I remember these shite ‘educational’ videos. Spot on. The most accurate part is how little they told you and how little the presenters clearly knew. Reeked of old people thinking this was how to reach da yoof, and da yoof see through it. They’d rather read a decent book than sit through this shit.
They're not making fun of the French. They're making fun of BBC educational programmes in the UK, which would occasionally get sidetracked by misguided attempts to appear 'cool' (and so attractive to young people), instead of focusing on serious study content.
@@Taricus the funny thing is that this is a reply. 8 years ago you didn't have a thread in the same comment like this. The guy wasn't stating facts he was replying to other comments.
@@KindredBrujah that was absolutely masterful. well the first series anyway, second series was quite different and not nearly as sharp with the humour.
Part of the joke is Hercule Poirot is a fictional Belgian detective, Simon Le Bon was born in England and is English, and Christopher Lambert was born in New York.
I am French, I believe they covered more or less everything so that people can speak French. All the important stuff like Christophe Lambert have been mentionned
I don't know weather I should offer you a drink for your hatred of the french or teach you basic economics, fucking anarcho socialism/Communism (give me all of your land... by choice so we can share it equally amongst all man kind).
Oh god this made me grimace and laugh in equal measure. The horror of old BBC education programs on a worn out video tape on one of those massive TVs on a trolley....
+ChickenOfAwesome It's spelt „programme(s)“! ; ) But yes, that unfortunately is how it alway came across. And who’d be doing it to-day? None other than your average UA-camr! : (
@@andrewreaney Dude, if you're going to attempt to correct me after a decade, you could at least determine whether or not my spelling was correct. Which it was. Your accent grave is incorrect.
A lot of people sadly don't seem to have the cognitive ability to grasp irony. I have French friends and they LOVE this. Mitchell and Webb are taking the piss out of trying too hard BBC educational shows, NOT French people, why is that so hard to understand? It's not exactly rocket science for fuck sake!
Kayarrah If something is sarcastic it is automatically ironic. All sarcasm is irony. Just look at the definition of sarcasm - Sarcasm: use of irony to mock or convey contempt
+Ollie X A bit pointless to comment this late, but #NotAll sarcasm is irony. I don't know where you found that definition, but it's not consistent with Webster or any of the other dictionaries I checked. Irony seems to me a poor description of what's going on in this video.
It seem to be completely out of step with the other defnitions. Stephen Pinker, for instance, has talked about how irony is often misused to describe sarcasm.
+Spyro Fan Only last year I watched a really good interactive series for learning basic Spanish on the BBC website... So I guess not all of it is horrible.
This should be shown to all future people in the business of generating educational media, to stop them from patronising children by trying too hard und ending up teaching literally less information than could be contained in one paragraph. It's as if they were trying to stick it to all the intelligent people of the past, who learnt by … just learning. Anyone who needs entertainment at the same time, should seriously consider revisiting nursery.
+reelle Zahl I think that's far enough, that emotional/psychological effect can be very good for people of a certain age or maturity. I agree that for most it's probably not needed but hey, to each their own lol
Omer Elhassan good point. I recently read a book on Didaktik, which started off by pointing out, that the countenance of the learner plays a defining role, not just in terms of putting one in the right state/frame of mind, but also that it belongs to the learning itself. I nevertheless found it irritating, when this became an end it itself and one ended up diluting real content and knowledge for the sakes of good vibes… kind of like what this sketch show is verarsching. I have seen a variety of approaches, enough to know, that one can pack in substantial meat in a learning environment whilst at the same time fostering positive psychological conditions. The naysayers just lack imagination and faith in the ability of children to grasp more than they typically imagine them to be able to handle. I've often come across people my age from ex-soviet territories, who's basic average knowledge typically surpasses the basic average knowledge of people in western Europe. When I ask them, they seemed to have had just as much „fun“ at school/university, with the difference, that they just do more content-wise.
I thought repetition was part of learning. The lessons must have been difficult, since you had to listen carefully - the teacher would say it only once.
I can now speak French perfectly thanks to this video. Merci beaucoup BBC, vous avez rendu ma vie de traductrice des Nations Unies tellement plus facile, la paix mondiale est désormais à ma portée!
+Jaw Ji How did you "see" that? Are you saying that since the video has 400K+ views and not all of them went to the comment section to mention it, it went over their heads? Perhaps they just laughed at a funny joke and went on, not feeling a need to show their assumed superiority, don't you think?
