Worzel Gummidge was a kid's show in the 80s about a scarecrow. "I thought I was gonna be the new Palin" Michael Palin, the guy from Monty Python who was the pet shop guy, the lumberjack singer, the Biggus Dickus guy with the speech impediment. He's also made a load of travel documentaries.
There's a video here on YT, "Karl Pilkington meets Michael Palin", where the two sit down and have a short chat about their travels. I love both these guys so for me it was very enjoyable. But Mandy you may want to wait a bit before searching this one, I seem to recall they mention things from season 2.
I am always so glad to hear other people say that they don't like parties and 'forced fun' type situations, for the longest time I thought it was just me.
@@freethinker-- People telling me that I'll enjoy it once I get up to dance is the worst...I knew when I was 8 years old I hated it. Sometimes it's just not for you.
@@zepo82 "come on and join the Conga" those words I feared on holiday as a kid. Nothing wrong with a good dance,but right place, right music, right time.none of this "Time Warp" shit.
Sometimes Karl speeches are so deep it surprises me. On his monologue starts from 24:30 he actually offers an answer to a question that has been an argument point between philosophers in millenia. He basically just subscribed to the idea of George Berkeley who stated "to be is to be perceived" and the beauty of it that he doesn't know that. There was a quote about Karl that I don't remember the source. I think it was Ricky himself who said this about Karl somewhere: "He is not an idiot. He is uneducated and has a different approach because of it."
Karl can dance. He was into the 80's dancing scene with the body popping & break dancing battles. He picks up on it fast & his improvisation is impressive. You'll see soon enough
I, my twin brother and a friend have been seeing each other on a Wednesday night since we left school. In all those years we've missed very few of those nights because it's a standing arrangement and if it wasn't for that we would very likely have lost touch by now like most of the friends I've had over the years as days turn into months and then years. We've been friends with the honorary brother for 50 years now and you can't get new old friends so this is the most valuable thing in my life.
39:46 - Karl does mean Bulgaria (developing country in SE Europe), not Belgravia (rich part of Central London). You could buy a decent house in Bulgaria for £100k, but houses in Belgravia cost £millions. He's wrong about it doubling in price in a year. Bulgaria's population is falling rapidly due to its very low birthrate & high emigration, so there must be loads of empty houses there & selling them for a large profit would be difficult.
Best ever reactions to series one Mandy, you should be proud of yourself for what you've produced & your contributions / observations have been outstanding ... you're in for a treat with series two ... thank you
Theres an 80s song "Jona Lewie - You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties" Better out the way of the party and people. Plus the foods there!😅 I'd always do that. Straight to the kitchen and stay there
Clip shows are usually bad episodes of a show, but the ones for An Idiot Abroad are more like a live action episode of The Ricky Gervais Show so they're really strong.
As Mandy likes schedules and to host at her house, I think she should arrange a party for all of us 14.5k subscribers at her house next year on June 15th at 6:00pm... 😜
@@davidz3879 I've got old now (40) so decided that I will plan stuff to keep my brothers and me (all the family really, but it's been funerals and nowt else for age) in contact, I doubt it will work. I'm sure it does loads though...probably - I'm trying to be an optimist! :D
Funny enough theres a 10 minute video "Karl Pilkington meets Michael Palin (COMPLETE)" best seeing series 2 first though for minor spoilers in the video
When Karl was talking about the 'invisible' fish and said, "I don't have all the details", we both said "clearly" at exactly the same time! So now you're jinxed, FYI, hehe. Definitely with you on not liking parties and large gatherings etc, wondering if you're some type of empath. I find large groups really overwhelming and draining and takes days to recover, meditation helps alot too. I also do understand the value of planning. It's usually necessary when everyone's busy, but the best times I've ever had have been completely spontaneous and unplanned, and they're rare, so I feel like you have to be open to any possibilities. Glad you're in a good mood☺️ and thanks for the little stories of your own in there, always a nice touch.
The invisible fish bit was so freakin' funny!! And I if I like the group, I like group gatherings, if they aren't my favourite people I do get quite tired...
You'll be either pleased or extremely concerned to know that I have watched all of your season 1 reactions back-to-back. No break. I had it on while working up until I went to bed. Thoroughly enjoyed your reactions. It was like watching it with a mate sitting next to me. God, I need to make friends.
The kidnap part reminded me of that Movie Ruthless People, the Guys Wife gets Kidnapped and he tells them to keep her, she drives them nuts...think it was Bette Middler and Danny DeVitto.
