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.
I came across this much later, 4 years after you made it. But I have to say, I just turned 61, and the way it was done in The Simpsons was how we said it in the 70s. I grew up near San Francisco, California.
@@nadavegan Same, except it was "lost a wheel." If we had tried to say "its wheel" when clearly it had more than one, our teachers would have had us writing the correct version on the chalkboard for hours.
As a person currently taking sociolinguistics returning to this video after years, I am amazed by how good of a study this is. This can/should straight up be a paper. Tom is many things, but I'm glad to see he's still a scientist (and a linguist) at heart plus most sociolinguistic studies can only dream of such a sample size
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.
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
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.
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.
@@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.
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 "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.
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.
At our school we had the second verse that goes as follows "Batman's in the kitchen, Robin's in the hall, Joker's in the bathroom Peeing on the wall!" I know its an outlier to the question at hand, but its still interesting to know whether or not the song continues, and how, in certain places.
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
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
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.
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.
There is no such Jingle Bells parody in German-speaking countries, right? I only remember parodies of the “Advent, Advent” poem with different outcomes.
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
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”
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🙃
Ever since i was in primary school here in west wales its always been jingle bells, bat man smells, robin flew away. Uncle billy lost his willy on the motorway. I turned 16 earlier this year if your interested.
Here in Brazil, the most common version is "jingle bell jingle bell acabou papel, não faz mal, não faz mal, limpa com jornal" which means to clean your butt with newspaper when there's no toilet paper.
@@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".
...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.
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"
@@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'?
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!
In my school it kinda alternated between "lost his willy on the motorway" and "trapped his willy in the microwave" and there'd always be discussions on which is the right one
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.
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.
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 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”
"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.
The way my jaw dropped when I heard “Joker did ballet” was a Canadian variant after hearing it all my childhood in Toronto 😆 I thought it was like that everywhere!
I was 8 in the 80s in California. I didn’t watch the Simpsons until my mid teens. Never heard “flew away” version. “Laid an egg” was already the canonical version for my neighborhood
Never did I ever think that the JohnsVideos community and the Tom Scott community would come together like this and I’m so proud to live in a time where I can see that happen
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.
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
The Swedish one has nothing to do with batman to begin with though. It's not "sticking to the theme" with batman because batman was never even mentioned. It's just a parody of jingle bells. If anything the english version is strange because batman has nothing to do with jingle bells.
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.
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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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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"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?
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.
@@slimjimmypage
Makes the most sense to me!
I came across this much later, 4 years after you made it. But I have to say, I just turned 61, and the way it was done in The Simpsons was how we said it in the 70s. I grew up near San Francisco, California.
I’m 48 and this is how I sang it in the 80’s? 🤷🏻♀️
I’m 32 and that’s how we sang it in Oakland growing up 😂
I’m 59 I remember this version, but the last line was:
‘The commissioner had to pay’
A northwest variant, or just my school 🤔
Midwestern USA, late 70's/early 80's, it was always "laid an egg." Never heard any of the alternates.
@@nadavegan Same, except it was "lost a wheel." If we had tried to say "its wheel" when clearly it had more than one, our teachers would have had us writing the correct version on the chalkboard for hours.
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
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.
“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
As a person currently taking sociolinguistics returning to this video after years, I am amazed by how good of a study this is. This can/should straight up be a paper. Tom is many things, but I'm glad to see he's still a scientist (and a linguist) at heart
plus most sociolinguistic studies can only dream of such a sample size
"Robin laid a gun" is the most american thing that could've happened to it
So true
Excuse the technical term is _firearm oviparity_
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I actually remember that version
@@carlwheezer55 lmao
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
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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Robin laying an egg is just a funnier idea than him flying away
Laid an egg is also an American saying meaning failed spectacularly
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
"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!
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.
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
"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?
"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
“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
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.
We sang that version in Missouri in the 70’s.
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
"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
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 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
Except a motorway isn’t a thing in half of these countries
Same (also from NZ)
I think the Batmobile lost a wheel and the joker got away makes far more sense.
"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 "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"
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.
At our school we had the second verse that goes as follows
"Batman's in the kitchen,
Robin's in the hall,
Joker's in the bathroom
Peeing on the wall!"
I know its an outlier to the question at hand, but its still interesting to know whether or not the song continues, and how, in certain places.
@reconramos1 had the same version! Maybe y'all are from the same area?
@meismecubes has this version too!
The fact that Jack hits the "Heyyyyaaaayy" the same way every time.
Except for the motorway
Simpsons S1E1
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.
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_
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.
"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?
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
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
3:20 the flashing text says “nice”
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
Jack: "Today's sponsor is.."
Tom: "We don't do that here."
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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
Having Jack do this is like getting an honorary bonus track to Royalty Free Christmas Songs.
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!
i mean this is just reading any scientific paper XD
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🙃
"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
Ever since i was in primary school here in west wales its always been jingle bells, bat man smells, robin flew away. Uncle billy lost his willy on the motorway. I turned 16 earlier this year if your interested.
We had that too and I’m nearly 70.
"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
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
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
Here in Brazil, the most common version is "jingle bell jingle bell acabou papel, não faz mal, não faz mal, limpa com jornal" which means to clean your butt with newspaper when there's no toilet paper.
wise words
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".
