He does have more of an A level student vibe in this one (don't know what that'd be in Ireland?). Still, he's always been a good kid - I love their relationship.
So true, but one thing that was wrong from my experience is that Anne should have been trying to push down on the touch screen with the force of 30 elephants, even after being told to do it gently.
I think it’s because old touchscreens were SUPER insensitive. I’m only 27 but I’ve experienced a few touchscreens on machines that require actual force. It’s just muscle memory for some people, I assume. Also, for older folk smartphones DO have trouble responding to their fingers. Something about less blood circulation making it more difficult to register.
This is so spot on. I bought my mum a smartphone on her last birthday and ever since, every time I visit her I have tons of requests and explanations in regard to how to use it. At first I behaved kind of annoyed, but then my mum reminded me that she was patient enough back in the days to teach me how to wipe my own ass and eat with a fork...
She's so good at it that sometimes I genuinely believe she's an Irish man in his 30s. Then we get one of these sketches and I remember "No, she's definitely always been an Irish mom."
I had a job, in the late 90s, training middle-aged solicitors to use their new work computer system. Every. Single. Moment. of my days were like this, with added threat of getting the sack for rolling my eyes too much.
lucky you that you are young enough to have evolved with tech. Studies have shown that eyes and brains are evolving for tech. The old horrors that raised you are not as equipped for tech. DONT WORRY WE WILL ALL DIE OFF SOON ENOUGH. AND WILL NOT TRAUMATIZE YOU WITH OUR OLD FASHIONED WAYS.
Disabling automatic removal of permissions is also important. Otherwise everything stops working since the scared user declines all requests for "accessing your data" "accessing your camera" etc.
I feel you Oisin. As a son I’ve been through this many times, as well: smartphones, tablets, laptops, PCs, emails, internet and everything in between. The only remedy to that is patience.
I remember years ago, when I tried to introduce my parents to "modern" emails. Dad got it on the first try. Mum made my computer crash by pressing one. Single. Button. ever since, I let my sibling handle teaching them current tech.
I laughed so hard because that was exactly what I was like when I bought my new phone yesterday. I had 2 sales reps and the manager trying to get me a simple phone. I am a senior so they had pity on me.
😆🤣 I lost it at "75 years!" Truly, these are the most relatable skits on the planet, no matter where you're from. That opener reminded me so much of my folks, and we're from the side of the world, Jamaica! 🇯🇲 Long live F.A.H. (And Anne Flanagan 😊💯)!
@@foilarmsandhog Yes, a-true!! 😄😊 My Mum's a born-and-bred Kingstonian, "Born under the clock" as they say...and my Dad is, too! But anyway, thanks for the reply -- It's so cool. 😃💯 Bless up.
I relate to this harder than I've ever related to anything in my life. How on earth did these guys in Ireland know exactly what it's like to be me and my mom?? 😂😭
I was thinking the other day, hoping that you will continue the weekly sketches for the rest of your careers, and then laughed at the idea Foil playing teenage Oisin when in his 60s 🤣
I just want you to know that you’ve resurfaced SO MANY repressed memories of me trying to help my parents and my grandparents on BOTH sides with technology. You learn how to connect a few cables because you play video games and suddenly you’re the family IT person…
Exactly. They think that you play a few video games that your parents can now obligate you to go over to everyone's house to virus scan, fix/setup their modem or internet or new computer, whatever, because you are somehow magically bestowed this master programmer/hacker/tech guru ability. It's not fair.
For real! I don’t have a problem setting stuff up because I had consoles growing up. I still don’t get the difficulty, plug that shape into this shape! Only issue I’ve ever had was accidentally mixing up the out/in ports
This sketch is way too relatable but also hilarious at the same time 😂😂 Heading in for my final college exam today so it was great to have a bit of a laugh this morning. Thanks lads! 😁😁
Brilliant sketch as always, Anne and Oisin never fail, and Oisins little half smile when Anne promises (threatens) to leave him the phone in her will is priceless!! 😂😂 Lovely to see Barry working his way into the sketch too x
Hog as Anne is just a true masterpiece, loved every single second of this sketch, and the ending was just fabulous with everyone staying in character to promote the tour. Thank you so much for all your incredible hard work and amazing humour as always :).
I'm getting flashbacks to helping my Gran with her phone- on her landline, trying to help and describe the steps to setting up a phone I couldn't even see 🙈 so this video was all 100% accurate for me!
