Merry Un-Christmas, everyone! And thanks to Jack, do check out his channel if you don't know it. (One bit of minutiae that didn't make the video: Bart also sang it in the very first episode, but the lyrics were slightly different and the show wasn't a pop culture phenomenon back then.)
Ha. I also came to say that. It has the wonderful "Crashing through the roof: In a one-horse open tree: Busting out I go: Laughing all the weeeeeeeee" second verse :D
Yes, i went to elementary school i. The 90s before the Simpson's episode in question and "robin laid an egg" variant was already the most popular by a long shot. I believe Tom's hypothesis is incorrect. That Simpson's episode may have changed how the UK sang the song, but in USA it has been "robin laid an egg" for a very very long time.
The "Uncle Billy lost his willy" part legitimately unlocked a long forgotten memory of me and my friends as kids nearly pissing our pants with laughter singing this.
The only version I've ever heard was "Robin laid an egg" -- didn't even realize there *were* other versions until today! Which I guess makes sense if the "flew away" version was primarily British.
"Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg. The Batmobile lost a wheel and Joker got away" was also sung by The Joker in "Christmas with the Joker," the second episode of Batman: The Animated Series from 1992. That's the closest to canon we've gotten, as far as I'm aware. It's also notably before The Simpsons.
Kenny Williams sang this version loudly in Mr. Mattus’ class in 1981. Ray Wiznowski tried asserting the ‘Joker did ballet’ version but Kenny said that was (homophobic slur) and so it was dropped. Correction not 1979 it was 1981.
I'm not sure how this affects the data but Joker in Batman the Animated Series in the 80's sang this song and there it was "laid an egg". *90's. Sorry about that. '92 to be exact*
Right, I don't remember the Simpsons being where I learned it but rather "Batman: The Animated Series". I seem to think I actually heard it on the playground before I saw it on Batman. Now I see that "Christmas With the Joker" aired in November 1992 so Simpsons didn't change it.
@@williwonti The batman animated series likely never aired in the UK and it was likely always laid an egg in the US, the UK was different and changed by the simpsons for a period of time.
I thought everyone grew up with “Jingle Bells Batman Smells, Robin Laid an Egg, The Batmobile Lost a Wheel and the Joker got away, hey” especially since that version was even sung BY The Joker
i heard that version but then i thought, "hey what if joker did ballet, that would be funnier," so i always sang that one. i actually didnt know other people already sang that version in other places XD
I was born in the USA. As a small child, in grade school, I learned "Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid and egg. The Batmobile, lost its wheel and the Joker got away, Hey!" and that would have been around 1976, roughly. But no later than 1979. Consequently, we also learned a little ditty that went, "Batman's in the kitchen, Robin's in the hall, Joker's in the bathroom, peeing on the wall"
I was looking for someone who heard that second part! I heard it with the joker and robin switched at the end, though, and I’ve heard both “the joker got away” and “the joker did ballet”. Very interesting!
In Finland we had one rhyme it went along the lines of: "Batman oli mielipuoli, hyppäs katolta ja kuoli." Which is translated to English: "Batman had a mental breakdown, jumped down from roof and died." *And yes, kids are truly monsters if you ask me.*
Another one is "Kevät tuli, lumi suli, lumen alta esiin tuli Bätmään!" ("Spring came, snow melted, from under the snow appeared Batman") But both of these are sang to the tune of the old Batman theme song
Your measurements in the UK are genius especially using the Simpson episode. This is similar to using an “instrument” to test for causal change. I grew up in Boston in the 70s. We sang “Robin laid an egg”. This was way before the Simpson’s episode. However, some of the Simpson’s writers were growing up in the Boston area during the 70s as well.
It's amazing how conformist the United States is on so many things. I think it's to do with the puritanical history of the country. Anyone trying anything different gets shouted down, metaphorically speaking.
Personally I think this should become a series “Tom Scott sends random surveys to a lot of people and rambles to the camera about his results for 15 minutes”
LetoDK they weren’t called keyboards before the piano and harpsichord, though. In organs, they’re called “manuals”, and you typically have 2 to 5 of them. I know, I know, etymology isn’t relevant, but it is also the subject of this entire video.
I love this video, it has amazing statistical content and it also has: 1. "It's June 2020, time in meaningless, let's talk about jingle bells." 2. "You cants get 98% of Americans to agree on anything." 3. Jacksfilms trying to sell us something on someone else's video
The version I always heard in Nz was “the Batmobile lost it’s wheel on the motorway” which honestly makes a lot more sense than any of those other things various people were supposedly losing on there lmao
@@sHooIT I think they are trying to say that the options were "ran away" and "flew away", and didn't take "laid an egg" into account because they may not have known that was an option if they never heard of it themselves, therefor the people taking the poll were saying they were wrong for not including "laid an egg".
Joker himself said “Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost a wheel and the Joker got away” in the Batman: the Animated Series episode “Christmas with the Joker” which aired in 1992. So I’m counting that one as correct
And this happened the previous year from the Simpsons episode. Due to the timing it is likely that the Simpsons got their reference Batman: the Animated Series.
"Crashing through the roof, on a one horse open tree, breaking out I go, laughing all the wheee!" I've never heard that continuation of the song anywhere but that show.
Another influence in the 90's could have stemmed from the Batman franchise itself. There is a Christmas epiaode of the animated Batman TV show where the Joker sings that song, and he also uses the "laid an egg" version.
@@yellaturd I would have liked to see that too. In Sydney we called it 'tip', at least in southern Sydney where I grew up. Northern suburbs had a high expat community, especially from South Africa particularly, where they called it 'it', and my parents had friends up there, so we often called it by two names
@@yellaturd Tiggy in Victoria too. I'd love to see all the data! Did you by any chance have 'the batmobile lost its wheels, all on Christmas day, hey'?
Playground rhymes and their evolution are fascinating, because they are being passed down from year to year, rather than generation to generation. Nobody is learning them from their parents (unlike, for example, nursery rhymes); they're learning them from older kids who learnt them from older kids who learnt them... I wonder if this gives them the opportunity to develop 20-30 times more quickly than nursery rhymes.
I even remember changing playground rhymes on my own when I was in kindergarten, then trying to convince all the other children to use my version. It was minor stuff, like changing a pronoun or negating a phrase to turn it into the opposite. Most of the time, you couldn't even tell which version was the original because the change was so subtle.
@@evilfriedchicken5965 I remember kids making ruder and more cynical versions of rhymes and overusing them to the point where everyone just went along with that being the original.
An interesting thing about the rise of xbox and ps games for children is the potential decline in playground games. Where did you learn "tag" as it's described in the video, or red rover, or hide and seek, or, if you're female, skipping rhymes or hopscotch? Children learn from older children, which may mean the end for these games if children's games on xboxes and the like continue to grow. I know I sound like a boomer, but this is a genuine thing that scholars worry about. That sounds even more like a boomer.
