A- Level French - Mitchell and Webb. Tres Bien! From the comedy show Bruiser. Co-written by Ricky Gervais, Bruiser is available on DVD from the BBC store or Amazon. www.amazon.co.u...
I remember these shite ‘educational’ videos. Spot on. The most accurate part is how little they told you and how little the presenters clearly knew. Reeked of old people thinking this was how to reach da yoof, and da yoof see through it. They’d rather read a decent book than sit through this shit.
They're not making fun of the French. They're making fun of BBC educational programmes in the UK, which would occasionally get sidetracked by misguided attempts to appear 'cool' (and so attractive to young people), instead of focusing on serious study content.
@@Taricus the funny thing is that this is a reply. 8 years ago you didn't have a thread in the same comment like this. The guy wasn't stating facts he was replying to other comments.
@@KindredBrujah that was absolutely masterful. well the first series anyway, second series was quite different and not nearly as sharp with the humour.
I don't know weather I should offer you a drink for your hatred of the french or teach you basic economics, fucking anarcho socialism/Communism (give me all of your land... by choice so we can share it equally amongst all man kind).
+Spyro Fan Only last year I watched a really good interactive series for learning basic Spanish on the BBC website... So I guess not all of it is horrible.
This should be shown to all future people in the business of generating educational media, to stop them from patronising children by trying too hard und ending up teaching literally less information than could be contained in one paragraph. It's as if they were trying to stick it to all the intelligent people of the past, who learnt by … just learning. Anyone who needs entertainment at the same time, should seriously consider revisiting nursery.
+reelle Zahl I think that's far enough, that emotional/psychological effect can be very good for people of a certain age or maturity. I agree that for most it's probably not needed but hey, to each their own lol
Omer Elhassan good point. I recently read a book on Didaktik, which started off by pointing out, that the countenance of the learner plays a defining role, not just in terms of putting one in the right state/frame of mind, but also that it belongs to the learning itself. I nevertheless found it irritating, when this became an end it itself and one ended up diluting real content and knowledge for the sakes of good vibes… kind of like what this sketch show is verarsching. I have seen a variety of approaches, enough to know, that one can pack in substantial meat in a learning environment whilst at the same time fostering positive psychological conditions. The naysayers just lack imagination and faith in the ability of children to grasp more than they typically imagine them to be able to handle. I've often come across people my age from ex-soviet territories, who's basic average knowledge typically surpasses the basic average knowledge of people in western Europe. When I ask them, they seemed to have had just as much „fun“ at school/university, with the difference, that they just do more content-wise.
I thought repetition was part of learning. The lessons must have been difficult, since you had to listen carefully - the teacher would say it only once.
My GCSE French consisted of a teacher lobbing over a Werther's Original every time we successfully translated a French phrase into English. I left with a grade D and the teacher in question went on to become head of a different school, which was subsequently placed into special measures by the LEA.
Fuck me, everyone getting their knickers in a twist cus they said Poirot was French, Simon Le Bon isn't either, do people need to be spoon fed the punchlines???
+Jaw Ji How did you "see" that? Are you saying that since the video has 400K+ views and not all of them went to the comment section to mention it, it went over their heads? Perhaps they just laughed at a funny joke and went on, not feeling a need to show their assumed superiority, don't you think?
Thanks so much for posting! I remember watching this on TV and have been refering to it ever since but i couldn't remember who made it :-) merci beaucoup!
Best bit is nutter Webb "juggling" 2 onions by briefly throwing them up in the air, one at a time. The ghosts of all Pythons--living, dead or, in the case of recently, inexplicably gammon Cleese--must surely look down with approval. I got to work with Graham Chapman a year or so before he died and even wrangled a game of chess with him by pretending that I could actually play it, although 3 moves in he looked up from the board and said, "You don't actually play chess, do you?" in that classic deadpan but silly fashion of his. Thanks for bringing back the memories...
