Men in Tights is the best parody of Robin Hood I ever saw. Mel Brooks is a real genius with all his way to mock historical characters and iconic movies.
@skwalker1977 Spaceballs, parody of Star Wars but also the old weterns. If you pay attention towards the end when there at the space port you can see the Millennium Falcon. MB actually got permission from GL to do this. The only thing he couldn't do was sell merchandise. That's why that see was added when the hero's first meet Yogurt.... Don't forget History of the World Part 1..... Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein.....the list is pretty long.
Such an absolute classic!! Mel brooks is one of the few who can have me dying of laughter. I remember this when I was younger ... I’m glad I was alive to know him .. it’s a shame what the kids grow up on today. You’ll never truly understand the meaning of Saturday morning cartoons. :)
If you only love a real life person because of fiction, then you should rethink the way you have a simple love for a human being. It shouldn’t have to take so much to do it. It should be unconditional. And please cut kids some slack.
@@arcticangel1628 There's many ways to love. Don't you love directors, actors etc because they do fiction as entertainment? He loves Mel Brooks because he made him laugh with his films. Nothing wrong with that. Stop being a douche.
Abbot: Mervin? Your name is Mervin? (laughs from the crowd) Sherrif: Shut up! Shut up! Continue with the service. Abbot: Okay... Mervin. This always cracks me up 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ira Williams (Ezekiel) Zeke Hamish Beckley: Rest in Peace Roger Rees-Mervin the Sheriff of Rottingham and Dick Van Patten-the Abbot! (HEY ABBOT!!!) I *HATE* that guy!
Abbot: We are gathered here today... to witness the marriage of Mervyn, the sheriff of- (Laughs from the Crowd) Mervyn? Your name is Mervyn? (Laughs from the Crowd) Sheriff:Shut up, shut up! Continue with the service! Abbot:Okay, Mervyn.
RIP Roger Reese. I met him at a supermarket one day in Adelaide. He was there doing Waiting for Godot with Ian Mckellan, a magical performance I was lucky to see. I had a Shakespeare play on me at the time, only thing I had. I asked him to sign it for me and he did. He asked me if I was the best actor in my class. I hesitated.
My two favorite parts was the horse laughing at 0:32 and when the Abbott says "Ok Mervin" at 0:37 and the fact this is what made the crowd break into full on laughter.
This movie like Spaceballs was so perfectly cast, any change and it would not have been the same. The over the top performances, especially by Roger Rees, made all the better.
0:15 Abbot: We are gathered here today... to witness the marriage of Mervyn, the sheriff of- (Laughs from the Crowd) Mervyn? Your name is Mervyn? (Laughs from the Crowd) Sheriff:Shut up, shut up! King 😂 Continue with the service! Abbot:Okay, Mervyn. (Laughs from crowd)
I'm so sorry I am so sorry! I just can't help but imagine you looking in the mirror and thinking hey you know what would be a kickass name TASERFACE! HAHA!!!!
Fun Fact: the German translation to this was "Mitzi". Again, Godspeed to you, Alan Rickman, for being both the funniest and sexiest Sheriff of Nottingham.
In Italian is Smerdino ( reminds of “little piece of crap” but also suggest someone that have pooped in his pants). What’s so funny about Miffy? I also don’t get the Mervin joke
It would've been hilarious if Robin Hood broke in to catch the Sherrif trying to deflower Marian in the tower and yell "Un-hammer thy Maid, Pervin' Mervin!" Causing everyone in the tower including Marian to laugh at Mervin twice as hard, which sets him FK off.
I remember when this 1st came out, after Kevin Costner came out with Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. Alot of UKers complained about Kevin and guys who played Robin before him for not having an English accent. I still remember when Cary Elwes (sic) I this movie was asked "how do we know your the real Robin Hood. Cary (whos from England) said to paraphrase: Im strong, I'm a fighter and I can speak with an English accent😆😆😆😆
Yeah, that's Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Men in Tights is a spoof of Robin Hood in general and Prince of Thieves in particular, having come out shortly after that movie did. Robin's line earlier in the movie about "unlike some *other* Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent" is directly mocking Kevin Costner's Robin in Prince of Thieves since Costner didn't even attempt an English accent the entire film.
LOL I guess mummy and daddy dearest didn't love their lil bundle of joy so much to give him a cool name but had to go with the most ridiculous name they could think of "Mervin" *snickers*
Makes me think the writers of that one SpongeBob SquarePants episode where we meet Plankton’s family had this joke in mind when we learned the pint-sized villain’s first name.
