1:30 - Shatner's voice there is hilarious "Oh look at that, you got another jack! How lucky you are! How wonderful for you!" Its so high pitched and happy.
At 1:10 Kirk tells him if he gets another jack he'll be disqualified. At 1:26 Kirk deals him another jack and tells him how lucky he is. This game is more complicated than it even appears.
1:56 Is it just me, or does it look like Nimoy was totally fighting to keep from busting out laughing as he said "I have never computed them, Captain"?
There are a few times throughout the series where Spock cracks his emotionless demeanor and shows a faint amusement at something, usually Kirk's or McCoy's antics. This is one of those times. Given that amusement is quite a benign emotion, it wonder if Vulcan training is a bit weak on suppressing it?
Well, Spock has that move with the off button on the shoulder. And McCoy, well, he's a doctor dammit! He knows right where to hit a guy. Also needs to save his hands for surgery, like replacing brains and troweling thermo-plast into Hortas. Kirk needs the exercise, so he is happy to just beat the guy for a few minutes.
Remember, McCoy has a devastating move, which rivals, even surpasses the Vulcan Neck Pinch. It's the Double "McCoy Chop" (as seen in City on the Edge of Forever). A quick double chop to the lower back and neck ALWAYS results in instant unconsciousness.
Love Spock just standing there at the end watching Kirk flail away at the guy. He has that, "I can't believe half of me is related to these people" look about him.
0:28 Kirk: "Spock... Spock..." 1:44 "Gangster: "If it were dark on Tuesday" Spock's expression 2:13 McCoy karare chops the other gangster, then Spock after picking up another gun off the floor, just stands there and watches Kirk punch the other gangster out.
On Beta Antares 4 they play a real game. A mans game. But it's probably a little beyond you. It requires intelligence.....Even with a gun in his face, Kirk is savage.
He can't be the only one. Quark in DS9 once offered to teach the game to Odo, so either there was a real game of the same name, or Kirk wasn't the last person to pull a Fizzbin scam.
Spock was just being honest without destroying the Captain's derailed train of thought. But it was taking a pretty big risk to ask Spock for the odds anyway, Maybe Jim just felt lucky.
I guess it was Tuesday lol. Chances are jim made exceptions to his own rules since he was making it up anyway to make the gangster feel like he was winning.
He knows right where to hit a man, being a doctor and all. Also he has all that pent up energy from never getting laid. Kirk hogs all the women. Except on Yonada.
That's got to be the most complicated way to get someone to bend over so that their head is in a position you can hit it with an openable table top! Couldn't Kirk have just told him his shoe laces were untied?
Watching it again the table didn't even hit his head; I guess he was also smart enough to play dead whilst his goons took the brunt of the beating! Either that or Spock covered for the Captain's blunder with a somewhat more direct Vulcan death grip. I could be wrong though - the beating could all just be part of the rules for what happens to all the players when one goes to pick up a card dropped by the dealer!
@@mattarnold198 That was the Vulcan nerve pinch. There is no such thing as the Vulcan death grip, which Spock faked in "The Enterprise Incident" to 'kill Kirk, and fool the Romulans into letting them beam Kirk's 'body' aboard the Enterprise. Spock made up the Vulcan death grip to fool the Romulans. It doesn't exist in Vulcan culture. In Spock's "Vulcan death grip" he placed two hands on Kirk's head in a manner somewhat similar to the Vulcan mind meld. Nerd out.
And this, folks, is why I skipped most of my Accounting classes in college. I quickly realized that most of our financial system was pretty much an ad-hoc game of Fizzbin. With politicians, bankers, lawyers, accountants and every sleazy venture-capitalizing investment broker one of them just making up the rules as they go along to stiff the rest of us. I may not have a big piece of the action because of it. But at least I can feel like I have most of my soul intact...
Gangster: I need another jack. Kirk: No, if you got another jack, you'd have a shronk. Gangster: A shronk. Kirk: Yes, you'd be disqualified.... ... Oh look at that, you got another jack! How lucky you are! How wonderful for you!
Yes, but only if the second card that gets flipped up is a queen or a deuce, and only if the player on the dealer's left has drawn a king and had to give a card back. Otherwise it's only three-quarters fizzbin and the shralk stands. Also it's always dark in space.