Hercule Poirot is actually Belgian XD There's an on-going joke in the books that everyone thinks he's French until they are told the truth, usually by one of the people following his cases in the newspapers :)
Let’s be honest…. No one has ever seen a Frenchie wearing striped shirts with a string of onions around their shoulders… and BBC forgot the classic phrase ‘Le weekend’..😂😂😂
That's rich coming from you. You are the one making hasty judgments on me. Just because I mentioned going to Paris, doesn't mean I've been only to Paris. I've been to Paris two times (going again in March), but have been in the rest of the country dozens of times before. I can basically walk around the Cévennes with my eyes closed. With the amount of time I spend in Paris, it's a miracle that I'm still not fluent at French. The French want you to talk French, no matter how badly you speak it.
The funny thing is that I just returned from working a few weeks in Paris and this was basically all I needed, along with a few 'pardonnez-moi's' and 'merci beaucoup's'. The French are smug bastards about their language but as long as you try they adore you, but the English, a language I speak almost fluently but with a slight accent, always look at me funny and are out to correct me all the time. I love cultures and languages (:
Oh sorry. I didn't realize I was in the company of the Geek King and need to proof read my Star Trek references before I post them. What an exciting life you must live.
Dear sir, my name is not Dick but Daniel. Anyway, how would I know this is parody. I'm not English, but Belgian. Whatever... I just wonder why you had to be so rude. That's most fascinating!
***** yeah yeah, I said whatever as in I don't give a holy sh... I only found it fascinating how people can be so rude over a simple youtube comment. That would worth a brain dissection I reckon.
Hi, I'm an Englishman living in France and wondered the same thing about the French stereotype. Apparently, Breton farmers used to travel to Southern England to sell their produce, often on bicycles (on the ferry of course) with onions around their necks. They were known as 'onion Johnnies'. So the cliché is actually Breton, not French. But this is often the case - I've never worn a pin-stripe business suit with a bowler hat (chapeau melon)! Hope that answers your question.
You have completely misunderstood the video if you think this is mocking French people, obviously it's not. It's mocking a certain type of awful educational video.
yep, crazy camera angles + out of date techno = educational videos
I remember vids like these on video tapes at school
Tres bien
I remember these shite ‘educational’ videos. Spot on.
The most accurate part is how little they told you and how little the presenters clearly knew.
Reeked of old people thinking this was how to reach da yoof, and da yoof see through it. They’d rather read a decent book than sit through this shit.
Yeah, that's not techno.
Who remembers Was ist dein lieblingsfach? That shit was a trip.
They're not making fun of the French. They're making fun of BBC educational programmes in the UK, which would occasionally get sidetracked by misguided attempts to appear 'cool' (and so attractive to young people), instead of focusing on serious study content.
**claps!** You get an award!
@@Taricus lol, your necromancy is forgiven
@@Taricus the funny thing is that this is a reply. 8 years ago you didn't have a thread in the same comment like this. The guy wasn't stating facts he was replying to other comments.
@@Andrew-yl7lm I was just being silly 🤪
@@Andrew-yl7lm oh yh ure right
This is literally any school educational video ever.
+TheSexyninjamonkey Literally? Nah.
Apparently you've never seen Look Around You.
th-cam.com/video/FBaVwwuErmU/w-d-xo.html
@@KindredBrujah that was absolutely masterful. well the first series anyway, second series was quite different and not nearly as sharp with the humour.
Annoyingly cringey and trying super hard to be 'cool' to get across to kids. Never works
Yep!
This is so true it pisses me off.
I don't know weather I should offer you a drink for your hatred of the french or teach you basic economics, fucking anarcho socialism/Communism (give me all of your land... by choice so we can share it equally amongst all man kind).
GottJäger um I think they meant the annoying unhelpful revising video was true but uhh ok
@@Volunteer-per-order_OSullivan You idiot.
@@Volunteer-per-order_OSullivan Hey dude it's called Laisez Faire, slow down
TRES BIEN!!!!!
If anyone else has had to suffer the indignity of BBC bitesize, you'll know this is disturbingly accurate.
The website is alright but the vodeoes aren't worth watching
Troublingly accurate.
Mitchell looked a lot different when he was younger.
+ MrBlack1968 I'm assuming you're joking :D
+MrBlack1968 yes the sex change really did a smashing job
Damn, I came to say this, but you beat me by about 8 months.
He changed sex over 100 times didn't he?
You mean Michelle as they were known at the time?
Everytime the close on Webb and his "Tres bien!" I just can't even stop laughing.
