I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General | Polandball/Countryball Musical

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  • Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
  • 📢From Gilbert and Sullivan's very own Pirates of Penzance, CallMeEzekiel presents a Polandball/Countryball music video of the Modern Major General song! You can help us make more videos like this one on: 👀
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  • @CallMeEzekiel
    @CallMeEzekiel  3 года назад +202

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    • @JohnDoe-yy9ic
      @JohnDoe-yy9ic 3 года назад +1

      I had the chance to perform this live for my school. I love your rendition!

    • @zachpaterson8128
      @zachpaterson8128 3 года назад +1

      Is there a chance of us ever getting an extended edition with the missing verse, or perhaps even the encore too? Something like this version? ruclips.net/video/hlTisI_HSgw/видео.html
      Either way, keep up the good work!

  • @mshaqed2538
    @mshaqed2538 3 года назад +487

    Finally, a man of culture who knows Gilbert and Sullivan . Well done, I loved the video!

    • @medicmain6615
      @medicmain6615 3 года назад +6

      indeed

    • @TheHorseOutside
      @TheHorseOutside 3 года назад +12

      The Major General's Song is one of the most famous songs in musical theatre, it's been in everything from Muppets to Family Guy

    • @cralixthegameking4408
      @cralixthegameking4408 2 года назад +7

      @@TheHorseOutside to veggie tails

    • @linishatopham1739
      @linishatopham1739 6 месяцев назад

      To Animaniacs… twice

  • @chaos_reigns4022
    @chaos_reigns4022 3 года назад +155

    You can tell that you might be a Gilbert and Sullivan fan when your first thought is "they missed a verse!"

    • @ElkSkin
      @ElkSkin 22 дня назад

      Lol. That's why I hate the film version of the pirates of penzance, they make so many abysmal cuts that can range from removing mere seconds from a song, to removing an entire song. I just watch the stage version whenever I want to watch papp's pirates

  • @unitariansavage8513
    @unitariansavage8513 3 года назад +646

    WW1 officers ordering their men to charge across mustard gas and barbed wire while their own artillery accidentally blows them to pieces and German machine gunners pick off anyone left standing be like:

    • @theholyvector
      @theholyvector 3 года назад +51

      I understand the joke, but in ww1 and 2 the British officers would fight alongside the regular solders, in officer dress and all

    • @proactiveomnipresentvessel6569
      @proactiveomnipresentvessel6569 3 года назад +33

      *BUT STILL IN MATTERS VEGETABLE, ANIMAL AND MINERAL I AM THE VERY MODEL OF A MODERN MAJOR GENERAL*

    • @nick0875
      @nick0875 3 года назад +7

      Both the Entente and Central Powers were dealt a large dose of reality when World War 1 started. The thing was that up until that point the major powers of Europe had spent most of their time fighting inferior opponents for decades. The last few times two major powers fought, the Franco-Prussian War of 1871 and the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, those conflicts were over in under a year and were clear cut victories. And technology was advancing so quickly while tactics still remained stuck in the 19th century, one huge factor to why so many casualties were caused in the early months of the war. As much as Field Marshal Haig gets rightly deserved hate for the Somme and Passchendaele, his German and French counterparts sent plenty of their soldiers to get slaughtered in futile offensives that they believed would break the stalemate.
      If you want to look up two of the largest failures as generals during that war look up Austrian Field Marshal Conrad von Hötzendorf and Italian General Luigi Cadorna. You can chalk up a huge amount their countries' casualties to their ignorant decisions.

    • @virgilio6349
      @virgilio6349 3 года назад +17

      @@theholyvector Only because they died alongside their men in a dumb, suicidal charge doesn't make their decision any less dumb or suicidal. Japanese officers also died in banzai charges, doesn't make them any less stupid.

    • @Groggle7141
      @Groggle7141 3 года назад +9

      It's excusable because the last major European war before WW1 was the Napoleonic Wars. They weren't used to the new advanced technology, tactics, nations, ect. If WW3 starts, it will be the exact same thing, WW2 was over 76 years ago.

  • @plolsteg7705
    @plolsteg7705 3 года назад +291

    Every single British officer before ww1:

  • @olbradley
    @olbradley 3 года назад +227

    1:37 I love that he even got a Monty python reference in there to top it off, all round great video.

