American Reacts to What Happened to The Tube Map?! 

The poster that you thought might be the Rolling Stones or Oasis is a mockup of the promotional poster for the 1996 film Trainspotting (starring Ewan McGregor).

Fun fact: harry is so influential that his designs are now included in the GCSE and A level specifications

The green train on the poster is "Ivor the Engine" a children's cartoon from the 1950s and 1970's, very Welsh and a part of many British childhoods, similar to Noggin the Nog

Harry Beck, Hazardly portrayed by Jago. Part 1&2 have cameos by a whole host from the transport community.

A guinea was originally used in auction trading. If you purchased a horse for 3 guineas the owner got 3 pounds and the auctioneer got 3 shillings as commission.

Harry was never particularly rich, but his house in Hampshire was very nice. His wife was still alive when I was young and I used to play in the back garden.

Well today I learned that in America they call it "Thomas the train" , if you were wondering, we call it "Thomas the tank engine" in the UK. ❤

4:10 In joke. The music here is the theme tune of _"I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue"_ , a radio show featuring the fiendish Tube game _"Mornington Crescent"_ .

The only criticism of Harry Becks tube map design is if you like walking. So you find two stations that look close together and you think, "oh, I've got ten minutes to spare; I'll walk between them"; and then you find that in fact the stations are 20 minutes apart and instead of walking west-as they appear on his map-you should have walked south.

Nice to see Tim Traveler and Jago Hazzard putting in cameos.

Harry Beck! Harry Beck! Harry Beck ! Where is the IP and Copyright Lawyers!

I love your reaction to Map Men videos especially ones of my Hometown that have given me 69 wonderful years. Jay and Mark are extraordinarily clever and I am sure we all miss some of the subtleties in their videos:) At the end, they were playing "Maybe, It's Because I'm a Londoner" quietly in the background to his narrative. The Tube is summed up by that clip where he steps off the train ad see on the Travel Board that there are 4 trains in the next 9 minutes alone on just one part of one line:)

Loving all the Jay Foreman/Map Men content. I saw him live a few years ago. He was opening for Dave Gorman (another comedian I thoroughly recommend. Maybe his “Modern Life Is Goodish” shows, they’re all up on RU-vid)

I liked the cheer at Mornington Crescent

At 1:37 you said they had to wait for a train. There is a train roughly every 5 minutes

The poster at the back your thought might be rolling stones in the movie poster for trainspotting, (not a film about spotting trains)

The green train is Ivor the Engine - a stop motion animation series beloved of old farts like me (71) Try it - you'll love it!

The "Green Train" in the office is Ivor the Engine, a Welsh animation about a small shunting train in the Welsh Valleys.

Harry Beck, proof that people keep working if they have their needs met, even if they don't need to work/earn more to meet survival needs.

4:05 Mornington Crescent and the background music - There's a long running very silly Radio 4 improv comedy program called 'I'm sorry I Haven't a Clue' which started in 1972. The background music is from that and 'Mornington Crescent' is one of a number of very silly games that regularly features on it. The supposed object of the game is to name various London underground stations with the game ending when one of the contestants reaches Mornington Crescent. In reality the point of the game is to entertain listeners with the the weird rules that the panelists make up. How the game originally arose is subject to debate, but the version I like is that the panelists made it up to confuse and annoy a producer they didn't like! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7kwmYFo927g.html Posters behind 'Harold Hutchinson' are Thomas the Tank engine & friends and 'Ivor the Engine'. Ivor the Engine was one of four classic children's TV programs made by Oliver Postgate & Peter Firmin. The others are: Bagpuss, The Clangers and Noggin the Nog. They are without doubt the best children's TV programs ever made and still hugely popular. The Harry Beck poster you couldn't identify was from cult film 'Train Spotting' with Harry replacing the 5 main characters.

If you want to know how they did the trick of the camera already being there as he exits the train.... the time between trains is relatively short, like minutes, so if Jay got off at the previous stop, then got on the next train in 3 minutes, also trains stop within inches of the same place on the platform everytime.

The joke about 5 guineas was that he just converted it into decimal currency, which is indeed £5.25, and would not require a calculator to work out, but didn't bother to adjust for inflation, which is what we assumed he was doing. (Inflation adjusted, it's about £310 incidentally).

The Tag boys ought to graffiti the London Underground with Harry Beck is a legend 😂

It is Jago! He did the 'You are the >thing< to my >thing

Since this video was released they've made it a bit better as the London Overground has been split up into its different lines with separate names and colours on the map - although there was some opposition to the specific names and colours chosen.

This channel is such a nice way to start the day. Sweet, funny gentle and educational.❤

Mornington Crescent

I love the fact, that you did not get the Mornington Crescent reference. You have to be particularly British to understand that.

Harry Beck (Jago Hazzard) standing outside if TFL offices say ' Well I hope you enjoyed all my decades if hard work...' is a nod to Jago's own you tube videos, which you should check out some time.

