Thanks for stopping by, SoloFam! I did not realize today was April Fool's so here's a regular old video for ya! This one's been a looong time coming so I hope it was worth the wait!
The lesson which isn't "Don't assume something from appearance it just might be helpful" instead it's "Don't be greedy" from a character that barely was in the story. What the living shit is this?!
This was one of my favorite cartoon when I was a little kid. I love how Rikki-Tikki-Tavi eyes would turn red. When I was in the Army a friend of mine was stationed in Hawaii and he said their mongooses are a nuisance. They were brought in to take care of the rat population. But of course them having no natural predators they became an invasive species.
My mom has mentioned that the same scenario happened in Jamaica , but another reason for why this failed is due to the fact that rats are nocturnal while mongoose are generally active in the day so they became pests.
He forgot to add the Husband's reply in the Loyal Mongoose Story which says basically- "How could you have been so hasty. If you had only thought to look before acting our beloved pet would still be with us."
I was going to say. How exactly was this the dad's fault??? Not a great choice to leave your son unattended, but he was not involved in the death of the mongoose.
yeah i feel bad for the dad. i guess it'd seem greedy if everyone in the family was well fed and he just lusted after more gruel...but it looked like he was bring it home instead of eating it himself. if he didn't go out the wife could probably scold him for sitting around and not providing any food. :-( with some people it's impossible to win and i suspect she's one of them. though, to her benefit, at least she felt bad about her mistake even if she didn't verbally own up to it...
Even in ancient times men can't seem to do anything right for others even when it is with well intentions. "I brought our family more food, honey!" "I killed our fur baby because of my own prejudices against the furry bastard when I thought he killed our human baby when it turned out the thing killed an equally disgustang serpant, THIS IS CLEARLY BECAUSE OF YOUR GREED!!!" "...is it too much to ask for a divorce?"
I remember back in the day, our elementary school teacher reading us the story and then showing us the movie. I always found it intriguing. And that name Naga, heard that that name being used when referring to snake or dragon characters in multiple different series.
"The Loyal Mongoose" reminds me of a story I heard about Ghangus Khan (sp?): As near as I can recall, he was out hunting with his pet falcon/hawk, and got thirsty. He saw water dripping from somewhere on a hillside and slowly filled his cup, but his hawk knocked it out of his hand. This happened several times, ending with Khan killing the hawk in anger. When he climbed the hillside to retrieve his cup, he found the dripping water came from a pool further up ... and there was a dead venomous snake in it. If he'd drunk the water, he'd have drunk snake-poison along with it.
I remember watching this cartoon every year, for about 10 years, as a kid. We only had Saturday morning cartoons, so when something like this came on, it was a special occasion. I haven't thought about this in ages. Thanks for the reminder.
Well, I think it was to show that they both did wrong. It was the husband's responsibility to look after the Child. He DID do wrong. No doubt about it. It is just that the wife ALSO did wrong
Rudyard certainly knew how to captivate his audience. Rikki Tikki was always a favorite and this was extremely informative. I had no idea there had been other tales too. This reminds me as an author drawing on experience makes for the best stories.
Absolutely worth the wait!!❤️ For some reason seeing this after years of not remembering made me feel the love I felt for Rikki as a kid so thank you☺️
Dude this was my absolute favorite movie when I was a kid. I watched it so often that the tape fell apart. I've watched it a few times with my kids too. Still one of my favorites
@@ejagger I can understand that. But still, it is vastly overrated. I mean, killing babies? Killing babies? Killing babies is not cool. I am sick of parent reading that to their children. If they want something mobid, read Grimm's Fairy Tales. But, killing babies? Killing babies?
One part I remember that I loved was when Rikki is contemplating how to attack Nag-“it must be the head, the head above the hood.” When you look at any video of a mongoose fighting a cobra-that’s exactly how they attack them. It’s just a great instinct that mongooses have because anything lower could result in the snake being able to issue a return strike.
As a proud product of a British Colonial influenced culture (English-speaking Caribbean),I found this to be well researched and constructed, and delightful!
Omg I completely forgot this was a thing! I remember reading this story in a huge collection of fairy tales that my aunt passed on to me and my siblings - it had this story, The Six Swans, The selfish giant etc. and I loved reading that book... Thank you for making this video
I first heard the story when I was 11 or 12. I was visiting my Grandma. Long story short I wasn't used to the heat of Texas summers as my Dad was military and we always lived farther north, and at one point for multiple reasons I got a little sick. She set me up in the only room with AC and read me the story. Despite the unpleasantness that led to it that is a fond memory of her.
