I Asked 64,182 People About “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells”. Here's What I Found Out.

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Thanks to Jack from Jacksfilms on piano: / jacksfilms • And thanks to everyone who answered! Sources and a data download are in the description.
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Комментарии : 27 тыс.

@TomScottGo 3 года назад

Merry Un-Christmas, everyone! And thanks to Jack, do check out his channel if you don't know it. (One bit of minutiae that didn't make the video: Bart also sang it in the very first episode, but the lyrics were slightly different and the show wasn't a pop culture phenomenon back then.)

@lemmylol8774 3 года назад

HELLO

@TheElvisnator 3 года назад

Happy Un-Easter, everyone!

@theTOPSTARrap 3 года назад

@@TheElvisnator hi!!

@TheElvisnator 3 года назад

How you realize a Tom Scott Video: Comment older than the video Red T-Shirt(s)

@TheElvisnator 3 года назад

@@theTOPSTARrap Howdy

@saifuusuri 3 года назад

"And the Joker saved the day." That's no parental interference, that's straight up Joker propaganda.

@aaronhe6877 3 года назад

BREAKING NEWS: Tom Scott is hired by Joker to spread Joker propaganda

@parahaxeus1267 3 года назад

The gamer version

@1234bobfox 3 года назад

It's "the Joker got away" DUH

@elijaha773 3 года назад

The Joker ran away. No ballet involved. Although the image of the joker doing pointe is funny.

@erictaylor5462 3 года назад

But which Joker? Cesar Romero?

@angryasparagus6982 3 года назад

"Jingle bells, batman smells, Robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost a wheel and the joker got away!" Is sung by the joker in the animated series.

@sam-fr5tc 3 года назад

And the joker got AYWAYYYYYYYYAHHHHHH

@anzoarts345 3 года назад

That's the version I've always known

@jak7826 3 года назад

Thats the version i know because i watched batman: the animated series.

@erinmcloughlin4045 3 года назад

Mine was that, except we sang and the joker did ballet

@elizabethgundrum2619 3 года назад

I knew that version before Batman: the animated series did it. Circa 1987/88 SW Missouri

@notamuffin Год назад

The "Uncle Billy lost his willy" part legitimately unlocked a long forgotten memory of me and my friends as kids nearly pissing our pants with laughter singing this.

@NotMadA47.2 10 месяцев назад

“- on the motorway. Hey.” Rest of what I know.

@Fane7 9 месяцев назад

I was born in 2007 and this was still the version in my primary school.

@qwaabza 9 месяцев назад

@@NotMadA47.2yo, 'new' bottom surgery just dropped

@ForestFire369 9 месяцев назад

@@qwaabzaBruh I laughed way too hard at that

@TheMoonRover 8 месяцев назад

I remember hearing that as "Uncle Billy had a ten foot willy"

@reid4758 Год назад

Shout out to my second grade best friend who I made up "the joker did ballet" with. We felt so special. 1,500 other people sang that. My childhood is dead.

@underscoredfrisk 8 месяцев назад

fr thats crazy

@emokidvirgil 7 месяцев назад

At least the version i made up in childhood wasn't mentioned it was "joker farted away" very lame childhood fart joke but at least it was "original"

@ethanburns4011 7 месяцев назад

Maybe you thought you made it but kids in our playground also sang “Joker did ballet”

@ferretyluv 4 месяца назад

We knew it too in the mid-Atlantic. That’s the version I always knew.

@rhettorical 2 дня назад

When I was a little boy in SoCal in the '90s, every single other little boy I knew also knew the exact same version, and it was "the Joker played ballet". Almost exactly your version, and I just assumed it was something that everyone knew. I've also never seen the Simpsons.

@zacgilbert8871 3 года назад

“You cant get 98% of Americans to agree on anything” -Tom Scott 2020 The sad truth

@nukelernicky7793 3 года назад

Would you rather they were all the same and didn’t have differing opinions?

@trashtrash2169 3 года назад

cant get 98 percent of any group to agree on anything perfectly.

@synonymous1079 3 года назад

You can probably get them to hate the Brits.

@isaace436 3 года назад

Except independence from Britain, we got that one right

@tobybartels8426 3 года назад

@@synonymous1079 : Americans? No, we love Britain! And usually at least some actual British people.

@lev4175 Год назад

90s kid aussie here, we always sung it as "robin laid an egg. Batmobile lost its wheel and Santa got away" because Santa breaks into people's houses and is a repeat offender.

@professornuke7562 11 месяцев назад

70's Aussie kid here. The one he showed here is the one of my youth. Robin flies away, and Linda Carter was left boobless. I went to the 13th Australian Scout Jamboree flying TAA, and half expected, at the age of 14 to see and American flag bikini top hanging over a seat somewhere.

@SladeDaName Год назад

The amount of British pride behind Tom’s delivery of “-but over here, he. flies. away.” is so powerful lmao

@Copur_ 3 года назад

"Robin laid a gun" is the most american thing that could've happened to it

@PopsiclesInMyCellar 3 года назад

So true

@PyroPuffs777 3 года назад

Excuse the technical term is _firearm oviparity_

@supernerd1999 3 года назад

8:12

@dtp0119 3 года назад

I actually remember that version

@carlwheezer55 3 года назад

More American if it was in a school

@samlamping5047 3 года назад

“Robin laid a GUN.” The keyboard slam just straight up killed me.

