Anyone else think that the “mystery” of his heritage and his defensiveness/sudden obsession about it would have been a lot more compelling if he was adopted?
@@katevgrady tru but only if she was aware! Coulda been an interesting character building moment where she’s like I’m so sorry for pushing you I didn’t know. But he’s already ass deep in research and is like it’s ok here look what I found out. Also maybe a segue into talking briefly about lost heritage for black Americans?? Probably too poignant a discussion for Disney tho lmao
@@holyfreakinBLEACH agreed, definitely. Him being adopted along with just kind of a large plot overhaul in general really could have made this better without sacrificing anything
@@LilyoftheLake14 yeah, but going back before that all humans came from africa. like, is anyone really from anywhere? the movie still lumped native americans in with immigrants during the industrial revolution, which is a false equivalence. it's also in poor taste given how america was formed as a nation.
@Andrew Campbell what? How tf am I making excuses for colonialism? The natives were still here first for multiple millenniums, so them coming here via the land bridge doesn't change anything. Colonialism is one of the worst evils that's ever been committed throughout history. It's right up there with the holocaust, slavery, and war. Like wtf? Where did you get an excuse for colonialism from my comment? Everything I wrote is literally true. It's just facts. I'm wondering if you thought I was trying to argue that the natives were immigrants. Technically, they are. But everyone who lives outside of Africa is, too, just like @betp Tuesday already pointed out lol. The natives were in the Americas THOUSANDS of years ago. America, the country, has only existed for a few _hundred._ Even when Columbus came over to the Americas, the Native Americans _still_ had *thousands* of years on the Europeans. I'd call that pretty well claimed. Europeans have another 500 years to go to even get up to *ONE* THOUSAND years. To get up to the amount of time that the natives were in the Americas before Columbus, people who live in north or south America with European ancestry would need to live here for the same amount of time from Columbus till 500 years from now, then multiply all that by *TWENTY.* How is that excusing colonialism? 🤨
Also, fun fact, in Ireland a “mickey” is slang for a d*ck, so when you said “they really carved a hidden mickey deep in our subconscious” that was better Irish slang than this entire movie has had so far 😂
Irish person here 1) 4 leaf clovers are not an irish thing, we have shamrocks with 3 leaves. It was used by saint patrick to teach the irish about Christianity ie the holy trinity 2) yes we drink on st patricks day. Not because we're 100% pationate of the holiday but because we get a day off so hell yeah to going on the lash 3) we dont call them bangers, thats english, theyre just sausages 4) i dont get the irish are hot headed thing. We had a hard history of oppression, famine, and fighting for independence so maybe thats why? 5) we did not invent shamrock shakes, thats mcdonalds 6) peat is used for a fire but where im from in the country its called turf 7) nick, i love you, i respect you, but never do an irish accent again hahaha 8) we're not lucky. Oppression and famine. 9) terrible irish accents everywhere 10) potatoes are amazing and versatile, so many ways to cook them 11) we never say top of the morning 12) we dont drink green beer 13) corned beef isnt that big of a thing here, but stew is. 14) leprechauns will steal your gold 15) irish step dancing is just called irish dancing 16) highlands is scotish 17) hurling, gaelic football and to an extent, handball are our national sports 18) we dont have wendys Ive never seen this movie, im so glad i never did, even as a kid it would have pissed me off hahahahaha
@@boopboopimarobot honestly if I were them I’d hate the British (obviously like not individual modern British people who had nothing to do with letting Irish ppl die but you feel me) so I’d go out on a limb and say there’s probably some truth to it
@@boopboopimarobot hate is a strong word. Its not so much all britain but specifically the english. Sure, there was a time where the irish hated the english ie oppression, famine, fighting for independence, the troubles.Theres a bloody history between our two nations where ireland would lose, or win only to be worse off. Now days, theyre our closest neighbour, 6 counties are still owned by them so we share a land border, and economically, they buy up our exports. If anything the irish are a bit annoyed with them at this stage. Why you ask? Brexit. They voted without a plan. The fear that if theres a border in northern ireland it could start a civil war again in the north. Things seem grand now. But theres only been peace for 24 years and durring brexit pockets of terror started to happen. Im from the south, only ever been to the north a few times, so if anyone from the north wants to correct me if i got my facts wrong, feel free.
I have to say that as an Irish person, the American fetishisation of Irish identity is kind of hilarious. We get a lot of American tourists in Dublin, usually boasting that their great grandfather's friend's neighbour's dentist's cousin is 1/8 Irish. We don't mind people visiting Ireland and having an interest in the culture, you just have to open to learning about it beyond your basic conceptions and have some respect. Also Irish culture varies a lot throughout, so what's the status quo in one place could be pretty different just an hour drive away!
My favourite one is the Americans coming here (Scotland) and being I'm related to king McWhatshisface, so you help them with their family tree and it turns out that no, they aren't related to any royalty, their family was actually owned by the royalty.....the look on their face is funny.
A lot of us white Americans are really bothered by not having a sense of heritage beyond “white.” I think this is especially common for those who came during the industrial revolution. Our ancestors usually didn’t have money and a lot of them didn’t bother to keep records or pass down our history, and some of us don’t want to borrow the history of the people here who look like us but came earlier… 😒 It’s weird how desperate you can feel for a sense of cultural identity when all you know is that grandpa’s grandpa came from Germany on a boat in the 1890s. That’s… literally all I know about my heritage. All of it. Going to Europe and finding any trace of my ancestors would make me cry with joy.
@@BlondeEyes7 I respect that! The issue is not that people want to discover their heritage, but rather people arriving into a place with their own assumptions and not being open to learning new information. In Dublin we get some people who have Irish ancestors but also a fictional vision of Ireland's culture and history, and are upset when people try to correct. I hope you get to visit Germany and feel closer to your ancestors.
I once had some american try and tell me he is more irish than me, someone actually from northern ireland and when hes in america says he's irish and on holiday says he's american. Nuts!
My great grandparents on my grandmother’s side were Scottish and on my grandfather’s side English. They hated each other 😬. Glad my grandparents ignored them.
I’m English but one of my close friends dads almost went to prison and did go to court for refusing (along with others) to pay tax 😁. Any reasonable English person hated Thatcher
@@Kaiyasymone my favorite reference from psych was Dulé Hill in 65 Million Years Off, when Shawn and Gus are talking about Holes. How Psych worked in actors having a past will forever be iconic
The mom's little Irish discrimination backstory is identical to the speech the president of my "Irish" Catholic high school gave during a black history month assembly thinking he was showing solidarity😭😭😭People really are that clueless
I feel like americans rarely say "xenophobia". I've never heard that word from an american. Being oppressive towards ppl who are caucasian on the basis of their nation or look caucasian (spaniards, slavs etc.) is called xenophobia but I always hear either "racism" or just "discrimination".
The funny thing is, is that the whole, original song was making fun of that kind of thinking and was a response to "God Bless America". In the 1940 version, there was line acknowledging that people already lived here, but it's fine because "God Blessed America for me"
@@TheNumnutRandomness Just looked up the original lyrics. Wow. "As I went walking that ribbon of highway And saw above me that endless skyway, And saw below me the golden valley, This land was made for you and me. Was a high wall there that tried to stop me A sign was painted said: Private Property, But on the back side it didn't say nothing - This land was made for you and me. One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple By the Relief Office I saw my people - As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if This land was made for you and me."
They really went "let's make a movie about St. Patrick's Day" and then didn't do a single bit of research about the origin of the holiday, just the extremely commodified American version of it lol
@@jalapeno1119 St. Patrick's Day is an Irish religious holiday. If you wanna learn more about it, a quick web search is enough to give that information.