@@SamFAHntha unfortunately not- she did an Anne Flanagan and left her phone at home when I supposed to meet up with her and was phoning her non stop trying to find our where she was 🙈
Ah, i also helped set up my grandma’s phone. I luckily don’t live far away (15 min). I also installed teamviewer and made a paper on how to connect it. If something is wrong with her phone a simple call via her landline to me and connecting remotely is super easy to fix issues without having to actually go there. Especially with covid when visits weren’t really possible. Stuff like turning up the volume of notifications… 3 minutes of work instead of half an hour of travel time to and back and the obligatory tea-and-chat time. Its always nice there of course, but i got stuff to do too you know.
When I was early in IT before I said that yes I can do it but then you have to pay me, mhm they almost never asked again. Wonder why? Or try working in IT support and you can't use remote connection tool or even helping your ma and da with that kind of stuff over the phone without seeing what and where its clicked
@@dyrepoliti well, my grandparents have done a lot for me when i was younger. I could stay there when my other grandpa fell ill and died. He lived an hour away and my parents needed to be there. If my parents needed to be somewhere, they would always be there to make sure that i wasnt alone. Even now if i have any kind of problem all i have to do is go there and they'll help me to their fullest extend. Even at their age. I'll happily do whatever i can for them too. Helping with technical problems, getting some stuff from the supermarket if im in the area. Just going there for some tea once in a while, just before covid was a thing, my grandma had meningitis, a very severe case. She still cant stand noisy situations. Even driving along in the car is very strenuous for her. If i can help with some little things so she doesnt have to do those things herself, i do. Im not a saint or anything close to that, and yes, i have grumbled a little bit when she didnt always get what i was trying to say, yet i just took it and didnt show it. I do think that i can say if that more people do what i do, the world would be a little bit better.
Brilliant! Foil plays our favourite stroppy teenager so well, I love how he stays in character even out of costume. That glance when he's wondering about his mum's maiden name, and the delivery of the line about getting the photos printed 👌 I have my Edinburgh tickets so will hopefully see you there, and Vicar Street again soon. Loved, loved this sketch 👏👏
The Anne and Oisin skits are the reason I subscribed! The teaching parents computers was hilarious. I am in my 50's and relate both to Anne and Oisin. I have such a time with my 70 something mom explaining computers, but I know I'm more like Anne when I need help from my son. Ack! This new phone one is just as good. Please continue with Anne and Oisin. They are so great. If we can accept Hog as a 50something mom, we can accept a much older Foil as a teen, no matter how old Foil gets. Please don't stop. Hog and Foil - you nail these characters. Fantastic job.
Am I the only one who thinks that the “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” matches perfectly with the video? I feel like laughing even before watching the video..! 😆😆
I've had experience with a relative not switching off the default noises. When looking round universities she wanted to take pictures of the power points, made a clicking noise for every picture. And then she fully switched it off every single time, so every 30 seconds she was switching it back on to take another photo; her phone did the built in boot up jingle every single time.
Why do I keep being surprised by how accurate these are?! I should've learned by now how good the sketches are every single week.. Loved it! And thank god for the tiny snippet of Barry in the outro:)
This is gold! The passwords oh dear even I struggle, so relatable. Arms at the end you couldn’t hold the laugh, you lads are so authentic! Loved it as always 😅
My mother-in-law was a schoolteacher, so she keeps all her passwords written in an old exercise booklet from her school-days. When you ask her for one, she scrolls through the pages trying to figure out which password it may be. Hilarious! But at least they’re all in one place. (She’s 84, and just got a new iPhone a few weeks ago. And she always asks me the questions, since my husband rolls his eyes AND uses a “tone” she doesn’t like!) 😂😂😂
I support that nice lady. You cant do anything when your screen turns off in just 10 sec. The first thing I do on any of my new phones is setting that timer to 60 sec.
I swear I've developed a Pavlovian reaction to hearing Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 😂 Another Mrs. F & Oisín sketch, what a treat! He has the patience of a saint 😬 Happy Thursday!
I'm over 50 and still am tech support for my parents. Every time I see them my dad has a list of things he wants me to make his phone either to start doing or to stop. Loved this!
That is scarily relatable. Only things not covered is having the volume all the way up because "I can't hear it otherwise" and the brightness maxed out because "How else am I supposed to see?" Brilliant as always, can't wait for another!
And then whilst Anne is trying to watch something an advert comes in really loud (coz they always are) about something embarrassing (😆) and Anne is screaming at Oisin to get rid of it, but it is an advert and you can't lol, he is trying to explain that you have to let it play for 30 seconds. So she keeps trying to press play and gets a new advert everytime 🤣😭 he he
Oh God, I was laughing so much! This is literally like my brother trying to explain to my father how to use the laptop. My brother gave it to him as a Christmas gift with everything fully installed. I think he still completely underestimated how trying it would be to teach him how to use it. As Anne always says: you need the patience of a saint. Let's just say, there were no saints around that day... The pain paid off, though: he's a pro now.