Best play of course, is the Kronk. Here you have a chance to display your best fighting moves. For Kirk it's standard Kirk-Fu fistacuffs. For Spock it's the nerve pinch and for McCoy it's his patented chop, that's guaranteed to send you to a hospital really fast.
That game is not complicated, it become complicated when you become the royal Fizzbin at February 29. Then the player on your right has to be have a shrock, exept on night of course, or reverse....
obviously the gangster was not paying attention, nor was continuity. Kirk just said if he were to get another jack, he'd have a shraulk and be disqualified..in a bluff, always remember your own rules😄
The gangster that Kirk is explaining the rules to makes a funny non sense sound to break up Shatner and it did but they left the clip in and cut it before you can hear the break up.
Kirk said if the guy gets another Jack he’d be disqualified...and he gets another Jack and Kirk says “how lucky you are”. Where’s the disqualification? 😁
Logic conflict in evidence. He said a 3rd Jack would wipe him out with a Shronk, then he gets a 3rd Jack and he tells him how lucky he is. Also, Spock knows the odds. He always knows the odds.
This is the whole point of the game. Kirk first insults his captors so they will play along then he comes up with rules that are confusing and contradictory - impossible to predict - putting his captors into a state of mind where he can easily overpower them. Sound familiar?
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Spock mouthing “astronomical” gets me every time.
I never noticed that until now
@@kadmii lol same here.
1:30 - Shatner's voice there is hilarious "Oh look at that, you got another jack! How lucky you are! How wonderful for you!" Its so high pitched and happy.
I am this happy whenever I get a shronk.
After telling him he’d be disqualified if he got another Jack.
@@FS2K4Pilot It must have been a Tuesday.
@@micahbush5397 And after dark, too.
At 1:10 Kirk tells him if he gets another jack he'll be disqualified. At 1:26 Kirk deals him another jack and tells him how lucky he is. This game is more complicated than it even appears.
He was just making it up as he went along while waiting for the thugs to drop their guard. Well played!
It must have been a Tuesday! Hahahaha 😅 🃏🃏🃏
@@sarahfullerton6894 😂
They were playing in the bottom half of the hour, which grants you temporary immunity
Maybe it was dark on Tuesday so it was a fortunate hand
1:56 Is it just me, or does it look like Nimoy was totally fighting to keep from busting out laughing as he said "I have never computed them, Captain"?
I'm sure they had many takes of this scene where somebody couldn't keep a straight face and cracked up.
You have to admire Spock’s ability to lie by telling God’s own truth.
His voice sounds like he's fighting a burst of laughter, too.
There are a few times throughout the series where Spock cracks his emotionless demeanor and shows a faint amusement at something, usually Kirk's or McCoy's antics. This is one of those times.
Given that amusement is quite a benign emotion, it wonder if Vulcan training is a bit weak on suppressing it?
I almost got a Royal Fisbin once... but the odds...
This is how football rules sound to me.
😄😄😄
and NASCAR
Same lol
I love how Spock and McCoy take their guys down almost immediately, while Kirk has a drawn out Brawl with his.
Well, Spock has that move with the off button on the shoulder. And McCoy, well, he's a doctor dammit! He knows right where to hit a guy. Also needs to save his hands for surgery, like replacing brains and troweling thermo-plast into Hortas. Kirk needs the exercise, so he is happy to just beat the guy for a few minutes.
@@fastacker2 Plus it offers another opportunity inside an episode to tear his tunic.
McCoy’s fighting skills improved since the Roman encounter.
Remember, McCoy has a devastating move, which rivals, even surpasses the Vulcan Neck Pinch. It's the Double "McCoy Chop" (as seen in City on the Edge of Forever). A quick double chop to the lower back and neck ALWAYS results in instant unconsciousness.
bc hes a drama queen
2:12
Spock: Gentle Vulcan touch.
McCoy: Clean, fast knockout.
Kirk: *IMMA BRAWL THAT GUY! YEAH!*
Love Spock just standing there at the end watching Kirk flail away at the guy. He has that, "I can't believe half of me is related to these people" look about him.
