Ripping Yarns Season 2 Episode 2-Golden Gordon
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Golden Gordon, Original air date - 17 October 1979.
Plot: Barnestoneworth United is the worst football team of 1935, who lose every match. Gordon Ottershaw is however their loyal fan, determined to prevent them from being disbanded after their final game. To this end he recruits the players from the renowned winning team of 1922 who turn up to defeat rivals Denley Moor.
Ripping Yarns is a British television comedy series. It was written by Michael Palin and Terry Jones of Monty Python fame. It was first broadcast on BBC 2 between 1976 and 1979.
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The greatest football film ever.
Right up there with Any Given Sunday, Facing the Giants, Remember the Titans, We Are Marshall and Gridiron Gang!
Concur.
Is it a documentary?
"Ripping Yarns" is one of the greatest comedy series ever. This is my favourite episode. Every moment is Golden. I've been a Port Vale fan for over fifty years, so Gordons support for Barnstoneworth United truly resonates 🧡
As a stoke fan i agree lol
@@stevenaustin8274 Ay up Steve. Thanks for the reply. I can imagine that you very much approve of Gordons red and white Tammie and scarf, and Barnstoneworths stripey shirts.
All the best for the season mate 👍
@@christopheradderley45 same to you mate
As a Crewe Alex supporter I quite agree-the moments of glory are all the sweeter are they not?
You stuffed my lot Spurs in 1988.
Immortal. Nobody summed up football so accurately as this
Possibly my favourite half-hour of television ever! Absolutely sublime.
"The useless, useless bastards!!"
Not quite as good as The Psychiatrists in Fawlty Towers though
Are you talking about the UK government ?
@@rickyjaworek1268 I wasn't. But they are. The sooner they're gone, the better. For decades with any luck.
I'm a West Ham fan, so I use this a lot
@@alanlawson8213 Everything's hunky dory now.
Love the way he throws a brick at his kid at the beginning. It's just so unexpected..
Well they lost 8-1 the kid deserved it!
Can't learn it.
It was still half hearted,where family's concerned...
OUR STREET 😨😂true Swaythling SOT'ON England 😨😴😂g
Used to happen all the time in my youth.
Wonderful. Some fine character actors like Bill Fraser (the scrap man) and I loved the brief cameo of John Cleese reacting to the wife shouting "I'm having a baby!" down the street. They used some real Yorkshire locations like Kildwick Hall and the old butcher's shop in Bradley near Skipton.
Scrap metal man is hilarious I love the Yorkshire accent.
Brilliant. I loved it when I first saw it back in the 70's and it's still great. Don't think it would work though if it was set in any other part of the country. The Yorkshire accent is what makes it.
Eye lad thaz reet.
The scene of Gordon standing alone in the terrace in the pouring rain in an empty ground, but hearing the promise of the crowd, is EXACTLY what it's like being a lower-league fan.
Our day will come.
MANSFIELD TOWN FOREVER.
In other words the true heart of football.
Eight - one......Eight bloody one.
I wouldnt know pal. Manchester United is always packed out when Ive been there....
@@RobertLocksley385 I remember the Stags playing a cracking match against Spurs in 77/78 when Spurs had been relegated.
Totally brilliant. The best piece of work about being a fan ever
My absolute favourite "Ripping Yarns" episode. When Michael runs through the team sheet from memory it always makes me well up!
Without a doubt.
I live in Gilstead. Salts Sports Ground, where the football scemes were filmed, is a 20 min walk away along the Leed/Liverpoool Canal. I always smile when I pass it. I wonder how many people know what footballing history was made here.
Can you pinpoint it to me please?
@@2511dhall www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tTP1TcwNC5LNjFg9OIoTswpScwsSgUAPvIGWA&q=saltaire&rlz=1CAVARX_enGB1023GB1023&oq=saltaire&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqDQgBEC4YgwEYsQMYgAQyEAgAEAAYgwEY4wIYsQMYgAQyDQgBEC4YgwEYsQMYgAQyBwgCEAAYgAQyEwgDEC4YgwEYrwEYxwEYsQMYgAQyEAgEEC4YrwEYxwEYgAQYjgUyDQgFEC4YrwEYxwEYgAQyEAgGEC4YrwEYxwEYgAQYjgUyBggHEEUYPdIBCDU5OThqMGo3qAIIsAIB&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#eim=CAEQEBoSNTMuODM4NzMwMTE5MTQxNjQ0IhMtMS44MDEyMzYxMDY3MzU1NzA5
It's between the canal and River Aire, about 400m west of Saltaire just after Hirst Wood Locks
Living in Bradford I often pass the filming sites. But I’d never leave the house without dripping first!