@Cj wattsup agreed, it's not a bad thing. Just interesting that this thing based on for generations may end soon. And a little sad. It's healthy to get out in fresh air for a while!
I learned it from the Junie B. Jones Christmas book! I'm only a few minutes in, but so far I feel like that's been overlooked as a source for this version solidifying itself in the minds of many children, although I highly suspect the author was using the version from the Simpsons, so that's likely still the true originator of this 'full version'.
"Robin laid an egg" "Batmobile lost a wheel and the Joker got away" the ONLY WAY I KNEW IT GROWING UP. I started hearing SOME of these others the more i grew up and the internet brought as all closer together.
When you said “children are monsters” I was confused until I remembered that there was a song at my elementary school were you beat Barney to death with a bat.
Was it "I hate you, you hate me, let's team up and kill Barney. With a baseball bat to his head. Now Barney (something something) dead."? It's been years since I heard it!
@@lordpsi99 the one I had was a bit different I had "I hate you, you hate me, let's team up and kill barney, with 1 shot 2 shot 3 and 4 no more purple dinosaur"
12:24 I love how aware Jacksfilms is of how annoyed his fans get when he stretches the sponsorship segment way too much, but continues to do it anyways because it is funny
There is no such Jingle Bells parody in German-speaking countries, right? I only remember parodies of the “Advent, Advent” poem with different outcomes.
...You forgot to mention one key factor. Batman The Animated Series did “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells” and it mentioned the fact that Robin laid an egg, but also that the Batmobile lost its wheel on a German Motorway.
@@arcanics1971 but it was in an actual batman show and performed by mark hamil, so it is infinitely more memorable since this version is directly associated with batman.
@@keelysmash That's the version from Batman the Animated Series, that's were i know it from: Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg, the Batmobil lost a wheel and the Joker got away. Crashing through the Roof, on a one Horse open Tree, busting out i go, laughing all the way.
The version I remember made more logical sense: "The Batmobile lost a wheel, and the Joker got away, hey!" That's also the version Mark Hamill sings, as the Joker, in Batman: the Animated Series, November, 1992 (Season 1, Episode 38, credit to andybearchan) immediately before using a rocket hidden in a Christmas tree to escape from Arkham Asylum.
I was born in 2005 and live in Michigan, no one ever used the “flew away variant” everyone agreed that it was “laid an egg” the real divide was “joker got away” vs “joker did ballet”
I too was born in 2005 and I live within the UK. Everyone in my area would say “laid an egg” and the most common version we had was “Uncle Billy lost his willy”. However, we would occasionally hear “The batmobile lost it’s wheel and the joker got away”
Regarding the “Robin laid an egg” verse...it most certainly existed by AT LEAST 1975 in Philadelphia, PA, when I remember singing it on the school bus and in the schoolyard. Also, there was no other ending lyric than “the Bat Mobile lost a wheel and THE JOKER GOT AWAY!”
I was today years old when I realized that “laid an egg” was a bird joke. I always thought it was that Robin farted (why else would Batman smell?). “Who laid an egg?” was slang to ask who farted at the time.
It had also never occurred to me that it was a bird joke. I wonder- is "laid an egg" a slang term for farting in Britain, or purely North America? As a fart joke, only laid an egg makes sense. But if "laid an egg" isn't common slang in Britain, it makes complete sense they have a different version-- as a bird joke, "flew away" rhymes better and is just as sensible.
Tbh, I just realized conciously now. I always thought to myself as a kid "why would robin be laying an egg???"😂 The parody version overall just confused me cause I would always overanaylze it in my head. I have a learning disorder that has the side effect of sometimes taking words/phrases very literally, though, so thats probably why🙃
I love this collab with JacksFilms because anyone who isn’t familiar with his content might check him out for music and end up finding classics like Top 10 Farts
@ferretyluv Oh man I forgot about this one! I remember it as being: “Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat If you don’t, I don’t care, cause I can see your underwear”
me too! it unlocked a few memories when i heard it, i completely forgot it existed. i remember it being my favorite version but being told off for singing it
Might be worth considering that an episode of "Batman: The Animated Series" titled "Christmas with the Joker" aired in 1992, and the episode has a rendition of the song at the very beginning. In the episode, it goes: 🎶Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg🎶 🎶The Batmobile lost a wheel, and the Joker got away🎶 So it could have been a combination of The Simpsons and Batman: The Animated Series, or at the very least Batman: The Animated Series would have had some effect on the data.
Agism is an invisible enough issue that I don't by any means like Tom less for this, but I hope it becomes less so in the future, enough that people look back on this and think it aged poorly. Youth rights!
I’m from the UK and grew up with “Kojak lost his lollipop on the M6 motorway” although I never actually knew who Kojak was. I quickly learned about Uncle Billy losing his willy in primary school
i didn't even know who robin was, i've never been into superhero comics so i just kinda went with it. i thought uncle billy might've been someone specific too. felt bad for him, even if i didn't actually know what a willy was at the time :(
I knew that as a completely separate jingle bells version. Dashing through the snow On a pair of broken skis O’er the hills we go Crashing into trees The snow is turning red I think I’m almost dead I wake up in a hospital With stitches in my head > (I also heard “peeing in the bed” as an alternative to this line) (Oh!) 911! 911! Grandma’s got a gun! Shot a deer Up the rear In 1981 (hey!)
@@Lo33y_ There's the infamous "one of these people is lying, one misunderstood the article, and the third made up an answer that's the most accurate" game.
I was born in 1998 and grew up in Maidstone, Kent and “Robin laid an egg” was always the version I heard as a kid! I think it usually ended abruptly immediately after that line, but the bit about Uncle Billy losing his willy on the motorway does sound vaguely familiar too.
Given how many Americans agree on "laid an egg", I would bet that the Simpsons used that version because it's what they personally grew up with and didn't even realize there were other versions.
@@alexn1168 That's the year at which the person was 8 years old. So kids in elementary school in the 90s in the UK were likely to use the "laid an egg" version, but the rest of the people from the UK who responded remembered something else (especially "flew away"). But Americans of all ages remember "laid an egg," even if they were already adults when the Simpson's episode aired.
Three years late here, but the version on the Simpsons was definitely the one I heard/sang as a kid, and that was long before the Simpsons came out (I was in high school when Simpsons started). The Joker also sang it in Batman:The Animated Series in 1992.
I think it was a totally separate rhyme, I knew that rhyme but I didn't include it when I responded in the survey, didn't even come to mind because I don't associate it with the "Batman smells" rhyme
i remember this part of the song and imagining the joker was the one singing while getting chased by batman and robin then yelling at harley quinn Take me to the hospital or shoot me in the head
The "laid an egg version" is also sung by Hamil's Joker in Batman: The Animated Series. It was also in the 90s. Was the series as popular in the UK as it was in the states?
I remember that episode clearly and that is exactly my personal source of this version of the song. I didn't even know that the Simpsons performed that same version! I was so surprised to see no mention of that episode of Batman here. I searched the comments for validity and found it. Thank you!