My grandmother gave me a 100 year old copy of a collection of his stories and before it was mine I remember her reading it to my younger brother and I before bed and in the car when we were young.
My fifth grade teacher read this Ricky Ticky Tavi to the class, and this brought up some good memories. She made some jokes every now and then. My favorite is the part where Nagaina says If you move, I strike, if you don't move, I strike. The teacher added If you move twice, I spit.
The animation from that time through the 60s and 70s , is something that a modern computer chip, high definition, and 3D has took away something magical. Give me a VCR and the TV that doesn't have high definition.. oh never mind I already got that that's what I watched my original Star wars on
That bit about the mirrors for princes scope of looking at these stories is fascinating. Since tales were much more important in these times and in particularly in that culture, I can imagine that a fable would be more readily accepted than a lecture.
I grew up on the Kipling stories. As a child through the 70s we didn't have TV reception, so books were the movie. As a side note Donovan Leith wrote a very catch, rather trippy song riki taking tavi.
I saw this on tv decades ago.😁Then I acquired it on vhs decades later.😄 As a child.That 30 min show seemed like an hour.🤔But,I did like the show.💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿
I remember my junior high english class had a trick question about this story, "How many snakes did Rikki kill?" The answer was 1 (eggs don't count), the little brown snake. The male cobra was killed by the man and the female was buried alive by Rikki (that apparently didn't count either because he didn't kill her by attacking her).
Loved this story and the cartoon when I was a kid. I always wanted a ferret because my Dad said it was the closest animal to a mongoose we could have as a pet. But my mom was not having it.
Growing up before the interwebz meant specials shown every year. The Wizard of Oz and RTT were my looked forward to faves! RTT was kinda scary...cobras behind the toilet...i still check!✌
seemed less about the messed up origins of the mongoose and more about the sad & messed up origins of Rudyard Kipling. i always liked his works. my favorites were the Just So Stories. never saw the movie you mentioned though. looked cute.
It’s ironic because the tale of the loyal mongoose is nearly identical to the Celtic Welsh legend Gelert the wolfhound. In the legend, Llywelyn the Great returns from hunting to find his baby missing, the cradle overturned, and Gelert with a blood-smeared mouth. Believing the dog had devoured the child, Llywelyn draws his sword and kills Gelert. After the dog's dying yelp, Llywelyn hears the cries of the baby, unharmed under the cradle, along with a dead wolf which had attacked the child and been killed by Gelert. Llywelyn is overcome with remorse and buries the dog with great ceremony, (then leading to the town name) but can still hear its dying yelp. After that day, Llywelyn never smiles again.
I love chuck Jones's Rikki is so darn cute. I watched this and the white seal. I think I was freaked out by the white seal because they didn't sugar coat that the poor fur seal were going be fucking beaten to death. They didn't show anything but that part still freaked me out as a kid.
Are you going to do all the jungle book? Also I remember Riki Tiki Tavi. The loyal mongoose reminds me of a story I heard on between the Lions where a king wanted a drink, but his pet bird kept swiping it out of his hands so he killed it only to see a snake in the water
The Loyal Mongoose story sounds a lot like the Legend of Gelert the Hound, a Welsh folktale. A Welsh prince named Llewellyn had a baby son he loved, and a favorite hunting hound named Gelert he loved almost as much. One day he came home from a journey and Gelert ran to meet him--with blood on his jaws. Llewellyn ran to the nursery to find the baby's cradle overturned and blood splashed on the walls. Jumping to the conclusion that Gelert had turned on his son and killed him, he slew the hound in a rage. It was only then that he heard his baby's cry...the boy was underneath some bedding, unharmed. It was also then that he saw the body of the wolf Gelert had slain. In remorse, Llewellyn buried the hound with honors. The story's retold in a picture book called The Mightiest Heart, and I recall a short story that set the action in French Canada in the nineteenth century, with a fur trapper as the father and a hound named Caliban.