Ah my mam will be delighted when I force her to watch the new sketch now because her hero is in it (that hero being Anne!) I think she loves her so much because they're so alike! I'm trying to convince her to go to a show of yours with me and she keeps going "well if Anne isn't going to be there, I don't want to go." 🤣🤣🤣
I would love to be able to show my mum these videos, because she is very much like Anne. But sadly, her English is way to bad to understand them, so it wouldn't make much sense :/
😂👏🤣👏 I have to admit to being much like Anne, when it comes to remembering all the passwords for everything when setting up a new phone 😝 and I've just ordered a new one. Will we get to see Anne's new phone pics on Patreon? Beautiful portrait drawing Anne in the background there 😍
Am 72 and can SOOO APPRECIATE THIS EPISODE! My phone gets slower and slower, then locks up. My daughter and her husband keep telling me I have like 10 thousand "open" accounts or whatever....I give up. I hand it to them and they fix it. Then her husband gets a desperate call from HIS mother, etc. I really do miss the old black dial phones and party lines.
I'm just a few seconds in and crying. My mum just got a new tablet and it's like you guys were here in the room when she finally got it out of the box! The screen timeout 😂😂 And she never takes it ANYWHERE!!
So accurate! Almost word for word what I went through with my parents. They still dont really use their iphones, even after literally hours of trying to show them how to.
I taught my sons to speak English, read (before they went to school), ride a bike, and drive standard shift. We're not even talking about writing their college entrance essays. So maybe they can spare a moment from time to time to explain something about my phone. :)
This is my mother and grandpa in a painful nutshell. Admire the patience Oisín has, cuz mine is so thin and short at this point that I’m actually getting tired right now as I’m writing this and thinking about it...
It’s incredibly funny and relatable, but once you help them get going they can sometimes be even ahead of you. Hog is absolutely amazing as this character!
I love you! I'm 69, don't have a smart phone or want one! My grown children have to put up with me! Usually I really laugh at your sketches, this time I found it too close to home and I want to cry!!...........still love you X.
Ok, I have to admit I was smiling all the way through and then Barry appeared, and yeah I was laughing out loud. Because Anne Flanagan trying to get Barry to enunciate is the best thing ever. She's basically half-adopted the lad at this point, hasn't she?
@@EmmaLiza(to read in Anne's voice) come on, now. He's already a fine young man. He just needs to learn to enunciate a bit better. But he is a good lad, really. 😋
Oisin has a long way to go before finally creating « his own » email address to attach all of his mom’s accounts and his own phone number for all the verifications so next time his mom asks him why Skype is asking her her password he can just give it to her… but Oisin is still young and has buckets and buckets of patience ☺️
Just came off a night shift and am very tired, but I saw Ann Flanagan and had to watch. I really enjoyed this one and I have sent it to my parents 🤭. Thanks for another brilliant sketch! 😊
This is so perfect! 100% accurate. What puzzles me isn't that they don't know how to use something, nobody knows everything. What kills me is the complete inability to even manage paper records of passwords. I can't tell you how many 5 minute jobs turn into 2 hour jobs because of multiple lost passwords.
@@Rainbowgrrl The fact that you're right doesn't make the likelihood of them using one any greater. I have basically given up trying to get anyone to use password managers if they're not already because they always prove unable to handle them. I really don't understand why. There easier for me, but really freak out some people.
I must say Oisin has grown quite a bit in character development, he seems to be more patient and well behaved with his mother than before!
He's mellowed in his late teenage years
He does have more of an A level student vibe in this one (don't know what that'd be in Ireland?). Still, he's always been a good kid - I love their relationship.
@@katiesmith9482 in Ireland it would be "15 and not yet alcoholic" since they don't have schools, only pubs. God bless them!
He just knows theres no point in fighting the sheer force of Anne's will anymore. It's just easier to do as hes told
@@katiesmith9482 Leaving Cert
So true, but one thing that was wrong from my experience is that Anne should have been trying to push down on the touch screen with the force of 30 elephants, even after being told to do it gently.
Yes yes yes!! That was all that was missing from my experience of helping with "the new phone"
I think it’s because old touchscreens were SUPER insensitive. I’m only 27 but I’ve experienced a few touchscreens on machines that require actual force. It’s just muscle memory for some people, I assume. Also, for older folk smartphones DO have trouble responding to their fingers. Something about less blood circulation making it more difficult to register.
