Totally underappreciated show. Could have easily gone on 2 more seasons. I never watched a single esp when it was on and now in my top 2. Frasier/Becker are a tie.
Brilliant piece of acting by Henry Gibson, funny as hell.. Lost count of how many times I've been watching it now... every time I need a laugh I play it....
I've seen this actor before but don't know who he is but his performance as the frustrated bureaucrat who's had the same stuffy job for far too long is brilliant...
He's Henry Gibson ........ He had a long, long, long career in both TV and movies, dating back to about 1963. He is probably most well known for being a cast member of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1968 thru 1971.
@@nashburnette7247 Thanks for letting me know...going to Google him now to see if he's still with us or when he passed...still think his performance was brilliant...on par with Jon Cryer's righteous indignation moments as Alan Harper...
I notice I commented about this episode a year ago and I'm watching it again. This is some brilliant acting by both actors, especially Henry Gibson.... enjoyed it as much as a years ago....
@@tannerjablowski3192 It's okay to believe information you get from other people as long as you verify it internally and externally to your own standards. Just try to keep your standards reasonably high.
It’s the most funny great writers and actors ever a ahiwyiucan watch over and over and still laugh from min to minute the DONT make the sit coms like they use too 2022 still the best
In other words, we killed ourselves by our greed. Because we weren't willing to make sacrifices on one end, we wound up being sacrificed on the other end. It’s easy to blame politicians for the messes that have been created in the public sector, and they deserve much of the blame, but we were the fools who got taken in and voted for them.
A t detail I just noticed now after seeing this clip again. Anyone else noticed the kettle on the little dryer in the corner? Probably one of the first things the new employee brought to his off 43 years ago and only used once ever since... to totally forget about it since... Whoever came up with that idea knows his history.. or hers...
Aww.. you cut the old guy's final response. becker says: "I'm going to look like a jackass" and I the old guy says (something to the effect): "well then you're going to look like jackass".
Wow he made a good point the the government giving the schools lower federal budget is one of the biggest reasons why we have so many generations of stupid people who actually are given the right to vote now.
@@Pocketfarmer1 Tell that to the people that were denied that vote for decades due to being women. Due to being black. Tell that to the four million US Citizens that can't vote for president or congress due to living in U.S. Territories that aren't officially states, but don't worry we still tax them even though they can't vote. Tell that to a nation that has a president that outright lies to them about voting options. Hell, tell that to the thousands of felons that can't vote in specific states due to felon disenfranchisement laws. That sure is an inalienable right when taking away someones voting rights was held up as constitutional by the supreme court.
TheNerdling I do not understand, is your anger at me or the failure of the country to live up to its ideals? I hold that those you mention are having their rights illegally taken. The only exception to your list I perhaps would make is genuine murderers. Someone who kills a voter does not get to vote being the idea. As to the rest their right are being abridged and it is the shame of our nation that it has gone on as long as it has. Telling the people that are being disenfranchised does nothing. Holding those in the positions of power accountable is what makes the difference. The rights are unalienable ,but keeping them well exercised takes vigilance .
That was Henry Gibson. From Laugh In. 'Spider spider on the wall, don't u have no sense at all. Don't u know that wall is plastered. Get off that wall, u stupid .... spider!'
I first became politically active in college (spring 2000). I was holding meetings, rally's, etc before I could legally buy my own cigarettes, much less a beer (good thing I grew up in New Orleans). This clip totally sums up my entire political career which began with me holding up an Al Gore sign in the shadow of the statue of Andy Jackson in the French Quarter, and ended where Sherman's March to the Sea began, in Northwest Georgia. I was once a local party representative for the State of GA, and ran a hopeless state representative campaign to elect a great man who was unelectable in the Bible belt by way of his own party affiliation. This is how I feel about voting and politics now, Becker thinking to himself, "Damnitt, now what am I gonna do to fix all of this? I didn't even want to COME HERE!!" Dr. John Becker is my spirit animal.
what we need is a complete overhaul of how we spend our tax dollars. Corporation's and billionaire's are given tax breaks meaning that those taxes fall on the lower classes.
But the rich already get taxed more. They get put into a more bigger tax percentage bracket. It''s also about how we distribute the federal and state taxes. We pay all these state taxes for health care, yet still have to pay for it.
Well that's kind of a mean thing to say. I mean he has a bit of an anger problem, and he's not the most sociable person, but he's certainly not an idiot.
