The bus joke was filmed on India Way, White City, Shepherd's Bush, quite near BBC Television Centre. Someone in twelve thousand years might find that trivia interesting
Looked it up on Google maps and the corner looks the same in 2014, but in 2017 that little building is gone and there's a Catholic school in its place of all things.
My very first Monty Python viewing, by accident, when i was a kid and my folks left me alone in a room at their friends house.... with the TV set to CHANNEL 9 PBS!!!... i have never been the same since.
I love that moment, when the chill goes up the back of one's neck, and one knows ...just knows ...that all this is based on true events. I knew it was odd that Scotsmen just happen to be in the reality, but nobody ever talk about or deals with it.
Add me to the list. My first distinct TV memory is a vampire (Graham Chapman) going to bite the neck of a girl (coincidentally this sketch’s Donna Reading), his fangs fall out and she says, “You’re no fun anymore.” I didn’t know any context or even what was funny, just that moment etched in my young brain. Only a decade+ later as a confirmed MP fan did I see S01E07 in its entirety and my mind was blown.
I think Graham’s girlfriend absolutely steals the scene with her goofy expressions perfectly lampooning actresses in 1950s sci fi movies. And this is even given Graham’s typical genius acting.
Yes - Mara Corday's 'shock take' in 'The Giant Claw' when she sees the camera footage of the monster is a camp joy to see; exactly what they were spoofing here.
@@cavewaller Donna Marlow/Marlowe/Reading (credited as Donna Reading for this). She was indeed a lovely girl and you may be pleased to know she got her kit off.
The opening music with the monologue at the start is the same music that was used during the "LIBRARIAN" sketch on Hilarious House Of Frightenstein. I remember it well.
Idle did a good one where he introduced a guest on a show and went totally bonkers, ending up on the floor, just find out the guest wasn’t coming after all. To which he said in a normal voice: “Well, he isn’t what he is cracked up to be anyway…” 😂
I don't think I have ever laughed as hard at anything in my life as I did when I saw this sketch for the first time in 1993. Still my favorite piece of work they ever did.
Surely, Charles. You're the chief scientist at the Anthropological Research Institute at Buckydam, an expert in what makes people change from one nationality to another. - - SO I AM!
Ok so no one's gonna talk about how they very literally described the Dursleys? And that dude's name is Harold Potter??? J.K. Rowling must have been a Monty Python fan 😂
Possibly poking fun at scifi. Aliens turning people into something, a doctor working to cure it, and a pretty assistant to the doctor, who poses a lot. Just over emphasized for the purpose of the sketch. But I'm probably overthinking this. It's Monty python humor, after all.
Sure did love the Flying Circus in the 70's here in the US. Then the Holy Grail movie! Hello from sunny and warm St. Petersburg, Fl. Wish London wasn't so damn cold!!!
"Harold Potter, gardener and tax official?" Does that mean we saw Ginny Weasley being interviewed by that detective? And why was the spectator in that football match wearing Gryffindor colors? And a Welshman named Llewellyn is transformed into a Scot?
THREE episodes Donna Reading S1.E3 Court Scene, The Larch, Bicycle Repair Man, Children's Stories, Restaurant Sketch, Seduced Milkmen, Stolen News Reader, Children's Interview, and Nudge Nudge. How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away Milkman Seducer(uncredited) This one in the video S1.E7 Invaders from another galaxy turn Englishmen into Scotsmen. Also: a comedy about camels; a corporate board meeting. You're No Fun Any More Donna Reading Girl in bed… S1.E8 Full Frontal Nudity Girl in Bikini with Its Man(u A classic episode with A pet-shop customer returns his dead parrot; a gang of female senior citizens attacks a town's young men; a young army officer who joined the service to water-ski tries to resign. All from the first season. Maybe they liked Carol better or Donna went to off to make movies.
The 3 overcrowded Scotsmen per caber really got me, on PBS 1970 USof A! Didn't know WTF a Blancmange was, and still don't, and the Scottish stuff except for red hair via Vikings, was unknown but for Sean Connery/007. After BRAVEHEART and IRA it became a little more clear. John C officiously questioning 5 person doubles is priceless!