Tom: "Let's talk about Jingle Bells in the middle of summer."
Me: * Laughs in Australian *
lmaoooooooo
Aussie winter is sunnier than English summer.
me: laughs in new zealand
scrub
*Australia’s inferior little brother
@Saden Uttie ! true, but im actually australian. I moved to new zealand when I was 2
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!
I did not expect jacksfilms here! Justice for jacksfilms
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
"Children are monsters"
- Tom Scott 2020
he's 100% correct
And that's a fact
SAPPYFX
LMFAOOO
@@Kaktanternak YES.
...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.
Who knew that the guy singing jingle bells would go on to get doxed by SSSniperwolf
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 "
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!
Robin laid an egg,
The batmobile lost a wheel
And joker got away
That's what we always sang as kids
"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
"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
"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.
@@juliánito59 😭😭😭😭
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.
In my school it kinda alternated between "lost his willy on the motorway" and "trapped his willy in the microwave" and there'd always be discussions on which is the right one
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)_/¯
“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 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".
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.
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!
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.
“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
Mine is "Jingle bells, batman smells, Robin flew away. He landed on a football pitch and scored a penalty"
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
"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
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
The way my jaw dropped when I heard “Joker did ballet” was a Canadian variant after hearing it all my childhood in Toronto 😆 I thought it was like that everywhere!
“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
"Jingle bells,
Batman smells,
Robin laid a
*gun."*
personally, growing up in Canada: Robin laid an egg and Joker did indeed do ballet.
fuckin love it bud
it's an american version, of course it's got firearms
Can concur, aswell as the missing tire on Batman's mode of transportation
"Robin laid a
gun." is the most american thing I could expect
Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, Robin laid a
G U N
Talking about Jingle Bells in the middle of summer sounds plenty normal to me.
You're Australian, I presume.
@@maxmori8616 close enough for the purpose of making sense of my comment, but quite far off otherwise. I'm Latin American.
Kiwi concurring
@@maxmori8616 Australia is not the entirety of the southern hemisphere
It’s 2020, anything can happen 😌
I was 8 in the 80s in California. I didn’t watch the Simpsons until my mid teens. Never heard “flew away” version. “Laid an egg” was already the canonical version for my neighborhood
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?
Yesterday, I asked you: “Fill in the blank: Jingle bells, Batman smells, __________.” Here are your best answers.
This is why Jack is the perfect person for this
@@TheBestcommentor it's a perfect collab
robin lost his pants in the middle of france
Never did I ever think that the JohnsVideos community and the Tom Scott community would come together like this and I’m so proud to live in a time where I can see that happen
Andromeda we live in wild times
"You can't get 98% of Americans to agree on anything"
It's so true yet so funny.
Facts, my school can’t even agree on if FNAF 1 came before FANF 2, story lines not release date.
no it's not
Can confirm, "Joker Did Ballet" was the version on my Canadian school playground
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!
Jack: "Today's sponsor--"
Tom: "NO!"
Easily the highlight of my UA-cam viewing all month. :)
Nice
I’ve started to dislike all the videos that are personally advertised to me constantly. I’m going to watch the world burn from this
"You cant get 98% of Americans to agree on anything!" Aint that the truth.
It’s fax
@@Oscario I don't know about you, but I don't think that's how a fax machine works
You know when we do it's something so incredibly rooted into us that we're all just "Yup, that's the way it works"
Amen
98% of Americans agree to this statement
For me it was "Robin flew away, he landed in a football pitch and got kicked by Harry Kane"
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
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!
“Jingle bells Batman smells, Santa rolls away.
Uncle billy lost his Willie on the motorway”
💀💀💀
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
UK and the US: ok let's stick to the theme with batman.
Sweden: thicc bear.
The Swedish one has nothing to do with batman to begin with though. It's not "sticking to the theme" with batman because batman was never even mentioned.
It's just a parody of jingle bells.
If anything the english version is strange because batman has nothing to do with jingle bells.
@@ludvig9184 way to ruin a comment
@@ludvig9184 Is there a Norwegian version of Debby Downer? Cause you are being one.
I’m Swedish ;-;
These two could make an interesting linguistic duet:
- Jack: Your grammar sucks.
- Tom: ... and here's the historical reasons why.
Please? Can we have this?
Having some cool scientific explanation as to why so many people unironically type incoherently would be cool.
Jack the linguistic prescriptivist vs. Tom the linguistic descriptivist is a dynamic I could enjoy.
@Tom Scott need to see this Asap
I like
"Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg. The Batmobile lost a wheel, and Joker got away."
Objective truth
"today's sponsor is..."
- " *NO* "
This had me laughing out loud!
Today's sponsor *is LOOTCRATE*
I know
Today's sponsor is Dashlane through the snow
BLUE APRON
It's so jacksfilms I half expected him to show us a clip from the previous yiay
JacksFilms: Today’s sponsor i-
Tom: *We don’t do that here*
Today’s sponsor is no
check the amout of likes, its 666 atm
@skently aw s, here we go again.
Nobody:
Tom: Children are monsters
...is raid shadow legends!
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.
Personally I always knew it as "Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin went to mars."