This is so spot on. I bought my mum a smartphone on her last birthday and ever since, every time I visit her I have tons of requests and explanations in regard to how to use it. At first I behaved kind of annoyed, but then my mum reminded me that she was patient enough back in the days to teach me how to wipe my own ass and eat with a fork...
Lol
I feel ashamed now. Think I call mum and ask if she needs any help with her phone…
Yeah they do have a point 👉👈
That's me lol
My Son goes berserk lol 😂
-Yeah but you did kind of hit me with a rolled-up newspaper, every time I got it wrong.
Anne Flanagan does a superb job of playing Hog in the other sketches
She's so good at it that sometimes I genuinely believe she's an Irish man in his 30s. Then we get one of these sketches and I remember "No, she's definitely always been an Irish mom."
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I had a job, in the late 90s, training middle-aged solicitors to use their new work computer system. Every. Single. Moment. of my days were like this, with added threat of getting the sack for rolling my eyes too much.
Oh no, no no no that sounds awful. How's your sanity doing?
I'm just stretching them
@@SamFAHntha Blip wibble wibble boop boop baddabing wallop ting. I'm great thanks :)
@@interneteditor5258 Haha, great to hear!.... I think 😂
lucky you that you are young enough to have evolved with tech. Studies have shown that eyes and brains are evolving for tech. The old horrors that raised you are not as equipped for tech. DONT WORRY WE WILL ALL DIE OFF SOON ENOUGH. AND WILL NOT TRAUMATIZE YOU WITH OUR OLD FASHIONED WAYS.
It’s scary how accurate this is, especially the stress of thinking they have to remember all the passwords without writing them down.
Arms trying and failing to keep his Barry face was the cherry on top of a delightful sketch!
So much laughter around here 🤣 Thanks very much, lads!
Barry has me whole heart!
Thanks Annie!
Can't have a sketch without Barry!!!
I watched that part like 10 times, all three of them breaking at almost the same time 😂
I love that Arms dressed up as Barry just for the outro..... Or were there deleted scenes!? 😯
I can so relate. It took us 5 hours to get our parents phone to their "just basic needs". This skit is actually making my blood pressure go up. 😆
And they gave you years to bring you up and teach you from the time you were born!
Your parents must know my parents. My blood pressure rises just seeing "Mom" calling on my screen😅
We appreciate it
As someone who teaches digital skills to Seniors this is scarily accurate 🙂 Changing Sleep to never in Settings is almost always first thing I do!
I prefer 10 minutes, so they aren't always complaining about poor battery life 😂
I'm not old but I also find the screen time out and sleep modes utterly enraging (in all of electronics) hahah It's one of the first tweaks I do.
Oh blimey. I didn't know you could tweak it. Although I've just got used to moving the screen a tad with my finger to keep it on.
Did not know that could be a vocation.
Disabling automatic removal of permissions is also important. Otherwise everything stops working since the scared user declines all requests for "accessing your data" "accessing your camera" etc.
What a brilliant documentary!
These guys should do comedy sketches too.
bwahahah 😂😂😂
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Still wondering where she got the iPhone, I mean non Apple specific product, from?
I feel you Oisin. As a son I’ve been through this many times, as well: smartphones, tablets, laptops, PCs, emails, internet and everything in between. The only remedy to that is patience.
I've long given up on them and just collect their passwords onto my lastpass.
Absolutely
I've found a pint of Kilbeggan helps as well.
I forgot the password of my Lastpass. 😅
I remember years ago, when I tried to introduce my parents to "modern" emails. Dad got it on the first try. Mum made my computer crash by pressing one. Single. Button. ever since, I let my sibling handle teaching them current tech.
"Play your cards right and I'll leave it for you in my will" 😂😂
Instant classic 😆 can’t believe Teaching Computers to Parents was 5 years ago… This is such a natural follow on from that
Yeah, we were only saying!
That hunt for the small notebook of passwords is 100% on point.
Few things inspire more joy than hearing “OISIN” yelled out at the start of a video
I laughed so hard because that was exactly what I was like when I bought my new phone yesterday. I had 2 sales reps and the manager trying to get me a simple phone. I am a senior so they had pity on me.
😆🤣 I lost it at "75 years!" Truly, these are the most relatable skits on the planet, no matter where you're from. That opener reminded me so much of my folks, and we're from the side of the world, Jamaica! 🇯🇲 Long live F.A.H. (And Anne Flanagan 😊💯)!
no way!!!
