Pirates of Penzance - With cat-like tread
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- "With Catlike Tread" - The Pirates in 'quiet stealth' sneak to seek revenge on The Major Generals
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Angela Lansbury, Rex Smith, Kevin Kline
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Fun fact about this video that most people don't know. If you turn your volume all the way up, and listen very closely, you can just barely hear a group of pirates singing.
You mean a group of Policemen?
@@Coldstreamer17 No, there is actually a group of singing pirates sneaking towards the Major-General's household as the police are chanting. The pirates can be heard singing, but it's rather faint and could easily be mistaken for the sighing of the breeze, which is why it usually requires listening at high volumes to hear properly.
Sometimes you can even see the pirates, although this is much harder than listening for them due to their almost preternatural stealth. There are some general tips for spotting them though. Try looking out for the distinct forward lunges often used by pirates when moving stealthily. This is often accompanied by foot stomping, mock sword swings, and rousing musical choruses sung as loudly as possible.
@@bgeniij I know that, I thought you meant during the song XD
I turned the volume right up but the only sound that I could distinctly hear was a fly's footfall 🤔
Try applying bugspray to your device. This should get rid of any insects in the video.
Truly, these are the stealthiest pirates to have ever lived.
+MrOmegatronic What do you mean, I thought this was just a video of a silent garden scene?
Haha love it!
Having burgled, this checks out.
What pirates?
“So it would seem”
And here we have what can legitimately called "The World's Loudest Sneak-Attack"
joethehero2 so true XD
joethehero2 XD
@@aqullya This is how the bard justifies his rogue levels
Stealth level -1,000,000. 😀
I mean, if you heard this outside your window, you’d think it was a flash mob. After all, who’d be stupid enough to unironically announce a sneak attack?
I want a Skyrim mod that plays this every time you're hidden.
I would play skyrim again if this were a thing.
that would be amazing
That would be the most perfect mod to ever exist.
I NEED a Skyrim mod that plays this every time you're hidden.
This comment is absolute gold.
So to summarize:
The police fail their move silently check, the pirates fail their perception check followed by failing their own move silently check, and finally the major general fails his own perception check.
Clearly they’re all using bardic performance to boost their stealth
@@PikachuLittle and nailing it
The DM is making his own version of the police's part:
1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1.... 1, natural 1, 1, 1.
Nat 20 stealth performance and nat 1 perception check on all parties
so critical fail, at least they decided to use it wisely
Loudest song about being quiet to ever exist...
@Noa Hewlett thats overrated, pointless and shallow but yeah~
@@vvolleylife279 this song is not overrated >:(
Let's appreciate Kevin Kline's athleticism and choreography here.
Who is that in the white shirt and mustache.. he looks familiar.... is that??? Check IMDB.. holy shit it is Kevin Kline.
I love it. One of my favorite scenes.
Ian Vincent Definitely one of my favorite roles by him (along with Otto, from "A Fish Called Wanda").
Ian Vincent And his boots. Always his boots.
Don't forget his chest hair, it deserves a Tony.
If I saw some pirates doing this outside my door, I wouldn't call the cops.
I think they'd just hang up after, "Bombastic musical number."
Simon Barr I'd just get a bowl of popcorn ready
+janeyrevanescence12 I'd wait for them to be done and then rush out the door with a bag full of money and throw it at them. And cheer.
And ask them why they're pirates and not performers because they'd make a killing.
Hawkpath1337 and
Lost Melody that's so damn wholesome, that comment made my day
I don’t get why this video is so popular. Sure the set design is nice but do we really need to spend 4 minutes looking at it in dead silence?
Sometimes you just need something relaxing to look at quiet with absolutely no noise.
Did you have the sound muted, perhaps?
@@jacklow9611 r/whoosh
I love "Camp"ing.
What do you mean silence?
Didn't you hear the marching of the flies?
I love this song so much. This kind of ironic humor seems so modern, yet Gilbert and Sullivan had it mastered over a hundred years ago.
+Alec The Pirate King It's surprisingly ahead of it's time.
Pirates is goddamn brilliant.
This comic operetta masterpiece is over 143years old this year. What an amazing story it has and great musical numbers to hum along to.
This song shows that people were parodying musical theatre tropes *before the modern musical even existed,* which is astonishing.
