Americans React | AN IDIOT ABROAD | Route 66 Season 2 Episode 6 | REACTION
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- Опубликовано: 8 ноя 2023
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Americans King and Queen Boomer React to Karl Pilkington in An Idiot Abroad travelling on Route 66 across America at the request of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. ENJOY!
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I think my favourite moment in the whole of An Idiot Abroad is when Karl tries to use "the traffic" as an excuse to leave the cuddle party, when it's like 10pm in the middle of the desert.
I'm from Sweden and the mentality here is much like the UK - I suppose everyone here are descendants of people who barley survived famine, whereas european-americans are descendants of people who came to a new world, full of opportunity and abundance. That could explain the difference in morale I think.
Agree😅
Barley survived famine, no pun intended
@@tryheight8098 that's dark 😂
Hmm the only famine I can remember hearing about is the Irish potato famine and a large number of Irelands population emigrated to America because of it. I cant remember learning about any major famines in the UK
@jruz1738 you should probably do proper research then.
There’s an uncut version of Karl singing during the Glee bit. Hilarious.
Boomer pretty much nailed it with the mentality differences between our cultures. The reason us Brits have that sceptical mindset is because most of the time positivity leads to disappointment and overall if you're pessimistic about something you don't have to worry about the outcome because when something positive comes out of it, it's more of a hype! This probably didn't make any sense to some people 😂
Generalised bollocks to be honest. I don't know any Americans but am willing to bet on average their outlook on life isn't any different from the average Brit.
@@MarcoNegrisEyeI know a lot of Americans and no; generally they are more positive and aspirational that British people.
A pessimist is never disappointed
My father has a saying he always says (from his days as a Royal Marine): "prepare for the worst, and anything else is a bonus". I feel like that encapsulates the mentality well.
@@Jorpando wise words!
As Al Murray says, we don't have an American dream in the UK because we're awake.
This show never gets boring. Watched at least ten times with different people and still love it
When he puts on the black suit to do wing walking "I look like Spiderman at a funeral". 😂
As a Brit myself, i consider you guys as honoury Brits! A high praise from an English man
Not really. The place is a third world dumping ground shitehole now. And that's the good parts.
25:11 Karl using traffic as an excuse to leave when he is in the middle of nowhere 😂
Luv this episode, think he sums up how most of us would react to the hippy cuddle stuff, kills me tho the most British thing he uses as excuse to leave, got to go traffic 🤣
Some of the main roads in Britain were established by the Romans. They've still got the remains of some of the original roads like Dere Street. Anyone interested check out Dan Jones Walking Britain's Roman Roads
as someone who was a 24hour carer for a parent for 10yrs and not been in any type of relationship for 11years. the idea of just hugging a pretty girl with a nice voice for a couple of hours without all anything else sexual to worry about, would honestly be heaven on earth.
Nothing wrong with been optimistic as long as you're not delusional. Hope for the best prepare for the worst.
KB is spot on! Hugging parties would not work at all over here. We DO hug, but only at emotional times or with best friends, or for a laugh, or for good luck. We are too emotionally restrained to go to a f*****g party and hug for the sake of it. Just too weird but funny, all the same.
Billy Connolly did route 66 on a Harley Davidson and visited the bottle house and interviewed the owner.
The lower the expectation the higher the satisfaction . Love Karl bloody hilarious
Just wanted to drop in and say I love you both. Great, down to earth content 🙂
Yeah, King Boomer I think you've pretty much nailed the difference in psyche between America and here in terms of positivity. In Ireland it's at least as much as in Britain. There's such thing as "toxic positivity", which Karl touches upon in his inarticulate way - it can be poor for mental health. And in the case of America IMO, maybe it gets in the way of acknowledging the things that need changed in society, as "everything's ultimately gunna be fine" is the enemy of taking action. The whole "thoughts and prayers" phenomenon.
I love that whole "Nobody comes here saying 'I'm going on the M1!'"
He's right! People go on the m6 to see the frequent car crashes.
'Excuse yourself and get grapes' 😂
Love this episode. The wing walking 😂
"Grapes!" That's gonna be my new safe word when things start getting a little...awkward 😳😁
I'm getting graped
Coney Island Is situated in a borough of Brooklyn in New York and the only reason I know that as a British guy is because of my love for the movie ‘The Warriors’ “Can yoooou dig iiiiit” also to the East of Coney Island is Brighton Beach which is named after Brighton beach in Brighton UK which also has a fare ground
Yaaaaayy... Americans pronounce the word route correctly 😊
i usually remember planes by distinguishing features. The P-51 has the scoop on the belly and the P-40 looks like it's going :0 and the F4U-Corsair has the gull wings. etc.