Kirk the greatest BSer of all time.
He's a lot of things, but he is no boy scout. :)
Apparently, Spock never got the memo that said "Just play along."
But seriously, Nimoy's facial expressions are priceless!
one of the funniest scenes in the original series...(yeah- Nimoy is hilarious)...
0:28 Kirk: "Spock... Spock..."
1:44 "Gangster: "If it were dark on Tuesday" Spock's expression
2:13 McCoy karare chops the other gangster, then Spock after picking up another gun off the floor, just stands there and watches Kirk punch the other gangster out.
Leonard Nimoy's expressions really sell this scene. :)
Also when Spock just watches Kirk trading punches with that guy at the end
On Beta Antares 4 they play a real game. A mans game. But it's probably a little beyond you. It requires intelligence.....Even with a gun in his face, Kirk is savage.
I dig your name! 😉
@@palerider964 I like yours too. That was a great movie.
I still love this scene, probably one of my favourites out of all Star Trek.
A Piece of the Action!
This entire episode is GOLDEN
McCoy with the chop to knock his assailant out! Bones is a man!
He's a doctor..he knows where to hit!
I'm a doctor, not a Kung Fu master.
And now you know how Austin Powers learned his "Judo Chop!" maneuver.
Poor Talo. He was the only man in galactic history ever to lose a game of fizzbin.
He can't be the only one. Quark in DS9 once offered to teach the game to Odo, so either there was a real game of the same name, or Kirk wasn't the last person to pull a Fizzbin scam.
I should have watched this on Tuesday, except at night, of course...
Kirk: Spock what are the odds of getting a royal fizzbin?
Spock: I have never computed them Captain.
Spock was just being honest without destroying the Captain's derailed train of thought.
But it was taking a pretty big risk to ask Spock for the odds anyway,
Maybe Jim just felt lucky.
Oh my this is what star trek should be about that the new movies lack, this has to be one of the funniest episodes in tos lol
This and Shore Leave; and maybe Squire of Gothos...
@@BadWebDiver tribbles too.........................
lacks the commodore of kirk spock and mc coy
The last one kinda got it with bones and spock pairing up, the best duo imo
Apparently Shatner was actually making it up for real.
Damn. That's improv for ya.
"It does have advantages over chess."
Source! I need the source for that comment!!! Where to find it, please???
it was always my instinct to believe that so yes that tracks ☠️
Wait a second, I thought getting another jack would be bad --- except on Tuesday.
I guess it was Tuesday lol. Chances are jim made exceptions to his own rules since he was making it up anyway to make the gangster feel like he was winning.
That's the joke.
When it's dark
Fizzbin, a man's game.
But ladies like it too!
Wow - Bones with that karate chop, took out his man faster than Kirk! LOL
He knows right where to hit a man, being a doctor and all. Also he has all that pent up energy from never getting laid. Kirk hogs all the women. Except on Yonada.
Except on Friday
That's got to be the most complicated way to get someone to bend over so that their head is in a position you can hit it with an openable table top! Couldn't Kirk have just told him his shoe laces were untied?
Kalo wasn't dumb enough to fall for that.
Watching it again the table didn't even hit his head; I guess he was also smart enough to play dead whilst his goons took the brunt of the beating! Either that or Spock covered for the Captain's blunder with a somewhat more direct Vulcan death grip. I could be wrong though - the beating could all just be part of the rules for what happens to all the players when one goes to pick up a card dropped by the dealer!
@@mattarnold198 That was the Vulcan nerve pinch. There is no such thing as the Vulcan death grip, which Spock faked in "The Enterprise Incident" to 'kill Kirk, and fool the Romulans into letting them beam Kirk's 'body' aboard the Enterprise. Spock made up the Vulcan death grip to fool the Romulans. It doesn't exist in Vulcan culture. In Spock's "Vulcan death grip" he placed two hands on Kirk's head in a manner somewhat similar to the Vulcan mind meld. Nerd out.
This was the funniest scene in the entire series.
Greatest card game in the universe! Much more exciting than tri-dimentional chess...
Too bad the TNG crew never set aside their usual poker night for a game or two of fizbin. Unless of course they never played poker on a Tuesday.