@@callumturnersmusicaltheatr4979 No, PoP was first performed December 31, 1879, so it turned 140 at the end of 2019. It is now 142 and will turn 143 at the end of 2023. Just do the math and you can say 🎵"Dear me, let's see. Yes, yes, with your my figures do agree"! 🎵 😆
Is this what happens when an entire part of rogues rolls a 1 on a move silently check? "You all start singing and dancing. For nearly 4 minutes,"
No, this is what happens on a natural 20. On a 1, the Major-General hears you singing and dancing.
Arturo Reyes ¿eing?
Unlike Opera where you're dying of tuberculosis and sing about it for half an hour.
Arturo Reyes Depends on system. I played with systems where natural 1 = perfect and where it equals fail
+Arturo Reyes I always pictured it more as the pirates rolled a 1 for stealth, but the major-general also rolled a 1 for percception
We must remain silent.
*COME FRIENDS WHO PLOUGH THE SEA...*
Hahaha😂 I know right?!?😂😂
Favorite comment. XD
They would do well in russia
you really nailed it XD
NO SOUND AT ALL WE NEVER SPEAK A WORD
You need to make it clear to everyone around that you are being sneaky, so they will know not to notice you.
This comment is extra perfect when read in Gatis Kandis' voice
Kevin Kline's dancing is so mesmerizing with amazing lunges and squat-kicks that one is tempted to concentrate on him and ignore the others. But every one of them is phenomenal. Watch Rex Smith jumping over his sword that he holds in both hands!
I was busy watching Kevin Kline.......
When you roll a natural 20 on both move silently and hide, you have fun with it, or this is the worlds largest group of bards making the mother of all perform/bluff checks
This is the only way my DM allows for inspire competence to apply to stealth.
they obviously rolled a 1 on their stealth checks, just somehow everyone else rolled lower on their perception.
In that case, they lost the goddamn dice
@@venetiantemper3358 what about playing the pink panther music?
I just imagine this as a non-diagetic expression of unadulterated piratic chad energy present in this ensemble.
A house!
I'll rob it!!
*NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!!!!!*
Unhand her, Jem Backslide!
+Pinkhair Machinima hey, were getting in a rut
The Dover Boys!
THEN DORA MUST BE ALONE AND UNPROTECTED!
"The opera's tomorrow night!" 2:30
1.75x
"Now, we're gonna have to pull the switcheroo tomorrow night-" *Boingg!* "AT THE OPERA"
And in the next song the Major-General remarks, 'I thought I heard a noise', but, on second thoughts, 'it must have been the sighing of a breeze'.
Epitome of failing a perception check
How to be stealthy
Step 1: Tell everyone to be quiet
Step 2: COME FRIENDS WHO PLOW THE SEA!
plough*
Make sure to yell it, so everyone gets the message.
Michael K I loved the irony of the pirates the entire musical. I was gladly part of the band of pirates when I did the musical in high school. the most fun part ever!
YES EXACTLY!!!!!
forgot step 3: break out in song at the top of your lungs
I can't tell if critical in stealth, or a critical fail in stealth.
Well I'll give it one thing. It's a critical in Performance.
Ummm.... yes?
"You can't use Performance to Sneak!"
"Watch me!"
What gave it away? The singing at the top of the lungs or the cannon blasts at the end?
No, no-- the phrase is *Epic* fail. 😀
- You are by far the worst burglars I've ever heard of
- But you have heard of us
Thank God there are subtitles. I couldn't here anything.
I heard 2 flies walking.
@@stm7810 I heard the sighing of a breeze
I heard a bug farting.😂😂😂
This would make a great flash mob
This, or "Hail, Poetry" from the same movie. ua-cam.com/video/JQKhdzgDU58/v-deo.html
I would absolutely love to be part of a flash mob for this song 🤣
@hungadunga523 makes a fantastic inside joke as well, HIGHLY recommend 👌
When I did pirates (I was just a pirate) this was honestly the greatest song in the whole show. We just had fun with it and put in as much energy as we could, and it worked out splendidly.
:)
I want to be in this so bad. Pirate King's overacting would be so much fun
@@Ringohulk777 Imagine doing a flash mob of this! It'd be absolutely amazing :D
@@wilsonjonah I'm down lets make it happen!
When I did this it was indeed the best song on the roster, though modern major general comes close.
The louder you sing it the funnier it is!