Jingle Bells, Batman smells Robin laid an egg The Batmobile lost a wheel and The Joker got away Crushing through the roof On a one horse open tree Busting out I go Laughing all the Wheeeeeee! Hahaha
Regionalism is very uncommon across many things in America, which is surprising considering how big the country is. One difference is what people call a "soda".
The broken ski’s part for me was not associated with “jingle bells, batman smells”. There was a completely different chorus section, at least in the version I knew.
“It’s 2020, time is meaningless, let’s talk about Jingle Bells in the middle of summer.” All right, I held off for long enough; that line earns you a subscriber.
isabelchmontuenga You’re absolutely right, and I feel bad for waiting. Honestly, the only reason I held off is because my sub box is already crowded as is, and I was worried about putting any more quality videos in there that I might accidentally miss. He’s good enough to be worth it, though.
Exactly, it's more of a winter song than Christmas; in fact, it was originally written for a different winter holiday (Thanksgiving, celebrated at the end of November, which is already winter where it was written in the northeastern USA). So perfectly appropriate in Australia (and New Zealand, South Africa, etc) now.
I was born in late 90s USA. While I would’ve answered the “laid an egg” version of the default I def remember kids using the “laid a gun” version as a spoof. I reckon if you’d asked people for any alternate versions they knew they’d have given that one a fair bit
Growing up in America in the 90s I know the crashing into trees and snow is turning red bit, but it was never associated with the "batman smells" version of Jingle Bells, it was it's own thing. If jingle Bells started with "batman smells" we went for the Robin laid an egg bit, if it didn't start with "batman smells" we went for the red snow version. Completely separate songs when I was a kid
dude, that Robin Laid a Gun song gave me CHILLS. Everyone at my elementary school used to sing that exact version all the time. I suppose it makes sense considering I grew up in Texas but still
I heard the gun verse as well growing up in New Jersey, with the ballet one following shortly after. About a year later I finally learned of the original.
The algorithm is showing me this on the heels of November 2022. I love this and I wish I could have been a part of the survey! Thanks, Tom! Hope you enjoy your holidays!
I always assumed it was him laying an egg as in the ephenism for farting or crapping your pants. Until today, I would never have assumed it was related to birds...and I'm still not sure it was supposed to be.
@@giddyup523 It's the double meaning that gives it extra legs. But I think "laid an egg" for farting is more common in USA than UK? We used to say "phwoaaar - eggy one" but not "you laid an egg". Which may explain why the "flew away" variant gained ground in the UK as "laid an egg" didn't obviously follow from "Batman smells".
This is such a great topic, especially everyone of us experienced how something spreads around by mouth in school but we often didn't know where it originally came from.
Batman the Animated Series had a christmas comedy special where The Joker sings the song "Robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost a wheel, and the joker got away." instead of "And the Joker did Ballet" or "Saved the Day".
Merry Un-Christmas, everyone! And thanks to Jack, do check out his channel if you don't know it. (One bit of minutiae that didn't make the video: Bart also sang it in the very first episode, but the lyrics were slightly different and the show wasn't a pop culture phenomenon back then.)
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Happy Un-Easter, everyone!
@@TheElvisnator hi!!
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The Batman Animated Series episode "Christmas with the Joker" featured the "Robin Laid an Egg" variant. It aired on November 13, 1992
This! Tom totally missed this clear other reason for kids to sing 'laid an egg'.
Also came here to post this. Mark Hamill's Joker sang this before the Simpsons episode.
Ha. I also came to say that. It has the wonderful "Crashing through the roof: In a one-horse open tree: Busting out I go: Laughing all the weeeeeeeee" second verse :D
Yes, i went to elementary school i. The 90s before the Simpson's episode in question and "robin laid an egg" variant was already the most popular by a long shot. I believe Tom's hypothesis is incorrect. That Simpson's episode may have changed how the UK sang the song, but in USA it has been "robin laid an egg" for a very very long time.
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im convinced that those 10 people are just a friend group that are far apart from each other
Yes, and how crazy would it be to see the particular version that you and your friends made up called out on a UA-cam video?
And the Mr Bloppy one
@@MM-jf1me if they were friends I can see them messaging eachother the link of the survey but i dont see all of them doing it
@@MM-jf1me I would have to assume they shared the quiz with each other.
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Makes the most sense to me!
"And the Joker saved the day."
That's no parental interference, that's straight up Joker propaganda.
BREAKING NEWS: Tom Scott is hired by Joker to spread Joker propaganda
The gamer version
It's "the Joker got away" DUH
The Joker ran away. No ballet involved. Although the image of the joker doing pointe is funny.
But which Joker? Cesar Romero?
The "Uncle Billy lost his willy" part legitimately unlocked a long forgotten memory of me and my friends as kids nearly pissing our pants with laughter singing this.
“- on the motorway. Hey.”
Rest of what I know.
I was born in 2007 and this was still the version in my primary school.
@@NotMadA47.2yo, 'new' bottom surgery just dropped
@@qwaabzaBruh I laughed way too hard at that
I remember hearing that as "Uncle Billy had a ten foot willy"
Tom Scott and Jacksfilms was a crossover I was not expecting but I greatly appreciate
The sponsor joke was brilliant
Same
The forehead boys duo we didn’t know we needed
Dude same
Considering it was going to be a live performance, was Jack supposed to come on stage at some point?
The only version I've ever heard was "Robin laid an egg" -- didn't even realize there *were* other versions until today! Which I guess makes sense if the "flew away" version was primarily British.
The only one I’ve heard is uncle billy lost his Willy on the motorway 😂
@@zachprime4683 wot
@@penguosk jingle bells, batman smells
Robin flew away
Uncle Billy
Lost his willy
On the motorwaaayy HEY
@@zachprime4683 I couldn’t remember the version I knew until I heard him say that 😂
I thought it was someone how both, like maybe it looks and it's the other one
"Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg. The Batmobile lost a wheel and Joker got away" was also sung by The Joker in "Christmas with the Joker," the second episode of Batman: The Animated Series from 1992. That's the closest to canon we've gotten, as far as I'm aware. It's also notably before The Simpsons.
that is the version I learned, probably in the 70's (US)
I heard this somewhere between 1965 and 1969 and was “Robin laid an egg”. (USA.)
I watched that version. 😀 The Joker escapes on a rocket. 🚀
Kenny Williams sang this version loudly in Mr. Mattus’ class in 1981. Ray Wiznowski tried asserting the ‘Joker did ballet’ version but Kenny said that was (homophobic slur) and so it was dropped. Correction not 1979 it was 1981.
That's the one I know!
Really didn't expect to see the Swedish version included here. Haven't heard it since I was a kid myself. What memories it brought.
Agreed! and it was honestly really well performed from someone who probably doesn't even speak swedish
Tom Scott and Jacksfilms, the crossover no one really asked for, but the one everyone loves.