And this, folks, is why I skipped most of my Accounting classes in college. I quickly realized that most of our financial system was pretty much an ad-hoc game of Fizzbin. With politicians, bankers, lawyers, accountants and every sleazy venture-capitalizing investment broker one of them just making up the rules as they go along to stiff the rest of us.
I may not have a big piece of the action because of it. But at least I can feel like I have most of my soul intact...
ad-hoc ? That's even wilder than following the rules of Fizzbin, i'll wager.
on second though, i won't wager.
Little did Kirk know he was inventing Magic:The Gathering. :)
In a good game of Fizzbin there shouldn't have to be violence.
Except on Tuesdays.
And at night, when you lose a card!!😀😁
Except on the player's right ... crook nods and points to his left... I'd love to have seen the script to this scene....
"Now the last card, we'll call it a crock, ya got that?"
The whole game is a crock, you got that? hahaha
I like to refer to the AASHTO (the highway standards governing body) bridge design manual as the Fizzbin Rule Book, because it reads like this.
What cracks me up is that there are some serious hardcore Trekkies out there who play Fizbin in real life
I was the 1972 Astro-Con Fizzbin Champion, thank you very much
But only on Tuesdays
It became a popular real game in universe according to Quark.
Hmm i will learn it. Most Intriguing
Classic scene from the best episode.
one of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite episodes
1:47 Spock and Bones what a pile of shit our Captain is laying on this guy epic .
0:28 kirk is on so many levels of done right now
Never play another man's game, especially when his name is James T. Kirk.
McCoy is more of a "Hai Karate" man than an "Old Spice" one. See killer Karate chop @2:13
I only play Fizzbin on Saturdays, when it's light. Come at me, bro!
I play it on Saturday at night.
Gangster: I need another jack.
Kirk: No, if you got another jack, you'd have a shronk.
Gangster: A shronk.
Kirk: Yes, you'd be disqualified....
... Oh look at that, you got another jack! How lucky you are! How wonderful for you!
oooooooh look at that! ANOTHER JACK! how LUCKY you are! how wonderful for you!
That had me rolling 🤣
I just quit a job where the rules were like this.
0:30 "Spock, STFU ...."
1:28: Didn't Kalo just get a shralk and disqualified?
I've been saying this for 30 years
Why do you think Kirk was so pleased? He doesn't get another card and doesn't get to see the kronk. Kirk had already won.
Except when it's dark on Tuesday.
Yes, but only if the second card that gets flipped up is a queen or a deuce, and only if the player on the dealer's left has drawn a king and had to give a card back. Otherwise it's only three-quarters fizzbin and the shralk stands.
Also it's always dark in space.
Exactly. But Kirk says how lucky you are.
BRILLIANT
This whole episode was GOLD
One of my favorites!
Best play of course, is the Kronk. Here you have a chance to display your best fighting moves. For Kirk it's standard Kirk-Fu fistacuffs. For Spock it's the nerve pinch and for McCoy it's his patented chop, that's guaranteed to send you to a hospital really fast.
My brother and I use these lines all the time when confronted with a situation where there are too many rules... except on Tuesdays.
That game is not complicated, it become complicated when you become the royal Fizzbin at February 29. Then the player on your right has to be have a shrock, exept on night of course, or reverse....
what's best about your comment is your username.🤣
Beating up the other players is part of Fizzbin, you see if you pull a 2 of spades in a warehouse you are obligated to start brawling.
but only if you drop it and he stoops to pick it up.
This reminds me of Calvin Ball from Calvin and Hobbbes lol!
Exactly
1:55 Leonard Nimoy struggling not to laugh.
One of the best episodes ever!
It's funny how Spock just watches Kirk trading punches with that guy
I didn't notice that until I read your comment. Thanks!
I wonder If Spock ever did computed the Odds?
Still an easier game to learn than yugioh
@Daniel33487 I tried to summon exodia but it was dark on tuesday so he was summoned on the opposite side of the field in defense mode.
I have never computed how to play yugioh Captain.
*Astronomical...*
That Batman moment!!!
Second best comedy one after Tribbles
I, Mudd is the #1
Actually, this is how Easter is determined.