The wing walk bit really made me laugh. Thanks for the video.
Stephen fry hit the nail on the head, American comedy , there has to be a hero, while in the uk, we laugh at ourselves , no hero here just reality
There’s the Lancaster Bomber, one of the most important planes during WWII , which took part in the famous Dambuster raids.
That plane is a gruman f4f wildcat
"You can excuse yourself and have grapes" 😂
That part killed me
Yeah if you were in England and said to someone ‘want to get in a big tent and cuddle some strangers?’ Youd be committed before you finished the sentence 😂😂 maybe itd fly in Glastonbury but theyre all a bit doolally down there
Glasgow or Brighton around June time 😂
At least with sky diving you have support if you need, whereas, climbing on top of a plane...what happens if you suddenly pass out while climbing on top of the plane or if you pass out while you're already standing on top of it?
I’ve bungie jumped in the past but this seems way scarier! Fair play Karl
Opposite for me, I would never go sky diving or bungee jumping. But I would love to wing walk.
Karl Pilkington's one of the funniest blokes around 🤣
We all have an inner Karl he’s like every British person deep down cynical negative but content.
I’m from England & I think your right.
On the whole, I think Americans come across more optimistic but that’s not to say Brit’s are totally pessimistic but more don’t build your hopes up too much so don’t come crashing down too hard if it doesn’t go the way you want.
Hope for the best but prepared for opposite.
Great reactions, especially anything with Karl in 👍🏻.
I’ll leave this with you -
A pessimist, is an optimist, with experience’. 😂😂🤣🤣😀
Poor Carl - Ricky really picked stuff he would hate.
He gives it a go, and secretly, I think he likes the memories he gets from all this.
Cuddle party!
Colorado was amazing! I’m doing route 101 Seattle to San fran in march
i think stephen fry and ricky gervais have both explained the difference in comedy between the US and the UK and did a pretty good job on it, if you wanna look it up.
Monster truck v Wing walk? Claustrophobia v Vertigo? I think I’d be happier with the Amish too.
I would be uncomfortable at the cuddle party, also constantly going for grapes😅
Best reactors ever childish sense of humour but innocent an looks like you gen love certain scenes 😂
He called the dude a stupid bastard not the bat 🤣
Being pessimistic is a good thing because as if you're expecting the worst and it doesn't happen then that's great. If something turns out good, that's just a bonus!
With regards to comedy, we also don't take ourselves too seriously and often poke fun at ourselves and our situations. British humour is often very self deprecating.
It's mind-boggling to me that Karl wouldn't do a bungee jump but he was willing to be stuck on the top of a plane!
I love the gun guy!
How long does this cuddle party go on for, until they run out of grapes.!!
Karl "I look like Spider man at a Funeral" 🤣
Honestly I think the scepticism in the uk is because we’ve been through a lot for a VERY long time…bombed by the Germans invaded by the romans and vikings, 1000 years of fighting between us, murderous cruel rulers, the plague etc…I think it’s just seeped through the ages to expect the worst. We’ve always had to just pull our socks up and get on with it. I think it’s just a stiff upper lip but be prepared attitude that’s been passed down to us all!
Yeah, really tough times that people in the UK had to live through, there are hardly any other countries that faced such adversity.
Especially when you consider that there wasn't even a UK at the time of the Roman or Viking invasions ;)
On the other hand, as a German I can't comment on this topic, as the sun has always shone out of our arses here ;)
Especially here in the "Ruhrpott", which is roughly the equivalent of northern England, where Karl comes from.
There are still a lot of people who look at you disparagingly, at best pityingly, because of the way you speak and behave.
Wild theory: That can cause you to carry a lot of scepticism around with you ;)
Greetings and all the best ("Glück auf")
"as a German I can't comment on this topic, as the sun has always shone out of our arses here ;)"
Well, you did get up to a bit of no good, twice, in fact, at the start of the last century 😅@@stephanthomas4410
@@stephanthomas4410 this comment is very German!
@@stephanthomas4410 don’t understand the there wasn’t a uk when the romans invaded! Might not have been called the uk but there were people! What the hell are you talking about!