My sentiment exactly! When I've noticed link to Jack in the description, I was WTF?
Jack is exactly what this channel needs
I would have never expected it, but it turned out amazingly.
@@MeGaDwarf2008 i, for one, didn't know who that guy was. For people like me (who I guess are strongly in the minority), that's much appreciated
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"Jingle bells, batman smells, Robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost a wheel and the joker got away!"
Is sung by the joker in the animated series.
And the joker got AYWAYYYYYYYYAHHHHHH
That's the version I've always known
Thats the version i know because i watched batman: the animated series.
Mine was that, except we sang and the joker did ballet
I knew that version before Batman: the animated series did it. Circa 1987/88 SW Missouri
“Accumulated heatmap of egg responses” was not something I thought I’d read today.
Might very well be a new sentence.
bwehehehe
"Firearm oviparity" is a doozy as well
The sheer amount of scientific rigor that went into this arcane and useless topic is exactly what makes UA-cam great.
Welcome to 2020
The amount of British pride behind Tom’s delivery of “-but over here, he. flies. away.” is so powerful lmao
As a child, I can agree that we are monsters.
Today in lockdown: Tom Scott and Jacksfilms drop Royalty Free Christmas Songs 7 at the furthest possible point from Christmas
Not Alfred that’s a great way to understand it
It was a banger
Who knew
December 26th
Can't wait
I'm not sure how this affects the data but Joker in Batman the Animated Series in the 80's sang this song and there it was "laid an egg".
*90's. Sorry about that. '92 to be exact*
That was in the 90s, not the 80s. (TAS began airing in '92.)
Yes
That's where I learned it from!
I never saw the Simpson episode but I grew up on the Batman Animated Series :D
Right, I don't remember the Simpsons being where I learned it but rather "Batman: The Animated Series". I seem to think I actually heard it on the playground before I saw it on Batman. Now I see that "Christmas With the Joker" aired in November 1992 so Simpsons didn't change it.
@@williwonti The batman animated series likely never aired in the UK and it was likely always laid an egg in the US, the UK was different and changed by the simpsons for a period of time.
"Joker saved the day" is a variation only found in WB Kids' version, where the _Joker_ is the one singing that part
What episode was this? I didn't watch the WB episodes too much.
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@@BashoftheMonth christmas with the joker
But in batman the animated series it's the joker got away so it depends
@@BashoftheMonth think it may have been between shows or something like a promo
8:10 - the pause in Jack’s playing is killing me right now... the abruptness, the death stare, and the casual continuation! 😹😹
Honestly, this could have been a Bachelor's thesis for a linguistics student
I mean, surely it'd have to cover a broader range of things.
Would've taken them years to collect this much quality data haha
Tom Scott's degree *is* in linguistics. Not computer science.
Bang your lingui-sticks on your ear-drums.
@@papagunit I feel like Tom has a slight advantage of having millions of people watching his content in that sense.
I thought everyone grew up with “Jingle Bells Batman Smells, Robin Laid an Egg, The Batmobile Lost a Wheel and the Joker got away, hey” especially since that version was even sung BY The Joker
No i grew up with jingle bells batman smells robin laid an egg uncle billy lost his willy on the motor way
Mine was joker did ballet
Actually same and then Batman's in the kitchen
Robins in the hall
Jokers in the bathroom pissing on the wall, hey
i heard that version but then i thought, "hey what if joker did ballet, that would be funnier," so i always sang that one. i actually didnt know other people already sang that version in other places XD
I grew up with Billy losing his wily
honestly, jack’s attempt at swedish was very good, and i hadn’t heard that rhyme since i was little. what a wonderful surprise
"Now repeat it in Swedish!"
How was Sweden
@@Chasta1n42 it was very swedish!
@@Chasta1n42 väldigt svenskt
I can't understand swedish, so it sounded very swedish to me
I was born in the USA. As a small child, in grade school, I learned "Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid and egg. The Batmobile, lost its wheel and the Joker got away, Hey!" and that would have been around 1976, roughly. But no later than 1979. Consequently, we also learned a little ditty that went, "Batman's in the kitchen, Robin's in the hall, Joker's in the bathroom, peeing on the wall"
I remember the version with joker peeing on the wall. I remember singing that as a kid I am glad someone else brought it up
I was looking for someone who heard that second part! I heard it with the joker and robin switched at the end, though, and I’ve heard both “the joker got away” and “the joker did ballet”. Very interesting!
FINALLY! I knew there was another verse, but I couldn't for the life of me remember what it was. Thank You!
For me it was:
“Robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost its wheel and *the joker got away*” I assumed it was like this everywhere at least in the US
Same, i was in California when i learned it
Thats how it was in Colorado
Seattle too
Brooklyn too
New Hampshire, same.
Never saw it on the Simpsons
"Children are monsters" and "You can't get 98% of Americans to agree on anything." are my favourite lines from this video.
both are true.
Actually, you could probably get 98% of Americans to agree that you can't get 98% of Americans to agree on anything.
You can get
@@vg6761 you really think that when flat earthers exist?
@@KusaneHexaku What does that have to do with water?
“You cant get 98% of Americans to agree on anything” -Tom Scott 2020
The sad truth
Would you rather they were all the same and didn’t have differing opinions?
cant get 98 percent of any group to agree on anything perfectly.
You can probably get them to hate the Brits.
Except independence from Britain, we got that one right
@@synonymous1079 : Americans? No, we love Britain! And usually at least some actual British people.
The joy on your face when you get to tell the audience that your hypothesis was correct is so wholesome
In Finland we had one rhyme it went along the lines of: "Batman oli mielipuoli, hyppäs katolta ja kuoli."
Which is translated to English: "Batman had a mental breakdown, jumped down from roof and died."
*And yes, kids are truly monsters if you ask me.*
XD
Just Finnland being Finnland
If you think that’s bad, here in America, we had at least 5 different variations of Barney the dinosaurs death through songs
Another one is "Kevät tuli, lumi suli, lumen alta esiin tuli Bätmään!" ("Spring came, snow melted, from under the snow appeared Batman")
But both of these are sang to the tune of the old Batman theme song
_oh_
Jacksfilms and Tom Scott, a Collab I never thought I would ever see.
I never knew how much I wanted this before I saw it.
Same but I couldn’t be happier
I commented something similar, it is unbelievable
Yet more proof that literally anything can happen in 2020
They both make grammar videos I guess
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Batman: Loses parents to a gun
Robin: BECOMES parent to a gun
We're through the looking glass here people.
HAHA
I prefer gun.
I am american and was born in the 90's, but I prefer gun now.
Because I'm a '90s kid, I read "We're through the looking glass here people" in Milhouse's voice.
Your measurements in the UK are genius especially using the Simpson episode. This is similar to using an “instrument” to test for causal change. I grew up in Boston in the 70s. We sang “Robin laid an egg”. This was way before the Simpson’s episode. However, some of the Simpson’s writers were growing up in the Boston area during the 70s as well.
