I have a feeling this was a flub and the actor couldn’t say the line, so they improvised and said that. The show was such a low budget, I’m betting they couldn’t afford reshoots.
I believe the forbidden word is "can't" (which from a phonetic point of view sounds like *insert trivial word for female genitalia*. I believe that, since they are knights, they are supposed to use only chivalrous words, hence "can't" is forbidden (you can spot them using the long form "cannot" right afterwards, twice), but this is just my theory XD
Alice Marinescu Problem is most of the times they react CAN'T isn't even on the horizon and it's to IT, there's also an inside joke with them subbing it for IS but, as others mentioned, IT is still pronounced twice despite being the forbidden word
In the online game Runescape you can use a raw or cooked herring on a tree to get the message 'This is not the mightiest tree in the forest'. When you find the Grand Tree in the Gnome Stronghold, you can again attempt to do so, but with the message 'It can't be done!'. I've always thought it'd be amusing if an animation for cutting down trees involved fish.
"You can't get very far in life not saying "IS"....". The humor is, you can't get very far not saying "IT" either!!! Pure genius writing. They'll be quoting these lines for hundreds of years and will become mandatory reading much like Shakespeare.
He is not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp or to have his eyes gouged out and his elbows broken, to have his kneecaps split and his body burned away and his limbs all hacked and mangled, Brave Sir Robin. His head smashed in and his heart cut out and his liver removed and his bowels unplugged and his nostrils raped and his bottom burned off and his pen...
I think, the *First form* of 'Knights who say Ni' have no problem with the word 'it', however, once they 'transform' into the *Second form* (A.K.A Knights who say "Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing!"), they will be weak to the word 'it'.
Love the little white picket fence too....it adds that extra oomph to the ridiculousness of these feared Knights having a nice little shrubbery! Oh so British!!
“He said it again! Wait, I said it! I said it! Eugh, I said it again! And there again, that’s three its! Eugh!” Truly some of most best character development ever put to film lol.
My dad told me he saw this movie in theaters and when the Knights who say Nee came on, he couldn't stop himself from saying Nee, and it got so bad and usher had to come and tell him to knock it off or he'd have to leave lol
The worst part is now many times the Knights who used to say Ni use 'it' earlier in the scene, and how easy 'it' would have been to write around 'it'. Instead of 'It is a good shrubbery" they could have said "That is a good shrubbery!" etc.
For anyone wondering what the "forbidden word" is: I believe it's "can't" (which from a phonetic point of view sounds like *insert trivial word for female genitalia*. Since they are knights, they are supposed to have a chivalrous vocabulary, so no cuss words (you can actually spot them using instead the long form "cannot" right afterwards, twice), but this is just my theory.
@@b.d6642 Thanks. A lot of people in the comments suggested the forbidden word is actually "it". However, the knights can be heard saying it around 00:04 ("It is a good shrubbery?"), so it "cannot" be "it" imo. But then, again, I might be wrong. Maybe it's just one of those things written specifically in such a way to drive the fandom crazy :)
@@alicetheatheist Well they litterally say "I said IT again, oh no, I did IT again. Oh no, that is 3 ITs" at the end. I think they just didn't care about being that careful with it. And it drives the fandom crazy ;P
His trailing off into unintelligible noises at the end of the 'ecky ecky ptang' phrase has made me cry laughing on multiple occasions. The idea that they need to enunciate that exact phrasing is fucking brilliant
"Then you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest.. WIIIIIIITH, A HERRING!" "Which will do no such thing.." "Oh please" "Cut down a tree with a herring? It cannot be done"
They weren’t vulnerable to “it” when they were the Knights who said Ni, but when they changed into the Knights who said Ekke Ekke (etc), then they were!
We are the knights who say Ni- ((((🔔)))) Ah, the knights who are nigh. No, we are the nights who say Ni- ((((🔔)))) Yes, well, we come with a laurel, and hardy handshake
"What, is?" "No, not is! You wouldn't get very far in life not saying is!" the word: *it* because you can most certainly get far in life without saying it
That one guy who said "Ni" in the back tho
Legends say he was executed
@@CashCashBoys all of them got executed. they heard the forbidden word
0:23
@@mnakfoor NO!
He voted against the name change, lol
"What word, is?"
"Couldn't go far in life without saying is."
This kind of humor.
It's no is it's it
@@TheOneMask69 AAAAHHHHH YOU SAID IT AGAIN!!!
@@klaasjeamandou You said the word!
I cannot say what it is
Oh no I said it
"Then you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest.........wiiiiiiiiiiiith.... A HERRING!!!