+Uua Uub I thought he was saying "Tra bleeeeeeuagh" xD
+Uua Uub Yeah, I speak french and I seriously could not
TREH BYEH
MY FAVOURITE FRENCHWOMAN IS DAWN FRENCH
Of the "French and Saunders" fame 😉
Oh god! I watched this with Occulus Rift now I can't stop puking!
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
You brave fool.
"Tres Blaine!"
Serves you right for owning an Occulus Rift. :0
Does anyone else remember the terrible educational stuff on the BBC website?
+Spyro Fan Unfortunately.
+Spyro Fan it is still there...........
+Spyro Fan
Only last year I watched a really good interactive series for learning basic Spanish on the BBC website... So I guess not all of it is horrible.
There is a reason I only use text based BBC bitesize pages
Spyro Fan takes the piss out of it perfectly!
I now actually want to see their A-level German programme.
"Gooten Taag"
Mit gasse , le whisky, curry wurst 😅😂😅😂😅😂
Sehr gut!
TRES BIEN!!
7 years later, this translates to THREE GOOD!!
😅 Ah, technology...
D'ACCORD!
TRAYBY ANNE!!!
Dak dak dak!!
JE T'AIME. MAINTENANT FAIS LE BRUIT COCHON.
"D'accord" as a replacement for goodbye sounds very violent.
Not as violent as T2 made "hasta la vista". Until that movie, there was nothing violent about those words.
This should be shown to all future people in the business of generating educational media, to stop them from patronising children by trying too hard und ending up teaching literally less information than could be contained in one paragraph. It's as if they were trying to stick it to all the intelligent people of the past, who learnt by … just learning. Anyone who needs entertainment at the same time, should seriously consider revisiting nursery.
+reelle Zahl no. its not useful to you. its probably useful to others
Omer Elhassan I would concede, that there be perhaps some psychological/emotional worth. I would not concede anything further…
+reelle Zahl I think that's far enough, that emotional/psychological effect can be very good for people of a certain age or maturity. I agree that for most it's probably not needed but hey, to each their own lol
Omer Elhassan good point. I recently read a book on Didaktik, which started off by pointing out, that the countenance of the learner plays a defining role, not just in terms of putting one in the right state/frame of mind, but also that it belongs to the learning itself.
I nevertheless found it irritating, when this became an end it itself and one ended up diluting real content and knowledge for the sakes of good vibes… kind of like what this sketch show is verarsching. I have seen a variety of approaches, enough to know, that one can pack in substantial meat in a learning environment whilst at the same time fostering positive psychological conditions. The naysayers just lack imagination and faith in the ability of children to grasp more than they typically imagine them to be able to handle. I've often come across people my age from ex-soviet territories, who's basic average knowledge typically surpasses the basic average knowledge of people in western Europe. When I ask them, they seemed to have had just as much „fun“ at school/university, with the difference, that they just do more content-wise.
This comment is MUCH more readable if I say it with Webb's accent and have Mitchell reading the daily news and chime in with "uh-huh".
Everyone in their mid 30's will shudder upon hearing "quelle est la date de votre anniversaire?"
Or more idiomatically c'est quand ton anniversaire?
I've learned basically all my french from watching "'Allo 'allo!"... Tres Bien!
Me too! Allo Allo taught me how to speak French fluently....wait till I get the chance to visit France someday.
@@MrArthoz I can just imoogen myself pissing by the doors in Paris, grating my new neighboors a good moaning.
I thought repetition was part of learning. The lessons must have been difficult, since you had to listen carefully - the teacher would say it only once.
This is me sorted for my A Level French oral on tuesday
D'ACCORD!!
And? How was it?
@@reellezahl Tray bee-en.
I never noticed it before, but David Mitchell is GORGEOUS.
The best bit is that neither Simon Le Bon & Hercule Poirot are french. Those are the kind of facts they put in these kinds of videos.
The deep and breathy 'Très Bien' always catches me off guard hahah.
