@@ScowlerJase BTW, since you made this comment I popped into my town centre. There's a shop in it with some very cool Sergio Tacchini trainers in white. I'm tempted, but I already bought 2 pairs of shoes this week. I can't justify a 3rd pair, but man they're cooler than school, they're almost as cool as my 1 stars in leather. 🤔. Should I buy them or acquire them, erm, "Scouse style"?
There are also elements of the character Yosser Hughes (the brilliant Bernard Hill) in Alan Bleasdale's superb Boys From The Blackstuff, although the comedy in that is much, much darker.
I forgot just how funny this was. The way they segue from one fight into another, in like a rotation system, over and over. Never appreciated just how well they acted this out as a trio. Imagine watching them do this live in the studio. I'd be creased,
I've suggested that many times. He did one of them, but it wasn't the best one to start with so I think he just found it a bit confusing and didn't try any others. Bit of a shame. It's probably also more funny if you know about the posh wives/mums of London, so maybe it doesn't translate to Florida quite so much.
They are based on Barry Grant and Terry Sullivan two characters from an old soap called Brookside set in Liverpool. The hair is based on Kevin Keegan (old Liverpool footballer) who had bubble perm.
If you're at all interested in the origin of the term "scouser" itself, it is related to a centuries old, simple and cheap to make recipe for meat stew, which itself was originally developed in the Royal Navy. The bare minimum recipe uses the most common forms of long term food stores aboard ships, which was some kind of dried and salted meat (usually beef or pork), hard tack or ships biscuit (very hard unleavened wheat flour biscuits, with variable proportions of weevils depending on age and storage conditions), and onions. The meat would be cut into small chunks and any fat carefully trimmed out to use for rendering and frying the onions - alternatively the onions would be fried in butter if it was available. Then the chopped meat would be added, along with enough water to re-hydrate it, and simmered slowly until the chunks of meat were soft enough to chew without breaking your teeth. The hard tack biscuits would be smashed into crumbs, soaked with water, added to the stew and simmered enough to soften it. This bare minimum, basic recipe was known as "lobscouse" on Royal Navy ships and cooked at a large enough scale to feed the crew. Sooner or later the name got shorthanded to "scouse", and crew would take their knowledge of how to make it home with them when discharged from the navy or on shore leave. Liverpool was an important west coast port for the Royal Navy for centuries, so the recipe would become popular in that area. It was versatile too, since almost any meat could be used (whether fresh or dried), any sort of bread or even potatoes could be used instead of ships biscuits, and it could be bulked out with whatever vegetables were cheaply available for feeding the maximum number of people at minimal cost. So this "lobscouse" or "scouse" would become a traditional staple meal in Liverpool and surrounding areas. People who regularly ate it would sooner or later become known as "scouse eaters", which itself was eventually shorthanded to the term "scouser", which persists to this day.
As a scouser I found it hilarious! You have to be able to laugh at yourselves. only problem was Harry Enfields 'accent'.p.s. Liverpool had the top karate clubs in Europe.
It's not Karate , It's the Merseyside variation of Ecky Thump, a traditional Lancashire martial art. See also 'Eh,Eh,Eh' a mantra used to signify the possible onset of violence , the correct response when trying to difuse the situation is of course " Carl down , calm down "
Ecky Thump is a declining martial art as Black puddings, used as the weapon of choice, are no longer sold in supermarkets in their sausage form but sliced and pre packed.
Mike and Jimmy have joined the army. After a month mikes writing home, Mike, how do you spell worrel? Jimmy, what are you writing? Mike, dear mum can you send us a pair of boots worrel fit us? Jimmy, no soft arse, it’s darrel fit us.
This is a very funny stereotype from the 80's. Liverpool/Merseyside is a very friendly place. If you ever visit the UK, visit Liverpool city center for a pint, you'll have the best night of your life!! I guarantee it!! 😂
I am not sure where Peter Nicholson is from, but his claim that there is very little crime in Liverpool is so factually wrong as to be a joke. It's one of the most crime ridden Cities in the UK. I can only assume he is from the wrong end of the A580 [also known as the Esophisticated
You're right about the hairstyles. Take a look at the Liverpool FC team photo's and others, from the mid seventies to mid eighties. I think you can buy what they still call, Kevin Keegan wigs to this day? BTW, that style at the time was popular with footballers all over Europe, especially in Germany. Probably also influence by Kevin Keegan as he was playing over there at the time.
With this being comment no.621, the question of the hair has probably been answered, but here's my answer. Scoucers are from Liverpool as you read. It was fashionable in the early 70s for footballers to grow their hair. By the mid 70s, nearly every football club in the English 1st division had the majority of players wearing long hair. Examples include Billy Bremner from Leeds, Charlie George from Arsenal, George Best from Manchester United and Kevin from Liverpool. Depending on genetics when most men grow their hair long, it goes wavy but Kevin Keegan's went curly. Phil Thompson also from Liverpool decided to copy Kevin Keegan's hair in 1976/77 and tidy it up a bit by going to the hair dressers and ended up getting a perm. By 1977/78 other Liverpool players had followed suit ... Terry McDermott, Graham Souness and then Kevin Keegan had a go. Upon seeing what their heroes were doing with their hair, Liverpool football fans started to copy them, starting the adults and then the children. By the time we get into the 1980s, the perm had become a stereo type for Scoucers because by now men, women and children were wearing a perm and were portrayed as such on TV shows ... all because of Phil Thompson.