I'm not sure about the Rachael Ray comment, she once made a Mexican dish in the whitest way possible to where the Mexican mom watching the video nearly had a panic attack when she added sour cream into the mix. She probably would've made that dish the mom makes here
I had to go watch it after this comment , I 💀. I lived in Mexico for 5 yrs (my hubbs is Mexican) & I learned how to cook from his mom. I make pozole more authentic the RR. Im w the gma! who puts crema & fritos on pozole?! 😲 Its my fav dish and she did it so dirty.
@@nathanielrodriguez1873 I mean *technically* humanity is from Africa but native Americans were here for a very long time and still deserve to be recognized as the people who had this land before Europeans tried to kill them all for it. And stole most of it.
I’m crying at the fact that the leprechauns are racist against humans. Like they’re mythical creatures that believe in anti-miscegenation. And Disney was just like “Yeah, sure, sounds good!”
I literally spat out my water when you said the reparations joke. The black kid is from one of my favorite moves "Love and basketball" and he always has this "aww man" face and way about him so the comment just made me laugh that he lost again.
I'm Irish, I've never seen this film but we do do the whole leprechaun and pot of gold thing for tourist stuff, like those big green Paddy tour buses and we do have Paddy's day parades but that originates from Irish immigrant in New York in 1762, Ireland's first St. Patrick's Day parade was held in 1903. Before then you'd just go to Mass and pubs would be shut seeing as it is a religious holiday. It's see less as a religious holiday now and more as a celebration of Irish culture. Now I wonder what Nigerians do for St. Patrick's Day... If you know, let me know, please. xx Edit: I eat a fair amount of potato like 5 or 6 times a week. Tayto invented flavoured potato crisps. This movie feels weirdly preachy like who actually brings up the 800 years of oppression if it is not relevance to the conversation. It's like when you see those people on American tv that are like 'the Irish were oppressed too' to dominations Black Americans experiencing oppression today. Ireland doesn't have the highlands, Scotland does.
In the United States it's not a celebration of Irish culture at all, it's just people getting ass-drunk. At this point I feel like St. Patrick's Day, at least in the States, is like if people celebrated Black History Month by eating watermelon and fried chicken. Just an excuse for people to be assholes for no reason.
To be fair, Irish immigrants back then (up until maybe the 70s) were discriminated against/looked down upon by protestant Americans for their Catholicism. But yes it doesn't compare to the treatment of other races/ethnicities in American history. Irish Americans are obviously not discriminated against nowadays. (I'm not Irish btw)
@@kierawhite9375 yeah but Catholics and Protestants have never seen eye to eye. I'm from Northern Ireland. I didn't even go to school with Protestants. They have their schools, we have ours. We might be integrated in a couple decades though if Brexit doesn't go to badly. 😬
@@aislingsvisions I've always been interested by Northern Ireland like most people...but I never knew there was unofficial segregated schools (if I'm understanding you correctly). From what you can tell, are people wanting that integration or do people not mind keeping institutions like schools segregated? Sorry if that's a loaded question lol!
This movie treats nationality really weirdly. It feels like Disney wanted to mention what happened in Ireland and they also wanted to mention how Irish Americans/Irish immigrants were treated in the early 1900s, but then they also also wanted this to just be a silly kids movie about how Irish people are secretly leprechauns pretending to be human. Like if you want to say something just say it. If you want to be a silly kids comedy that doesn’t really make sense do that. But trying to have a serious conversation about historical discrimination against Irish immigrants while also being a movie about an Irish american kid slowly turning into a leprechaun doesn’t work. The tone cannot possibly be maintained with writing like this 😂
Also, luck of the irish is concept with a racist origin. It was considered that any irish that wasn't a dysfunctional falling down drunk had leprechauns helping him stay employed.
Oh really that's interesting. I heard it was cause during the gold rush a lot of Irish people were some of the first to find huge scores. Guess there's lots of different influences
@@jalapeno1119 At the time, the Irish were not considered white, so it arguably was a form of racism. It’s hard to draw a definite line between racism and xenophobia because race is a construct and its boundaries change over time.
It would have been funny if they did a mythically accurate movie of the protagonist being half-fairy and then he starts kidnapping children and blighting crops.
I mean Irish people sort of celebrate St. Patrick's day without the green everything. Basically, we just drink lol. And none of the top of the morning bs lmao
@@kurti.cy. What is at Patrick’s day even supposed to celebrate cause I remember in school it was just an opportunity to pinch ppl who weren’t wearing green.
To be fair, we're forgotten about a lot... It's apart of the native american guide book. In fact page one is "Remember: People will forget your culture still exists and assume it died long before you were born." So, ya know, we're used to it. Lol
Ryan Merriman was the Early 2000s Disney version of Netflix's Noah Centineo. Okay, he was only in 3 Disney Channel Original Movies, but it sounded funny to me.
We only had abc family, Disney channel or Nickelodeon for low budget tween movies so 3 was a lot!! Netflix is releasing like 20 tween movies a year, Ryan would have been in way more if we had as much media being produced back then!
When you said “It can’t be like that ALL the time in Ireland”...that is EXACTLY how I feel when they show Louisiana and it’s ALWAYS Mardi Gras...it’s just a Holiday. We don’t do parades just everyday, every city isn’t New Orleans and we don’t ALL know Britney Spears or Lil’ Wayne..🤷♀️
@@sophieanderson5555 Omg, right!! I think I saw MAYBE 20 poc, outside the Ute Indian Reservation, where I was working. I had Mormons come to my door daily, for two weeks, trying to convert me. It was awful!
I watched this along with the man mermaid movie and it was nice to to see male lead roles in Disney roles reserved for mainly girls (dancing and mermaids). Also this movie solidified my toxic love for villains...
Yes! We love to see diversity within different types of character, hopefully we will keep moving towards kids being able to follow their passions without judgement
Oh this movie brings me back... To a time when my younger siblings were obsessed with watching a VHS tape of Riverdance and stomping instead of walking for YEARS...
Now I want Nick to watch Little Italy (Emma Roberts, Hayden Christensen), a film from a couple years ago that feels like it's 20 years old, takes place in Little Italy . . . in Toronto even though they have New York Italian accents, and has some horrible Italian representation to boot.
I used to watch this all the time when I was a kid lmao, also, I watched Final Destination 3 when it came out (I was 9 lmao) and the whole movie I kept thinking "woah Kyle really ran out of luck" lol
To answer your question about potatoes being a big thing in Ireland, we have a theme park called Tayto Park that is literally made to promote a brand of crisps whose mascot is a walking potato in a suit. They have a section were you can walk through the factory and you get a packet of crisps as you leave the park. Need I say more?
As an irish person... what. It seems America loves st Patrick's day more than us!! Leprechauns arent a huge thing in ireland, and while st Patrick day and all related to him is important it's not a huge thing. I'm also pretty sure we dont have a Wendy's, but we do have Supermacs! And yes, the dancing was slight atrocious.
I'm sorry Ireland. Hollywood and media emphasizes everything wrong here. Admittedly people here can be ridiculous but not everyone. Much love from America.
Yeah, Americans go hard for St. Patrick's Day here even if they aren't remotely Irish in the weirdest way. God forbid the local parade events get cancelled, and people lose it.
Sorry Nick we actually don't have Wendy's here. Also, I've never heard of people referring to Irish dancing as Irish step dancing lolll. This film is a fucking mess. Much love from Ireland 🇮🇪
So they have this medallion that keeps them from turning into leprechauns and instead of getting a safe.... or a safety deposit box.... they give it to their teenage son lol. Ok cool cool. Good move.
