American Reacts - THE RICKY GERVAIS SHOW - S2 E5 - Insects 

harry potty and the....*insert your own toilet humor*

Karl's got you googling if moths have eyes, you're officially one of us now.

Ricky, pointing at Karl: "You slimey little boneless wanker!" Steve: "Are you still talking to the octopus?" I forgot about this part, had me in stitches again 🤣. You're adorable and entertaining as always Mandy. These always improve my day 🥰

Steve asks questions that seem stupid because it gets a funny answer from Karl Don't underestimate Steve! We wouldn't have half the great Karl quotes if Steve wasn't there

“If moths had eyes”…. All hell breaks loose 😂😂😂😂

There's actually a very weird evolutionary history for moths and butterfly, butterflies evolved from moths, but moths evolved from a species similar to modern butterflies, so they had a tube mouth to a regular insect mouth, back to a tube mouth. The *really* weird thing is these older butterflies had tube mouths for sucking nectar from plants before plants evolved to make nectar. Sorry for the word salad, hopefully everyone understands what I mean

Oh, trust me, Manders if you watch the full XFM things, if anything, these are cut short of Karl moments there dude is so much more random and deep, you don’t even know lol 😂

The man they found in Ireland was a Bronze age Celt, Celts often styled their hair and placed their dead in swamps and bogs as they viewed bodies of water as portals to "the other world".

I love how he explains Inside the actors studio and says "interviews famous actors" and Clive Warren is the one being interviewed in the animation.

The UK only switched to Celsius in the 60s. Ricky was born in the early 60s, so probably grew up with people still using the old measurement system so it stuck with him. I know many his age or older who still use old imperial measurements

At 32:12 the scientists finding the new flies are the same scientists from when Ricky said is it the fat scientist eating chocolate

When you were saying your stomach hurt from laughing Ricky was holding his stomach as well. Hilarious episode.

My stomach is hurting too, and this is the 100th time I've seen this, it still gets me! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I think Karl probably thinks Moths can't see because they never stop bumping into things.

The news about finding two new flies is incredible. (Well, to Karl anyway) They were "close to each other" & "within the same distance". 🤣 Genius! Mandy, who's clearly become a keen lepidopterist 🦋, helps clears things up by supplying the scientific names... Jerry & Fred! Hehe great stuff!

Your laughter is contagious! Keep the reactions coming

Octopus is actually quite normal compared with some managers in workplaces and downright weird people

Octopus is my fave animal, 3 hearts, 9 brains, blue blood, ability to change colour and texture, c’mon, they’re pretty fucking metal!!

Your laughter is contagious 😂 Ricky laughs then you laugh, then I laugh

Moths do have eyes but they are mostly blind, They navigate by seeing ultraviolet rays we can't see. They have one of the most basic eyes in the animal kingdom which is called (Ocelli) which can only differentiate dark from light. It's why they always gravitate towards your lights in a house/apartment if inside.

This is only where the animation ends, the actual episodes go on for about an hour, its a whole new world of karl 😂

RE: octopus "They're really crazy and not like other things." Squid?

Mandy's look of joy on her face when a Karl episode begins is something to behold! Insects Episode - I was honestly expecting Ricky would find the opportunity somewhere to scold Karl for confusing spiders with insects, David Mitchell style. David Mitchell to Sara Pascoe on WILTY: "They're not insects they're arachnids" and "Let's be factually inaccurate..." When Stephen challenged Karl with "What sort of stuff, any examples?" I knew Karl always has examples, I mean every - single - time, no matter how bizarre or unbelievable they may seem!