@Dicen_Delirio 3 года назад

"Keyboard"

@607 3 года назад

Galia Del Rio Yes, in English that part of the organ, piano, etc, is called 'keyboard'.

@LetoDK 3 года назад

@@Dicen_Delirio that's what it's called. Its been called keyboard long before computer keyboards came around.

@JasperJanssen 3 года назад

LetoDK they weren’t called keyboards before the piano and harpsichord, though. In organs, they’re called “manuals”, and you typically have 2 to 5 of them. I know, I know, etymology isn’t relevant, but it is also the subject of this entire video.

@LaserKoray 3 года назад

Umm, it’s called a Letter table

@cinnatamminen5367 Год назад

Really didn't expect to see the Swedish version included here. Haven't heard it since I was a kid myself. What memories it brought.

@Kaofie 7 месяцев назад

Agreed! and it was honestly really well performed from someone who probably doesn't even speak swedish

@najrenchelf2751 Год назад

8:10 - the pause in Jack’s playing is killing me right now... the abruptness, the death stare, and the casual continuation! 😹😹

@PentaB313 2 года назад

“Jingle-bells Batman smells, robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost a wheel and the joker got away, hey!” is the only way I ever knew it

@kaejamieson1458 2 года назад

Yes

@bossbabyfunnymoments6187 2 года назад

Same

@JoeboWasTaken 2 года назад

same

@ayt444 2 года назад

Same

@thenobalnacho 2 года назад

"The joker took ballet" is the nonsense version that I learned

@kayleighh6213 3 года назад

Honestly, this could have been a Bachelor's thesis for a linguistics student

@JetstreamGW 3 года назад

I mean, surely it'd have to cover a broader range of things.

@papagunit 3 года назад

Would've taken them years to collect this much quality data haha

@MattsAwesomeStuff 3 года назад

Tom Scott's degree *is* in linguistics. Not computer science.

@denelson83 3 года назад

Bang your lingui-sticks on your ear-drums.

@ilyaholt8607 3 года назад

@@papagunit I feel like Tom has a slight advantage of having millions of people watching his content in that sense.

@timothymallon Год назад

I was born in the USA. As a small child, in grade school, I learned "Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid and egg. The Batmobile, lost its wheel and the Joker got away, Hey!" and that would have been around 1976, roughly. But no later than 1979. Consequently, we also learned a little ditty that went, "Batman's in the kitchen, Robin's in the hall, Joker's in the bathroom, peeing on the wall"

@2two10one5 Год назад

I remember the version with joker peeing on the wall. I remember singing that as a kid I am glad someone else brought it up

@rightsock_asock5574 Год назад

I was looking for someone who heard that second part! I heard it with the joker and robin switched at the end, though, and I’ve heard both “the joker got away” and “the joker did ballet”. Very interesting!

@Planetvorton 10 месяцев назад

FINALLY! I knew there was another verse, but I couldn't for the life of me remember what it was. Thank You!

@Krivbeknih29303 Год назад

'Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost its wheel and the joker got away' is the version I know

@yayuman3486 Год назад

I was confused when he said did ballet

@scarletcrusader5431 Год назад

same, Wisco here

@keelysmash Год назад

Im from New Zealand and thats the version that was sung at my school so who tf knows how that spread

@tiredcerulean Год назад

same

@UBN6 Год назад

@@keelysmash That's the version from Batman the Animated Series, that's were i know it from: Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg, the Batmobil lost a wheel and the Joker got away. Crashing through the Roof, on a one Horse open Tree, busting out i go, laughing all the way.

@andrealabonair3519 2 года назад

"Children are monsters" and "You can't get 98% of Americans to agree on anything." are my favourite lines from this video.

@ZUnknownFox 2 года назад

both are true.

@SoloPilot6 2 года назад

Actually, you could probably get 98% of Americans to agree that you can't get 98% of Americans to agree on anything.

@vg6761 2 года назад

You can get

@CDCHexaku 2 года назад

@@vg6761 you really think that when flat earthers exist?

@shizune_ 2 года назад

@@CDCHexaku What does that have to do with water?

@smpenn4430 3 года назад

For me it was: “Robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost its wheel and *the joker got away*” I assumed it was like this everywhere at least in the US

@Kaleii08 3 года назад

Same, i was in California when i learned it

@tylergow3026 3 года назад

Thats how it was in Colorado

@TURK_182 3 года назад

Seattle too

@thisisfine4093 3 года назад

Brooklyn too

@_JayRamsey_ 3 года назад

New Hampshire, same. Never saw it on the Simpsons

@MightyManotaur22 Год назад

The joy on your face when you get to tell the audience that your hypothesis was correct is so wholesome

@wavewingman5993 6 месяцев назад

Having Jack do this is like getting an honorary bonus track to Royalty Free Christmas Songs.

@Purpleyoshisinthesky 3 года назад

Joker himself said “Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost a wheel and the Joker got away” in the Batman: the Animated Series episode “Christmas with the Joker” which aired in 1992. So I’m counting that one as correct

@Jolll4 3 года назад

And this happened the previous year from the Simpsons episode. Due to the timing it is likely that the Simpsons got their reference Batman: the Animated Series.

@jdmaxim5738 3 года назад

That’s where I’ve heard it!

@stareyedwitch 3 года назад

"Crashing through the roof, on a one horse open tree, breaking out I go, laughing all the wheee!" I've never heard that continuation of the song anywhere but that show.

@mister_i9245 3 года назад

Thats the one I know

@wowgrab7553 3 года назад

That’s the exact version I know!