Remember being amazed there was a 2nd series as well but I've heard Karl saying that there were always aspects of travelling that he quite liked. Sure he said all the episodes were edited to make him seem more miserable than he actually was as well lol. RE the comment near the end, "I thought I was going to be the new Palin", he's referring to Monty Python member Michael Palin who's done a few travel documentaries.
That bit at the start where they talk about the 'pick of the day' review in the newspaper always cracks me up because you see that all the time over here. The papers will single a TV program or film out as the 'pick of the day/week' then talk about how bad the acting is etc. Such a contradiction lol..
I live near Porthmadog and there is not much to do there, there is a nice beach section there (not the section shown in this) and there is a little tourist village called Portmeirion which is most famous for having a 1960s show called the Prisoner filmed there...other than that Karl probably just enjoyed the amenities at the caravan park which is exactly like 90% of caravan parks in the UK.
@@jmdev8775 You will get used to squeezing a car through crappy B roads eventually....it seems like you got lucky because only last year they threw a by pass road in...obviously the locals think the road is just too easy 😂
I think people assume a bit much that what they present is fact, my feeling on this show is that Karl's the main guy and Ricky and Steve are basically just there as supporting cast and the people that helped Karl get this show. I don't think it's them forcing him to do anything, I think that's just for show and how they present it to make it funny.
I think season 2 they offered him a but load more money n then on season 3 they sent Warwick with him for company so he wouldn’t have to go through it on his own (or at least that’s my guess as to how they got the extra seasons)
The parts of these episodes that made your skin crawl, that was the best part of the show for me. Seeing your reaction. It was funny. Where some parts of the show made you laugh, your reaction to other parts of the show made me laugh. I loved it. I'm with you, Ricky and Steve on the planning thing. Unless it's something like Mardi Gras in New Orleans, where it's meant to go with the flow, and the fact that you're there, in itself, is the planning. Or else if that's just how the day goes as it progresses from morning to afternoon to evening to night. Unless it's something like that, I prefer minimum two day's notice, in most instances, that something's gonna happen. I don't like plans being placed on me on the spot. And I also don't like being locked into a plan just because the other person said so, and then if I don't show, they don't show when I have a plan, in retaliation. I don't like that, either. Because, if I already have other plans for that day before this person came along, or if I'm really not up to it for any reason, such as being sick, or if I have no way to get to said place / back home from said place, or if it's just something the person thought up and there's no reason for me to be there at all, why am I required to be there? So, I'm with you, Ricky and Steve on that. The part where Karl mentioned "The A-Team," that was a show in the 1980s, with Mr. T on that show. I typed in the question "Is Karl Pilkington still with Suzanne," and one article said "as of 2022, they are still together." I would have left her, on the spot, if she told me "If you were dead, I'd be alright." I wish I were as well travelled as this show made Karl. Minus everything they put Karl through just for laughs on the show. I have been to Huntsville, Alabama twice, and Niagara Falls, Canada twice. Otherwise, I've been stuck in my home town.
@@MandyCaneLane needs to be all stuck down, lots of detail…is my all time favourite. Do you like The Beatles?? There’s an album cover on it with Ricky Karl Steven and Suzanne
There were rare occasions on the original XFM radio show, before the podcasts where i briefly thought he was being bullied, i still find it funny to listen to though as Ricky is forcing McDonald's burgers into Karl's mouth, just as one example😂😂
And in my case, that love for the bloke doesn't diminish with time and even grows. When I finally decided to start watching Karl - through the various reactors on You Tube- I realised I had stumbled across an authentic, kind, insightful, entertaining human being! Life was brightened up immeasurably!
Saved this one for evening viewing with the dinner. Perfect. Great reaction again, Mandy. There's a part that I was hoping was on this video but I must be mixing it up with another one. Karl seems to just go along with any role play that Ricky comes up with. I've never known him not to :) Really looking forward to seeing you react to season 2 and then when Idiot Abroad is done, I'm hoping you'll move on to The Moaning of Life (another Karl series). Some great and funny stuff still to come.
Karl is right the brain only has so much space for information in it, but it is so much space, you'd have a hard time filling it up if any person could live long enough to do so. You do have short term memory and long term memory, to get long term, you got to recall the information multiple times. If you don't recall it much anymore, the links to that information get weaker and weaker. At a certain point it can get overwritten and corrupted and then you got false memories or new information written over the same are that stored something else before.
38:37 "We'll have another little meeting about that. Was it all croissants there and free coffee?" No, Sky decided to save the croissants, because they had found some spiders in a bathroom down the hall.
loving your reactions to an idiot abroad, you should check out Karl vs Steve all the insults or, Derek outtakes with ricky and Karl in, they're hilarious 😂
Mick from Australia Mandy. Loved the reaction. And I agree with you. I think they missed an opportunity not showing Ricky and Steves first time reaction.
