American Reacts The Two Ronnies: The Ministry of Pollution
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
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Half the time I laughed not at the jokes, but at the fact Connor still had a straight face! 😄
"Androids! I hear you cry. And you can get them if you sit on too many committees." - I think he's confusing androids with hemorrhoids.
"The trans-Siberian railway is still open, so you can still go to the Urals. But not while the train is standing in the station" - The Urals (a mountain range) being mixed up with urinals (at the time, toilets on trains in the UK emptied onto the tracks, with passengers asked not to use them while the train is in a station!
"By tonight I'll be completely cut myself. To tell you the truth, I'm half-cut already!" - Half-cut means drunk.
Trains were recently still emptying onto tracks, they were meant to have been replaced by 2019, but don't know if they were.
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Michael Foot was leader of the Labour Party (1980-83). Cyril Smith was a prominent Liberal Party politician in the 1970s and 1980s. He weighed up to 410 pounds at his peak, so there was a standard joke that if Cyril Smith was the only Liberal Party MP, the party would still have 3 seats in parliament.
"Gold-top" refers to high-fat, full-cream milk, so called because the tin foil top is gold if you order it for your doorstep and even when you buy it, the plastic top also tends to be gold in accordance with this. "Lovely babies with gold tops" is a play on words.
Clement Freud was a German-born broadcaster (German-born, not least, because he was the grandson of the psychoanalyst Dr Sigmund Freud) and celebrity chef who by the time this sketch was made had become a politician for the Liberal Party and therefore a legitimate target for satire. Given the various sordid rumours that have arisen since he died, he probably deserved it more than the Two Ronnies or their audience could have imagined. He was famous for having quite a robotic, monotone voice, hence his comparison here with an android.
Michael Heseltine (Lord Heseltine, as he now is) was a Conservative politician, well known for disagreeing with many of Baroness Thatcher's- and later, Sir John Major's- policies, but who nonetheless had an extraordinary talent for occupying senior positions in multiple Cabinets and for being involved in various important committees, hence the reference to there being four of him.
St. Michael's Mount is a tidal island, close to the toe of England's boot, here rather snobbishly compared to a pile of underwear.
I believe the confusion over the Trans-Siberian railway line is over a separate pronunciation over "urinals". (The implication being, "Don't pee on the train.") If you believe the annotations, however (which you probably shouldn't) then he said "Euros", which is equally improbable for a politician to suggest if the train isn't moving.
Eton and Harrow are two highly expensive, prodigious boys' schools, both famous for educating and housing multiple prime ministers, aristocrats and royals, foreign as well as domestic. I don't believe Sandwich College exists at all (although Sandwich Technology School does), but in any case, the wordplay of "Eton-Sandwich/eaten sandwich" is obvious.
Wimbledon is a town in the Southwest of London, most famous for the Wimbledon Championships, or tennis. McEnroe is John McEnroe, a tennis player, so that's where he fits in there. Joan Collins was and is famous for having had multiple marriages and broken relationships, so her being a "mixed double playing with everyone" has obvious innuendo. Danny LaRue was an actor who took on a variety of different roles, but he's most famous for his drag act, so I'll leave you to guess what his being a "mixed single" could mean.
Mr Foot is Michael Foot, who was a long-standing Labour politician- possibly the most radical one of his day- who stood in Opposition to Margaret Thatcher from 1980 to 1983. Here, obviously, his name is used to play on the word "foot" for length.
Cyril Smith was a Liberal politician who was famous for his colourful personality and the considerable girth of his stomach. Since his death, rumours have arisen about him that are, if anything, worse than those regarding Clement Freud, but if this sketch were made today, the reference to his taking up "three [parliamentary] seats" would probably be attacked for fat-shaming regardless.
You gave me a lot of work in this one, but I think this just about covers everything.
St Michael being , for some reason, the trade mark of Marks and Spencer's particulary associated with clothing of the undergarment apparel type. (they now also use Atmosphere and 'Sparks' and Autograph.)
@@highpath4776 Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, you're right. No idea how I missed that one.
@@highpath4776 St. Michael's is the trademark of Marks and Spencer because St. Michael is the patron Saint of grocers!