@@mortson978 Yeah, there's no way they'd let a good candidate win. The only way to not throw your vote away is by voting for the second worst. That's the only way to stop the worst candidate from winning automatically.
Think one of the episode he said he was (or is, not sure) a libertarian, so I don't think he will vote for Bernie Sander. Becker is probably going to be right leaning centrist for his family value, but then his view on cops and government would put him on center-left.
@@genericgeorge He aint woke, he is centrist, as I explained he is probably right leaning centrist. Woke are Left to Far Left people. He is not that left.
"the government doesn't need so much money, we should cut taxes" >facilities and programs stop working as well from under funding "see, look at how terrible these programs are run. They don't need all my money. We should cut taxes"
Exactly the government wastes almost 30 billion a year. Trillions just go missing. We give billions to countries who just give the money to terrorists and trafficking cartels. Most of the people in these comments are certified retards.
When it means less money for the state. That money may not go to all the sectors that require it. People claim.taxation is theft but don't realize how much of it is needed for operation of the state.
@@cityhawk you don't get it, you moron. i help people, but i help people on MY terms and I give to those whom I feel deserve it. the government, especially democrats, pander to certain groups to buy votes. Americans are very selfless. its just that WE want to decide who to help, not some bureaucrat with an agenda.
It is stated that there are full episodes of all seasons but there is only short few minutes of video clips not the full episodes..could you please post full episodes of all the seasons..
Though it does kind of ignore the fact no amount of taxes would let the government run smoothly. The problem isn't money taken in, it's how it's spent. How many times Officials vote to raise their own salaries or various other kick backs and grafts they have in the works. Simply put you could give a school 10 billion dollars and still find they some home don't have enough money to get text books. All because some government official gave the book contract to a "friend" in where each book cost $5000 or something.
@@JustaGuy_Gaming you know this how? Popular narrative? Any chance you've been fooled by coporate propoganda. It's distrust and apathy which errodes governments ability to fix things. And there are some very intersted and wealthy corporations and people that are more than happy to feed that.
I have no problem with cutting taxes but I think the real problem is reducing government bureaucracy. I mean how many government workers do you really need, seriously?
In case all you trump supporters didn't get it, cutting Federal taxes just hurts the states, the counties, the municipalities and in the end the taxpayers................got it?
Incorrect. It only hurts areas in which the bureaucrats line their pockets. When the federal taxes were cut under Trump, businesses opened and came back to the US. This led to more state and/or local taxes collected. Don't listen to people like AOC. She convinced people to protest Amazon opening in New York. Then Amazon pulled out which included no new jobs. Then AOC claimed that New York now had millions of dollars to spend on other stuff. Those millions were not money given to Amazon. It was an initial tax break.
@@charleshodgdon6168 Complete and utter bull crap, nothing trump did and if you bothered to look for actual info instead of the MAGA's alternative facts you'd slap yourself for even uttering such nonsense!!!
@@tomnewham1269 - Kennedy was the first president to propose tax cuts to increase tax revenue. His assertion was that lowering tax rates will increase economic activity. Increases in economic activity raises the rate of monetary exchange as companies spend said tax savings on expansion and employee salaries. It worked, and the federal government saw enough tax revenue increases to pay for the moon landing program. Every single time the federal government lowers tax rates tax revenues increase. EVERY SINGLE TIME. My sources are from the federal government revenue reports and the corresponding bills that were passed at the time. Someone didn't have to explain it to me like I was a grammar school child. Look up Kennedy-Johnson Revenue Act of 1964. Kennedy made that speech in 1963 before he was assassinated.
What's not to understand about? It predicts the socio-politics of America projecting itself through the media/social media to the world. I'm not even an American, a Malaysian Muslim, but even I can grasp the overall picture that the creators of this sitcom are trying to paint to the audience of the future of America which has become a reality.
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I love Becker.
The whole cast is a riot.
Totally underappreciated show. Could have easily gone on 2 more seasons. I never watched a single esp when it was on and now in my top 2. Frasier/Becker are a tie.
"OK , here's the thing."
For God's sake. This could have been yesterday...
And tomorrow.
A really underrated show.
Brilliant piece of acting by Henry Gibson, funny as hell..
Lost count of how many times I've been watching it now... every time I need a laugh I play it....
9000% correct.
"Doesn't open, none of them do, otherwise we'd all jump out"..😆...
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PUT BECKER BACK IN THE AIR !!!!!!!!!!
help get this show back on.