@@juliecowie8339 Dear Julie( or Mrs. Cowie?),
don't take my comment sooo seriously. Although we Germans don't understand humor (and you noticed that directly, only and only with my comment that I am German: "a typical German comment", brilliant), my idea was just this: It's not just the British (and then it gets difficult) who have gone through hard times, which have perhaps made them a little more cynical and above all more skeptical
Greetings
The ending is gold 😂
Karl saying he had to leave the cuddle party to avoid traffic at midnight just killed me.
That amusement park reminds me of the lost boys film 👍
Yeah, expect the worst, then anything else is a bonus 😂
I'll explain to you exactly why we're so miserable in UK. I was once waiting at a burger joint for my food, there's about 10 of us, non of us are talking, this Caribbean man walks in and tries to get talkative, all smiles and laughs, each person he'd talk to he'd get 1 or 2 responses and then a few nods, no conversation carrying and it'd all go silent. He then says out loud, why are you all sad? what's wrong with you all? It just hit me there and then, this is not normal, a few of us looked at each other realising the same thing ... we're all feeling just below average but it's so normal for us that we don't think much of feeling a little sad. It got me thinking and it's the *Weather, climate and daylight hours.*
From November 1st until March 1st... it gets dark after 4-5 pm (7-8 hours of sunlight a day, most of that is cloudy and dark), it's cold, drizzly and miserable. People waiting at bus stops, train stations for commuting staring down at the floor or mostly busy on their devices. Absolute dreading the whole day at work only to know it's going to be miserable time indoors afterwards as it'll totally dark when you get home and it's the same thing next day and this is our life now.
March and October more or less the same. May is the driest month, best weather because of that. June/July are the warmest but it's raining most of the time. August and September are just a fair bit cooler especially september.... although we have been getting heatwaves recently but those don't last long and they end up being too warm and unbearable as UK dwellings aren't built for it.
That being said the biggest killer is the time from 1st November until 1st March, especially when you get ill, it's the most demoralising time of the year. The rest of the year is neither here and there and you're mostly recovering from the misery. The thought of having to do full time work in this misery just completely kills you of. There have been times when I was working minimum wage and it was donkey's labour, either sat in call centre or in a factory. *Those were my 20s and it was the worst decade of my life, wasn't a month went by where i didn't want to kill myself*
Visited my local GP many times and all they'd do is fob you of with a few pills which i'd never take as they wouldn't do an extensive check on what's wrong with you. After pestering them a bit i was then referred to a mental health professional, who took blood tests to check hormone levels and any chemical imbalances... found out NOTHING WRONG WITH ME. The doctor then explained, she said :
*Being sad due to a chemical imbalance is ONE thing, however feeling sad due to life circumstances is completely normal. Infact there'd be something wrong with you if you didn't feel sad despite things being this miserable. She then went on to say that Doctor's often prescribe medication for both reasons which is not right. As people who are chemically who take these medications, stop producing it's own necessary hormones for mood regulation because the brain signals to the body that there's enough hormones due to the medication, therefore people who were chemically fine to begin but generally sad due to life circumstances end up in a very bad state and dependant on those pills for the rest of their lives.*
BTW. Coconuts are in every UK supermarkets. The hardest thing is to find one that's not rotten when you crack it open.
We could find them in the late 80s in supermarkets,we use to get a nail and hammer the holes drink bit of the coconut milk but always disappointed didn’t taste like bounty bar.
But how did they get there? A swallow, carrying a coconut?
grapes! the new safe word lol
53:57 those must’ve been some flipping good biscuits! 😂😂
In the USA the glass is half full, here in the UK its smashed on the ground and empty
24:00 in the uk we call these things swingers partys, cuddling is foreplay i guess
"Foreplay" 🤢
No, a swingers party is something else entirely lol. This was just pure cuddling, nothing more.
@@SpacenSpooks we dont havecuddling parties in the UK because its naff, this sort of thing would of been a swingers party in the uk thats my point
21:45 - Her expression at that moment makes me think she was putting it on a bit
“You’re dreams should never be better than you’re real life” Karl Dilkington, the bald one. Great video KB.
a comedian gives a great example ask a British person "hows things?" and invariably they reply with "not too bad" they are measuring life by how bad it could be haha
😂😂👏👏👏 great reaction as always 👍👏👏
No-one is scared of flying, it's the crashing that gets people.😉
Love this episode... crazy😂
You're absolutely spot on with the difference in outlooks. As an English person I expect and wait for the next problem.
