The bus joke was filmed on India Way, White City, Shepherd's Bush, quite near BBC Television Centre. Someone in twelve thousand years might find that trivia interesting
Looked it up on Google maps and the corner looks the same in 2014, but in 2017 that little building is gone and there's a Catholic school in its place of all things.
I love that moment, when the chill goes up the back of one's neck, and one knows ...just knows ...that all this is based on true events. I knew it was odd that Scotsmen just happen to be in the reality, but nobody ever talk about or deals with it.
I think Graham’s girlfriend absolutely steals the scene with her goofy expressions perfectly lampooning actresses in 1950s sci fi movies. And this is even given Graham’s typical genius acting.
Yes - Mara Corday's 'shock take' in 'The Giant Claw' when she sees the camera footage of the monster is a camp joy to see; exactly what they were spoofing here.
@@cavewaller Donna Marlow/Marlowe/Reading (credited as Donna Reading for this). She was indeed a lovely girl and you may be pleased to know she got her kit off.
I don't think I have ever laughed as hard at anything in my life as I did when I saw this sketch for the first time in 1993. Still my favorite piece of work they ever did.
Add me to the list. My first distinct TV memory is a vampire (Graham Chapman) going to bite the neck of a girl (coincidentally this sketch’s Donna Reading), his fangs fall out and she says, “You’re no fun anymore.” I didn’t know any context or even what was funny, just that moment etched in my young brain. Only a decade+ later as a confirmed MP fan did I see S01E07 in its entirety and my mind was blown.
My very first Monty Python viewing, by accident, when i was a kid and my folks left me alone in a room at their friends house.... with the TV set to CHANNEL 9 PBS!!!... i have never been the same since.
Sure did love the Flying Circus in the 70's here in the US. Then the Holy Grail movie! Hello from sunny and warm St. Petersburg, Fl. Wish London wasn't so damn cold!!!
Idle did a good one where he introduced a guest on a show and went totally bonkers, ending up on the floor, just find out the guest wasn’t coming after all. To which he said in a normal voice: “Well, he isn’t what he is cracked up to be anyway…” 😂
The opening music with the monologue at the start is the same music that was used during the "LIBRARIAN" sketch on Hilarious House Of Frightenstein. I remember it well.
One of my best friends is a Scots-Irish German; What should I do to prevent him from running around in a kilt while playing a bagpipe, covered in whiskey and playing _Das Deutschlandlied_?
Possibly poking fun at scifi. Aliens turning people into something, a doctor working to cure it, and a pretty assistant to the doctor, who poses a lot. Just over emphasized for the purpose of the sketch. But I'm probably overthinking this. It's Monty python humor, after all.
Thanks for this! Hilarious. Sad to think this might be lost to the current generations. We were so lucky. Being from California I’m not entirely getting the joke but the absurdity makes it even funnier.
"Harold Potter, gardener and tax official?" Does that mean we saw Ginny Weasley being interviewed by that detective? And why was the spectator in that football match wearing Gryffindor colors? And a Welshman named Llewellyn is transformed into a Scot?
amaizing.... such a girl in a comedy scetch results in extra laugh, while most movie stars (and singers, for that matter) are exactly the same kind... >__
Ok so no one's gonna talk about how they very literally described the Dursleys? And that dude's name is Harold Potter??? J.K. Rowling must have been a Monty Python fan 😂
Right on.. anyone know her name.. we all know Carol Cleveland.... love the 1969 "Birds" of London... Carnaby Street fashions... really miss those days.
First line of harry potter: "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense." Coincidence, I think not. Maybe it was in her sub conscious though. Im not accusing her of blatantly copying
Not that I’m a fan of JKR at all but it’s perfectly possible to pay tribute like this in a humorous way without it being considered a copyright breach. Writers do it quite often.
@@AurelienCarnoy Now hobbits and rabbits have really nothing in common. Sure their name may be similar, but rabbits live in burrows in the ground while hobbits ... oh.