The day Dr Becker lost his tongue!! The look on John's face is priceless!!
He met his match, lol
i love Becker's face when the man stood up to him
He out Becker'd Becker. :)
R.I.P. Henry Gibson. I'd never seen his angry side. Almost unrecognizable.
I know right? He was always such a sweet guy on Laugh In. Loved the poems!
He was great on Boston Legal as well.
Haven’t you seen The Burbs?
@@totallybored5526 Yep! He was awesome in The Burbs.
Apparently you haven’t seen him full-force bitch slap Sterling Hayden in The Long Goodbye either, haha.
The best sitcom ever!
when you work for customer service, and customers just don't seem to seem to get it
I've wanted to do that SO MANY TIMES.
Wonderful show. Then and now 2024 ❤️🇦🇺😂
Henry (James) was "Best Man" at my brothers wedding in 1980. It was quite a party. :) RIP
Holy crap you still remember that?
I've seen this actor before but don't know who he is but his performance as the frustrated bureaucrat who's had the same stuffy job for far too long is brilliant...
He's Henry Gibson ........
He had a long, long, long career
in both TV and movies,
dating back to about 1963.
He is probably most well known
for being a cast member of
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
from 1968 thru 1971.
@@nashburnette7247 Thanks for letting me know...going to Google him now to see if he's still with us or when he passed...still think his performance was brilliant...on par with Jon Cryer's righteous indignation moments as Alan Harper...
I notice I commented about this episode a year ago and I'm watching it again.
This is some brilliant acting by both actors, especially Henry Gibson.... enjoyed it as much as a years ago....
Episode from 2003... and hits even harder in 2017
Even harder in 2019
Exactly, I lost my dream career of Firefighter, thanks to the recession my just got it back after 12 horrible years as a golf course superintendent.
TV told me government just needs more of my money and then it can make all the problems better. TV good. Me smart.
Even harder in 2021 ,,,omg when is this ever going to end...just keep sending a stimulus check every month or so and maybe that will help....LOL.
@@tannerjablowski3192 It's okay to believe information you get from other people as long as you verify it internally and externally to your own standards. Just try to keep your standards reasonably high.
What would Dr. Becker say about Tik Tok? God, I wish this show was still on.
Spoiler alert, you'd be calling him far right if he was around today.
@@spenser9908 Nope, he'd have the best show on The Daily Wire.
@@vfxfanit would do a lot of numbers too
Aww, that's cute. You think that your favorite people will always side with you.
@@spenser9908 But Becker hated Republicans.
It’s the most funny great writers and actors ever a ahiwyiucan watch over and over and still laugh from min to minute the DONT make the sit coms like they use too 2022 still the best
The humble & beloved
Henry Gibson. 😏
And then when you dig into what the money was wasted on you disappear
In other words, we killed ourselves by our greed. Because we weren't willing to make sacrifices on one end, we wound up being sacrificed on the other end. It’s easy to blame politicians for the messes that have been created in the public sector, and they deserve much of the blame, but we were the fools who got taken in and voted for them.
A t detail I just noticed now after seeing this clip again. Anyone else noticed the kettle on the little dryer in the corner?
Probably one of the first things the new employee brought to his off 43 years ago and only used once ever since... to totally forget about it since... Whoever came up with that idea knows his history.. or hers...
You cut the video too soon.
Aww.. you cut the old guy's final response.
becker says: "I'm going to look like a jackass"
and I the old guy says (something to the effect): "well then you're going to look like jackass".
Dam. Thanks. Funny. Hope ur ok 4 years later. Its may 2020
And then Becker sends the mob of homeless people on him.
Wow he made a good point the the government giving the schools lower federal budget is one of the biggest reasons why we have so many generations of stupid people who actually are given the right to vote now.
No it's because stupid people have lots of kids.
sounds like a chicken and egg argument here
In America citizens are not given the right to vote , it is an inalienable right !
@@Pocketfarmer1 Tell that to the people that were denied that vote for decades due to being women. Due to being black. Tell that to the four million US Citizens that can't vote for president or congress due to living in U.S. Territories that aren't officially states, but don't worry we still tax them even though they can't vote. Tell that to a nation that has a president that outright lies to them about voting options.
Hell, tell that to the thousands of felons that can't vote in specific states due to felon disenfranchisement laws. That sure is an inalienable right when taking away someones voting rights was held up as constitutional by the supreme court.