@@2511dhall Brontë Street Keighley, Salts FC Saltaire, Kildwick Hall, Keighley
Also Hirst Wood Locks, Saltaire. The hills could be anywhere around the Bradford area as could the old church yard. 8-1!
Just watched this for the first time. Bloody marvelous.
Just watched this for the thousandth time! It was bloody marvelous when i first saw it in 1979, and it still is 40 years later...
Got to be my favourite episode of "Ripping Yarns". The shorts scene is one I remember from the first time, "These are what matter". I still quote it when out running with my mates, whilst slapping my thighs.
Well done Palin, and of course RIP Terry, the more you look, the more intricate detail you see, like the clock on the mantelpiece, back in place but damaged.
Thanks for the video.
8 bloody 1, and 4 of those from back passes to the goal keeper. This is just brilliant.
Just amazing. Sums up how depressing supporting your team can be.
All we want is tea,and toast..and jam..England!!?
I've had times like this supporting my team.. Years ago! Sums up supporting a really struggling non league team.. And how depressing it can be.
Man United 😂
I feel his pain,San Diego chargers fan.
He could of been a Sunderland supporter so should think himself lucky
Brilliant stuff - remember this when it was originally shown in the 70s.
Have not seen this in 100 years!..Thank you!..Go to the top of the class..And leap off!
The "shorts don't matter" scene is absolute perfection. Also "Ow's Vera?" "Oh not so bad..... farting's stopped." 😂😂😂😂
Absolutely brilliant - as are all the stories in this series. Palin and Jones were an inspired team.
Along with Fawlty Towers, a masterclass in comic script writing.
Beyond brilliant. Golden Gordon is next level comedic writing and acting. Superb.
all of these 9 Ripping Yarns are packed with quotable lines. Utter comic brilliance rarely if ever exceeded, and in there with Fawlty Towers as a Masterclass in comic script writing.
My fav of the Ripping Yarns, must of watched it a dozen times, still love it !
Golden Gordon and Tomkinsons Schooldays are my favourites.
Brilliant the best of the best, hilarious , all the heartbreak of being a football fan
love golden gordon.the best of a great great series.bill fraser is tremendous as fogget .i served with a copper whose father named him tranmere rovers ! he always used tran as his name! so true of the frustrations of the lesser clubs. the closure meeting is very like a similar scene in alec guinnesses the card when he buys a star player for the club at an incredible 1200 pound! gordon brings 11 star players of course.the whole feel locations and atmosphere make this a sublime parody.fraser sorting scrap in his stately home is an inspired touch.and a john cleese cameo.a perfect comedy masterpiece ,
One of the greatest comedy episodes 😊 ever written
"How would you like to be called Barnstoneworth?"
"He's got another name!"
"United!". 😅
"I could have had cows on that pitch. They'd have paid for themselves- and scored more goals."
anonUK The amount of times I’ve watched Newcastle in the Ashley era and thought the exact same.
The scripts are absolutely surreal - but the actors speak their lines with straight faces, Don't know how they managed to finish filming, it's a laugh every second!
Best ever episode. But, if a father is making his son learn all the team sheets from bygone games, there is no way he is gonna leave the lad at home, while he goes off to watch United play on a pitch just round the corner from their house. That lad will be stood by his side, scarf in one hand, wooden rattle in the other.
He'll get distracted by the match. Better he stays at home to learn the team lines.
RIP dear Terry Jones
My fellow Sheffielder, Mr Palin’s finest moment. I love every minute of this.
Brilliant, brilliance, done brilliantly. Thankyou.
Somehow gets better over the years. Beautiful.
I remember when my team, Hearts, beat Cowdenbeath 10-0. When we got to eight, I was wanting us to let Cowden score so that I could finally have my own "eight-one.....eight-bloody-one!!!" moment. 🤣
Great job with the posting of these. Good notes. Thanks. They are brilliant treasures.