Thanks for this! Hilarious. Sad to think this might be lost to the current generations. We were so lucky. Being from California I’m not entirely getting the joke but the absurdity makes it even funnier.
amaizing.... such a girl in a comedy scetch results in extra laugh, while most movie stars (and singers, for that matter) are exactly the same kind... >__
Right on.. anyone know her name.. we all know Carol Cleveland.... love the 1969 "Birds" of London... Carnaby Street fashions... really miss those days.
First line of harry potter: "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense." Coincidence, I think not. Maybe it was in her sub conscious though. Im not accusing her of blatantly copying
Not that I’m a fan of JKR at all but it’s perfectly possible to pay tribute like this in a humorous way without it being considered a copyright breach. Writers do it quite often.
@@AurelienCarnoy Now hobbits and rabbits have really nothing in common. Sure their name may be similar, but rabbits live in burrows in the ground while hobbits ... oh.
@@sheilasmith7991 No we're not. It's miserable, being stuck on miserable, poverty stricken, isolated brexit island with all those brexidiots!😅Anyone with any sense has moved to France. I have! And no, I won't coming back thanks. ❤
One of my best friends is a Scots-Irish German; What should I do to prevent him from running around in a kilt while playing a bagpipe, covered in whiskey and playing _Das Deutschlandlied_?
Absolutely loved Monty Python when the first came out and ever since but, it's easy to forget just how anarchic (for want of a better word) their comedy really was for the time.
Single digits or early double digits was probably too early to watch this. I remember being scared. Scared by the Flying Circus. And the sloshing noises.
YESI HVE a request plz, its the one with the the underground agent as a dog and the guy wants to find the guy who can "Destroy Universe with his wrist and countrys with his pinky" and he has to give the dog a meatball and a walkyies to get theinfo it's funny. Like this clip
The bus joke was filmed on India Way, White City, Shepherd's Bush, quite near BBC Television Centre. Someone in twelve thousand years might find that trivia interesting
Doubt it.
15,001 years maybe
Looked it up on Google maps and the corner looks the same in 2014, but in 2017 that little building is gone and there's a Catholic school in its place of all things.
When i visited the area my friend drove me along streets where they filmed somethings. Fyi.
I already find it interesting.
" He didn't show any inclination to be a scotsman before this did he? No no he was not that kind of person". Hilarious.
Imagine being an extra in an MP sketch, watching it with your grandkids, and yelling "That's me!" lol
The baby in the pram with it's little fist in the air cracks me up.
nlg was looking for him when the scotsmen troop was crossing the border
And the massive beard.
Asking as an American. Is the first in the air supposed to be a "Scottish Pride" thing?
@@stevencoffin328no, I don’t think so. Just silliness.
@@jonjames7328 itsa pink panther thing
06:36- That camera angle is a definite homage to sci-fi movies, somehow it contributes to the feeling of isolation and unease.
The very heart of all Human civilization: New Pudsey.
SEEMS LEGIT.
It’s like the narrator saying “At the center of human civilization!” and then a sign appears that says WILMINGTON DELAWARE.
I'm scottish and i love all thse jokes about the Scots :P
The McKamikazes was the best.
My very first Monty Python viewing, by accident, when i was a kid and my folks left me alone in a room at their friends house.... with the TV set to CHANNEL 9 PBS!!!... i have never been the same since.
Found the St Louisan!
“Mummy’s been turned into a Scotsman!” “How horrible!” The look on Grahams face when he says that always makes me laugh.
I love that moment, when the chill goes up the back of one's neck, and one knows ...just knows ...that all this is based on true events. I knew it was odd that Scotsmen just happen to be in the reality, but nobody ever talk about or deals with it.
Been said this is the Queen's favorite sketch
You mean Charles?
@@williammartin1561 Seems like a cheap and inappropriate joke.
This sketch is the first thing I remember ever seeing on TV. I was about 5 years old. This is etched in my mind as my first TV memory.
Add me to the list. My first distinct TV memory is a vampire (Graham Chapman) going to bite the neck of a girl (coincidentally this sketch’s Donna Reading), his fangs fall out and she says, “You’re no fun anymore.”
I didn’t know any context or even what was funny, just that moment etched in my young brain. Only a decade+ later as a confirmed MP fan did I see S01E07 in its entirety and my mind was blown.
A fascinating documentary, now I know more about British history!
The "McClosed" sign gets me every time.
