I Asked 64,182 People About “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells”. Here's What I Found Out.
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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.)
HELLO
Happy Un-Easter, everyone!
@@TheElvisnator hi!!
How you realize a Tom Scott Video: Comment older than the video Red T-Shirt(s)
@@theTOPSTARrap Howdy
"And the Joker saved the day." That's no parental interference, that's straight up Joker propaganda.
BREAKING NEWS: Tom Scott is hired by Joker to spread Joker propaganda
The gamer version
It's "the Joker got away" DUH
The Joker ran away. No ballet involved. Although the image of the joker doing pointe is funny.
But which Joker? Cesar Romero?
"Children are monsters" and "You can't get 98% of Americans to agree on anything." are my favourite lines from this video.
both are true.
Actually, you could probably get 98% of Americans to agree that you can't get 98% of Americans to agree on anything.
You can get
@@vg6761 you really think that when flat earthers exist?
@@CDCHexaku What does that have to do with water?
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.
“- on the motorway. Hey.” Rest of what I know.
I was born in 2007 and this was still the version in my primary school.
@@NotMadA47.2yo, 'new' bottom surgery just dropped
@@qwaabzaBruh I laughed way too hard at that
I remember hearing that as "Uncle Billy had a ten foot willy"
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.
fr thats crazy
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"
Maybe you thought you made it but kids in our playground also sang “Joker did ballet”
We knew it too in the mid-Atlantic. That’s the version I always knew.
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.
The Batman Animated Series episode "Christmas with the Joker" featured the "Robin Laid an Egg" variant. It aired on November 13, 1992
This! Tom totally missed this clear other reason for kids to sing 'laid an egg'.
Also came here to post this. Mark Hamill's Joker sang this before the Simpsons episode.
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
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.
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im convinced that those 10 people are just a friend group that are far apart from each other
Yes, and how crazy would it be to see the particular version that you and your friends made up called out on a KZhead video?
And the Mr Bloppy one
@@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
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.
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.
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.
Agreed! and it was honestly really well performed from someone who probably doesn't even speak swedish
"Robin laid a gun" is the most american thing that could've happened to it
So true
Excuse the technical term is _firearm oviparity_
8:12
I actually remember that version
More American if it was in a school
Honestly, this could have been a Bachelor's thesis for a linguistics student
I mean, surely it'd have to cover a broader range of things.
Would've taken them years to collect this much quality data haha
Tom Scott's degree *is* in linguistics. Not computer science.
Bang your lingui-sticks on your ear-drums.
@@papagunit I feel like Tom has a slight advantage of having millions of people watching his content in that sense.
The amount of British pride behind Tom’s delivery of “-but over here, he. flies. away.” is so powerful lmao
8:10 - the pause in Jack’s playing is killing me right now... the abruptness, the death stare, and the casual continuation! 😹😹
Today in lockdown: Tom Scott and Jacksfilms drop Royalty Free Christmas Songs 7 at the furthest possible point from Christmas
Not Alfred that’s a great way to understand it
It was a banger
Who knew
December 26th
Can't wait
Batman: Loses parents to a gun Robin: BECOMES parent to a gun We're through the looking glass here people.
HAHA
I prefer gun. I am american and was born in the 90's, but I prefer gun now.
Because I'm a '90s kid, I read "We're through the looking glass here people" in Milhouse's voice.
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"
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
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!
FINALLY! I knew there was another verse, but I couldn't for the life of me remember what it was. Thank You!
'Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost its wheel and the joker got away' is the version I know
I was confused when he said did ballet
same, Wisco here
Im from New Zealand and thats the version that was sung at my school so who tf knows how that spread
same
@@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.
"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.
And the joker got AYWAYYYYYYYYAHHHHHH
That's the version I've always known
Thats the version i know because i watched batman: the animated series.
Mine was that, except we sang and the joker did ballet
I knew that version before Batman: the animated series did it. Circa 1987/88 SW Missouri
Tom Scott and Jacksfilms was a crossover I was not expecting but I greatly appreciate
The sponsor joke was brilliant
Same
The forehead boys duo we didn’t know we needed
Dude same
Considering it was going to be a live performance, was Jack supposed to come on stage at some point?
The joy on your face when you get to tell the audience that your hypothesis was correct is so wholesome
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.
“Accumulated heatmap of egg responses” was not something I thought I’d read today.
Might very well be a new sentence.
bwehehehe
"Firearm oviparity" is a doozy as well
The sheer amount of scientific rigor that went into this arcane and useless topic is exactly what makes KZhead great.