The 3 overcrowded Scotsmen per caber really got me, on PBS 1970 USof A! Didn't know WTF a Blancmange was, and still don't, and the Scottish stuff except for red hair via Vikings, was unknown but for Sean Connery/007. After BRAVEHEART and IRA it became a little more clear. John C officiously questioning 5 person doubles is priceless!
Surely, Charles. You're the chief scientist at the Anthropological Research Institute at Buckydam, an expert in what makes people change from one nationality to another. - - SO I AM!
THREE episodes Donna Reading S1.E3 Court Scene, The Larch, Bicycle Repair Man, Children's Stories, Restaurant Sketch, Seduced Milkmen, Stolen News Reader, Children's Interview, and Nudge Nudge. How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away Milkman Seducer(uncredited) This one in the video S1.E7 Invaders from another galaxy turn Englishmen into Scotsmen. Also: a comedy about camels; a corporate board meeting. You're No Fun Any More Donna Reading Girl in bed… S1.E8 Full Frontal Nudity Girl in Bikini with Its Man(u A classic episode with A pet-shop customer returns his dead parrot; a gang of female senior citizens attacks a town's young men; a young army officer who joined the service to water-ski tries to resign. All from the first season. Maybe they liked Carol better or Donna went to off to make movies.
@@sheilasmith7991 No we're not. It's miserable, being stuck on miserable, poverty stricken, isolated brexit island with all those brexidiots!😅Anyone with any sense has moved to France. I have! And no, I won't coming back thanks. ❤
Does anyone know what the organ/bell music piece is under Cleese's Carl Sagan type intro (0:23 - 1:03) when they show space? I've been trying to find that spooky track (and the one before the first Scotsman appears). It was also used as the Librarian's theme on Canadian show Hilarious House of Frightenstein.
Count Floyd pointedly eschewed organ bell stuff in SCTV's really, truly scary Monster Chiller Horror Theatre...as did colleague Dr. Tongue, he of 3D House of Stewardesses fame.
I've been taking an online class on how to become a Scotsman. After months of study and research I realize - I DON"T DRINK! My parents will be so disappointed. I got sheep and everything. I've been crying for days. Does ANYONE have any idea of what I might do to become a REAL Scotsman??? Sad and forlorn.
Absolutely loved Monty Python when the first came out and ever since but, it's easy to forget just how anarchic (for want of a better word) their comedy really was for the time.
The whole skit is great, but the baby carriage part always makes me lol I've always wondered where these alien Scots are going, and why they have their right arm out in front of them making a fist?
It's also funny that this sketch is filmed all over Bradford, the home of Bradford City AFC, who are the only English football club to wear Claret and Amber colours, the same colours as Harry Potter's Gryffindor house, had a player in the early 1900's called Harry Potter, and the original pre modern Valley Parade stadium (the ground they play at) is seen at 7:23 in this video.
The bus joke was filmed on India Way, White City, Shepherd's Bush, quite near BBC Television Centre. Someone in twelve thousand years might find that trivia interesting
Doubt it.
15,001 years maybe
Looked it up on Google maps and the corner looks the same in 2014, but in 2017 that little building is gone and there's a Catholic school in its place of all things.
When i visited the area my friend drove me along streets where they filmed somethings. Fyi.
I already find it interesting.
" He didn't show any inclination to be a scotsman before this did he? No no he was not that kind of person". Hilarious.
Imagine being an extra in an MP sketch, watching it with your grandkids, and yelling "That's me!" lol
The very heart of all Human civilization: New Pudsey.
SEEMS LEGIT.
It’s like the narrator saying “At the center of human civilization!” and then a sign appears that says WILMINGTON DELAWARE.
The baby in the pram with it's little fist in the air cracks me up.
nlg was looking for him when the scotsmen troop was crossing the border
And the massive beard.
Asking as an American. Is the fist in the air supposed to be a "Scottish Pride" thing?
@@stevencoffin328no, I don’t think so. Just silliness.