My GCSE French consisted of a teacher lobbing over a Werther's Original every time we successfully translated a French phrase into English. I left with a grade D and the teacher in question went on to become head of a different school, which was subsequently placed into special measures by the LEA.
when I was at secondary school, this is literally what the "educational" videos were like, so depressing
JE SUIS OFFENSIVE ET JE TROUVE CE FRANÇAIS
Will Wood lol
MOI AUSSI, JE SUIS D'ACCORD
Tray beahhh
TRES BIEN
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I do not know why i am getting reccomended these but i love it.
Like every French lesson I've ever had summarised.
OMG FOR A SECOND I THOUGHT THIS WAS REAL! THATS HOW REALISTIC IT IS.
lol what, it's obviously a parody
Fuck me, everyone getting their knickers in a twist cus they said Poirot was French, Simon Le Bon isn't either, do people need to be spoon fed the punchlines???
Christopher Lambert isn't French either. He was born in the USA and grew up in Switzerland. He didn't move to France until later in life.
Of course he's French. Why else would his name be Cristof Lomberrrrt?
they probably thought this was an actual BBC educational program.
Today I learnt French. Now when I next go on holiday to France or shop at French Connection, they'll be able to understand me. Da Cor. Trey ben!
bone app the teeth
*le teeth
I see the Rob Mob is here. :D
bone apple tea
Actually it's "la teeth", because in France only women have la teeth.
Plans for the Creative Commons there is no French word for teeth
This is wordwang!
I see the Poirot joke went over most people's heads.
+Jaw Ji Wow. I'm genuinely impressed. You must, like, be really good at reading and stuff ?
+Jaw Ji It was the only reason I scrolled down to the comments xD
+Chris F
Wee, je suis (that's French for 'Yes I am') =D
+Jaw Ji "wee"
+Jaw Ji How did you "see" that? Are you saying that since the video has 400K+ views and not all of them went to the comment section to mention it, it went over their heads? Perhaps they just laughed at a funny joke and went on, not feeling a need to show their assumed superiority, don't you think?
TRES BIEN! Le meilleur sketch qui soit!
BBC Bitesize was always telling me not to panic.
Just made me panic more
Don't panic and tres bien!
I learnt more French watching this video than 4 years at school😳
I took A-Level French and can confirm that this is accurate
I wish my French teacher were as cools as you two guys. Please keep posting videos I've already learn more French from you than at school
My French teacher was so cool she went in the cage on TISWAS.
Wow, this really helped my French revision :D
Using Allo Allo as reference material is classic
NO, YOU DA MAN!
Whatever Laurence let's not quibble - I'm a man!
Laurence Nealon hows that’s funny?
@@joshuasimmonds726 watch Peep Show, dude.
Luke S. i was replying to the quote with a quote, peep show is the best x
Every video on BBC bitesize was like this
Its so accurate that the first time i watched this i thought it was real
Having caught some of the recent Bitesize schools programmes, this is really accurate :D
I can just picture the camera man dancing around going back and forth with the camera.
I couldn’t even tell if this was a joke at first, that’s how accurate it is to the shit we had to watch in school
Thanks so much for posting!
I remember watching this on TV and have been refering to it ever since but i couldn't remember who made it
:-) merci beaucoup!
This was bbc bitsize. Spot on. It pissed me off so much.
Spot on. hit the nail on the head
Now I feel like I know enough French that I could go to France.
I don't want to go to France.
This came out in 2009. Nothing has changed
Look Around You!
Epic
Très bien!
It's the simon le bon reference for me
Anyone remember that thing with Kimberley Walsh that was practically identical to this. Can kind of remember the knock off Balearic beat and all.
Best bit is nutter Webb "juggling" 2 onions by briefly throwing them up in the air, one at a time. The ghosts of all Pythons--living, dead or, in the case of recently, inexplicably gammon Cleese--must surely look down with approval. I got to work with Graham Chapman a year or so before he died and even wrangled a game of chess with him by pretending that I could actually play it, although 3 moves in he looked up from the board and said, "You don't actually play chess, do you?" in that classic deadpan but silly fashion of his. Thanks for bringing back the memories...
Fun fact: from 1940 to 1944 the french word for wishkey was Das wishkey.
Hercule Poirot is actually Belgian XD There's an on-going joke in the books that everyone thinks he's French until they are told the truth, usually by one of the people following his cases in the newspapers :)
I think that's the joke
Wait and, Simon Le Bon isn't French either. I'm starting to think they actually know nothing about French...