38:03 "How did they convince Karl to do season two is just amazing to me. How..., like, he just was just fed up with everything. Everything!" The job offers wasn't exactly _whizzing_ in, and at the end of the day, it's a job that pays, innit?
I get Karls point on planning, his outlook is that people should be more spontaneous and do what they want in the moment instead of living by a schedule and not to be dragged out to things if you aren't up for it. I don't know if I'll feel like going out in 2 weeks time, I only know whether I do today. I like that as an idea, he worded it terribly as he often does, but I like his point, not to just schedule your entire life like that and focus on doing what you want, when you want.
This is one example of when Karl says pretty offensive things , but out of ignorance. “You’ll never hear of a Chinese man who starved to death”. China had the worst famine in history. In the ‘50s after the Great Leap Forward there was a massive famine where between 20 and 40 million people starved to death.
I had never seen this series before so it was an interesting journey to go on. Karl has an original way of thinking but he comes up with some gems sometimes. I just did not like the abduction - in most of his experiences he still had some control over what was happening but there he had none, IMO.
Thanks very much Mandy for reacting to this. Karl is a gem. I won't spoil it for the next season, but Ricky gets his wish for Karl to get a certain examination in the last episode.
Food snobbery is a very Western attitude. For many years under various oppressive regimes a lot of Asian countries basically had to eat whatever they could, anything with protein was valuable. Now we are facing drastic climate change, food like crickets is a viable resource that could at least extend our time on this planet. Frog's legs in France is a delicacy, The Italians have a cheese with maggots in it, also seen as a delicacy, All across the world we have Blue Cheese, so cheese with mold. We are happy to eat prawns, lobsters and crabs, basically sea bugs.
@@MandyCaneLane Well and sorry for sounding rude, but really look up the Karl "I could eat a nob at night" segment from the Ricky Gervais show, it is hilarious
So from your story, those friends of yours, who never know, if they'll come over, are like Karl, in a way that they don't like organizing either. I'm the same way, never plan for anything, because I never know if i'm in a mood for something by the time the planned day comes about. Oh, and I get really anxious waiting for a future event. I do what I feel like doing, when I feel like doing it. I also do not like crowds, especially when I'm sober. I can be quite personable when I'm drunk though. I guess that for that hostage training, a big geveaway for Karl, was that the camera crew and whoever else was with him didn't really run, or come to help him or anything like that, just kept filming like nothing was happening. Had they made those guys run away and filmed it from a hidden location a bit further away, he would have probably bought it.
Lol, very good point, sometimes one forgets about the camerman, but it is hard to tell if the camerman also got kidnapped or not with a bag over your head! 🤪🤣
@@MandyCaneLane It's not just a cameraman, it's a whole crew, with several camera men. Remember when Karl threw that needle into a cameraman, there was another one to film him. Also there isn't much room in that small car to kidnap more than Karl, and there were only guys running towards Karl. No one ran towards camera crew and since there was only one car, he would have heard others being talked to as well, if anyone else was kidnapped. Plus don't forget that he was filmed in that car as well, so they had to wait for at least one camera man to climb in there and get into good position to film him before they started driving away. Then when they arrived, they'd have to let the camera out to film them walking Karl to the hut, wait for him to get in to film the interrogation etc. All of this would make this experience quite disjointed, with pauses, waiting for camera to get into filming position, and since Karl would be used to these by now, it would probably tell him, that it's a part of the show. Damn, didn't mean to write half of it, but I just started thinking about that situation, and all of this came into my head.
Karl comes home - and he's not a changed man. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect” said the famous travel writer Paul Theroux. Ricky's underlying mission in this series seems to be to make sure Karl never experiences glamour. I imagine Karl's question to Ricky inevitably would be "What do mean by retrospect?" Is there anyone better than Mandy to watch anything at all with Karl? I really don't think so!
Sometimes, when Ricky and Steve's knock Karl, they are especially unfair to him! They are no strangers to mis-understanding facts! Karl is right - Mount Everest does increase in height. Geologists describe two tectonic plates pushing against each other and continuing to do so, making Everest taller each year.
Somehow I don't think kidnappers would release a captive because they were singing annoyingly... They'd just put tape over their mouth & stick them in a separate room. I'm not saying you are fibbing, but I think the story you've heard elsewhere isn't 100% accurate... Unless they were incredibly stupid kidnappers.