Remember, if they can't hear that you're sneaking from the next theater, you're doing it wrong. That is what we have learned here.
I'm 80, and I bet in my life time I have played this movie 1000 times. I played it because it's the best presentation of the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta ever, mainly because of Kevin Kline's amazing performance, and moves, where did he get those moves. My kids played it, in particular this song, over and over as they grew. The epitome of what the Pirate King should be,, Thank you Kevin for this amazing performance. And he did it many times on Broadway. Keystone Cop leader is also terrific
I love how all the comments are literally D&D nerds discussing stealth/perception/performance rolls.
It brings a tear of joy to this barbarian’s eye!
It brings mixed feelings to my heart. I'm interested in it, but my parents would never allow me to do it on account of personal experiences my dad had.
How about a barbarian rogue who puts all his skill points into Intimidate. He just strides in and when someone notices him he intimidates them into ignoring him.
If I can be half as awesome as the Pirate King is in during this song, I will live life with no regrets.
The one, the only, the inimitable Kevin Kline.
the idea of singing loudly about being quiet is actually so simple that you'd expect only a three year old to make that joke or laugh at it. Yet, this song isn't just loud. it's triumphant, epic, it takes it to a new level and ends up being funny even by inteligent adult standards
The fact that this would pass as a meme but it's actually Victorian amuse me... I LOVE IT
What never became a meme then as well.
And then Mickey's 3 Musketeers actually turned it into a meme
The "Never" "What, never?" "No, never" "What, NEVER???" "Well, hardly ever" from HMS Pinafore was memed exhaustively at the time. Some businesses tried banning it among their employees. Cue, "what, never?"
Pinafore was memed and referenced so much that it's the one Gilbert picks for the Modern Major General, who can even "whistle all the airs of that infernal nonsense 'Pinafore.'" Among other variously unimpressive feats, most of which are less than enormously useful in contemporary warfare (excepting, of course, knowing what a commesariat is, many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse, and, most importantly, the best of which was being able to tell *at sight* a Mauser riffle from a javelin! Knowing Gerrard Dows and Zoffanies apart from Raphaels becomes immediately important while looting, however. No wonder he can afford to have so many beautiful unmarried daughters 😂)
If burglars broke into a musical number before each robbery, I’d feel obligated to let them steal what they want as payment for the show.
Same here, but if they did this very number then I'd also be cheering my head off for them while I'm at it :D
LOOK EVERYONE!!! LOOK AT HOW QUIET WE'RE BEING. DROWN IN OUR SILENCE!!! NEVER BEFORE HAS SUCH ABSENCE OF SOUND, SUCH ABSOLUTE VACUUM BEEN DISPLAYED ON THIS EARTH!!!
I remember doing this musical for senior year in high school, and I loved how our singing would gradually go from piano to forte to fortissimo, while we'd gradually.go from walking to loud stepping to flat out stomping. being a pirate was so fun. they had the best songs and dances
Four Half-Orc bards roll nat20 on their stealth checks.
This is what happens when you have a party of Rouges and Bards.
Another example: The Road to El Dorado
@@globin3477 true.
ROGUE*
I just love the idea that these guys are so excited to commit murder that they perform a musical number outside their target's house
BURGLARY, not murder!
@@Pygar2 They do plan a murder. They intend to break into the mansion, then seize and slay the Major General as vengeance for telling them a lie about bring an orphan. But he comes out of the house because he thought he heard a noise. So they get to seize him without having to break in.
They're pirates. Ya know, ruthless cutthroats, bad guys. It's what they do.
Colonel Campbell: Remember Pirate King, this is a Sneaking Mission. Weapons and equipment are OSP. Stay out of sight and avoid combat whenever possible.
Pirate King: *starts singing at the top of his voice*
Campbell: *facepalm*
Does that mean...the Pirate King is working for The La...The Patriots?
That lead pirate (don't remember his name or the actor's name) is IN SERIOUS SHAPE, to dance like that and be in a squat half the time haha
He’s a young Kevin Kline.
@@andrewlivingston1590 he wasn’t that young there. He was like 35-36 which is absolutely ridiculous how well he moved.
"Bloody Pirates."
-Elizabeth Swan "Curse of the Black Pearl"
These are by far the best pirates I've never heard of.
I would've missed them if not for the description.
I could've sworn I heard the sighing of a breeze 😁
Those have got to be the greatest pirates I’ve ever seen
It's too quiet, I can't hear it.
