I remember vividly when this first went out. It seemed the whole nation watched it. Everyone tried speaking in sentences consisting entirely of letters, people you didn't know did it in shops and cafes. The Two Ronnies were adored. Ronnie Barker wrote much of the wordplay material and the two together created hundreds of brilliant characterisations that you understood in just a few seconds and then played their parts with perfect comedic timing. Genius.
i used this once for real. On a Eurostar train i saw on the menu Ham and Eggs and so when i was asked what i wanted i said M N X and i got the ham and eggs no problem
Someone had sent me the Hearing Aids Salesman episode via WhatsApp about a year or so ago. I loved it so much that I saw almost all of their skits in TH-cam. This one - the Swedish Lesson - cheered up a dull day. Here's my tribute to these two timeless masters of comedy: The Two Ronnies, Barker and Corbett Were in every way brilliant and perfect Their wordplay and irreverence Seasoned with ribald insouciance Made life more bearable on this planet
Not sure if you've heard of him before but I suggest checking out this for a laugh, enjoy. Dave Allen - "Teaching Your Kid Time" - '93 - stereo HQ th-cam.com/video/0QVPUIRGthI/w-d-xo.html
Absolutely Brilliant. P.T. C.T. T.T. And this was written years ago and it still gets a great laugh. The two Ronnie's were Brilliant. Every thing they did was so fantastic and how they managed to play it to the hilt. Excellent and if you don't have a laugh from it you are miserable. Great for brightening the day.😁😁
i cant belive people are rowing about this its classic english comedy at its most witty! any one who doesnt get it should go back 30 years to a time when comedy was a bit more sophisticated than the bollocks of today
My Mum and Dad are Dutch. Their favourite joke runs like this. At the Australian Customs They were asked How old are you and your Wife? My Father replied I am Dirty And My Wife is Dirty Two. 0h De The. We all laughed our heads off. God Bless Queen Bess.
Brilliant comic from golden Age of British TV!You are best!I am Swede and i can tell Swedish Professors are just like that!We don´t either understand them.
I think you’ll find telegram was the origin of text language, given that you had to pay by the letter and many correspondents had their own abbreviations.
I don't know why the memory of this sketch popped into my head just now... Thank goodness for TH-cam, so I could relive it! Although I thought I remembered Ronnie Barker saying D.X.S.F at some point, which is patently not in here, so maybe I've made my own up.
To answer everyone's question, its all part of the joke, He is trying to teach Swedish, in Norwegian, using a German accent Its not meant to make sense, its just being funny :)
benny hill did loads of similar foreign accent stuff - e.g. "i was in a park looking at women sitting down on the grass and i see their pink knickers" (i.e. i see they're picnickers - women having a picnic).
@@xr_nrtmstomp5139 But an extension of the joke teaching Swedish in Norwegian was doing it with a German accent, for an English audience, so 'Nein' fits all of that.
The innuendo - which here is about building up expectations then defying them by omission - is breathtakingly good. We have to laugh at the smut that exists only in our own minds , like a growing soap bubble that the events effectively Pop!
Ordering salad in the Swedish hipster restaurant: I. L. F. K. L. N. X. Waiting in line: I. M. N. D. Q. When you need to go to the toilet at the beach: U. P. N. D. C.