@@grapeman63 There was a ?department? store that used I think St Bernard.
@@highpath4776 The St. Bernard trademark is owned by Irish grocer, Dunne Stores. Presumably, this was an attempt to cash in on the St. Michael brand but, like its namesake Saint's dog, is a last resort!
Clement Freud was the grandson of Sigmund Freud. The Urals is a mountain range in Russia. The first sketch Sheffield is in Yorkshire and the laughed because one of the football teams is called Sheffield Wednesday.
"If you have to dial the speaking clock, wait til 6 and get the cheaper rates" that tickled me 🤣
Toilets on trains used to deposit onto the tracks. It was always a thing to not use the loo in the station as the glass roof acted like a greenhouse. Tomato plants used to grow on tracks in stations (cheese and tomato sandwiches were commonly sold in the buffet cars)
Urals , (urinals ) Do not use the toilets while the train is in the station ( they used to say )
That because the toilet waste went straight on to the rails. It was just a hole in the floor.
Milk sold in bottles in the UK was identified by the colour of the top on the bottle. Gold top milk was the creamiest, usually from Jersey or Guernsey cows.
Toilets on trains used to flush directly onto the track and so there was a sign that said "do not use the toilet while the train is standing in the station". There was nothing worse than looking at the track in a station where someone had flushed! Once the train was away from populated areas and was moving quickly it was broken up into smaller pieces as it hit the ground. He is making a play on words between the Urals and urinals.
Gold top refers to the foil seal on the top of a glass milk bottle. The cream content was colour coded with gold having the most cream and red the lowest
Was Gold specifically from Jersey Cows ?
@@highpath4776 Channel Island cows; Jersey and/or Guernsey
Pmsl. You maybe wouldn’t have got the Sheffield Wednesday joke; it’s a football team here. Their word play was always amazing… Thanks for uploading. xxx
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Danny La Rue was the original Ru Paul. He was doing drag shows long before everyone else. If you can find it, check out his performance on 'The Good Old Days' where they recreated an old Victorian night at the Music Hall with big name celebrities of the day doing old acts.
In the old days before the invention of the supermarket, milk used to be delivered to homes every morning by the milkman. You could tell the different type of milk by the foil tops covering the bottles, gold was full cream, red semi skimmed
+ silver was full cream (ordinary milk), gold was milk from jersey cows (that gave very creamy milk), red was homogenised milk , blue was TT-tested (for babies).
@@djtwo2 ok I don't recall that clearly, I was only a kid. Birds used to peck the tops most mornings and i hated the creamy lumps
@@djtwo2 We had this discussion on some other vid, There was also green , was the blue a blue/silver check design ? Screw top/crown top for Sterlised
Full cream was silver back then, while Gold top was from Jersey or Guernsey Cows.
@@highpath4776 Green was unpasturised. I used to deliver green (kosher) milk in a Jewish neighbourhood. What you didn't sell had to be thrown out.
Sheffield Wednesday is the name of a football/soccer team. Gold Top milk is full-fat milk, it comes in a glass milk bottle with a gold foil top on it, silver top is like 2% over here and the blue/silver top is semi skimmed milk
I was born in 1975
Loads of the jokes are from yesteryear and British
Like two Bristols - Bristol cities = titties 😂
Sheffield Wednesday is a football team……………
Any questions I will answer 😊
Just don’t call my country a pigs head lol
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A Hampton is from rhyming slang - Hampton wick - Prick or Dick ie Penis
The Urals as has been pointed out is a mountain range in Russia, the "but not in the stations" is suggesting "urinals" as opposed to "Urals" - you don't use them in the station because toilets on trains used to flush directly onto the track, so you don't really want that near where people are standing around.