@akkristor 3 года назад

The Batman Animated Series episode "Christmas with the Joker" featured the "Robin Laid an Egg" variant. It aired on November 13, 1992

@stephanberger3476 3 года назад

This! Tom totally missed this clear other reason for kids to sing 'laid an egg'.

@mechakitsune 3 года назад

Also came here to post this. Mark Hamill's Joker sang this before the Simpsons episode.

@wraithgames 3 года назад

Ha. I also came to say that. It has the wonderful "Crashing through the roof: In a one-horse open tree: Busting out I go: Laughing all the weeeeeeeee" second verse :D

@the_original_Bilb_Ono 3 года назад

Yes, i went to elementary school i. The 90s before the Simpson's episode in question and "robin laid an egg" variant was already the most popular by a long shot. I believe Tom's hypothesis is incorrect. That Simpson's episode may have changed how the UK sang the song, but in USA it has been "robin laid an egg" for a very very long time.

@mrkiddguy 3 года назад

@lynxrbeam8732 Год назад

I like this video because it really breaks down not only the song, but the whole concept of collecting data from a large group of people, and then analyzing it.

@potato_bonnie26 Год назад

I’m from the UK and grew up with “Kojak lost his lollipop on the M6 motorway” although I never actually knew who Kojak was. I quickly learned about Uncle Billy losing his willy in primary school

@7llininthedream Год назад

So did I! And I also never knew who kojak was and how to spell it hahaha

@ajs41 Год назад

How the hell would so many people learn this Kojak version? If it wasn't on TV or radio, I mean.

@7llininthedream Год назад

@@ajs41 parents!

@potato_bonnie26 Год назад

@@ajs41 I have no idea to be honest, I guess it just got spread down from parents to their children and so on?

@toothfairy10133 11 месяцев назад

i didn't even know who robin was, i've never been into superhero comics so i just kinda went with it. i thought uncle billy might've been someone specific too. felt bad for him, even if i didn't actually know what a willy was at the time :(

@laurenwhittington1700 3 года назад

why did i just realize that “robin laid an egg” was a bird joke..........

@jamesagarfield7775 3 года назад

I'm not mad, just disappointed

@dready529 3 года назад

Lmao imagine James a Garfield pulling the not mad, just disappointed card on you

@aoi831 3 года назад

Glad I'm not alone

@V.ctis. 3 года назад

Same tho, don’t worry

@oreocookie8213 3 года назад

Dready ha I don’t care my dad has been disappointed in me for the last 15 years!

@threelettermax924 3 года назад

Batman: Loses parents to a gun Robin: BECOMES parent to a gun We're through the looking glass here people.

@violetnhz 3 года назад

HAHA

@hioeo 3 года назад

I prefer gun. I am american and was born in the 90's, but I prefer gun now.

@JesusJuenger 3 года назад

Because I'm a '90s kid, I read "We're through the looking glass here people" in Milhouse's voice.

@Tabbycat2701 6 месяцев назад

The version I always heard in Nz was “the Batmobile lost it’s wheel on the motorway” which honestly makes a lot more sense than any of those other things various people were supposedly losing on there lmao

@ferretyluv 8 месяцев назад

You should do the “Trick or treat, smell my feet” song next.

@mberrios1875 3 года назад

im convinced that those 10 people are just a friend group that are far apart from each other

@MM-jf1me 3 года назад

Yes, and how crazy would it be to see the particular version that you and your friends made up called out on a RU-vid video?

@yellowletters9465 2 года назад

And the Mr Bloppy one

@uber305 2 года назад

@@MM-jf1me if they were friends I can see them messaging eachother the link of the survey but i dont see all of them doing it

@cheeto.burrito 2 года назад

"Joker saved the day" is a variation only found in WB Kids' version, where the _Joker_ is the one singing that part

@BashoftheMonth 2 года назад

What episode was this? I didn't watch the WB episodes too much.

@WateverWatever04 2 года назад

@jackofclubs9751 2 года назад

@@BashoftheMonth christmas with the joker

@something3530 2 года назад

But in batman the animated series it's the joker got away so it depends

@siam1832 2 года назад

@@BashoftheMonth think it may have been between shows or something like a promo

@mark2talk2u Год назад

Your measurements in the UK are genius especially using the Simpson episode. This is similar to using an “instrument” to test for causal change. I grew up in Boston in the 70s. We sang “Robin laid an egg”. This was way before the Simpson’s episode. However, some of the Simpson’s writers were growing up in the Boston area during the 70s as well.

@ajs41 Год назад

It's amazing how conformist the United States is on so many things. I think it's to do with the puritanical history of the country. Anyone trying anything different gets shouted down, metaphorically speaking.

@YourPoopDealer 9 месяцев назад

I remember hearing "and the joker had a baby" with "baby" having am elongated 'a' sound and the 'by' part hitting on the last note. This was back almost 20 years ago at this point.

@tobyjohnson3898 3 года назад

Personally I think this should become a series “Tom Scott sends random surveys to a lot of people and rambles to the camera about his results for 15 minutes”

@resterdebout57 3 года назад

And it will still be more regular than "YGS every Friday"

@zachkennedy6992 3 года назад

truthbegins such an underrated comment

@wuliajeber 3 года назад

Yes!!

@Amcsae 3 года назад

I loved this, so I'd watch more!