Judge for yourself 🤪 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/schoolboy-willie-myrick-freed-by-kidnapper-because-he-wouldn-t-stop-singing-gospel-song-every-praise-9278293.html
@@MandyCaneLane The first paragraph includes 'reportedly' & 'allegedly'. In other words it's hearsay. & it's alleged from the 9 yo himself, not confirmed by anyone else. I done a wee web search to see if there was any update, like an arrest. No arrest seems to ever have been made, but it turns out the same boy went missing again 3 years later, he'd went on a field trip with his friends without telling his parents. So I'm still sceptical... I kinda feel like Ricky shooting down Karl's monkey news here :/
Worzel Gummidge was a kid's show in the 80s about a scarecrow.
"I thought I was gonna be the new Palin" Michael Palin, the guy from Monty Python who was the pet shop guy, the lumberjack singer, the Biggus Dickus guy with the speech impediment. He's also made a load of travel documentaries.
Ahh, cool. Thank you! 🌻
There's a video here on YT, "Karl Pilkington meets Michael Palin", where the two sit down and have a short chat about their travels. I love both these guys so for me it was very enjoyable. But Mandy you may want to wait a bit before searching this one, I seem to recall they mention things from season 2.
I am always so glad to hear other people say that they don't like parties and 'forced fun' type situations, for the longest time I thought it was just me.
I'm with you, forced participation is not fun.
Being forced to dance is the worst.
@@freethinker-- People telling me that I'll enjoy it once I get up to dance is the worst...I knew when I was 8 years old I hated it. Sometimes it's just not for you.
You are not alone, there are plenty of us!! 😅😅
@@zepo82 "come on and join the Conga" those words I feared on holiday as a kid.
Nothing wrong with a good dance,but right place, right music, right time.none of this "Time Warp" shit.
@@MandyCaneLane How does that fit with you working in a theatre?
Sometimes Karl speeches are so deep it surprises me. On his monologue starts from 24:30 he actually offers an answer to a question that has been an argument point between philosophers in millenia. He basically just subscribed to the idea of George Berkeley who stated "to be is to be perceived" and the beauty of it that he doesn't know that. There was a quote about Karl that I don't remember the source. I think it was Ricky himself who said this about Karl somewhere: "He is not an idiot. He is uneducated and has a different approach because of it."
I really love your reactions to Karl. You pick up on his little nuances! Looking forward to season two!
Thank you Steven! Me too!!
Karl can dance. He was into the 80's dancing scene with the body popping & break dancing battles. He picks up on it fast & his improvisation is impressive. You'll see soon enough
Ohhh, I am interested in watching that!! 🤣
If I remember correctly, he showed up to Twiggy's dance club one time, but it was shut.
Toilet papers weren't it 🤣
The next season is his bucket list, 100 things to do before you die and he gets to pick off the list what he wants to do
I, my twin brother and a friend have been seeing each other on a Wednesday night since we left school. In all those years we've missed very few of those nights because it's a standing arrangement and if it wasn't for that we would very likely have lost touch by now like most of the friends I've had over the years as days turn into months and then years. We've been friends with the honorary brother for 50 years now and you can't get new old friends so this is the most valuable thing in my life.
I love that! Good for you 3! 🙌🏻🌻
Season 2's theme is doing things on people's Bucket List.
39:46 - Karl does mean Bulgaria (developing country in SE Europe), not Belgravia (rich part of Central London). You could buy a decent house in Bulgaria for £100k, but houses in Belgravia cost £millions. He's wrong about it doubling in price in a year. Bulgaria's population is falling rapidly due to its very low birthrate & high emigration, so there must be loads of empty houses there & selling them for a large profit would be difficult.
S2 is even better than s1.
I can't wait!
First half of season 2 is boring to me but the second half is god like
@@sarcashd3991 You found Karl meeting Thai ladyboys & doing Thai boxing blindfolded to be boring?!
@@davidz3879 no he just refused to do the bungie jumping and crazy stuff
Best ever reactions to series one Mandy, you should be proud of yourself for what you've produced & your contributions / observations have been outstanding ... you're in for a treat with series two ... thank you
Theres an 80s song "Jona Lewie - You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties" Better out the way of the party and people. Plus the foods there!😅 I'd always do that. Straight to the kitchen and stay there
Hahaha, the kitchen or the snack table is always the best place!
Love Karl’s logic. It reminds me of some teenage logic when they are naively trying to make sense of the world.
Lol, very innocent! 🤣🤣
"He's just shouting 'Congress Tart'!"
That was brilliant!
@@MandyCaneLane That's gotta be worse than listening non stop to gospel songs.
@@scipioafricanus5871 🤣🤣🤣
Happy to see you again, laughing. Life bloody awful and need some joy. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and sharing Karl's misery, imo. 👵🇬🇧❤
Life can be bloody awful Anita, but try and focus on the positive! Hope things pick up for you! 🤗🤗🌻
21:44 - Mandy's less than comfortable looking a nob in the face!!