This the funnest football film, TV show ever! The real scary thing was that my brother and I had to recite a similar thing albeit the Australian cricket touring side of the late 70s - How I miss those days...
The mental image this comment has given me of some poor Australian kid growing up with his VB drinking dad wearing a Cork hat making him recite the Aussie cricket team to impress his mates when they come round, is beyond hilarious 😂😂😂🏏
Please please please,don't ever die Michael Palin,at least before me!
Stephen Dawe bien.asi se habla.es cierto . que nunca nos dejen.💖
@@isammolina4842 thanx. Love you too, 8 bloody one, 8 bloody one.
I hear Gordon's in Korea now!
+Steeve Cunt Hello. thank You.😆Después de un tiempo ya puedo decir que me gusta mucho Ripping Yarns.
@@isammolina4842 Ta luv...Don't wait up!
Love the different versions of the MOTD Theme Tune. Some quite mournful, others more up-tempo.
Yep, spotted The Cleese cameo.
And Davitt scored twice int last three minutes and Frank Hagety saved a penalty...LEGENDS!!!!!1
still watching in 2025 tops. and filmed in haworth w yorks
The house they live in is in Keighley West Yorkshire
myself and my friend have been HUGE fans of this series and this episode in particular ,,when ever anyone in the pub starts winging we always say "hes got my shorts" or if our team is crap we say "the useless useless useless bastards " my favorite bit apart from the shorts speech is the way Micheal looks at the wig while trying ever so nicely to get neville to admit to the headers !!
Ohh how you all must of larffed...
John Cleese 22:51
Firsteerr Lastmwwew So weird reading this as an American. I love Michael and Terry. Reading this comment about British lifestyle makes me so confused and intrigued.
Palin is underrated.. he's unbelievable just brilliant
Can i have a word? Is it about scrap? It's about the football club...So it is about scrap. 😆 My favourite episode.
"I'm pregnant Gordon"." Don't wait up for me love",classic.
That very first opening shot after the titles where it says Barnstoneworth. Is on Hebden Road in Haworth, looking across the valley towards Haworth Main Street.
Pure brilliance.... so glad it's out there x
Best bit for me is when the boy ernestly says"hya dad!" To is old man in the street and Gordon throws half a house brick at him 🤣 Iiterally don't greet my dad any other way. Laughter every time.
The scene about the shorts is bloody brilliant.....🤪
Absolutely one of the most hilarious scenes ever, but there is also something about his passion bordering on losing the plot that manages to be somehow touching.
@@johnp515 brilliantly acted
I’m sure they all have or had their own individual gifts and talents that they contributed to Python, but of the whole team I have found Michael Palin to be the most talented, funniest and brightest - as well as seemingly likable and accessible - of the group.
I always loved Michael Palin's travel documentaries. He was like the nice working man, and the antithesis to Karl Pilkington (whom is also brilliant)
On screen you are right but Terry Jones is the genius behind the filming of these series as well as the Python films. So much of the humor is wrapped up in the "real" look of the times represented and the great vision he had in presenting each scene! Its almost like Palin is Jones' muse in this series but that would not be giving Palin credit for his own genius!
Mel Russell The fact that Terry also wrote ‘Labyrinth’, cements him as my favourite Python! His love of history and mystical Britain just make him SO endearing
amazing to see ' the mad bull ' from RUMPOLE as a wealthy " I LOVE SCRAP " magnate
There is no limit to the number of episodes I’d be willing to watch! If there were a thousand, I would find the time to watch them all - twice! I can’t remember being this delighted by television, except maybe, when I was eleven holding on to the “rabbit ear” antennae so that Monty Python was visible through the static. We said we had three channels then. But it was really about two and a half! My little son asked once if there were cars when I was a boy😂.
And don’t forget the three ducks on the wall. We actually had that.
@@davidtaylor595 Flying - or landing in the cat tails? 🦆
I wish i could have played for Barnesworth United.
Aye lad, me too.
Have you got a spare pair of shorts? 👍
'Goodbye shorts, hello football' :)
My favourite episode is Across the Andes by frog !!😂😂
Love the bit where she's bollocking him about calling the lad Barnstoneworth and he protests by saying He's got another name- ' United-' brilliant!