Ni! Ni Ni Ni! Nee-Whom!!
ChefMatt Reviews We shall do no such thing!
Oh please!
ImperiusDamian Cut down a tree with a herring?! *It* can't be done!
Agh! Don't say that word! Tis one of the words the Knights of Ni cannot hear!!
When you help a NPC with a quest but after a long time it gives the same quest.
Ahhh! You said the forbidden word!
We are the knights who say it
I fucking hate Preston Garvey 🤣
Blizzard in BC xpack did that, didnt get the joke until now xD
I have another settlement that needs help
0:19 That tiny “ni” in the background tho
a true rebel
Such an innocent little Ni.
That’s what completes the joke for me XD
I believe it was Cleese who did that, which makes perfect sense
Came here for this comment! That tiny NI is such a big part of my childhood!
We are the knights who say, "Ekky Ekky Ekky Ekky Pitang Zoom Boing Zou Zim"
"O Knights Who... 'Til Recently Said 'Ni'..."
....nii
NI!
Formerly known as the bureaucrats who say NO.
NI
This never gets any less funny every time I watch this
Never
I wish I could find out how to say what they said but I can't and it makes me sad
@@ChrisSmith-cw1cl my brother just says "icky icky icky icky icky potato" 😂
@@ChrisSmith-cw1cl EEKI EEKI EEKI PTANG ZOOM BOING
NEE
I love how Bedevere flinches when Arthur says "Knights who till recently said ni." Such a great touch. I could watch that all day.
I have a feeling this was a flub and the actor couldn’t say the line, so they improvised and said that. The show was such a low budget, I’m betting they couldn’t afford reshoots.
0:04 IT is a good shrubbery
0:40 you must place IT here
**gasp** they speak the forbidden word! it's incredible!
Well spotted!
I believe the forbidden word is "can't" (which from a phonetic point of view sounds like *insert trivial word for female genitalia*. I believe that, since they are knights, they are supposed to use only chivalrous words, hence "can't" is forbidden (you can spot them using the long form "cannot" right afterwards, twice), but this is just my theory XD
Alice Marinescu Problem is most of the times they react CAN'T isn't even on the horizon and it's to IT, there's also an inside joke with them subbing it for IS but, as others mentioned, IT is still pronounced twice despite being the forbidden word
Three times or more actually, sir Belvedere also sad `my liege, it's Sir Robin.`
continuITy!?!
In the online game Runescape you can use a raw or cooked herring on a tree to get the message 'This is not the mightiest tree in the forest'. When you find the Grand Tree in the Gnome Stronghold, you can again attempt to do so, but with the message 'It can't be done!'. I've always thought it'd be amusing if an animation for cutting down trees involved fish.
Thank you for sharing this!
Thanks for sharing! #OSRS
Confirmed
0:05 Apparently "it" wasn't the forbidden word before the name change of the knight order lol.
Agent1W "What tis that." maybe?
0:40 "it" wasn't forbidden after the change either
Do you want to curse your family with bombardments of Ni for generations to come? If you want to repent you must bring... A SHRUBBERY!!!
Is it because most IT call centers are in India...?
@@peterstoric6560 brings an evergreen tree*
"He is sneaking away and buggering off!"
And chickening out
Bravely he is throwing in the sponge.
Shut up!
@@stevenstice6683 sir robbin
Shut up!
WE ARE NOW THE KNİGHTS WHO SAY: Ekiekiekieki vitangzoomboingadan za'eihem
jimmy fly
*Quietly*
Ni
shit i missed that
I like to think it was one of the lesser knights that said ni
*Knight in the background* Ni
Ni
That little jump from bedevere when Arthur says Ni again lol
0:44 The most adorable Ni of all.
"You can't get very far in life not saying "IS"....". The humor is, you can't get very far not saying "IT" either!!! Pure genius writing. They'll be quoting these lines for hundreds of years and will become mandatory reading much like Shakespeare.
just noticed Robin was carrying a shield adorned with a giant chicken
He is not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp or to have his eyes gouged out and his elbows broken, to have his kneecaps split and his body burned away and his limbs all hacked and mangled, Brave Sir Robin. His head smashed in and his heart cut out and his liver removed and his bowels unplugged and his nostrils raped and his bottom burned off and his pen...
He is sneaking away and buggering off and pissing around and fucking things up yes bravely he is throwing in the sponge
I think, the *First form* of 'Knights who say Ni' have no problem with the word 'it',
however, once they 'transform' into the *Second form* (A.K.A Knights who say "Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing!"), they will be weak to the word 'it'.