Another uplifting, first-class, fun reaction Mandy !!! 👍 Keep smiling and laffing !!! 👍😎😎🎩

Stephen: "If moths had eyes..." Ricky: "Fuck me!!!😂" Mandy: 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Ow, my stomach hurts! 😂

Always nice to wake up to one of your Ricky Gervais Show reactions and Mandy's storytime.😉

3:08 the butterflies like .....TF you looking at? 😅

Re: Attempting to revive the bee: I'm paraphrasing the conversation I had here, as it's been a while... About 15 years ago I worked at a call center for an animal welfare organisation. We'd take reports of injured or distressed animals and send someone out to investigate/rescue them. One time, a woman phoned and told me that she had found a dead seagull, most likely a Herring Gull. Of course, they're not endangered, so while finding one dead is sad, it's not something that needs to be reported. I thanked her for letting us know and explained that no further action need be taken. "Aren't you going to send someone out?" she asked. Curious, I asked why we would send someone out, bearing in mind what I just told her. "Can't one of your officers try to revive it?" she asked. For the first time in that job, I was actually speechless, and sat for a few seconds with my mouth open. Eventually I answered "I'm sorry, I'm afraid our officers are not trained to resuscitate dead seagullls". I was aware of the odd (very rare) occasion where cats or dogs had been resuscitated, but seagulls might have been asking a bit much. Besides, it could have been dead for hours, and it would likely be at least another hour before we could get someone there (the organisation is a charity with no public funding, so its resources are limited). The woman, sounding vaguely surprised and disappointed thanked me for my time and said her farewells, leaving me to scratch my head and figure out how to word the call notes.

I love the little "Meeeep" from the weird seashell creature 🙂

35:04 now *that*'s a clip worth previewing at the top of the video. Glorious! 🤣

You say an octopus could be aliens, I say jellyfish.

24:23 Clive Warren makes an appearance.

Oh mate, I really enjoy your Karl Pilkington and reactions over all reactions you do they are by far the best just because he is so fucking unique and your expressions when you see his character revealed to you are just fucking hilarious man I love it. I hope that you keep exploring Karl lol x

Thanks for helping to keep me entertained during my recovery from Covid, Mandy. Much appreciated!

I swear Gervais is the only English person that uses Farenheit

You have a brilliant laugh . Never get tired of hearing it

An octopus is definitely a weird creature! But we’re a weird creature to an octopus. And since they’ve been around 300 million years and we’ve been around 200 thousand years I think they have the moral high ground ;)

The real reason that Ricky keeps using Fahrenheit is that he knows a lot of Americans are listening to the podcast and he's trying to be comprehensible to them

I remember watching this for the first time also and Ricky's laugh kept making me laugh too 🤣

Ooh no. not Anemone 'round every corner? It surely is a Jungle out there

This was sooooooo freaking good!! I loved how much you loved the episode :D All three of them had moments that had you in stitches at certain points which was awesome. Ricky has some great one-liners. One of them is "don't. talk. shit!" which he says in this one but in one show he says "don't. talk. shit. twice!!" I've had an urge to hear that for ages lol but I have no clue which ep it's from. I've watched every one of yours and it hasn't happened yet so i've still got it to look forward to. I always especially enjoy when they're having conversations about any types of animal so this was definitely one of my favourites and to see you enjoying it so much too made it amazingly entertaining and fun. 😍🤩🤗 Oh and I thought moths were blind too until now 😅

My fav episode 😂😂. Great reaction as always 👏👏👏😂😂😂😂

thanks mandy, good one. i like wen Ricky sums up his thoughts on Karls dialogue, by saying f**k me😅 says it all

35:05 Nice to see someone laughing so much it hurts. 😂😂😂

3:34 reminds me of an artwork called "A and Bee" by Mr Kuu. It's the top hit from a google search 😁

Wonderful reaction Mandy, your laugh, smile, giggling and stories are really just the best ☺

Actually closer to about 102 (38-39) at that time (to be specific) which since then became 105 / forecasts > 110+ (41-43).

That's how we do it over here - way it is!

I am glad you are enjoying our British comediens, but I would watch your videos just to hear your laugh! ☺️

I can’t recall you reacting to Ricky and Karl “Learning English”….I may have missed it, but if you are yet to see it, this is hilarious.

For another great British comedian try The Sh*ts Abroad! | Micky Flanagan Live: The Out Show. He’s a real cockney geezer and very very funny

10:25 Not at *fur* AM!? lol Six cats too! Better than six flatmates I bet though! Great reaction as usual Mandy! Can't wait for the next ep! Hope you're well!

