The funniest thing about this entire scene is that Pew spends the entire scene crashing blindly into things, tripping over the furniture, and mistaking a moose head on the wall for Billy Bones, and then, the moment he hears a gun cock, OUT OF NOWHERE turns into a blind martial arts master... only to immediately go back into crashing blindly into things and tripping over the furniture. And this NEVER gets addressed or commented on.
My mate and I were drinking at the Jamaica Inn in Cornwall (my mate and I were stoned too. Also we both live in Cornwall though born in Plymouth) when coming back from the toilet my mate decided to act out this scene shouting “Billy Bones, Billy Bones where are you? I know you are here Billy” doing the voice perfect and acting blind. It had to be one of the funniest moments of my life! I nearly wet myself laughing and even today some 15yrs later all he has to say is Billy Bones and I crack up
I actually been to the Jamaica inn when I was younger it's certainly a place where Wreckers would meet to make plans the same could be said for pirates as well
@@Blighted_Ashes I know blind pew is from the original story, but the idea of a blind pirate messenger acting like this is straight out of a Monty python skit XD
For real. Ppl saying 'everything is censored and PC these days' have NO idea what cartoons and media was like from the 50s til even the 80s. You would never get away with things like saying 'killed', or showing guns, or even TOILETS sometimes being depicted back then. TOILETS. Not pooping jokes, but as in just a plain boring clean standing by itself normal TOILET. I really do not get why everyone is moaning about the censorship of media these days when you lot have absolutely no idea how censored everything really was back for generations.
I think the most captivating thing about this scene is the fact that blind pew is a perfect example of a Drunken Fist. Deceptively harmless until he hears the gun cock, then he knows exactly when and where to strike.
...I have the sneaking suspicion Pew was making a fool out of himself on purpose. Correctly assuming Billy Bones would be the one pulling a gun, and then revealing 'the real Pew'.
I think it's 50/50, he seems really good at tracking by sound (He found which building Billy Bones was in and knew where the gun was by the sound of its hammer) but he has no awareness to things that don't make noises.
@@beastwarsFTW also he’s never been in that tavern so maybe him acting a fool was just him getting the lay of the land as it were. Wandering around to get the dimensions of the room.
Could be very likely that a rat and a whatever chatting are not sounds he's familiar with, nor someone soft spoken like Jim. A pistol being readied on the other hand? A pirate would know immediately what that sounds like.
Probably one of my earliest movie memories was blind pew. I remember being too young to understand half of anything and I was always haunted by the words (BILLY BONES!!). dont remember anything else in this movie, just the blind fiend.
Billy: RUUUM!! GIVE ME RUUUM!! Miss Bluveridge: Don't be givin 'im any more RUM!! Billy: How does she bloody do that?!! Me: You've been smashing the place up and screaming about rum these past few seconds how could she not know?!
Funny that this is the first time I ever learned what the black spot was, and seeing the pirates of the Caribbean 2 made it more impactful when the black spot shows up on Sparrows hand.
Thats what I love about this film, they pull very few punches and focus on doing a proper adaptation. It’s literally “Treasure Island with muppets,” and I respect that.
That's the brilliance of the Muppet versions of this and Christmas Carol. They're extremely faithful to the source material to the point of straight up using the lines verbatim. They just add Muppets to it
Looking back, there's a lot of adult themes and mentions in here for a kid's film. We have Jim dealing with a raving drunkard, the threat and terror of death from the Black Spot, direct references to blood being shed, and in the third act we even have Pirates tearing a page from the Bible and then begging for deliverance from damnation.
That was due to Robert Louis Stevenson's angst over being a physically frail man; both Pew and Silver were a kind of wish fulfillment for him, being threatening and capable badasses even though they were disabled.
In the UK, "How does she bloody do that?" was dubbed over with him saying "Bloomin'". I would have expcected that for the American version as it's mostly a British curse word in the first place. #WeirdFacts
I like how Jim just keeps looking bewildered and opens the door for Blind Pew to stumble out....can't blame him, he was laughing maniacally. But it would have been funny if he had ran into the door. I loved him.
Shame he didn't appear in Muppets Most Wanted though. He could have made an appearance during the scene in which Walter gets everyone's attention to ask them if "Kermit" is acting a little funny, behavior wise.
"It's some kind of a blind fiend!" "I believe they prefer 'visually challenged fiend'" XD Oh back when the muppets were still good and not under the iron fist of Disney's rule, being exploited for commercials and promoting singing sensations...
Jim: "You've come to the wrong place. There's no billy bones here and I'm not a girl" Pew: "I maybe visually-challenged but I can you're lying" Jim is not a girl. *That* part is true but the rest was false. Billy bones is there so pew has come to the right place. Pew finds him anyway.
"ALL RIGHT ALL RIGHT!!! ...........just one small one!" *from upstairs*"DON'T BE GIVIN HIM ANYMORE RUM!!!!!" "......how does she BLOODY DO THAT!?!?!?" god I STILL REMEMBER this from 25 years ago when I first saw the movie as a kid and it still makes me laugh......I mean I'm glad that movie writing is starting to get better again after all the...."meh" we got from the start of 2000 to 2010
@@warweasel2832 I don't blame you for Blind Pew is creepy. Hes one of flint's pirate crew who kills billy bones by giving him the black spot. He scared me too with horror music, etc.
Ah... I heard that! There's someone here! (Goes towards the bar, and bumps into it) No? Over here! (Nearly hits Jim) Daaaah! Over here... (Goes towards a moose head mount and touches it) (Laughs) Billy Bones! I know that scurvy mug of yours anywhere.
There was a British animated treasure island series Long John Silver was awazing and classic and blind pew was genuinely scary even committing murder in the show for kids of a main character And he was the only one in that version Silver Fears and submits to
Probably one of my earliest movie memories was blind pew. I remember being too young to understand half of anything and I was always haunted by the words (BILLY BONES!!). dont remember anything else in this movie, just the blind fiend.
Okay, I gotta say this: Despite his accent, his name is not "Blind Pew". It's "Blind PIERRE". The name 'Pierre', when pronounced with the right French accent, will sound like 'pew', but it ISN'T.
