Americans React | BLACK BOOKS | Blood Season 2 Episode 4 | REACTION
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
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King and Queen Boomers' Reaction to the British Comedy Black Books where Fran gets a new family while Manny tries to upgrade the book store against Bernard's wishes. ENJOY!
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Funnily enough, there actually was a chef who cooked while drinking a bottle of wine. His name was Keith Floyd. He was a TV chef in the 80s.
And don't forget Grahame Kerr!
"Where are the turrets? ITS RUBBISH!!!!"
That entire kitchen scene is just perfect
Prices without including taxes…. Thanks for telling me how much this DOESNT cost!
I quite agree with Queen Boomer. I used to work in Barnardo's, and folks used to haggle in there.
I mean FFS, its a charity shop, the money goes to help children.
"That muffin and that coffee. It's way to big." said no American ever... until now.
We don't have tax added at the till in the UK. The price on the shelf is the price it is.
Except in cash and carry. Some items have vat added there.
Baby distractions are fine. It's cell phone users who go off reading texts in the middle of a reaction that really make people mad.
The big fella who was in Frans family was the big zombie in Shaun of the dead who gets the record cracked off his head 😂
Historically the .99 thing is so that the cashier has to put the item through the till to get your change. If it was an even number they could just pocket the money without ringing it through.
RIP queen boomer's toes!
Back in the day my late father was a supermarket manager. I remember him telling me about the 1.99, 2.99 thing etc. Apparently it was known as ‘Charm Pricing’ in the business.
40th cigarette, not 14th.
The scene with the soup is one of my all time favorites of British comedy.
Seriously ????
Wow what an episode....Manny captured the Queen and you attacked our Queen!! RIP toenail.
So I heard Bernard say 'fortieth cigarette'. And I still know heavy smokers who would scoff at just two packs a day.
So when queen boomer heard fourteen and was like, 'thats alot' . . . Awwww 😅😅😅
Omg never has the title of a show matched the reaction so perfectly, "BLOOD" all the best recovering Queen Boomer.
Yep we get the £3.99 nonsense. At least any tax is already included though.
Yes and we get our penny change ! None of this rounding up nonsense! I was shocked the first time they did that to me in Australia, handed over cash and expected my 5 cents back and they didn't give it, just rounded it up 😡
@@catshezwhat a cheek of them! Didn’t they get rid of their small change a few years ago? Which makes you wonder why they didn’t just round up the prices.
"Yep we get the £3.99 nonsense."
Originally intended to make the shop assistant ring in the sale to get the change out of the till, instead of just pocketing the money.
@@NorthDownReader 💯
@@mral8145 This was 20 years ago, and yes they SAY they got rid of the small change, hence why the shops ignore it 🤬 but it is still valid and in circulation!
Just collect 5cents in a jar ?? My pennies and 2ps are probably worth more in copper than they are in reality.. Losing pennies and 5cent pieces as a currency is a travesty!
Small items are priced in odd ways to scupper customers' attempts at budgeting ( adding up total cost ) on the fly. One exception in the U of K are 'pound shops'.
And thus, the second American Revolution started, with the words: “Throw the houses in the river, and I hate coupons!”
In the UK we rarely pay invisible tax on items. You might pay VAT on items purchased via a trades person, but prices shown are all pre taxed. Of course we have Cosco where items have vat added at the check out.
Fewer people in the shop!
If you find people getting angry funny, definitely watch Fawlty Towers. Its basically Basil Fawlty (John Cleese) angry at everything. The Basil Fawlty and his car scene is possibly the most famous comedy sketch ever made of someone getting uncontrollably angry.
I’m going to give you a damn good thrashing!! 😂
Alexi Sayle is another comedian who is great at losing his shit and then instantly cooling off.... I hope someone making reactions hits The Young Ones sometime
@@kaym6850 I loved and still love the young ones. But it was very specific to its time and im not sure younger people would understand what its all about.
King Boomer and his PC setup... 🤬🤣🤣
@@dimanemchenko1047 i think king boomer would identify with Basil in the car scene.
Yay 🎉 back to Black Books! Please please do Spaced next 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Hell yeah!