1-I'd be curious to know what other languages called the sheriff. In Quebec French we kept Mervin, but in France they went for Prosper, which I think is equally funny. ;) Any other dubs that changed his name?.. 2-I like how the sheriff, for all his impatience and unamusement, still constantly strokes Marian's fingers with his thumb. It seems out of character to me, and I like to think that was actually lovely Roger doing it unconsciously.. 3- If we didn't like the Prince until then, I think at 0:41, we all do.. ;) It's just endearing how he can't contain his amusement..
In italian it's "Smervino", a meaningless name, but pronounced similarly to "Smerdino", which recalls the word "merda", that is "shit". For my part I would be curious to know why "Mervin" is so funny in english; in any case, and in any language, it's a fantastic scene!
@@pietrobarile7110 Thank you for your insight. That's clever, take an existing word and change one letter to squeeze the original "Mervin" in it. I looked up "smerdino" and Google tells me it means "refrain from shitting". If you can confirm this translation, then I'm thinking that the sheriff being quite stuck up, I guess we could say "constipated", it all makes perfect comical sense. :) As for "Mervin", of course Mel Brooks' full name is Melvyn, so there may be something there. I have a blu ray of the film with his commentary, and he mentions Merv Griffin having given him permission to use the name Mervin. Merv Griffin was very wealthy, so maybe there's an allusion there... but I guess ultimately Mervin is just a funny sounding name that contrasts with how seriously the sheriff takes himself. That's all I'm gathering... Thanks again for the info. :)
@@JayeMallard619 Well, it isn't really a correct translation, but it is a complicated matter: google translates (badly) a verbal form, which has the accent on the letter e (and which means more or less "they soil"; in the film instead the name of the sheriff has the accent on i, which means nothing but which gives the idea of a diminutive (which in italian is done with the suffix -ìno). In practice it sounds like "little shit", but with an almost affectionate tone, like an absurd nickname for babies. On purpose, I apologize for this absurd explanation, almost worthy of a Mel Brooks movie, but it's only to clarify! Thank you for the explanation related to english!
Love when the horse laugh too! That kills me! Lmao!
The icing on the cake.
Maybe it was a relative of one of the horses that reacted to Blucher in Young Frankenstein :)
Came here to say this.
@southerncajuncharm 😂😂😂✌️✌️✌️
One of the funniest scenes in the movie
I love how Prince John finds the Sheriff’s name funny too.
Toilets weren’t known as Johns until the end of the film
@@dspsblyuth that has nothing to do with this scene or the guy's comment, you genius
Ok mervin
RIP, Richard Lewis.
Well, that comment has nothing whatsoever to do with anything here.@@dspsblyuth
“Ok. Mervin.”
😅😅😅 I’m dead!
That's savage at its finest
Best punchine of the movie lol!
That get's me every time.
Men in Tights is the best parody of Robin Hood I ever saw. Mel Brooks is a real genius with all his way to mock historical characters and iconic movies.
Remind me if it was any more?
@skwalker1977 Spaceballs, parody of Star Wars but also the old weterns. If you pay attention towards the end when there at the space port you can see the Millennium Falcon. MB actually got permission from GL to do this. The only thing he couldn't do was sell merchandise. That's why that see was added when the hero's first meet Yogurt....
Don't forget History of the World Part 1.....
Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein.....the list is pretty long.
Okay.....mervin.
Kyle Ottenhoff LMFAO
That line made me crack up every time! LMAO!
I love this movie i laughed every time I see it LMAO its on now can't stop laughing 😂😂😂😂
OHHHH!! Score one for the Abbot!!
I thought it was a girls name!
That moment when the king of Planet Druidia is officiating your wedding
12345 😂
@@peterdavies2960 that’s the stupidest combination I’ve ever heard in my life!! That’s the kind of combination an idiot would have on his luggage!!!
Well you know what they say: "It's Good to be the King" 😎
I love Richard Lewis as Prince John. That was a perfect role for him =)
Everyone e was cast brilliantly in this movie.
even the horse laughs... at Mervin
yeah yeah when I was Kid I lost it in that part.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
He should have taken revenge on the horse by shouting "Blücher!"
@@epiendless1128 a missed opportunity lol
Such an absolute classic!! Mel brooks is one of the few who can have me dying of laughter. I remember this when I was younger ... I’m glad I was alive to know him .. it’s a shame what the kids grow up on today.
You’ll never truly understand the meaning of Saturday morning cartoons. :)
Strikee has locksed again!