@rash8153 3 года назад

Jacksfilms on tomorrow's YIAY: "Describe Batman's body odour in just 4 words"

@Hello-yr1ux 3 года назад

Goose if you are right, wth

@ZR-kp5qh 3 года назад

30 likes in 1 minute

@Neymarinet 3 года назад

NEVER would have expected to see a jacksfilms and tom scott collab video. my likey

@mohamadeen 3 года назад

@@Neymarinet it's a very me me big brain moment

@abelnagy422 3 года назад

you misspelled LWIAY

@dawnmoore9122 Год назад

I knew this would be an incredible video from the title and it was exactly as awesome and hilarious as expected!!!

@iplayminecraft2248 6 месяцев назад

I did not expect jacksfilms here! Justice for jacksfilms

@ant-fan 2 года назад

"Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg. The Batmobile lost a wheel and Joker got away" was also sung by The Joker in "Christmas with the Joker," the second episode of Batman: The Animated Series from 1992. That's the closest to canon we've gotten, as far as I'm aware. It's also notably before The Simpsons.

@nanszoo3092 2 года назад

that is the version I learned, probably in the 70's (US)

@brare45996 2 года назад

Needs more upvotes

@davidkuhn3970 2 года назад

I heard this somewhere between 1965 and 1969 and was “Robin laid an egg”. (USA.)

@silvia.4442 2 года назад

I watched that version. 😀 The Joker escapes on a rocket. 🚀

@Ifailedeverything 2 года назад

Kenny Williams sang this version loudly in Mr. Mattus’ class in 1981. Ray Wiznowski tried asserting the ‘Joker did ballet’ version but Kenny said that was (homophobic slur) and so it was dropped. Correction not 1979 it was 1981.

@shapgfx 3 года назад

Yesterday, I asked you: “Fill in the blank: Jingle bells, Batman smells, __________.” Here are your best answers.

@TheBestcommentor 3 года назад

This is why Jack is the perfect person for this

@meetaverma8372 3 года назад

@@TheBestcommentor it's a perfect collab

@chance6696 3 года назад

robin lost his pants in the middle of france

@pavloverboy 3 года назад

Never did I ever think that the JohnsVideos community and the Tom Scott community would come together like this and I’m so proud to live in a time where I can see that happen

@shapgfx 3 года назад

Andromeda we live in wild times

@_doodles01 Год назад

I learned it from the Junie B. Jones Christmas book! I'm only a few minutes in, but so far I feel like that's been overlooked as a source for this version solidifying itself in the minds of many children, although I highly suspect the author was using the version from the Simpsons, so that's likely still the true originator of this 'full version'.

@user-cy3lp4cl7j Год назад

Same here!!!

@dominicpancella3012 9 месяцев назад

Same. I didn't know the Simpsons ever did it

@AvitalShtap 7 месяцев назад

Your face when you saw that data was so happy and adorable!!!!! I was so hpapy for your hypothesis being right XD so cool! thank you for tracking this! saw the simpsons episode and thjought of you and had to come back!

@Nathan-wm8yb 3 года назад

“Accumulated heatmap of egg responses” was not something I thought I’d read today.

@robotslug 3 года назад

Might very well be a new sentence.

@WangleLine 3 года назад

bwehehehe

@Gold161803 3 года назад

"Firearm oviparity" is a doozy as well

@jackfroste 3 года назад

The sheer amount of scientific rigor that went into this arcane and useless topic is exactly what makes RU-vid great.

@gemk7393 3 года назад

Welcome to 2020

@TheDarkTrooper 3 года назад

"You can't get 98% of Americans to agree on anything" - My personal favourite line in this video.

@void1313 3 года назад

they can agree on the fact this is the only time you wanna go back to school

@nathand9834 3 года назад

What about “Children are monsters”

@truetentic 3 года назад

Mine is “Children are Monsters”

@itsshrimpinabag9544 3 года назад

@@void1313 no, sadly. . . :(

@redshift1976 3 года назад

That two percent are Republicans 🤣🤣🤣

@Nanagos 4 месяца назад

This is such a great topic, especially everyone of us experienced how something spreads around by mouth in school but we often didn't know where it originally came from.

@Skyrim_Shuffle Год назад

The algorithm is showing me this on the heels of November 2022. I love this and I wish I could have been a part of the survey! Thanks, Tom! Hope you enjoy your holidays!

@antialfrednt 3 года назад

Today in lockdown: Tom Scott and Jacksfilms drop Royalty Free Christmas Songs 7 at the furthest possible point from Christmas

@crate4886 3 года назад

Not Alfred that’s a great way to understand it

@holdenhankins2046 3 года назад

It was a banger

@nanamacapagal8342 3 года назад

Who knew

@Jamie-tx7pn 3 года назад

December 26th

@MRADOES04 3 года назад

Can't wait

@anarchostatist191 3 года назад

"Robin laid a gun" America yes.

@NiquelBones 3 года назад

@@flip502 do you mean the sponsor of this comment RAID SHADOW LEGENDS THE BEST RPG US MORTALS CAN EVER WISH TO PLAY

@K----- 3 года назад

I knew it as "Robin got a gun"." Never heard this weird laid version.

@flip502 3 года назад

@@NiquelBones Correct

@albingrahn5576 3 года назад

i'm guessing it originated from the "laid an egg" version when some edge lord wanted to parody the parody.

