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  • Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
  • Jim's daughter might end up revealing a bit too much in protest.
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  • @MichaelFreckelton
    @MichaelFreckelton 4 года назад +766

    Missed my favourite line in this scene:
    "What angle do you think the press will take with this story?"
    Bernard: "Oh, wide angle I should think, Minister."

  • @anfonzeac
    @anfonzeac 4 года назад +452

    Hacker: 'Make a clean breast of it.'
    Humphrey: 'Not the happiest of phrases in the circumstances.'

  • @christopherdean1326
    @christopherdean1326 4 года назад +679

    "Puts a different complexion on it"
    "Especially in this weather"
    Only a British writer could put that line in............

  • @ThomasTVP
    @ThomasTVP 4 года назад +400

    I love it: "Not a complete coincidence, Minister"

  • @malcolmabram2957
    @malcolmabram2957 4 года назад +320

    2:26 'Its the parents you know?'. Comedy can hardly get better.

    • @RonJohn63
      @RonJohn63 4 года назад +19

      He's right, though.Too much "freedom" and not enough cold, hard reality.

    • @mattevans4377
      @mattevans4377 4 года назад +3

      Hoisted by his own petard, lol.

    • @loganvanderwier8866
      @loganvanderwier8866 2 года назад +5

      @@RonJohn63 Well, cold hard reality sounds like somthing you would see at a nude protest...

    • @JJVernig
      @JJVernig 2 года назад +5

      @@RonJohn63 This is literally 40 years old, and 40 years earlier they probably would say the same....

    • @RonJohn63
      @RonJohn63 2 года назад +3

      @@JJVernig it's only gotten worse.

  • @DarkPriestess1
    @DarkPriestess1 3 года назад +65

    "It's not the badgers who are going to have kittens, Minister."

  • @DreamteamCarlo
    @DreamteamCarlo 3 года назад +50

    "It seems she's a Miss Hacker... "
    "Ah, that's my name! :) "

  • @stevescott1929
    @stevescott1929 4 года назад +264

    Paul Eddington was an absolute master at reacting. His comic double-takes are one of the highlights of this wonderful series.

    • @jwestrik9308
      @jwestrik9308 4 года назад +7

      I concur. Naturally comic expression. He was also cheekily funny playing the neighbor in "The Good Life". Only overshadowed by "Barbara" for obvious reasons...

  • @CarrionCrow993
    @CarrionCrow993 3 года назад +64

    Jim's look of surprised amusement sliding into dread 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Flawless!

    • @nottmjas
      @nottmjas Год назад +2

      Surpassed only when he, as PM, heard of his predecessor's death

  • @thiagodeandrade7081
    @thiagodeandrade7081 4 года назад +199

    Hacker's smile when he thinks it is a coincidence.

    • @MrGroganmeister
      @MrGroganmeister 2 года назад +5

      Poor Jim. The father is always the last to find out.

  • @applejuice5272
    @applejuice5272 Год назад +10

    *Sir Humphrey:* "Well, this puts a different complexion on it."
    *Bernard:* "Yes, especially in this weather."

  • @skfarouk
    @skfarouk 4 года назад +37

    Fowldes face through the entire dialogue makes this gold

  • @TheRealist2022
    @TheRealist2022 4 года назад +280

    3:10 what a performance from Paul Eddington. Delight to disappointment in his expression done effortlessly..... Sorely missed. In fact... just thought...all three in this clip are dead now. Such a bloody shame.

    • @leonhart4eva
      @leonhart4eva 4 года назад +11

      @Me, Myself and I he's gone now. Jan 2020

    • @Tacitus-qd3ev
      @Tacitus-qd3ev 4 года назад +12

      @@leonhart4eva Indeed. Neither Paul Eddington nor Nigel Hawthorne grew particulary old. Derek Fowlds at least lived into his eighties.

    • @shan4680
      @shan4680 4 года назад +18

      @@Tacitus-qd3ev John Nettleton who played Sir Arnold is still alive in his 90s.

    • @57_a_sarthak22
      @57_a_sarthak22 4 года назад +14

      @@Tacitus-qd3ev yeah it feels so bad thinking both Hawthorne and eddington died such painful death from cancer.

    • @Stilgarsan
      @Stilgarsan 3 года назад +7

      He did very little harm.

  • @doraldeddy1836
    @doraldeddy1836 4 года назад +50

    Bernards interjections are priceless! Love him!

  • @matthewcoates756
    @matthewcoates756 Год назад +4

    “Do you mean starkers, Bernard?”
    That line just gets me every time!

  • @rohitjain-it9hh
    @rohitjain-it9hh 4 года назад +39

    Do you mean the starkers Bernard.. Well yes yes, well this puts a different complexion on it 😅 especially in this weather.. Hahaha good lord!

  • @jm15xy
    @jm15xy 3 года назад +25

    "So they just take it out on innocent people like...me."

