The First Guy To Ever Use Figures Of Speech

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  • @RyanGeorge
    @RyanGeorge  Рік тому +577

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  • @GlassesnMouthplates
    @GlassesnMouthplates Рік тому +6129

    I'm gonna start using the line "Constipated with seven balloons" as a figure of speech to describe someone who's infuriated because he's not getting a piece of cake.

  • @RealNaisuCinema
    @RealNaisuCinema Рік тому +7560

    Imagine how chaotic it would be if literally all figures of speech were created at the same time. No one would have a clue what was going on for a good bit

    • @aknightofislamicarabia5543
      @aknightofislamicarabia5543 Рік тому +179

      Yes, congratulations, that was the joke.

    • @lilacdoe7945
      @lilacdoe7945 Рік тому +472

      "I screwed the pooch on that one."
      "You f*cked my dog!?"

    • @RealNaisuCinema
      @RealNaisuCinema Рік тому +81

      @@lilacdoe7945 LMAO the endless possibilities

    • @chivonfortney1656
      @chivonfortney1656 Рік тому +14

      😂😂

    • @RealNaisuCinema
      @RealNaisuCinema Рік тому +53

      @@aknightofislamicarabia5543 In a basic level in which you don’t actually think about what I said sure the concepts share similarities. But no, nice try though I guess?

  • @ericaschner3283
    @ericaschner3283 Рік тому +2501

    These guys always have great chemistry together

    • @goldenageofdinosaurs7192
      @goldenageofdinosaurs7192 Рік тому +127

      Right? They really nailed the casting for this series..

    • @chrisdouglas1158
      @chrisdouglas1158 Рік тому +207

      I didn't see them doing any chemistry? In fact there was a distinct lack of science involved.

    • @XtreeM_FaiL
      @XtreeM_FaiL Рік тому +7

      You guys make no sense at all.

    • @johnmagill9496
      @johnmagill9496 Рік тому +32

      They all think alike, I've decided.

    • @RealElevenTimes
      @RealElevenTimes Рік тому +22

      @@chrisdouglas1158 Oh not understanding what the previous person said is tight!

  • @intraspec
    @intraspec Рік тому +952

    I love how angry they are at the use of figures of speech. Makes sense since everyone is so honest in Ryanverse so they just come across as weird lies

    • @MeilynMei
      @MeilynMei Рік тому +61

      Except the professional liar guy, he's allowed to lied.

    • @Lilyene0
      @Lilyene0 11 місяців тому +11

      ​@@MeilynMeiand the story teller

  • @CoszmoGaming
    @CoszmoGaming Рік тому +869

    I love the thought of casually offering someone a piece of cake when they’re angry

  • @bobiboulon
    @bobiboulon Рік тому +2544

    As a non-native english speaker, I must thank you because I learnt a couple of expressions I've never heard before.
    I tried to find the perfect idiom to express this, but after failing to find any, I felt like I went on a wild goose chase...

    • @bushwitch
      @bushwitch Рік тому +346

      Sounds like you're over the moon about having a few more expressions under your belt. Ryan didn't cover a lot of ground but if you learn those by heart you'll be well on your way.

    • @Mike-kc5ew
      @Mike-kc5ew Рік тому +127

      Good luck! Geese are vicious creatures!

    • @slicingonions4398
      @slicingonions4398 Рік тому +101

      Why were you chasing the geese? I hear they are some shifty bastards

    • @Playingwith3D
      @Playingwith3D Рік тому +29

      well done. I see what you did there. 👍

    • @Dystopia1111
      @Dystopia1111 Рік тому +86

      Make sure you have all your ducks in a row before going on a wild goose chase.

  • @WatchMeSC
    @WatchMeSC Рік тому +527

    The "I'm not gonna...I'm not gonna" part just killed me. The delivery of that line was insane.

  • @MetalMachine131
    @MetalMachine131 Рік тому +547

    Man, he keeps hitting the nail on the head with these videos.

    • @eternalproductions
      @eternalproductions Рік тому +54

      What nail , i haven't seen any nail in any of his videos

    • @davidfine4475
      @davidfine4475 Рік тому +45

      Clearly he has this confused with some sort of DIY carpentry channel

    • @graduator14
      @graduator14 Рік тому +22

      GET OUT!!!

    • @streetlifeofzackandcody
      @streetlifeofzackandcody Рік тому +25

      that sounds VERY painful. I don't like that at all!

    • @slicingonions4398
      @slicingonions4398 Рік тому +18

      I've watched his videos and there's been a distinct lack of nail hitting. Hitting nails on the head is tight!