If I had to do the captions, here is what I would do: 0:04 Good evening. 0:05 My name is Professor Gevister Ownvankar * Biddon. 0:11 Tonight we have a Swedish lesson for you, but there’s a difference. 0:15 It is in Norwegian. 0:18 Now I expect some of you are wondering why I am dressed as a waiter. 0:23 It is because tonight, our lesson is entitled “In the Restaurant”, or as we say in Sweden “Im De Restaurant”. 0:32 But before we go over to the scene, let me explain that as we act out our little drama for you, there will be on the screen subtitles, which, as you know, are used in Swedish films, and which are necessary to explain to the English people what is going on in the bedroom scenes. 0:51 To make it easier, we spell it out for you, we use only one letter for each word. 0:59 Now this also helps with the pronunciation, instead of putting “ Hello” we put “L.O. 1:09 You see on similarly, here we have here, P.T, you see pity. 1:17 And here we have C.T, city. 1:29 T.T. 1:36 And here, we have another picture for you. 1:40 Now come with me and we will begin the lesson. 1:51 L.O. (Hello.) 1:55 L.O (Hello.) 1:59 R.U.B.C. (Are you busy?) 2:03 S.V.R.B.C. (Yes. We are busy.) 2:07 L.O. (Hello.) 2:10 L.O. (Hello.) 2:12 L.O. (Hello.) 2:14 L.O.(Hello.) 2:19 F.U.N.E.X. (Have you any eggs?) 2:22 S.V.F.X. (Yes, we have eggs.) 2:27 F.U.N.E.M. (Have you any ham?) 2:31 9. (No. 2:35 I.F.C.D.M. (I have seen the ham.) 2:39 V.F.N.10.E.M. (We haven’t any ham.) 2:45 A.V.F.M. (Hey! We have ham!) 2:49 R. (Ahhh!) 2:51 O. (Oooh!) 2:54 C.D.M. (See? The ham!) 2:57 O.S.V.F.M. (Oh yes. We have ham.) 3:01 O.K.M.N.X. (Okay. Ham and eggs.) 3:05 M.N.X. (Ham and eggs.) 3:10 F.U.N.E.T. (Have you any tea?) 3:14 1.T. (One tea.) 3:17 1.T. (One tea.)
The Two Ronnies DID makes sense, it's just that their sketches were so quick you have to be really on the ball. I had to watch the mispronunciation sketch 5 times to get it all, it's so clever! May I also remind those who are offended by the accent, of The Swedish Chef on the Muppets?! Do you criticise the puppet for not sounding swedish?
It's brilliant, considering how this is how cyber people chat on the internet like this now..............20 odd years before the event. And i fell about laughing realizing you do not get the "P T" picture joke till he says "CT" for the second pic....
If you like this, you'd probably like the two small books by William Steig, "CDB" and its sequel "CDC." CDB was published in 1968, before The Two Ronnies began to air. Nevertheless, these guys did a GREAT job with the idea.
I saw this for the first time just the other day and I couldn't stop laughing like an idiot, thank goodness my parents introduced me to The Two Ronnies :)
Thank goodness indeed; in today's PC world of crushing judgement and limited imagination you won't see their like again. V. happy that you love them and we can indeed thank providence that so many gems from the past were recorded.
I remember vividly when this first went out. It seemed the whole nation watched it. Everyone tried speaking in sentences consisting entirely of letters, people you didn't know did it in shops and cafes. The Two Ronnies were adored. Ronnie Barker wrote much of the wordplay material and the two together created hundreds of brilliant characterisations that you understood in just a few seconds and then played their parts with perfect comedic timing. Genius.
This sketch was brilliant! These guys were masters at their craft.
i used this once for real. On a Eurostar train i saw on the menu Ham and Eggs and so when i was asked what i wanted i said M N X and i got the ham and eggs no problem
It to me ages to work out what that meant!! 😁
F U N E N R G. Have you any energy?
@@adadadad5780 9, I F N N E N R G
@@alanvanallen7762 9IFN10ENRG
well done you
The two Ronnies were the reason why I love playing with worms
The Man was a master....John Cleese and him masterminded British comedy for decades and we owe then both so much
Someone had sent me the Hearing Aids Salesman episode via WhatsApp about a year or so ago. I loved it so much that I saw almost all of their skits in TH-cam.
This one - the Swedish Lesson - cheered up a dull day.
Here's my tribute to these two timeless masters of comedy:
The Two Ronnies, Barker and Corbett
Were in every way brilliant and perfect
Their wordplay and irreverence
Seasoned with ribald insouciance
Made life more bearable on this planet
Not sure if you've heard of him before but I suggest checking out this for a laugh, enjoy.
Dave Allen - "Teaching Your Kid Time" - '93 - stereo HQ
th-cam.com/video/0QVPUIRGthI/w-d-xo.html
Absolutely Brilliant.
P.T. C.T. T.T.
And this was written years ago and it still gets a great laugh.
The two Ronnie's were Brilliant.
Every thing they did was so fantastic and how they managed to play it to the hilt.
Excellent and if you don't have a laugh from it you are miserable.