I'll take the good days but never the optimistic approach that someone from the US takes.
It's not a bad thing It's just different. I think being from the US everything is at arms length for the most part. You didn't have the world wars literally at your doorstep, communism (Cuba aside) never really came close etc.
It's a good thing to be American and optimistic. Shapes the west. Or should do anyway.
55:18 That is called a wildcat, Pacific fighter used during WW2.
007 - "He solves crime" Karl
"Who's eaten all the grapes!?"
I love watching Americans react to this episode.
You guys are amazing x
You can 100% buy coconuts in shops here. The UK that Karl lives in is not quite the one the rest of us do; it's filtered through years of gloom and rage.
I've seen Idiot Abroad at least twice... but always watch these reaction videos 👍
You should also do a reaction video of Billy Connolly’s tour of Route 66,
He is a Scottish Comedian from Scotland in the United Kingdom,
There is 4 parts that are no more than 1 hour long, (around 45 minutes each), but there is also another video that is the full 3 hours long, (not sure if it’s the full length version, as it was only uploaded on RUclips 9 days ago),
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There are cuddle clubs all over london and birmingham according to a search. Yoga laughter clubs too
'The Moaning Of Life' is pretty cool too 👍
57:28 that’s what I thought too! I’d actually argue that that’s even more dangerous than the bungee jumping. Especially if nothing is holding him in
The scene where Karl is on stage used to have a version of him singing Jump by Van Halen. It's much funnier but the show had to cut it out due to copyright. If you can find it, take a look at that, you won't be disappointed.
"Spiderman at a funeral" hahahahaha
Boomer, you are spot on with the American forever optimism, and us in UK, "going good, but how long it's not gonna last"?
You would slot into UK life like a dream.
I can relate to the whole 'whooping' over fruit thing. I can't stand American talk shows where the audience scream whenever the host/guest says something remotely positive. "So I hear you've started exercising more?" WHAAAAAAAAAA
First funny comment on this
I wish there was cuddle party's over here, my doctor keeps telling me to eat more fruit 🤷♂️
I had grape fun watching this!
GRAPES!!! 😂
Remember Karl wouldn't bunjee jump
I could not believe he did that plane stunt
...😂🙏🇬🇧
In Britain the mentality stems from war time. Even though we said keep calm and carry on, when we were bombed for a year none stop by Germany we got used to shit that kept on coming. So we like to play the pessimist, because when things go to shit which typically they do we can't be disappointed & it can't be unexpected. The UK is part of the "old world" American was born in the new world.
I think you’re right, Americans seem very friendly and optimistic, while Brits seem negative, moody. Instead of optimism, Brits tend to have a stiff-upper-lip, which is a sort of acceptance, forbearance of an awful situation, but strive through it. Eg. Keep calm and carry on
In the Uk cuddle parties would end in tears😂
"Get the grapes" would be taken as a declaration of war. 😂
Nice Videos' guys can you tell me when your chat podcasts are on although I am in uk so I will need to adjust the time
I’d be uncomfortable too if faced with that cuddle bunch. I would be out of there as fast as I could run!
You know it was toned down for the show, 100% ricky and ste sent him to an orgy😂😂😂
Have more fun, you didn't understand, but you hit the nail on the head with the difference between our football chants, it's your kind of fun is totally different like this glee stuff, that is crazy people smiling all the time being positive all the time, and get excited over the slightest things , which is fun, well funny to the British cos you make yourselves look crazy without us having to do anything except to sit back and let you carry on
been waiting for this one
Question, when you have fight dreams does everything feel like slow motion and when you connect, its with no power at all? Like hitting them with a feather duster. 😂 or is this just me🤪
Nice to hear you guys pronouncing route correctly ie root and not rout as in disastrous defeat. Keep up the good work.
Season 3 is a short series with only 3 episodes, where Karl Pilkington & Warwick Davis travel across Europe,
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We add mostly copper and silver to make lower karat gold it makes it more durable thats why your pre 1933 gold coins were mainly 22k to stop them getting dinked up so easily
I don't like heights either but I love flying prefer the traveling being at 40,000+ feet than the destination, you should watch One foot in the grave.
OFITG is great.
The amish family had a fire extinguisher 😂
I think you guys need 3-4 cameras that you switch between, level up the production and freak us out with some wacky reaction angles
If you haven’t see this Movie, might suggest you do a reaction of it, it’s Hilarious : Paul (2011)
All us Brits are just laughing from the start , but I have seen it before .