  • @iheartnjdevils3536
    @iheartnjdevils3536 Рік тому +338

    I never realized how confusing these are until I had a child. One time he was super excited to the point it was getting a little obnoxious so I blurted out “Hold your horses!” He suddenly got quiet and said, “But I don’t have any horses Mommy.”

    • @eclatshwartzbaumcybertune2063
      @eclatshwartzbaumcybertune2063 Рік тому +12

      😂😂

    • @englishcare9063
      @englishcare9063 Рік тому +18

      So they say so because horses are held in a Stable.. so hold your horses is basically saying be stable.

    • @eyliena
      @eyliena Рік тому +33

      Also when you're speaking to someone when English isn't their first language and they're like "what do you mean" and you think, what *do* I mean?

    • @DoofenSpyroDragon16
      @DoofenSpyroDragon16 Рік тому +4

      That is too precious 😂

    • @danielciocilteu3545
      @danielciocilteu3545 2 місяці тому

      Having a child makes you not tight...

  • @KingCuba
    @KingCuba Рік тому +276

    1:24
    This line broke me, I can’t stop laughing. Ryan’s delivery plus repeating it twice….goddammit! I’m now obligated to quote this directly in ALL future situations where it’s applicable! Lolol

    • @ronjones-6977
      @ronjones-6977 Рік тому +10

      I'm just gonna ask everyone I know "Did you bring cookies?" Then just yell "F#%k!" and walk off.

    • @MadMikeyY
      @MadMikeyY Рік тому +35

      I’m not gUn-Uhh! I’m not gUn-Uhh!

    • @RavenclawNimbus
      @RavenclawNimbus Рік тому +8

      It was so funny I *died* of laughter!
      …No, not- not literally

    • @Imjustkendall
      @Imjustkendall Рік тому +8

      @@MadMikeyY I’m not GUUNAHH- I’m not GHOUNNAAhh

    • @corwinduncan7052
      @corwinduncan7052 Рік тому +4

      Oh you'll be saying that line a lot? Not me . . . I'm not gonna-I'm not gonna

  • @mrblahbah2522
    @mrblahbah2522 Рік тому +1533

    It’s so weird that Ryan has the ability to take something that seems normal and make it the most insane thing ever

    • @rollinsolo1157
      @rollinsolo1157 Рік тому +75

      It's actually super easy, barely inconvenience

    • @THEE_Kisywisy
      @THEE_Kisywisy Рік тому +66

      The thing is, he’s pointing out an insane thing that has become normal. I mean, why the hell have we just accepted the phrase “it’s raining cats and dogs”?! IT IS INSANE 😂

    • @JenTilly96
      @JenTilly96 Рік тому +13

      ​@@THEE_Kisywisy Yeah like how did we has a society got here.
      Who started it and how did it catch on?😂

    • @gurvmlk
      @gurvmlk Рік тому +16

      @@THEE_Kisywisy I actually once read where that saying came from, but I forget what the explanation was. Point is it does have an origin.

    • @timothytraver5918
      @timothytraver5918 Рік тому +4

      Kind of like... a comedian?

  • @azurehanyo
    @azurehanyo Рік тому +408

    "What if in this imaginary- sometimes life...could be like a cookie in some ways."
    The delivery perfectly encapsulates a brain trying so very hard to outturn what it thinks it knows.

    • @SofaKingShit
      @SofaKingShit Рік тому +9

      I thought it was about cookies that were dipped in milk for too long and that therefore it was a kind of warning against being too greedy with soaking time as then the cookie inevitably crumbles. Although upon reflection l guess in that case it would be the way the cookie disintegrates instead because that's more akin to what soggy cookies do and besides l call them biscuits and l don't even like them l much prefer cake and anyway l was wrong.

    • @carteradams43
      @carteradams43 Рік тому +4

      @@SofaKingShit I thought it was about something breaking apart or failing- perhaps it's your health leading to your death, or perhaps your career.

  • @coolnerdlll6053
    @coolnerdlll6053 Рік тому +2730

    This could honestly become a series similar to the Naming Place one. There's way too many idioms for just one video.

    • @kylelee1911
      @kylelee1911 Рік тому +120

      the turn of phrase department id wanna see it

    • @TheElectrikCow
      @TheElectrikCow Рік тому +88

      @@kylelee1911 Located on the floor below the naming department, creepy guy also works there.

    • @bramboysproductions
      @bramboysproductions Рік тому +7

      @ryangeorge

    • @Eliphas_Leary
      @Eliphas_Leary Рік тому +54

      How rude! Don't call them idioms. Even if one of them ate party balloons.

    • @katecosettevocals
      @katecosettevocals Рік тому +12

      fully agree, we need a full series!!!!