Especially if it's being twisted with a stick!
@@davidz3879 Its just a kebab!!
Hahaha, not a fan of those moments! 😅
@@MandyCaneLane That's by far the most unpleasant moment of the show! It looks so painful!
This is by far the best travel series.
Agreed 😅
I love Parties at my House. I'm the only Person I want to be there, I get all the Crisps, Chocolates. Food and Drink. That's what I call a Good Party.
🤣🤣
The new Palin refers to Michael Palin, former comedian (Monty Python) but now very respected ted travel writer/presenter
Clip shows are usually bad episodes of a show, but the ones for An Idiot Abroad are more like a live action episode of The Ricky Gervais Show so they're really strong.
Yeah, I totally got that vibe too!
As Mandy likes schedules and to host at her house, I think she should arrange a party for all of us 14.5k subscribers at her house next year on June 15th at 6:00pm... 😜
I shall buy chips and beer! 🤪
I've always been the planner in our group, not because I like planning, or want to plan, but because if I don't, nobody else will.
Do the other people involved keep to the plans you make?
@@davidz3879 I've got old now (40) so decided that I will plan stuff to keep my brothers and me (all the family really, but it's been funerals and nowt else for age) in contact, I doubt it will work. I'm sure it does loads though...probably - I'm trying to be an optimist! :D
Same! 😭 And even so, nobody ever confirms and we never get anything done
@@davidz3879 Yeah, more or less.
Lol ur reaction whenever there's a knob on the screen is identical to when u see insects it's priceless,
HAHAHAHAA 🤣🤣🤣 Interesting observation!!!
Worzel Gummidge is a British scarecrow that comes to life. I doubt you'd have seen it on American or Argentine TV.
Sounds like nightmare fuel tbh.
Amazing. Can't wait for the next one. Season 2 is brilliant 😁
Karl will bring up his past experience of dancing in episode 9 of The Ricky Gervais Show
Funny enough theres a 10 minute video "Karl Pilkington meets Michael Palin (COMPLETE)" best seeing series 2 first though for minor spoilers in the video
Excellent, thank you!
When Karl was talking about the 'invisible' fish and said, "I don't have all the details", we
both said "clearly" at exactly the same time! So now you're jinxed, FYI, hehe.
Definitely with you on not liking parties and large gatherings etc, wondering if you're some type of empath. I find large groups really overwhelming and draining and takes days to recover, meditation helps alot too.
I also do understand the value of planning. It's usually necessary when everyone's busy, but the best times I've ever had have been completely spontaneous and unplanned, and they're rare, so I feel like you have to be open to any possibilities.
Glad you're in a good mood☺️ and thanks for the little stories of your own in there, always a nice touch.
The invisible fish bit was so freakin' funny!! And I if I like the group, I like group gatherings, if they aren't my favourite people I do get quite tired...
You'll be either pleased or extremely concerned to know that I have watched all of your season 1 reactions back-to-back. No break. I had it on while working up until I went to bed. Thoroughly enjoyed your reactions. It was like watching it with a mate sitting next to me. God, I need to make friends.
The kidnap part reminded me of that Movie Ruthless People, the Guys Wife gets Kidnapped and he tells them to keep her, she drives them nuts...think it was Bette Middler and Danny DeVitto.
😂😂
3:30 he probably got bored of watching Karl eating carrots on the telly 😂😂 even in HD
Remember being amazed there was a 2nd series as well but I've heard Karl saying that there were always aspects of travelling that he quite liked. Sure he said all the episodes were edited to make him seem more miserable than he actually was as well lol.
RE the comment near the end, "I thought I was going to be the new Palin", he's referring to Monty Python member Michael Palin who's done a few travel documentaries.
That bit at the start where they talk about the 'pick of the day' review in the newspaper always cracks me up because you see that all the time over here. The papers will single a TV program or film out as the 'pick of the day/week' then talk about how bad the acting is etc. Such a contradiction lol..
Ahhhh! Cool. Thank you!🤗
Lmao! Yeah, I was expecting a good review 🤣🤣
18:36 I thought he was going to say “then I’d go “fuck this, I’m going back to sleep…”” or something lol
Congress tarts are small sweet tarts ( pies) from England.
Lmao!!! I thought they were um... something else! Something.... rude 🤣🤣
You’re gonna love season 2, even better than the first season which was amazing!
I am excited to watch!
Great reaction as always season 2 👍😂😂 👏👏👏👏
Glad you answered about the World Cup. I was thinking ‘How did Mandy cope?’