Except the head Knight still said "place it here"
No, it is far from it
IT!
You forgot to add "Zhrouzanm" at the end. 😂
I like how the lead knight is like twelve feet tall for no apparent reason.
The entire Fast and Furious franchise owes a tremendous dept of gratitude to this movie 🎥 👏 🙌 👌 😊 .
*clears throat*
*pats down clothes*
*runs hand through hair*
*stands up*
NI
Love the little white picket fence too....it adds that extra oomph to the ridiculousness of these feared Knights having a nice little shrubbery! Oh so British!!
5 people couldn't cut down a tree with a herring.
And 1 of them losers didn't count to 5
I mean 3
1, 2, 5! Oh wait it's 6 now. Bugger.
make that 7
112k could
I lose it every time when they do the intense sound effect
A HERRING
ANOTHER SHRUBBERY! *dramatic bwang
I litterilly laughed out loud
“He said it again! Wait, I said it! I said it! Eugh, I said it again! And there again, that’s three its! Eugh!”
Truly some of most best character development ever put to film lol.
At 0:23 one of them said Ni
He said, "it is a good shrubbery" and "place it here beside this shrubbery".
A SHRUBERY!!!
KnightofDark001 *dramatic background music*
ANOTHER SHRUBBERY!!!!
Cut down the mightiest tree in the forrest with.... A HERRING
@@theleftfootedsultan a herring? IT can't be done!
Without a moment of hesitation “We will do no such thing.”
When you're done, you're done.
I love the way he says "oh please" you could just hear the context of (oh please, it will be so funny to watch) ...Ni
My entire childhood in 2 minutes brilliant
My dad told me he saw this movie in theaters and when the Knights who say Nee came on, he couldn't stop himself from saying Nee, and it got so bad and usher had to come and tell him to knock it off or he'd have to leave lol
No body:
Absolutely no one:
The subtitles: we are now, the knight to say it’s it’s its it’s a gang look poison.
The word he said the word 4 times!
When you found the shrubbery, you must place IT here, slightly higher with a path in the middle
A path...a path
ni
i watched spamalot and they improv'd an extremely long rendition of "icky icky icky icky ptang..."
0:26 the guy on the right jumps for some reason lol
It’s because he said nee lol, like when the lady in the scene before heard the word she seemed to be scared so I assume he was “scared”
“Knights who until recently, said NI.” 😂
Perhaps Sean Spicer is aspiring to be a Knight Who Formerly Said Ni.
Tinhuviel My thoughts exactly! That's why I'm here!
(:D Yep, that's why I toddled over here myself.
OBJECTION! HE SAID THE WORD TWICE WITHOUT ANYTHING HAPPENING!
Just realised those little Knights are clearly goblins of the Labyrinth...
Did anyone else notice Sir Bedivere jump after Arthur said "Ni?" 0:29
He got scared of Ni when Arthur said it 😄.
we are now the knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki-ptang-zoom-boing
....
ni
Best 2 minutes in comedy
No that would be the tale of Sir Lancelot or the frenchs
You must brace IT here besides this shrubbery, only slightly higher...
With a path in the middle
@@b.d6642 a paath, a paath!
The worst part is now many times the Knights who used to say Ni use 'it' earlier in the scene, and how easy 'it' would have been to write around 'it'. Instead of 'It is a good shrubbery" they could have said "That is a good shrubbery!" etc.
In a film where the horses are coconuts, I feel this is less of a problem than you think.
For anyone wondering what the "forbidden word" is: I believe it's "can't" (which from a phonetic point of view sounds like *insert trivial word for female genitalia*. Since they are knights, they are supposed to have a chivalrous vocabulary, so no cuss words (you can actually spot them using instead the long form "cannot" right afterwards, twice), but this is just my theory.
Damn, I'm floored by how much thought they put into a joke that otherwise appears to be very silly.
@@sameer754 they literally cut out the entire end credits for a punchline
Damn that's a very good and detailed theory
@@b.d6642 Thanks. A lot of people in the comments suggested the forbidden word is actually "it". However, the knights can be heard saying it around 00:04 ("It is a good shrubbery?"), so it "cannot" be "it" imo. But then, again, I might be wrong. Maybe it's just one of those things written specifically in such a way to drive the fandom crazy :)
@@alicetheatheist Well they litterally say "I said IT again, oh no, I did IT again. Oh no, that is 3 ITs" at the end. I think they just didn't care about being that careful with it. And it drives the fandom crazy ;P
That small NI in the background
Delicious 😋.