Hello bud, the joke about the Tran-Siberian express was a play in words about visiting the urinals while on the train but not while the train is in the station. I don’t know if it’s still the case but there used to be messages over the tannoys in train stations saying do not use the urnald while the train is at the station, this is because the waste is expelled out of the bottom of the train and would sit in the tracks by the platforms. Urinals is a word that sounds familiar to somewhere along the trans Siberian route. Hope this helps explain mate
"Go to the Urals" The Ural mountains are a big range of mountains in Russia; he is using the phrase "go to the urals" meaning "go to the toilet / bathroom" (ural sounds like urinal)
With regard to train toilets flushing onto the tracks, it was that way here in the U.S. as well. Amtrak phased out its use of these toilets in the 1980s after waste from a Silver Meteor train crossing the St. Johns River in Florida, between Palatka and DeLand, landed on a fisherman who filed a lawsuit. The same rule applied: you weren't allowed to flush the toilet while the train was in a station. Same thing for commuter trains that had toilets.
There are still a number of privately owned passenger rail cars in the US from the 1920s through the 1940s that still use hopper toilets that discharge to the track. I've had the fun of travelling in a few of them.
Sheffield is where I am from and is in South Yorkshire and around 30 miles south of Leeds and 40 miles East of Manchester. The joke though is that Sheffield Wednesday are a football team. He’s listing the days in which major cites are aloud to breathe and he says Sheffield Wednesday.
"Gold tops " the foil on top of a milk bottle .
I love your laugh. The joke about the russians invading when we're closed reminds me of the film "the mouse that roared". The plot was invading USA but they did it on a day that it was closed
A lot of the names mentioned were politicians of that time and largely forgotten now.
Urals is a reference to not using the toilets "urinals" whilst a train is stationery at a station. Urals is a mountain range in west Russia. It was not a particularly good joke.
Amazing you're watching them. They'll be tough for Americans to follow...there's a lot of history in these sketches. This one most likely written when Thatcher was prime minister in the eighties.
Gold tops is a type of milk we used to have when we had home milk delivery
The Trans Siberian Railway is still open, so you can still go to the Urals (a play on urinal). But not when the train is in the station. One other words you can't go to the toilet on the train while it is waiting at the station.
Urals [Russian mountains]sounds like urinals [toilet] not to be used while trains are standing at stations.
An excellent comedy duo.
1. It's loooooonnngggg before your time;
2. It's particularly British humour;
3. References are to specific British social culture and politics;
4. I'm sure there are other considerations I can't think of off the top of my head.
Dont really recall seeing this sketch on YT before, but it still seems relevant and about as much sense a J Rees-Mogg or Michael Gove could make. I never know if Ronnie B is acting as a Civil Servant on these speeches or as an MP ?
Michael Foot (cut down to six inches) was a politician as was Cyril Smith, who was extremely large, hence the three seats.
It was 1983 Great Britain, and you never had 1983 USA. Don't feel mad that you may not get something, especially known only to Brits at the time. You have a great approach to the humour.
I think you got the "two Bristols" joke, but missed the "one huge Hampton" one. Cockney rhyming slang - Hampton Wick (a former village now absorbed into London). Need I say more?
I read down these comments to see if anyone else had spotted that joke. One enormous Hampton, brilliant
I actually live near the town of Sandwich and the village of Ham. There is a road sign with Ham and Sandwich next to each other!
Sheffield Wednesday is a Football Club btw. ;)
You need to do Ministry for Sex Equality as well 😂😂. Again as regards a certain tennis player - The McEnroe Home sketch from Not The Nine O’Clock News. Finally, next month is Christmas, so please do yourself a favour and check out “Christmas at the Ministry” a one off Yes Minister special scene. Only about 4 minutes long so perfect for you.
The horse costume is a 'pantomime horse'.
I'm old enough to get all the references.
Sheffield Wednesday is a football club!
Theres a laugh on Hampton because of rhyming slang 'Hampton Wick' - dick. plenty of old fashioned comic songs made play of 'King Henry got his Hampton Court' (caught). Bristols is similar rhyming slang based on 'Bristol City', one of the towns football teams. Hence Bristols became a slang word for breasts. Much of the Two Ronnies output harks back to the Music hall era comedians in this respect, innuendo being an element.
Sheffield is the home of football and stainless steel. Twinned with Pittsburg because of the two Steelers teams and industry.
In the English County of Kent there is a place called Sandwich the next village is called Ham.. 😂😂
The joke was that he said it wasn't the real Queen, when it was obvious that it wasn't a real horse. It isn't a giant picture and a horse costume, there is a camera on the picture Ronnie B is holding.