Great for brightening the day.😁😁
Ronnies Corbett and Barker, comical geniuses they were and their comical sketches always left you crying with laughter.
I love Swedish in Norwegian.
The Two Ronnies were absolutely amazing!
there are so many sketches from the two ronnies I just love this one!
These 2 gentlemen r legends they brought a new dimension to comedy , rip 2 legends dear to our hearts ❤❤
They were so clever, they made it look so easy. ❤
Is this the birth of text language? To think, mobile phones weren't even invented during the time of this sketch.
They had been invented, but not yet available to the public
i cant belive people are rowing about this its classic english comedy at its most witty! any one who doesnt get it should go back 30 years to a time when comedy was a bit more sophisticated than the bollocks of today
not witty, wty
@@guharup I think you mean V. T.
@@automat3000 And here we have another picture
@@harrypainter7472 Saying it without saying it, how we got past censorship back then lol.
Still hilarious to this day,True Comedic Geniuses
Here we have P.T. , C.T., and....... we have another picture for you!
Excellent!!
My Mum and Dad are Dutch.
Their favourite joke runs like this.
At the Australian Customs
They were asked
How old are you and your Wife?
My Father replied
I am Dirty
And My Wife is
Dirty Two.
0h De The.
We all laughed our heads off.
God Bless Queen Bess.
“Oh de the”? I get it all but that bit.
Bloody brilliant - Ronnie Barker was so talented
In the late 70s two old men were doing text speak more efficiently than 21st century nerds.
WHEN IT GOT TO 1:27 I HAD A MOUTH FULL OF TEA I SPAT IT LAUGHING AT THAT BIT
Brilliant comic from golden Age of British TV!You are best!I am Swede and i can tell Swedish Professors are just like that!We don´t either understand them.
No, that is not true at all, although there are some professors who are totally incomprehensible; e.g. those dealing with gender studies.
Hilarious. Gives me new ideas for my personalized number plate.
Ulvtt
R.I.P Ronnie Corbett :( I hope you and Ronnie Barker are giving God a great laugh!
R.I.P. both Ronnies. Open All Hours just isn't the same without Ronnie Barker.
He gave them the gift after all. How I miss them. Just saw the Inventors Convention and replayed it 3 times - cried with laughter each time.
& Richard Beckinsale will join in.
Superb ,great stuff .
Yes, he was fabulous!
The origins of text messaging! The genius of Ronnie Barker.
I think you’ll find telegram was the origin of text language, given that you had to pay by the letter and many correspondents had their own abbreviations.
@@NobodyOfTheTardis I agree and probably further back still drawings and symbols on caves.
@@HighTen_Melanie Cave drawings were the first emojis :)
@@HighTen_Melanie lol.
As well as being the greatest comedy performer of all time he could also portray different accents with such precision.
"Und here, here we have another picture for you!"
Got to LOVE that bit! lol
All love a bit of t.t 😉
I don't know why the memory of this sketch popped into my head just now... Thank goodness for TH-cam, so I could relive it! Although I thought I remembered Ronnie Barker saying D.X.S.F at some point, which is patently not in here, so maybe I've made my own up.
What does that mean?
@@therunawaykid6523 The eggs is off. Or perhaps it'd be better as D.X.R.F, thinking about it...
So simple, so silly, utterly perfect
this sketch is one of their best
I agree I’m constantly thinking about it and trying to come up with my own Swedish
This and four candles are comedy gold.
Just one of MANY extraordinarily written sketches. The 2 Ronnies writing puts Morecambe & Wise to shame !!!!
OMG!!!
So funny!!
One of the best Two Ronnies sketches!
They do this on the mobile phones now to send messages.
R.I.P, U 2.
bril bril bril bril
we don't get stuff like this anymore
The most brilliantly funny comedy duo EVER!You cant beat English humour at its best.(From an Aussie!)
It wasn't for nothing that Ronnie Barker was known as 'the governor' at the Beeb.
I can't believe there are people who need this explained to them!
Classic. A brilliant and clever sketch. LOL at 3:47.
Absolute genius!