A small history of St. Patrick's Day: Copied from the History Channel. Saint Patrick, who lived during the fifth century, is the patron saint of Ireland and its national apostle. He was born in Roman Britain in the late 4th century. He was kidnapped at the age of 16 and, taken to Ireland as a slave. He escaped but returned about 432 to convert the Irish to Christianity. By the time of his death on March 17, 461; he had established monasteries, churches, and schools. In the centuries following Patrick’s death, the mythology surrounding his life became ever more ingrained in the Irish culture - Perhaps the most well-known legend of St. Patrick is that he explained the Holy Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) using the three leaves of a native Irish clover, the Shamrock. Since around the ninth or 10th century, people in Ireland have been observing the Roman Catholic feast day of St. Patrick on March 17. The first St. Patrick’s Day parade took place not in Ireland but in America. Records show that a St. Patrick’s Day parade was held on March 17, 1601 in a Spanish colony in what is now St. Augustine, Florida. The parade, and a St. Patrick’s Day celebration a year earlier were organized by the Spanish Colony's Irish vicar Ricardo Artur. More than a century later, homesick Irish soldiers serving in the English military marched in New York City on March 17, 1772 to honor the Irish patron saint. Enthusiasm for the St. Patrick's Day parades in New York City, Boston and other early American cities only grew from there. Over the next 35 years, Irish patriotism among American immigrants flourished, prompting the rise of so-called “Irish Aid” societies like the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick and the Hibernian Society. Each group would hold annual parades featuring bagpipes (which actually first became popular in the Scottish and British armies) and drums. In 1848, several New York Irish Aid societies decided to unite their parades to form one official New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Today, that parade is the world ‘s oldest civilian parade and the largest in the United States, with over 150,000 participants. Each year, nearly 3 million people line the 1.5-mile parade route to watch the procession, which takes more than five hours. Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia and Savannah, also celebrate the day with parades involving between 10,000 and 20,000 participants each. In 2020, the New York City parade was one of the first major city events to be cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Up until the mid-19th century, most Irish immigrants in America were members of the Protestant middle class. When the Great Potato Famine hit Ireland in 1845, close to 1 million poor and uneducated Irish Catholics began pouring into America to escape starvation. Despised for their alien religious beliefs and unfamiliar accents by the American Protestant majority, the immigrants had trouble finding even menial jobs. When Irish Americans in the country’s cities took to the streets on St. Patrick’s Day to celebrate their heritage, newspapers portrayed them in cartoons as drunk, violent monkeys. The American Irish soon began to realize, however, that their large and growing numbers endowed them with a political power that had yet to be exploited. They started to organize, and their voting block, known as the “green machine,” became an important swing vote for political hopefuls. Suddenly, annual St. Patrick’s Day parades became a show of strength for Irish Americans, as well as a must-attend event for a slew of political candidates. In 1948, President Harry S. Truman attended New York City‘s St. Patrick’s Day parade, a proud moment for the many Irish Americans whose ancestors had to fight stereotypes and racial prejudice to find acceptance in the New World. One icon of the Irish holiday is the Leprechaun. The original Irish name for these figures of folklore is “lobaircin,” meaning “small-bodied fellow.” Belief in leprechauns probably stems from Celtic belief in fairies, tiny men and women who could use their magical powers to serve good or evil. In Celtic folktales, leprechauns were cranky souls, responsible for mending the shoes of the other fairies. Though only minor figures in Celtic folklore, leprechauns were known for their trickery, which they often used to protect their much-fabled treasure. Leprechauns have their own holiday on May 13, but are also celebrated on St. Patrick's, with many dressing up as the wily fairies.
@@ggundercover3681 history lesson time: most black people living in america were stolen and sold into slavery. they had their cultures erased and their names changed. most black people have absolutely no idea what country in africa they came from, or even if they came from africa. ancestry kits don’t offer this info either. we go our entire lives only being able to trace our ancestry back to the first slave in our family to arrive in america IF we get lucky. if we don’t we our left with no ties to our motherlands.
@@crouchingidiot oh wow i didn't know that's how those kits work. That's really sad. Thanks for enlightening me. After I wrote my comment i realized it may have something to do with slavery and the name changes, but i didn't know those little details. That really is sucky. Makes me think about my lack of knowledge for my own heritage.
Because America as a country doesn’t really have its own culture that isn’t just a conglomerate of other cultures lol the only thing native to this country are the traditions of the Indigenous people.
Yeah my heritage is Irish (even though I’m American) , and while I used to love this movie when I was A LOT younger, now I’m like.....I DONT KNOW HOW MY ANCESTORS WOULD FEEL ABOUT THIS 😂😂😂
As a real Irish person, I have worked as a bartender for a few Paddy's days and can confirm we drink the day away! 🍻 It usually consists of budget funny/slightly political parades also, that either move too slowly or are over as quickly as they start
There are actually soft Irish step shoes. It's like the difference between tap and soft shoe. They're actually really comfy, I used to wear mine around the house.
And the practice hard shoes I would wear with split soles... Capizios? Idk, but they were the only way my parents didn't get annoyed with me practicing in the basement because of the sound of the hard shoes.
Timothy Omundson (the actor who played Seamus) recently talked about this movie on The Psychologists Are In podcast! It was episode 12, in the later quarter when they were answering fan questions about a St Patrick's day themed episode of Psych (a tv show he was on). Timothy is very sweet, it seems this movie is embarrassing but he can joke about himself. Apparently in the musical episode of Psych, there was a small reference in the form of Timothy's character attempting Irish dance.
"Remember, I subtract points for wrong answers" The teacher says that as if every teacher doesnt do that????? Literally every teacher subtracts points for wrong answers why did he say that like its such a gotcha moment omg ???? I don't understandddd
That old guy was also in that movie "The Burbs" from the late 80s. It's with Tom Hanks, Carrie Fisher, Corey Feldman and many other stars, really good movie.
I remember being in like 7th grade and watching this with my best friend Kayla. There's a scene where leprechaun kids best friend says "Man! You gonna be pop-oo-lah" (popular) and we would say that damn line to each other for years...like we are in our 30's now and still say it when I'm visiting home and see her.
"Well my mom says I'm American so I'll just get on stage, say something racist and have a heart attack." When I tell you I was not ready.... I was not ready. 😱😂😂😂
I feel like basketball is probably just the sport that’s easiest to fake on screen...hockey, people would have to skate or hire professionals...idk, just a thought
If my parents had been so hesitant to tell me about my family tree, I'd immediately assume there were Nazi war criminals hanging out in the branches.
Or witness protection.
I don’t know my family history like... at all, idk where my grandparents are even from, but I’m a white woman in England I don’t wanna know.
Kyle's never heard of nazism
ahahaha🧍♀️not me being from a half German/English family, half unspecified but *very deep southern American* family
@@AngelLilith white guilt is strong in this one wow
"I sort of just assumed she emerged from the rib of my father to heat up our pizza rolls...." his comic talent is unmatched
Seriously! Waiting for Nick’s stand-up special haha
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Nick is the only person I subscribe to on Patreon and jokes like this are the reason.
Yaassss
Its true. Hes as quick as a whip.
This movie taught us all the leprechaunism is a dominant trait
And that Irish dancing is actually transferred through the air somehow
@@MeeYeeWeeWee Irish COVID
@Mo Yo Man, I know every time I go outside and someone irish dances near me *I can’t resist joining them*
@@kurti.cy. KURTISSSSSS????!?!? Didn't think I'd see you here
@Plutonium B DON’T SPEAK WITH ME **starts slowly tapping foot** I HAVE THE IRISH COVID
I never understood why the mom couldn't just say "oh, my family's from Ireland", like Irish people exist outside of Leprechauns
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Thank you wish most Americans would realise that.