@saulo4302 3 года назад

8:10

@danmilew 6 месяцев назад

Who knew that the guy singing jingle bells would go on to get doxed by SSSniperwolf

@1a2b 8 месяцев назад

8:20 "firearm oviparity" is a truly incredible line

@culturedcrazygirl 3 года назад

When you said “children are monsters” I was confused until I remembered that there was a song at my elementary school were you beat Barney to death with a bat.

@lordpsi99 3 года назад

Was it "I hate you, you hate me, let's team up and kill Barney. With a baseball bat to his head. Now Barney (something something) dead."? It's been years since I heard it!

@culturedcrazygirl 3 года назад

Lord Psi yep exactly that!

@WeAreComingHome 3 года назад

Flushed his body down the potty... When you mentioned the Barney song this popped into my head but I'm struggling to remember the other words we used.

@InkFilledCity 3 года назад

@@lordpsi99 the one I had was a bit different I had "I hate you, you hate me, let's team up and kill barney, with 1 shot 2 shot 3 and 4 no more purple dinosaur"

@howdopplthinkofthese 3 года назад

"With a baseball bat and a needle(?) up his nose, no more purple dinosaur "

@oromain 3 года назад

Tom Scott and Jacksfilms was a crossover I was not expecting but I greatly appreciate

@KJJ3DS 3 года назад

The sponsor joke was brilliant

@savvy7146 3 года назад

Same

@Flossyandthebirds 3 года назад

The forehead boys duo we didn’t know we needed

@Clusterbucker 3 года назад

Dude same

@slurpythedog2153 3 года назад

Considering it was going to be a live performance, was Jack supposed to come on stage at some point?

@ariatheroyal6733 4 месяца назад

At the start of this video, I remembered it as 'Robin laid an egg' but then I heard the 'Robin laid a gun' and remembered that's the one that actually filled up my entire childhood and I didn't remember it Darn you, REPRESSED MEMORIES!

@JCMcGee 7 месяцев назад

Brilliant stuff!

@SirSethery 3 года назад

“Robin laid a _GUN.”_ *‘Murica*

@saulo4302 3 года назад

8:13

@MikeStavola 3 года назад

"Robin shot a guy" Okay seriously I remember that a kid in my elementary school really wanted to add someone being shot in the song. He's now "an operator" and has more guns than sense.

@samuelling2998 3 года назад

To be fair, it could be interpreted as a 2-level pun: "Robin laid..." sets up an expectation that it's going to be "...and egg", but guns can be laid, although in that sense it refers to aiming the gun, and gun laying is usually for large caliber artillery pieces, which doesn't gel so well with "shot a tree". But yes, "laid a gun" is a term of art.

@Candme38 3 года назад

I love this country

@h3xad3cimaldev61 3 года назад

Hell ya

@QuiteAMouthfull 3 года назад

The “Robin laid a gun” one is probably mixed from the version “Jingle Bells, shotgun shells, granny had a gun...”

@itairoz1434 3 года назад

what wrong with your country

@Saphfeu 3 года назад

I thought it was “911 911 grandma has a gun”

@QuiteAMouthfull 3 года назад

“...shot me in my underwear in 1991” is how it ends, I think. It probably varies from grandmother to grandmother though.

@katiefinch9414 3 года назад

I’ve heard “911, 911, Santa’s got a gun! Shot a deer in the rear in 1981” as the addition to the broken skis variant

@joshbbrill 3 года назад

i'm from the us and i've never even heard this

@MCGBishop 3 месяца назад

This is absolutely amazing!

@DarthBoardBVE 6 месяцев назад

Three years late here, but the version on the Simpsons was definitely the one I heard/sang as a kid, and that was long before the Simpsons came out (I was in high school when Simpsons started). The Joker also sang it in Batman:The Animated Series in 1992.

@niklasschmidt3610 3 года назад

As a german who never liked singing it was "Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, [mumbling]..., Hey"

@Metal_Tao 3 года назад

Haha, I love this

@s4ndwichMakeR 3 года назад

There is no such Jingle Bells parody in German-speaking countries, right? I only remember parodies of the “Advent, Advent” poem with different outcomes.

@viktorg6823 3 года назад

As a German, I'd be surprised if many Germans actually knew how the lyrics continue after 'Jingle Bells'.

@s4ndwichMakeR 3 года назад

@@viktorg6823 „Weihnachtszeit, Weihnachtszeit, sag allen Bescheid!“

@2rooms19 3 года назад

s4ndwichMakeR Leise rieselt der Schnee / Christkind fährt mit ˋnem VW / höret wie leise es kracht / Christkind hat ˋnen Unfall gemacht

@TylerNovakYT 6 месяцев назад

This video was my introduction to Tom Scott. Since then, I've come to expect and be satisfied by more and more insane things like this.

@TequilaToothpick 8 месяцев назад

I just watched this again 2 years later. It's absolutely brilliant.

@FnrrfYgmSchnish 2 года назад

The only version I've ever heard was "Robin laid an egg" -- didn't even realize there *were* other versions until today! Which I guess makes sense if the "flew away" version was primarily British.

@zachprime4683 2 года назад

The only one I’ve heard is uncle billy lost his Willy on the motorway 😂

@penguosk 2 года назад

@@zachprime4683 wot

@Gweebi 2 года назад

@@penguosk jingle bells, batman smells Robin flew away Uncle Billy Lost his willy On the motorwaaayy HEY

@LuxioV2 2 года назад

@@zachprime4683 I couldn’t remember the version I knew until I heard him say that 😂

@beans1629 2 года назад

I thought it was someone how both, like maybe it looks and it's the other one

@Splot2 3 года назад

Did anyone else sing this as a kid “I hate you, you hate me, let’s go out and kill Barney. With a baseball bat and a 4x4, no more purple dinosaur”

@Matthewrents 3 года назад

Children are Monsters.