Only once met a Jamaican, was a nice guy :)
@@foilarmsandhog Yes, a-true!! 😄😊 My Mum's a born-and-bred Kingstonian, "Born under the clock" as they say...and my Dad is, too! But anyway, thanks for the reply -- It's so cool. 😃💯 Bless up.
lol yess and I am from Trinidad
I relate to this harder than I've ever related to anything in my life. How on earth did these guys in Ireland know exactly what it's like to be me and my mom?? 😂😭
I was thinking the other day, hoping that you will continue the weekly sketches for the rest of your careers, and then laughed at the idea Foil playing teenage Oisin when in his 60s 🤣
Asked Foil about that in London, he said they thought they were already pushing it with the teenage characters 😅
And Barry of course!!
@@Heleendje I’m sure they can handle the challenge 😜
I had the same thought haha!
Would be a great pass-time in their elderly home though? 🤣
I just want you to know that you’ve resurfaced SO MANY repressed memories of me trying to help my parents and my grandparents on BOTH sides with technology. You learn how to connect a few cables because you play video games and suddenly you’re the family IT person…
Video games was really the gateway drug of the digital revolution 😉
Exactly. They think that you play a few video games that your parents can now obligate you to go over to everyone's house to virus scan, fix/setup their modem or internet or new computer, whatever, because you are somehow magically bestowed this master programmer/hacker/tech guru ability. It's not fair.
Haha!!! 😂
For real! I don’t have a problem setting stuff up because I had consoles growing up. I still don’t get the difficulty, plug that shape into this shape! Only issue I’ve ever had was accidentally mixing up the out/in ports
This sketch is way too relatable but also hilarious at the same time 😂😂
Heading in for my final college exam today so it was great to have a bit of a laugh this morning. Thanks lads! 😁😁
Good luck!
Best of luck Rebecca!
You got this Rebecca!
Good luck!!
You'll nail it, especially with this warmup! 🙌🤞
Brilliant sketch as always, Anne and Oisin never fail, and Oisins little half smile when Anne promises (threatens) to leave him the phone in her will is priceless!! 😂😂 Lovely to see Barry working his way into the sketch too x
giving parents a new phone is like giving a toddler a hand grenade. that's just a catastrophe waiting to happen 😂😂
My mum likes to make and send me FAH memes. I gotta say, I totally agree 😂😂😂
This is what makes me think about giving them a hand granade...
@@silentwater79 good point 👍👍
The maiden name bit was pure genius.
I guess it is Flanegan-Flanegan, O'Neil - O'Neil, Doherty-Doyerty.... 😅
Hog as Anne is just a true masterpiece, loved every single second of this sketch, and the ending was just fabulous with everyone staying in character to promote the tour. Thank you so much for all your incredible hard work and amazing humour as always :).
Anne is such a convincing character that I usually forget it's actually a young man I'm looking at, instead of an older woman xD
Love the in-character pitch at the end. Chef's kiss.
Oisin and Anne are simply your best characters, sorry Barry.
I loved that little moment when the props fell off the shelf😅
"They're great shots, you should get them printed."
Love the way it went completely over Mrs Flanagan's head!
THANK YOU FOR THE RETURN OF ANNE AND OISIN (and Barry)!! My week is made! So many hilarious lines in this. Arms, please tell Hog he's amazing :)
You better do it Arms! I don't care if he called you a lanky tall idiot in the subtitles one time! You better do it!
I will!
@@foilarmsandhog Thank you :D!
Foil manages to act out the stroppy teenager and Hog the fussy mum unnervingly well. Bloody hilarious.
I'm getting flashbacks to helping my Gran with her phone- on her landline, trying to help and describe the steps to setting up a phone I couldn't even see 🙈 so this video was all 100% accurate for me!
You got there in the end though? 😃
@@SamFAHntha unfortunately not- she did an Anne Flanagan and left her phone at home when I supposed to meet up with her and was phoning her non stop trying to find our where she was 🙈
Ah, i also helped set up my grandma’s phone. I luckily don’t live far away (15 min). I also installed teamviewer and made a paper on how to connect it. If something is wrong with her phone a simple call via her landline to me and connecting remotely is super easy to fix issues without having to actually go there. Especially with covid when visits weren’t really possible. Stuff like turning up the volume of notifications… 3 minutes of work instead of half an hour of travel time to and back and the obligatory tea-and-chat time. Its always nice there of course, but i got stuff to do too you know.