TheNerdling I do not understand, is your anger at me or the failure of the country to live up to its ideals? I hold that those you mention are having their rights illegally taken. The only exception to your list I perhaps would make is genuine murderers. Someone who kills a voter does not get to vote being the idea. As to the rest their right are being abridged and it is the shame of our nation that it has gone on as long as it has. Telling the people that are being disenfranchised does nothing. Holding those in the positions of power accountable is what makes the difference. The rights are unalienable ,but keeping them well exercised takes vigilance .
I think Becker just meet his father.
That was Henry Gibson. From Laugh In. 'Spider spider on the wall, don't u have no sense at all. Don't u know that wall is plastered. Get off that wall, u stupid .... spider!'
At least that guy is honest. lol
When you meet your match🤣🤣🤣
I first became politically active in college (spring 2000). I was holding meetings, rally's, etc before I could legally buy my own cigarettes, much less a beer (good thing I grew up in New Orleans). This clip totally sums up my entire political career which began with me holding up an Al Gore sign in the shadow of the statue of Andy Jackson in the French Quarter, and ended where Sherman's March to the Sea began, in Northwest Georgia. I was once a local party representative for the State of GA, and ran a hopeless state representative campaign to elect a great man who was unelectable in the Bible belt by way of his own party affiliation. This is how I feel about voting and politics now, Becker thinking to himself, "Damnitt, now what am I gonna do to fix all of this? I didn't even want to COME HERE!!" Dr. John Becker is my spirit animal.
Republicans are just as bad as liberals now too. Conservatives can't conserve anything anymore.
what we need is a complete overhaul of how we spend our tax dollars. Corporation's and billionaire's are given tax breaks meaning that those taxes fall on the lower classes.
But the rich already get taxed more. They get put into a more bigger tax percentage bracket. It''s also about how we distribute the federal and state taxes. We pay all these state taxes for health care, yet still have to pay for it.
@@MrDRTK true they do get taxed more but not at a high enough percentage. years ago they used to b taxed 70% sometimes 80%+
So you were politically active before you had any significant life experience? Sounds like lots of Democratic voters.
Why are you saying alan becker...its JOHN
tiny clips
I think Becker would vote for Bernie Sanders.
Well that's kind of a mean thing to say. I mean he has a bit of an anger problem, and he's not the most sociable person, but he's certainly not an idiot.
@@mortson978 Yeah, there's no way they'd let a good candidate win. The only way to not throw your vote away is by voting for the second worst. That's the only way to stop the worst candidate from winning automatically.
Think one of the episode he said he was (or is, not sure) a libertarian, so I don't think he will vote for Bernie Sander. Becker is probably going to be right leaning centrist for his family value, but then his view on cops and government would put him on center-left.
@@cosplayshop I couldn't picture him as a wokeist lol
@@genericgeorge He aint woke, he is centrist, as I explained he is probably right leaning centrist.
Woke are Left to Far Left people. He is not that left.
Becker met his match 😅
Where did that come from? 😂
Why should we pay more taxes when the more they take the more they waste......been that way 30 years now
nonesense. if they had better resources people like you would have a lot less to bitch about.
"the government doesn't need so much money, we should cut taxes"
>facilities and programs stop working as well from under funding
"see, look at how terrible these programs are run. They don't need all my money. We should cut taxes"
Exactly the government wastes almost 30 billion a year. Trillions just go missing. We give billions to countries who just give the money to terrorists and trafficking cartels. Most of the people in these comments are certified retards.
I;d be 100% okay if my taxes were raised and it meant our country actually helped people.
-Next Generation
Then you stand alone, in a sea of greedy morons.
WOW!!!
I bet they are related somehow...
Could this be what happens when states rely on federal government money?
Why even take a dime? Would it make more sense to raise the funds yourself?
No. It's because people only care about lower taxes. Then pikachu face when their cities turn to shit and crime goes out of control.
He’s no namby pamby
To bad you cut off the funny ending.
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dead end system
Tax's should only be between state and citizen if any. Give the church back it's rights and stop pouring money down the money hole
What rights have the church lost?
@@tomnewham1269 the fact that the church isnt allowed to help the poor and widow without government say so
When it means less money for the state. That money may not go to all the sectors that require it. People claim.taxation is theft but don't realize how much of it is needed for operation of the state.
Because Americans prefer selfishness over selflessness. And we wonder why we don't get the needs and services that a first-world nation should.