@@jonjames7328 itsa pink panther thing
06:36- That camera angle is a definite homage to sci-fi movies, somehow it contributes to the feeling of isolation and unease.
“Mummy’s been turned into a Scotsman!” “How horrible!” The look on Grahams face when he says that always makes me laugh.
Fantastic camera joke -- the zoom out from the lover's close-up to reveal the lab. Really nice. I love visual jokes like that.
Yes, that's called good directing
are u alive ?
How about the casual shot of the scientist 's had going up her thigh?
@@weaponmaster2916have you seen thos3 Really Bad sf films?
I love that moment, when the chill goes up the back of one's neck, and one knows ...just knows ...that all this is based on true events. I knew it was odd that Scotsmen just happen to be in the reality, but nobody ever talk about or deals with it.
Been said this is the Queen's favorite sketch
You mean Charles?
@@williammartin1561 Seems like a cheap and inappropriate joke.
I'm scottish and i love all thse jokes about the Scots :P
The McKamikazes was the best.
Ya gotta love the scantily-clad bimbo who takes any and all tension out of the laboratory scene!
The Bimbo is Donna Reading
I think Graham’s girlfriend absolutely steals the scene with her goofy expressions perfectly lampooning actresses in 1950s sci fi movies. And this is even given Graham’s typical genius acting.
She’s lovely 👍
Yes - Mara Corday's 'shock take' in 'The Giant Claw' when she sees the camera footage of the monster is a camp joy to see; exactly what they were spoofing here.
@@cavewaller Donna Marlow/Marlowe/Reading (credited as Donna Reading for this). She was indeed a lovely girl and you may be pleased to know she got her kit off.
When she fusses about trying to show off her legs before answering Charles, but needs him to help her up... lol
Dam so that's how the S.D.P recruit, Devius buggers.
I don't think I have ever laughed as hard at anything in my life as I did when I saw this sketch for the first time in 1993. Still my favorite piece of work they ever did.
It's my second favorite, The best is the sheep trying to fly.
This was also my favourite, international hide and seek came a close second😂😂
Totally lame
hello are u alive?
You were able to pick one? 😮 I'm impressed!
The "McClosed" sign gets me every time.
McWoolworth's lol
McDonalds.@@briantaulbee6452
HA HA (only louder)
This sketch is the first thing I remember ever seeing on TV. I was about 5 years old. This is etched in my mind as my first TV memory.
Add me to the list. My first distinct TV memory is a vampire (Graham Chapman) going to bite the neck of a girl (coincidentally this sketch’s Donna Reading), his fangs fall out and she says, “You’re no fun anymore.”
I didn’t know any context or even what was funny, just that moment etched in my young brain. Only a decade+ later as a confirmed MP fan did I see S01E07 in its entirety and my mind was blown.
A fascinating documentary, now I know more about British history!
My very first Monty Python viewing, by accident, when i was a kid and my folks left me alone in a room at their friends house.... with the TV set to CHANNEL 9 PBS!!!... i have never been the same since.
Found the St Louisan!
Sure did love the Flying Circus in the 70's here in the US. Then the Holy Grail movie! Hello from sunny and warm St. Petersburg, Fl. Wish London wasn't so damn cold!!!
They do get summer there you know.
I hear there is something close to lunch, and dinner, too. Supper. L.O.L!@@robinac6897
@@robinac6897 yeah the rain feels warmer then
@@zachbos5108 OK.....didn't expect the Spanish inquisition.
@@robinac6897 No one expects.... Oh no, I can't be bothered...
Brilliant comedians whose legacy has survived for decades. And fortunately, with Foil Arms and Hog, successors in spirit exist.
Cor blimey, I thought I was watching Quatermass!
Palin does sleaze to perfection.
I think you mean oily.
Idle did a good one where he introduced a guest on a show and went totally bonkers, ending up on the floor, just find out the guest wasn’t coming after all.