I was looking for this comment. Funniest part of the episode which in itself is a highlight reel of comedy genius.
When she flatly replies "UNITED".
Gets me every time!
Yorkshire through and through. Love it.
Best line in this comes during the bit about the missing shorts after the guy is accused of stealing the shorts and the one guy goes "I share peg with him and I never saw shorts"
Could I have a word with you for a moment? Is it about scrap? It’s about the football club, oh then it’s about scrap come in. Genius 🤣🤣
Hagerty F., Hagerty R., Tomkins, Noble, Carrick, Dobson, Crapper, Dewhurst, MacIntyre, Treadmore, Davitt.
I could still remember that line from when I first heard it back 1974?. Barnstoneworth United, Yorkshire premier League, 1932, Davitt scored twice, once from't centre line.
Michael Carrick was slow then,with Short's!
Aye those wer't days. there were CORCHES from't Leeds !!
@@stephaniesadie832 Steph, They used too bring hooligans from Sheffield too!! Just to smash the stadium!
Kick it away barnstoneworth!
Rest in peace Terry. You may have shuffled your mortal coil, but you will make me laugh for years to come ( i hope ). If you see Brian. Say hi please.
"Gordon, I'm going to have a baby". Well at least Gordon can score now and again.
The between wars period is often neglected in film or tv. This is a quiet recognition.
True but David Croft wrote You Rang M’Lord?
I'm going somewhere t'cheer myself up! 😂😂
The finest Palin moment.
jo jo jo. Mis comentarios de hacer un tiempo reflejan mi sorpresa al ver el contraste entre Flying Circus y Ripping Yarns. Ahora digo que es EXCELENTE. Y QUÉ ACTOR MIKE😆😃💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
Classic. Barnstonworth! Barnstonworth!, Barnstonworth !.
Pretty sure that was John Cleese in the street who turned around and eyed Mrs Ottershaw's belly when she called to her hubby that she's 'having a baby'.
It was.
Love the callback to season 1 with them playing Denley Moor ... Eric Olthwaite should have played!
I’ve never understood why Ripping Yarns isn’t as well remembered as Fawlty Towers. The basic premise of Fawlty was the same every week, and the slapstick and misunderstandings were really a throwback to classic Brian Rix type farces in many ways.
I can only guess that Ripping Yarns is less well known because it sends up British, usually English, stereotypes which we recognise the UK, but others won’t understand. In this episode, for me the best of all Ripping Yarns, the clichés are obvious, right down to the brass band playing the Match of the Day theme. I wonder how many Americans will spot what the jokes are about.
Colin Baker, I’m a yank but enjoy these. I may not get every inside joke, but apparently I get more of the British/English satire than many of my country’s compatriots likely would. But they’re all a bit daft, if you ask me. 😉
This episode, 'The Testing of Eric Oulthwaite' and 'Tomkinson's Schooldays' were every bit as good as Fawlty Towers and Monty Python. The other six episodes of 'Ripping Yarns' were a bit weak I thought, and nowhere near as funny as the three episodes that I mentioned.
sorry but faulty towers is a send up of the English and English peculiarity basil is a social climber with no kit for climbing thats the point he is a snob without the wear with all to be one ..............more then ripping yarns ..you missed the point by a mile its a send up of the kind of books Micheal and terry would read shortly after the war depicting fantasy heroes and daring do
Basil Fawlty was the reason.........lol...
Fawlty Towers is massively overrated. If you try to watch it today it's almost completely unfunny. This, on the other hand, has aged brilliantly.
I didn't come here from a free transfer from Walsall..lol.
3 all, 5-3 after extra time, Davitt scored twice in last 3 minutes and Frank Haggerty saved a penalty. Whenever EPL results are being repeated in our house, Frank Haggerty saved a penalty is always the last thing that's said.
"What was the FA cup final result?" "Arsenal 2, Chelsea 1 Aubameyang scored twice in second half and Frank Haggerty saved a penalty."
Two one. Two bloody one! Two! One! Chelsea! A team of Chelsea pensioners! The centre forward has stupid hair! During matches!
Lionel Messi got two, Kylian Mbappe scored a hatrick; an’ Frank ‘Agerty saved a penalty
@@andrewburke9390Just spilt me brew laughing Andrew 😂
Olthwaite at number 8, the bank robber, it was never proven. Also that was the Olthwaite house too only no coal in the sideboard this time. I have watched all 9 over the last few days and absolutely brilliant.