I must have been really young the only time I watched this. Because some parts look familiar, but non of the story rings familiar. The OG story was moving.
thank you very much for making this video,, i love this cartoon, animation,, and ,, the ugly duckling, and the turtle verses the rabbit, and charlette's web,, and all the great christmas cartoons,, ohhhhhh,,,,,,how i miss saturday morning cartoons in the 80's
JK Rowling actually got the name for Nagini from “The Female Of The Species” a poem by Kipling “When Nag the basking Cobra hears the careless foot of man, he will often wiggle sideways and avoid it if he can, but his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail, for the female of the species is more deadly than the male”
We watched the Rikki Tikki Tavi movie in my class too, but for a slightly weirder reason. I was living in Hawaii at the time, and an old Polynesian woman would come in once a week to teach us traditional Polynesian folktales, traditions, and songs. She even brought us traditional food sometimes and taught us how to eat it correctly with our hands (which to a kid is seriously bad@ss btw). One day she couldn't make it because of health reasons, so we watched movies during her usual time slot. Not quite as cool, but still awesome. Really that old woman was my first exposure to mythology, and I was hooked forever more. On a side note, funnily enough, I had a neighbor in Hawaii who had a pet mongoose, which I'm pretty sure was illegal, but he was cute so whatevs
I watched the short film in my 10th grade history class when we were learning about the colonization of India because my teacher said the family that adopted Rikki were the British and Rikki was the Indians.
I loved this story when I was a kid. Then my teacher pointed out that the snakes weren't evil; they just wanted a garden free of enemy species so they could raise their children in peace, and I felt bad for them. Then I got even older and realized the story was about Britain's conquest of India, and that pretty much ruined it for me.
Thanks for stopping by, SoloFam! I did not realize today was April Fool's so here's a regular old video for ya! This one's been a looong time coming so I hope it was worth the wait!
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Talk about Robin Hood!
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Please do a video on The Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen period because of all the fairy tales we know we're came from them
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"For the honor of his family, he preferred to be found with his teeth locked." Badass!
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Rikki Tikki was based on Kung Fu HOck Suey master Bruce Lee.
“The mongoose is a nasty creature”, she says as she breastfeeds the nasty creature
LOL! Same thing I said! I was like, lady! How dirty do you think it is, then?!
Lmao right like lady you’re feeding him and giving him fancy lotions
The lesson which isn't "Don't assume something from appearance it just might be helpful" instead it's "Don't be greedy" from a character that barely was in the story. What the living shit is this?!
Idk why but that reminded me of the “nasty ass honey badger”
Damn nature, you scary!
This was one of my favorite cartoon when I was a little kid. I love how Rikki-Tikki-Tavi eyes would turn red. When I was in the Army a friend of mine was stationed in Hawaii and he said their mongooses are a nuisance. They were brought in to take care of the rat population. But of course them having no natural predators they became an invasive species.
Wait i grew up with the book 😶
@@magicsquid3020 what do you think about The Messed Up Origins of Puppy In My Pocket Adventures In Pocketville or My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic
@@tijanamilenkovic3425 Never heard of such origins... elucidate?
My mom has mentioned that the same scenario happened in Jamaica , but another reason for why this failed is due to the fact that rats are nocturnal while mongoose are generally active in the day so they became pests.
He forgot to add the Husband's reply in the Loyal Mongoose Story which says basically- "How could you have been so hasty. If you had only thought to look before acting our beloved pet would still be with us."
I was going to say. How exactly was this the dad's fault??? Not a great choice to leave your son unattended, but he was not involved in the death of the mongoose.
I was too focused on keeping this long ass video as concise as possible but no joke while editing I thought “wait, who does this bish think she is?”
yeah i feel bad for the dad. i guess it'd seem greedy if everyone in the family was well fed and he just lusted after more gruel...but it looked like he was bring it home instead of eating it himself. if he didn't go out the wife could probably scold him for sitting around and not providing any food. :-( with some people it's impossible to win and i suspect she's one of them. though, to her benefit, at least she felt bad about her mistake even if she didn't verbally own up to it...
@@mm-yt8sf Yeah the Father had complete faith in the mongoose while the mom was paranoid.
Even in ancient times men can't seem to do anything right for others even when it is with well intentions. "I brought our family more food, honey!"
"I killed our fur baby because of my own prejudices against the furry bastard when I thought he killed our human baby when it turned out the thing killed an equally disgustang serpant, THIS IS CLEARLY BECAUSE OF YOUR GREED!!!"
"...is it too much to ask for a divorce?"
The moment Jon expected us to grab the pen and paper... I'm sorry, I was using both my hands to hold onto my phone 😂😂😂
I remember back in the day, our elementary school teacher reading us the story and then showing us the movie. I always found it intriguing.
And that name Naga, heard that that name being used when referring to snake or dragon characters in multiple different series.
Naga actually means dragon in some parts of Asia and the Naga were even dragonic beings in parts of India so that is presumably were it first started.