She explains it but it's a dumb answer
Well in the story. She is a leprachaun. And also, them not being descended from leprachauns would make for no story of any kind.
@@shannond1511 I know she's a leprechaun, im just saying she could've said they were from Ireland and it wouldn't have raised any suspicion
"The universe is like 'I keep trying to pay reparations to that black kid, bur Ryan keeps snatching up the money!'" 🤣🤣🤣I'm ☠
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Technically they came here from modern day Siberian region.
The line that made me subscribe 😂😂😂😂
Anyone else think that the “mystery” of his heritage and his defensiveness/sudden obsession about it would have been a lot more compelling if he was adopted?
definitely
It would have, but it also would have made Bonnie's harassment over it really inappropriate
@@katevgrady tru but only if she was aware! Coulda been an interesting character building moment where she’s like I’m so sorry for pushing you I didn’t know. But he’s already ass deep in research and is like it’s ok here look what I found out. Also maybe a segue into talking briefly about lost heritage for black Americans?? Probably too poignant a discussion for Disney tho lmao
@@holyfreakinBLEACH agreed, definitely. Him being adopted along with just kind of a large plot overhaul in general really could have made this better without sacrificing anything
Or if his family was in witness protection!
this girl: america is a nation of immigrants kyle, EVERYONE's ancestors came from somewhere else
native americans: haha. cool lmao
WELL BONNIE IM A FOSTER KID so thnx for drawing attention to the fact that I don't know my parents love you
@@LilyoftheLake14 yeah, but going back before that all humans came from africa. like, is anyone really from anywhere? the movie still lumped native americans in with immigrants during the industrial revolution, which is a false equivalence. it's also in poor taste given how america was formed as a nation.
@@LilyoftheLake14 ew. don't do that. don't make excuses for colonialism and murder
ew, just ew
@Andrew Campbell what? How tf am I making excuses for colonialism? The natives were still here first for multiple millenniums, so them coming here via the land bridge doesn't change anything. Colonialism is one of the worst evils that's ever been committed throughout history. It's right up there with the holocaust, slavery, and war. Like wtf? Where did you get an excuse for colonialism from my comment?
Everything I wrote is literally true. It's just facts. I'm wondering if you thought I was trying to argue that the natives were immigrants. Technically, they are. But everyone who lives outside of Africa is, too, just like @betp Tuesday already pointed out lol.
The natives were in the Americas THOUSANDS of years ago. America, the country, has only existed for a few _hundred._ Even when Columbus came over to the Americas, the Native Americans _still_ had *thousands* of years on the Europeans. I'd call that pretty well claimed. Europeans have another 500 years to go to even get up to *ONE* THOUSAND years.
To get up to the amount of time that the natives were in the Americas before Columbus, people who live in north or south America with European ancestry would need to live here for the same amount of time from Columbus till 500 years from now, then multiply all that by *TWENTY.*
How is that excusing colonialism? 🤨
@@TheBiggestMoronYouKnow Dude what?
“Your heritage can’t be sports, Kyle” that line deserves an Oscar.
high school student athletes are FUMING over this loll
*punches the drywall*
He actually said history can’t be sports but heritage sounds even funnier 😂
Also, fun fact, in Ireland a “mickey” is slang for a d*ck, so when you said “they really carved a hidden mickey deep in our subconscious” that was better Irish slang than this entire movie has had so far 😂
He wears a gold coin around his neck then goes to an Irish festival and sees the same coin. At this point isn’t the movie over? Like, mystery solved.
Irish person here
1) 4 leaf clovers are not an irish thing, we have shamrocks with 3 leaves. It was used by saint patrick to teach the irish about Christianity ie the holy trinity
2) yes we drink on st patricks day. Not because we're 100% pationate of the holiday but because we get a day off so hell yeah to going on the lash
3) we dont call them bangers, thats english, theyre just sausages
4) i dont get the irish are hot headed thing. We had a hard history of oppression, famine, and fighting for independence so maybe thats why?
5) we did not invent shamrock shakes, thats mcdonalds
6) peat is used for a fire but where im from in the country its called turf
7) nick, i love you, i respect you, but never do an irish accent again hahaha
8) we're not lucky. Oppression and famine.
9) terrible irish accents everywhere
10) potatoes are amazing and versatile, so many ways to cook them
11) we never say top of the morning
12) we dont drink green beer
13) corned beef isnt that big of a thing here, but stew is.
14) leprechauns will steal your gold
15) irish step dancing is just called irish dancing
16) highlands is scotish
17) hurling, gaelic football and to an extent, handball are our national sports
18) we dont have wendys
Ive never seen this movie, im so glad i never did, even as a kid it would have pissed me off hahahahaha
The only person allowed to say “top of the mornin to ya”, by Irish Law is Jacksepticeye.
I think corned beef is more of an Irish-American immigrant thing? I could go look that up but I’m pretty sure I’ve heard it before
Is there any truth to the stereotype that you guys hate the British?
@@boopboopimarobot honestly if I were them I’d hate the British (obviously like not individual modern British people who had nothing to do with letting Irish ppl die but you feel me) so I’d go out on a limb and say there’s probably some truth to it
@@boopboopimarobot hate is a strong word. Its not so much all britain but specifically the english. Sure, there was a time where the irish hated the english ie oppression, famine, fighting for independence, the troubles.Theres a bloody history between our two nations where ireland would lose, or win only to be worse off.
Now days, theyre our closest neighbour, 6 counties are still owned by them so we share a land border, and economically, they buy up our exports.
If anything the irish are a bit annoyed with them at this stage. Why you ask? Brexit. They voted without a plan. The fear that if theres a border in northern ireland it could start a civil war again in the north. Things seem grand now. But theres only been peace for 24 years and durring brexit pockets of terror started to happen.
Im from the south, only ever been to the north a few times, so if anyone from the north wants to correct me if i got my facts wrong, feel free.
"youre American so you can use go up on stage, say something racist, and have a heart attack" I CHOKED
was brilliant
Hahaha
lmao
😂😂😂 yeah
“im 25, you know, 7th grade?” the casting director of grease agrees w this sentiment
riverdale casting directors: yup that makes sense
*Literally all casting directors:* yep high schoolers definitely look like 30 year olds
@@_veronica_r I expected to look 30 when I was in high school... was vary disappointed
@@razminfox1787 lmao same
They’re supposed to be in _seventh grade_ ? WAT LOL
I have to say that as an Irish person, the American fetishisation of Irish identity is kind of hilarious. We get a lot of American tourists in Dublin, usually boasting that their great grandfather's friend's neighbour's dentist's cousin is 1/8 Irish. We don't mind people visiting Ireland and having an interest in the culture, you just have to open to learning about it beyond your basic conceptions and have some respect. Also Irish culture varies a lot throughout, so what's the status quo in one place could be pretty different just an hour drive away!
My favourite one is the Americans coming here (Scotland) and being I'm related to king McWhatshisface, so you help them with their family tree and it turns out that no, they aren't related to any royalty, their family was actually owned by the royalty.....the look on their face is funny.
@@daniellemcnamara7910 we get some people who are 'related to an ancient celtic princess'...
A lot of us white Americans are really bothered by not having a sense of heritage beyond “white.” I think this is especially common for those who came during the industrial revolution. Our ancestors usually didn’t have money and a lot of them didn’t bother to keep records or pass down our history, and some of us don’t want to borrow the history of the people here who look like us but came earlier… 😒 It’s weird how desperate you can feel for a sense of cultural identity when all you know is that grandpa’s grandpa came from Germany on a boat in the 1890s. That’s… literally all I know about my heritage. All of it. Going to Europe and finding any trace of my ancestors would make me cry with joy.