My GCSE French consisted of a teacher lobbing over a Werther's Original every time we successfully translated a French phrase into English. I left with a grade D and the teacher in question went on to become head of a different school, which was subsequently placed into special measures by the LEA.
I remembern watching this when channel 4 did friday late night comedy like spaced and chris morris stuff, pretty sure it was years before mitchell and webb. Copied the TRES BIEN for years.
Fuck me, everyone getting their knickers in a twist cus they said Poirot was French, Simon Le Bon isn't either, do people need to be spoon fed the punchlines???
Thanks so much for posting! I remember watching this on TV and have been refering to it ever since but i couldn't remember who made it :-) merci beaucoup!
I honestly can't tell whether some of the people who commented on this video actually got that it is a parody or not. To their defence, though, I'd say it's so accurate it's difficult to tell.
This is essentially a (relatively) modern update of Monty Python's hilarious Blue Peter sketch "How To Do It," which taught children how to play the flute, how to rid the world of all known diseases and how black and white people can live together in peace and harmony. Brilliant.
yep, crazy camera angles + out of date techno = educational videos
I remember vids like these on video tapes at school
Tres bien
I remember these shite ‘educational’ videos. Spot on.
The most accurate part is how little they told you and how little the presenters clearly knew.
Reeked of old people thinking this was how to reach da yoof, and da yoof see through it. They’d rather read a decent book than sit through this shit.
Yeah, that's not techno.
Who remembers Was ist dein lieblingsfach? That shit was a trip.
They're not making fun of the French. They're making fun of BBC educational programmes in the UK, which would occasionally get sidetracked by misguided attempts to appear 'cool' (and so attractive to young people), instead of focusing on serious study content.
**claps!** You get an award!
@@Taricus lol, your necromancy is forgiven
@@Taricus the funny thing is that this is a reply. 8 years ago you didn't have a thread in the same comment like this. The guy wasn't stating facts he was replying to other comments.
@@Andrew-yl7lm I was just being silly 🤪
@@Andrew-yl7lm oh yh ure right
This is literally any school educational video ever.
+TheSexyninjamonkey Literally? Nah.
Apparently you've never seen Look Around You.
ua-cam.com/video/FBaVwwuErmU/v-deo.html
@@KindredBrujah that was absolutely masterful. well the first series anyway, second series was quite different and not nearly as sharp with the humour.
Annoyingly cringey and trying super hard to be 'cool' to get across to kids. Never works
Yep!
Part of the joke is Hercule Poirot is a fictional Belgian detective, Simon Le Bon was born in England and is English, and Christopher Lambert was born in New York.
How can he have been born in New York, when he is the timeless and eternal god of thunder and lightning and guardian of the realm of Earth Rayden?
Poirot and Lambert are French.
@@deathman11jackd The Belgian detective Poirot is not French
@@Picnicl The detective Poirot is not Dutch, so he must be French
@@deathman11jackd Not French, Wallonian. They even speak a different language.
I am French, I believe they covered more or less everything so that people can speak French. All the important stuff like Christophe Lambert have been mentionned
Bonjour means, of course, hey ya.
D'accord!
Tres bien!
Bonjour, Christophe Lambert. Le Whisky.
They did not explain the whole hon hon hon thing, I am forever lost not knowing about this.
This is so true it pisses me off.
I don't know weather I should offer you a drink for your hatred of the french or teach you basic economics, fucking anarcho socialism/Communism (give me all of your land... by choice so we can share it equally amongst all man kind).
GottJäger um I think they meant the annoying unhelpful revising video was true but uhh ok
@@Volunteer-per-order_OSullivan You idiot.
@@Volunteer-per-order_OSullivan Hey dude it's called Laisez Faire, slow down
TRES BIEN!!!!!
Oh god this made me grimace and laugh in equal measure. The horror of old BBC education programs on a worn out video tape on one of those massive TVs on a trolley....
It still exists today :(
*****
THE RIDE NEVER ENDS
+ChickenOfAwesome It's spelt „programme(s)“! ; ) But yes, that unfortunately is how it alway came across. And who’d be doing it to-day? None other than your average UA-camr! : (
'Programmes'? Well la de da! Sounds a bit French to me.