McWoolworth's lol
McDonalds.@@briantaulbee6452
HA HA (only louder)
Fantastic camera joke -- the zoom out from the lover's close-up to reveal the lab. Really nice. I love visual jokes like that.
Yes, that's called good directing
are u alive ?
How about the casual shot of the scientist 's had going up her thigh?
@@weaponmaster2916have you seen thos3 Really Bad sf films?
I think Graham’s girlfriend absolutely steals the scene with her goofy expressions perfectly lampooning actresses in 1950s sci fi movies. And this is even given Graham’s typical genius acting.
She’s lovely 👍
Yes - Mara Corday's 'shock take' in 'The Giant Claw' when she sees the camera footage of the monster is a camp joy to see; exactly what they were spoofing here.
@@cavewaller Donna Marlow/Marlowe/Reading (credited as Donna Reading for this). She was indeed a lovely girl and you may be pleased to know she got her kit off.
When she fusses about trying to show off her legs before answering Charles, but needs him to help her up... lol
Dam so that's how the S.D.P recruit, Devius buggers.
Cor blimey, I thought I was watching Quatermass!
I love when he gets the bus and drives it to his bus stop.
This is especially funny if you've seen old episodes of Doctor Who from the 70s
Actually, this was made before Pertwee's era of Who even began.
And there's something familiar about the blonde bombshell!
4:35 looks like the lab set from "The Claws of Axos" lol
Brilliant comedians whose legacy has survived for decades. And fortunately, with Foil Arms and Hog, successors in spirit exist.
The greatest cities of mankind's long civilized legacy: Babylon. Alexandria. Rome. And, most spectacular of them all, New Pudsey.
Gad, it's pronounced New Pudsey, cretin
Wonderfully daft. I can faintly remember watching it first time around.
It deserves a $200m Hollywood budget.
... and it would be better than 90% of the junk they make now.
At 3 minutes, this is better than the entire new Dr Who series.
@@Dr-Curious Agreed, the new series has been mainly dire
The opening music with the monologue at the start is the same music that was used during the "LIBRARIAN" sketch on Hilarious House Of Frightenstein. I remember it well.
Palin does sleaze to perfection.
I think you mean oily.
Idle did a good one where he introduced a guest on a show and went totally bonkers, ending up on the floor, just find out the guest wasn’t coming after all.
To which he said in a normal voice: “Well, he isn’t what he is cracked up to be anyway…” 😂
' Wait a minute '
' A whole minute ? '
' No, I meant that metaphorically '
Ya gotta love the scantily-clad bimbo who takes any and all tension out of the laboratory scene!
The Bimbo is Donna Reading
I don't think I have ever laughed as hard at anything in my life as I did when I saw this sketch for the first time in 1993. Still my favorite piece of work they ever did.
It's my second favorite, The best is the sheep trying to fly.
This was also my favourite, international hide and seek came a close second😂😂
Totally lame
hello are u alive?
You were able to pick one? 😮 I'm impressed!
Surely, Charles. You're the chief scientist at the Anthropological Research Institute at Buckydam, an expert in what makes people change from one nationality to another.
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SO I AM!
Also, since I saw so many requests for this in the comments, I do believe that the song played on the bagpipes is "Scotland The Brave"
"Let's Have a Ceilidh"
It's "liberton pipe band" also known as "liberton polka"
One of their best and funniest sketches.
...also, VERY silly
Ok so no one's gonna talk about how they very literally described the Dursleys? And that dude's name is Harold Potter??? J.K. Rowling must have been a Monty Python fan 😂
What about the comment under the comment below yours, posted 13 years ago?
-John Cleese in the first HP movie
-'Cockroach Cluster' from 'Crunchy Frog' sketch in Weasley's Wizard Wheezes
Ya think?
Possibly poking fun at scifi. Aliens turning people into something, a doctor working to cure it, and a pretty assistant to the doctor, who poses a lot. Just over emphasized for the purpose of the sketch. But I'm probably overthinking this. It's Monty python humor, after all.
Ross Bloom you’re not overthinking it, you’re underestimating Monty Python!
Dude, it’s meant to be ridiculously silly. Chill. 😊
Why do the Scotsmen have their fists up like a salute?
Sure did love the Flying Circus in the 70's here in the US. Then the Holy Grail movie! Hello from sunny and warm St. Petersburg, Fl. Wish London wasn't so damn cold!!!