If you only love a real life person because of fiction, then you should rethink the way you have a simple love for a human being. It shouldn’t have to take so much to do it. It should be unconditional. And please cut kids some slack.
@@arcticangel1628 There's many ways to love. Don't you love directors, actors etc because they do fiction as entertainment? He loves Mel Brooks because he made him laugh with his films. Nothing wrong with that. Stop being a douche.
There's a person that works at Walmart named Mervin and it takes everything for me to not say "Mervin...your name is Mervin? 🤣"
let me guess, he thought it was a nice name his mom gave him lol
Do you have the urge to call him Mervin the sheriff
0:22- the Hangman is holding laughter back,too!😂
🤭
The horse laughing always gets me lol
Abbot: Mervin? Your name is Mervin?
(laughs from the crowd)
Sherrif: Shut up! Shut up! Continue with the service.
Abbot: Okay... Mervin.
This always cracks me up 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ira Williams it’s a silly name XD
Ira Williams
(Ezekiel) Zeke Hamish Beckley: Rest in Peace Roger Rees-Mervin the Sheriff of Rottingham and Dick Van Patten-the Abbot! (HEY ABBOT!!!) I *HATE* that guy!
that slight crack in abbot's voice
He had to sneak in “Mervin”
Abbot: We are gathered here today...
to witness the marriage of Mervyn, the sheriff of- (Laughs from the Crowd)
Mervyn? Your name is Mervyn?
(Laughs from the Crowd)
Sheriff:Shut up, shut up!
Continue with the service!
Abbot:Okay, Mervyn.
"And do you Miriam vow to do all the stuff I just said to him?"
I wish they said this at a real wedding 😭
Yep, for you all of you youngins', that was Dave Chappelle firing and arrow. This was the movie that introduced me to him.
That's his name, man, Achoo.
@@libbycampbell879 - Bless You!!!
That's how I was introduced to him too, this hilarious movie😆
Same here
0:31 even the horse laughs.
That killed me, and it seems as if the horse makes everyone laugh harder
That was funny!
that was funny as hell dude
RIP Roger Reese. I met him at a supermarket one day in Adelaide. He was there doing Waiting for Godot with Ian Mckellan, a magical performance I was lucky to see. I had a Shakespeare play on me at the time, only thing I had. I asked him to sign it for me and he did. He asked me if I was the best actor in my class. I hesitated.
I met Roger in Melbourne he was a great guy
Lmao. The King even finds it hilarious. I also really enjoy seeing the hangman. He loves his job
My sons name is Milan but we usually call him Mervin…. And I almost died watching this clip. So funny. Dick van Patten’s timing is just superb here.
Yes I Do...Get On With It. Lol
Love how pissed he gets. 😂😂😂
When the local bully ends up having a REALLY silly/unintimidating name.
Clarence' parents
Classic element of physical comedy now comes the part where we throw our heads back and laugh!
Ready?!
@@beccagregory3586 Ready!! AHHHHAHAHAHA!!!!
Sheriff Mervin of Rottinghom
Like donald
Kinda wished robin joined in laughing and even joked that "at least i die happy knowing the sheriff's name is mervin"
Even better Marian saying "well at least I can make fun of...Mervin!"
Just showing he isn't an asshole. Marian doesn't laugh either
That would have been awesome.
How beautiful is Maid Marion though? Babe
Yes i know✌🏻
She's babe-ier in Dracula Dead and Loving it
Yes we know……Mervin.
Love how the King's mole keeps changing.
"...I have a MOLE?"
@@Euroviking86 MOLE! BLOODY MOLE! WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO TALK ABOUT THE BLOODY MOLE BUT THERES ONE WINKING ME IN THE FACE!!!!! 🤓
@@peterdavies2960 Golden reference XD
@@Euroviking86 wrong movie. My MOLE-stake! 🫢
That was borrowed from Young Frankenstein with Marty Feldman moved around Igor's hump from scene to scene until Gene Wilder noticed.
My two favorite parts was the horse laughing at 0:32 and when the Abbott says "Ok Mervin" at 0:37 and the fact this is what made the crowd break into full on laughter.
I remember watching this as a kid and wondering how come a comedy movie had so many gorgeous people. I was a foolish child.
This movie like Spaceballs was so perfectly cast, any change and it would not have been the same. The over the top performances, especially by Roger Rees, made all the better.
0:15
Abbot: We are gathered here today...
to witness the marriage of Mervyn, the sheriff of- (Laughs from the Crowd)
Mervyn? Your name is Mervyn?
(Laughs from the Crowd)
Sheriff:Shut up, shut up!