@francescabayley4291 3 года назад

I recognise that mostly but we also had, to the same tune: I hate you, you hate me, We're a messed up family, With a kiss and a hug and a bang on the head, Sorry Lala - Dipsy's dead! Lala cried, Dipsy died, Po committed suicide, Tinkywinky jumped off a plane... Teletubbies are insane!!

@smileyface2313 3 года назад

I remember that too, but there are definitely worse versions of that song floating around.

@Croz89 3 года назад

@@Matthewrents In this case, I think the hate was deserved, plenty of adults would have agreed with that sentiment!

@OvPdTurtle 3 года назад

Yep, along with the Joy to the World version

@karpi470 6 месяцев назад

Another influence in the 90's could have stemmed from the Batman franchise itself. There is a Christmas epiaode of the animated Batman TV show where the Joker sings that song, and he also uses the "laid an egg" version.

@daveconnors62 5 месяцев назад

This is genuinely fascinating

@Electricity0 3 года назад

Friend: "Robin laid an egg" Tom: "Its Robin flew away" Friend: "No it's not!" Tom: "Let me ask 64,182 people"

@JrgPt96 3 года назад

This is just him getting back at Gary for the last season of One of these people is lying.

@Lo33y_ 3 года назад

@@JrgPt96 one of these people??

@iabervon 3 года назад

@@Lo33y_ There's the infamous "one of these people is lying, one misunderstood the article, and the third made up an answer that's the most accurate" game.

@Lo33y_ 3 года назад

@@iabervon oh tromso

@eziitis8 3 года назад

It was probably Matt

@helloitsowen6639 3 года назад

The fact that Jack hits the "Heyyyyaaaayy" the same way every time.

@tylontaylor357 3 года назад

Except for the motorway

@jslasher5330 3 года назад

Simpsons S1E1

@rainyumbrella7354 Год назад

You brought back so many memories with the broken skis verse. thanks

@unpossible_ Год назад

holy cow i grew up in the pacific northwest and i remember that one, one of my neighbors taught it to me and it was mildly popular in school.

@rebca_ Год назад

me too! it unlocked a few memories when i heard it, i completely forgot it existed. i remember it being my favorite version but being told off for singing it

@TheHoliestCow Год назад

You called

@BenM.Davies 3 года назад

Tom Scott and Jacksfilms, the crossover no one really asked for, but the one everyone loves.

@MeGaDwarf2008 3 года назад

My sentiment exactly! When I've noticed link to Jack in the description, I was WTF?

@vishnugopakumar8807 3 года назад

Jack is exactly what this channel needs

@nicolask.3825 3 года назад

I would have never expected it, but it turned out amazingly.

@benwest5293 3 года назад

@@MeGaDwarf2008 i, for one, didn't know who that guy was. For people like me (who I guess are strongly in the minority), that's much appreciated

@vunga8195 3 года назад

Copied

@maulanamuhammad7633 3 года назад

"It's 2020. Time is meaningless" -Tom Scott, 2020.

@sweetsweetwafflecones2747 3 года назад

I think you mean -Tom Scott 1981 (“ *HEY* ”)

@jodofly1158 3 года назад

Its 2020 , the comments section is pointless - everybody

@starguy321 Год назад

Lmao this is absolutely brilliant. Glad I’m not the only one who did the uncle billy version, but I sometimes switched it for Milky Way which I may have picked up from someone older.

@algomaone121 Год назад

Regarding the “Robin laid an egg” verse...it most certainly existed by AT LEAST 1975 in Philadelphia, PA, when I remember singing it on the school bus and in the schoolyard. Also, there was no other ending lyric than “the Bat Mobile lost a wheel and THE JOKER GOT AWAY!”

@theunwelcome 3 года назад

"you can't get 98% of Americans to agree on ANYTHING!" so, so true Jack's singing is hilarious here, especially the gun version

@eliasmg9144 3 года назад

Not even 80%

@TheCobaw 3 года назад

*GUN.*

@poggorl 3 года назад

@@TheCobaw *G U N.*

@krissp8712 3 года назад

He's having waaayyy too much fun with that singing lmao

@name_tag_ 3 года назад

8:10 you're welcome ;3

@zarinaa1135 3 года назад

I'm not sure how this affects the data but Joker in Batman the Animated Series in the 80's sang this song and there it was "laid an egg". *90's. Sorry about that. '92 to be exact*

@lDanielHolm 3 года назад

That was in the 90s, not the 80s. (TAS began airing in '92.)

@cles0v 3 года назад

Yes

@kykywox 3 года назад

That's where I learned it from! I never saw the Simpson episode but I grew up on the Batman Animated Series :D

@williwonti 3 года назад

Right, I don't remember the Simpsons being where I learned it but rather "Batman: The Animated Series". I seem to think I actually heard it on the playground before I saw it on Batman. Now I see that "Christmas With the Joker" aired in November 1992 so Simpsons didn't change it.

@_PatrickO 3 года назад

@@williwonti The batman animated series likely never aired in the UK and it was likely always laid an egg in the US, the UK was different and changed by the simpsons for a period of time.