When I was early in IT before I said that yes I can do it but then you have to pay me, mhm they almost never asked again. Wonder why? Or try working in IT support and you can't use remote connection tool or even helping your ma and da with that kind of stuff over the phone without seeing what and where its clicked
@@dyrepoliti well, my grandparents have done a lot for me when i was younger. I could stay there when my other grandpa fell ill and died. He lived an hour away and my parents needed to be there. If my parents needed to be somewhere, they would always be there to make sure that i wasnt alone. Even now if i have any kind of problem all i have to do is go there and they'll help me to their fullest extend. Even at their age.
I'll happily do whatever i can for them too. Helping with technical problems, getting some stuff from the supermarket if im in the area. Just going there for some tea once in a while, just before covid was a thing, my grandma had meningitis, a very severe case. She still cant stand noisy situations. Even driving along in the car is very strenuous for her. If i can help with some little things so she doesnt have to do those things herself, i do.
Im not a saint or anything close to that, and yes, i have grumbled a little bit when she didnt always get what i was trying to say, yet i just took it and didnt show it. I do think that i can say if that more people do what i do, the world would be a little bit better.
Brilliant! Foil plays our favourite stroppy teenager so well, I love how he stays in character even out of costume. That glance when he's wondering about his mum's maiden name, and the delivery of the line about getting the photos printed 👌 I have my Edinburgh tickets so will hopefully see you there, and Vicar Street again soon. Loved, loved this sketch 👏👏
I see myself there. Yep, I'm the old Dad asking my daughter - same problems, same vocabulary, same confusion.
The Anne and Oisin skits are the reason I subscribed! The teaching parents computers was hilarious. I am in my 50's and relate both to Anne and Oisin. I have such a time with my 70 something mom explaining computers, but I know I'm more like Anne when I need help from my son. Ack! This new phone one is just as good. Please continue with Anne and Oisin. They are so great. If we can accept Hog as a 50something mom, we can accept a much older Foil as a teen, no matter how old Foil gets. Please don't stop. Hog and Foil - you nail these characters. Fantastic job.
Thanks Hilde! Glad you enjoy them
Nothing brings me joy (and brings Oisin pain) on a Thursday morning quite like watching Anne struggle with a tech device. 😂
Well that's not very nice 😂
The announcenemt in character is brilliant! Would love to see more of those
Loved Anne rolling her eyes at the “doom-dah” 😂😂
Am I the only one who thinks that the “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” matches perfectly with the video? I feel like laughing even before watching the video..! 😆😆
I've had experience with a relative not switching off the default noises. When looking round universities she wanted to take pictures of the power points, made a clicking noise for every picture. And then she fully switched it off every single time, so every 30 seconds she was switching it back on to take another photo; her phone did the built in boot up jingle every single time.
Why do I keep being surprised by how accurate these are?! I should've learned by now how good the sketches are every single week..
Loved it! And thank god for the tiny snippet of Barry in the outro:)
I do love me a bit of Barry. Remember when Barry used to be more like a guest star?
Thanks Imke, we couldn't believe it took us so long to do this one
„These are great shots, you should get them printed“ 😂😂😂
I received a whole lot of blurry flower pics 😛
Oisin is just dead inside at this point. He is not fighting anymore. 🤭
I know that feeling. 😰😭
My absolute favorite mother/son duo. I’m so happy to see them again, I’ve missed it!
This is gold! The passwords oh dear even I struggle, so relatable. Arms at the end you couldn’t hold the laugh, you lads are so authentic! Loved it as always 😅
My mother-in-law was a schoolteacher, so she keeps all her passwords written in an old exercise booklet from her school-days. When you ask her for one, she scrolls through the pages trying to figure out which password it may be. Hilarious! But at least they’re all in one place. (She’s 84, and just got a new iPhone a few weeks ago. And she always asks me the questions, since my husband rolls his eyes AND uses a “tone” she doesn’t like!) 😂😂😂
@@mykijiji1958 it’s always a struggle, but hey better on a piece of paper than forgotten forever 😅
I support that nice lady. You cant do anything when your screen turns off in just 10 sec. The first thing I do on any of my new phones is setting that timer to 60 sec.
As an employee at O2 who's regularly teaching elderly people how to use phones, this was frighteningly accurate
Thank you. Us daughters rely on you when we’ve given up.
I hope the pay enough compensation for the physical and psychological abuse / pain.
Boy this hits close to home !!.I love the sons facial expressions and attempts to stay calm !
I swear I've developed a Pavlovian reaction to hearing Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 😂 Another Mrs. F & Oisín sketch, what a treat! He has the patience of a saint 😬 Happy Thursday!
Oisin's turning into a fine gentleman it seems 😊
Same, sometimes they play it in restaurants or on aeroplanes and I start laughing
So true!
Hehe, both this and the Snobs tune live quite happily in my brain rent free
Same!!