King 😂
Continue with the service!
Abbot:Okay, Mervyn.
(Laughs from crowd)
I would of been completely lost without your subtitles. God bless you.
"Ok... Mervin" 😄😆
😂😂😂
@@TheFanboy19
😁😆😂😂!
why is this movie so damn good
Because Mel brooks is a comic genius and surrounds himself with smart and funny people.
To be fair he was aiming for the Hangman.
The horses were laughing too
HEY ABBET !!
“I hate that guy” 😂
Abbot.
😂😂😂
I love that the horse in the background has a laugh! Lmao!
Lmao the horse laughing!
Great film. Always keeps me in stitches!😂😂😂
1:16 This guy really loves his job, doesn't he?
That's Robert Ridgley. He also played the Hangman in Blazing Saddles
HEY ABBOT!
I hate that guy!
I hate him too
"hate that guy"
I, too, hate that guy.
The horse laughing also...lol
Very funny 😂😂😂
I literally lost it when Richard Lewis laughs at the 2nd “mervin” statement. Shit was so funny
LOL@0:24 Robin Hood's expression. @0:29 the King's expression. @0:35 Priceless
CrazymikeRobihu????
😇😘🎼🦄✈ 75ROBIHU
YES I DO get on with it!! 😂
This part was always my favorite hands down
One of the greatest parodies ever made! 🤣🤣🤣
Hey...it’s better than Taser Face or Scrotum Hat from Guardians of the Galaxy 2 🤣🤣
or biggus dickus
The witch's name in this movie is Latrine. Her birthname was Shithouse. 🤣
@@StephALowry29 It's a good change
I'm so sorry I am so sorry! I just can't help but imagine you looking in the mirror and thinking hey you know what would be a kickass name TASERFACE! HAHA!!!!
Not much better!
Love this scene! What a great parody movie
Best part of the movie.
My dad and I love this movie. I thought he was going to have a heart attack from laughing so hard
okay that very funny it s making me laugh😂 😅 i can t stop laughing so hard
Fun Fact: the German translation to this was "Mitzi". Again, Godspeed to you, Alan Rickman, for being both the funniest and sexiest Sheriff of Nottingham.
that's not Rickman..
Alan Rickman was the sheriff in Costners' Robin hood.
Let’s cancel Christmas !
You can still wish the actor who *is* "Mervin" Godspeed though, as we also lost Roger Rees roughly a year or so, before we lost Rickman.
@@ZanderTHV This is definitely a parody of Rickman's performance, though
Richard Lewis's reactions are the funniest parts lmao
What's so funny about the name Mervin? In the German dubbed version he is called MIFFY. That is so funny! ;-)
In Italian is Smerdino ( reminds of “little piece of crap” but also suggest someone that have pooped in his pants). What’s so funny about Miffy? I also don’t get the Mervin joke
It would've been hilarious if Robin Hood broke in to catch the Sherrif trying to deflower Marian in the tower and yell "Un-hammer thy Maid, Pervin' Mervin!"
Causing everyone in the tower including Marian to laugh at Mervin twice as hard, which sets him FK off.
YASS!! I DO!! GET ON WITH IT!!😂😂😂
Reese was an amazing actor
I remember when this 1st came out, after Kevin Costner came out with Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. Alot of UKers complained about Kevin and guys who played Robin before him for not having an English accent. I still remember when Cary Elwes (sic) I this movie was asked "how do we know your the real Robin Hood. Cary (whos from England) said to paraphrase: Im strong, I'm a fighter and I can speak with an English accent😆😆😆😆
I genuinely remember this movie with Alan Rickman in the role of Mervin..
Yeah, that's Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Men in Tights is a spoof of Robin Hood in general and Prince of Thieves in particular, having come out shortly after that movie did. Robin's line earlier in the movie about "unlike some *other* Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent" is directly mocking Kevin Costner's Robin in Prince of Thieves since Costner didn't even attempt an English accent the entire film.
Mervin is played here by the late, great, Roger Rees.
one of my tenants names is mervin! 😂 lmao hes so mad "shut up, shut up!"
sire! Strucky has loxed again !!! ..uh.. Loxley has struck again ....
He DEERED to kill a king’s DARE 😈
Man 1: Hello Abbot.
Abbot: Good morrow.
Man 2: Hey Abbot.
Abbot: Good morrow.
Man 3: HEY ABBOT
Abott: I hate that guy!
Cutting it close there, Dave!