The Scousers was a parody of a long running Channel 4 soap opera called 'Brookside' based in a new build housing estate in the suburbs of Liverpool, with ludicrous plotlines including a body buried under a patio, a lesbian kiss and in the first episode the husband in a newly married couple being carried out dead by an ambulance crew. The shellsuits were a reference to a 1980's class of people designated as 'Chavs', being ignorant, uncultered and having no fashion sense. The popular image of Scousers outside of Liverpool was that all Liverpudlians were workshy, petty criminals.
The perm and moustache were the Scouser fashion stereotype of the eighties and nineties , The fasion for the Scouser girls is the scouse brow , thick black eye brows 😂
There used to be jokes mocking scousers. A two quick examples. "What do you call a scouse bird in a white shell suit? The Bride..." "What do you call a scouser in a suit? The accused " The permed hair- just take a look at Liverpool or Everyon's teams in the early 1980s, and the tracksuits came from Liverpool being successful in the European Cup so every away match there would be a couple of thousand or so scousers acting like a hoard of pillaging Vikings as they shoplifted the way round Europe, nicking designer sportswear. The week after matches a mate of mine at work (in Liverpool) would be flogging his weekend away booty! That said Liverpool today is a very different place to the one where I spent my teens.
Love seeing your reactions to all these old shows I grew up on. From "Enfield and Chums" and "The Fast Show" to "Only Fools and Horses" and "Father Ted", TV in the 90's was amazing. 😌
God, this takes me back! We used to have fake arguments at school so that someone would come between us going "a'riggh, a'right, calm down calm down" hilarious. Track suit (shell suits specifically) were all the rage in the 90's
Hi the hair is permed to look like Kevin Keegan the Famous Liverpool Football player also other Liverpool Football players Terry McDermott & Graham Souness.All had their hair Permed.
It’s a skit on a soap opera called Brookside set in Liverpool in the 1980s/1990s. The male characters, Terry Sullivan & Barry Grant, had a perm & moustache and wore shell suits and got angry at the slightest insult in the storyline. A Scouser is a slang term for a Liverpudlian.
How ironic that Terry should mimic his character in real life, criminal activities. After all the white and brown he smoked and the bird he's done I think it's pretty much done and dusted for him now!!! 😧
To give you more context on the hair. In the 70s and 80s players from Liverpool Football Club got perms, and so with them being our idols, this became a bit of a trend. There were a few characters in a Liverpool soap called Brookside, and in Boys from the Black stuff that also had that perm. The Scousers is a exaggerated parody of Brookside, Boys from the Black Stuff and a sitcom set in Liverpool called Bread.
There was alot of petty crime in Liverpool in the 80 s, when unemployment was high , due to dock closures. Hence the joke " what do you call a scouser in a suit ? " The defendant.
@snick260 I didn't say it's the worst city in England, its not the most innocent though either ie Poor little james bulger murder😔, Little Rhys the 10 year old boy was shot riding his bike , then little olivia pratt Korbel in her " own" home 😮😢 . Lots of drug crime in Liverpool, all cities but sorry Liverpool not all that .
It is an extreme stereotype, but people from Liverpool laugh quite easily at it. There was a soap opera called Brookside in the 80s/90s, and there was a lot of arguing like this. It influenced this parody. And if you disagree with me I'll see you outside!
In the late 80's perms (not Afro's) became the thing at school in the UK , footballers and pop stars led the way ..... they were also seen in sitcoms , Brookside was a very popular sitcom based in Liverpool ..... The perm was seen much in Brookside , a lot of fighting was in the story lines ...... the Scousers by Harry Enfield was more a general piss take rather than football based .....
Scousers dress and style their hair however the most popular footballer dresses. "The original inspiration for the Scousers sketches were Barry Grant and Terry Sullivan, two characters from the Channel 4, soap opera Brookside, set in Liverpool. Bleasdale, McGann and Moraghan are actually from Liverpool".
There was an 80s British TV soap called Brookside based in Liverpool. There was a character called Terry who they based these characters on. Look him up. 😊
I think it was based on the characters from "BROOKSIDE" - a depressing soap set in Liverpool in the 80's. Some blokes did think they suited a curly perm back then, a bit like some thought they suited a pony tail later... or a massive beard these days ... or a beard juxtaposed with bra, knickers and a party dress. Fashions come and go.
I'd like to add that the haircut is the Keegan permed style which used by a famous liverpool footballer in the 70's. Very funny ...especiallly the robotic body movements.