JJ H Nowadays technology has advanced to playing on projectors.
But the videos are still the same.
And that's how I achieved native-level fluency in the French language.
TRÉS BIEN!
*Très
@@andrewreaney mate that was 10 years ago are you really gonna correct him
That's what he was saying.... god, I couldn't figure it out
@@mfbf6440 Except the correction was wrong. The accent egout is correct, not the accent grave.
@@andrewreaney Dude, if you're going to attempt to correct me after a decade, you could at least determine whether or not my spelling was correct.
Which it was.
Your accent grave is incorrect.
If anyone else has had to suffer the indignity of BBC bitesize, you'll know this is disturbingly accurate.
The website is alright but the vodeoes aren't worth watching
TREH BYEH
The 'don't panic' bits are so accurate!
Mitchell looked a lot different when he was younger.
+ MrBlack1968 I'm assuming you're joking :D
+MrBlack1968 yes the sex change really did a smashing job
Damn, I came to say this, but you beat me by about 8 months.
He changed sex over 100 times didn't he?
You mean Michelle as they were known at the time?
Troublingly accurate.
Everytime the close on Webb and his "Tres bien!" I just can't even stop laughing.
+Uua Uub I thought he was saying "Tra bleeeeeeuagh" xD
+Uua Uub Yeah, I speak french and I seriously could not
A lot of people sadly don't seem to have the cognitive ability to grasp irony. I have French friends and they LOVE this. Mitchell and Webb are taking the piss out of trying too hard BBC educational shows, NOT French people, why is that so hard to understand? It's not exactly rocket science for fuck sake!
wowdywoemanwebble Brain surgery... Not exactly nuclear physics.
Sarcasm, not irony. Satire, parody perhaps, not irony.
Kayarrah If something is sarcastic it is automatically ironic. All sarcasm is irony. Just look at the definition of sarcasm - Sarcasm: use of irony to mock or convey contempt
+Ollie X
A bit pointless to comment this late, but #NotAll sarcasm is irony. I don't know where you found that definition, but it's not consistent with Webster or any of the other dictionaries I checked. Irony seems to me a poor description of what's going on in this video.
It seem to be completely out of step with the other defnitions. Stephen Pinker, for instance, has talked about how irony is often misused to describe sarcasm.
My son was asked to take part in an educational video for BBC young reporter during covid lockdown and I can honestly say things haven't changed.
I've thought about the way Webb says "tres bien" almost every day for the last ten years
Damn, what demon did you get on the wrong side of?
Oh god! I watched this with Occulus Rift now I can't stop puking!
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
You brave fool.
"Tres Blaine!"
Serves you right for owning an Occulus Rift. :0
MY FAVOURITE FRENCHWOMAN IS DAWN FRENCH
Of the "French and Saunders" fame 😉
Does anyone else remember the terrible educational stuff on the BBC website?
+Spyro Fan Unfortunately.
+Spyro Fan it is still there...........
+Spyro Fan
Only last year I watched a really good interactive series for learning basic Spanish on the BBC website... So I guess not all of it is horrible.
There is a reason I only use text based BBC bitesize pages
Spyro Fan takes the piss out of it perfectly!
TRES BIEN!!
7 years later, this translates to THREE GOOD!!
😅 Ah, technology...
So accurate, even the music is perfect
This should be shown to all future people in the business of generating educational media, to stop them from patronising children by trying too hard und ending up teaching literally less information than could be contained in one paragraph. It's as if they were trying to stick it to all the intelligent people of the past, who learnt by … just learning. Anyone who needs entertainment at the same time, should seriously consider revisiting nursery.
+reelle Zahl no. its not useful to you. its probably useful to others
Omer Elhassan I would concede, that there be perhaps some psychological/emotional worth. I would not concede anything further…
+reelle Zahl I think that's far enough, that emotional/psychological effect can be very good for people of a certain age or maturity. I agree that for most it's probably not needed but hey, to each their own lol
Omer Elhassan good point. I recently read a book on Didaktik, which started off by pointing out, that the countenance of the learner plays a defining role, not just in terms of putting one in the right state/frame of mind, but also that it belongs to the learning itself.