@@cityhawk you don't get it, you moron. i help people, but i help people on MY terms and I give to those whom I feel deserve it. the government, especially democrats, pander to certain groups to buy votes. Americans are very selfless. its just that WE want to decide who to help, not some bureaucrat with an agenda.
It is stated that there are full episodes of all seasons but there is only short few minutes of video clips not the full episodes..could you please post full episodes of all the seasons..
Becker dream about you last night
idk about predicting the future, but it makes a valid point about tax cuts.
Though it does kind of ignore the fact no amount of taxes would let the government run smoothly. The problem isn't money taken in, it's how it's spent. How many times Officials vote to raise their own salaries or various other kick backs and grafts they have in the works. Simply put you could give a school 10 billion dollars and still find they some home don't have enough money to get text books.
All because some government official gave the book contract to a "friend" in where each book cost $5000 or something.
@@JustaGuy_Gaming you know this how? Popular narrative? Any chance you've been fooled by coporate propoganda.
It's distrust and apathy which errodes governments ability to fix things. And there are some very intersted and wealthy corporations and people that are more than happy to feed that.
My Lord. Henry Gibson turned back into the Illinois Nazi (Blues Brothers reference).
This Kamala. If she wins
Raise those taxes so we can all get new Federal cars building furniture and hire our family contractors...pfft
this is true
NOPE. That is bad policy in your city, and state. Texas does fine and not tax the people 2, and 3 times over for a purchase.
BS. It is not cutting taxes. Its wasteful spending
Exactly
You mean like subsidizing multibillionaires, while giving them tax cuts?
Like tax subsidies
>more taxes = better
Yeah what a load of crap.
That's liberal Hollywood for you.
I have no problem with cutting taxes but I think the real problem is reducing government bureaucracy. I mean how many government workers do you really need, seriously?
Cut taxes from the wealthy, not from the poor and middle class.
@@cityhawk I agree but whenever these bull crap politicians talk about doing that, they do the opposite. They screw with the middle class.
One more time for the ones in the back!
In case all you trump supporters didn't get it, cutting Federal taxes just hurts the states, the counties, the municipalities and in the end the taxpayers................got it?
Incorrect. It only hurts areas in which the bureaucrats line their pockets.
When the federal taxes were cut under Trump, businesses opened and came back to the US. This led to more state and/or local taxes collected.
Don't listen to people like AOC. She convinced people to protest Amazon opening in New York. Then Amazon pulled out which included no new jobs. Then AOC claimed that New York now had millions of dollars to spend on other stuff. Those millions were not money given to Amazon. It was an initial tax break.
@@charleshodgdon6168 Complete and utter bull crap, nothing trump did and if you bothered to look for actual info instead of the MAGA's alternative facts you'd slap yourself for even uttering such nonsense!!!
No it doesnt, it hurts the gov that wastes these taxes. The gov is the problem here, not fucking tax cuts.
Did the TV man tell you paying more taxes is good and now you repeat that lesson back to other people?
You're a moron, sir.
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Funny... but, cutting tax rates INCREASES tax revenue. Oops... false narrative corrected.
How does cutting taxes increase tax revenue and where did you read that?
@@tomnewham1269 - Kennedy was the first president to propose tax cuts to increase tax revenue. His assertion was that lowering tax rates will increase economic activity. Increases in economic activity raises the rate of monetary exchange as companies spend said tax savings on expansion and employee salaries. It worked, and the federal government saw enough tax revenue increases to pay for the moon landing program.
Every single time the federal government lowers tax rates tax revenues increase. EVERY SINGLE TIME.
My sources are from the federal government revenue reports and the corresponding bills that were passed at the time. Someone didn't have to explain it to me like I was a grammar school child.
Look up Kennedy-Johnson Revenue Act of 1964. Kennedy made that speech in 1963 before he was assassinated.
Joe Biden in a nut shell but he's eating ice cream
Reagan's America in a nutshell.
Choose to pay more taxes if you want then.
that is BS. No wonder people think the way they do they listen to programs like this explaining about taxes.
Sucks!
Horrible upload. Missing whole beginning... 👎👎👎
This is a classic scene, and deserves to be shown from start to finish.
This show was lame. Never understood the comedy
What's not to understand about? It predicts the socio-politics of America projecting itself through the media/social media to the world. I'm not even an American, a Malaysian Muslim, but even I can grasp the overall picture that the creators of this sitcom are trying to paint to the audience of the future of America which has become a reality.
Chess is lame, too. I never understood that game.
You say that now, but you'll appreciate it when you get older.
Where did that come from? 😂