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"Burglars , girl burglars .."
Perfect dialogue delivery !!
Sir Humphrey smiling like a proud parent
Suppressing a smirk is more like it. Humphrey understood the inner workings of government intimately, but Hacker had great skill managing its outward appearances. When they worked together toward a common purpose they were unbeatable.
Hacker’s facial expression after he said “Brown Envelopes” in error was priceless.
sublime and subtle acting
May I ask what was the reason for the reaction after that word?
@@Noah-wx7fm "Brown envelopes" implies dodgy payments in cash. Since you would stereotypically hand over the cash in an unmarked brown envelope.
He was famous for replacing lines of dialogues with his facial expressions which makes it so much funnier.
Humphrey's delivery of the line, "I am racked with guilt" is impeccable.
Absolutely unbelievable. What a genius!
She came in with such confidence. His first answer baffled her n the second completely defeated her.
'And what is your question?'
Pretty much any left wing journalist/politician when faced with facts...
@@FrontSideBus so u condone bribery?
@@FrontSideBus do you condone corruption and bribery? Hmmmmm hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
@@spartand001 I don't condone left-wing media always gunning for Britain. They always seem to ignore all the good things and yet focus on all the negatives. They positively rub their hands together with glee when something has gone wrong. Why do left wingers hate their own country so much?
May the souls of Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne and Derek Fowlds be forever in peace having provided such extraordinary, unforgettable humour to generations of fans.
"now, what was your question?" Epic!
😂😂
From this episode: "A journalist?" "Well, The Guardian, anyway".
This series hasn't aged a bit.
The old "Grauniad" spelling jokes don't work as well, but they are still funny. And they probably convinced the newspaper to hire copy editors!
@@WG55 Pity they don't hire journalists. It's like a student paper now sadly.
What total rot.
I imagine you don't do much actual reading. Remaining one of the few quality papers in the internet age has been quite an achievement for the Guardian. They have a huge subscriber base, and operations in the US, Australia and elsewhere. One of the best news websites, media such as podcasts- further ensuring their future. They now are in profit - without the backing of any tawdry billionaires of questionable ethics. Run by an independent trust. Hardly a student paper.
I could go on- but I'm sure I've already tasked your tiny brain too much.
@@alanmessenger9397 I think you missed the point of what Ms. Hacker said. Maybe you should work for the Guardian too!
@@alanmessenger9397 the Guardian' news section can sometimes be objective but their total subservience to woke doctrine in the opinion sections just makes the whole thing an activist handout and not a newspaper. Sadly, the Guardian is not the only paper suffering from this, see also the New York Times for example.
Moments like this show that Hacker was quite an operator in his way. He may have met his match with Humphrey but he was no fool. 😎
Yes, Hacker might have been a pushover at times, a weak man who would do the easiest thing underestimated by most of the people around him. But he surely had his moments. This is what makes him so relatable. This, the fact that he strives to do the right thing and the great acting of Paul Eddington.
@@Stilgarsan 😁👍😎
a fool never becomes a politician because a politician is out there to fool everyone else
Mg v😁
i like the fact that as the series goes on he learns the tricks of the trade and eventually beats Humphrey a couple of times at his own game
As Jim goes into the horizon as Prime-minister, Sir Humphrey and and Bernard look at the sunset and say, "we trained him well." "We indeed did."
exactly
Kinda " Bringing Up (well) father" moment
And a bit further in the distance, Sir Arnold wipes a tear from his eye, observing Sir Humphrey and Bernard as successful permanent secretaries and remarking, "The grow so fast, they really do!"
Professionally guided you say..
"Now, what was your question?" - that was delivered perfectly, simply perfectly.
Hacker’s wife was such a good influence on him. Her attempt to keep the rosewater jar was the only bad choice she made in the show.
Yeah, I watched the entire series with my wife and we also watched house of cards. The difference between the husband-wife interaction of Jim and Annie vs Frank and Claire is night and day.
To be fair, Annie probably didn't realize just how serious this kind of thing is, because in older times, this kind of gifts are very common place, it is only in the latter half of 20th century that people started to take those corruption charges seriously.