@@BlondeEyes7 I respect that! The issue is not that people want to discover their heritage, but rather people arriving into a place with their own assumptions and not being open to learning new information. In Dublin we get some people who have Irish ancestors but also a fictional vision of Ireland's culture and history, and are upset when people try to correct. I hope you get to visit Germany and feel closer to your ancestors.
I once had some american try and tell me he is more irish than me, someone actually from northern ireland and when hes in america says he's irish and on holiday says he's american. Nuts!
My grandfather talked less about shoes and more about how malicious the English were, Margaret Thatcher being a real C was often brought up.
My great grandparents on my grandmother’s side were Scottish and on my grandfather’s side English. They hated each other 😬. Glad my grandparents ignored them.
to be fair all persons and cultures can bond over margaret thatcher being a c
Hahaha same😅😅
I’m English but one of my close friends dads almost went to prison and did go to court for refusing (along with others) to pay tax 😁. Any reasonable English person hated Thatcher
"honk if Thatcher's deid..."
I feel like I would have thought my grandpa was a nazi or something and that's why my parents wouldn't tell me
Girl WHAT 😭
LOL
"did grandpa do war crimes? i promise i won't tell the ppl at school, but did he do war crimes?"
“Grandpa was in World War II... Just not on the side you’d think.....” 😂😂
especially because they said ohio (i live in ohio btw, someone help. nazis.... everywhere.)
Kyle's mom definitely brings up the "Irish slaves" argument every time someone talks about racism
do you mean when people talk about the indentured servant stuff???
@@themidascurse4048 more like when people talk about white ppl being racist and shes like "IRISH PEOPLE WERE SLAVES TOO YOU GUYS!!"
I'm sorry, she isn't allowed to teach her son about her cultural history when he explicitly asks about it?
@@rosemali3022 You either really missed the point of the original comment or you are that person that says "White people have been slaves too".
@@beastofbussycreek and they were enslaved by other white people. people love to leave out that part, too.
“We keep trying to pay reparations to the black kid but Kyle keeps picking up the money “😭
“Your family history can’t be sports, Kyle” is so funny I will definitely be finding a use for this statement at some point in my life
"We're american"
My native ass: oh shit then where am I from
"Everyone's ancestors came from somewhere else"
My native ass: okay
Lol I was thinking the same thing. My ancestors beg to differ 😂
honestly white U.S. citizens should be called bootleg americans lmao
Moood. I was thinking the same thing
if you go back far enough in history, technically everyone's ancestors came from Africa. xD
@@nicolenelson3853 knockoff Americana
The fact that Lassie from Psych was the evil leprechaun in this movie *shook* me when I was older.
Haha. Its always funny when you realize that actors act and they had a past. We all need a paycheck.
@@Kaiyasymone it's even funnier because of his character in psych... everyone knows actors need a paycheck 🤣
I was going to comment the same thing! My family and I rewatched it during quarantine and we were flabbergasted
@@Kaiyasymone my favorite reference from psych was Dulé Hill in 65 Million Years Off, when Shawn and Gus are talking about Holes. How Psych worked in actors having a past will forever be iconic
I literally only refer to him as Lassie at this point when I see him on other things (same with pretty much every other series regular too) 😂
The mom's little Irish discrimination backstory is identical to the speech the president of my "Irish" Catholic high school gave during a black history month assembly thinking he was showing solidarity😭😭😭People really are that clueless
Intentions were probably there... hopefully.
I-
@@jalapeno1119 What intentions? Strengthening racism?
I feel like americans rarely say "xenophobia". I've never heard that word from an american.
Being oppressive towards ppl who are caucasian on the basis of their nation or look caucasian (spaniards, slavs etc.) is called xenophobia but I always hear either "racism" or just "discrimination".
I think also offended Native American with that whole ass “this is my land this land is your land this our land” cause that sure isn’t what happened
The funny thing is, is that the whole, original song was making fun of that kind of thinking and was a response to "God Bless America".
In the 1940 version, there was line acknowledging that people already lived here, but it's fine because "God Blessed America for me"
@@TheNumnutRandomness
Just looked up the original lyrics. Wow.
"As I went walking that ribbon of highway
And saw above me that endless skyway,
And saw below me the golden valley,
This land was made for you and me.
Was a high wall there that tried to stop me
A sign was painted said: Private Property,
But on the back side it didn't say nothing -
This land was made for you and me.
One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple
By the Relief Office I saw my people -
As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if
This land was made for you and me."
this movie really thought irish culture is just st patrick’s day lol
Aye, it’s St Paddy’s Day all year round in the Republic, and half the year up North, which ends on the 12th of July.
They really went "let's make a movie about St. Patrick's Day" and then didn't do a single bit of research about the origin of the holiday, just the extremely commodified American version of it lol
@@goobertron9099 Honestly I'd stan Green the holiday if it was just people celebrating the color green
@@thelovelybunny9012 lol didn't St. Patrick's Day originate in America?
@@jalapeno1119 St. Patrick's Day is an Irish religious holiday. If you wanna learn more about it, a quick web search is enough to give that information.
I'm not sure about the Rachael Ray comment, she once made a Mexican dish in the whitest way possible to where the Mexican mom watching the video nearly had a panic attack when she added sour cream into the mix. She probably would've made that dish the mom makes here
I watched that vid recently and that mom's reactions were hilarious ✋😭
@@ks_yes1491 I agree, especially when she added the "CREMA!"
@@P3891 Ikr, I don't know that woman but she is now my favorite person 😂😂
I showed my mom that video. Hilarious.
I had to go watch it after this comment , I 💀.
I lived in Mexico for 5 yrs (my hubbs is Mexican) & I learned how to cook from his mom. I make pozole more authentic the RR. Im w the gma! who puts crema & fritos on pozole?! 😲 Its my fav dish and she did it so dirty.
"Everyone's family came from somewhere else"
Unless you're Native American...
lol yeah, that's what i thought too. i was like, did you totally forget there was a whole peoples there prior and also still.
Technically they did come from somewhere else. Humans aren’t native to the New World.
@@nathanielrodriguez1873 I mean *technically* humanity is from Africa but native Americans were here for a very long time and still deserve to be recognized as the people who had this land before Europeans tried to kill them all for it. And stole most of it.
@@Hannah-zw9ow true
@@Hannah-zw9ow as a Native American I approve this message 🤝
I’m crying at the fact that the leprechauns are racist against humans. Like they’re mythical creatures that believe in anti-miscegenation. And Disney was just like “Yeah, sure, sounds good!”
Isn't that speciesm?
@@as19J01 yeah
@@as19J01 I couldn’t think of the word for it! Thank you lol
Please do "Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior".
You have no idea how much I need you to do that movie😭
Yesss I loved that movie
i really need this one!
Need
I literally spat out my water when you said the reparations joke. The black kid is from one of my favorite moves "Love and basketball" and he always has this "aww man" face and way about him so the comment just made me laugh that he lost again.
Young Quincy. I thought he looked familiar
Omg I didn't realize that was Q!!! Such a classic👏
I LAUGHED. So good.
OMG he was in love and basketball wow
“If I ever touched a basketball it was by accident” I was laughing OUT LOUD lmao
I screamed lol
I'm Irish, I've never seen this film but we do do the whole leprechaun and pot of gold thing for tourist stuff, like those big green Paddy tour buses and we do have Paddy's day parades but that originates from Irish immigrant in New York in 1762, Ireland's first St. Patrick's Day parade was held in 1903. Before then you'd just go to Mass and pubs would be shut seeing as it is a religious holiday. It's see less as a religious holiday now and more as a celebration of Irish culture.