Hahahahhaa 🤪
I live near Porthmadog and there is not much to do there, there is a nice beach section there (not the section shown in this) and there is a little tourist village called Portmeirion which is most famous for having a 1960s show called the Prisoner filmed there...other than that Karl probably just enjoyed the amenities at the caravan park which is exactly like 90% of caravan parks in the UK.
Drove through Porthmadog on the way to holyhead the other week. The country roads are mental 🤣
@@jmdev8775
You will get used to squeezing a car through crappy B roads eventually....it seems like you got lucky because only last year they threw a by pass road in...obviously the locals think the road is just too easy 😂
I think people assume a bit much that what they present is fact, my feeling on this show is that Karl's the main guy and Ricky and Steve are basically just there as supporting cast and the people that helped Karl get this show. I don't think it's them forcing him to do anything, I think that's just for show and how they present it to make it funny.
40:35 😂😂 tried that one in the casino, now I’m stood on the street selling The Big Issue lol
Greetings from Bulgaria. Unfrotunately I haven't seen Karl, but he's always welcome.
Haha, maybe some day! 🙌🏻🤣
YES. Another evening's watching sorted. :)
🙌🏻🤗
47:24 most beaches in the UK are like this unfortunately 😂
Hmm.. not the best! 😅
Series Two. The ending to the Route 66 episode is possibly the greatest moment in television.
Super excited for this and not watched it yet 🤣
Edit it was amazing, CONGRESS TART
Haha, hope you enjoy!
You: "I like my house to be the house where people come over"... YOU ARE MONICA!! 😱🤭🤭 Great reaction too! 😆
Hahaha, I am ALWAYS the host!
I think season 2 they offered him a but load more money n then on season 3 they sent Warwick with him for company so he wouldn’t have to go through it on his own (or at least that’s my guess as to how they got the extra seasons)
The parts of these episodes that made your skin crawl, that was the best part of the show for me. Seeing your reaction. It was funny. Where some parts of the show made you laugh, your reaction to other parts of the show made me laugh. I loved it.
I'm with you, Ricky and Steve on the planning thing. Unless it's something like Mardi Gras in New Orleans, where it's meant to go with the flow, and the fact that you're there, in itself, is the planning. Or else if that's just how the day goes as it progresses from morning to afternoon to evening to night. Unless it's something like that, I prefer minimum two day's notice, in most instances, that something's gonna happen. I don't like plans being placed on me on the spot.
And I also don't like being locked into a plan just because the other person said so, and then if I don't show, they don't show when I have a plan, in retaliation. I don't like that, either. Because, if I already have other plans for that day before this person came along, or if I'm really not up to it for any reason, such as being sick, or if I have no way to get to said place / back home from said place, or if it's just something the person thought up and there's no reason for me to be there at all, why am I required to be there?
So, I'm with you, Ricky and Steve on that.
The part where Karl mentioned "The A-Team," that was a show in the 1980s, with Mr. T on that show.
I typed in the question "Is Karl Pilkington still with Suzanne," and one article said "as of 2022, they are still together." I would have left her, on the spot, if she told me "If you were dead, I'd be alright."
I wish I were as well travelled as this show made Karl. Minus everything they put Karl through just for laughs on the show. I have been to Huntsville, Alabama twice, and Niagara Falls, Canada twice. Otherwise, I've been stuck in my home town.
I really would love to travel as well, haven't been many places either...
And that Suzanne line was quite cold to be honest!
40:56 Dragon’s den is a show we’re u pitch ideas to millionaires. America’s version is called shark tank “I’m out” stephens comment
Ahhh, thank you!!
What's your favourite episode of s1?
Hmm... good question! I think Mexico! The never ending search for the jumping beans 😅😅 How about yours David?
Season 2 hopefully coming up! This was a great reaction series to a hilarious and great man
Thank you! Starting season 2 very soon! 🤗
My favourite show…art is 50 percent done
Awesome Mark! 🤗
@@MandyCaneLane needs to be all stuck down, lots of detail…is my all time favourite. Do you like The Beatles?? There’s an album cover on it with Ricky Karl Steven and Suzanne
The Karl comes home episodes are the best, it’s basically a Ricky gervais show within a show
You need to react to the deleted scenes they are hilarious 😅😅
Soon!
Only after series 2! Its got series 2 spoilers in the deleted scenes video
The new "palin" at the finish.Michael Palin did lots of travel shows.he was ex monty python.played ceaser in biggis dickus!😘
that was great mandy keep them coming karl is a legend.
Glad you enjoyed Paul!! 🤗🤗
51:35 Michael Palin presented multiple Travel series for the BBC & went around the world for it.