She just wanted a pretty jar after all the bullshit she’s been through 😢
_"We have deceived the Qumranis, I am racked with guilt. Tormented by the knowledge that we have violated their solemn and sacred Islamic law in their own country! Sooner or later we'll have to own up and ADMIT that it was all YOUR idea."_
Nigel Hawthrone's delivery of this line is simply perfect. The contrast between the seriousness of the words and the poised and completely unconcerned tone...I love it.
" Burglars, girl. Burglars! " I can't believe all 3 of them are gone. RIP ❤️
It was filmed 40+ years ago now (1980-4): Eddington and Hawthorne were in their 50's and Fowlds in his mid-40's. Given the ages they would now be, their being no longer around is certainly sad but unsurprising.
i have this defense remembered & ready when needed.
Well it might work on Americans, but I think you'd better remember defence as well for the people who speak English!
Sir Humphrey was very impressed when he answered the press lady with that amazing authoritative tone
13 dislikes from The Guardian. Or just people who couldn't get into the Communication Room.
lol love Hacker's reaction complete with voice cracking under the strain 0:28. paul addington was such a good actor. He is just so subtle and natural. his reactions were all very be convincing 2:33 the serious case of eye twitch after the brown envelope slip lol. "Burglars girl burglars..."
Yeah the BAFTA jury didn't notice his prowess. Such a shame.
"Now what was your question?" Superb side-stepping.
Jim knows how to play the game, too, when necessary. 😁😁😁
Hacker knows about the press. He certainly knows Who Reads the Papers!
And Bernard knows who reads The Sun.
@@craigmccullough7333 Well, not actually "reads" it.
@@shelbynamels973 isn't braille wonderful.
Our media could use a good kick in the moral vacuum right now.
Tell that to the politicians who lie all the time just to get your vote. I have never seen so many of them caught out in lies that are so obvious a moron can tell that it was a lie. Sadly there are too many voters who can't seem to see the lie since it makes them happy.
Yes, and so could the politicians :D
@@drwatsonca6945 And they would not get away with it if the media did not frame it so that it favors them. Media and journalism in the current times are a travesty - the prime force behind everything rotten in society. They promote the most decadent ways and stories and their thirst for blood and low-level scandals is on the all time high.
For instance, just yesterday I saw in majority of media in my country a story about a 15yo boy who killed himself... but instead of it simply being reported, journalists made sure that they are on the spot when the body was dragged from the river to make the best shots of it, as well as fainting mother and crying father, with detailed transcripts of what they said through the whole thing.
Journalists today look for shock stories, sex, violence, blood. 99% of the stories in media are not there to inform you of something that is of any consequence for you or that you'd form an informed opinion on something as a voter.
They are there to attract clicks, likes, views and thus focus on the lowest of the low when it comes to human emotions and drives.
That is why you don't see actually important topics that dictate your day to day life covered. And if something important happens to slip through, it is reported in the worst way possible, again to make you shocked rather than informed.
I've worked with journalists for 2 years and I can say to you - there are no more decadent people on this planet. They look nice in their suits, they talk nicely, but they are the rotting core of our modern society and most of them are not even aware of what they are doing. There is no morality, not standards, no ethics of any kind. And those that claim that they have all those things can barely scrap enough of it to be called humans in the first place.
Politicians lie - as they have been since the dawn of time. That is a constant. But media and journalism are at an all time low when it comes to standards. And they are the reason why things get done or don't get done, they are the primary reasons of everything in modern society.
From spinning stories that make countries go to war, through coverage of some important topic that makes or don't the critical mass for a change, down to the lowest level of feeding the most basic urges.
Journalists, as we have them today, are the cancer of every modern society. They are the variable that changed, not the politicians, not the crime rates (that are universally in decline yet people feel like they are increasing due to the media that like fear factor) or what ever else. Most things in our societies are more or less the same, but the media and their framing of things is what makes things turn worse.