To which he said in a normal voice: “Well, he isn’t what he is cracked up to be anyway…” 😂
' Wait a minute '
' A whole minute ? '
' No, I meant that metaphorically '
The opening music with the monologue at the start is the same music that was used during the "LIBRARIAN" sketch on Hilarious House Of Frightenstein. I remember it well.
The greatest cities of mankind's long civilized legacy: Babylon. Alexandria. Rome. And, most spectacular of them all, New Pudsey.
Gad, it's pronounced New Pudsey, cretin
Angus Podgorney, how are you going to get 48 million kilts into the van? Eh, I'll have to make it in two gos. 😂
One of my best friends is a Scots-Irish German; What should I do to prevent him from running around in a kilt while playing a bagpipe, covered in whiskey and playing _Das Deutschlandlied_?
Tell him … the joke.
Also, since I saw so many requests for this in the comments, I do believe that the song played on the bagpipes is "Scotland The Brave"
"Let's Have a Ceilidh"
It's "liberton pipe band" also known as "liberton polka"
This is especially funny if you've seen old episodes of Doctor Who from the 70s
Actually, this was made before Pertwee's era of Who even began.
And there's something familiar about the blonde bombshell!
4:35 looks like the lab set from "The Claws of Axos" lol
One of their best and funniest sketches.
...also, VERY silly
This is actually better science fiction than the last 3 Alien movies. 👍
Shocked, because I've never had the pleasure of seeing this before.
Have to say baby fist in crib was a delight. Please do carry on. Full stop.//
Wonderfully daft. I can faintly remember watching it first time around.
It deserves a $200m Hollywood budget.
... and it would be better than 90% of the junk they make now.
At 3 minutes, this is better than the entire new Dr Who series.
@@Dr-Curious Agreed, the new series has been mainly dire
I love when he gets the bus and drives it to his bus stop.
Possibly poking fun at scifi. Aliens turning people into something, a doctor working to cure it, and a pretty assistant to the doctor, who poses a lot. Just over emphasized for the purpose of the sketch. But I'm probably overthinking this. It's Monty python humor, after all.
Ross Bloom you’re not overthinking it, you’re underestimating Monty Python!
Dude, it’s meant to be ridiculously silly. Chill. 😊
Why do the Scotsmen have their fists up like a salute?
Thanks for this! Hilarious. Sad to think this might be lost to the current generations. We were so lucky. Being from California I’m not entirely getting the joke but the absurdity makes it even funnier.
Havent seen this, thx for uploading!
I love how the footballer is acting like it's an ordinary game xD
"Harold Potter, gardener and tax official?" Does that mean we saw Ginny Weasley being interviewed by that detective? And why was the spectator in that football match wearing Gryffindor colors? And a Welshman named Llewellyn is transformed into a Scot?
I love the way the scottsman walk
Now I know where Douglas Adams got his inspiration with The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy ;) at least part of it... this is truly hilarious
Grew up ion Monty Python, thanks! Keeps me (in)sane.
oh yeah that hits the spot I didn't watch it for loooonnnngggg time...
The newspaper reporter turning into a Scotsman after figuring out that people don't suddenly turn into Scotsmen always cracks me up! 😆😆😆
amaizing.... such a girl in a comedy scetch results in extra laugh, while most movie stars (and singers, for that matter) are exactly the same kind... >__
Ok so no one's gonna talk about how they very literally described the Dursleys? And that dude's name is Harold Potter??? J.K. Rowling must have been a Monty Python fan 😂
What about the comment under the comment below yours, posted 13 years ago?
-John Cleese in the first HP movie
-'Cockroach Cluster' from 'Crunchy Frog' sketch in Weasley's Wizard Wheezes
Ya think?
The description of the couple at the beginning was like Tolkein introducing Bilbo and Rowling introducing the Dursleys.
Even more like the Rowling intro ...
That was the very first MP FC I ever saw. I was hooked from there. And my mother wondered why I turned out this way :)
WHAT A BEAUTY
Right on.. anyone know her name.. we all know Carol Cleveland.... love the 1969 "Birds" of London... Carnaby Street fashions... really miss those days.