I love the way you react to the videos you choose especially The Map men and you disserve many more subs.

5 guineas in the 1930s would be worth about £460 today. Still strikes me as cheap.

Fun fact: There's a momentous face reveal in this video. Jago Hazzard (playing Harry Beck here) already had tons of videos on RU-vid by this time, but he had never appeared in any of them, only doing voiceovers, leading to a fair bit of speculation as to what he looks like and whether he would ever do a reveal. At 9:29, he identifies himself by saying a version of the catchphrase he uses on every one of his videos, "Well, I hope you enjoyed this X" and after thanking his supporters, " you are the Y to my Z".

4:25 just to help your confusion here. Mornington Crescent is a tube station and also a game on the radio show "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" (the music playing is the theme for that show) The game is nonsense and based around trying to get to Mornington Crescent on the tube. Hence the difficult bit in the comment. The show is also a comedy show with an imaginary assistant Samantha (or Sven depending on which one was available).

Kudos to Harry!

Green Train on the poster is Ivor the Engine, probably some on RU-vid, Kids cartoon.

Jay Foreman also sings a song made up of all the tube stations.

I googled Woking, it's to the south west of London. Never been sure where it was exactly.

Mornington Crescent! Great game!!!

9:30 In joke. The actor, Jago Hazzard, is delivering a variation of the thanks that he puts in his own videos.

could have used him for the Glasgow subway map oh no wait it's just a fucking circle.

The poster on the wall what you thought looked like the rolling stones is actually a British film from 1996 called trainspotting staring Johnny Lee Miller Robert Carlyle and Ewan McGregor

Cockfosters is a great entry point for motorists visiting London for a day or a few days ... if coming from the North. A large pay car park is right next to Cockfosters tube station, the northern terminus of the Piccadilly Line. This tube line is normally the only one you'll ever need as it stops at almost all of the popular London areas ... or within easy walking distance of them.

Yes we need the Tube Map. Never get rid of the Tube Map. I like how it looks these days.

So when are you visiting the UK and London? Christmas and summer are best. YOU DECIDE!

The poster of 5 Harry Becks is Trainspotting! Get it?

I'm sure it's already been said below, but the poster was from Train Spotting (so a little joke there too) Great stuff and yes poor Harry Beck! (And poor Harry Back's wife!)

I went to Uni in that mansion, when Trent Park (near Cockfosters) was part of Middlesex University. The University of the place that no longer exists.

My favourite part was your reaction to the train to LA airport not being there yet. 😂 You would make such a wonderful psychopath in a movie. And I mean that in the absolutely best possible way.

£535 for a semi-dethatched... if only its still

The map is horrid now, there's obvious errors all over. Liverpool St and Paddington are ugly and inaccurate and parallel routes are split awkwardly to fit in the disabled symbols which are pointless because there's a dedicated disabled map that all disabled people basically have to use anyway. It's also baffling showing the Elizabeth line, Overground, DLR and trams all as double parallel lines when they're nothing alike. The Elizabeth line is actually a weird orphan that for some reason was not made part of the underground despite being very similar to the original underground line the Metropolitan.

@ 11:42 the poster in the top right it a parody of the film Trainspotting, a corker of a film it is to really worth a watch or even a huge reaction vid.

"No good deed goes unpunished"

The la map you showed looked surprisingly, er, like a different symbol tbh, didn't expect that. Mornington Crescent btw, is also a reference to a very British and usually very funny radio comedy programme called "I'm sorry I haven't a clue" [ISIHAC for short] which I think is on BBC radio 4. "Mornington Crescent" is the name of one of the long running jokes/segments of the show. You would probably like the programme ISIHAC actually, but I think there's a wikipedia article on the Mornington Crescent joke?

At least they did honour him in the end 👍

We definitely need the River! We do not need the Overground (or the trams, which are a very limited service).

It's Cockfosters, not Cockfoster. It was literally written in block capitals right in front of you.

11:36 Joke. The poster on the right is a pastiche on One Direction, a pop group featuring Harry Styles.

The poster was Trainspotting. You should watch it to see some real British culture.

I want someone to make the movie of Harry's life .. an unsung hero 😢

Duh! Don't look at the guy behind the curtain (camera)!

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TSUlQix3GdU.html the poster top-right is a spoof of the Trainspotting film poster.

Does anyone know if the guy playing Alan Foale at 11:10 is the RU-vidr Half-Asleep Chris? Definitely looks like him. I’ve recognised a few people in Jay’s videos like Jon from No Rolls Barred and Adam Blampied was in one too

Was just gonna say about the trainspotting poster. Good film, you should give it a watch. 😊 ✌❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈 xxx

don't make me laff mate...they ripped him off!! "he did it to himself" joke... omfg

Is your revenue based on the number of times you say ‘cock’? 😂

Some of the characters in this video, and part 1, are played by other RU-vid content creators Harry Beck: @JagoHazzard Frank Pick: @GeofMarshall The French Metro representative: @TheTimTraveller