Welcome to 2020
Tom Scott and Jacksfilms, the crossover no one really asked for, but the one everyone loves.
My sentiment exactly! When I've noticed link to Jack in the description, I was WTF?
Jack is exactly what this channel needs
I would have never expected it, but it turned out amazingly.
@@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
Copied
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
So did I! And I also never knew who kojak was and how to spell it hahaha
How the hell would so many people learn this Kojak version? If it wasn't on TV or radio, I mean.
@@ajs41 parents!
@@ajs41 I have no idea to be honest, I guess it just got spread down from parents to their children and so on?
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 :(
Having Jack do this is like getting an honorary bonus track to Royalty Free Christmas Songs.
"Joker saved the day" is a variation only found in WB Kids' version, where the _Joker_ is the one singing that part
What episode was this? I didn't watch the WB episodes too much.
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@@BashoftheMonth christmas with the joker
But in batman the animated series it's the joker got away so it depends
@@BashoftheMonth think it may have been between shows or something like a promo
why did i just realize that “robin laid an egg” was a bird joke..........
I'm not mad, just disappointed
Lmao imagine James a Garfield pulling the not mad, just disappointed card on you
Glad I'm not alone
Same tho, don’t worry
Dready ha I don’t care my dad has been disappointed in me for the last 15 years!
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
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.
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.
"You can't get 98% of Americans to agree on anything" - My personal favourite line in this video.
they can agree on the fact this is the only time you wanna go back to school
What about “Children are monsters”
Mine is “Children are Monsters”
@@void1313 no, sadly. . . :(
That two percent are Republicans 🤣🤣🤣
Jacksfilms on tomorrow's YIAY: "Describe Batman's body odour in just 4 words"
Goose if you are right, wth
30 likes in 1 minute
NEVER would have expected to see a jacksfilms and tom scott collab video. my likey
@@Neymarinet it's a very me me big brain moment
you misspelled LWIAY
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.
You should do the “Trick or treat, smell my feet” song next.
“Robin laid a GUN.” The keyboard slam just straight up killed me.
"Keyboard"
Galia Del Rio Yes, in English that part of the organ, piano, etc, is called 'keyboard'.
@@Dicen_Delirio that's what it's called. Its been called keyboard long before computer keyboards came around.
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.
Umm, it’s called a Letter table
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.
The only one I’ve heard is uncle billy lost his Willy on the motorway 😂
@@zachprime4683 wot
@@penguosk jingle bells, batman smells Robin flew away Uncle Billy Lost his willy On the motorwaaayy HEY
@@zachprime4683 I couldn’t remember the version I knew until I heard him say that 😂
I thought it was someone how both, like maybe it looks and it's the other one
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'.
Same here!!!
Same. I didn't know the Simpsons ever did it
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.
"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.
that is the version I learned, probably in the 70's (US)
Needs more upvotes
I heard this somewhere between 1965 and 1969 and was “Robin laid an egg”. (USA.)
I watched that version. 😀 The Joker escapes on a rocket. 🚀
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.
The fact that Jack hits the "Heyyyyaaaayy" the same way every time.
Except for the motorway
Simpsons S1E1
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.
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!”
“You cant get 98% of Americans to agree on anything” -Tom Scott 2020 The sad truth
Would you rather they were all the same and didn’t have differing opinions?
cant get 98 percent of any group to agree on anything perfectly.
You can probably get them to hate the Brits.
Except independence from Britain, we got that one right
@@synonymous1079 : Americans? No, we love Britain! And usually at least some actual British people.
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
Same, i was in California when i learned it
Thats how it was in Colorado
Seattle too
Brooklyn too
New Hampshire, same. Never saw it on the Simpsons
8:20 "firearm oviparity" is a truly incredible line
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’
Yesterday, I asked you: “Fill in the blank: Jingle bells, Batman smells, __________.” Here are your best answers.
This is why Jack is the perfect person for this
@@TheBestcommentor it's a perfect collab
robin lost his pants in the middle of france
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
Andromeda we live in wild times
I did not expect jacksfilms here! Justice for jacksfilms
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.
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
You called
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
Tom Scott did a clown with William osman and Micheal reeves
Jack using a red sweater in this collab is amazing
@@AriSteinfeld Tom Scott does what seems to be completely random colabs that no one asked for with KZheadrs you'd least expect
Friend: "Robin laid an egg" Tom: "Its Robin flew away" Friend: "No it's not!" Tom: "Let me ask 64,182 people"
This is just him getting back at Gary for the last season of One of these people is lying.