First line of harry potter: "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense."
Coincidence, I think not. Maybe it was in her sub conscious though. Im not accusing her of blatantly copying
And then there is a Harold Potter in the sketch! I think she liked that sketch.
"You're a Scotsman, Harry!"
Not that I’m a fan of JKR at all but it’s perfectly possible to pay tribute like this in a humorous way without it being considered a copyright breach. Writers do it quite often.
It is just a ... Hum. Yes. Homage.
Like the hobbits being rabbits like Peter rabbit.😅
@@AurelienCarnoy Now hobbits and rabbits have really nothing in common. Sure their name may be similar, but rabbits live in burrows in the ground while hobbits ... oh.
The 3 overcrowded Scotsmen per caber really got me, on PBS 1970 USof A! Didn't know WTF a Blancmange was, and still don't, and the Scottish stuff except for red hair via Vikings, was unknown but for Sean Connery/007. After BRAVEHEART and IRA it became a little more clear. John C officiously questioning 5 person doubles is priceless!
Funny how time goes. I've been trying to drop hints to this sketch the whole week. But nobody reacts.
I love how Monty Python, even after roping in all their low-budget friends, could never get above ten in a crowd scene. 😂
Surely, Charles. You're the chief scientist at the Anthropological Research Institute at Buckydam, an expert in what makes people change from one nationality to another.
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SO I AM!
Her name is Donna Reading she only appears in this episode.
THREE episodes
Donna Reading
S1.E3
Court Scene, The Larch, Bicycle Repair Man, Children's Stories, Restaurant Sketch, Seduced Milkmen, Stolen News Reader, Children's Interview, and Nudge Nudge.
How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away
Milkman Seducer(uncredited)
This one in the video
S1.E7
Invaders from another galaxy turn Englishmen into Scotsmen. Also: a comedy about camels; a corporate board meeting.
You're No Fun Any More
Donna Reading
Girl in bed…
S1.E8
Full Frontal Nudity
Girl in Bikini with Its Man(u
A classic episode with
A pet-shop customer returns his dead parrot; a gang of female senior citizens attacks a town's young men; a young army officer who joined the service to water-ski tries to resign.
All from the first season. Maybe they liked Carol better or Donna went to off to make movies.
@@EthelredHardrede-nz8yv9:09
@@EthelredHardrede-nz8yvCarol was the milkman seducer.
This is sooo hilariously random. haha
(scottish accent) Was about to write "This would never happen to me!" but now,
ALL HAIL SCOTLAND!
Only taken the algorithm 17 years to put this in my feed 😂. Less worried about a Skynet style takeover because of it though. Silver lining I guess lol
Origin of the "Unexploded Scotsman" perhaps?
Well done Graeme on your ten years on TH-cam
A better question is why is there chemistry lab equipment at an anthropological institute which would study social sciences.
This is science fiction, not science documentary!
The sheer terror of it all. To be turned into a Scotsman in the prime of my Englishness 😅
That girl is made to be kissed!
Monty Python/Science fiction? Brilliant!
... based on a true story - names' places' and titles withheld.
An expert in what changes one nationality to another, nowadays called care for Calais
Brainsample: Best. Surname. Ever.
My family enjoyed the Pythons but sometimes we would watch a show and when it ended we would just look at each other. This was probably one of them
what's the name of the blonde babe? anyone knows? seems like she gets little attention but she really nailed the part LOL
Donna Reading
absolument génial, vous avez un beau brexit !
We are! Thanks my French friend ❤
@@sheilasmith7991 No we're not. It's miserable, being stuck on miserable, poverty stricken, isolated brexit island with all those brexidiots!😅Anyone with any sense has moved to France. I have! And no, I won't coming back thanks. ❤
Always loved this one. Anyone know which Sottish march that is?
I 2nd the request about the outclenched fists on the recently scotified people. What's the reference to?
I've been looking for this sketch!