They were all just jealous of Dravitt,that were all.
You boring little Tit.
Fabulous! I just wish there were a remastered Bluray boxset.
Why don't the television companies bring some humour back into our lives, by repeating comedy series like this?
Being repeated on "Yesterday" channel all this week.. Catch up on UKTV Play..
Thanks Colin, you've made my day!
You very welcome indeed..
I love the shorts speech that starts at 7:45 It's all done in one take like a northern Shakespearean rant.
Young Barnstoneworth is quite well played by the lad.
Michael palin is a genius
An English genius. ..
Barnestoneworth United lost to a bunch of "old-age pensioners" and then Gordon used that same tactic to win the final match.
Coming to training on Tuesday night Gordon......yeh 😂
Man Utd fan here in 2019....know exactly what Gordon was going through back then....barnstoneworth, and Manchester United...bring back the glory years...lol....PS..it could be worse, I could have been a Leeds fan!!
@ BRIAN POOLE; it couldn't be any worse for me, i'm a Coventry city fan . Every year is a Barnestoneworth year lol.
@@thomasclarke9836 ...Coventry city?....who are they?...seriously...I remember back in the seventies, they were a pretty good team...always innovative..remember that free kick, with the player scooping the ball up from behind, and then the other player volleying it into the back of the net!....well if you do remember...you could be the new golden Gordon of Coventry...forever going on about past glories!..lol...
@@brianpoole4369 Having said that we are 2 pts clear with a game in hand at the top of division 1. The way things are going we are likely to be there for some time :)lol
@@thomasclarke9836 ....hi Thomas...the way things are going with this virus...we never see a real football match again...incidentley...like golden Gordon christened his son barnstonworth, and his wife complained he was being taunted at school, Gordon replied "well he has got a second name"...his wife replied...yes "united"...pure comedy gold....you haven't by any chance called your son "Coventry"....and his second name "city" ....lol...
@@brianpoole4369 Lol , great idea.
Palin and Jones the most gifted and funny of the pythons
Half Man Half Biscuit named one of their albums 'McIntyre, Treadmore and Davitt'.
Really? I didn't realise that and I thought I was a HMHB fan.
Son."hello dad".Dad throw's brick at son,you can't learn it hooliganism is integrated lad! "Don't wait up for me...Love."
I spit my corn flakes out my mouth and nose.
Excellent
"He's got my shorts!" 🤣😆
My favorite Monty Python line was 'GEE BUY GUM'...
So to this very day, even when his majesty the king is
talking to his subjects, I'm thinking of that one Python
phrase from all those years ago = 'GEE BUY GUM' 🙂
Super Bowl Sunday, I think it’s the SF 49’rs and KC Chiefs. I’m watching this instead. 😁⚽️⚾️
I've shared this with my local team, for they too, are anchored at the foot of the local league.
Fogget: "I'd like to see them win"
Chairman: "I'd like to see them turn up"😂
George Harrison funded Python....and this was his favorite. He had a shirt with all the Barnestoneworth players on it.
I have a similar shirt! 👍
Only funded the making of Life of Brian ! Thank god he did to , best movie ever 😊
He funded the missionary staring Michael paling. Handmade films.
Me too 😀
@@andrewmaccallum2367were the shirts for sale at the time? I’ve got one that turned up in a charity shop in Suffolk.
glad to see Tompkinson got in the team !
Treadmoor and Davitt, what a forward pairing. Big target man and a little bastard of a striker who'd slip in behind the lines.
I love it 💗 💗 👏👏👏
Don't wait up luv!
Please Mr Amorim, show this to your team before next weekend!
I'm sure it used to be funnier but must say the colliery band soundtrack is brilliant 👉🇬🇧👈👉💎👈
the only python i ever got to see, at the opera house a few years ago.
I think the scrap merchant Mr Foggon. liking for scrap was a nod to Auric Goldfinger liking for gold.
The shorts scene has gone down in history. There is a story attached to it (if only I could remember) that it was almost totally improvised. Anyone remember seeing or hearing it?
Sunday bloody Sunday,"Don't wait up for me love".