A lot of stuff in the uk ends with 99p too. Some people say that shops get taxed for every whole pound spent but its probably to stop shop workers pocketing the money cos they end up having to open the till for change.
Haha! “Just make something the price it is”
America and tipping…
Tax is always included in the price in the UK - not been to America but in Japan i always got caught out with the tax not being included in the main price
There is a simple reason why things are priced bizarrely by retailers. If something is £10 or £5 and the customer pays with a 10 or a 5 then it makes it easy for a checkout operator to just pocket the cash. If it's £9.99 or £5.50 and the customer pays with a £10 then the till needs to be opened to give them change. IN order to open the cash drawer (without a supervisor key) the sale needs to be rung up on the register (or till as we call it in the UK). In short, when items are priced at uneven prices, there is less likelihood the checkout operator can steal cash.
[19:40] Fewer, Bernard. Fewer.
Thanks Stannis
If you don't think of them as individuals, just a sea of annoyance, then it could be less as well.
x.99 pricing is called "Bata's pricing", It was originally used by czech shoemaker Tomáš Baťa in 1896. And the effect persists to this day. And it is quite simple. Most of ppl subconsciously look only at the whole number price so goods look cheaper than it is. When you have price 4.99, it is in fact 5, but it looks like 4. So much more ppl buy for 4.99 than 5. It works and it is one of the most used marketing practices all around the globe for last 130 years.
Everybody does it, the higher the whole number is the easier it works. It has only mild effect on prices like 1.99, 2.99, but when you have 11.99, 16.99. Or even better 11.90 you just look at it as 11. And the funfact. I'm from Czech Republic, and our currency doesn't have any fractional coins (cents-like), we only have whole numbers, but all our prices are still 4.90. Even wierder are prices like 2.50 (but we have no 0.50 coin). So when you pay by cash you pay 3, when you pay by card you pay 2.50. :)
Coupling series!
Funniest show ever!
@@artomatt I know they would absolutely love it
Yeh, and then Smack The Pony .
Would love it, but apart from Jeff not absurd enough humor wise I fear.
The reason things will cost 2.99 instead of 3 is so the cash register is used for change, and records the transaction, otherwise the shop keeper could just pocket the money if there is no change.
Fortieth, not fourteenth :)
Prices have VAT, but we still get the marketing tricks. Pricing something at £1.99 to make you think "omg it's less than £2" is common. I can't imagine how people fall for it when an item is priced $1.99 and then you put 2-7% on top.
HAHA the muffin and a coffee was to mock the Americans (because everything in america is huge) and whadaya know ... Americans loved it haha
The reason everything end in £0.99 pence is so the cashier has to ring it up on the cash till to give you change. So this stops them pocketing the money
The annoying prices, for example, 4.99 instead of just being 5, is apparently so that when paying cash, the cashier has to open the draw to give you the change, rather than just sneakily pocketing the cash and voiding the sale afterwards. Not entirely sure i fthat is true though it does make some sense.
That's what I've heard, too.
I idly wonder how many under-30s know why people say "kerching!" when talking about money 🙂
I'm sat here thinking you couldn't keep still till I realised you were rocking a pram with a little baby ..haha .
Every time I see anything Black Books related I can't help but sing queen boomer's "Black Books jingle" in my head.
How can a jingle be so bad yet so good at the same time?
the reason things are 99p is also to stop theft by staff as generally need to give change
Over here in Mexico, they still do the weird 99.99 thing to try and trick you into thinking stuff is cheaper, but the IVA (our sales tax) is already included in the price tag. I believe that's how most of the world does it, like with the metric system; if anything, the exceptions to that are the quirky outliers.
Here in New Zealand all tax is included in the price too. The price listed is the price you pay.
KB is totally right about how much you smoke when you're drinking. When I used to smoke, I would normally smoke about two packs a week as I would space them out over the course of the day. When I was out drinking, I'd finish that in one night cos I would be chainsmoking one after the other the whole time 😅
the £1.99 thing is meant to be a way to make it harder for people steal or fake the actual amounts. i have no idea how that works though.
I think it was because it forced the cashier to open the till to give change, which would record the transaction. If a customer could just hand you a fiver without expecting change, the cashier could trouser the cash without opening the till. Whether or not this is true, I don't know.