They do get summer there you know.
I hear there is something close to lunch, and dinner, too. Supper. L.O.L!@@robinac6897
@@robinac6897 yeah the rain feels warmer then
@@zachbos5108 OK.....didn't expect the Spanish inquisition.
@@robinac6897 No one expects.... Oh no, I can't be bothered...
oh yeah that hits the spot I didn't watch it for loooonnnngggg time...
Angus Podgorney, how are you going to get 48 million kilts into the van? Eh, I'll have to make it in two gos. 😂
"Harold Potter, gardener and tax official?" Does that mean we saw Ginny Weasley being interviewed by that detective? And why was the spectator in that football match wearing Gryffindor colors? And a Welshman named Llewellyn is transformed into a Scot?
This is actually better science fiction than the last 3 Alien movies. 👍
I love the way the scottsman walk
I love how the footballer is acting like it's an ordinary game xD
... based on a true story - names' places' and titles withheld.
The description of the couple at the beginning was like Tolkein introducing Bilbo and Rowling introducing the Dursleys.
Even more like the Rowling intro ...
Her name is Donna Reading she only appears in this episode.
THREE episodes
Donna Reading
S1.E3
Court Scene, The Larch, Bicycle Repair Man, Children's Stories, Restaurant Sketch, Seduced Milkmen, Stolen News Reader, Children's Interview, and Nudge Nudge.
How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away
Milkman Seducer(uncredited)
This one in the video
S1.E7
Invaders from another galaxy turn Englishmen into Scotsmen. Also: a comedy about camels; a corporate board meeting.
You're No Fun Any More
Donna Reading
Girl in bed…
S1.E8
Full Frontal Nudity
Girl in Bikini with Its Man(u
A classic episode with
A pet-shop customer returns his dead parrot; a gang of female senior citizens attacks a town's young men; a young army officer who joined the service to water-ski tries to resign.
All from the first season. Maybe they liked Carol better or Donna went to off to make movies.
@@EthelredHardrede-nz8yv9:09
@@EthelredHardrede-nz8yvCarol was the milkman seducer.
Now I know where Douglas Adams got his inspiration with The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy ;) at least part of it... this is truly hilarious
That girl is made to be kissed!
The 3 overcrowded Scotsmen per caber really got me, on PBS 1970 USof A! Didn't know WTF a Blancmange was, and still don't, and the Scottish stuff except for red hair via Vikings, was unknown but for Sean Connery/007. After BRAVEHEART and IRA it became a little more clear. John C officiously questioning 5 person doubles is priceless!
Thanks for this! Hilarious. Sad to think this might be lost to the current generations. We were so lucky. Being from California I’m not entirely getting the joke but the absurdity makes it even funnier.
Havent seen this, thx for uploading!
amaizing.... such a girl in a comedy scetch results in extra laugh, while most movie stars (and singers, for that matter) are exactly the same kind... >__
WHAT A BEAUTY
Right on.. anyone know her name.. we all know Carol Cleveland.... love the 1969 "Birds" of London... Carnaby Street fashions... really miss those days.
Shocked, because I've never had the pleasure of seeing this before.
Have to say baby fist in crib was a delight. Please do carry on. Full stop.//
My family enjoyed the Pythons but sometimes we would watch a show and when it ended we would just look at each other. This was probably one of them
That was the very first MP FC I ever saw. I was hooked from there. And my mother wondered why I turned out this way :)
Origin of the "Unexploded Scotsman" perhaps?
First line of harry potter: "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense."
Coincidence, I think not. Maybe it was in her sub conscious though. Im not accusing her of blatantly copying
And then there is a Harold Potter in the sketch! I think she liked that sketch.
"You're a Scotsman, Harry!"
Not that I’m a fan of JKR at all but it’s perfectly possible to pay tribute like this in a humorous way without it being considered a copyright breach. Writers do it quite often.
It is just a ... Hum. Yes. Homage.
Like the hobbits being rabbits like Peter rabbit.😅
@@AurelienCarnoy Now hobbits and rabbits have really nothing in common. Sure their name may be similar, but rabbits live in burrows in the ground while hobbits ... oh.
This joke rocked my 9 year old mind on PBS! I remember it like it was yesterday.
absolument génial, vous avez un beau brexit !