Omg that was great... so glad I found these guys
To answer everyone's question, its all part of the joke, He is trying to teach Swedish, in Norwegian, using a German accent
Its not meant to make sense, its just being funny :)
This is freaking creative!
im swedish and i laugh alot , so fun :) ty for upload
I am Swedish and I did not laugh a single time. Not the least bit funny!
@@Vinterfrid A.P.T.
@@Vinterfrid A.P.T.U.4.F.N.10.E.U.M.R.
Love the bit about needing to explain to the English audience what’s going on on the bedroom scenes !!!
Sweddish were renowned for liberal ideas on sex!
@@MAte925love all those sweddish peoples.
Comedy on another level.
How simple! Swedish is such a lättbegripligt språk att ta till sig hundi skroudi mundi duski do bork bork bork
P. T. C.T. and T.T. Laughed so hard, I nearly lost a filling.
They missed M T.
This sketch is so funny. I just love the wordplay sketches of the Two Ronnies
Ben Elton was one of Ronnie Barker's best mates.
Legend, can't stop laughing 😂😂😂
This is so hilariously silly!
When you agree with someone else that this is their funniest sketch: U.N.I.C.I.2.I
Ronnie Barker has a good accent.
A good German accent!
simply brilliant!!
SO CLEVER !!
oooohhh my gosh oh my gosh, my stomach hurts!! brilliant sketch!!
Brilliantly clever!!! 😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Everytime I watch these I forget that they're both gone now.
Brilliantly clever
I love both the Two Ronnies and Benny Hill. This is from 1975. (I'm sure) Benny did a very similar sketch, I hope to find out which year.
benny hill did loads of similar foreign accent stuff - e.g. "i was in a park looking at women sitting down on the grass and i see their pink knickers" (i.e. i see they're picnickers - women having a picnic).
I. C. V. D. O.
+Hi Ho Wolverhampton S., I. F. C. D. V. D. O.
N. U.? U. F. C. D. V. D. O.?
Y. S., I. F. C. D. V. D. O., I. L. O. L.@. D. V. D. O.
+Hi Ho Wolverhampton U. Z. U. L. O. L.? I. F. 2!
O. S, I. F. C. D. V. D. O, F. U. C. D. V. D. O?
Z (American) C N X L N comment.
E O L 2 BOTH OF U WE haven't anymore 2 give 2 u we haven't any more eggs R I P 2 BOTH OF U
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Purely using the alphabet, they manage to convey the Swedish vocabulary an make it funny at the same time.lol
And numbers
No in swedish is not "9", it is written nej and pronounced "nay" as in "may" so the no makes no sense
@@xr_nrtmstomp5139 But an extension of the joke teaching Swedish in Norwegian was doing it with a German accent, for an English audience, so 'Nein' fits all of that.
“A Swedish lesson with a difference… it’s in Norwegian.” LOL!
So clever that they came up with all that 🤣
Brilliant. Greatly missed
Wouldn't be aloud on tv this day in age. Shame cause its comedy gold
Genius stuff.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! this is hillarius, and I'm from Sweden
Awesome, I was wondering what Swedish person thought of this.
F N X L N T
0:11 that is the Svalbard muddle then
pure genius!
Very clever I'm may try that c.t t.t 🤔
Thanks for sharing. I needed a good laugh
When things go A-wire, this can lead to R-mageddon!
good student
T.T. Made me laugh so much!!!!
Always been a fan of tts
The innuendo - which here is about building up expectations then defying them by omission - is breathtakingly good.
We have to laugh at the smut that exists only in our own minds , like a growing soap bubble that the events effectively Pop!
SILLY COW
Hahaha, brilliant
Genius!
Superb, genius in fact.
Utterly brilliant.
The way the audience laugh after ct because they know whats coming
I have a craving for M.N.X. now....
And tts
Ordering salad in the Swedish hipster restaurant:
I. L. F. K. L. N. X.
Waiting in line:
I. M. N. D. Q.
When you need to go to the toilet at the beach:
U. P. N. D. C.
O.I.C.A.Q.
I.8.2.Q.B.4.I.P
On the Baltic coast - I.C.D.I.C.C.
Looking in the empty food cupboard
O. I. C. U. R. M. T.
Waiting to go up to the 25th floor:
I.M.N.D.L.F.8.R.