It's amazing how conformist the United States is on so many things. I think it's to do with the puritanical history of the country. Anyone trying anything different gets shouted down, metaphorically speaking.
Personally I think this should become a series “Tom Scott sends random surveys to a lot of people and rambles to the camera about his results for 15 minutes”
And it will still be more regular than "YGS every Friday"
truthbegins such an underrated comment
Yes!!
I loved this, so I'd watch more!
“Robin laid a GUN.”
The keyboard slam just straight up killed me.
"Keyboard"
Galia Del Rio Yes, in English that part of the organ, piano, etc, is called 'keyboard'.
@@Dicen_Delirio that's what it's called. Its been called keyboard long before computer keyboards came around.
LetoDK they weren’t called keyboards before the piano and harpsichord, though. In organs, they’re called “manuals”, and you typically have 2 to 5 of them.
I know, I know, etymology isn’t relevant, but it is also the subject of this entire video.
Umm, it’s called a Letter table
"Robin laid a gun" is the most american thing that could've happened to it
So true
Excuse the technical term is _firearm oviparity_
8:12
I actually remember that version
More American if it was in a school
8:20 "firearm oviparity" is a truly incredible line
"You can't get 98% of Americans to agree on anything" - My personal favourite line in this video.
they can agree on the fact this is the only time you wanna go back to school
What about “Children are monsters”
Mine is “Children are Monsters”
@@void1313 no, sadly. . . :(
That two percent are Republicans 🤣🤣🤣
The timeline where jacksfilms sings ‘mr blobby did a jobby’ in a Tom Scott video is the best one
Ffs😭
Gotta say, I thought “a jobby” meant something much more demonetized than what Tom said
CW MD I believe it is
the prime timeline
@@JakubS over here we call it the Steins;Gate
I love this video, it has amazing statistical content and it also has:
1. "It's June 2020, time in meaningless, let's talk about jingle bells."
2. "You cants get 98% of Americans to agree on anything."
3. Jacksfilms trying to sell us something on someone else's video
The joke also being Brits see that type of advertising as taboo, and Americans have been used to it since birth
4. "Children are monsters."
5. Robin laid a Gun.
The version I always heard in Nz was “the Batmobile lost it’s wheel on the motorway” which honestly makes a lot more sense than any of those other things various people were supposedly losing on there lmao
The “Robin laid a gun” one is probably mixed from the version “Jingle Bells, shotgun shells, granny had a gun...”
what wrong with your country
I thought it was “911 911 grandma has a gun”
“...shot me in my underwear in 1991” is how it ends, I think. It probably varies from grandmother to grandmother though.
I’ve heard “911, 911, Santa’s got a gun! Shot a deer in the rear in 1981” as the addition to the broken skis variant
i'm from the us and i've never even heard this
Revisiting this video because I made a poll between "ran away" and "flew away" and everyone told me I was wrong
That's why I'm here too
Really? Most people put robin ran away?
I came here directly after seeing your poll
I actually came here because of your poll. It's laid an egg though, because the bird pun fits better
@@sHooIT I think they are trying to say that the options were "ran away" and "flew away", and didn't take "laid an egg" into account because they may not have known that was an option if they never heard of it themselves, therefor the people taking the poll were saying they were wrong for not including "laid an egg".
Joker himself said “Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost a wheel and the Joker got away” in the Batman: the Animated Series episode “Christmas with the Joker” which aired in 1992. So I’m counting that one as correct
And this happened the previous year from the Simpsons episode. Due to the timing it is likely that the Simpsons got their reference Batman: the Animated Series.
That’s where I’ve heard it!
"Crashing through the roof, on a one horse open tree, breaking out I go, laughing all the wheee!"
I've never heard that continuation of the song anywhere but that show.
Thats the one I know
That’s the exact version I know!
Having Jack do this is like getting an honorary bonus track to Royalty Free Christmas Songs.
I love how Jack tried dropping a sponsorship in a colab.
Also the fact that Tom Scott and JacksFilms even did a colab is mind boggling
Tom Scott did a clown with William osman and Micheal reeves
Jack using a red sweater in this collab is amazing
@@InItForTheLoot Tom Scott does what seems to be completely random colabs that no one asked for with UA-camrs you'd least expect
Being able to sing along with the “dashing through the snow, on a pair of broken skis” part was an immediate and jarring throwback to my childhood
Seriously though, I didn't even remember that this was from the same song!
I know right?
Yes
What about 'dashing through the sand...'
From a distance far, shooting Commissars
Hearing John sing a song in swedish that was deeply buried in my childhood memories - - - i have no words. My mind is blown. Thank you.
Same asså
his name is Jack
@@digilici951 No, his name is John. John Patrick Douglas
"Ugh... Don't call me that."
-Johnsclips
5:57
Another influence in the 90's could have stemmed from the Batman franchise itself. There is a Christmas epiaode of the animated Batman TV show where the Joker sings that song, and he also uses the "laid an egg" version.
As an Australian this unearthed so many memories... Christ we were violent
I wanted to see the results for what Australian's call "tag". I always knew it as "tiggy" growing up in QLD for whatever reason.
@@yellaturd I would have liked to see that too. In Sydney we called it 'tip', at least in southern Sydney where I grew up. Northern suburbs had a high expat community, especially from South Africa particularly, where they called it 'it', and my parents had friends up there, so we often called it by two names
@@yellaturd Tiggy in Victoria too. I'd love to see all the data! Did you by any chance have 'the batmobile lost its wheels, all on Christmas day, hey'?
It's Chasey. Fight me irl
@@yellaturd It was 'chasey' at my primary school in SA in the 00s. I had no idea there was so much variation across the country!
The Joker actually sang the “Laid an egg” version on a Christmas episode of the Batman Animated series
only it ends with "Got away" not "did Bailey"
So - another Tom episode to see if that was what "informed" the Simpsons writers to their version or if it was inherent to the USA before then
@@toomanyfandoms1684 Who is Bailey and why would the Joker be doing them, especially on a show for children?
@@hannahalice1000 based on how long it took animation to get made in the 90s, they probably came up with the line independently
Doesn't the Flash also sing (say) it in the Justice League cartoon?
Playground rhymes and their evolution are fascinating, because they are being passed down from year to year, rather than generation to generation. Nobody is learning them from their parents (unlike, for example, nursery rhymes); they're learning them from older kids who learnt them from older kids who learnt them... I wonder if this gives them the opportunity to develop 20-30 times more quickly than nursery rhymes.
That would make sense - it's like the evolution of viruses compared to the evolution elephants.
I even remember changing playground rhymes on my own when I was in kindergarten, then trying to convince all the other children to use my version. It was minor stuff, like changing a pronoun or negating a phrase to turn it into the opposite. Most of the time, you couldn't even tell which version was the original because the change was so subtle.