Thank you 🤗
There were rare occasions on the original XFM radio show, before the podcasts where i briefly thought he was being bullied, i still find it funny to listen to though as Ricky is forcing McDonald's burgers into Karl's mouth, just as one example😂😂
And now you're craving toad 🐸
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42:15 know exactly where he is lol, sat on the same bench
Cup of tea + Chocolate + Mandy + Karl = Heaven 🤗😋
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Karl is something else but we love him just the same 😂😂😂
And in my case, that love for the bloke doesn't diminish with time and even grows. When I finally decided to start watching Karl - through the various reactors on You Tube- I realised I had stumbled across an authentic, kind, insightful, entertaining human being! Life was brightened up immeasurably!
Karl has a little friend with him in the next series. He hated it... again.
Saved this one for evening viewing with the dinner. Perfect.
Great reaction again, Mandy. There's a part that I was hoping was on this video but I must be mixing it up with another one.
Karl seems to just go along with any role play that Ricky comes up with. I've never known him not to :)
Really looking forward to seeing you react to season 2 and then when Idiot Abroad is done, I'm hoping you'll move on to The Moaning of Life (another Karl series). Some great and funny stuff still to come.
I am so excited! Everyone keeps saying Season 2 is even better! 🤗🙌🏻
@@MandyCaneLane You'll love it :)
Karl is right the brain only has so much space for information in it, but it is so much space, you'd have a hard time filling it up if any person could live long enough to do so. You do have short term memory and long term memory, to get long term, you got to recall the information multiple times. If you don't recall it much anymore, the links to that information get weaker and weaker. At a certain point it can get overwritten and corrupted and then you got false memories or new information written over the same are that stored something else before.
Ah yes, I learned this in "Inside Out" 🤣😅🤪
38:37 "We'll have another little meeting about that. Was it all croissants there and free coffee?"
No, Sky decided to save the croissants, because they had found some spiders in a bathroom down the hall.
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Congress Tart!
That Bee seen was the best
So easily missed!
Stephen merchant legs for days...
loving your reactions to an idiot abroad, you should check out Karl vs Steve all the insults or, Derek outtakes with ricky and Karl in, they're hilarious 😂
Thank you Steven! Will do!!
Can't wait for season 2!!
Me niether! 🤗
Mick from Australia Mandy. Loved the reaction. And I agree with you. I think they missed an opportunity not showing Ricky and Steves first time reaction.
Thank you Mick! 🤗🌻
38:03 "How did they convince Karl to do season two is just amazing to me. How..., like, he just was just fed up with everything. Everything!"
The job offers wasn't exactly _whizzing_ in, and at the end of the day, it's a job that pays, innit?
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I've been waiting for this one. lol
I get Karls point on planning, his outlook is that people should be more spontaneous and do what they want in the moment instead of living by a schedule and not to be dragged out to things if you aren't up for it. I don't know if I'll feel like going out in 2 weeks time, I only know whether I do today. I like that as an idea, he worded it terribly as he often does, but I like his point, not to just schedule your entire life like that and focus on doing what you want, when you want.
Worded it terribly? I don't think so, Karl was eating _your_ chicken, so his evening was clearly better than yours lmao
This is one example of when Karl says pretty offensive things , but out of ignorance. “You’ll never hear of a Chinese man who starved to death”. China had the worst famine in history. In the ‘50s after the Great Leap Forward there was a massive famine where between 20 and 40 million people starved to death.
If you're not happy looking a knob in the face there's something wrong - Karl Pilkington
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I had never seen this series before so it was an interesting journey to go on. Karl has an original way of thinking but he comes up with some gems sometimes. I just did not like the abduction - in most of his experiences he still had some control over what was happening but there he had none, IMO.
Yeah, that part was just plain out too much.
Thanks very much Mandy for reacting to this. Karl is a gem. I won't spoil it for the next season, but Ricky gets his wish for Karl to get a certain examination in the last episode.
Congress tart
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Food snobbery is a very Western attitude. For many years under various oppressive regimes a lot of Asian countries basically had to eat whatever they could, anything with protein was valuable.
Now we are facing drastic climate change, food like crickets is a viable resource that could at least extend our time on this planet.
Frog's legs in France is a delicacy, The Italians have a cheese with maggots in it, also seen as a delicacy, All across the world we have Blue Cheese, so cheese with mold. We are happy to eat prawns, lobsters and crabs, basically sea bugs.