I nevertheless found it irritating, when this became an end it itself and one ended up diluting real content and knowledge for the sakes of good vibes… kind of like what this sketch show is verarsching. I have seen a variety of approaches, enough to know, that one can pack in substantial meat in a learning environment whilst at the same time fostering positive psychological conditions. The naysayers just lack imagination and faith in the ability of children to grasp more than they typically imagine them to be able to handle. I've often come across people my age from ex-soviet territories, who's basic average knowledge typically surpasses the basic average knowledge of people in western Europe. When I ask them, they seemed to have had just as much „fun“ at school/university, with the difference, that they just do more content-wise.
This comment is MUCH more readable if I say it with Webb's accent and have Mitchell reading the daily news and chime in with "uh-huh".
D'ACCORD!
TRAYBY ANNE!!!
Dak dak dak!!
JE T'AIME. MAINTENANT FAIS LE BRUIT COCHON.
I now actually want to see their A-level German programme.
"Gooten Taag"
Mit gasse , le whisky, curry wurst 😅😂😅😂😅😂
Sehr gut!
"D'accord" as a replacement for goodbye sounds very violent.
Not as violent as T2 made "hasta la vista". Until that movie, there was nothing violent about those words.
I've learned basically all my french from watching "'Allo 'allo!"... Tres Bien!
Me too! Allo Allo taught me how to speak French fluently....wait till I get the chance to visit France someday.
@@MrArthoz I can just imoogen myself pissing by the doors in Paris, grating my new neighboors a good moaning.
I thought repetition was part of learning. The lessons must have been difficult, since you had to listen carefully - the teacher would say it only once.
Mid 2000's BBC Bitesize in a nutshell
I never noticed it before, but David Mitchell is GORGEOUS.
This is me sorted for my A Level French oral on tuesday
D'ACCORD!!
And? How was it?
@@reellezahl Tray bee-en.
Never thought I’d need to find old BBC “Hello Fellow Kids” educational videos, but this is clearly something missing from my life.
What I saw and literally no one else did when I was told that “BBC Bitesized is a really good highschool resource”
This sketch has mad Nozin' around energy and I love it.
I can now speak French perfectly thanks to this video. Merci beaucoup BBC, vous avez rendu ma vie de traductrice des Nations Unies tellement plus facile, la paix mondiale est désormais à ma portée!
“Tres bien” 🤣🤣. Cracks me up.
I do not know why i am getting reccomended these but i love it.
This is every educational video I ever saw as a high school kid in the mid-'90's.
bone app the teeth
*le teeth
I see the Rob Mob is here. :D
bone apple tea
Actually it's "la teeth", because in France only women have la teeth.
Plans for the Creative Commons there is no French word for teeth
Everyone in their mid 30's will shudder upon hearing "quelle est la date de votre anniversaire?"
Or more idiomatically c'est quand ton anniversaire?
The deep and breathy 'Très Bien' always catches me off guard hahah.
TRES BIEN! Le meilleur sketch qui soit!
when I was at secondary school, this is literally what the "educational" videos were like, so depressing
I wish my French teacher were as cools as you two guys. Please keep posting videos I've already learn more French from you than at school
My French teacher was so cool she went in the cage on TISWAS.
Besides the lack of a geordie accent, that was the best Jayne Middlemiss impression ever!
OMG FOR A SECOND I THOUGHT THIS WAS REAL! THATS HOW REALISTIC IT IS.
lol what, it's obviously a parody
glad to know that bizzare educational videos are a thing people everywhere put up with
You just saved me a lot of money on French lessons.
The allo allo videos at the end slayed me!
I see the Poirot joke went over most people's heads.
+Jaw Ji Wow. I'm genuinely impressed. You must, like, be really good at reading and stuff ?
+Jaw Ji It was the only reason I scrolled down to the comments xD
+Chris F
Wee, je suis (that's French for 'Yes I am') =D
+Jaw Ji "wee"
+Jaw Ji How did you "see" that? Are you saying that since the video has 400K+ views and not all of them went to the comment section to mention it, it went over their heads? Perhaps they just laughed at a funny joke and went on, not feeling a need to show their assumed superiority, don't you think?
My GCSE French consisted of a teacher lobbing over a Werther's Original every time we successfully translated a French phrase into English. I left with a grade D and the teacher in question went on to become head of a different school, which was subsequently placed into special measures by the LEA.
Wow, very educational, I learned a lot. Magnifique! 😂😂
Missed a chance to say très bien! (treh bee-ehn!)
This is wordwang!