You googled the wrong thing Mandy. Try... "are moths blind" They can see light and dark. That's it. 😉

Mick from Australia Mandy. Your laugh is so infectious. Great episode. Loved it.

That was hilarious, Mandy, made even better by your adorable reaction - you're the best! 👍😂😂😂

1:50 “the freakin Fahrenheit” 😂 Mandy turn over your American card!

I don’t know why the hair gel was so weird. But obviously it wasn’t L’Oréal or anything, but may have been some animal fat or plant extract that the corpse had in its hair. I am an anthropologist, and we don’t know of any society, past or present, who don’t modify the body in some way, in small ways like styling or clipping the hair, painting the skin or major ways like circumcision or scarification.

A little spoon of honey or sugar dissolved in water revives bees on cold days or if they have been caught in a downpour 🐝🐝🐝

I always find it weird too how one minute he's talking about an octopus then he goes on about jellyfish, but i know he hates both, and it is Karl😂

I was watching another reaction channel and I got up to make a cuppa tea. The reaction finished while I was in the kitchen I heard a familiar laugh emanating from my phone. I immediately thought "oh, that's Mandy". Now watched 3 of your reactions in a row. 😂😂 I'm curious how you ended up living in Argentina. ✌❤🇬🇧

34:29 If there was something crazy about Mary, they could clone the fella 🐑🐑 😜

lol! 30, 35. It's closer to 40C. Pretty much between 35 - 40. 40-45 is the new normal for heatwaves in London these days & going forward, aka 110f.

They can see very well your average moth

I’m fascinated by Karl. That’s why he’s in my profile picture haha. I love the fact he really thinks insects have little jobs and personalities and social lives

I know I sound like a broken record, but your reactions to these make me so happy! When you're laughing so hard your stomach hurts, I'm doing the same 😂

Had solitary 1 inch moth, just dropped unalive after week. True. 🇬🇧🙏👵

That poem was really deep

The nick diaz analogy was perfect

24:55 inside the actor's studio was filmed in a theater with audience. i guess they tried to make it close to that

We had loads of spiders one summer and I don’t like to kill them, but I thought I would give it the old hakuna Matata and chuck them in the river so the fish could eat them (I live on a boat). I was just lobbing my nine millionth spider overboard when, to my horror, I discovered that spiders can swim (or at least not sink) and a horde of eight-legged avengers were scuttling across the surface, right back to where they had just been evicted from!

Sorry I'm late on this but yes, the Fahrenheit / Celsius thing is true, but there is a generational divide I think. Brits born before 1980 can often think in both scales and will often use Fahrenheit to highlight high temperatures, and Celsius to highlight low ones. The "minus 3, minus 4" (or whatever) that Ricky mentioned would've been in Celsius, because -3° sounds colder than 25°. And then the 60° in Fahrenheit because it sounds hotter than 16°. This is nothing you don't know by now, just wanted to put my two cents in. And like I say, younger people, millennials onward, do this a lot less because they scarcely remember Fahrenheit and have no intuition for it. Also, FYI, 100°F is 37.8°C. Anything over 30°C (86°F), especially for 3 days or more, tends to be classed as a heatwave in the UK. Don't laugh. 😅

Ricky says Fahrenheit because he's aware of his predominantly American audience so he peaks more in terms they'd understand unlike karl edit, glad you had so much fun with this one!

Just to let you know there's a ton of content on YT from their podcast, a lot of which that wasn't on the Ricky Gervais show. There's a video around 4 hours of Karl Pilkington on animals, might be too long for you to react to but might be some insect content for you to check out and not sure Ive heard some of that yet because the videos are so long.

He's probably been reading Moth Weekly!

My favorite episode,cracks me up every time 😄😄😄

We have cute fat Bumble Bee's over here. They don't scare me, because if they sting you they die. So they rarely sting. It's wasps I hate, because they can sting and survive.