I wondered what's so funny about the name Mervin. I just realized that it's actually Vermin.
tasoganedude ohhhh then is this a correlation with cutthroat island??????
I was looking out for this scene where she gets the cannon gun and gets the bad dog gena davis style
I thought it was bourbon.
Hahaha just like Space balls...the marriage
Okay...Mervyn 😂😂
Ok ,Mervin 🤣
HEY, ABBOTT!
I hate that guy...
Dave Chapel- i was aming for the hangman
Mervin 🤣🤣🤣
Ok mervin
Yes I do Get on with it 😂
The background hard laugh and the horse took me all the way out! I couldnt stop laughing! 😂😂
0:21 0:32
Amy Yasbeck ♥️♥️💖
Problem child 1&2 and really married to John ritter🙂
Dick Van Patten was perfect for this part. 😭
LOL I guess mummy and daddy dearest didn't love their lil bundle of joy so much to give him a cool name but had to go with the most ridiculous name they could think of "Mervin" *snickers*
Ohrrrrr rrrrrrrobin dies
You skipped the Pig Latin part. It was hillarious.
Aaaah-men-naaaay...
Always hilarious!
I like this abbot
Ok mervin.
when he got the tic on his face had me rolling......ROLOL
Do you..........sheriff :)
Who would’ve thought that the guy who shot the arrow would’ve become the GOAT of comedy
🗣🗣🗣🗣Yes, I do, get on with it!
Dave Chappelle delivered an incredible shot considering he never actually drew the arrow back before shooting it.
Actually he did draw the bow.
watch it again
-Okay...SMERDINO!!!
From the Italian version
Mervyn that is a funny name 😆
excellente série passée 1 seule fois à la TV en 1976.... Dommage!
That’s the king from spaceballs
RW:this is as funny as discovering Plankton’s real name was Sheldon 😂
00:25 When you bump into a protestant in a bar in Ireland
First Mervin. then Sheldon🤣🤣
What's wrong with Mervin?
R.I.P. 🪦Dick Van Patten Roger Rees and Richard Lewis
You just can't be intimidating when your mama named you Mervin.
Makes me think the writers of that one SpongeBob SquarePants episode where we meet Plankton’s family had this joke in mind when we learned the pint-sized villain’s first name.
The only movie I have seen where the sheriff is actually given a name.
1-I'd be curious to know what other languages called the sheriff. In Quebec French we kept Mervin, but in France they went for Prosper, which I think is equally funny. ;) Any other dubs that changed his name?..
2-I like how the sheriff, for all his impatience and unamusement, still constantly strokes Marian's fingers with his thumb. It seems out of character to me, and I like to think that was actually lovely Roger doing it unconsciously..
3- If we didn't like the Prince until then, I think at 0:41, we all do.. ;) It's just endearing how he can't contain his amusement..
In the german dub his name is Mifi xD
In italian it's "Smervino", a meaningless name, but pronounced similarly to "Smerdino", which recalls the word "merda", that is "shit".
For my part I would be curious to know why "Mervin" is so funny in english; in any case, and in any language, it's a fantastic scene!
@@pietrobarile7110 Thank you for your insight. That's clever, take an existing word and change one letter to squeeze the original "Mervin" in it. I looked up "smerdino" and Google tells me it means "refrain from shitting". If you can confirm this translation, then I'm thinking that the sheriff being quite stuck up, I guess we could say "constipated", it all makes perfect comical sense. :)
As for "Mervin", of course Mel Brooks' full name is Melvyn, so there may be something there. I have a blu ray of the film with his commentary, and he mentions Merv Griffin having given him permission to use the name Mervin. Merv Griffin was very wealthy, so maybe there's an allusion there... but I guess ultimately Mervin is just a funny sounding name that contrasts with how seriously the sheriff takes himself. That's all I'm gathering...
Thanks again for the info. :)
@@JayeMallard619 Well, it isn't really a correct translation, but it is a complicated matter: google translates (badly) a verbal form, which has the accent on the letter e (and which means more or less "they soil"; in the film instead the name of the sheriff has the accent on i, which means nothing but which gives the idea of a diminutive (which in italian is done with the suffix -ìno). In practice it sounds like "little shit", but with an almost affectionate tone, like an absurd nickname for babies.
On purpose, I apologize for this absurd explanation, almost worthy of a Mel Brooks movie, but it's only to clarify! Thank you for the explanation related to english!
Prosper? Qu'est-ce qu'il y a de drôle là-dedans?
Mervin your name is Mervin
Mawage, mawage is what bwings us togeva.......
today
Ok Mervin 😂