The knights who say nii can't hear the word "it" xD
Yeguas92 don't say that word!!!
His trailing off into unintelligible noises at the end of the 'ecky ecky ptang' phrase has made me cry laughing on multiple occasions. The idea that they need to enunciate that exact phrasing is fucking brilliant
When i saw this movie, i did not know what was a shrubbery, so i googled it and when i saw the meaning i was like "whet?"
Whet?
The lead knight’s first word in this scene is also the word they all claim to hate later on
Ekyekyekyekybadangzoopboingzmushmaushula
Eke eke eke eke p'tang zoom boing
that little ni in the back xD
"A path! A path!"
“Firstly, you must find… ANOTHER SHRUBBERY!!!”
I love that Arthur is just acting casual
I like when he's finally had enough. "We shall do NO SUCH THING."
@@ValduriaKurt Russell was great in this movie 👍 😊.
Those responsible for sacking have been sacked
"Then you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest.. WIIIIIIITH, A HERRING!"
"Which will do no such thing.."
"Oh please"
"Cut down a tree with a herring? It cannot be done"
AH! Don't say that word.
@@SantinoYTPwhat word?
I cannot tell! Suffice to say, is one of the words the Knights of Ni cannot hear!
@@SantinoYTP How can we not say the word if you don’t tell us what *it* is?
AH! He said it again!
0:40 He said “it” and didn’t seem to notice!
You said the forbidden word!
They go to all that effort just to get passing travellers to arrange them a free shrubbery
“Wait, I said it!!
Oouuuhw, I said it AGAIN!!”
This is my favorite movie
“We shall do no such thing!”
“😒 oh please.”
Knights of Ni: Couldn't go far in life without saying "is".
Foreigners: Yowa-sa wa watashi o ken'o
I fart in your general direction
ANOTHER SHRUBBERY! :O
It is a good shrubbery.
Firs time I notice the head knight who formerly said ni, says `he said it again. Oh, wait I said it again. I said it again. That's three times.
We are now the knights who say ekkie ekkie ekkie ekkie kemroomblambl
0:18 ekie ekie ekie ekie
0:04 "It" is a good shrubbery.
(Reportedly that was a flub; that line was meant to be " 'Tis a good shrubbery.")
Is this clip what inspired Stephen King to title the novel IT
EKKI EKKI EKKI EKKI PATANG ZOOM BOING!
Ekke ekke ekke ekke ekke ekke bootong toyng boo ga
The knights actually say it at one point
0:23 its so sad that he just didnt hear that they just changed to saying eki eki...... LoL and he said NI 😂
They must be really big Steven King fans if the word “it” scares them so much 😆
The Knights of Gger
Anyone else notice Arthur says It on their first encounter but they don’t react to that
They weren’t vulnerable to “it” when they were the Knights who said Ni, but when they changed into the Knights who said Ekke Ekke (etc), then they were!
He said the work “It” at least 3 times before and they never freaked out so why did they when the king said IT.
This will never not be funny
A path! A path!
And sneaking away and buggering off 🤣🤣
Ni!
It's been four years but...
Ni!
Ni!
Ni
A second shrubbery for a two-level effect with a path running down the middle.
Shrubbery... the gateway drug for a choking suburban demise.
the infamous knights who say northern ireland
contractions, they can not hear contractions
Seems like that, until near the end of the bit when its clear that they just can not hear the word 'it'.
Also: I see what you did there.
ikki ikki ikki ikki beken root poing zee :D :P
Ni
*_"It_*_ is a good shrubbery... must place _*_it_*_ here beside this shrubbery..."_
We are now the knights who say… *EKI EKI EKI POOTAN Zoooo BOING whfjfndnen…*
1:23 "Not say in!"
"Not in!"
"Not in!"
NI!
We are the knights who say Ni-
((((🔔))))
Ah, the knights who are nigh.
No, we are the nights who say Ni-
((((🔔))))
Yes, well, we come with a laurel, and hardy handshake
ikki ikki ikki ikki btang zooboing zuhem!
“We are no longer the knights who say -no- ni. We are now the knights who say Ekki, ekki, ekki, ekki ptang zoom boing zao zim.......ni”.
Ekke ekke ekke ekke ptang zoom boing!
Hilarious. 'That's three it's.' 😂😂
"What, is?"
"No, not is! You wouldn't get very far in life not saying is!"
the word: *it*
because you can most certainly get far in life without saying it
British people when they go on a simple stroll through a local forest
So ahead of its time it’s so funny everytime I watch it
It's absolutely delicious 😋.
IT is a fine shrubbery!