  • @bluealien3306
    @bluealien3306 Рік тому +66

    The horrified reactions to, "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse" reminded me of the reaction I got the time I said, "I'm so hungry I could eat a village." Sometimes people just aren't ready.

    • @hydranmenace
      @hydranmenace Рік тому +7

      I'm told it does occasionally take a village. You're fine.

    • @madster01
      @madster01 Рік тому +3

      Surprisingly, horse meat is actually not bad. I guess you never know how good the village tastes like 😋

    • @MDestron2282
      @MDestron2282 11 місяців тому +1

      @@madster01 Yeah, when Jack in the Box got in trouble for using horse meat I have to admit that I couldn't tell the difference and didn't care.

    • @BarackObamaJedi
      @BarackObamaJedi 18 днів тому

      ​​@@madster01why is it surprising, it's a horse

  • @Seru_Janai
    @Seru_Janai Рік тому +66

    As a non-english speaker, this turned out to be surprisingly educational.

  • @dr.braxygilkeycruises1460
    @dr.braxygilkeycruises1460 Рік тому +464

    *Poor Nathaniel. He was a man ahead of his time and he wasn't appreciated for his innovation. He was... Streets Ahead.* 😁🤗

    • @RobMedellin
      @RobMedellin Рік тому +20

      And here I am at square one

    • @BriJBo
      @BriJBo Рік тому +18

      "Streets ahead"? I thought it was "miles ahead". I have never heard of something being "streets ahead" unless it was literal.

    • @41-Haiku
      @41-Haiku Рік тому +8

      ​@@BriJBo I've never heard it either, but I like it.

    • @salamander7154
      @salamander7154 Рік тому +90

      @@BriJBo if you have to ask you're streets behind!

    • @shytendeakatamanoir9740
      @shytendeakatamanoir9740 Рік тому +1

      ​@@RobMedellin I.. guess a house is one square?

  • @legend5831
    @legend5831 Рік тому +108

    The ad's even better than it usually is 😂
    "I uses my ears to listen to stuff all the time but sometimes I want to use them to listen to stuff that only I can hear"
    Amazing work, Ryan ❤

    • @professorx3060
      @professorx3060 Рік тому +7

      "Your ears will thank you, although no they won't cause your mouth is on the other side of your head entirely"

  • @FOF275
    @FOF275 Рік тому +744

    I bet this's how non-English speakers feel when learning English figures of speech

    • @zephyrerazortail5478
      @zephyrerazortail5478 Рік тому +56

      Eng is third language here, and yes. They were weird for a while when I found out about them.

    • @Hiljaa_
      @Hiljaa_ Рік тому +19

      Lmao yeah when I was like 9 I didn't get any of these, now I understand enough

    • @tabby73
      @tabby73 Рік тому +73

      I experienced it the other way round when I tried to translate idioms from my native language into English and people were like Huh? Wth are you on about? 😂

    • @FOF275
      @FOF275 Рік тому +49

      @@tabby73 it's funny how nonsensical figures of speech are when you think about them literally

    • @Daniel_45
      @Daniel_45 Рік тому +41

      English is my 2nd language, and I think idioms don't make much sense in any language. Though, I usually got their meanings even after hearing them for the first time (other than weirder ones like beat around the bush).
      So idioms are weird in any language.

  • @karlhungus5395
    @karlhungus5395 Рік тому +79

    Some of these video topics could so easily be unfunny if done by someone else but Ryan is so creative with his timing and scripts that these never fail to entertain.

    • @Hrochnick
      @Hrochnick Рік тому +5

      That's so true. I saw someone else attempt a Pitch Meeting and it was just cringey.

    • @RavenclawNimbus
      @RavenclawNimbus Рік тому +2

      The way he said “I’m not gunna. I’m not gunna.” Was PRICELESS! 😂
      If it was done by someone who wasn’t that funny it would’ve been different though

  • @american_jackal5956
    @american_jackal5956 Рік тому +19

    The way Nathaniel said "I'm not gonna" kicked my paternal instincts into gear. We must protect this special boy.

  • @RiceCake420
    @RiceCake420 Рік тому +179

    2:25 The ryanverse has evolved from saying “the hand thing” to calling it punching

    • @pokmanl9810
      @pokmanl9810 5 місяців тому

      So it’s canon that this conversation comes after the punching video

    • @Lugemaster1202
      @Lugemaster1202 3 місяці тому

      @@pokmanl9810and after the restraint video

  • @eldorados_lost_searcher
    @eldorados_lost_searcher Рік тому +54

    Reminds me of the scenes in Archer when he's trying to communicate with a Polynesian tribe through a translator who doesn't know how to properly convert idioms to the local dialect, and Archer proceeds to give a motivational speech made entirely of idioms.