I live in Liverpool and the hair represented the late 70’s football players style of the time like Kevin Keegan who was a superstar striker for Liverpool
for a while the "calm down calm down" became a national catchphrase just pull up an image of the cast of Bread you'll get it, have you seen Harry and Paul dressed as old ladies doing the 'Young Man' routines ?
Liverpool is the best place to visit if your coming to the UK. We have loads of great museums and beautiful architecture, our Liver building has 4 clocks bigger than Big Ben we have more pubs than anywhere in Europe and unlike all other major cities in the UK we are not over crowded and our crime rate in our is much lower despite what you might hear from some comedians from London who like to make fun of us. Come to Liverpool we are very friendly
Parodies of the characters Terry Sullivan and Barry Grant on the TV soap Brookside that started when channel 3 started in the early 80"s. The series was cancelled after many years, The characters had permed hair which was a fad in the late 70"s early 80"s
Have a look at Liverpool Football Club's team photo from around 1980. That's partly where the curly hair and moustache style comes from (with loads of Scousers copying their football heroes at the time). The clothing was know as a "shell suit" a very shiny tracksuit that everyone in Liverpool appeared to wear for years in the 80's (especially for shopping in Liverpool town centre, on a Saturday). In fact jokes sprang up about the clothing around the time e.g. "what do you call a scouser in a white shell suit? The bride". The phrase "calm down" said in a scouse accent and with the open palm hand gestures is still funny to put into conversations (if you're as old as me!).
All I heard for the whole sketch from the fashion was "To me, to you!" wonder if anyones introduced you to the chuckle brothers yet, as the fashion was relatively similar
Hi KB. Just a little tip for you. You should react to the randy old ladies and the man who says I am considerably richer than yow. You will enjoy both of them.
I was once at a wedding in Liverpool and my job was to stop anyone fighting near the kids table and yes the perms and shell suits were everywhere. The bridesmaids actually had matching pink shell suits.
New stereotype: tracksuits, pouches, army jackets, balaclavas, shaggy hair, drugs, thieving, and gun crime. This is from the late 80s-early 90s when perms and mullets were popular (come back into fashion again now).
@@mancuniangamecat8288behave yourself. Altrincham isn't Manchester. I live in Sale (I'm not from there. My bird is) and it's even further away from Manchester than that and even these are the Wirral of mancs
If you think back to "Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels" Barry the Baptist gets the 2 Scousers to steal the guns...one of them Gary has the same hairstyle in it
In the 70s, having your hair done in a curly perm was very popular amongst pro footie players, and the fans used to copy them. Moustaches were a thing too. I had a perm, and a 'tache.
The shaggy hair perms (male ones) were all the rage in the late 70's early 80's in Liverpool. I have a theory that it was because some of the team (Liverpool football club) had them. They're all 'Graham Souness' (LFC) lookalikes. Naturally, it caught on with the 1000's of fans. Not forgetting 'Terry' the character in Brookside who also sported a perm and mussie. Shell suits (track suits) were also very popular around that time. Of course, they had to be top designer labels or you would be a laughing stock if you were seen out in one that was not 😅 They were a 'scally' status symbol at a time when unemployment and dole money were the norm.
I came across your channel last year and did watch few of your reaction(s). One thing I noticed looking at this now you have put on so much WEIGHT .....you are a handsome young lad, don't let yourself go. 😂😂😂😂😂
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I’m a scouser, it’s a great comedy sketch by Harry Enfield,
It featured a set of stereotyped Liverpudlian characters or Scousers, "Ga'", "Ba'" and "Te'" (Gary, Barry and Terry) played by Gary Bleasdale, Harry Enfield, Joe McGann, and Mark Moraghan. The original inspiration for the Scousers sketches were Barry Grant and Terry Sullivan, two characters from the Channel 4, soap opera Brookside, set in Liverpool. Bleasdale, McGann and Moraghan are actually from Liverpool. Bleasdale actually appeared in Brookside in 1995 as a character called Donnelly.
The Scousers were usually depicted with Kevin Keegan bubble perm hairstyles that were popular in late 70’s & 80’s,and bushy moustaches, wearing shell suits, usually top designer ones that Scousers got on their football travels in Europe ,
and speaking in exaggerated Scouse accents. Common catch phrases they came up included "Eh? Eh? Eh?" "Dey do dough don't dey dough" ("They do though, don't they though").
"Calm Down!"
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Most sketches saw two of the trio develop an argument, with the third member stepping in to break up the argument (and frequently finding himself pulled into another disagreement). Whenever a potential problem or dispute arose, this would result in The Scousers repeating to each other their most famous catch phrase:
" Eh! Eh! Alright! Alright! Calm down! Calm down!"
This catch phrase was Bleasdale's input as he changed the scripted original, which was "Break it up 'ey, come on, break it up", during the first rehearsal. McGann brought "Dey do dough, don't dey dough" to the sketches. The characters had allegiances to the city's football teams with "Ga'" being an Everton fan while "Ba'" & "Te'" were Liverpool fans. This leads to even more disagreement. During the holiday in Spain, Ga wears a Liverpool football shirt showing their fluid support.