Now I wonder what Nigerians do for St. Patrick's Day... If you know, let me know, please. xx
Edit: I eat a fair amount of potato like 5 or 6 times a week. Tayto invented flavoured potato crisps.
This movie feels weirdly preachy like who actually brings up the 800 years of oppression if it is not relevance to the conversation. It's like when you see those people on American tv that are like 'the Irish were oppressed too' to dominations Black Americans experiencing oppression today.
Ireland doesn't have the highlands, Scotland does.
The highlands one threw me Im like OK Im asain american And even I knew that one.
In the United States it's not a celebration of Irish culture at all, it's just people getting ass-drunk. At this point I feel like St. Patrick's Day, at least in the States, is like if people celebrated Black History Month by eating watermelon and fried chicken. Just an excuse for people to be assholes for no reason.
To be fair, Irish immigrants back then (up until maybe the 70s) were discriminated against/looked down upon by protestant Americans for their Catholicism. But yes it doesn't compare to the treatment of other races/ethnicities in American history. Irish Americans are obviously not discriminated against nowadays. (I'm not Irish btw)
@@kierawhite9375 yeah but Catholics and Protestants have never seen eye to eye. I'm from Northern Ireland. I didn't even go to school with Protestants. They have their schools, we have ours. We might be integrated in a couple decades though if Brexit doesn't go to badly. 😬
@@aislingsvisions I've always been interested by Northern Ireland like most people...but I never knew there was unofficial segregated schools (if I'm understanding you correctly). From what you can tell, are people wanting that integration or do people not mind keeping institutions like schools segregated? Sorry if that's a loaded question lol!
The accent making “shorter” sound like ”sharter” has me cry laughing
This movie treats nationality really weirdly. It feels like Disney wanted to mention what happened in Ireland and they also wanted to mention how Irish Americans/Irish immigrants were treated in the early 1900s, but then they also also wanted this to just be a silly kids movie about how Irish people are secretly leprechauns pretending to be human.
Like if you want to say something just say it. If you want to be a silly kids comedy that doesn’t really make sense do that.
But trying to have a serious conversation about historical discrimination against Irish immigrants while also being a movie about an Irish american kid slowly turning into a leprechaun doesn’t work.
The tone cannot possibly be maintained with writing like this 😂
Also, luck of the irish is concept with a racist origin. It was considered that any irish that wasn't a dysfunctional falling down drunk had leprechauns helping him stay employed.
Wow. Thanks for the info!
That's not racist, that's xneophobic. The Irish weren't hated for the color of their skin, they were hated for their ancestors and ethnicity.
So they thought Irish were stealing their jobs? 🤦♀️🤦♀️
Oh really that's interesting. I heard it was cause during the gold rush a lot of Irish people were some of the first to find huge scores. Guess there's lots of different influences
@@jalapeno1119 At the time, the Irish were not considered white, so it arguably was a form of racism. It’s hard to draw a definite line between racism and xenophobia because race is a construct and its boundaries change over time.
Omg Irish girl reporting for duty I can't WAIT to watch this
Edit: lol yes we think it's weird the way Americans fetishize us 😂
OMG I LOVE YOU
Irish squad assemble
Did _not_ expect to see you here.
omg stop hahahahahahh
@@Daggeira Oh that is one HELL of an Irish name-- BEAUTIFUL!!!
As someone who studies Celtic history and mythology, and is a former Irish dancer, I'm so glad I never saw this movie. Just... NO.
It would have been funny if they did a mythically accurate movie of the protagonist being half-fairy and then he starts kidnapping children and blighting crops.
"If 10 free throws are made in the woods and nobody gives a shit, Does anyone give a shit??" Had me dying
"Now what's this about an old man? Gray in the hair, was he?"
Are they implying that Kyle's grandpa is the _only_ old Irish man in America?
I mean Irish people sort of celebrate St. Patrick's day without the green everything. Basically, we just drink lol. And none of the top of the morning bs lmao
It’s oddly like New Years for us- if that makes sense. Not a big deal, but some people really care about it for no reason shhshsh
@@kurti.cy. What is at Patrick’s day even supposed to celebrate cause I remember in school it was just an opportunity to pinch ppl who weren’t wearing green.
@@tylergab3144 just another catholic holiday but we get the day off
“america is a nation of immigrants, everyone’s family came from another country” did they..... forget about native americans?
Had this thought myself. But I think he was also referencing the anglo-saxon, white privilege family/ppl that he referenced earlier.
They just straight up erased them
To be fair, we're forgotten about a lot... It's apart of the native american guide book. In fact page one is "Remember: People will forget your culture still exists and assume it died long before you were born." So, ya know, we're used to it. Lol
Also you can’t forget that the first native Americans originated from Asia via the Bering ice bridge from over 10,000 years ago.
@@elperrodelautumo7511 That was debunked by science awhile ago.
Ryan Merriman was the Early 2000s Disney version of Netflix's Noah Centineo.
Okay, he was only in 3 Disney Channel Original Movies, but it sounded funny to me.
We only had abc family, Disney channel or Nickelodeon for low budget tween movies so 3 was a lot!! Netflix is releasing like 20 tween movies a year, Ryan would have been in way more if we had as much media being produced back then!
When you said “It can’t be like that ALL the time in Ireland”...that is EXACTLY how I feel when they show Louisiana and it’s ALWAYS Mardi Gras...it’s just a Holiday. We don’t do parades just everyday, every city isn’t New Orleans and we don’t ALL know Britney Spears or Lil’ Wayne..🤷♀️
I wasn’t ready for the Nicki Minaj over him dancing 💀
Same
The words diversity and Utah should never be in the same sentence
I lived in Utah for a few years. I can attest to this.
@@zunisilverwolf livin there was the six WHITEST months of my life
@@sophieanderson5555 Omg, right!! I think I saw MAYBE 20 poc, outside the Ute Indian Reservation, where I was working.
I had Mormons come to my door daily, for two weeks, trying to convert me. It was awful!
@@zunisilverwolf oh god don't get me started on the mormons. I had to shew so many off my porch I thought about puttin up a sign
unless the sentence is “Utah has no diversity”
I watched this along with the man mermaid movie and it was nice to to see male lead roles in Disney roles reserved for mainly girls (dancing and mermaids).
Also this movie solidified my toxic love for villains...
13th Year!!! Loved that movie
Yes! We love to see diversity within different types of character, hopefully we will keep moving towards kids being able to follow their passions without judgement
13th Year was interesting from a boy point of view. Also there’s the wild theory that it’s Ariel’s son or brother
Oh this movie brings me back... To a time when my younger siblings were obsessed with watching a VHS tape of Riverdance and stomping instead of walking for YEARS...
ahhaha yesss riverdance is amazing
Now I want Nick to watch Little Italy (Emma Roberts, Hayden Christensen), a film from a couple years ago that feels like it's 20 years old, takes place in Little Italy . . . in Toronto even though they have New York Italian accents, and has some horrible Italian representation to boot.
Oh do I have news for you. Check out Drew Gooden’s channel, he and his wife reviewed that movie last year I think
@@shannonceleste5557 Oh yeah, and even he manages to conflate Italian accent with New York accent...Gahhh
Do u...listen to how did this get made? Have i found a fellow listener?? Because yes Nick should watch that 😂
I couldn’t imagine what it’s like to not know where you came from and not have a heritage *coughs in black*
i swear this movie feels like a fever dream, i remember watching it at like 3am
I used to watch this all the time when I was a kid lmao, also, I watched Final Destination 3 when it came out (I was 9 lmao) and the whole movie I kept thinking "woah Kyle really ran out of luck" lol
hahaha YES!