Only flaw is that my mother would never know what "all caps" is.
“Don’t snatch the phone out of my hands! Just tell me how to do it.”
That outro was the best yet, love that they stayed in character for it!
I'm over 50 and still am tech support for my parents. Every time I see them my dad has a list of things he wants me to make his phone either to start doing or to stop. Loved this!
Fair play to you!! keeps you on your toes
That is scarily relatable. Only things not covered is having the volume all the way up because "I can't hear it otherwise" and the brightness maxed out because "How else am I supposed to see?" Brilliant as always, can't wait for another!
oh that's good
And then whilst Anne is trying to watch something an advert comes in really loud (coz they always are) about something embarrassing (😆) and Anne is screaming at Oisin to get rid of it, but it is an advert and you can't lol, he is trying to explain that you have to let it play for 30 seconds. So she keeps trying to press play and gets a new advert everytime 🤣😭 he he
Oh God, I was laughing so much! This is literally like my brother trying to explain to my father how to use the laptop. My brother gave it to him as a Christmas gift with everything fully installed. I think he still completely underestimated how trying it would be to teach him how to use it. As Anne always says: you need the patience of a saint. Let's just say, there were no saints around that day...
The pain paid off, though: he's a pro now.
My mom's screen turns off after 15 minutes. 15 minutes. It just sits there, unattended, pickupable and readable for the whole world to see.
The sheer relatability of these sketches never fail to make me crack up. Awesome work as always lads.
"they are great shots you should get them printed" got me
Mom ALWAYS leaving her expensive iPhone at home when she goes out is an accurate picture from my life 😄
Exactly my wife.... also reading all the books that came with the car... LOL
Oisín is sooo patient in this one! Is that even him? I'm so glad they're back ❤️
Oh my goodness, he's growing up! Or at least, for this sketch he is. Next time he'll be way younger 😆
Oh i love the mum and son characters and interactions. Funny, relatable and at the same time, deep down a lovely relationship.
Ah my mam will be delighted when I force her to watch the new sketch now because her hero is in it (that hero being Anne!) I think she loves her so much because they're so alike! I'm trying to convince her to go to a show of yours with me and she keeps going "well if Anne isn't going to be there, I don't want to go." 🤣🤣🤣
I am definitely reading that in Anne's voice. "Stan as you go."
Thank goodness they added Anne in then... Wait a minute.... How many complaints did she put in to get them to do that??? 😱😂
@@SamFAHntha "It has to be said, you should have played the role of Anne in the latest sketch..."
"OH NO, MUM!!"
I would love to be able to show my mum these videos, because she is very much like Anne. But sadly, her English is way to bad to understand them, so it wouldn't make much sense :/
Oisin has gotten that sullen adolescent look down absolutely COLD!
😂👏🤣👏 I have to admit to being much like Anne, when it comes to remembering all the passwords for everything when setting up a new phone 😝 and I've just ordered a new one. Will we get to see Anne's new phone pics on Patreon? Beautiful portrait drawing Anne in the background there 😍
I want her to replace Oisin's room with her own photo gallery when he moves out.
I live with my grandparents and this is a weekly occurrence for me. Thank you for understanding my life so perfectly.
That's a nice comment and I'm happy they make you happy, but I would highly recommend shutting your curtains from now on 😂
@@SamFAHntha you're not wrong haha, how do you know me? I'm so confused!
@@alliefannin6655 I've got the swat team on standby Allie, waiting on your command.
Loved it! Anne, Oisin and Barry never fail to be funny, relatable and my favourite sketch!
"I haven't finished reading the manual yet." Oh my Gooooooood. MY MOM!!!!
Great sketch as always. Loved Oisin’s comment “Great shots you should get them printed”! 🤣🤪
That made me laugh out loud 😂
@@SamFAHntha Me too!
She didn't even get his sarcasm
@@foilarmsandhog - to be fair to Anne Flanagan Foil did deliver it very deadpan
I think her missing it was even funnier than if she'd given him a clip round the ear or something 😂
Am 72 and can SOOO APPRECIATE THIS EPISODE! My phone gets slower and slower, then locks up. My daughter and her husband keep telling me I have like 10 thousand "open" accounts or whatever....I give up. I hand it to them and they fix it. Then her husband gets a desperate call from HIS mother, etc. I really do miss the old black dial phones and party lines.
I'm just a few seconds in and crying. My mum just got a new tablet and it's like you guys were here in the room when she finally got it out of the box!
The screen timeout 😂😂
And she never takes it ANYWHERE!!
I'm looking forward to the bloopers tape of Hog as he fails to remember any of his passwords. His face is cracking up a good bit there.