As beautiful an example of a classic confusion technique as I've ever see.
You're right, I just realized Easter never falls on a Tuesday.
This is my favorite scene haha.
I would have had a royal fizzbin, but it was Tuesday night. Lol
I think I had a royal fizz bin once. Made my nose itch.
0:18Spock --- Wispers. Captain i am familiar with the culture on Beta Antares 4 i don't know of ( kirk -- Spock ) any ( kirk Spock ) game
that's the funniest part of this scene , Spock almost ruined everything with his honesty. reminds me of scenes in star trek 4 in which Spock can't lie
A Magic player going over to the Yugioh table at a hobby shop.
You got the really cute clips. Good job.
I found this video a long time ago before I started Star Trek and I just feel nostalgic idk
The game is easy except when there is no gravity and you haven't had your morning coffee
I played a couple of hands of Fizbin under the covers with the lights off on Tuesday.
another jack, indeed
Make sure you didn't have to give back that card
I have never seen anyone actually *get* a Royal Fizzbin.
The odds are astronomical
@@robertszekely8686 Except when you're indoors on a summer afternoon, but that's only when you're playing Risa rules.......
The odds of getting a Royal Fizzbin are astronomical
Great episode! How'd they keep from cracking up filming this!?!😁👍
Worlds most complex card game
It's not the world's, it's Beta Antares IV's most complex. Goin there for a vaca. No covid there apparently.
The meme meme my brother and I had going when we were kids was: Regis Fisbin.
“I can play anything (that) you can learn!”
That’s not actually a bad comeback.
Hilarious that Kirk dropped that third Jack after declaring that a shronk. What are the odds?
Astronomical 😂
Would love to see Spock play that pinball machine
obviously the gangster was not paying attention, nor was continuity. Kirk just said if he were to get another jack, he'd have a shraulk and be disqualified..in a bluff, always remember your own rules😄
"Oh what a tangled web we weave / When first we practice to deceive"
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the odds of getting a royal fizbin
Astronomical
The gangster that Kirk is explaining the rules to makes a funny non sense sound to break up Shatner and it did but they left the clip in and cut it before you can hear the break up.
Spock, Spock, Spock, didn’t you watch “The Corbormite Maneuver?”
Never play Fizzbin with a man in a yellow shirt, except on Tuesday night.
The name of the game is urinal. I was 35 before I got the joke. 3 Jacks... They got it all past the censors too.
When in doubt bullshit your way out
Like politicians- doze guys wrote dah book on bullshit!
Kirk said if the guy gets another Jack he’d be disqualified...and he gets another Jack and Kirk says “how lucky you are”. Where’s the disqualification? 😁
On the cutting room floor.
It must have been a Tuesday...at night.
Exactly!
When my friends from Milwaukee explain Sheepshead to me.
Logic conflict in evidence.
He said a 3rd Jack would wipe him out with a Shronk, then he gets a 3rd Jack and he tells him how lucky he is.
Also, Spock knows the odds. He always knows the odds.
This is the whole point of the game. Kirk first insults his captors so they will play along then he comes up with rules that are confusing and contradictory - impossible to predict - putting his captors into a state of mind where he can easily overpower them. Sound familiar?
He's making it all up...
Anyone else notice that Kirk takes the longest to knock out his opponent?
He was tired from setting it up 😅
you need a shralk now
Why don't they have this card game in the casinos? :) LOL
Because Tuesday is a slow day.
It requires intelligence.
Ds9 episode quark wanted to play this game
That fight sequence though....
Baseball too
Reminds me of the card game in Bang the Drum Slowly.
I've never understood one thing here ... didn't Captain deal the gangster a "shronk"? Which he supposedly didn't want?
❤❤😂😂😂😅😊if its dark on Tuesday 🌠
I played Fizzbin with my inlaws after Thanksgiving dinner last week. But I think they were cheating...
You should have played on Tuesday when it was dark.
Listen big man!
Clearly has its roots in FizzBuzz
Thanks, Bellular.
They should have had picard re do this on a holadeck lol
FIZZBIN 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣THAT IS SO COOL!!!!! BUT ONLY AT NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!