Underrated comment
That and when he was in Halloween Resurrection around the same time this came out, if not the same year.
I would watch it every year along with all the other Disney original movies I grew up with they didn't need to be good to be fun to watch
the best final destination movie hands down
"you mean I'm a leprechaun too?"... I'll never forget this line drilled into my brain by Disney commercials
You mean I’M a leprechaun ToO?!
"And wuut else wuud ya be?!" --the mom
To answer your question about potatoes being a big thing in Ireland, we have a theme park called Tayto Park that is literally made to promote a brand of crisps whose mascot is a walking potato in a suit. They have a section were you can walk through the factory and you get a packet of crisps as you leave the park. Need I say more?
I got a pack of Wuster flavor Tayto’s for Christmas!
For some reason my brain replaced the old man in this with Leslie Jordan and now realizing it wasn’t him is kinda disappointing.
"i am getting sharter" is the funniest line in anything ever
As an irish person... what. It seems America loves st Patrick's day more than us!!
Leprechauns arent a huge thing in ireland, and while st Patrick day and all related to him is important it's not a huge thing. I'm also pretty sure we dont have a Wendy's, but we do have Supermacs!
And yes, the dancing was slight atrocious.
Honestly could go for a garlic cheese chips righ now, seen as you mentioned supermacs hahahaha
I'm sorry Ireland. Hollywood and media emphasizes everything wrong here. Admittedly people here can be ridiculous but not everyone. Much love from America.
You're right. Every American, regardless of ancestry or household culture is Irish on St. Pat's, and never any other day.
Yeah, Americans go hard for St. Patrick's Day here even if they aren't remotely Irish in the weirdest way. God forbid the local parade events get cancelled, and people lose it.
St Patrick’s day is basically a drinking holiday in the US haha
Sorry Nick we actually don't have Wendy's here. Also, I've never heard of people referring to Irish dancing as Irish step dancing lolll. This film is a fucking mess. Much love from Ireland 🇮🇪
I literally came here to say exactly this
😂😂😂
Lol I mean it is Irish step dancing but that’s so long no one uses it
Lol. I go between "Irish dancing" and "step dancing"
@@katieb.1184isn't it also known as river dancing?
"Don't you EVER bring me a basketball, I will stab it with a knife." - Nick DiRamio, 2021
As an Irish person can I just say... were there no Irish actors available to do the accent correctly ? 😂they could have hired at least one
No self-respecting Irish person would willingly step foot in Utah
They guy who starred in this went to my HS & used to live in our hometown for a while. He was always kind of rude & didn’t tip well. 🤷🏻♀️
I went to Choctaw too. I graduated in 2005. Lmao
I always had a celeb crush on ryan merriman!! This is unfortunate to learn lmao
Chode.
I knew he played the jerk role on pretty little liars a lil too well. Unfortunate:/
@@cheyblunt5391 wait the face is familiar was he Ian????
I live in Ireland but I am not Irish and I promise you, it’s NOTHING LIKE THIS over here. 🤣🤣🤣
It’s literally just a regular place, people really think it’s covered in fields I swear- jdbdndbdn
@@kurti.cy. I know 🤣🤣🤣
@@kurti.cy. "Covered in fields" hahah
“Baby that was never Chinese” got me good omg 😭 Completely forgot about this mess of a movie haha, thanks for another nostalgia ride 🖤
Hey Nick, I just wanted to let you know that my deaf ferret, Porridge, likes putting his whiskers to the speakers so he can feel you speak.
That is adorable
Awwww! How cute! How is he doing?
Disney Channel commercials were like: "Does he look shorter to you? *Voice over*: "By about three feet."
STOP WHY DO I REMEMBER THIS
@@jalapeno1119heck yeah!
“If he would just touch my shoulder I could make something out of myself” lol
So they have this medallion that keeps them from turning into leprechauns and instead of getting a safe.... or a safety deposit box.... they give it to their teenage son lol. Ok cool cool. Good move.
Worse. He says he's had it since he was a baby.
I didnt even need to start the video and already the line, "You mean I'm a leprechaun, too???" was looping over and over in my mind
hahaha sameee
Just when we all thought anti-Irish racism was pretty much in the past, Disney was like “hold my Irish Cream.”
Learn a bit about chattel slavery
And
Disproportionality in the current criminal justice system…
Then come holla at me bout ur white racism
The cottage core pagans are coming for you for that bandanna comment
It’s me I’m the cottage core pagans
Imagine being pagan but hating your white heritage. You're bizarre.
You're all of them? Not arguing, just clarifying :)
Not me saying "No baby. This is from Tiffany's" about everything all week
"he immediately stubs his toe on-"
Commerical: "PAMPERS"
Swiffer duster
Libman Spin mop 😂
For so long I couldn’t unsee Lassiter from Psych as his character in this movie.
i always just saw him as mister bean... different guys but FUCK does lassiter look like his son
Timothy Omundson will forever be Lassie
@@tamurmur for me he’s Lassiter and Cain (SPN).
I'm so easily emotionally manipulated by media. That song at the end made me cry as a kid, and it made me cry today.
Real talk, my siblings and me always thought that the actor who plays Kyle's dad was Billie Mays from the old Oxiclean commercials 😂
Have a look at Jaaboody Dubs Billy Mays, with his Fantastic Products. You won't regret it.
"Your family history can't be sports Kyle."
I feel like we all know a Kyle who wanted this lol
🤣
Literally Every White Boy In My Grade
A small history of St. Patrick's Day: Copied from the History Channel.
Saint Patrick, who lived during the fifth century, is the patron saint of Ireland and its national apostle. He was born in Roman Britain in the late 4th century. He was kidnapped at the age of 16 and, taken to Ireland as a slave. He escaped but returned about 432 to convert the Irish to Christianity. By the time of his death on March 17, 461; he had established monasteries, churches, and schools.
In the centuries following Patrick’s death, the mythology surrounding his life became ever more ingrained in the Irish culture - Perhaps the most well-known legend of St. Patrick is that he explained the Holy Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) using the three leaves of a native Irish clover, the Shamrock.
Since around the ninth or 10th century, people in Ireland have been observing the Roman Catholic feast day of St. Patrick on March 17. The first St. Patrick’s Day parade took place not in Ireland but in America. Records show that a St. Patrick’s Day parade was held on March 17, 1601 in a Spanish colony in what is now St. Augustine, Florida. The parade, and a St. Patrick’s Day celebration a year earlier were organized by the Spanish Colony's Irish vicar Ricardo Artur.
More than a century later, homesick Irish soldiers serving in the English military marched in New York City on March 17, 1772 to honor the Irish patron saint. Enthusiasm for the St. Patrick's Day parades in New York City, Boston and other early American cities only grew from there.
Over the next 35 years, Irish patriotism among American immigrants flourished, prompting the rise of so-called “Irish Aid” societies like the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick and the Hibernian Society. Each group would hold annual parades featuring bagpipes (which actually first became popular in the Scottish and British armies) and drums.
In 1848, several New York Irish Aid societies decided to unite their parades to form one official New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Today, that parade is the world ‘s oldest civilian parade and the largest in the United States, with over 150,000 participants. Each year, nearly 3 million people line the 1.5-mile parade route to watch the procession, which takes more than five hours. Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia and Savannah, also celebrate the day with parades involving between 10,000 and 20,000 participants each. In 2020, the New York City parade was one of the first major city events to be cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Up until the mid-19th century, most Irish immigrants in America were members of the Protestant middle class. When the Great Potato Famine hit Ireland in 1845, close to 1 million poor and uneducated Irish Catholics began pouring into America to escape starvation.