You know the joke behind this is so simple but it works so well
I dance around the house singing this. It makes my dog very upset. He needs to learn to appreciate Gilbert and Sullivan.
Try "Suppertime" from You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown. Dogs love that one if you sing it with their meals hahaha
Now, this is a hell of a way to trick or treat at someone's front door :P
Yah! No Doubt! Can you imagine? Love It!
Fuck, I need to pirate for halloween this year.
Fuck, I need to convince my friends to pirate this year.
Kevin Kline was BORN to play the Pirate King. Like Tim Curry was awesome too, but Kline was beyond perfect and is now my standard. Fantastic character actor.
This choreography hurts my knees just watching it... and I love it so much. The fact this comedy has held up this long is just incredible
DM: Police, make a stealth check.
Police: Dammit! 9! They’ll see us so easily.
DM: Haha, probably.
Pirate King: Yeah, I’m totally rolling a perception check (rolls) YOURE KIDDING ME! I got a 6!
DM: Oddly enough you enter the Major Generals garden completely missing the policemen that are hiding behind twigs! Now, Pirate King, I’ll get you to roll a stealth check for the group.
Ruth the Bard: I give bardic inspiration! (Rolls) Yeah! 10 on a d10! We’ll be so good!
Pirate King: Awesome! (Rolls) Nat 1!
Frederick: Can I roll too since technically I’m assisting him?
DM: *sigh* fine.
Frederick: (rolls) NAT 1?! ARE YOU SERIOUS?
Ruth: Uhhh that’s plus 10 with inspiration!
DM: A Nat 1 is a Nat 1, sorry. I’ll say you hum a song about how important stealth is, and as the pirates sneak in they just thought it was such a good song that they start singing along as loud as they can with fantastic choreography! Everyone’s basically shouting about how quiet you all need to be.
Frederick: We really ballsed this up! We’re so screwed!
DM: This obviously wakes up the Major General...so he walks out to his garden and does a perception check and... (Rolls) WHa-? He...gets a Nat 1.
Pirates: *confused but happy noises of disbelief*
I hope to some day run a session like this 🤣
You have no idea how much I laughed reading this.
Someone PLLLLEEEEAAAAASSSEEEE PIN THIS!!!!
I will, at the very least, have to burst out with "WITH CATLIKE TREAD" if I roll a natural 1 on any kind of stealth-like check.
@@mikeagney lol!!!
That’s got to be the quietest group of pirates I’ve ever seen
What pirates? All I hear is the sighing of a breeze
I think they need to add a footnote to Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do in an RPG, #1584 ("Even if the rules allow it, you can't Sneak with a running chainsaw.")
#1584-A: Or while singing G&S numbers at the top of your lungs.
Now there's a reference.
Can someone please let the uploader know there’s no audio in this clip?...wait...
Sorry but it's silent there is no audio in this video.
What do you mean, you can clearly hear the footsteps of a fly among the sighing breeze
When those two pirates put their heads together, that's what cats do when they're good friends, it's called head-butting. Something besides the pirates' tread that's catlike! 🐈⬛🐈😍
Underappreciated @1:10 - The Pirate King and Frederic attempting to scale the front entrance on each side and failing. Twice.
I’ve watched this movie so many times but never thought to look there until this comment!! Wow, good eye 😁
Kevin Kline from 2:35-2:40 is the GREATEST THING MY EYES HAVE EVER SEEN
Gilbert & Sullivan: you have earned your immortality.
I have a strange desire to dance now.
Embrace it :p
I LOVE this operetta! It is so classic. And no one can top this cast. Kevin Kline, Rex Smith, Linda Rondstat. I love it.
I was OBSESSED with this song when I was growing up. My father always watched musicals and operas with us and this was my absolute favorite. I watched it WAY too many times. But yeah, this song was my fav, especially the last run of the chorus while Kevin Kline and Rex Smith went so freaking hard with their belting and dancing/jumping
Do this with a sneak skill of 100 in Skyrim, and you'd still not be discovered.
I want a mod of this... once you reach level 100, you perform this in all of its stealthy, quiet glory xD
I had the Pirates and the crew from the Pinafore appear in my D&D campaign.
Ninja as fuck.
1:45 Holy cow, what incredible strides he takes. Those are intense and well timed with the music
To have seen this performed live, on a summer night, in Central Park, so many years ago was sublime, unforgettable.