"The Loyal Mongoose" reminds me of a story I heard about Ghangus Khan (sp?): As near as I can recall, he was out hunting with his pet falcon/hawk, and got thirsty. He saw water dripping from somewhere on a hillside and slowly filled his cup, but his hawk knocked it out of his hand. This happened several times, ending with Khan killing the hawk in anger. When he climbed the hillside to retrieve his cup, he found the dripping water came from a pool further up ... and there was a dead venomous snake in it. If he'd drunk the water, he'd have drunk snake-poison along with it.
I was introduced to Rikki-Tikki-Tavi through the actual short story in 7th grade language arts. It’s still one of my favorites to this day.
The funny thing is I was LITERALLY trying to remember this story last night
I sometimes see things in my dream that happens in the future
Omg, he’s real?! I thought Rick was just on his regular Rick shenanigans!
I remember watching this cartoon every year, for about 10 years, as a kid. We only had Saturday morning cartoons, so when something like this came on, it was a special occasion. I haven't thought about this in ages. Thanks for the reminder.
I think the actual moral of the Loyal Mongoose is, "No matter how good your intentions, if your wife screws up, she will inevitably blame you for it."
Well, I think it was to show that they both did wrong. It was the husband's responsibility to look after the Child. He DID do wrong. No doubt about it. It is just that the wife ALSO did wrong
Rudyard certainly knew how to captivate his audience. Rikki Tikki was always a favorite and this was extremely informative. I had no idea there had been other tales too. This reminds me as an author drawing on experience makes for the best stories.
This is my favorite. It could have been twice as long and I'd want more.
Absolutely worth the wait!!❤️ For some reason seeing this after years of not remembering made me feel the love I felt for Rikki as a kid so thank you☺️
*The Messed Up Origins Of Peter & The Wolf*
Yeah,never heard of it
Definitely need a Peter and the Wolf video. I remember the Disney cartoon when I was young. Great music too. I'd love to hear about Tchaikovsky.
@@LuinTathren I don't know what you're talking about but alright
@@LuinTathren what do you think about The Messed Up Origins of Puppy In My Pocket Adventures In Pocketville or My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic
@@kkcake5771 then look it up? lol
Dude this was my absolute favorite movie when I was a kid. I watched it so often that the tape fell apart. I've watched it a few times with my kids too. Still one of my favorites
Did anyone else hurt their hands trying to take the pen and paper, then get heartbroken when Jon scolded them? No? Just me? Ok.
I remember this as one of the darker, more unsettling stories I was exposed to as a kid. Very well explained Jon, you've got a new sub.
Did you hate it, too?
@@Master-Works As dark as it was, I was actually a bit addicted to it.
@@ejagger I can understand that. But still, it is vastly overrated. I mean, killing babies? Killing babies? Killing babies is not cool. I am sick of parent reading that to their children. If they want something mobid, read Grimm's Fairy Tales. But, killing babies? Killing babies?
Killing babies?
One of my favorites! And Gunther is too sweet!
One part I remember that I loved was when Rikki is contemplating how to attack Nag-“it must be the head, the head above the hood.” When you look at any video of a mongoose fighting a cobra-that’s exactly how they attack them. It’s just a great instinct that mongooses have because anything lower could result in the snake being able to issue a return strike.
As a proud product of a British Colonial influenced culture (English-speaking Caribbean),I found this to be well researched and constructed, and delightful!
I grew up listening to the panchatantra story and was surprised when Rikki-tikki-tavi wasn't beaten to death by the family, lol!
Omg I completely forgot this was a thing! I remember reading this story in a huge collection of fairy tales that my aunt passed on to me and my siblings - it had this story, The Six Swans, The selfish giant etc. and I loved reading that book... Thank you for making this video
I first heard the story when I was 11 or 12. I was visiting my Grandma. Long story short I wasn't used to the heat of Texas summers as my Dad was military and we always lived farther north, and at one point for multiple reasons I got a little sick. She set me up in the only room with AC and read me the story. Despite the unpleasantness that led to it that is a fond memory of her.
Lmao I didn't even know it was a story for some reason I just thought it was something u yelled like oliie ollie oxenfree
My grandmother gave me a 100 year old copy of a collection of his stories and before it was mine I remember her reading it to my younger brother and I before bed and in the car when we were young.
Excellent presentation of RTT and Kipling!
Oh wow. I grew up on Rikki-Tikki-Tavi!! We had it recorded on VHS! OMG the nostalgia!!!
So, thaughts about the infanticide?
I always loved that story when I was a kid.
I recently studied this in school, and it was great to see you explain!!!!