@@JrgPt96 one of these people??
@@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.
@@iabervon oh tromso
It was probably Matt
I knew this would be an incredible video from the title and it was exactly as awesome and hilarious as expected!!!
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).
"Children are monsters." - Tom Scott, twice.
It's an important lesson. Children ARE monsters.
Feel free to ask any parent that have spent the last 2-6 months* with their children under lockdown.
@@juliansenfr 😭😭😭😭 Kill us. Kill us, now.
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!
@@otakuman706 And we all have one in our heads.
"Children are monsters" - Tom Scott 2020
he's 100% correct
And that's a fact
SAPPYFX
LMFAOOO
@@Kaktanternak YES.
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.
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!
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”
And it will still be more regular than "YGS every Friday"
truthbegins such an underrated comment
Yes!!
I loved this, so I'd watch more!
"It's 2020. Time is meaningless" -Tom Scott, 2020.
I think you mean -Tom Scott 1981 (“ *HEY* ”)
Its 2020 , the comments section is pointless - everybody
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.
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!
Jacksfilms and Tom Scott, a Collab I never thought I would ever see.
I never knew how much I wanted this before I saw it.
Same but I couldn’t be happier
I commented something similar, it is unbelievable
Yet more proof that literally anything can happen in 2020
They both make grammar videos I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As a german who never liked singing it was "Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, [mumbling]..., Hey"
Haha, I love this
There is no such Jingle Bells parody in German-speaking countries, right? I only remember parodies of the “Advent, Advent” poem with different outcomes.
As a German, I'd be surprised if many Germans actually knew how the lyrics continue after 'Jingle Bells'.
@@viktorg6823 „Weihnachtszeit, Weihnachtszeit, sag allen Bescheid!“
s4ndwichMakeR Leise rieselt der Schnee / Christkind fährt mit ˋnem VW / höret wie leise es kracht / Christkind hat ˋnen Unfall gemacht
Who knew that the guy singing jingle bells would go on to get doxed by SSSniperwolf
8:47 "The Lore and Languaje of SchoolChildren" 💀💀🤣🤣
“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
Yes
Same
same
Same
"The joker took ballet" is the nonsense version that I learned
honestly, jack’s attempt at swedish was very good, and i hadn’t heard that rhyme since i was little. what a wonderful surprise
"Now repeat it in Swedish!"
How was Sweden
@@Chasta1n42 it was very swedish!
@@Chasta1n42 väldigt svenskt
I can't understand swedish, so it sounded very swedish to me
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".
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
Jack: "Today's sponsor is.." Tom: "We don't do that here."
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"Let's talk about jingle bells in the middle of summer" As an Australian, I see no issues with this statement
lmao mood
I know, right!?!
As a Malaysian, I never knew about other seasons until 7 years old.
a message from >south hemisphere gang
Sustained
10:27 australia generally calls it tag but ive also heard it called most of these too but the weird thing is is that it varies family to family instead of regionally
I grew up in Sydney, and in my cohort as a kid it was called "chasings"
Ever since i was in primary school here in west wales its always been jingle bells, bat man smells, robin flew away. Uncle billy lost his willy on the motorway. I turned 16 earlier this year if your interested.
The “Robin laid a gun” one is probably mixed from the version “Jingle Bells, shotgun shells, granny had a gun...”
what wrong with your country
I thought it was “911 911 grandma has a gun”
“...shot me in my underwear in 1991” is how it ends, I think. It probably varies from grandmother to grandmother though.
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
i'm from the us and i've never even heard this
The timeline where jacksfilms sings ‘mr blobby did a jobby’ in a Tom Scott video is the best one
Ffs😭
Gotta say, I thought “a jobby” meant something much more demonetized than what Tom said
CW MD I believe it is
the prime timeline
@@JakubS over here we call it the Steins;Gate
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!
Ive always know it as "Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, Robin flew away, landed on a football pitch and didn't know how to play." Born 2005, and from the UK.
“Robin laid a _GUN.”_ *‘Murica*
8:13
"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.
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.
I love this country
Hell ya
"you can't get 98% of Americans to agree on ANYTHING!" so, so true Jack's singing is hilarious here, especially the gun version
Not even 80%
*GUN.*
@@TheCobaw *G U N.*
He's having waaayyy too much fun with that singing lmao
8:10 you're welcome ;3
I was born in late 90s USA. While I would’ve answered the “laid an egg” version of the default I def remember kids using the “laid a gun” version as a spoof. I reckon if you’d asked people for any alternate versions they knew they’d have given that one a fair bit
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
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!