Gold top milk had maximum cream just as red top had less cream
Dont worry this show was so long ago that few in the U.K. would know who Clement Freud was below a certain age and the same goes for most others unless they were an international name.
Popped up on a quiz program the other day - think in relation to WS Churchill (Grandson of Churchill and a Tory MP - Stephen Fry recounted that Freud outgrandfathered one or the other as to impact on culture and science).
@@highpath4776 Sigmund Freud was Clement's grandfather, a connection that generally got him preferential treatment on trips abroad. Until one time he made an official journey to China with Winston Churchill's grandson (they were both MPs, with Freud being the senior of the two). When Churchill was given a better room than he, Freud remarked that it was the first time in his life that he had been out-grandfathered.
Gold Top, milk used to be delivered to your door and you could have Red Top, skimmed milk, Silver Top, semi Skimmed, Gold Top full fat milk.
The Urals is a sort of pun, you can't use a urinal while in the station.
Breathing days.......Sheffield Wednesday...is a Sheffield football team.
Bottled milk came in sevetal grades. 'Grade A' was the creamiest and had a gold foil top second grades had a silver foil and I believe there was a blue foil one.
Urals (mountains) Urinals (toilet)
Urals - he tried to make a joke pun for urinals
Michael Heseltine was a prominent Conservative politician in the 1980s & 1990s. Clement Freud was a Liberal Party MP in the 1970s and 1980s.
Heseltine vs Ovaltine.
Gold top milk had the highest amount of cream per pint.
Sheffield Wednesday is a football club
Love you too!
Gold tops on a bottle of milk, because they were full cream 😋
Oh wow, welcome to the club Conner, you have a bald patch. No shame in it and do NOT get a wig. Go gracefully bald like the rest of us and get more hats!
Michael Foot was a politician.
The Liberal Party has few MPs. Cyril Smith was one of them and was very obese.
Cyril Smith , a politician of considerable proportions .
And, as it later turned out, a predatory paedophile with a liking for spanking and carrying out fake medical examinations on underage boys.
Considerably predatory as well.
400lbs
In order to understand these TV programs you need a 70 year old Brit to video share the viewing with you - explaining as you go - then you can present it and enjoy your commenting
Cyril Smith was a Liberal MP, who must have weighed 300lbs, that's why he would have needed 3 seats
we miss alot too, dont worry
Shefield Wednesday is a football team
Don't feel bad about not getting some of the jokes. Not only are they British jokes, but 40 year old British jokes. Most young Brits wouldn't get them either!
i feel so bad for reactors who get requests to watch videos that will have ZERO sense to them, i mean what fool do these requests ? 3 decades past their time and 3000 miles out of their range
That’s part of the fun! 😜
Bristols means tities. Bristol City a soccer team.
Like wise Sheffield Wednesday is a football team.
Gold tops,milk tops
Gold top is type of milk. Full fat I think.
There going to be lots of sayings that you won't know.
You’re going to struggle as a lot of this contains cultural references from years ago
Hampton - old fashioned name for male genitals. Bristols - ladies’ chest area
The Two Ronnie's 🤣
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Stopping the vid to ask us who these people are is pointless when you can look them up on the net, but I will say that the joke about a bloody big “Hampton” refers to a penis. Rhyming slang, Hampton wick = prick = penis. Shortened to just “ Hampton”.
Hampton wick is a town in England.
Connor buddy you can't be expected to understand political comedy from 1980s England. The comments will enlighten you however I can assure you that were the shoe on the other foot very few people here would 'get' American political allusions from the same era. I'm unfortunately old enough to have seen these sketches first-time-around and it's hard enough for me!
Of course at the time the Two Ronnies Sat Evening (sometimes they went out on a Friday?) alternated with the Mike Yarwood impressions show and the likes of Janet Brown doing Maggie to Mike's opposition/ ministers or Ronald Regan etc were always quite good.
You wouldnot get the jokes unless your British and over a certain age
Are you sure these aren't actual Tory policies?
Sheffield Wednesday is a football team!