And that is why the "Fake News" mantra was successful. People KNOW that media is full of shit and that journalists are scum of the earth - and it was just a question of time when some idiot was going to use it for his own gain. And we all saw what happens then - you get two realities created.
The easiest way for creating a better tomorrow is getting media and journalism standards back to where they were some 70-80 years ago.
@@drwatsonca6945 pity the media cover for them. Covid virus natural occurring/escape narrative is the most perfect example. The public could see the holes in the story but the media called anyone that questioned it conspiracy theorists…..until the moment it might actually be true and they back flipped while maintaining a straight face aka 1984 style ‘we always thought this as well’ mantra.
@@Wustenfuchs109 as someone recently said. The media is not there to report the news - that’s only a small sideline. It’s there to bring in viewers and enable them to make money with advertising. Therefore ‘Covid hasn’t infected 6.8 billion of the globes 7.1 billion after 22 months so your chances are excellent’ doesn’t attract viewers but ‘You’re going to die no matter your age or health if you get it’ does. Therefore it benefits them to perpetuate the fear (as one example) or another - notice how after a big disaster the next time it rain/snow/high winds come your way they angle it as if it’s going to happen again.
Burglars girl burglars 😂
Today that comment would invoke a tsunami of feminist rage.
Hacker, Appleby, and Woolley are immortal. There hadn't been such magic between a trio since Kirk, Spock, and McCoy.
Still one of the best series that the BBC ever made. Not just a comedy, but as someone who was formerly a civil servant in two departments and having also been involved with politics at times, I know that this is as much a documentary as anything. And such wonderful performances from the three main actors.
What a great comeback from a difficult situation.
As I understand it, this segment about bribery is basically true to life, almost without exaggeration. And ahead of its time.
A lot of the stories were based on the truth. The writers had many ex politicians making contact and volunteering humorous/outrageous stories.
@@binaway that’s horrendous... 😂
Not since the Bribery act. Although the US version includes allowances for “facilitating” payments.
Laxey Sue there was no bribery they were extra contractual advance commission payments
For 5000 years that part of the world has run on corruption and bribery. But it has oil so it's too important to police properly. Same as how Saudi Arabia executes people for being gay and in the event of a rape, prosecutes the woman for not being married to her 'partner'
The whole area is a ghastly place that the west allows to continue, as long as they provide the subsidy to defence contractors. Every country sells to them and the reason is always bribery but it's a game to catch the other side out over who can hide it effectively
I love the rare moments when Sir Humphrey shows pure sass.
The irony is that the Qumrani officials would mostly be mad they weren't in on the drinks. Alcohol is the worst kept secret in the Arab World.
but still it is secret and it must be oficially kept.
It'd depend on the country, surely? Bars are everywhere but Saudi Arabia.
@@aykarimba it was Pakistan
@@tolep from the Zia era. Drier than a nun those days. Public floggings if caught
@@Zanimater I wonder what is Islamic substitute of ethanol. i mean generally used popular psychoactive substance.
Got the full series DVD boxset for Xmas.
Incredible stuff.
Including Party Games?
I envy you
Yes, there's no question of bribery. It definitely happened.
No it did not they were extra contractual advance payments of administrative expenses. It said so in the accounts.
@@michaelvidal1971 And in the brown envelopes.
"We have looked into every brown envelope" .........
I didn't get that line. Is it in reference to alcohol?
@@mayedalshamsi A bribe, as in putting money in brown envelopes.
@@sirvalentine90 - Ooooooh! Thanks!
I get it now. That's funny! 😂
Just a little glitch. He recovers masterfully.
The reporter from the Guardian " I saw the rose water jar in your apartment " ,Hacker " Burglars, Burglars " ha,ha.
This is one of my favourite clips of the show and exemplifies why I think Hacker is the most interesting character on the show. Can be meek, attacking, comedic and caring whenever the scene demands it.
Burglars girl burglars
Hahaha, it's quite a nickname for some friends
Ah! Wanted in the communications room. A Mr John Walker.