  • @stircrazyvidz8530
    @stircrazyvidz8530 Рік тому +199

    The whole thing was hilarious, but that final "GET OUT" was the perfect ending.😂 Ryan, you are a comedy genius

  • @petreraldiavideos
    @petreraldiavideos 10 місяців тому +3

    One of the best, conceptually and in execution. Kudos, Ryan!

  • @OneTopic
    @OneTopic Рік тому +85

    idioms have now entered the Ryanverse

  • @221BBakerStreet
    @221BBakerStreet Рік тому +165

    Is it possible that after all these years Ryan is actually getting funnier? 😂😂😂

  • @TrickyTalon23
    @TrickyTalon23 Рік тому +413

    He really made a video on sarcasm AND figures of speech. Ryan has it all at the top of his game!

    • @Inf_Sto
      @Inf_Sto Рік тому

      U haven’t even watched it shut up 💀💀💀

    • @notme222
      @notme222 Рік тому +32

      What game would that be and why is Ryan standing on it?

    • @Tegres1
      @Tegres1 Рік тому +13

      That seems really dangerous, because he is not wearing *any* safety gear, and falls are the fourth-leading cause of accidental death in the United States.

    • @pvic6959
      @pvic6959 Рік тому +2

      "im not gonna! im not gonna!" lmao

    • @slicingonions4398
      @slicingonions4398 Рік тому

      Which game is he on top of and what does he have?

  • @bennettwadekamper8238
    @bennettwadekamper8238 Рік тому +106

    I enjoy Nathanial's way of speaking. Seems a little different than his usual personalities.

  • @IsaoSoichiro
    @IsaoSoichiro Рік тому +36

    English is my native language, I'm 30 years old, and I heard "mountain out of a molehill" for the first time a week ago. I could tell what they meant, but I thought it was some weird idiom they just made up. Very strange of that person to say. Now I learn it's one of the common ones.

    • @ronjones-6977
      @ronjones-6977 Рік тому +4

      A young friend just heard "off like a herd of turtles" last week. Then I dropped "Well, I'm off in a cloud of heifer dust. See y'all later." He's 25 and thinks we just made them up.

    • @g.masterlordoftheg-force4770
      @g.masterlordoftheg-force4770 Рік тому +3

      I wonder what’s wrong with making them?
      All of them were made up by someone at some point for the first time.

    • @DoofenSpyroDragon16
      @DoofenSpyroDragon16 Рік тому +2

      Go watch “At the Car Wash” from Phineas and Ferb. There’s a whole plot line with Doofenshmirtz centered around that phrase. It’s pretty funny. 😂

  • @Psycandy
    @Psycandy 4 місяці тому +2

    some languages, like dutch, have an 'extreme' version of a word which incorporates the figure of speech. 'snaaks' is funny but 'skreeusnaaks' is screaming funny, and so you get things like ultranew, brilliantwhite, bittercold, bloodyhot, screamfunny, pitchblack ... as 'bonus' words in the language

  • @HeisenbergFam
    @HeisenbergFam Рік тому +412

    Ryan's great banter is as amazing as his consistency, he's more consistent than 50% of US marriages

    • @HeisenbergFam
      @HeisenbergFam Рік тому +20

      @Malachi Budke sup, not everywhere, you got great taste watching UA-cam, have a good one

    • @endrek4895
      @endrek4895 Рік тому +1

      I also see you everywhere

    • @MichaelOKC
      @MichaelOKC Рік тому +4

      You might say he's good at keeping his eye on the ball.

    • @calebpeters3378
      @calebpeters3378 Рік тому +1

      @Malachi Budke Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. This is the fourth time in as many days

    • @-Big_Big
      @-Big_Big Рік тому

      @Malachi Budke man has got to cook

  • @spencerkagen1386
    @spencerkagen1386 Рік тому +13

    I love that we finally get a name for one of these guys, and it's Nathaniel. Don't know why that "tickles me" so much

  • @alexzavod
    @alexzavod Рік тому +79

    Let's not beat around the bush. Whenever I feel blue, Ryan hits the nail on the head.

    • @humanistwriting5477
      @humanistwriting5477 Рік тому +10

      absolutely disgusting that's never going to catch on

    • @KMDrinnon
      @KMDrinnon Рік тому +6

      WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!

    • @timopper5488
      @timopper5488 Рік тому +2

      @@humanistwriting5477
      No no no, hear me out! The Beatles even wrote a song about a guy hitting people on the head with a hammer. It’s apparently an older phrase, way way way back in the 1960s! It’s coming back around again!