  • @jonyprepperisrael60
    @jonyprepperisrael60 2 года назад +60

    I love how the general knows everything besides war

    • @an000n
      @an000n Год назад +9

      Average British general

    • @QUEfrang
      @QUEfrang Год назад +3

      @@an000n *Laughs in tea strategy*

    • @theunholyburger9338
      @theunholyburger9338 8 месяцев назад +2

      Thats the joke

    • @The_Forgettable1
      @The_Forgettable1 8 месяцев назад +2

      2:19 What about this part?
      Or this part? 2:48
      Although to be fair he's probably speaking of studying tactics and military history instead of actual experience

  • @A-Forty3707
    @A-Forty3707 3 года назад +152

    oh god britian is doing it again

  • @user-gr9fq9gt9w
    @user-gr9fq9gt9w 3 года назад +275

    But... he doesn't have shoulders...

    • @theraginginfernape9496
      @theraginginfernape9496 3 года назад +20

      and they don't have hands to be able to hold guns, what's your point lol

    • @sharkronical
      @sharkronical 3 года назад +16

      @@theraginginfernape9496 magic of balls I guess, not everything have to be realistic, HAVE YOU SEEN WHAT HAPPENED IF POLANDBALLS HAVE legs, bodies, arms, and mouths? Actual tumblr craps

    • @TrafficPartyHatTest
      @TrafficPartyHatTest 3 года назад +2

      They're fucking alive balls what to expect them to do? Make sense?

    • @TrafficPartyHatTest
      @TrafficPartyHatTest 3 года назад +2

      @@sharkronical That is countryhumans my friend

    • @user-gr9fq9gt9w
      @user-gr9fq9gt9w 3 года назад +4

      @@sharkronical
      please,
      *HELL NO.*

  • @jaydaj6999
    @jaydaj6999 3 года назад +91

    I love UKball in this, it's hilarious

  • @Maxi25554
    @Maxi25554 3 года назад +55

    Yoooooo youtube actually put one of your vids on my recommended less than two weeks after posting for once!

  • @jeffjefferson5095
    @jeffjefferson5095 3 года назад +96

    I’ve always wondered why he’s bragging about his knowledge of vegetables. I guess he’s into biology because of his knowledge of animals, and it would make sense he would dabble in botany because of that. But why vegetables? It’s so specific.

    • @daniels_0399
      @daniels_0399 3 года назад +14

      Maybe it was a gentlemany trend to be vegetarian?
      I know that mediteranean diets were seen as fancy.
      I know it became gentlemany about that time to sit down at a table full of food and only grab yourself something small, showed that expensive food for you wasn't a luxury or something like that.
      Being slick also became fashionable, where before it was a sign of wealth to be fat, by then every middle class commoner could afford to eat enough to become fat, so that fell out of trend.

    • @jeffjefferson5095
      @jeffjefferson5095 3 года назад +10

      @@daniels_0399 I guess that makes sense, but he says he “has information vegetable, animal, and mineral”, and not “I’m a vegetarian”. Also, he’s never portrayed as a very thin guy in any of the clips I’ve seen of this song performed by people.
      Thanks for the interesting history on dietary fashion though.

    • @zachpaterson8128
      @zachpaterson8128 3 года назад +16

      @@jeffjefferson5095 Animal, Vegetable and mineral were the three categories we used to sort everything in nature into. If it was alive/used to be alive it was either animal or vegetable (vegetation, as in plants), and if it wasn't alive (rock, iron, diamond) it was mineral. People still use these categories sometimes when playing party games, but otherwise, the list used today is very different (E.G Fungai now has its own category, as do many microorganisms like bacteria, viruses and amoebas).

    • @ADogNamedStay
      @ADogNamedStay 2 года назад +3

      Because the most efficient use of hierarchy was for them to be acting governors. Not field comanders.

    • @ADogNamedStay
      @ADogNamedStay 2 года назад

      Also, foraging for food to keep supply lines shorter.

  • @jamaicanball6285
    @jamaicanball6285 3 года назад +34

    Love how Jamaica is high in the background

  • @walterfristoe4643
    @walterfristoe4643 Год назад +8

    It's hilarious watching the transcript try to keep up with the lyrics! 😆

  • @user-gr9fq9gt9w
    @user-gr9fq9gt9w 3 года назад +48

    Scotland in here is James Paul Jones.

  • @katerinafitzridley3992
    @katerinafitzridley3992 3 года назад +26

    Now do "He is an Englishman", or maybe something from Princess Ida!