@@evilfriedchicken5965 I remember kids making ruder and more cynical versions of rhymes and overusing them to the point where everyone just went along with that being the original.
An interesting thing about the rise of xbox and ps games for children is the potential decline in playground games. Where did you learn "tag" as it's described in the video, or red rover, or hide and seek, or, if you're female, skipping rhymes or hopscotch? Children learn from older children, which may mean the end for these games if children's games on xboxes and the like continue to grow.
I know I sound like a boomer, but this is a genuine thing that scholars worry about. That sounds even more like a boomer.
@Cj wattsup agreed, it's not a bad thing. Just interesting that this thing based on for generations may end soon. And a little sad. It's healthy to get out in fresh air for a while!
I learned it from the Junie B. Jones Christmas book! I'm only a few minutes in, but so far I feel like that's been overlooked as a source for this version solidifying itself in the minds of many children, although I highly suspect the author was using the version from the Simpsons, so that's likely still the true originator of this 'full version'.
Same here!!!
Same. I didn't know the Simpsons ever did it
"Robin laid an egg" "Batmobile lost a wheel and the Joker got away" the ONLY WAY I KNEW IT GROWING UP. I started hearing SOME of these others the more i grew up and the internet brought as all closer together.
And of course... " ... HEY!!"
me too! tho I think I had Horay! at the end of it :)
ya! surprised "saved the day" was more popular
This was exactly my version, too!
That was mine too. It was in one of the Batman cartoons
The fact that Jack hits the "Heyyyyaaaayy" the same way every time.
Except for the motorway
Simpsons S1E1
When you said “children are monsters” I was confused until I remembered that there was a song at my elementary school were you beat Barney to death with a bat.
Was it "I hate you, you hate me, let's team up and kill Barney. With a baseball bat to his head. Now Barney (something something) dead."? It's been years since I heard it!
Lord Psi yep exactly that!
Flushed his body down the potty...
When you mentioned the Barney song this popped into my head but I'm struggling to remember the other words we used.
@@lordpsi99 the one I had was a bit different I had
"I hate you, you hate me, let's team up and kill barney, with 1 shot 2 shot 3 and 4 no more purple dinosaur"
"With a baseball bat and a needle(?) up his nose, no more purple dinosaur "
12:24 I love how aware Jacksfilms is of how annoyed his fans get when he stretches the sponsorship segment way too much, but continues to do it anyways because it is funny
As a german who never liked singing it was "Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, [mumbling]..., Hey"
Haha, I love this
There is no such Jingle Bells parody in German-speaking countries, right?
I only remember parodies of the “Advent, Advent” poem with different outcomes.
As a German, I'd be surprised if many Germans actually knew how the lyrics continue after 'Jingle Bells'.
@@viktorg6823 „Weihnachtszeit, Weihnachtszeit, sag allen Bescheid!“
s4ndwichMakeR Leise rieselt der Schnee / Christkind fährt mit ˋnem VW / höret wie leise es kracht / Christkind hat ˋnen Unfall gemacht
...You forgot to mention one key factor. Batman The Animated Series did “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells” and it mentioned the fact that Robin laid an egg, but also that the Batmobile lost its wheel on a German Motorway.
But it came after the Simpsons.
@@arcanics1971 still important to consider
Which explains Kraftwerk's lyrics "Wir fart, fart, fart auf der Autobahn."
@@arcanics1971 but it was in an actual batman show and performed by mark hamil, so it is infinitely more memorable since this version is directly associated with batman.
@@enemyinc.6741 the song was also sung by Bart in Christmas with the Simpsons in 1989.
“Robin laid a gun” unearthed so many childhood memories I didn’t even know existed until now
a traumatic flashback? I hope you're just getting nostalgic, but that version kinda creeps me out. What kind of twisted mind would make that up?
SAME
The logistics of laying a gun are incomprehensible.
@@squirlmy children where firearms tend to be a realitively common thing lmao
@@aureliabackup7313 kids think its funny to lay a gun and most kids don't think about logistics
'Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost its wheel and the joker got away' is the version I know
I was confused when he said did ballet
same, Wisco here
Im from New Zealand and thats the version that was sung at my school so who tf knows how that spread
same
@@keelysmash That's the version from Batman the Animated Series, that's were i know it from:
Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg, the Batmobil lost a wheel and the Joker got away.
Crashing through the Roof, on a one Horse open Tree, busting out i go, laughing all the way.
Tom Scott and Jacksfilms - a collab that we didn't even know we wanted.
But I'm so glad it exists
we did not know we wanted it, but deep down inside, we knew we needed it
Not going to lie. I was definitely expecting Jay Forman instead.
Hey Im not complaining
But, what I really wanted to know was... Who is today's sponsor? Was it the number Seven? I bet it was the number 7.
The version I remember made more logical sense: "The Batmobile lost a wheel, and the Joker got away, hey!" That's also the version Mark Hamill sings, as the Joker, in Batman: the Animated Series, November, 1992 (Season 1, Episode 38, credit to andybearchan) immediately before using a rocket hidden in a Christmas tree to escape from Arkham Asylum.
I know this version too but I think just from TV
Thats where i heard the song as well
Considering the spike in the UK happens in the 90s, I wonder how much the Batman animated series contributed to it.
That's the one I know but I've never figured out where I got it from!
woodrobin That's the version I know! Though I (mis?)remember it as "Joker ran away".
I was born in 2005 and live in Michigan, no one ever used the “flew away variant” everyone agreed that it was “laid an egg” the real divide was “joker got away” vs “joker did ballet”
I knew of "and the joker lost his head, hey"
laid an *gun*
Flew away makes more sense to me because all of the endings I know rhyme with it
I too was born in 2005 and I live within the UK. Everyone in my area would say “laid an egg” and the most common version we had was “Uncle Billy lost his willy”. However, we would occasionally hear “The batmobile lost it’s wheel and the joker got away”
2004 in Alabama, and the Joker ballet variant, while rare, was still a version I had heard. Same with the Saved the Day variant
Regarding the “Robin laid an egg” verse...it most certainly existed by AT LEAST 1975 in Philadelphia, PA, when I remember singing it on the school bus and in the schoolyard. Also, there was no other ending lyric than “the Bat Mobile lost a wheel and THE JOKER GOT AWAY!”
"you can't get 98% of Americans to agree on ANYTHING!" so, so true
Jack's singing is hilarious here, especially the gun version
Not even 80%
*GUN.*
@@CobaltKuma *G U N.*
He's having waaayyy too much fun with that singing lmao
8:10 you're welcome ;3
I was today years old when I realized that “laid an egg” was a bird joke. I always thought it was that Robin farted (why else would Batman smell?). “Who laid an egg?” was slang to ask who farted at the time.
is it not a double entendre ??