And delegation of Teachers, and Smirnoff from the Soviet embassy, and Mr. Haig, and last but not least Napoleon
Good for Humphrey for the way he went to bat for Bernard here (Humphrey bringing up the Qumran booze room as the scene opened was in direct response to Jim being about to publicly blame Bernard for the bribery scandal).
"we have looked into every brown envelope-----"
I love the idea of corporal punishment for drinking. You go out, get lashed, get caught, get lashed again.
We have it where I live. I'm not even joking.
Oh man, you can fast foward this and apply this situation to today's media. So true. Love Hacker in this scene.
I guess u condone corruption and bribery then?
BBC ought to release the whole series now. It's been decades since the show came out.
Its there on Prime Video
It has been out on dvd for some time as a box set of both Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister
3.47:- Sir Humphrey like the Proud Mentor as he watches his Prodigy start to show real ability in all his administrative teachings😁😁
Protege.
Of all of the episodes, this is the one you could NOT get away with making today.
Yup, the media made sure of that.
That rose water jar was indeed an expensive art effect
Holy shit Hacker never got enough scenes like this.
Well played Minister, well played indeed.
Brilliantly written and acted
Can't say I condone his attack on the press, but that rosewater jug pivot was masterclass.
'The Minister of Bribery'. Sounds quite right.
Best scene from one of the best episodes
if only the Government of today were intelligent enough to get themselves out of such sticky situations
You don't know what did they get away with.
I believe even without the contract issues, Humphrey would have done this just to protect Bernard.
Watching this in 2021.
WE could do with a PM like Mr Hacker today
@@damanchan6839 Hacker had his faults but he was never an outright buffoon.
@@damanchan6839 no Hacker is actually a good PM, bumbling boris needs a Sir Humphrey to help him out.
@@dogwalker666 Unfortunately Boris and his gang have made repeated attacks against the civil service in the last couple of years, often as a way to distract from other political problems. One example is where a government minister has effectively acknowledged bullying their civil servants but it is the civil servants that have had to go.
I think a lot of bridges need to be mended before Boris can count on more than cold professionalism from the civil service.
@@zarabada6125 oh indeed bumbling boris has. He is utterly useless and out of his depth.
Hacker is absolutely swift here 😂👻
IT WAS YOUR IDEA
...
from montessori to PMO everyone's favourite
Humphrey--wracked with guilt!!!
The Civil Service takes care of its own! Humphrey protecting Bernard! Brilliant.
We've checked every brown envelope!
Humphrey...."the force is strong with this one".....British comedies are the absolute best....
Journalist comes to ask valid questions, and get called fake news by government trying to cover it up. Sounds familiar.
He didn't call her fake news, he called her agent provocateur.
The Guardian deserve this every day of the week 52 weeks a year
Great Britain! Great comedy 👍👍👍
Now it’s the Guardian taking the bribes....
What I like about this clip is the way Sir Humprey turns the tables on Jim to ensure Bernard is shielded. His loyalty and desire to protect his fellow civil servant colleagues shines through.
Sir Humphrey looking at Hacker like, "Damn, he's learned something from me after all"
Two outstanding actors..
Buona giornata! Good! Grazie! 🤗🤗👍👍👍👍👍
Brilliant stuff, still priceless today
It's interesting that he described a British corporation as endeavoring to earn dollars rather than pounds.
Cos the...brown envelopes contain dollars?
well yes the Uk needed dollars to pay for imports, because their counterparties would not take pounds like in the old days. britain had several currency crises after ww2, and was constantly in need of dollar reserves
Hacker himself is a former journalist, so he's in his element here.
Exactly this, he knows exactly what questions will be coming, and how to get around non-answers, which makes it all the easier to come up with stronger non-answers.
Appalled no bafta came Paul's way. In so many scenes his quality makes the difference.
3:00 Sir Humphrey looks so proud :D
Dominic Cummings trying to explain why all his mates got the covid contracts
Politicians and Guardian reporters, are a comedy to this day 🇬🇧🇦🇺
Humphrey is a fox when it comes to the bureaucratic machinery, but Hacker is a fox in politics and associated relations with the public. This scene shows them in their best field.