  • @big_chungus_is_based9668
    @big_chungus_is_based9668 3 года назад +35

    Based

  • @lilydailey5258
    @lilydailey5258 2 года назад +6

    is this a history channel plus a Gilbert and Sullivan channel? i'm in HEAVEN

  • @creeperball3367
    @creeperball3367 3 года назад +100

    I NEED TUTORIAL HOW TO UNITE GERMANY WITHOUT GETTING PROBLEMS IN VICTORIA 2

    • @alexdreFalke
      @alexdreFalke 3 года назад +20

      1. Wait for Hanover to leave British Sphere (They do that automatically by 1840 or so)
      2. Take your Cores from Denmark & free/Sphere Holstein
      3/4 Take your Cores from France or fight Austria for Hegemony (you get the Casus Belli with Nationalism & Imperialism I think)
      If you have Problems fighting Great Powers I'd suggest looking at at Army Composition, Military Technology and getting yourself some loyal Allies (Britain, Italy, maybe even Russia). Fighting on the Defense is also often more convenient.

    • @creeperball3367
      @creeperball3367 3 года назад +9

      @@alexdreFalke ok thanks but only one thing when i need to attack just to know

    • @alexdreFalke
      @alexdreFalke 3 года назад +14

      @@creeperball3367 You should attack when you feel stronger than your enemy. You can compare your number of Regiments & Military Technologies in the Diplomacy tab. Whenever you feel like your alliance is able to beat your enemy's, that's when you should attack.
      In my first real playthrough for example, I beat France 2 years into the game, so I suppose you could do that too. (Expect them to return for their core provinced though)

    • @creeperball3367
      @creeperball3367 3 года назад +3

      @@alexdreFalke i remember i formed just germany not german empire

    • @alexdreFalke
      @alexdreFalke 3 года назад +3

      @@creeperball3367 So through Rebels? Not sure if you still have cores on the Imperial Land, but if you want to form the German Empire you'll probably need to restart

  • @jackgillespie5676
    @jackgillespie5676 3 года назад +8

    This is possibly my favourite video on RUclips

  • @PaulTheSkeptic
    @PaulTheSkeptic 2 года назад +8

    I wish I could set things up where I'd sing something and everyone around me had to sing it back in chorus.

  • @sirwannabeguy4886
    @sirwannabeguy4886 3 года назад +69

    Great video, but it lacks an American scientist in orange armor firing at soldiers with an SMG

  • @tsarevich1561
    @tsarevich1561 3 года назад +6

    This is exactly what I needed, thank you! :)

  • @michaeldoddyrudianto8302
    @michaeldoddyrudianto8302 3 года назад +27

    Ah yes, the gaming tutorial channel is doing music lol

  • @technoimperialist9509
    @technoimperialist9509 2 года назад +4

    3:10 The only man that's could challenge Eminem's

  • @krum1703
    @krum1703 11 месяцев назад +2

    So, if I get the joke, he knows everything except what is relevant to his job

  • @karlthorsten9118
    @karlthorsten9118 2 года назад +2

    OMG its the SPIFFING BRIT!

  • @Yourmomma568
    @Yourmomma568 3 года назад +8

    i personally never agreed with the social critique of this piece. i'd much prefer a high ranking officer know history, tactics, math, logistics, than have combat ability.

    • @nikoclesceri2267
      @nikoclesceri2267 2 года назад

      If you are a general like Eisenhower then yeah all that’s good but if you are like Patton than I would definitely want you to have some combat ability

  • @reaganforsythe9735
    @reaganforsythe9735 3 года назад +21

    I love this. Would you ever consider doing something from The Mikado?

  • @ArchWillhelm
    @ArchWillhelm 3 года назад +8

    Huh im getting a salarian vibe hmmmmm.

  • @michaeldoddyrudianto8302
    @michaeldoddyrudianto8302 3 года назад +16

    Is this a anglosphere music video?

  • @grey3247
    @grey3247 3 года назад +3

    I remember this one from the mickey three musketeers movie

  • @Baldwin-iv445
    @Baldwin-iv445 10 месяцев назад

    America with pink cat eye sunglasses is the most cursed thing I've seen from this channel.

  • @michellejohnson960
    @michellejohnson960 2 года назад +2

    What is the shortened because I remember stuff out frogs and paradoxes

  • @HerasFallenHero
    @HerasFallenHero 3 года назад +4

    I LOVE THIS MUSICAL

  • @JBGARINGAN
    @JBGARINGAN 3 года назад +3

    Bruh high Jamaica LOL

  • @bulbs_
    @bulbs_ Год назад +1

    Guys I think he is the very model of a Modern major general

  • @ADogNamedStay
    @ADogNamedStay 2 года назад +7

    That's because major generals were supposed to be acting governors, not tacticians.