    • @humanistwriting5477
      @humanistwriting5477 Рік тому +3

      @@timopper5488 ahhh, hitting people on the head with a hammer! that I can get behind, but what does that have to do with bushes?

    • @timopper5488
      @timopper5488 Рік тому +2

      You’ll have to ask the OP about that to be certain. Personally, I just figured that you hide out in a bush, then when someone comes walking along the sidewalk, you stick your hammerin’ arm out between the branches and start wailing away on their heads. And THAT’S how The Beatles came up with the Blue Meanies! Because if you’re feeling blue, all you have to do is be a meanie with your hammer from a bush, and all will be well again.

  • @MainexManda
    @MainexManda Рік тому +11

    I discovered this channel this morning and I'm bingeing them all! This one cracked me up

  • @TrueSpace61
    @TrueSpace61 9 місяців тому +1

    This is by far your best one - I cannot stop watching it.

  • @donniedoesjokes
    @donniedoesjokes Рік тому +15

    “My organs hurt!!” 😅 RYAN IS THE MAN!! 🔥 “You haven’t barked a single time, and we’re indoors!” 😂

  • @zacharychastain9730
    @zacharychastain9730 Рік тому +88

    I love this series it's like pitch meetings but for real life things

  • @Coolbowser829
    @Coolbowser829 Рік тому +448

    My favorite figure of speech is the truly elegant "So he did a backflip, snapped the bad guy's neck and saved the day!"

    • @WirrWicht
      @WirrWicht Рік тому +11

      This actually describes an active act to gain a promotion.

    • @homerman76
      @homerman76 Рік тому +9

      No no, that one can only be used to describe the the real situation :P

    • @blakearmentrout7717
      @blakearmentrout7717 Рік тому +1

      Or beating someone half to death, which would be impossible to determine unless you beat him the exact same amount twice and he died immediately after.

    • @ronjones-6977
      @ronjones-6977 Рік тому

      I wear that shirt when I play disc golf tournaments. It's a kick in the pants when I tell someone "Nice shot" and they reply "It was super easy. Barely an inconvenience."

  • @joshrayne724
    @joshrayne724 Рік тому +2

    Man, I am wiped! That conversation just totally pooped me out.

  • @nathanielrussell7207
    @nathanielrussell7207 Рік тому +7

    I’ve never been both so excited to hear my name in a sketch, and so mortified that a character is more similar to myself than I would like to admit.
    I guess I should’ve climbed that salmon ladder yesterday.

  • @OmniNexuz
    @OmniNexuz Рік тому +67

    I like how the other dudes can't deal with all these expressions.......And not just because one of them ate a ton of Party Balloons 🎈😅

    • @Derek_Wyld
      @Derek_Wyld Рік тому +2

      Yeah I like how that’s part of this randomly and he’s experiencing issues from it the whole time 😂

    • @cnnhdlvth9557
      @cnnhdlvth9557 Рік тому +1

      I was hoping they would start using the expressions involuntarily by the end of the sketch, and then be really disgusted with themselves for it.
      Could have a recurring thing where the people who hate the ideas start to do them and hate themselves.

  • @jessicastrike5640
    @jessicastrike5640 Рік тому +81

    I would watch a whole series about Nathaniel he’s a true innovator

    • @morebirdsandroses
      @morebirdsandroses Рік тому +10

      He's sharp as a tack!

    • @MrSirWivd
      @MrSirWivd Рік тому +8

      ​@@morebirdsandroses ...altho hes still not the sharpest tool in the shed

    • @morebirdsandroses
      @morebirdsandroses Рік тому +7

      @@MrSirWivd Well he put his shoulder to the wheel. But there's no use beatin' a dead horse, eh?

  • @jeffp7368
    @jeffp7368 Рік тому +135

    This needs a part two because there are at least two more disturbing ones that people just casually say you missed

    • @gerzsone30
      @gerzsone30 Рік тому +19

      Ants in your pants? 😅

    • @salmanuel4053
      @salmanuel4053 Рік тому +27

      @@gerzsone30 Trying to think of the ones he missed but I guess I'm running East looking for a sunset.

    • @ChasehaWing
      @ChasehaWing Рік тому +78

      "Butterflies in your stomach."
      "NO THEY'RE BALLOONS YOU INSENSITIVE PRICK!"

    • @srldwg
      @srldwg Рік тому +18

      ​@@salmanuel4053Never heard that one!🤣 At least that one makes sense logically!

    • @TessaBain
      @TessaBain Рік тому +11

      A part two with pithy sayings would be better.
      You cannot, in fact, do whatever you put your mind to.