We are! Thanks my French friend ❤
@@sheilasmith7991 No we're not. It's miserable, being stuck on miserable, poverty stricken, isolated brexit island with all those brexidiots!😅Anyone with any sense has moved to France. I have! And no, I won't coming back thanks. ❤
Graham was brilliant in Python, especially in Life of Bwian, where he played Woman, sorry Roman.
Only taken the algorithm 17 years to put this in my feed 😂. Less worried about a Skynet style takeover because of it though. Silver lining I guess lol
One of my best friends is a Scots-Irish German; What should I do to prevent him from running around in a kilt while playing a bagpipe, covered in whiskey and playing _Das Deutschlandlied_?
Tell him … the joke.
The newspaper reporter turning into a Scotsman after figuring out that people don't suddenly turn into Scotsmen always cracks me up! 😆😆😆
Grew up ion Monty Python, thanks! Keeps me (in)sane.
(scottish accent) Was about to write "This would never happen to me!" but now,
ALL HAIL SCOTLAND!
An expert in what changes one nationality to another, nowadays called care for Calais
This is sooo hilariously random. haha
Absolutely loved Monty Python when the first came out and ever since but, it's easy to forget just how anarchic (for want of a better word) their comedy really was for the time.
This is actually better science fiction than the last 3 Star Wars movies
Funny, 1969 and they describe the size of the universe/galaxy/space, in a comic fashion, better than the main stream media of their day.
Cleese was genius for raging but Palin was unbeatable at doing the Sketchy slightly overexcited schemer
The sheer terror of it all. To be turned into a Scotsman in the prime of my Englishness 😅
Monty Python/Science fiction? Brilliant!
I expected the dog toward the end to be turned into a Scottish terrier. But I suppose a lot of people wouldn't get that.
Must-Watch Double Feature: This with Garth Marenghi's Darkplace e5 'Scotch Mist'
Funny how time goes. I've been trying to drop hints to this sketch the whole week. But nobody reacts.
Brainsample: Best. Surname. Ever.
I remember this being the most bizarre sketch they ever did.
That happened to Rod Steward too 😮
"Eff yoo really want meh
And yoo thenk Ah'm sexeh
Come on, honeh, let meh knooo!"
@@seanryan3020 😂
A better question is why is there chemistry lab equipment at an anthropological institute which would study social sciences.
This is science fiction, not science documentary!
This is hysterical. Gone to Scotland, McClosed 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I don't remember this!!! Glad I don't. 🙏🏽😊👍🏻👇🏼👇🏼👆🏽👆🏽👍🏻👍🏻👋🏾👏🏽👏🏽
Graham and Eric always crack me up at 1.27 haha!
Well done Graeme on your ten years on RUclips
Oh sure I'd go with the blonde lassie...
But I'd still be thinking about Carol Cleveland...
yes, yes the one when terry jones talks to the cat, the lizard, and the duck.. it's after the smuggler sketch. fifth epizode
This is more frightening than "Quatermass II".
And funnier than "Quatermass and the Pit!"
@@seanryan3020 ...
😁
Single digits or early double digits was probably too early to watch this.
I remember being scared. Scared by the Flying Circus. And the sloshing noises.
As a scotsman i resent this episode !😂😅😊😅
I've been looking for this sketch!
Reminds me of the footy last night, Irishmen turning into English footballers
Not always. In the "Spam" sketch, it was Chapman who was the wife "I don't like spam!!" while Idle played the husband.
Thanks Gabbahead.
In retrospect some of that should have been obvious SOLar system, SOLar calender, SOLar panels etc.
What can you say another awesome !! sketch from the pythons
YESI HVE a request plz, its the one with the the underground agent as a dog and the guy wants to find the guy who can "Destroy Universe with his wrist and countrys with his pinky" and he has to give the dog a meatball and a walkyies to get theinfo it's funny. Like this clip
Harold Potter went to Scotland...... "did he enroll at Hogwarts?"
Deborah Kerr in "Casino Royale":
"Aye, Ye have to pay the Piper!"
❤😂❤😂❤
Damn! That was silly!
This Sci Fi horror is absolutely terrifying 😆😆😂
I can't be the only one who got the Lemmings vibe from this...
I’m still alive to enjoy this!! I’m alive I’m alive!
Nice to see what it was like before the most recent invasion.
It's so stupid I freakin love it
This was the first mention of Harry Potter in media