But tho I didn’t like brookside I did love Harry Enfields piss take
When the Dalai Llama visited Liverpool, he was reportedly impressed that the locals had distilled the wisdom of centuries of Buddhism into four words; "Calm down! Calm down"
It’s partly sort of a parody of a sitcom of the time called Bread (about a Liverpool family) and a soap called Brookside.
@beverleyrankin3482 Those were great tv days, I loved both of those programmes
Its a parody of brookside
Watch out Terry , he’s got a gun ! 😂😂
Got to get up, got to get out , grab the world by the throat and shout
Buy it sell it ,the games getting out
This is the caricature image of Scousers from the 1980s being a bubble perm, a moustache and a shellsuit. It was based mostly on 2 characters from soap opera Brookside, Barry and Terry, but as with all caricatures while it was an exaggeration of reality it was also true to some extent.
And they got it from trying to look like that thug Graeme Souness. A whole city of them. It was awful.
@@Jason.King.at.your.serviceshush!
@@Jason.King.at.your.service And Terry McDermott 🤣
@@sandrahughes8645 Allright, calm down, calm down!
Watch boys from the black stuff
The Scouse stereotype from the 80's and 90's is one of the men wearing shell suits with badly permed hair who flip at the slightest slight. As I said it's a stereotype but still continues to this day.
I mean it's a stereotype but....if you walked around Liverpool in 80s/90s you'd absolutely see a LOT of men in bright shell suits with perms 😅
What continues to this day ? You starting or something?
@@mrjinks5641calm down calm down whats all this about eh eh eh
@@lfcgero35😂🤣😂
@@mrjinks5641😄
It's a parody of an 80's soap opera set in Liverpool called brookside. Half the cast (and most of the Liverpool football team at the time) had the tash/perm combo. 😂
Also the rest of the UK not just Liverpool, it was fashion at the time. Liverpool got picked on just because of the characters from Brookside
And Bread!
No one had curly hair in bread.
@@markscott4420calm Down Pal .
And half of the cast were from Manchester!
Im from Liverpool and its all true. Lmao
Eh.......calm down....alright? :D
Don't tell Me it's true 😅
Ay Ay Ay @@mdhazeldine
lowest crime rate? the amount of hubcaps i've lost going to away matches in the 90's.
luckily i paid the kids in the car park to looouuk after my car, otherwise i would have lost my wheels too. lol.
@@xFFSx🤣🤣🤣🤣👍
Do you not remember the two guys Barry the Baptist hired to steal the guns in, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels? They were Scousers. Remember what one of them said about how much he'd paid to have his hair done? (in a typically Scouse style perm) . And then gets it shaved by a shotgun.
One of my favourite Barry lines, "Fucken Norven monkeys".
Friendly low crime area 🤣🤣 someone is having you on
😂
Hey hey, dey do dough don't dey dough?
To be fair what was actually said was it's often voted the friendliest city, and has less crime than other big cities.
No mention of a low crime area, no such city or medium sized town in the UK.
@@jimb9063 only coz they dont bother reporting it
[Laughs in Manc]
Haha
Joe McGann (Barry) and Gary Bleasdale (Gary) are both genuine scousers. McGann, who has three acting brothers including former Doctor Who Paul, was replaced by another scouser, Mark Moraghan in Harry Enfield and Chums sketches. The man in the pub/first Doctor in the hospital sketch is writer Charlie Higson who starred in The Fast Show with Paul Whitehouse. The kid with the saucepan on his head is "Little Brother", the original version of Kevin the teenager.
Stephen McGann.... most yummy. 😍
The reason the Old Gits are in the hospital sketch is that Harry Enfield often does mass crossover sketches with multiple characters in one location like the airport, a retirement home, a supermarket opening etc
There was a really funny sketch that I haven't been able to find on RUclips. It's one where the Scousers go on a trip to "That London". Anyway they get absolutely hammered as you'd expect and Gary with his beer goggles working full strength goes back to this woman's place for a night of unbridled passion. It's his face the next morning that's the real killer when he realised that he'd actually picked up a man in drag.
He sat in the bus all the way back to Liverpool with the same stunned expression on his face without saying a word. 😂
I've called it "that London" ever since
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Me also.
The hairstyle was reminiscent of Kevin Keegan's hairstyle whilst at Anfield (home of Liverpool FC)
And Souness
You can add Alan Kennedy, Craig Johnston, Terry McDermot, and almost forgot Phil Thompson.
And at least half a dozen others.
Spot on lol
Kevin didn't have the Tash, but Graham Souness had the perm and tash.
A lot of the characters are a satire of the TV series 'Brookside' which ran in the 80's & 90's and was based in Liverpool
To be fair this was representative of scouser culture in the 80s/90s...they've since evolved...they no longer wear tracksuits as much..
Eastern european roma have taken over the mantle for the dress sense, they have yet to discover the perm.