I am not happy to eat any of those things 😭😖
@@MandyCaneLane Well and sorry for sounding rude, but really look up the Karl "I could eat a nob at night" segment from the Ricky Gervais show, it is hilarious
So from your story, those friends of yours, who never know, if they'll come over, are like Karl, in a way that they don't like organizing either. I'm the same way, never plan for anything, because I never know if i'm in a mood for something by the time the planned day comes about. Oh, and I get really anxious waiting for a future event. I do what I feel like doing, when I feel like doing it. I also do not like crowds, especially when I'm sober. I can be quite personable when I'm drunk though.
I guess that for that hostage training, a big geveaway for Karl, was that the camera crew and whoever else was with him didn't really run, or come to help him or anything like that, just kept filming like nothing was happening. Had they made those guys run away and filmed it from a hidden location a bit further away, he would have probably bought it.
Lol, very good point, sometimes one forgets about the camerman, but it is hard to tell if the camerman also got kidnapped or not with a bag over your head! 🤪🤣
@@MandyCaneLane It's not just a cameraman, it's a whole crew, with several camera men. Remember when Karl threw that needle into a cameraman, there was another one to film him. Also there isn't much room in that small car to kidnap more than Karl, and there were only guys running towards Karl. No one ran towards camera crew and since there was only one car, he would have heard others being talked to as well, if anyone else was kidnapped. Plus don't forget that he was filmed in that car as well, so they had to wait for at least one camera man to climb in there and get into good position to film him before they started driving away. Then when they arrived, they'd have to let the camera out to film them walking Karl to the hut, wait for him to get in to film the interrogation etc. All of this would make this experience quite disjointed, with pauses, waiting for camera to get into filming position, and since Karl would be used to these by now, it would probably tell him, that it's a part of the show.
Damn, didn't mean to write half of it, but I just started thinking about that situation, and all of this came into my head.
great review ❤
Thank you Simon! 🤗🌷
Karl comes home - and he's not a changed man. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect” said the famous travel writer Paul Theroux. Ricky's underlying mission in this series seems to be to make sure Karl never experiences glamour. I imagine Karl's question to Ricky inevitably would be "What do mean by retrospect?" Is there anyone better than Mandy to watch anything at all with Karl? I really don't think so!
Thank you so muchh Huaysai! 🤗🤗🌻
Mandy wasn't happy looking a knob in the face 😂 you looked away when they showed the Brazilian man on the beach 😂
edit: or the Indian man.
No she was not! 😅😅
Again as a reminder, Id recommend jumping past just the intro in series 2, as its annoyingly spoiler heavy of big moments.
Oh yeahhh!!! Thank you for reminding me!!! 🙌🏻🤗
I just cannot not laugh, Karl is just hilarious😂
#facts!
I feel like you are the Monica of you’re friends group lol 🤣😉
A little bit, but only because I have to be 😅😅😅
Your mate has done you there. No way a football match has no schedule how would the other team know when to turn up
If you thought series one was good.. just wait for number two
*laugh in Joey.. "you said number two" 🤣🤣
Your thumbnails remind me of that 70s show
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Whoa Mand, dial it back on the Harry Potter spoilers, I swear I'll read the books before I die.
HAHAHHAHAHA, my bad, sorry!
@@MandyCaneLane Because it's you I'll let it slide :)
Sometimes, when Ricky and Steve's knock Karl, they are especially unfair to him! They are no strangers to mis-understanding facts! Karl is right - Mount Everest does increase in height. Geologists describe two tectonic plates pushing against each other and continuing to do so, making Everest taller each year.
#JusticeForKarl
Wow your turning into Karl lol😩
Somehow I don't think kidnappers would release a captive because they were singing annoyingly... They'd just put tape over their mouth & stick them in a separate room. I'm not saying you are fibbing, but I think the story you've heard elsewhere isn't 100% accurate... Unless they were incredibly stupid kidnappers.
Judge for yourself 🤪 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/schoolboy-willie-myrick-freed-by-kidnapper-because-he-wouldn-t-stop-singing-gospel-song-every-praise-9278293.html
@@MandyCaneLane The first paragraph includes 'reportedly' & 'allegedly'. In other words it's hearsay. & it's alleged from the 9 yo himself, not confirmed by anyone else. I done a wee web search to see if there was any update, like an arrest. No arrest seems to ever have been made, but it turns out the same boy went missing again 3 years later, he'd went on a field trip with his friends without telling his parents. So I'm still sceptical... I kinda feel like Ricky shooting down Karl's monkey news here :/
Also, their grubs, bats food, he showed their disgusting, imo, food?
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2nd series is better imo
I can't wait!
@@MandyCaneLane can't wait for your reaction to it!
I'd love to watch you eat carrots on the tele. Especially in HD. 26:57
Watch the Ricky Gervais podcast show with Steve and Carl
I have been 🤗
@@MandyCaneLane and what do you think btw