Does anyone know what the organ/bell music piece is under Cleese's Carl Sagan type intro (0:23 - 1:03) when they show space? I've been trying to find that spooky track (and the one before the first Scotsman appears). It was also used as the Librarian's theme on Canadian show Hilarious House of Frightenstein.
Count Floyd pointedly eschewed organ bell stuff in SCTV's really, truly scary Monster Chiller Horror Theatre...as did colleague Dr. Tongue, he of 3D House of Stewardesses fame.
Graham and Eric always crack me up at 1.27 haha!
Funny, 1969 and they describe the size of the universe/galaxy/space, in a comic fashion, better than the main stream media of their day.
This joke rocked my 9 year old mind on PBS! I remember it like it was yesterday.
Cleese was genius for raging but Palin was unbeatable at doing the Sketchy slightly overexcited schemer
Graham was brilliant in Python, especially in Life of Bwian, where he played Woman, sorry Roman.
I expected the dog toward the end to be turned into a Scottish terrier. But I suppose a lot of people wouldn't get that.
This is hysterical. Gone to Scotland, McClosed 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I don't remember this!!! Glad I don't. 🙏🏽😊👍🏻👇🏼👇🏼👆🏽👆🏽👍🏻👍🏻👋🏾👏🏽👏🏽
I've been taking an online class on how to become a Scotsman. After months of study and research I realize - I DON"T DRINK! My parents will be so disappointed. I got sheep and everything. I've been crying for days. Does ANYONE have any idea of what I might do to become a REAL Scotsman??? Sad and forlorn.
Start with some ale.
You cannot, because there really is no true Scotsman!
Perhaps you could stash your money in a cairn for safekeeping?
Buy a little dog and train it to stay on your 🪦, do some body snatching you get the picture!?!
Not always. In the "Spam" sketch, it was Chapman who was the wife "I don't like spam!!" while Idle played the husband.
Deborah Kerr in "Casino Royale":
"Aye, Ye have to pay the Piper!"
❤😂❤😂❤
Lol, what's with the extended fist?
What's the bige pipe melody?
Liberton Boys Polka aka Let's Have a Ceilidh :)
actwholmes
Thanks for that. I found some videos of this on TH-cam after reading your post.
Harold Potter went to Scotland...... "did he enroll at Hogwarts?"
0:55 This is not an accurate portrayal of Earth as they didn't have a full picture of Earth until 1972, this episode is from 1969.
Apollo 8 was December 1968
@@mrbond59 The picture wasn't full
Thank you, Captain. However, I believe that a Gumby took that footage from their balloon just for this science factual documentary.
They had globes...and also pancakes, if you're a Flerfer...
Absolutely loved Monty Python when the first came out and ever since but, it's easy to forget just how anarchic (for want of a better word) their comedy really was for the time.
5:13 Is this where Humza Yousaf got his speech from?
I remember this being the most bizarre sketch they ever did.
I love the bus sketch. Now I hope I can find Part 2 ?
This is actually better science fiction than the last 3 Star Wars movies
What can you say another awesome !! sketch from the pythons
The whole skit is great, but the baby carriage part always makes me lol
I've always wondered where these alien Scots are going, and why they have their right arm out in front of them making a fist?
Any one notice the Harold Potter? Known maybe as Harry?
There were a lot of harry potters in fiction, it turns out. hilarious in hindsight
It's also funny that this sketch is filmed all over Bradford, the home of Bradford City AFC, who are the only English football club to wear Claret and Amber colours, the same colours as Harry Potter's Gryffindor house, had a player in the early 1900's called Harry Potter, and the original pre modern Valley Parade stadium (the ground they play at) is
seen at 7:23 in this video.
Thanks mate i would request all of them please
This Sci Fi horror is absolutely terrifying 😆😆😂
Thanks Gabbahead.
In retrospect some of that should have been obvious SOLar system, SOLar calender, SOLar panels etc.
Must-Watch Double Feature: This with Garth Marenghi's Darkplace e5 'Scotch Mist'