@@SRPM-yk9xwpoundland really changed all that 😅
@@SRPM-yk9xw makes sense i guess
Wow. No curse words when you hurt your toe. That's crazy self control, I don't think I could do that.
Bernard is played by Dylan Moran. I think you guys would love his stand up. Just a suggestion. Love your videos.
Moss stares at his B&Nob muffin
It's not even listed in the table of contents!
The 99p price is so you have to open the till. Stoops staff pocketing the money.
Black toes. Black toes. Toes that are black !
My Brit friends live in Folkstone, Kent...where they go for ham👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼❤
it's not "Bernard" (with rolling rrrrrs) .. in England it's pronounced "Bernard" (without any rrrrrr rolling .. like Buuhnuuhd).
Some of our UK shops do the 99p thing and others will go for round numbers, there isn't a universal approach.
If the price ends in 95p it's secret code for stock clearance sale.
King, you say Bernard in the British way absolutely fine when you're not overthinking it. I don't know how it sounds to you, but to me it's way less jarring than hearing BerNAAARD. And yes as many have said, we do have to deal with things being £1.99 instead of £2, but sales tax (VAT) is included in the price.
Also, the heck are you guys doing complaining about taxes - y'all live in Florida. You guys have sales tax but surely that's a small price to pay for ZERO state income tax.
As for Queen, your reaction to the muffin and coffee was just priceless. And I think we all learnt a valuable lesson today; the reactin' business can be a painful one. We're thinking of you Queen, get well soon. RIP Queen's toe nail.
Yeh, no the £x.99 thing has definitely made it to the UK.
The good news is that taxes are included in the price. So the label price is the price you pay. End of.
Its just alot of those prices are something pounds and 99 pence.
So glad you guys are doing this Black Books reaction... I know I'm not the first, but I also can't wait for you to react to Edgar Wright's Spaced series!
The next episode, Hello Sun, is one of the funniest.
They do the 2:99 everywhere Brian. The pricing is based on (of course) a US Study that showed the human brain subconsciously rounds down the figure. Basically 2:99 subconsciously registers as 2 dollars and not 3 and therefore the shopper feels items are cheaper than they are.
In the UK we do have the .99p instead of the full pound, and the reason is so that customers take the reciept with the change... It's nothing to do about making the product sound cheaper.
Haggling is a sign of dishonesty on the part of the seller.
40th cigarette he said
14 is rookie numbers for Bernard 😂
If you like random acts of violence, you should try The Young Ones, and Bottom. If you like old people getting angry, try One Foot In The Grave.
28:00 I felt that too. Sorry for you Queen Boomer.
Quick fact, "99" price was introduced in 1920s by Czech businessman Tomáš Baťa, founder of Bata shoe company. It is meant to be a psychological trick, because 19.99 looks cheaper than 20.00. And it spread all over the world.
The main reason prices are set at 9.99, 2.99 etc is to stop staff pocketing money and not putting it through the till as they have to give the customer change.
The day my son said to me, aged ten; "Mum, i want my hair like Bernard's from Black Books" I knew my job was done....
If you think the 5.99 is irritating I’ve just paid 142.7 per litre for petrol at ASDA.
I'm with Bernard on this. I stopped going yo my favourite bookshops when they introduced coffee shops.
Queen Boomer looks so fine. There's a way women look after giving birth to your child. I remember saying it to my child's mother. Hope this doesn't sound weird, it's just an observation.
It was the FORTIETH cigarette that afternoon! BERn is special.
Don't know about the UK, but here in Australia, our sales tax (called GST which stands for Goods and Services Tax) is included in the displayed prices in all shops. So you know straight away how much you'll be paying before you get to the checkout instead of adding the tax on top in your head.
its the same here in the UK all tax is already included in the price, thank the gods, I can't imagine how much of a pain in the arse that tax at till crap must be
Up until the late 80s we had the half penny so instead of £2.99p it would be £2.99&1/2p. For example. King Boomer please do a re reaction to the top 15 iron bru adds with Queen Boomer would love to see her reaction to them.