  • @Daddyoh94
    @Daddyoh94 Рік тому +8

    Nathaniel is such a good character. This sketch is something special. Like everything Ryan George does is gold but man this one is so funny time and time again

  • @OliviaHenry
    @OliviaHenry Рік тому +1

    The delivery of “I’m not gonna, I’m not gonna.” **chef’s kiss**
    1:24

  • @theladyamalthea
    @theladyamalthea Рік тому +4

    “A pair and a spare” really made me giggle! The sketch was great too, but your ads are just top notch!

  • @PetrKL21
    @PetrKL21 Рік тому +32

    When I studied English I did my thesis on figurative language. This is gold.

    • @DH-xw6jp
      @DH-xw6jp Рік тому +2

      What are you talking about?
      This isn't gold, it's a comedy sketch.

  • @yacmoth770
    @yacmoth770 Рік тому +15

    years and hundreds of videos yet they never get old. Keep it up ryan

  • @SD-hv2vl
    @SD-hv2vl Рік тому +2

    Ryan George is my favorite person I can see on my rectangle I decided.

  • @harmonyislandtaiwan
    @harmonyislandtaiwan Рік тому +1

    Oh my god, Nathaniel!
    I'm not gonna...I'm not gonna...
    Suddenly using a proper name and colloqial response=comic gold. Kudos. Chef's Kiss!

  • @davishickey1465
    @davishickey1465 Рік тому +9

    I can't tell what it was you were doing differently than the rest of your goofy characters, but I really like Figure of Speech Guy.
    That's an entertaining fella. I want more of him.

  • @thanksfernuthin
    @thanksfernuthin Рік тому +24

    The way he envisioned the relationship of the characters to each other did not match my own. I feel like a fish out of water!

    • @morebirdsandroses
      @morebirdsandroses Рік тому +3

      I'm sorry! But it'll all come out in the wash.

    • @chrisleneil
      @chrisleneil Рік тому +4

      …will the fish come out in the wash? I’m so confused

    • @hanzolo7687
      @hanzolo7687 Рік тому +5

      Fish are known to be allergic to air I decided. So it would probably actually be pretty good it you just flopped back into the water so you don't catch a cold. I often accidentally catch various objects when my allergies are kicking in

  • @liborohanka5010
    @liborohanka5010 Рік тому +25

    I am pretty proud, that I understand all lines. My first language is different, so our figures of speech are different. Like I am hungry as wolf, golden eyes and with cross on funeral. It was really funny and enlighting about weird parts of our communication.

    • @TrashArtist89
      @TrashArtist89 Рік тому +2

      Don't forget the legendary don't walk around the hot mash.👏

  • @kastanie7445
    @kastanie7445 Рік тому +22

    Nathaniel's blank stare at 1:16 gets me

    • @IsaoSoichiro
      @IsaoSoichiro Рік тому +2

      He's just WAITING for his next opportunity lol

  • @carlthomas5307
    @carlthomas5307 Рік тому +4

    The time and talent Ryan puts in these skits is well worth the wait. He gets a big laugh out of me every time 🤣🤣🤣🤣👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

  • @katecosettevocals
    @katecosettevocals Рік тому +26

    This.... was beautifully written. Perfect comedy, thank you for a laugh today, Ryan!

  • @josephnjau6321
    @josephnjau6321 Рік тому +5

    It never occurred to me how dirty 'BEATING AROUND THE BUSH' sounded😂😂

    • @MuljoStpho
      @MuljoStpho Рік тому

      Hmmm... Has he made a sketch along the lines of "first person to use euphemisms" yet? If not, it seems surprising that the Ryanverse would already have thought of something like referring so someone's pubes as a "bush" to be able to make that connection with "beating around the bush" in the first place... But then again, there is the creepy guy in the meetings to decide names for things.
      Come to think of it, what is the origin of that phrase anyway? I'm sure they must have had actual bushes in mind when choosing that word. (looks it up) Hunting. In medieval times hunters would hire helpers to flush out any animals that might have been hiding in the bushes. They would make noise nearby to try to scare the creatures out (but not too close, in case something dangerous came out and attacked them).

  • @finlay9616
    @finlay9616 Рік тому +677

    As someone with Autism, the highly literal characters in Ryan's bits are... Perfect

    • @professorx3060
      @professorx3060 Рік тому +34

      Same here. I better understand people who are a bit more literal.

    • @edgeworth097
      @edgeworth097 Рік тому +42

      Yeah, same. I love Ryan's characters, with that being one of the main reasons, another being just how well they rephrase things to make them sound honestly better than common English, imo, for example "alive person". Hi there, hello is also a common greeting of mine now, I don't think most people even know where it's from, but I still use it

    • @TheGregamonster
      @TheGregamonster Рік тому +9

      First Day as a Sports Coach is another fun one for overly literal interpretations.