CaptainFoxButt Well that's the joke I think.
r/whoosh
This is exactly the type of videos we used to be show at school when I was a kid 💀
Haha "Simon le Bon". Brilliant sketch.
I am French and I approve
Let’s be honest…. No one has ever seen a Frenchie wearing striped shirts with a string of onions around their shoulders… and BBC forgot the classic phrase ‘Le weekend’..😂😂😂
that's the joke
Good lord, I hope there's not an actual BBC show with that camera style.
Jesus it's like I accidentally went through a time portal ...
why use a sacred holy Name as a swear word?
@@marcokite Troll fail :P
That's rich coming from you. You are the one making hasty judgments on me. Just because I mentioned going to Paris, doesn't mean I've been only to Paris. I've been to Paris two times (going again in March), but have been in the rest of the country dozens of times before. I can basically walk around the Cévennes with my eyes closed. With the amount of time I spend in Paris, it's a miracle that I'm still not fluent at French.
The French want you to talk French, no matter how badly you speak it.
@mrmemanme Well aware. Also, Simon LeBon was born in Hertfordshire if memory serves me right. I just love that particular Poirot quote!
yeah he’s very english
I now want those VHS tapes of Allo Allo.
Ahha spot on, also why is it always called a ‘fact file’
The way it cuts off at the end kills me
Très Bien!
My French has never been this très bien!
Trust the science!!!
So many memories of BBC Bitesize. *shudders*
TRES BIEN.
My favourite Frenchman is Jean Jacques Rousseau.
Willy Jock
He is Swiss.
Smoothbluehero Did you even watch the video?
+SVU Man and mine is a certain gentleman called Ballsack, or something like that
+lkrnpk Balzac
Carpe Diem
How astute of you.
This is the best Bruiser bitsize piss take IMO although I wish they'd started making out on the end like norms
She's cute.
I could get behind watching Allo' Allo'.
The funny thing is that I just returned from working a few weeks in Paris and this was basically all I needed, along with a few 'pardonnez-moi's' and 'merci beaucoup's'. The French are smug bastards about their language but as long as you try they adore you, but the English, a language I speak almost fluently but with a slight accent, always look at me funny and are out to correct me all the time.
I love cultures and languages (:
French people you may know,Hercule Poirot and Simon Le Bon :D
I love the fact they say Poirot is French
This is très bien
I'm half French half British, and now I'm confused.
I just saw this comment and thought "yeah me too" then I realized it was my own. My life is sad.
Oh sorry. I didn't realize I was in the company of the Geek King and need to proof read my Star Trek references before I post them. What an exciting life you must live.
Hercule Poirot is a Belgian
I think that's ze joke :)
@TDogthe3rd Simply clicking 'Like' doesn't quite express how right you are there.
Tellement stupide que ça finit par devenir drôle. Bien joué !
I love this
You can laugh, but people got paid a decent salary to make crap educational videos such as this.
TREMBLE!!!
TRES BIEEENN
Hercule Poirot is not French, he is Belgian.
Dear sir, my name is not Dick but Daniel. Anyway, how would I know this is parody. I'm not English, but Belgian. Whatever... I just wonder why you had to be so rude. That's most fascinating!
***** yeah yeah, I said whatever as in I don't give a holy sh... I only found it fascinating how people can be so rude over a simple youtube comment. That would worth a brain dissection I reckon.
Lloyd Daniel #yesthatsthejoke
Oh I see, I get it .... the video is lampooning me. It was a simple lampoon.
It's meant to mock the way educational videos from the BBC are made.
Tres biennnnnnnn
This is like MKUltra codes unlocking something in my head
Hi, I'm an Englishman living in France and wondered the same thing about the French stereotype. Apparently, Breton farmers used to travel to Southern England to sell their produce, often on bicycles (on the ferry of course) with onions around their necks. They were known as 'onion Johnnies'. So the cliché is actually Breton, not French. But this is often the case - I've never worn a pin-stripe business suit with a bowler hat (chapeau melon)! Hope that answers your question.
You have completely misunderstood the video if you think this is mocking French people, obviously it's not. It's mocking a certain type of awful educational video.