I've had these exact same conversations with my mom, down to the screen timeout. Now I have to check my home for hidden cameras....
The end is the best part! I love it when you improvise. :)
So accurate! Almost word for word what I went through with my parents. They still dont really use their iphones, even after literally hours of trying to show them how to.
I love how this takes us back to the first ever Anne and Oisin sketch. "I've broken it 🥺❤️"
That was absolutely marvelous!
Perfect portrayal of my mother and her recently acquired Android phone.👌
Yeah!!! Anne and Oisin!! Been waiting for this. Clean as you go.😂
I taught my sons to speak English, read (before they went to school), ride a bike, and drive standard shift. We're not even talking about writing their college entrance essays. So maybe they can spare a moment from time to time to explain something about my phone. :)
Oh Jesus Christ! This just happened to me. At least his mom knows its a text message and not an email.
This is my mother and grandpa in a painful nutshell.
Admire the patience Oisín has, cuz mine is so thin and short at this point that I’m actually getting tired right now as I’m writing this and thinking about it...
Have patience with us because we are great at other stuff.
I showed this to my wife and her mother, the boys hit the nail on the head with this one!! Just like when my mother in law gets a new phone!!
"You can't do anything in 10 minutes"
She's right actually, that's why I've set all my devices to 10 minutes time out
I love it when you guys keep on chracter at then end, especially with those three!
Don’t fill in those bank statements oisin or you’ll end up with no inheritance apart from this phone!! 😂
American of Irish extraction here. Love these lads. Oisin's Mum is a darling.
Ma Flanagan is adorable in this one🥰 Thanks a lot for bringing back my favourite! Have a lovely day!🌞
Very true.I would add something about grandkids, first communion/family photos and shouting while talking via app.
The search for the password killed me! Every interaction setting up tech with my mother 😹
"I haven't filled out the warranty yet"
Me: "Oh shit, they come with one?"
It’s incredibly funny and relatable, but once you help them get going they can sometimes be even ahead of you.
Hog is absolutely amazing as this character!
Yeah, my mum is quite good now in fairness
Make sure you’ve told her so!🤗
i have to help so many people like this at my job, it is amazing how many people have phones and can only use about 4% of its features
I love you! I'm 69, don't have a smart phone or want one! My grown children have to put up with me! Usually I really laugh at your sketches, this time I found it too close to home and I want to cry!!...........still love you X.
AHhh sorry Pauline haha x
0:54 The frame falling off the cupboard after Anne turned away amazes me every time I rewatch this 😆👌
The deadpan "They're great shots, you should get them developed" was brilliant 😄
My fave bit for sure
You must have met my mother. THIS IS HER!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Ok, I have to admit I was smiling all the way through and then Barry appeared, and yeah I was laughing out loud. Because Anne Flanagan trying to get Barry to enunciate is the best thing ever. She's basically half-adopted the lad at this point, hasn't she?
Anne trying to My Fair Lady Barry into an Fine Young Man(TM). I'm jotting that one down.
@@EmmaLiza(to read in Anne's voice) come on, now. He's already a fine young man. He just needs to learn to enunciate a bit better. But he is a good lad, really. 😋
Anne does her best to deny the fact that Barry is basically her unofficial son at this point, but we all know it's true.
@@ahumanmerelybeing yup'
That could be a fun sketch, Anne trying to get Barry ready for a job interview or something
"They're great shots. You should get them printed" I dunno why I laughed so hard there 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Oisin has a long way to go before finally creating « his own » email address to attach all of his mom’s accounts and his own phone number for all the verifications so next time his mom asks him why Skype is asking her her password he can just give it to her… but Oisin is still young and has buckets and buckets of patience ☺️
Oisin is living the character. Exactly as any teenager would do. Love this doodaa
Just came off a night shift and am very tired, but I saw Ann Flanagan and had to watch. I really enjoyed this one and I have sent it to my parents 🤭. Thanks for another brilliant sketch! 😊
Happy sleeping
This is so perfect! 100% accurate.
What puzzles me isn't that they don't know how to use something, nobody knows everything. What kills me is the complete inability to even manage paper records of passwords. I can't tell you how many 5 minute jobs turn into 2 hour jobs because of multiple lost passwords.
But you don’t even need paper records of passwords anymore these days, there’s password manager apps and the like!
@@Rainbowgrrl The fact that you're right doesn't make the likelihood of them using one any greater. I have basically given up trying to get anyone to use password managers if they're not already because they always prove unable to handle them.
I really don't understand why.
There easier for me, but really freak out some people.