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)
As an Australian this unearthed so many memories... Christ we were violent
I wanted to see the results for what Australian's call "tag". I always knew it as "tiggy" growing up in QLD for whatever reason.
@@yellaturd I would have liked to see that too. In Sydney we called it 'tip', at least in southern Sydney where I grew up. Northern suburbs had a high expat community, especially from South Africa particularly, where they called it 'it', and my parents had friends up there, so we often called it by two names
@@yellaturd Tiggy in Victoria too. I'd love to see all the data! Did you by any chance have 'the batmobile lost its wheels, all on Christmas day, hey'?
It's Chasey. Fight me irl
@@yellaturd It was 'chasey' at my primary school in SA in the 00s. I had no idea there was so much variation across the country!
"Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid a *gun."* personally, growing up in Canada: Robin laid an egg and Joker did indeed do ballet.
fuckin love it bud
it's an american version, of course it's got firearms
Can concur, aswell as the missing tire on Batman's mode of transportation
"Robin laid a gun." is the most american thing I could expect
Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, Robin laid a G U N
Brilliant stuff!
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..."
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*
That was in the 90s, not the 80s. (TAS began airing in '92.)
Yes
That's where I learned it from! I never saw the Simpson episode but I grew up on the Batman Animated Series :D
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.
@@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.
"Firearm Oviparity" I'm sorry, but that had me in stitches so hard. Brilliant word use.
Hi. Timestamp please? It's not in the subtitles/transcript. Edit: 8:20 on-screen text.
it's not the version i grew up with... but it is certainly the most american version i've ever heard lmao
This is absolutely amazing!
I was getting so stressed by you not mentioning the TAA line 🤣🤣🤣
"Time is meaningless, let's talk about Jingle Bells in the middle of summer." Sounds like a typical Christmas in the southern hemisphere
Exactly, it's more of a winter song than Christmas; in fact, it was originally written for a different winter holiday (Thanksgiving, celebrated at the end of November, which is already winter where it was written in the northeastern USA). So perfectly appropriate in Australia (and New Zealand, South Africa, etc) now.
Toby Bartels Haha no we only sing Jingle Bells at Christmas time in Australia. Very few parts of Australia get cold enough to have snow in winter
What do you mean? It is not summer in the southern hemisphere right now.
@@tobybartels8426 have you ever seen snow? Cause where I live (north west of melbourne) it only snows once every 2 years
@@jenniferflorance944 What about the Rusty Holden Ute variant?
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.
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!
Lord Psi yep exactly that!
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.
@@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"
"With a baseball bat and a needle(?) up his nose, no more purple dinosaur "
My school's version was: "Jingle bells, batmam smells, Robin laid an egg The batmoblie lost its wheel And the joker did ballet"
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.
In Finland we had one rhyme it went along the lines of: "Batman oli mielipuoli, hyppäs katolta ja kuoli." Which is translated to English: "Batman had a mental breakdown, jumped down from roof and died." *And yes, kids are truly monsters if you ask me.*
XD
Just Finnland being Finnland
If you think that’s bad, here in America, we had at least 5 different variations of Barney the dinosaurs death through songs
Another one is "Kevät tuli, lumi suli, lumen alta esiin tuli Bätmään!" ("Spring came, snow melted, from under the snow appeared Batman") But both of these are sang to the tune of the old Batman theme song
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“Robin laid a gun” unearthed so many childhood memories I didn’t even know existed until now
a traumatic flashback? I hope you're just getting nostalgic, but that version kinda creeps me out. What kind of twisted mind would make that up?
SAME
The logistics of laying a gun are incomprehensible.
@@squirlmy children where firearms tend to be a realitively common thing lmao
@@aureliabackup7313 kids think its funny to lay a gun and most kids don't think about logistics
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.
I just watched this again 2 years later. It's absolutely brilliant.
"You can't get 98% of Americans to agree on anything" It's so true yet so funny.
Facts, my school can’t even agree on if FNAF 1 came before FANF 2, story lines not release date.
no it's not
I was very unprepared for Jack’s “today’s sponsor is” at the very end and laughed maybe more than I should have
I now strangely want to know, who is today's sponsor XD
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I was laughing more at Tom's "No"
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You brought back so many memories with the broken skis verse. thanks
5:23 DANG that was way more uncommon than I thought it'd be! For me personally, this was way more popular than the Batman Smells part, and that's evident since I remember the Broken Skis verse way more than the actual topic of this video.
I remember the “broken skis” verse well but it was never in conjunction with “jingle bells Batman smells”. It was always its own separate version