Despised for their alien religious beliefs and unfamiliar accents by the American Protestant majority, the immigrants had trouble finding even menial jobs. When Irish Americans in the country’s cities took to the streets on St. Patrick’s Day to celebrate their heritage, newspapers portrayed them in cartoons as drunk, violent monkeys.
The American Irish soon began to realize, however, that their large and growing numbers endowed them with a political power that had yet to be exploited. They started to organize, and their voting block, known as the “green machine,” became an important swing vote for political hopefuls. Suddenly, annual St. Patrick’s Day parades became a show of strength for Irish Americans, as well as a must-attend event for a slew of political candidates.
In 1948, President Harry S. Truman attended New York City‘s St. Patrick’s Day parade, a proud moment for the many Irish Americans whose ancestors had to fight stereotypes and racial prejudice to find acceptance in the New World.
One icon of the Irish holiday is the Leprechaun. The original Irish name for these figures of folklore is “lobaircin,” meaning “small-bodied fellow.” Belief in leprechauns probably stems from Celtic belief in fairies, tiny men and women who could use their magical powers to serve good or evil. In Celtic folktales, leprechauns were cranky souls, responsible for mending the shoes of the other fairies.
Though only minor figures in Celtic folklore, leprechauns were known for their trickery, which they often used to protect their much-fabled treasure. Leprechauns have their own holiday on May 13, but are also celebrated on St. Patrick's, with many dressing up as the wily fairies.
An amazing read!! Thank you!!
Very much needed background info for this video, thank you!
“what if i’m the only one without a heritage”
me, a black person: ....
My thoughts exactly 😂
? might be me being slow at 4 am but I don't get what you mean.
@@ggundercover3681 history lesson time: most black people living in america were stolen and sold into slavery. they had their cultures erased and their names changed. most black people have absolutely no idea what country in africa they came from, or even if they came from africa. ancestry kits don’t offer this info either. we go our entire lives only being able to trace our ancestry back to the first slave in our family to arrive in america IF we get lucky. if we don’t we our left with no ties to our motherlands.
@@crouchingidiot oh wow i didn't know that's how those kits work. That's really sad. Thanks for enlightening me. After I wrote my comment i realized it may have something to do with slavery and the name changes, but i didn't know those little details. That really is sucky. Makes me think about my lack of knowledge for my own heritage.
@@ggundercover3681 it’s sad but black people have been able to create their own culture in america that we cherish. it was my pleasure to explain
why do americans commercialise everything including an entire country and culture
Capitalism.
Because America as a country doesn’t really have its own culture that isn’t just a conglomerate of other cultures lol the only thing native to this country are the traditions of the Indigenous people.
@@CyberStockholmSyndrome
Even the native cultures were stolen and repressed.
Because America is one big corporate business and we have less culture than a cup of moldy yogurt
I am about halfway through this video and, as an Irish person, I can understand why this was never aired on Disney Channel here 😬
this movie and "the thirteenth year" (basically the same plot iirc, except mermaids) were so cemented into my brain as a kid and i don't know why
Yeah my heritage is Irish (even though I’m American) , and while I used to love this movie when I was A LOT younger, now I’m like.....I DONT KNOW HOW MY ANCESTORS WOULD FEEL ABOUT THIS 😂😂😂
As someone who competitively Irish danced for 7 years, and have been going to competitions for 20 years, the Irish dancing in this movie is CRINGE
celebrating st patricks day here in ireland like Americans do would be kinda cringe hahaha
from what I hear, Irish-American families/descendants of Irish immigrants (and most of what we do) tend to be seen as pretty cringe in Ireland
Same here in Mexico for May 5th xD Some people in the States think it is our independence day, and they come down to celebrate it (???) way too hard.
@@carlaplacencia7494 Im-
As A American, I'm So Sorry Most Americans Are Emtilted And Make Patriotisim Their Only Personality
Let's start a petition to get rid of that knife he swings around, Ya know, for his own safety 😭
Ryan Merriman did a movie where he is a merman and all I can ever think of him now is Ryan Merman. This is your PSA for the day.
The thirteenth year? That was a different actor.
As a real Irish person, I have worked as a bartender for a few Paddy's days and can confirm we drink the day away! 🍻 It usually consists of budget funny/slightly political parades also, that either move too slowly or are over as quickly as they start
There are actually soft Irish step shoes. It's like the difference between tap and soft shoe. They're actually really comfy, I used to wear mine around the house.
And the practice hard shoes I would wear with split soles... Capizios?
Idk, but they were the only way my parents didn't get annoyed with me practicing in the basement because of the sound of the hard shoes.
Here for Timothy Omundson and his terrible Irish accent.
My friend went to school (and prom) with Tim.
That’s so cool!! I loooooved his guest spot in Supernatural as Cain
He’s such a scene stealer, he was my favorite part of Galavant. Glad he seems to be recovering well from his stroke a few years ago.
He's amazing in Psych.
Love him in Psych! Never knew he went to high school down the street from me until a few months ago. So cool your friend knew him!
@@AshlynnBee same! galavant was such a great show! I wish it hadn’t been canceled.
Timothy Omundson (the actor who played Seamus) recently talked about this movie on The Psychologists Are In podcast! It was episode 12, in the later quarter when they were answering fan questions about a St Patrick's day themed episode of Psych (a tv show he was on). Timothy is very sweet, it seems this movie is embarrassing but he can joke about himself. Apparently in the musical episode of Psych, there was a small reference in the form of Timothy's character attempting Irish dance.
Him and John Michael Higgins need a leprechaun movie together.
"Remember, I subtract points for wrong answers"
The teacher says that as if every teacher doesnt do that????? Literally every teacher subtracts points for wrong answers why did he say that like its such a gotcha moment omg ???? I don't understandddd
I’ve never ever had a teacher subtract points for wrong answers, is that an American thing? 😱
I never had a teacher do that... We just didn't get points for wrong answers.
I caught that too! Any wrong answer lowers your test score. 🤔
Not Nick once again reviving a Disney movie I had fully repressed
Ryan Merriman went to my high school. He graduated a few years before me. He's the biggest star to come out of Choctaw High School in Oklahoma. 🤣🤣
chockTAAAAW 🕊️
"a culturally confusing clip breakdown" im dying
also can you PLEASE do big fat liar soon its a classic
I’m so glad to see you reviewing another addition to the Ryan Merriman Cinematic Universe (or the RMCU if you will).
“take the life without discrimination and go” LMFAO PLS☠️
Omg can you do Pixel Perfect next? That movie was soooo messy but iconic
yes, this one.
I watched it a few weeks ago and it had me crying at the end and I don’t even know why
How can one man belt out so many jokes in quick succession and never repeat them between videos? Boy, you deserve more subscribers
Thank you sooo much!
That old guy was also in that movie "The Burbs" from the late 80s. It's with Tom Hanks, Carrie Fisher, Corey Feldman and many other stars, really good movie.
I remember being in like 7th grade and watching this with my best friend Kayla. There's a scene where leprechaun kids best friend says "Man! You gonna be pop-oo-lah" (popular) and we would say that damn line to each other for years...like we are in our 30's now and still say it when I'm visiting home and see her.
"Well my mom says I'm American so I'll just get on stage, say something racist and have a heart attack." When I tell you I was not ready.... I was not ready. 😱😂😂😂
I feel like basketball is probably just the sport that’s easiest to fake on screen...hockey, people would have to skate or hire professionals...idk, just a thought
cheap too
I agree. Most people can at least dribble and then with editing you can pretend they make shots.