They still wear trackies but they're lacoste, nike, adidas, north face etc. and not ugly shellsuits
@@Shagyamuma vast improvement
The dogs been arrested for nicking cars 🤣Thats 80's 90's Liverpool
The tracksuit ( or shell suit ) came from us Scousers in the 1980’s - because we had massive success with our football teams in European competitions , we got to travel a lot in Europe - and we came back with the latest sports gear before the rest of the UK. For some other reason , permed hair and moustaches were also a big thing in Liverpool :-)
Have you ever seen the state of the Liverpool players in the 70s and 80s? The perms and taches are 100% accurate, the perm stereotype even gets played for laughs in Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels. BTW, you guys really should have paid for some of the sports gear you brought back from the Continent...
@@darthwiizius 🤣 fair comment - there was a lot of Sergio Tacchini and other brands “liberated” from European outlets. Yes , the hair and moustaches were epic , see Souness,Keegan,Mcdermot etc
@@ScowlerJase
Them were the days (that we won bugger all) you lot won bloody everything. Between the mullets and perms and super fluffy side burns, them were the days.
youse didnt in 79 especially or 80 when we tipped youse out of the European Cup ... allright lah 😃😃😃
@@ScowlerJase
BTW, since you made this comment I popped into my town centre. There's a shop in it with some very cool Sergio Tacchini trainers in white. I'm tempted, but I already bought 2 pairs of shoes this week. I can't justify a 3rd pair, but man they're cooler than school, they're almost as cool as my 1 stars in leather. 🤔. Should I buy them or acquire them, erm, "Scouse style"?
There are also elements of the character Yosser Hughes (the brilliant Bernard Hill) in Alan Bleasdale's superb Boys From The Blackstuff, although the comedy in that is much, much darker.
Gis' a job!🤣
@@carlhartwell7978I can do dat
He went on to drive the Titanic if I remember rightly. We give him a job and he messed it up.
@@jeffnorwood-brown8407 Yeah, some of the headlines were shocking,
_'Titanic's Maiden Voyage, A Bit Of A Mess!'_
I forgot just how funny this was. The way they segue from one fight into another, in like a rotation system, over and over. Never appreciated just how well they acted this out as a trio. Imagine watching them do this live in the studio. I'd be creased,
You definitely wanna see the "I saw you coming" sketches of Harry Enfield, freaking hilarious
I've suggested that many times. He did one of them, but it wasn't the best one to start with so I think he just found it a bit confusing and didn't try any others. Bit of a shame. It's probably also more funny if you know about the posh wives/mums of London, so maybe it doesn't translate to Florida quite so much.
@@mdhazeldine
I always think of a shoe shop down the Kings Road when I see those sketches, it's called: "R. Soles".
@@darthwiizius Brilliant name!
They are based on Barry Grant and Terry Sullivan two characters from an old soap called Brookside set in Liverpool. The hair is based on Kevin Keegan (old Liverpool footballer) who had bubble perm.
If you're at all interested in the origin of the term "scouser" itself, it is related to a centuries old, simple and cheap to make recipe for meat stew, which itself was originally developed in the Royal Navy. The bare minimum recipe uses the most common forms of long term food stores aboard ships, which was some kind of dried and salted meat (usually beef or pork), hard tack or ships biscuit (very hard unleavened wheat flour biscuits, with variable proportions of weevils depending on age and storage conditions), and onions.
The meat would be cut into small chunks and any fat carefully trimmed out to use for rendering and frying the onions - alternatively the onions would be fried in butter if it was available. Then the chopped meat would be added, along with enough water to re-hydrate it, and simmered slowly until the chunks of meat were soft enough to chew without breaking your teeth. The hard tack biscuits would be smashed into crumbs, soaked with water, added to the stew and simmered enough to soften it.
This bare minimum, basic recipe was known as "lobscouse" on Royal Navy ships and cooked at a large enough scale to feed the crew. Sooner or later the name got shorthanded to "scouse", and crew would take their knowledge of how to make it home with them when discharged from the navy or on shore leave.
Liverpool was an important west coast port for the Royal Navy for centuries, so the recipe would become popular in that area. It was versatile too, since almost any meat could be used (whether fresh or dried), any sort of bread or even potatoes could be used instead of ships biscuits, and it could be bulked out with whatever vegetables were cheaply available for feeding the maximum number of people at minimal cost.
So this "lobscouse" or "scouse" would become a traditional staple meal in Liverpool and surrounding areas. People who regularly ate it would sooner or later become known as "scouse eaters", which itself was eventually shorthanded to the term "scouser", which persists to this day.
As a scouser I found it hilarious! You have to be able to laugh at yourselves. only problem was Harry Enfields 'accent'.p.s. Liverpool had the top karate clubs in Europe.
It's not Karate , It's the Merseyside variation of Ecky Thump, a traditional Lancashire martial art. See also 'Eh,Eh,Eh' a mantra used to signify the possible onset of violence , the correct response when trying to difuse the situation is of course " Carl down , calm down "
Ecky Thump is a declining martial art as Black puddings, used as the weapon of choice, are no longer sold in supermarkets in their sausage form but sliced and pre packed.