  • @lenniegodber7805
    @lenniegodber7805 4 года назад +116

    Easily one of the best comedies ever made.
    Superb writing and acting in a way only the British can pull off

    • @horseradishpower9947
      @horseradishpower9947 4 года назад +9

      It isn't a comedy. It is a fictionalized documentary disguised as comedy.
      This series is to this day an accurate insight into British politics.

    • @jbosco3970
      @jbosco3970 2 года назад +2

      It is a documentary with laughter

    • @anon-rf5sx
      @anon-rf5sx Год назад +3

      Politics is comedy.
      Well actually we do know Yes Minister is mostly fictional. Because politics is *bad* comedy, on the other hand Yes Minister is a superb one.

  • @nnannakalu9423
    @nnannakalu9423 4 года назад +101

    "All right, Humphrey: Make a clean breast of it."
    "Not the happiest of phrases, I must say..."
    😂😂😂

    • @weckar
      @weckar 3 года назад +4

      If it is going to be exposed, at least let it be clean!

  • @OldrNwizr2
    @OldrNwizr2 4 года назад +53

    Would a couple of extra seconds at the end be so difficult? I've seen a few of these clips and they're all cut short.

  • @daneriksson8947
    @daneriksson8947 3 года назад +30

    To BBC, thanks a lot for putting up those lovely snippets.
    One, if not the best comedy ever made!

  • @edinscot56789
    @edinscot56789 4 года назад +43

    Sir Humphrey really saved his ass on this one

    • @KawaiiStars
      @KawaiiStars 2 года назад

      and his daughter's bare one lol

  • @RahulKumar-ng2gh
    @RahulKumar-ng2gh 4 года назад +21

    all children are equal but some are more equal than other

  • @johnrutledge8267
    @johnrutledge8267 2 года назад +4

    one of the best of ym, includes explanation of "the significance of significant" . been there, literally done that trick ...

    • @adrianjohnson7920
      @adrianjohnson7920 2 года назад

      Like Bill Clinton's classic waffle ". . . that depends on what the meaning of "is" is. . . "

  • @Twister6424
    @Twister6424 2 года назад +8

    Funny scene and I'm starting to get into this type of humor...but holy cow, they're taking forever to tell Hacker about his daughter!

    • @jahndrahm262
      @jahndrahm262 Год назад +4

      it's called subtly

    • @Twister6424
      @Twister6424 Год назад +3

      @@jahndrahm262 and in humor timing is key

    • @highdownmartin
      @highdownmartin 9 месяцев назад +1

      So he can dig a hole for himself first, thus restoring the dependency on the civil service!

  • @professornuke7562
    @professornuke7562 Год назад +2

    Today she'd be superglueing her hand to a road, or throwing soup on a painting.

  • @TheLambLive
    @TheLambLive 4 года назад +50

    Nice way to cut off the final line there.... I remember when the BBC had standards, 😂

    • @chavzone
      @chavzone 4 года назад +14

      Goodness, you must have been there at the dawn of the dinosaurs!

  • @TruckTaxiMoveIt
    @TruckTaxiMoveIt 4 года назад +45

    I've been speaking American All My Life I watch this show and I realized that I need to learn how to speak English

    • @samil5601
      @samil5601 4 месяца назад

      Better late than never!

  • @marcghiggeri4965
    @marcghiggeri4965 3 года назад +4

    "What a coincidence.....thats my name"

  • @michaelvidal1971
    @michaelvidal1971 3 года назад +19

    Can somebody explain the lack of a health warning before this clip. If I had been drinking a hot drink there could have been a serious accident.

  • @chrisp4170
    @chrisp4170 4 года назад +39

    British Understatement carried out nagnificently

  • @adrianjohnson7920
    @adrianjohnson7920 2 года назад +4

    This series was made years before the controversial DEFRA "TB badger cull". A classic is not only ageless, but often prophetic . . . . ☺

  • @SuperAna1954
    @SuperAna1954 3 года назад +9

    Masterpiece!

  • @ianmontgomery7213
    @ianmontgomery7213 4 года назад +12

    Lucky Hacker wasn't a Troll!

  • @kjaamor2057
    @kjaamor2057 4 года назад +44

    Such great clips so utterly embarassingly edited. Who on earth cuts a video off mid-punchline?

    • @dilis5105
      @dilis5105 3 года назад +6

      It is BBC, brainwashed in current cultural revolution means they don't have the cultural tools to recognize their former civilization anymore.

    • @kjaamor2057
      @kjaamor2057 3 года назад +20

      @@dilis5105 What an absolutely bonkers answer. We're talking about video editing here. I don't believe Adobe Premiere has a slider from left to right wing.

    • @dilis5105
      @dilis5105 3 года назад +8

      @@kjaamor2057 To edit something you make a choice based on your knowledge. This basically tells me that BBC does not cherish what they once made.

