American Reacts to How The Tube Map Was Made 

The attention to detail is wild. There's a sign outside Frank Pick's office that says "No Smoking Here- smoke indoors like everybody else"

A little detail that you likely won't have picked up on, Frank Pick was played by UK railway youtuber Geoff Marshall and in a detail that I only picked up on when he got a speaking part in the follow-up video, Harry Beck was played by London Transport History RU-vidr Jago Hazzard... its worth looking into content from both of them

The one with ‘backstabbing central’ etc is an Alan Partridge reference - an iconic character of British comedy

He's chopping carrots because he'd just talked about early Tube advertising posters "that your middle class friends have in their kitchens". There's one on the wall behind him. The details in his videos are amazing but if you blink you'll miss them.

Just FYI... the people who play Harry Beck and Frank Pick in this video are also RU-vidrs who make content on the histoty and transport of London (Jago Hazzard and Geoff Marshall). Geoff also did a series with Jay about the A1.

Actually his moustache wasn’t buried with him. After Charles’ death the moustache was removed and placed to lie in State in Westminster Abbey. Later the then Archbishop of Canterbury proclaimed the moustache had performed several miracles in life leading it to be canonised and later, by more extremist factions, deified. To this day Londoners cannot travel on the tube without some form of facial hair in tribute and at 1pm on the dot all commuters pause for a moment’s silence in deference to the mighty facial hair.

People doing things because it interests them and not for money is incredibly British. We’ve always been terrible at profiting from our inventions.

I absolutely love to listen to you , I love your accent and map men . Keep it up ❤❤❤

12:55 You missed the sign next to the door. "No Smoking Here - Please smoke indoors like everybody else" No surprise that you missed it, of course. I've watched the Jay Foreman video several times and this is the first time I've seen it.

not sure if you noticed the no smoking sign outside the office at just before 13:00 - I love the time they put in for quick incidental jokes

Thankfully part 2 is already available

Oh yes indeedy - just like Map Men, there's a whole load of Unfinished Londons, just as funny, but Jay Foreman is on his own for these. If you hadn't already done this vid I might have recommended them.

I always thought the “why does the Chicken criss the road” joke in here is hilarious

"You missed out Woking" Woking, of course, is not on the London Underground: it's not even in London. Is this a comic reference to the idea that Woking, a busy junction on the main railway network, is the kind of place which might be overlooked? It has applied for city status (like Reading, lampooned in the "Map Men" video about "What is a city?") and been repeatedly rejected, despite having skyscrapers.

There’s a game on my favourite radio show (I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue) called Mornington Crescent based around the Tube. It takes much skill and years of playing to truly understand.

you must be the only person iv'e seen pick up and laugh at a lot of the small jokes in these vids, most reactors cant focus on the info and the jokes, you make my sides split with your laughter thanks for putting these out

That was great and the significance of those last comments is that they came to be and The Circle Line did become Yellow etc:)

Jay's videos are always great - some great cameos in this one - Geoff Marshall as Frank Pick, with his nonchalant face is very funny. Also, I like that you're genuinely curious about stuff, and aren't afraid to veer off and double check something now and again - you have the right attitude.

That seagull @ 2:13 ...! 😆😆😆

"Harry Beck" is played by Jago Hazzard

Education is what we need for the children and the beauty queens!

I can't wait to see you react to more Jay Foreman.

I love how you’re so easily entertained with the British humour . 😂 get in bruv! 👊 🇬🇧

That's how you know if your platform is on the Tube or the Mainline. Tube i's have diamond dots; Mainline i's have square ones.

😂Red circle blue line then Jay pauses and says great branding blue circle red line , have you had a few beers 🍺🍺🍺👍

Chers JJ and JF!

I love your MapMen videos 😊 Thanks!