@@keegan773 You need to find an E.T. licenced butcher to get the real thing.
scousers go to that london is the best scousers sketch ever.
Absolutely brilliant "all the other pubs are full of puffs!" says the Scouser in a gay bar. 😂
Mike and Jimmy have joined the army. After a month mikes writing home, Mike, how do you spell worrel? Jimmy, what are you writing? Mike, dear mum can you send us a pair of boots worrel fit us? Jimmy, no soft arse, it’s darrel fit us.
I love Harry's scouse piss take. It's brilliant!
You got Aintree right. "Mersey" is pronounced something like "mercy" but with a Z instead of a C
This is a very funny stereotype from the 80's. Liverpool/Merseyside is a very friendly place. If you ever visit the UK, visit Liverpool city center for a pint, you'll have the best night of your life!! I guarantee it!! 😂
Definitely! If there is anything dyed into the wool of Scousers it's the ability to take the p!ss out of ourselves! 😊
Liverpool Belfast and Glasgow are the terrible triplets The 3 best cities in islands
I am not sure where Peter Nicholson is from, but his claim that there is very little crime in Liverpool is so factually wrong as to be a joke. It's one of the most crime ridden Cities in the UK. I can only assume he is from the wrong end of the A580 [also known as the Esophisticated
My family's scouse/Irish. This is just typical how we talk to family. We're not posh. Proper good craic when you're together!
For the hair - google Graham Souness or Kevin Keegan - to Liverpool footballers.
Phil Thompson, Phil Neal and Terry Mcdermott ,all five players who ironically were not from the city of Liverpool. 😮
That hair and moustache just reminds me of my dad when I was a kid.. Was all the rage back then.
You're right about the hairstyles. Take a look at the Liverpool FC team photo's and others, from the mid seventies to mid eighties. I think you can buy what they still call, Kevin Keegan wigs to this day? BTW, that style at the time was popular with footballers all over Europe, especially in Germany. Probably also influence by Kevin Keegan as he was playing over there at the time.
Hale and Pace also did a great song about Scousers literally called “The Scouser Song” which was they filmed in Liverpool
With this being comment no.621, the question of the hair has probably been answered, but here's my answer. Scoucers are from Liverpool as you read. It was fashionable in the early 70s for footballers to grow their hair. By the mid 70s, nearly every football club in the English 1st division had the majority of players wearing long hair. Examples include Billy Bremner from Leeds, Charlie George from Arsenal, George Best from Manchester United and Kevin from Liverpool. Depending on genetics when most men grow their hair long, it goes wavy but Kevin Keegan's went curly. Phil Thompson also from Liverpool decided to copy Kevin Keegan's hair in 1976/77 and tidy it up a bit by going to the hair dressers and ended up getting a perm. By 1977/78 other Liverpool players had followed suit ... Terry McDermott, Graham Souness and then Kevin Keegan had a go. Upon seeing what their heroes were doing with their hair, Liverpool football fans started to copy them, starting the adults and then the children. By the time we get into the 1980s, the perm had become a stereo type for Scoucers because by now men, women and children were wearing a perm and were portrayed as such on TV shows ... all because of Phil Thompson.
Watch: the scousers go to London..
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My boss was scouse and the pot noodle hair is still a staple today 😂
I love these
Never heard it described as 'pot noodle' hair before 😂 love it
Pot noodle hair😂.
The dogs been arrested for nicking cars lol😅
The Scousers was a parody of a long running Channel 4 soap opera called 'Brookside' based in a new build housing estate in the suburbs of Liverpool, with ludicrous plotlines including a body buried under a patio, a lesbian kiss and in the first episode the husband in a newly married couple being carried out dead by an ambulance crew. The shellsuits were a reference to a 1980's class of people designated as 'Chavs', being ignorant, uncultered and having no fashion sense. The popular image of Scousers outside of Liverpool was that all Liverpudlians were workshy, petty criminals.
'uncultured'
100% accurate at the time. ‘Kappa’ tracksuits to be precise.
I had a Sergio Tachini and Fila shell suit
Brookside in the 80s had a character called Terry and he looked like that lol. The shellsuit was just a thing that got tagged to a scouser.
Those kits were called shell suits at the time. Only the shiny ones, if memory serves me right. Great video!
they really did
The hair? I always assumed it was Kevin Keegan's fault...perhaps I'm wrong..
The perm and moustache were the Scouser fashion stereotype of the eighties and nineties ,
The fasion for the Scouser girls is the scouse brow , thick black eye brows 😂
a must watch is Hale and Pace " Yorkshire Airways"
Permed hair and shell suits were the style that spread across the whole of the UK, back in the day.