Getting sad news:
U.R.N.T.S.
After finishing a huge meal:
F.I.E.10.N.L.F.N.?
fantastic
BRILLIANT
typicle internet you get a classic sketch like this and the comments thread just gets packed with nitpickers
Did you spell typical wrong on purpose so you would get nitpicked on to prove your point? Well, here it is, four years late.
It's spelt typical lol
@@timbecile7006 You could have used a full stop after typical 5 years ago you know :)
If I had to do the captions, here is what I would do:
0:04 Good evening.
0:05 My name is Professor Gevister Ownvankar * Biddon.
0:11 Tonight we have a Swedish lesson for you, but there’s a difference.
0:15 It is in Norwegian.
0:18 Now I expect some of you are wondering why I am dressed as a waiter.
0:23 It is because tonight, our lesson is entitled “In the Restaurant”, or as we say in Sweden “Im De Restaurant”.
0:32 But before we go over to the scene, let me explain that as we act out our little drama for you, there will be on the screen subtitles, which, as you know, are used in Swedish films, and which are necessary to explain to the English people what is going on in the bedroom scenes.
0:51 To make it easier, we spell it out for you, we use only one letter for each word.
0:59 Now this also helps with the pronunciation, instead of putting “ Hello” we put “L.O.
1:09 You see on similarly, here we have here, P.T, you see pity.
1:17 And here we have C.T, city.
1:29 T.T.
1:36 And here, we have another picture for you.
1:40 Now come with me and we will begin the lesson.
1:51 L.O. (Hello.)
1:55 L.O (Hello.)
1:59 R.U.B.C. (Are you busy?)
2:03 S.V.R.B.C. (Yes. We are busy.)
2:07 L.O. (Hello.)
2:10 L.O. (Hello.)
2:12 L.O. (Hello.)
2:14 L.O.(Hello.)
2:19 F.U.N.E.X. (Have you any eggs?)
2:22 S.V.F.X. (Yes, we have eggs.)
2:27 F.U.N.E.M. (Have you any ham?)
2:31 9. (No.
2:35 I.F.C.D.M. (I have seen the ham.)
2:39 V.F.N.10.E.M. (We haven’t any ham.)
2:45 A.V.F.M. (Hey! We have ham!)
2:49 R. (Ahhh!)
2:51 O. (Oooh!)
2:54 C.D.M. (See? The ham!)
2:57 O.S.V.F.M. (Oh yes. We have ham.)
3:01 O.K.M.N.X. (Okay. Ham and eggs.)
3:05 M.N.X. (Ham and eggs.)
3:10 F.U.N.E.T. (Have you any tea?)
3:14 1.T. (One tea.)
3:17 1.T. (One tea.)
Magnificent
The Two Ronnies DID makes sense, it's just that their sketches were so quick you have to be really on the ball. I had to watch the mispronunciation sketch 5 times to get it all, it's so clever! May I also remind those who are offended by the accent, of The Swedish Chef on the Muppets?! Do you criticise the puppet for not sounding swedish?
I think he does pretty darn well for a puppet!!! He's not even human!
I like how the accent and outfits are German
Outstanding
PC has stopped programs like this ever being made again. R. I. P. British comedy.
I. P. T. M.
@@Slick_Tails? WTF is I. P. T. M.
@@imdbist I pity 'em
@@Slick_Tails none the wiser
SohJinh X. L. N!!
It's brilliant, considering how this is how cyber people chat on the internet like this now..............20 odd years before the event. And i fell about laughing realizing you do not get the "P T" picture joke till he says "CT" for the second pic....
If you like this, you'd probably like the two small books by William Steig, "CDB" and its sequel "CDC."
CDB was published in 1968, before The Two Ronnies began to air. Nevertheless, these guys did a GREAT job with the idea.
S I CDB with my BDI
I lost it at 9 🤣
I saw this for the first time just the other day and I couldn't stop laughing like an idiot, thank goodness my parents introduced me to The Two Ronnies :)
Thank goodness indeed; in today's PC world of crushing judgement and limited imagination you won't see their like again. V. happy that you love them and we can indeed thank providence that so many gems from the past were recorded.
Same
1:10 'Und similarlily'...so funny