    • @syntaxusdogmata3333
      @syntaxusdogmata3333 Рік тому +7

      Literally perfect? High praise...

    • @notoriouslysky
      @notoriouslysky Рік тому

      ​@@syntaxusdogmata3333 he's autistic let him have this one

  • @unclecreepy4185
    @unclecreepy4185 Рік тому +2

    7 balloons? His eyes must have been bigger than his stomach. He sure bit off more than he could chew.

  • @fuzyfuzfuz2
    @fuzyfuzfuz2 Рік тому +2

    The next time i hear someone say, "barking up the wrong tree," im going to tell them they havent barked a single time and we're indoors 😅😅😅😂😂😂😂

  • @theperfectbusiness8903
    @theperfectbusiness8903 Рік тому +12

    1:58 “No one’s going to say any variation of that, ever!”
    Meanwhile: “Hmm…it’s no use *PREVARICATING* about the bush”
    -Wallace

  • @lz_377
    @lz_377 Рік тому +6

    Don't worry Nathaniel! Those guys just have a bee in their bonnet. They should really take a chill pill.

  • @howmuchdidyoupay
    @howmuchdidyoupay Рік тому +68

    i always loved mashing them together. my personal favorite is , "i so bored, i could eat a horse!"
    i love the visual of eating an entire horse purely out of boredom and every once in a while someone responds with a look of horror as if i had just done it in front of them. good times.

    • @katelynnehansen8115
      @katelynnehansen8115 Рік тому +3

      I love that so much!

    • @ronjones-6977
      @ronjones-6977 Рік тому +17

      My son came up with a winner when he was a little boy. "It's like pulling teeth from a baby." We just looked at him.....and then busted a gut. Damn, there's another one.

    • @regrettablemuffin9186
      @regrettablemuffin9186 Рік тому +12

      My favourite one is “we’ll burn that bridge when we come to it”

    • @WhatExcellentBoiledPo-ta-toes
      @WhatExcellentBoiledPo-ta-toes Рік тому +8

      I still love "make like a tree and get outta here".

    • @dualcaster
      @dualcaster Рік тому +2

      that shit took me out!!!

  • @redstateforever
    @redstateforever Рік тому +2

    This guy actually existed-aka William Shakespeare. There’s a crazy long list of things we still say all that came from his plays. Wild goose chase, seen better days, pure as the driven snow, naked truth, it’s Greek to me, all that glitters isn’t gold…just a few. 500 years later, we all quote the Bard all the time.

  • @Grasslander
    @Grasslander Рік тому +2

    This thing ballooned quickly.

  • @adinom687
    @adinom687 Рік тому +14

    I love to here background to the development process of these and how you come up with ideas, similar to how you’ve described the process for Pitch Meetings!

  • @t.l.thomas6259
    @t.l.thomas6259 Рік тому +30

    Still waiting on The First Guy to ever be a Therapist

    • @im_bored_hi_
      @im_bored_hi_ Рік тому +6

      “Hi there hello. I spent several years learning about how brains work and if you pay me money…then I’ll tell you how your works. But not like the biological stuff, like the psychological stuff. Like trauma. You pay me money, and I’ll tell you about the things that are wrong that you can’t fix. And if it’s bad enough, you can pay me more money and I’ll give you drugs so you feel better. Just tell me your trauma, and I’ll give you drugs. But for lots of money though, like so much money. But we can only talk for 50 minutes at a time. Just 50 minutes. So, you in?”
      “Yeah, sure.”

    • @KinseyTaylor.
      @KinseyTaylor. Рік тому +1

      Or the first guy to ever be a musician. Or the first guy to ever meet a person with a disability. (Would be great for someone who has one.)

    • @t.l.thomas6259
      @t.l.thomas6259 Рік тому +1

      @@im_bored_hi_ you forgot the "i, decided"

  • @sergiorestrepo6657
    @sergiorestrepo6657 Рік тому +10

    Jajaja the struggle at 0:40 to explain it reminded me that meme "Have you ever had a dream like this?"

  • @dontrailtyson8405
    @dontrailtyson8405 Рік тому +1

    1 of the few channels that consistently makes me laugh. Needed too. Thanks.

  • @geoffprince2258
    @geoffprince2258 Рік тому +8

    "You haven't barked a single time and we are indoors" that line gets me every time.

  • @domtom010
    @domtom010 Рік тому +34

    That mid-sentence 0:39-0:45 change had me howling 😂. Idk how he keeps a straight face doing these lol

  • @lisaroper421
    @lisaroper421 Рік тому +7

    I love learning phrases in other languages. The oddity is just so apparent, and I am here for it!