I'm from Liverpool and love that stereotype. Yes it's from a certain time but it's still around ( without the perm ! )
There used to be jokes mocking scousers. A two quick examples. "What do you call a scouse bird in a white shell suit? The Bride..." "What do you call a scouser in a suit? The accused " The permed hair- just take a look at Liverpool or Everyon's teams in the early 1980s, and the tracksuits came from Liverpool being successful in the European Cup so every away match there would be a couple of thousand or so scousers acting like a hoard of pillaging Vikings as they shoplifted the way round Europe, nicking designer sportswear. The week after matches a mate of mine at work (in Liverpool) would be flogging his weekend away booty! That said Liverpool today is a very different place to the one where I spent my teens.
"the dog's been arrested for nicking cars" :-D :-D :-D I'm pretty sure that's what the sister said :-D
Love seeing your reactions to all these old shows I grew up on. From "Enfield and Chums" and "The Fast Show" to "Only Fools and Horses" and "Father Ted", TV in the 90's was amazing. 😌
It's from a soap called Brookside which had characters like these guys in it. Calm down calm down became a catchphrase.
God, this takes me back! We used to have fake arguments at school so that someone would come between us going "a'riggh, a'right, calm down calm down" hilarious.
Track suit (shell suits specifically) were all the rage in the 90's
"Southern woolyback bastard"
Hi the hair is permed to look like Kevin Keegan the Famous Liverpool Football player also other Liverpool Football players Terry McDermott & Graham Souness.All had their hair Permed.
It’s a skit on a soap opera called Brookside set in Liverpool in the 1980s/1990s. The male characters, Terry Sullivan & Barry Grant, had a perm & moustache and wore shell suits and got angry at the slightest insult in the storyline. A Scouser is a slang term for a Liverpudlian.
How ironic that Terry should mimic his character in real life, criminal activities. After all the white and brown he smoked and the bird he's done I think it's pretty much done and dusted for him now!!! 😧
To give you more context on the hair. In the 70s and 80s players from Liverpool Football Club got perms, and so with them being our idols, this became a bit of a trend. There were a few characters in a Liverpool soap called Brookside, and in Boys from the Black stuff that also had that perm. The Scousers is a exaggerated parody of Brookside, Boys from the Black Stuff and a sitcom set in Liverpool called Bread.
There was alot of petty crime in Liverpool in the 80 s, when unemployment was high , due to dock closures.
Hence the joke " what do you call a scouser in a suit ? "
The defendant.
On the road into Liverpool there used to be a neon sign saying ‘quality perms’ always made chuckle on the way to Anfield or Goodison
😂😂Liverpool has less crime 😂okay
Crime in Liverpool is very low compared to most UK cities
@snick260 I didn't say it's the worst city in England, its not the most innocent though either ie Poor little james bulger murder😔, Little Rhys the 10 year old boy was shot riding his bike , then little olivia pratt Korbel in her " own" home 😮😢 . Lots of drug crime in Liverpool, all cities but sorry Liverpool not all that .
It is an extreme stereotype, but people from Liverpool laugh quite easily at it. There was a soap opera called Brookside in the 80s/90s, and there was a lot of arguing like this. It influenced this parody. And if you disagree with me I'll see you outside!
You need to see the scousers sketch when they go to That London, it was hilarious 😂
In the late 80's perms (not Afro's) became the thing at school in the UK , footballers and pop stars led the way .....
they were also seen in sitcoms , Brookside was a very popular sitcom based in Liverpool ..... The perm was seen much in Brookside , a lot of fighting was in the story lines ...... the Scousers by Harry Enfield was more a general piss take rather than football based .....
Most American folk would have needed subtitles 😊
Same with English folk
Harry Enfield, genius.
Dey do dough , dont dey dough..😂😂
Scousers dress and style their hair however the most popular footballer dresses.
"The original inspiration for the Scousers sketches were Barry Grant and Terry Sullivan, two characters from the Channel 4, soap opera Brookside, set in Liverpool. Bleasdale, McGann and Moraghan are actually from Liverpool".
It's a throw back to 70's Liverpool football icon Kevin Keegan who sported a perm.
There was an 80s British TV soap called Brookside based in Liverpool. There was a character called Terry who they based these characters on. Look him up. 😊
Their was a soup opera in the 80s and 90s called brookside and the style and fashion at the time was the permed haircuts and tracksuits.
I think it was based on the characters from "BROOKSIDE" - a depressing soap set in Liverpool in the 80's. Some blokes did think they suited a curly perm back then, a bit like some thought they suited a pony tail later... or a massive beard these days ... or a beard juxtaposed with bra, knickers and a party dress. Fashions come and go.
As the saying goes....under every pony tail is an arsehole
There's a video by Tieran Freedman called "Scouse not English" it's worth a watch and explains the history of Liverpool
I'd like to add that the haircut is the Keegan permed style which used by a famous liverpool footballer in the 70's.
Very funny ...especiallly the robotic body movements.