@@kisinja4582 yes
It had also never occurred to me that it was a bird joke. I wonder- is "laid an egg" a slang term for farting in Britain, or purely North America? As a fart joke, only laid an egg makes sense. But if "laid an egg" isn't common slang in Britain, it makes complete sense they have a different version-- as a bird joke, "flew away" rhymes better and is just as sensible.
THATS WHAT I THOUGHT
Tbh, I just realized conciously now. I always thought to myself as a kid "why would robin be laying an egg???"😂
The parody version overall just confused me cause I would always overanaylze it in my head. I have a learning disorder that has the side effect of sometimes taking words/phrases very literally, though, so thats probably why🙃
I love this collab with JacksFilms because anyone who isn’t familiar with his content might check him out for music and end up finding classics like Top 10 Farts
or raping vs rapping
This Christmas I want to give you my heart... but not if you can't tell 'rapping' and 'raping' apart!
Ah a true fan!
You should do the “Trick or treat, smell my feet” song next.
@ferretyluv Oh man I forgot about this one! I remember it as being:
“Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat
If you don’t, I don’t care, cause I can see your underwear”
Jacksfilms on tomorrow's YIAY: "Describe Batman's body odour in just 4 words"
Goose if you are right, wth
30 likes in 1 minute
NEVER would have expected to see a jacksfilms and tom scott collab video. my likey
@@Neymarinet it's a very me me big brain moment
you misspelled LWIAY
I was very unprepared for Jack’s “today’s sponsor is” at the very end and laughed maybe more than I should have
I now strangely want to know, who is today's sponsor XD
@@pewpewdragon4483 movement watches
I was laughing more at Tom's "No"
R a i d s h a d o w l e g e n d s
"Let's talk about jingle bells in the middle of summer"
As an Australian, I see no issues with this statement
lmao mood
I know, right!?!
As a Malaysian, I never knew about other seasons until 7 years old.
a message from >south hemisphere gang
Sustained
holy cow i grew up in the pacific northwest and i remember that one, one of my neighbors taught it to me and it was mildly popular in school.
me too! it unlocked a few memories when i heard it, i completely forgot it existed. i remember it being my favorite version but being told off for singing it
You called
"Firearm Oviparity" I'm sorry, but that had me in stitches so hard. Brilliant word use.
Hi. Timestamp please? It's not in the subtitles/transcript. Edit: 8:20 on-screen text.
it's not the version i grew up with... but it is certainly the most american version i've ever heard lmao
Might be worth considering that an episode of "Batman: The Animated Series" titled "Christmas with the Joker" aired in 1992, and the episode has a rendition of the song at the very beginning. In the episode, it goes:
🎶Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg🎶
🎶The Batmobile lost a wheel, and the Joker got away🎶
So it could have been a combination of The Simpsons and Batman: The Animated Series, or at the very least Batman: The Animated Series would have had some effect on the data.
I remember watching that episode. I guess that version must be correct because it comes directly from the source :)
@@subscriber6181 There isn't a "correct" version imo. Every answer here is valid.
version i heard always had “joker played ballet” lmao
That's the version I grew up knowing
I've never seen that episode but that is the exact version I know I'm suprised it wasn't featured in the episode.
"Children are monsters."
- Tom Scott, twice.
It's an important lesson.
Children ARE monsters.
Feel free to ask any parent that have spent the last 2-6 months* with their children under lockdown.
@@juliansenfr 😭😭😭😭
Kill us.
Kill us, now.
Agism is an invisible enough issue that I don't by any means like Tom less for this, but I hope it becomes less so in the future, enough that people look back on this and think it aged poorly. Youth rights!
@@otakuman706 And we all have one in our heads.
I’m from the UK and grew up with “Kojak lost his lollipop on the M6 motorway” although I never actually knew who Kojak was. I quickly learned about Uncle Billy losing his willy in primary school
So did I! And I also never knew who kojak was and how to spell it hahaha
How the hell would so many people learn this Kojak version? If it wasn't on TV or radio, I mean.
@@ajs41 parents!
@@ajs41 I have no idea to be honest, I guess it just got spread down from parents to their children and so on?
i didn't even know who robin was, i've never been into superhero comics so i just kinda went with it. i thought uncle billy might've been someone specific too. felt bad for him, even if i didn't actually know what a willy was at the time :(
"Children are monsters"
- Tom Scott 2020
he's 100% correct
And that's a fact
SAPPYFX
LMFAOOO
@@Kaktanternak YES.
I'm surprised the broken skis one wasn't as popular. I heard it all the time as a kid
for me it was sorta a second verse so maybe people just didn’t include it
I knew that as a completely separate jingle bells version.
Dashing through the snow
On a pair of broken skis
O’er the hills we go
Crashing into trees
The snow is turning red
I think I’m almost dead
I wake up in a hospital
With stitches in my head
> (I also heard “peeing in the bed” as an alternative to this line)
(Oh!)
911! 911! Grandma’s got a gun!
Shot a deer
Up the rear
In 1981 (hey!)
Same here
@@cur1ouscatf1sh same
I sung this one but the ending was either "holding Rudolph's head" or "holding my own head"
Friend: "Robin laid an egg"
Tom: "Its Robin flew away"
Friend: "No it's not!"
Tom: "Let me ask 64,182 people"
This is just him getting back at Gary for the last season of One of these people is lying.
@@JrgPt96 one of these people??
@@Lo33y_ There's the infamous "one of these people is lying, one misunderstood the article, and the third made up an answer that's the most accurate" game.
@@iabervon oh tromso
It was probably Matt
I was born in 1998 and grew up in Maidstone, Kent and “Robin laid an egg” was always the version I heard as a kid! I think it usually ended abruptly immediately after that line, but the bit about Uncle Billy losing his willy on the motorway does sound vaguely familiar too.
Given how many Americans agree on "laid an egg", I would bet that the Simpsons used that version because it's what they personally grew up with and didn't even realize there were other versions.
Or thats what influenced the change in lyrics
Alex N the chart showed there was no big change in America when the episode aired
@@kadenlopez1051 I thought that was birth year of the people voting not years passed
@@alexn1168 That's the year at which the person was 8 years old. So kids in elementary school in the 90s in the UK were likely to use the "laid an egg" version, but the rest of the people from the UK who responded remembered something else (especially "flew away"). But Americans of all ages remember "laid an egg," even if they were already adults when the Simpson's episode aired.
I’ve never even watched the simpsons (don’t attack me) and I’ve always only know the “robin laid am egg” version.
You have admit, Robin laying an egg is a more humorous image than just flying away.
Yet laying a gun just surprised me
Absolutely
Where tf did the gun come out of
@@Pepperjack57IsAwesome Robin, it came out of Robin.
They are both bird puns
"It's 2020. Time is meaningless" -Tom Scott, 2020.