My fifth grade teacher read this Ricky Ticky Tavi to the class, and this brought up some good memories. She made some jokes every now and then. My favorite is the part where Nagaina says If you move, I strike, if you don't move, I strike. The teacher added If you move twice, I spit.
I remember the story because it was in one of our textbooks in middle school. It was the most interesting story we read that year. :D
I had no idea this story existed. Thanks Jon Solo!
The animation from that time through the 60s and 70s , is something that a modern computer chip, high definition, and 3D has took away something magical. Give me a VCR and the TV that doesn't have high definition.. oh never mind I already got that that's what I watched my original Star wars on
Hey! That's the painting from Goodfellas! "One dog's looking one way and the other dog's looking the other way." Nice!
Thats wild. I've heard of Rikki tikki tavi from years ago, but never knew what it was about.
What a great story.
Riki Tiki Tavi was one of my favorites to watch with my family. It's beautifully animated and I loved the story.
That bit about the mirrors for princes scope of looking at these stories is fascinating. Since tales were much more important in these times and in particularly in that culture, I can imagine that a fable would be more readily accepted than a lecture.
I grew up on the Kipling stories. As a child through the 70s we didn't have TV reception, so books were the movie. As a side note Donovan Leith wrote a very catch, rather trippy song riki taking tavi.
I saw this on tv decades ago.😁Then I acquired it on vhs decades later.😄
As a child.That 30 min show seemed like an hour.🤔But,I did like the show.💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿
Thanks to you I made my first business website with square space... absolutely much better than when I attempted with wix
I read Rikki Tikki Tavi in my 7th grade ELA class and did not expect to see this!
I remember my junior high english class had a trick question about this story, "How many snakes did Rikki kill?" The answer was 1 (eggs don't count), the little brown snake. The male cobra was killed by the man and the female was buried alive by Rikki (that apparently didn't count either because he didn't kill her by attacking her).
Never heard of riki until today
I was enlightened
I remember seeing the Chuck Jones Short on Nickelodeon when I was a child it was pretty good
Great Vid, really enjoyed the story. Never heard of it until today.
Loved this story and the cartoon when I was a kid. I always wanted a ferret because my Dad said it was the closest animal to a mongoose we could have as a pet. But my mom was not having it.
I used to Love this story so much😩👌
but i didn't get it from the movie in 1975 lol
Thank you so much for your videos, I love mythology, folktales, etc, and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi has always been one of my favorites.
Love that movie. I first saw it at school in 3rd grade.
there is a saying, broken people make the best writers
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To the window... to the wall, till the sweat drips down my paws, till all these cobras crawl
That was really cute and I knew that Rikki tikki tavi was a short film because I remember only watching it once when I was younger with my cousin.
Growing up before the interwebz meant specials shown every year. The Wizard of Oz and RTT were my looked forward to faves! RTT was kinda scary...cobras behind the toilet...i still check!✌
I did but know there was a movie! My children love this story, and most of Kipling.
as i recall, Donovan wrote and sang a song about this beast.
I just read this to my kids a few weeks ago! I loved this story growing up. Lol no idea why tho 🤣
@Jon Solo Since the title is so similar you can do a companion video by going over Tikki Tikki Tembo!
Great video, Gunther! Your dad did a pretty good job too.
I loved thos cartoon back in the day
seemed less about the messed up origins of the mongoose and more about the sad & messed up origins of Rudyard Kipling. i always liked his works. my favorites were the Just So Stories. never saw the movie you mentioned though. looked cute.
I was just talking about this cartoon the other day 💓
Actually, I only know of the book version. It was so hardcore.
Loved this when I was a kid....could you do an episode on the White Seal 🦭🦭?
I Loved This As A Kid 🥺
It’s ironic because the tale of the loyal mongoose is nearly identical to the Celtic Welsh legend Gelert the wolfhound.
In the legend, Llywelyn the Great returns from hunting to find his baby missing, the cradle overturned, and Gelert with a blood-smeared mouth. Believing the dog had devoured the child, Llywelyn draws his sword and kills Gelert. After the dog's dying yelp, Llywelyn hears the cries of the baby, unharmed under the cradle, along with a dead wolf which had attacked the child and been killed by Gelert. Llywelyn is overcome with remorse and buries the dog with great ceremony, (then leading to the town name) but can still hear its dying yelp. After that day, Llywelyn never smiles again.
I love chuck Jones's Rikki is so darn cute.
I watched this and the white seal. I think I was freaked out by the white seal because they didn't sugar coat that the poor fur seal were going be fucking beaten to death. They didn't show anything but that part still freaked me out as a kid.