I live in Liverpool and the hair represented the late 70’s football players style of the time like Kevin Keegan who was a superstar striker for Liverpool
in the 70's and 80's when Liverpool Football club were dominating Europe, many of the tema had perms and a tash.
they used to look like this
Low crime ?, Liverpool has some of the worst gangsters in Europe.
for a while the "calm down calm down" became a national catchphrase just pull up an image of the cast of Bread you'll get it, have you seen Harry and Paul dressed as old ladies doing the 'Young Man' routines ?
lol, I forgot about the Bread tv show, I think most of the case were from Manchester!
The perm hair style was popular in the 80's as was the "shell suit", tracksuit
Liverpool is the best place to visit if your coming to the UK.
We have loads of great museums and beautiful architecture, our Liver building has 4 clocks bigger than Big Ben we have more pubs than anywhere in Europe and unlike all other major cities in the UK we are not over crowded and our crime rate in our is much lower despite what you might hear from some comedians from London who like to make fun of us.
Come to Liverpool we are very friendly
There are numerous better places.
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And none of them are in Manchester .
@@mrjinks5641Manchester is way above Liverpool in everything, you clearly know nothing.
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 it is above Liverpool, in crack heads violence protest and shit nights out, sort yourself out FFS 🤣🤣
Parodies of the characters Terry Sullivan and Barry Grant on the TV soap Brookside that started when channel 3 started in the early 80"s. The series was cancelled after many years, The characters had permed hair which was a fad in the late 70"s early 80"s
Have a look at Liverpool Football Club's team photo from around 1980. That's partly where the curly hair and moustache style comes from (with loads of Scousers copying their football heroes at the time). The clothing was know as a "shell suit" a very shiny tracksuit that everyone in Liverpool appeared to wear for years in the 80's (especially for shopping in Liverpool town centre, on a Saturday). In fact jokes sprang up about the clothing around the time e.g. "what do you call a scouser in a white shell suit? The bride". The phrase "calm down" said in a scouse accent and with the open palm hand gestures is still funny to put into conversations (if you're as old as me!).
All I heard for the whole sketch from the fashion was "To me, to you!" wonder if anyones introduced you to the chuckle brothers yet, as the fashion was relatively similar
Hi KB. Just a little tip for you. You should react to the randy old ladies and the man who says I am considerably richer than yow. You will enjoy both of them.
I was once at a wedding in Liverpool and my job was to stop anyone fighting near the kids table and yes the perms and shell suits were everywhere. The bridesmaids actually had matching pink shell suits.
Bullshit
New stereotype: tracksuits, pouches, army jackets, balaclavas, shaggy hair, drugs, thieving, and gun crime. This is from the late 80s-early 90s when perms and mullets were popular (come back into fashion again now).
The Dalai Lama went to Liverpool to deliver a message of peace and tranquility…”Eh, eh, calm down, calm down.”
King Boomer also Lister in Red Dwarf is a scouser too
Who's seen sense and moved to Manchester.
@@mancuniangamecat8288then saw even more sense and journeyed 3 million light years from Earth.
@@FortisConsciusno , he's still loving it in England's best city.
@@mancuniangamecat8288 hahahahaaa
@@mancuniangamecat8288behave yourself. Altrincham isn't Manchester. I live in Sale (I'm not from there. My bird is) and it's even further away from Manchester than that and even these are the Wirral of mancs
Your summary of the first clip was perfect
If you think back to "Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels" Barry the Baptist gets the 2 Scousers to steal the guns...one of them Gary has the same hairstyle in it
In the 70s, having your hair done in a curly perm was very popular amongst pro footie players, and the fans used to copy them. Moustaches were a thing too. I had a perm, and a 'tache.
i use to watch brookside here in uk and barry and terry was best of freinds and thats how there hair style was at that time..memories brilliant...😀
Those comments about scousers and Liverpool were extremely sarcastic. Everything was the total opposite. 😂
Oh and yes Kimg Boomer you have seen the Old Gits before cos it was a reaction you did for me of my suggestion but ages ago
The shaggy hair perms (male ones) were all the rage in the late 70's early 80's in Liverpool. I have a theory that it was because some of the team (Liverpool football club) had them. They're all 'Graham Souness' (LFC) lookalikes. Naturally, it caught on with the 1000's of fans. Not forgetting 'Terry' the character in Brookside who also sported a perm and mussie. Shell suits (track suits) were also very popular around that time. Of course, they had to be top designer labels or you would be a laughing stock if you were seen out in one that was not 😅 They were a 'scally' status symbol at a time when unemployment and dole money were the norm.
The scallys are either fighters or biters , normally a pillow . Never ask what a scouser keeps on his fingers because it’s normally his sister
That from a gypo?
Gypo , it’s you lot that eat rats
You can learn the entire scally accent in one sentence, DEY DO DOW DONT DEY DOW
I came across your channel last year and did watch few of your reaction(s). One thing I noticed looking at this now you have put on so much WEIGHT .....you are a handsome young lad, don't let yourself go. 😂😂😂😂😂
the perm, moustache and shell suit was all the range in liverpool once upon a time
All three appear on BBC Crimewatch., local crime news, Recommended !!
The cheer character acting 🎭 of Harry , so good at taking off anyone