    • @tom.parryjones
      @tom.parryjones 3 года назад +3

      @@dilis5105 Or it was more likely a simple mistake made by someone who was under the cosh to get 20 videos made in a single day, and this one just slipped through the net.

    • @c2757
      @c2757 Год назад +1

      BBC Comedy grates

  • @ThinPicks
    @ThinPicks 2 месяца назад

    Is the last part of this episode on here anywhere, when Humphrey saves the situation?

  • @johnwinters4201
    @johnwinters4201 4 года назад +54

    What incredibly inept editing! They cut the scene just before all the best lines.

  • @mrleedra
    @mrleedra 4 года назад +2

    "they will be... that is, will not not be"

  • @mohammadghaedi2169
    @mohammadghaedi2169 4 месяца назад

    The best part is when bernard tells jim talk to her with reason
    Jim responds reason? She's a sociology student

  • @warreng675
    @warreng675 2 года назад +1

    Thats your name, Dude

  • @TheAnxietyCloset
    @TheAnxietyCloset 3 года назад +2

    And then Hacker's daughter was never seen again...I think.

  • @guguigugu
    @guguigugu 3 года назад +16

    ah yes, the final, and indeed, often the first recourse of those without much to say - taking ones clothes off as a shorthand for a meaningful statement

  • @nosignaltech.3999
    @nosignaltech.3999 4 года назад +3

    it itchy haha

  • @erandeser5830
    @erandeser5830 Год назад

    I am sure Eddington never got the 1st prize because Thatcher opposed making fun of a prime minister.

  • @بشرىلك
    @بشرىلك 4 года назад

    Ohhh that's my name 🤫😅😅

  • @CCoburn3
    @CCoburn3 7 месяцев назад

    His daughter must not be "well-endowed." Otherwise, her picture would have been on Page-3.

  • @mellowfellow6816
    @mellowfellow6816 4 года назад +13

    The worst cut at the end

  • @Johmiweil
    @Johmiweil 2 года назад

    Does anyone know which episode this scene belongs to?

    • @Horsley-Green
      @Horsley-Green Год назад

      The Right To Know, the sixth episode of the first series.

  • @rklmbd2934
    @rklmbd2934 3 года назад +6

    Very poor cut. Could at least have ended the scene.

  • @internetpleb4854
    @internetpleb4854 3 года назад +16

    Who likes the idea of a modern comedy sequel to this show staring a grown Up Lucy Hacker who has gone down the road of left wing politics with a reputation of a insufferable labor mp the weight of legacy on her shoulders as the daughter of a former pm and has now been appointed to her fathers old job as the head of the department of administrative affairs Sir Humphrey has been retired for many years so now his position is now filled by non other than Bernard.
    The same kind of antics goes on just in the original series just 21st century but as her character progresses Lucy starts adopting/exiting many of her fathers well to put it diplomatically his behaviors where political idealism meets the reality of then civil service.

  • @cloudsparrow7729
    @cloudsparrow7729 3 года назад +4

    I suppose if Americans have beavers, then badgers are the closest we've got, if a lot bigger and hairier. Save The Badger!!

    • @richardlloyd2589
      @richardlloyd2589 2 года назад +1

      But what about Ratty, Mole and Toad?

    • @cloudsparrow7729
      @cloudsparrow7729 2 года назад +1

      @@richardlloyd2589 I'll leave it to you to find something sexual about Ratty, Mole and Toad. Weasels? Weaseliy done. Stoats? A stoatally different matter (boom boom)

    • @richardlloyd2589
      @richardlloyd2589 2 года назад

      @@cloudsparrow7729
      Ever heard of the naked mole rat?
      It’s appearance has been likened to a certain part of the male anatomy.
      So that’s a 2-4-1 answer 😉
      I don’t know how much physiology Toads share with frogs, but long legs, and tongues certainly feature in many a fantasy.
      As a side note, ferrets are part of the stoat/weasel family and are famed for slipping up a trouser leg 😁
      Edit. Typos.

    • @cloudsparrow7729
      @cloudsparrow7729 2 года назад

      @@richardlloyd2589 I don't know what part of the male anatomy you're referring to, but I don't think I've got one. I'd remember something like that. Unless you mean prostate gland. I'm sure that looks pretty horrible

  • @markisaac3550
    @markisaac3550 3 года назад

    Ha lol

  • @THINKincessantly
    @THINKincessantly Год назад

    Whos the gal in the thumbnail? Shes not in the clip?? Is this supposed to be Hackers daughter?

    • @Horsley-Green
      @Horsley-Green Год назад +1

      Yes, that's his daughter. I don't know why she's in the thumbnail because she only has about 5 minutes screen time in 2 different scenes.

  • @j.b.9260
    @j.b.9260 3 года назад

    They just take it out on innocent people like ... me.

  • @philswaim392
    @philswaim392 Год назад

    Its cute english people talking about how far away their cities are. Meanwhile it is only the size of illinois which is just one of 48 continental united states