My mum uses farenheit but everyone else I know uses Celsius so maybe it's a generational thing

Mandy the moth herder 👍 A brilliant episode with a hilarious reaction 😊

funnily enough a moth was standing on my laptop screen the other day and fell off on to the keyboard, I did the humane thing and put it on my desk to recover...still there the next day dead ...I wont claim it died from an art attack though...(heart attack)

I have seen this so many times but always crack up at the eyes vs wings reference, without ever actually thinking about it. I never once called him out on moths not having eyes and now I feel dumb lol I was distracted by the wings side of the comment. I guess that is what happend to them as well.

You didn't talk about my cool Fahrenheit fact about measuring temperature with cricket chirps!

We use both Fahrenheit and Celsius, we also use both Metric and Imperial. I really really hope one day, you will come to the UK. When I say UK I mean London. Looooooool. Superb Reaction

4 random things - I have an alternate title for this video. Mandy the moth whisperer and the cat kerfuffle. - Funny that you don't like moths, but when you do touch one, you go straight for the butt. 🤔 - Something about Mary, not many people can disgust themselves with their own running joke. 👍 - I love octopuses 🐙 they are the coolest.

What would you do, if you were swimming and came across an octopus, and it spat at you? I’d kick it and call it a knob head. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Always a thumbs-up up for you mandy, great channel 👍🇬🇧

We have Massive Moths in Scotland and would never harm them. We sit on their backs and use them instead of British Airways. 🦋

Mandy’s Brother: Waits until dark. Turns on all lights. Opens windows. Moths fly in. “Clearly a sign from God!”

Karl is actually very intuitive and unique in his thinking but far from stupid, he has a lot of common sense and far from stupid, he dragged himself up from nothing, early on in the xfm radio show days when he first started working with ricky and steve, he was the producer, and was very good at his job, he played along with a lot of what he became known for, not to say he isnt genuine, but he knows what ricky and steve are after, even Ricky has said he was in on it a lot, even though non of it was ever rehearsed or written. He cant be compared to a punch drunk ufc fighter who is genuinely thick as shit, and not at all funny. Im glad you like karl though.

Caveman with hair gel is funny...Its amazing how gullible Karl is because that hair would have decomposed by now...I still love listening to his waffle though.

I keep thinking the movie 007 Octopussy. 😂And at the end of one Sanford and Son episode, they called insects "incest." 😂 Since Karl mentioned jelly fish, I heard if you get stung by one, a good way to stop the stinging is to have a friend piss on the site of the sting. 🤢People who have been through that say it actually works. My favorite curse word: Fuck. Second favorite: Shit. Third favorite: Ass. Interesting Karl is so comfortable letting them read his diary. Pause at 30:53. I feel that way sometimes. If aliens had eyes. If fish had eyes. 😂 Karl cracks me up with his stories. Watch a moth in a jar. Let a lady bug crawl up his arm. His stories like that are like a ten year old on an elementary school playground or in his back yard. 😂 And now, I'm off to use my harry potty. 😂Mr. Chug Big Hole, out. 😂

You didn't notice Clive warren with James Lipton

Thought you were going to mention Tito Ortiz with the UFC mention... The things that would come out of his mouth would have me rolling.. " a bad girl"

35:07 This made my morning Ily! Xx

14:41 i bet Karl has heard those words a billion times in his life

I could give you names of very famous fish that have died... Clarissa is the first to come to mind, caught at 44lb by Chris Yates from Redmire. It was the British record for years. Then there was Benson the huge common carp... It's always sad to see these fish go...

Great episode.

You then get the maniacs who say 20 Degrees Celsius?? It's one or the other!

So there was 1 moth in the room, then 2 moths and then 9 moths. That's 12 in total, right? You do the moths :) haha. Well, another great reaction video that I saved up for the right moment of the day. Your laughs make it all worthwhile. The one at the beginning of the first poem was great :) Karl's poems are a delight. The machinations of Karl's thoughts in rhyme. What more could we want? Octopi, is the plural btw. Thank you for doing what you do. Harry Potty & the Chamber of bowel movements.

So Mandy the Moth whisperer

This episode is too good.