  • @abdiabdi3225
    @abdiabdi3225 3 года назад +24

    I just have one question why is somalia there

  • @hardalarboard8876
    @hardalarboard8876 3 года назад +5

    Do HMS Pinafore’s entire score!

  • @hystari200
    @hystari200 3 года назад +3

    Salutes Great Britania!

  • @GeorgeSemel
    @GeorgeSemel 2 года назад +3

    The Pirates of Penzance is way better in Poland Ball!

  • @megadwarf4714
    @megadwarf4714 3 года назад +5

    this was interesting

  • @interstellaroverdrive3658
    @interstellaroverdrive3658 11 месяцев назад

    This version omits the second stanza of the song.

  • @justderp5713
    @justderp5713 3 года назад +5

    Can’t wait for the Skrillex remix.

  • @thegamingrex7701
    @thegamingrex7701 3 года назад +2

    Nice reference to Monty Python with the Rabbit of Caerbannog.

  • @markoko27
    @markoko27 Год назад +1

    That was the source of Let Me Explain Studios on her song "I am a very model of a RUclips Individual". And also Animaniacs's too!

  • @elsopas8967
    @elsopas8967 Год назад +1

    The fact that Ireland wasn't even present is just wrong

  • @oscarwind4266
    @oscarwind4266 3 года назад +8

    So the one thing he can't do is not order his men to rush the Russian canons and hope it works.

  • @nicopavvi8494
    @nicopavvi8494 3 года назад +4

    With people like him or Sir Joseph in charge, I don't understand how the British Empire managed to conquer such many land.

  • @n.d.1315
    @n.d.1315 2 года назад +1

    So else was singing along?

  • @HowieDewitt535
    @HowieDewitt535 9 месяцев назад

    I memorized this a while ago because why not. It took me about a day to memorize it but a week to keep rythm.

  • @pillow_ben6799
    @pillow_ben6799 3 года назад +1

    Great channel :)

  • @Nipplator99999999999
    @Nipplator99999999999 2 дня назад

    I'm uncertain about what has transpired in my life that has resulted in bringing me here to this point in space-time...but fu@k it, I'm fine with it.

  • @matthewjones2711
    @matthewjones2711 2 года назад +2

    Iff I was scotland I would've held the general captive for more money

  • @prussiankingdom1693
    @prussiankingdom1693 3 года назад +1

    Montey python the holy grail

  • @zworldocurrency
    @zworldocurrency 3 года назад +2

    Except all the characters are the children of a major general

  • @QUEfrang
    @QUEfrang 10 месяцев назад

    It's better at 2x speed

  • @isopod_gaming-real-
    @isopod_gaming-real- 3 года назад +3

    Did any of you ever watch the veggie tails episode that had this song?

    • @oscarwind4266
      @oscarwind4266 3 года назад

      Yeha. I completely forget the lyrics but I did remember the rhythm, it was the asparagus guy singing it right?

    • @isopod_gaming-real-
      @isopod_gaming-real- 3 года назад

      @@oscarwind4266 yeah

    • @Fact_core
      @Fact_core 3 года назад

      @@oscarwind4266
      ruclips.net/video/-nXQmIF__7Y/видео.html

  • @karolgoofit7901
    @karolgoofit7901 3 года назад +1

    Honestly i prefer musicals with jazz music.

  • @lordedmundblackadder9321
    @lordedmundblackadder9321 2 года назад +2

    rap god

  • @matthewjones2711
    @matthewjones2711 2 года назад +2

    scotland will be free SCOTLAND FOREVER

  • @hussar7733
    @hussar7733 2 года назад +1

    I wonder what song would be if He was american model modern general

  • @noTgoodm0m
    @noTgoodm0m 2 года назад

    0:53 3:13 two things did one person who can beat Eminem

  • @Kirra-queen
    @Kirra-queen 3 года назад

    when did we own canada?

    • @zachpaterson8128
      @zachpaterson8128 3 года назад +6

      We as in the British?

    • @W.M.Pitt1
      @W.M.Pitt1 Год назад

      we literally created Canada, the Canadian national flag was the union jack until 1965 and king Charles III is still the king of Canada.

  • @scotthall82c
    @scotthall82c 5 месяцев назад

    France....

  • @bloodyplebs
    @bloodyplebs 3 года назад +1

    Is this a west wing reference?