Very nice, very funny! Thank you for introducing me to these videos, which I watch both in the original channel and also here, to enjoy your comments! 😊

The reason he was in the kitchen with an old tube poster in the background was because he joked vintage tube posters and branding are common posters in Middle Class people’s kitchens 👍

The tube maps do change the latest change has been the cross London Elizabeth line running from East to West

Fun fact: the guy playing the character confused about what train to get presents a TV show called “secrets of the London Underground”

New subscriber here ! I've watched this video a bunch of times already (because, funnily enough, I started becoming more interested in metro systems thanks to videos b Geoff Marshall and Jago Hazzard, the guys who play Frank Pick and Harry Beck in this video), so it's always fun to come back to it. A few jokes you may have missed: 1. The poster next to the UERL office says "Back entrance for deliveries and getting fired". 2. Frank Pick has the same pose throughout the video because in all photos of him online, he's doing the same "writing at my desk" pose. LOL ! 3. The whole "Make the Central line red...." comment is actually alluding to the fact that those were the colour changes they did on the map that they use today.

To be fair to Frank Pick he was right about people taking tube journeys that would be shorter by foot, and it’s not just tourists! During my commute when I lived in London I’d see the same people queue at London Bridge each day to travel one stop, when it was much quicker to just walk across the bridge! 😂

Jay Foremans video on London's Tram network is worth watching

Everyone's talking about Jago Hazzard and Geoff Marshall so I'd like to mention that Charles Yerkes is played by John Henry Falle, a member of an excellent (and now sadly defunct) comedy troupe called The Beta Males that I had the good fortune to see at the Edinburgh Fringe a few years running. 🙂

First time I've watched you, you're great

The glasses are a joke. People sometimes call very thick lens glasses "coke bottle glasses" because they look like glass bottle bottoms. However in the video, it looks like they cut the tops off 2 actual coke bottles and used them as lenses.

Hey, he's got Geoff Marshall as Frank Pick🤣

I have hundreds of the controversial short-lived Tube Map which had the Thames removed.

I live in burnt oak yeah

The next part is already done - "What eent wrong with the Tube Map?"

Bank Station is futhher apart than Liverpool Street is from Moorgate.

05:58 that was clever using 'Geoff Marshall' photo (as Frank Pick) owner of his London Trains RU-vid channel !

That could be Jago Hazzard as Harry Beck. He said he was in some their video but he doesn't show his face in his own videos so we've never seen him before🙃

Again, I'm not sure which is funnier, the map men videos or your reactions, hilarious! Love your vids :)

Mornington Crescent .... inevitably

JJLA: you missed a joke early on - there are no trains (well one tourist train that runs on the road) or Tube in Ibiza

The moustache lived on, it survived a number of wives and now lives in a small retirement home in Torquey!

The video inside the video Is by a channel called Map Men, it's very funny I can highly recommend.

you asked if there was any meaning to chopping carrots? probably not, beyond that it's taking place in the kitchen. Though you may recall a remark about people having certain pictures in their kitchen a little earlier in the video? Have a look on the kitchen wall when he's cutting the carrots. edit: yes, and the cheating bit.

"popping down"

London’s “Deep Tube” was pioneered by American businessman Charles Yerkes.

We should welcome your comments. But we might not

I gather that the Brits invented the public transportation map, which has been copied in cities everywhere. Once you learn how the map works, you can understand how to navigate in any city.

That's not Frank Pick... It's Geoff Marshall...

The examples of branding shown are largely modern iterations based on designs from the 1920s

We need Jago to react to this reaction, if only to kill himself laughing at JJLA's big up of CTY. And answer the question, WHY did UREL fire Harry Beck in 1931 in the first place, did they not need draughtsperson for new lines and revisions for signalling , etce

I love how all the profile pictures on the RU-vid comments are black and white.

I despise the London underground map. As someone who uses the tube rarely I find it completely confusing, because it has no relation to street patterns or distance. One station is directly across the road from another, yet if you didn't know that you would take a massive train journey to get between the two if you relied upon the map. Underground staff are also notoriously rude and dismissive that help is practically unavailable. I hate it

An unfinished unfinished London review....

Haven't even stsrted the video. This is goong to go so horribly wrong, and I know it.

The USA actually sorted this mess out for us so thanks..........Dude

Maybe I missed the joke 😂

Are you drunk? 😅

Stop pausing! Talk before and after made it so boring

When someone has thick eye glasses some people in the UK would reference them as “Jam jars” I think that’s why map men’s Harry has jars for glasses