I Love how G&S musicals are funny and poke fun at operas
HELLO POLICE, THERE'S A GROUP OF PIRATES SINGING IN MY GARDEN, I THINK THEY WANT TO BREAK INTO MY HOUSE.... YES I'LL HOLD
Kevin Kline's climactic kicks...
The Opera is tomorrow night!
malphone 0:44
Well, if you deafen your mark, they certainly won't hear you coming...
I love 2:26. "No Sound at all. We never speak a word." Nope, you just belt it out musically, and I love it! This is one of my favorite songs from the movie.
When your party of bards tries to roll stealth with inspiration…
Frederick and Pirate King:. "Let's argue as screamingly loud as we can about how we are supposed to be quiet!!"
paul16451 Pretty sure this was Ruth's idea...
when your bard party casts mass suggestion saying: "you don't notice us"
Just make sure they wave their hand like a Jedi when they say that. : )
That little ditty's starting to grow on me.
Can we take a minute to admire how fit Kevin Kline is!?!
I didn't know he was that flexible
He probably isn't anymore.
Me playing Dishonored, sad to say...
+KrimzonFlygon1 I played my first Dishonored run and got low Chaos ending. On the other hand, this song perfectly describes my Warframe games.
When the bard crit fails their stealth check.
But Crit Success on Performance!
I love that the cops are providing backup...
This is the only G&S operetta written mostly in the USA in NYC during December of 1879 and there is even a plaque there commemorating it.
Kevin Kline was GORGEOUS
My favourite scene in the movie, and God love Kevin Kline. I can only imagine what kind of shape his knees were in after dancing like that!
It's well worth a look. Well casted all around but Kline steals the show.
Priates of Penzance was the first musical I was ever a part of and I can remember watching this video over and over because I couldnt' read sheet music and I had to memorize it. That was about 5 years ago now and this song has a very special place in my heart :)
Captain Pete: The Opera it’s tomorrow night 0:44 XD
Manuel Fuentes Pardo That little ditty is starting to grow on me
my favourite musical of all time, and I LOVE Kevin Kline in this. Pure brilliance, thankyou!
The entire production was absolutely perfect. Kudos to everyone.
Operetta
Kevin Kline must have totally blown his knees out doing this night after night on stage.
Well, they're right about never speaking a word-they keep SINGIN AT MAX VOLUME!!
How you even get that many natural 1's on Move Silently checks is beyond me!
@Ten-Eight DID YOU HEAR ME! I ROLLED A FOUR!
Belkar- Wait, I think I just failed a Listen check....
HEY GUYS I FAILED MY MOVE SILENTLY CHECK!
my jam
My knees hurt while watching this lmao
The cannon at the end kills me every time
TEN OUT OF TEN
THOUGH THE UTTER SILENCE IS WREAKING HAVOC ON MY MIND
I CAN'T HEAR ANYTHING
*Tells everyone to be quiet*
*proceeds to make an entire loud and obnoxious musical number out of nowhere*
How can you not smile while watching this,
Kevin Kline at his sexiest!
Musical logic be like: "we need to be quiet" *starts a loud ass musical number nobody but the audience can hear*
Well musicals are known to do things like this. Especially Gilbert & Sullivan musicals.
This is an Opera, and this is made intentionally so the public loughs... But you're right Hahah
This song is actually a parody of operas and other musical plays, where people who are sneaking around sing a quiet little song while they're sneaking.
Gilbert and Sullivan took it to 11.
Everyone has forgotten all the plays they were making fun of, so this is the one that we remember.
@@TitaniumDragon I mean, yes and no. A lot of the music parodies operas that are fairly well known even today -- this one is a parody of the Anvil Chorus from Il trovatore
You just have sharp ears, all I can hear is the sighing of a breeze 😁
I'm impressed that a group of people are waving swords around and not hitting anyone.
Kevin Kline is having a -lot- of fun. You can tell throughout the entire production.
I love it when actors have fun. This looks really fun to perform!
Kevin Kline's outrageous dancing in this number... Not to mention the epic shout-singing and sword waving. I can't stop laughing.
This is the song I sing when I'm out of bed in the middle of the night...
And the pirate king's dance is how I walk aroud.
I can't get over how freaking epic this song is!!
What song? All I could hear was the sighing of a breeze