Our .99 prices are the full prices tax included. It's still bloody annoying for them not to be a rounded number though.
You do find some haggling in the UK, generally around very large purchases (like a car, typically on the 2nd hand market, or a house) but no, certainly in a store like Black Books, or supermarkets etc, nah you pay the price on the label (which will include tax as it's just a nationwide rate here).
Ooops! The foot alarm has gone off! (hope it's better soon QB!)
The prices not being the whole number is to help stop cashiers stealing. If they have to give change, the money is more likely to go in the till and not in a pocket.
Yes, in the U.K. vendors do the stupid £9.99 nonsense so we think we’re getting a bargain. To make it even more bonkers, many such as street traders in markets take it for granted they’re not going to give us our £0.01 change. And being British and repressed we mostly don’t complain and demand it. U.K., remember the Boston Tea Party! Demand your 1p back!!
When your driving for a long time as well u can smoke a lot
Watch Green Wing, it has Fran in it but she plays a different character who is just as odd, as are the rest of the cast :)
It’s 2.99 so the staff has to go into the till and jive you 0.01 back and doesn’t just pocket the whole 3.00
The women in this did quite a fun comedy series with matt le blanc. Cant remnber name though. Shes also in a new murder drama currently on channel 4
It was literally called Episodes - its a great sitcom, kinda a cross of a British and American sitcom, not too many people remember it nowadays though
Black Books is one of my favorite shows ever, only topped by Black Adder. I was kind of shocked when you said someone thought Father Ted/IT Crowd is better, but then again youtube comments can be wild :D
i love all 3 but black books is my personal fav, and the first brit sitcom i saw. but if i was introducing a friend to brit sitcom for the first time i would show them IT crowd because i think that one is most popular.
Always impressed with your wrestling tops king boomer 👌
A silent minute for the casualty of this video.
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R.I.P. brave Queen B. Injured, M.I.A. and presumed dead. Another sad loss in the ongoing battle against boredom.
Yeah we also have to deal with the .99p thing.
You guys need to watch a UK series call My Family
If you go to a shop here then the price is the price. Toy shops tend to do whole pounds like Smyths do. I prefer it. Only time you will see two prices (ex and inc vat) are in places like Makro who sell in bulk to businesses.
If you haven’t seen “Look Around You” then you must here’s a link to the pilot episode: ua-cam.com/video/FBaVwwuErmU/v-deo.htmlsi=9xWjnZnS1STK6enl
My favourite episode
40th cigarette 😁
I found this show rather hit or miss, but tower of soup killed me 😂
Shoes. They're a thing.
We do have products with odd prices as our shelf price is what it costs. If it says £5.50 it costs £5.50... it's false advertising otherwise and we can sue the store
@@FikuKromoUzuFajrovulpon you can force the issue. Don’t be fobbed off. Working in retail there’s lots of small things we are taught that are vital
One Foot In The Grave is the perfect "angry old man" sitcom
Dillions in Gower Sreet, London :)
Not american so I don't know. How are the taxes on items in US high now, where are they going to? Rest of the world I understand, heathcare, economy, education, infrastructure, etc. Isn't most of the US privatized in almost all of that? So where do the current high taxes come from?
Blimey, norks 😳
Queen is on the level today. Yesterday i was moaning about 99 stuff. we all know its a sales trick now, so just round it back up. The 99p store was still always called the pound shop.
I love how lighthearted she was by noticing how distracted politics can make people. Forget trump, and Biden. Chuck the houses overboard
Also. Your Dan and Bill Bailey lookalike gets better every single day. I called you out on it first time, but i can't not see it on Dan
BERNERD...AND BERNARD BOTH NAMES.
The price on our shelves is the price you pay. If the sign says it’s £5 then you’ll pay £5.
Again the Yankee pronunciation of Bernard. "Ber-NARD". They keep hearing him be called Bernard in the show and then they turn around and call him "Ber-NARD" :D
They literally explained that its because it sounds weird with an American accent. I supposed you call those big dogs St. BERnard.
I hope the Queens toe is ok.
It’s the same with the sticker prices 2.99 399.9 but the tax is already included. Still super annoying. Just fucking round it up!