@dudethedude1220 5 месяцев назад

12:24 I love how aware Jacksfilms is of how annoyed his fans get when he stretches the sponsorship segment way too much, but continues to do it anyways because it is funny

@diegotalksmonke 8 месяцев назад

8:47 "The Lore and Languaje of SchoolChildren" 💀💀🤣🤣

@sappyfx 3 года назад

"Children are monsters" - Tom Scott 2020

@Kaktanternak 3 года назад

he's 100% correct

@snyfalcryo524 3 года назад

And that's a fact

@rushdesigns 3 года назад

SAPPYFX

@rushdesigns 3 года назад

LMFAOOO

@Bullshit_Media 3 года назад

@@Kaktanternak YES.

@FD-vj6hd 3 года назад

The timeline where jacksfilms sings ‘mr blobby did a jobby’ in a Tom Scott video is the best one

@FroZenMemes 3 года назад

Ffs😭

@cwmd7651 3 года назад

Gotta say, I thought “a jobby” meant something much more demonetized than what Tom said

@rarehipster3145 3 года назад

CW MD I believe it is

@JakubS 3 года назад

the prime timeline

@furretar6484 3 года назад

@@JakubS over here we call it the Steins;Gate

@Muggins1046 5 месяцев назад

Oh my gosh, Australia has a series of books like that British one. Someone catalogued childrens playground rhymes for posterity. Books in the series were: Unreal Banana Peel, All Right Vegemite, Far Out Brussel Sprout etc. Also my region called tag ‘Tips’

@whatTFisThis Год назад

My school's version was: "Jingle bells, batmam smells, Robin laid an egg The batmoblie lost its wheel And the joker did ballet"

@exnihilo8388 3 года назад

I love how Jack tried dropping a sponsorship in a colab. Also the fact that Tom Scott and JacksFilms even did a colab is mind boggling

@AriSteinfeld 3 года назад

Tom Scott did a clown with William osman and Micheal reeves

@helper_bot 3 года назад

Jack using a red sweater in this collab is amazing

@exnihilo8388 3 года назад

@@AriSteinfeld Tom Scott does what seems to be completely random colabs that no one asked for with RU-vidrs you'd least expect

@themanmrbijok7364 3 года назад

...You forgot to mention one key factor. Batman The Animated Series did “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells” and it mentioned the fact that Robin laid an egg, but also that the Batmobile lost its wheel on a German Motorway.

@arcanics1971 3 года назад

But it came after the Simpsons.

@hexeddecimals 3 года назад

@@arcanics1971 still important to consider

@bdf2718 3 года назад

Which explains Kraftwerk's lyrics "Wir fart, fart, fart auf der Autobahn."

@windhelmguard5295 3 года назад

@@arcanics1971 but it was in an actual batman show and performed by mark hamil, so it is infinitely more memorable since this version is directly associated with batman.

@qwerfa 3 года назад

@@enemyinc.6741 the song was also sung by Bart in Christmas with the Simpsons in 1989.

@kamalindsey Год назад

Regionalism is very uncommon across many things in America, which is surprising considering how big the country is. One difference is what people call a "soda".

@stevenohenries5127 Год назад

I was born in 1998 and grew up in Maidstone, Kent and “Robin laid an egg” was always the version I heard as a kid! I think it usually ended abruptly immediately after that line, but the bit about Uncle Billy losing his willy on the motorway does sound vaguely familiar too.

@TheCandoRailfan 3 года назад

"Children are monsters." - Tom Scott, twice.

@otakuman706 3 года назад

It's an important lesson. Children ARE monsters.

@juliansenfr 3 года назад

Feel free to ask any parent that have spent the last 2-6 months* with their children under lockdown.

@mozkitolife5437 3 года назад

@@juliansenfr 😭😭😭😭 Kill us. Kill us, now.

@BlazerDarkness 3 года назад

Agism is an invisible enough issue that I don't by any means like Tom less for this, but I hope it becomes less so in the future, enough that people look back on this and think it aged poorly. Youth rights!

@basione 3 года назад

@@otakuman706 And we all have one in our heads.

@YJCH0I 3 года назад

11:05 “You can’t get 98% of Americans to agree on anything!” Obligatory response: I disagree!

@josugambee3701 3 года назад

I'm from Idaho and I disagree about the potato thing. It's not just potatoes! Anyone from around here can tell you just how many sugarbeets we produce.

@kamo7293 3 года назад

Agree to disagree then

@birdnerd9437 3 года назад

America in a nutshell right now.

@HeroOfTheDay16 3 года назад

Im an american and i disagree with this statement

@lfocoap4950ajf8 3 года назад

Josu Gambee tf is a sugarbeet

@SomeKindOfThing Год назад

I was getting so stressed by you not mentioning the TAA line 🤣🤣🤣

@eldercaesar Год назад

I love how 1 person put 1903 as their birthdate in the survey lmao

@MoLaupi 3 года назад

Jack: "Today's sponsor is.." Tom: "We don't do that here."

@meagancamara9743 3 года назад

@jordan3400 3 года назад

@joshuatiso7561 3 года назад

@harrytodhunter5078 3 года назад

@sawcon5628 3 года назад

@MZZenyl 3 года назад

These two could make an interesting linguistic duet: - Jack: Your grammar sucks. - Tom: ... and here's the historical reasons why.

@joshuaneiswinter253 3 года назад

Please? Can we have this?

@anty. 3 года назад

Having some cool scientific explanation as to why so many people unironically type incoherently would be cool.

@JontyLevine 3 года назад

Jack the linguistic prescriptivist vs. Tom the linguistic descriptivist is a dynamic I could enjoy.