BBC Bitesize was always telling me not to panic.
Just made me panic more
JE SUIS OFFENSIVE ET JE TROUVE CE FRANÇAIS
Will Wood lol
MOI AUSSI, JE SUIS D'ACCORD
Tray beahhh
TRES BIEN
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The best bit is that neither Simon Le Bon & Hercule Poirot are french. Those are the kind of facts they put in these kinds of videos.
Like every French lesson I've ever had summarised.
I remembern watching this when channel 4 did friday late night comedy like spaced and chris morris stuff, pretty sure it was years before mitchell and webb. Copied the TRES BIEN for years.
This is so eerily accurate omfg
@Task5003 It's from "Bruiser" as the video info tells you, it was on before Mitchell and Webb formed a partnership and appeared as a double act.
Today I learnt French. Now when I next go on holiday to France or shop at French Connection, they'll be able to understand me. Da Cor. Trey ben!
“Which is french for: Hiya” hahaha
I got an A* after watching this. Great video!!!
Don't panic and tres bien!
11years later and we’re still using videos. Surely they can make something new soon
*Trey byyyyyuuggghhh*
A lot of people making fun of thid video but, having watched it over 100 times, I can now speaking fluent English.
Very good
Hanz
Fuck me, everyone getting their knickers in a twist cus they said Poirot was French, Simon Le Bon isn't either, do people need to be spoon fed the punchlines???
Christopher Lambert isn't French either. He was born in the USA and grew up in Switzerland. He didn't move to France until later in life.
Of course he's French. Why else would his name be Cristof Lomberrrrt?
they probably thought this was an actual BBC educational program.
This is the greatest thing I've ever seen.
I said "Good Murning" to my French teacher and got kicked out of class
Thanks so much for posting!
I remember watching this on TV and have been refering to it ever since but i couldn't remember who made it
:-) merci beaucoup!
I took A-Level French and can confirm that this is accurate
Okay youtube algorithm, you got me back to the old internet.
I learnt more French watching this video than 4 years at school😳
This is the reason "Tres bien ensamble" is the only French Paul and John knew.
~I will say the only words I know that you'll understand... ~
Michelle: * deep sigh *
"Yesterday we learned A-level German. Today, French." Yeah, I think we sufficiently covered the entire French language. What's next? 😂
Epic
I honestly can't tell whether some of the people who commented on this video actually got that it is a parody or not. To their defence, though, I'd say it's so accurate it's difficult to tell.
I only know the word for that breakfast pastry shaped like a crescent moon. Lacrosse.
THIS is the language zone!
Man this really brings back memories of bbc bitesize for me. I wonder how that is now
Wow, this really helped my French revision :D
God I love these sketches
Its so accurate that the first time i watched this i thought it was real
where did i get to in my youtube rabbit hole to reach this lol
NO, YOU DA MAN!
Whatever Laurence let's not quibble - I'm a man!
Laurence Nealon hows that’s funny?
@@joshuasimmonds726 watch Peep Show, dude.
Luke S. i was replying to the quote with a quote, peep show is the best x
Spot on. hit the nail on the head
How did I end up here
TRES BIEN
I can just picture the camera man dancing around going back and forth with the camera.
Say what you will, but after watching this video, I can now speak in French fluently:
Bonjour Christophe Lambert. Whisky? D’accord.
Oh - I unironically didn't know that Christopher Lambert was French!
That's because he was rescued and given a proper education, but if you watch the beginning of the movie, it's pretty obvious.
I've always loved that they cast a Frenchman as the highlander in Highlander, whereas they got the Scottish Sean Connery to play an Egyptian.
i emptied nearly a full cup of tea through my left nostril at the ;allo allo; suggestion
Now I feel like I know enough French that I could go to France.
I don't want to go to France.
Love the camera angles/movement in this... makes me slightly dizzy. But sadly true of A-Level and other educational videos!
Tray Biauhhhhh
@mrmemanme Well aware. Also, Simon LeBon was born in Hertfordshire if memory serves me right. I just love that particular Poirot quote!
David Mitchell looks different :)
This is essentially a (relatively) modern update of Monty Python's hilarious Blue Peter sketch "How To Do It," which taught children how to play the flute, how to rid the world of all known diseases and how black and white people can live together in peace and harmony. Brilliant.
Remember: Don't Panic
Spot on.