I remember I made a short story on Ricci Ticci Tavi when I was smaller
The only reasoning for me reading Rikki-Tikki-Tavi was a standardized test in elementary school 😂
💯❤️👏😎💯❤️ one of my favorites yes.
It would be awesome to hear More stories from this book.
The Rikki Tikki with ivory fangs and the eyeballs of flame
Are you going to do all the jungle book?
Also I remember Riki Tiki Tavi.
The loyal mongoose reminds me of a story I heard on between the Lions where a king wanted a drink, but his pet bird kept swiping it out of his hands so he killed it only to see a snake in the water
Dude. The shirt. Envy and respect.
Ah, yes: also known as "Mongoose Impossible"
Regretting not watching it when I had a chance back then.
“We mobbin through the lobby”
I love this movie! And my 40 year old sister does a perfect Riki Tiki Tavi bootie bounce dance! Makes me laugh every time!
The Loyal Mongoose story sounds a lot like the Legend of Gelert the Hound, a Welsh folktale. A Welsh prince named Llewellyn had a baby son he loved, and a favorite hunting hound named Gelert he loved almost as much. One day he came home from a journey and Gelert ran to meet him--with blood on his jaws. Llewellyn ran to the nursery to find the baby's cradle overturned and blood splashed on the walls. Jumping to the conclusion that Gelert had turned on his son and killed him, he slew the hound in a rage. It was only then that he heard his baby's cry...the boy was underneath some bedding, unharmed. It was also then that he saw the body of the wolf Gelert had slain. In remorse, Llewellyn buried the hound with honors. The story's retold in a picture book called The Mightiest Heart, and I recall a short story that set the action in French Canada in the nineteenth century, with a fur trapper as the father and a hound named Caliban.
Yooooo that is so weird I was just thinking about riki tiki tavi a few days ago but I could not remember the name until now lol great timing.
I guess Jon forgot to post the messed-up origins of APRIL FOOL'S DAY!
I must have been really young the only time I watched this. Because some parts look familiar, but non of the story rings familiar. The OG story was moving.
Could you do a video on the origin of Bridge to Terabithia in the future?
If I hadn't watched this, I would likely have bet cash that "Rikki" was an otter!
thank you very much for making this video,,
i love this cartoon, animation,,
and ,, the ugly duckling,
and the turtle verses the rabbit,
and charlette's web,,
and all the great christmas cartoons,,
ohhhhhh,,,,,,how i miss saturday morning cartoons in the 80's
JK Rowling actually got the name for Nagini from “The Female Of The Species” a poem by Kipling
“When Nag the basking Cobra hears the careless foot of man, he will often wiggle sideways and avoid it if he can, but his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail, for the female of the species is more deadly than the male”
We watched the Rikki Tikki Tavi movie in my class too, but for a slightly weirder reason. I was living in Hawaii at the time, and an old Polynesian woman would come in once a week to teach us traditional Polynesian folktales, traditions, and songs. She even brought us traditional food sometimes and taught us how to eat it correctly with our hands (which to a kid is seriously bad@ss btw). One day she couldn't make it because of health reasons, so we watched movies during her usual time slot. Not quite as cool, but still awesome. Really that old woman was my first exposure to mythology, and I was hooked forever more. On a side note, funnily enough, I had a neighbor in Hawaii who had a pet mongoose, which I'm pretty sure was illegal, but he was cute so whatevs
Omg this was my favorite movie as a kid Thankyou
I watched the short film in my 10th grade history class when we were learning about the colonization of India because my teacher said the family that adopted Rikki were the British and Rikki was the Indians.
My favorite RUclips guy
I think I'll stay with the Donovan song version as a definition. "...but when I got a little older, I learned how to kill them myself."
Totally metal!
Love this! But I think Nagaina is pronounced "Nog-A-Eee-na". Not "nog -EE-na".
I loved this story when I was a kid. Then my teacher pointed out that the snakes weren't evil; they just wanted a garden free of enemy species so they could raise their children in peace, and I felt bad for them. Then I got even older and realized the story was about Britain's conquest of India, and that pretty much ruined it for me.
I never loved it. Even as a child I felt sorry for the snakes
Thank you
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi vs Rin-Tin-Tin, 12 rounds, who wins?
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"to the wibdow to the wall
..as Rikki got his sweat dripped down his balls in this fight...."
You missed it lol
"we mobbing through the lobby"
Can you do The messed up origins of Artemis?