Clearly Humphrey has schooled the Pm well.
He wasn't the PM in this scene.
If you think this isn't how government works now, you're wrong.
Drop you in the moral dimension
Classic.
And nothing has changed about Guardian newspaper either. !!! what a shocker !!!
I see the Guardian hasn't changed in a long while.
I thought straight away of today's "Partygate." with the Tories going into attack on "More pressing thing to be thinking about than to rock the boat with such trivia" argument!
You can never go wrong investing in brown envelopes
Says a lot for the reputation of the British press that your sympathies are all with Hacker not the reporter.
Oh how true this all
Is! ☹️
What is it forty or fifty lashes 😆😆😆
Bernard can normally quote chapter and verse on the law.
Hacker is a pretty smart guy for being able to come up with that pile of bullshit at literally seconds' notice.
Nothing has changed in the last 40 years.
God bless our nation.
How hard is subject-verb agreement? The Guardian doesn’t ‘accuse’. Though comprised of many people, it is a singular entity. Accordingly, it ‘accuses’.
Did....did Hacker just show a quick wit?
Jim is far from incompetent. In fact, from the discussion back home, he used to be "been there, have his way and got things down and people liked him" sort of guy when he was in the opposition....as the shadow minister of agriculture.
In the book series, it is clarified the very reason they (the civil service) put him in DAA is because they don't want to put him in the ministry of agriculture, where he will be in his element and know how things work. So at the beginning of the series, you are literally seeing him being put into a completely foreign environment. It is even stated on screen that Jim is catching on quickly.
I watched this clip & then immediately realised that this is how the investigation into the governments PPE contracts is being played out right now.😮💨
It is rather strange as an American to watch the exchange between Hacker and Goodwin, especially when Hacker threatens to have the Press Council and the House of Commons censure the press to have pressure brought to bear to ensure that the reporting would not be repeated. It is not that no American politician would ever threaten or try to pressure a journalist, but to do so openly, with the threat being official censure, seems bizarre. Such a thing would be wildly unconstitutional in the US, and, indeed, the very concept of a government Press Council is totally alien to our experience.
No, but you can certainly sue them for libel and even if the case is not won, you can boggle the journalist in question down in courts and trials for years and effectively ruining the individual's life. Plus, there is the other scene where they put the pressure on BBC via internal revenue reports on corruption in BBC itself. The thing is, at the end of the day, the journalist themselves are not clean by any stretch of imagination.
Ironically a lot of unconstitutional things are happening in the USA now...
@@melvinch All too true, I'm afraid.
Things haven't changed much; have they ?
Ah the guardian,imagine Owen jones up against sir Humphrey.Only one winner there
I think Sir Humphrey would be speechless ... but only for five seconds.
Hacker taking a huge leaf from Sir Humphrey's book😀
Hacker's instincts went from initial shock, to processing, to rage. And Sir Humphrey channelized this energy seamlessly at the precise moment when it was required to get them out of trouble - aka "attack is the best for of defense". This way, Sir Humphrey delivered a masterclass in counterattacking, and simultaneously allaying of frayed tempers - without getting tangled at the receiving end. Hacker combines this anger with purpose and delivers a calculated attack at the journalist, and constructively resolves the situation. Bernard meanwhile has the best seat in the house. Everyone wins.
Except the journo. She stood no chance.
I think more pressure is needed, as gutter press reporting hasn't stopped really.
Looked closely at every brown envelope.... err.... Lol..!!!
That's Indian press and Indian society got handled after allegations of French Rafale corruption happened. The US UK China Russia and Pakistan all working to make a complete mess out of it.
The Indian PM won such a majority he completely sidelined the earlier deals and negotiations and got an emergency deal that looks good for the French 🇷🇺 more than India. We still face enormous challenges for airforce.
Nothing makes me happy that the French lost the deal. The "leak" at their end of submarine designs hurt us enormously in India. The French owe us a lot to make up for this Himalayan blunder.