I think you mean -Tom Scott 1981 (“ *HEY* ”)
Its 2020 , the comments section is pointless - everybody
Three years late here, but the version on the Simpsons was definitely the one I heard/sang as a kid, and that was long before the Simpsons came out (I was in high school when Simpsons started). The Joker also sang it in Batman:The Animated Series in 1992.
the broken skis version was so iconic as a kid, everyone knew it. i can’t believe so few people knew it
I think it was a totally separate rhyme, I knew that rhyme but I didn't include it when I responded in the survey, didn't even come to mind because I don't associate it with the "Batman smells" rhyme
@@Whitsoxrule1 It was a different rhyme. I guess it got included here because it was just a different part of the Jingle Bells song.
It's a different thing for me. The Batman and skis are completely separate
I had always heard the version where the final line was woke up in a hospital with an artificial head
i remember this part of the song and imagining the joker was the one singing while getting chased by batman and robin then yelling at harley quinn Take me to the hospital or shoot me in the head
Jack: "Today's sponsor is.."
Tom: "We don't do that here."
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The "laid an egg version" is also sung by Hamil's Joker in Batman: The Animated Series. It was also in the 90s. Was the series as popular in the UK as it was in the states?
I remember that episode clearly and that is exactly my personal source of this version of the song. I didn't even know that the Simpsons performed that same version! I was so surprised to see no mention of that episode of Batman here. I searched the comments for validity and found it. Thank you!
@@MrHealingartist Because it predated that series by over a decade?
especially since that episode aired in 92
Joker got away, no need for Robin to fly away. Two many "away" words
Jingle Bells,
Batman smells
Robin laid an egg
The Batmobile lost a wheel and
The Joker got away
Crushing through the roof
On a one horse open tree
Busting out I go
Laughing all the Wheeeeeee! Hahaha
Regionalism is very uncommon across many things in America, which is surprising considering how big the country is. One difference is what people call a "soda".
The broken ski’s part for me was not associated with “jingle bells, batman smells”. There was a completely different chorus section, at least in the version I knew.
911 911 someone call the cops
Bring me to the hospital
And feed me lollipops
That's the chorus I knew for that
Yea I'm in the US and knew them as totally different rhymes
That’s what I was thinking
something about skiing?
so what is it?
“It’s 2020, time is meaningless, let’s talk about Jingle Bells in the middle of summer.”
All right, I held off for long enough; that line earns you a subscriber.
I realized I wasn’t subscribed after reading this and am too now a subscriber.
Shame on you. Tom has deserved your suscription all this time
Whaddaya mean, time doesn't exist
Thank you for reminding me that I needed to sub to him.
isabelchmontuenga You’re absolutely right, and I feel bad for waiting.
Honestly, the only reason I held off is because my sub box is already crowded as is, and I was worried about putting any more quality videos in there that I might accidentally miss. He’s good enough to be worth it, though.
"Time is meaningless, let's talk about Jingle Bells in the middle of summer."
Sounds like a typical Christmas in the southern hemisphere
Exactly, it's more of a winter song than Christmas; in fact, it was originally written for a different winter holiday (Thanksgiving, celebrated at the end of November, which is already winter where it was written in the northeastern USA). So perfectly appropriate in Australia (and New Zealand, South Africa, etc) now.
Toby Bartels Haha no we only sing Jingle Bells at Christmas time in Australia. Very few parts of Australia get cold enough to have snow in winter
What do you mean? It is not summer in the southern hemisphere right now.
@@tobybartels8426 have you ever seen snow? Cause where I live (north west of melbourne) it only snows once every 2 years
@@jenniferflorance944 What about the
Rusty Holden Ute variant?
I was born in late 90s USA. While I would’ve answered the “laid an egg” version of the default I def remember kids using the “laid a gun” version as a spoof. I reckon if you’d asked people for any alternate versions they knew they’d have given that one a fair bit
Growing up in America in the 90s I know the crashing into trees and snow is turning red bit, but it was never associated with the "batman smells" version of Jingle Bells, it was it's own thing. If jingle Bells started with "batman smells" we went for the Robin laid an egg bit, if it didn't start with "batman smells" we went for the red snow version. Completely separate songs when I was a kid
Same
Yep
I remember this from my elementary school however I was born in ‘07
Agreed. My siblings and I just sang the red snow part as another verse to jingles bells.
Jingle bells
Santa smells
Easter's on the way
Oh what fun it is to ride
In wrecked up Chevrolet
“Jingle-bells Batman smells, robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost a wheel and the joker got away, hey!” is the only way I ever knew it
Yes
Same
same
Same
"The joker took ballet" is the nonsense version that I learned
dude, that Robin Laid a Gun song gave me CHILLS. Everyone at my elementary school used to sing that exact version all the time.
I suppose it makes sense considering I grew up in Texas but still
Same here in Maine.
as a canadian i heard that one too, except or wasnt the “original”, it made us laugh though
I heard the gun verse as well growing up in New Jersey, with the ballet one following shortly after. About a year later I finally learned of the original.
I heard it but as “grandma got a gun”
Only in America
The algorithm is showing me this on the heels of November 2022. I love this and I wish I could have been a part of the survey! Thanks, Tom! Hope you enjoy your holidays!
Today I realised that 'laid an egg' was related to Robin being a bird. Wow.
Which just makes you wonder what other things adults around you got away with when you were a kid...
I always assumed it was him laying an egg as in the ephenism for farting or crapping your pants. Until today, I would never have assumed it was related to birds...and I'm still not sure it was supposed to be.
So Robin is not the character but THE bird.
Me too, haha
@@giddyup523 It's the double meaning that gives it extra legs. But I think "laid an egg" for farting is more common in USA than UK? We used to say "phwoaaar - eggy one" but not "you laid an egg". Which may explain why the "flew away" variant gained ground in the UK as "laid an egg" didn't obviously follow from "Batman smells".
I love how Tom’s conclusion in this is that children are monsters
Are they not?
@@columbus8myhw Cursed comment... but true
He's not wrong, haha
As a former child, I agree.
Spoken like someone who doesn’t believe it
I love how serious Tom is when talking about a children's song about "Batman smelling."
Nice pfp
@@TheElvisnator how do I set my name to that?
wHaT pRoFilE pICtuRe
This is what matters in life
Batman has a nose for crime
This is such a great topic, especially everyone of us experienced how something spreads around by mouth in school but we often didn't know where it originally came from.
why did i just realize that “robin laid an egg” was a bird joke..........
I'm not mad, just disappointed
Lmao imagine James a Garfield pulling the not mad, just disappointed card on you
Glad I'm not alone
Same tho, don’t worry
Dready ha I don’t care my dad has been disappointed in me for the last 15 years!
Why yes, "Firearm Oviparity" IS the name of my new band.
Batman the Animated Series had a christmas comedy special where The Joker sings the song "Robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost a wheel, and the joker got away." instead of "And the Joker did Ballet" or "Saved the Day".
That's the one I'm familiar with
Yea thats the one I heard although it doesnt seem to be as popular in my part of the world
That’s what I knew too
That the version I knew went I was a kid in 1970, way before Batman the Animated Series.
That was the version I knew as well!