@osamaalazzam9744 3 года назад

@Tom Scott need to see this Asap

@jakeartang7550 3 года назад

I like

@JJamahJamerson Год назад

This is how I love jacksfilms, just randomly showing up in other peoples videos.

@WolfsbaneHollow 4 месяца назад

US, senior citizen, and traveled to Europe during my "tween" years... the game is tag and the version I've known since sometime in the late '60s was always "Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost its wheel and the joker got away..."

@Itsspelledketchup 2 года назад

You have admit, Robin laying an egg is a more humorous image than just flying away.

@fullym5484 2 года назад

Yet laying a gun just surprised me

@hartman.4744 2 года назад

Absolutely

@Pepperjack57IsAwesome 2 года назад

Where tf did the gun come out of

@bakedpotato8380 2 года назад

@@Pepperjack57IsAwesome Robin, it came out of Robin.

@goodguycwyzz4768 2 года назад

They are both bird puns

@urbicide_if 3 года назад

I was born in 2005 and live in Michigan, no one ever used the “flew away variant” everyone agreed that it was “laid an egg” the real divide was “joker got away” vs “joker did ballet”

@justinrf7662 3 года назад

I knew of "and the joker lost his head, hey"

@jebpeterson6418 3 года назад

laid an *gun*

@LilCheesyBean 2 года назад

Flew away makes more sense to me because all of the endings I know rhyme with it

@whizkid0521 2 года назад

I too was born in 2005 and I live within the UK. Everyone in my area would say “laid an egg” and the most common version we had was “Uncle Billy lost his willy”. However, we would occasionally hear “The batmobile lost it’s wheel and the joker got away”

@NinjaPickle 2 года назад

2004 in Alabama, and the Joker ballet variant, while rare, was still a version I had heard. Same with the Saved the Day variant

@ThornShadowWolf Год назад

Reawakening some memories here. I'm Canadian, and I TOTALLY forgot about the verse about the broken skiis until you brought it up, and it was exactly the version I knew as a kid. Also interesting to me was that you mentioned the "robin layed an egg, batmobile lost a wheel and the joker did ballet" version but not the variant of "the joker got away" which I'd say were split about 50/50 (in my time and location).

@sventer198 Год назад

Love this!

@hello-jy9hf 3 года назад

"Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid a *gun."* personally, growing up in Canada: Robin laid an egg and Joker did indeed do ballet.

@hello-jy9hf 3 года назад

fuckin love it bud

@elisem4489 3 года назад

it's an american version, of course it's got firearms

@rileysteidel7084 3 года назад

Can concur, aswell as the missing tire on Batman's mode of transportation

@matheuswohl 3 года назад

"Robin laid a gun." is the most american thing I could expect

@199NickYT 3 года назад

Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, Robin laid a G U N

@amarevite8388 3 года назад

I was very unprepared for Jack’s “today’s sponsor is” at the very end and laughed maybe more than I should have

@pewpewdragon4483 3 года назад

I now strangely want to know, who is today's sponsor XD

@benelliott9158 3 года назад

@@pewpewdragon4483 movement watches

@luketurner314 3 года назад

I was laughing more at Tom's "No"

@JV-vk1lh 3 года назад

R a i d s h a d o w l e g e n d s

@KLondike5 3 года назад

@@pewpewdragon4483 Risk of Rain 2

@alpacaofthemountain8760 11 месяцев назад

Great video!

@NotsaeEgavas Год назад

Hey Tom! I know this is an old video, but I was one of the few that had a "broken skis" verse. The full version went: Jingle bells Batman smells Robin laid an egg Batmobile lost a wheel And joker got away Crashing through the snow On a pair of broken skis Through the hills we go Breaking both our knees The snow is turning red I think I might be dead And all I want for Christmas Is a hospital bed

@LillanaMeadows-zc9tj 9 месяцев назад

I grew up with a similar second verse but it goes more like this: Dashing through the snow, on a broken pair of skis O'er the hills we go, crashing into trees! The snow is turning red, I think I'm almost dead I woke up in the hospital with stitches in my head! Oh 911, 911 someone call the cops! Take me to the hospital and feed me lollipops hey!

@LibertyTroopers 7 месяцев назад

I can't believe how little people knew this, Ive always thought it was maybe from a TV show or something and was widely known when I learned it in school. (Nebraska btw)

@KarlBaron 3 года назад

I was today years old when I realized that “laid an egg” was a bird joke. I always thought it was that Robin farted (why else would Batman smell?). “Who laid an egg?” was slang to ask who farted at the time.

@kisinja4582 3 года назад

is it not a double entendre ??

@smoothred9453 3 года назад

@@kisinja4582 yes

@Liam3851 3 года назад

It had also never occurred to me that it was a bird joke. I wonder- is "laid an egg" a slang term for farting in Britain, or purely North America? As a fart joke, only laid an egg makes sense. But if "laid an egg" isn't common slang in Britain, it makes complete sense they have a different version-- as a bird joke, "flew away" rhymes better and is just as sensible.

@cl0msy 3 года назад

THATS WHAT I THOUGHT

@cristlewrite7944 3 года назад

Tbh, I just realized conciously now. I always thought to myself as a kid "why would robin be laying an egg???"😂 The parody version overall just confused me cause I would always overanaylze it in my head. I have a learning disorder that has the side effect of sometimes taking words/phrases very literally, though, so thats probably why🙃