  • @noisepollution4473
    @noisepollution4473 Рік тому +6

    I randomly started obsessively thinking about why "That's the way the cookie crumbles" is a phrase while trying to sleep last night
    are you inside my head
    how did you get in there

  • @CarlyndraTM
    @CarlyndraTM Рік тому +35

    The Adstronaut is genuinely such a good character, I always watch the entire ad because it's so entertaining

    • @JesusCedillo-yn6sx
      @JesusCedillo-yn6sx 10 місяців тому +2

      He's probably the most underrated character on the Ryanverse

  • @stanley9868
    @stanley9868 Рік тому

    I loved the ad at the end of this one:"I only have between 1 and 3 ears" is such a great line

  • @sebastianacacia7621
    @sebastianacacia7621 Рік тому +5

    The whole video I was waiting for raining cats and dogs and once again, Ryan delivered everything perfectly!

  • @call_me_maple
    @call_me_maple Рік тому +7

    Holy shit, that was so funny. I wanna hear Nathaniel's voice in other videos too lmfao

  • @LegendaryDorkKnight
    @LegendaryDorkKnight Рік тому +7

    You're one of the only UA-camrs whose add roll I actually watch because you're courteous enough to put it at the end.

    • @kiplingmartin4903
      @kiplingmartin4903 Рік тому +2

      And he finds a way to make them entertaining as well.

  • @simonl4523
    @simonl4523 Рік тому +1

    I had always assumed the expression making a mountain out of a molehill dated back to 1702, when King William III died from injuries after the horse he was riding tripped over a molehill at Hampton Court. But I was wrong: the earliest instance is from 1548, in Nicholas Udall's translation of The first tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the newe testamente where he wrote that “The Sophistes of Grece coulde through their copiousness make an Elephant of a flye, and a mountaine of a mollehill."

  • @Haas888
    @Haas888 Рік тому +7

    I am actually proud of myself because of this video.
    Not a native speaker, yet I got all of them at the first time!

  • @SBzKillFrenzy
    @SBzKillFrenzy Рік тому +54

    *Ryan George going back in time, with a camera, to give us these History Lessons, is TIGHT, I decided*

    • @candycover
      @candycover Рік тому +1

      Luckly for us it is super easy barely an inconvience for him to be able to do these.

    • @BeederB30
      @BeederB30 Рік тому +1

      @@candycover wowowow……..
      Wow

    • @innocentbystander3317
      @innocentbystander3317 Рік тому +3

      Damn near spit out my sandwich with a pretty big pickle in it laughing, thanks guys!

    • @artugert
      @artugert Рік тому

      I’ve watched a ton of his videos and don’t remember hearing him ever say tight, but I see it in the comments all the time. Did I miss something?

    • @SBzKillFrenzy
      @SBzKillFrenzy Рік тому +1

      @@artugert Ryan is a man of many catch phrases, one of them being "Tight!" He usually says this in his pitch meetings series

  • @Chrysanthia.
    @Chrysanthia. Рік тому

    So did you bring cookies 🍪? 🤣🤣 best question ever

  • @SarahTheAmbiguous
    @SarahTheAmbiguous 2 місяці тому

    This is one of my all-time favorite First Guy episodes. Idk why, just the way the guy using the figures of speech speaks and the reactions is so priceless

  • @dronesclubhighjinks
    @dronesclubhighjinks Рік тому +8

    This was a really tricky subject and I wondered how on earth you were going to make this funny, but you did! One of your best! 😂

  • @swastikdas9687
    @swastikdas9687 Рік тому +3

    The delivery of the lines especially the first and the horse one was too good, oscar worthy i would say. I literally died laughing💀

  • @eternalfailure4081
    @eternalfailure4081 Рік тому +6

    This sketch was a barrel of laughs. It split my sides. It killed me.

    • @jake_
      @jake_ Рік тому +1

      True. Best thing since sliced bread

    • @eternalproductions
      @eternalproductions Рік тому +1

      You should seek medical help immediately, make sure you don't bring any apples , they might keep the doctor away

    • @eternalproductions
      @eternalproductions Рік тому

      ​@@jake_ sliced bread what are you talking about , there are way better inventions than sliced bread i think you need to go with this guy to the doctor you don't sound well , sick as a dog in my opinion

  • @victoriacoppler5859
    @victoriacoppler5859 Рік тому +1

    🤣🤣🤣too funny! And this sheds a light on how ridiculous these phrases really are! And the guy who had the list here, Funny character!🤣

  • @toast5595
    @toast5595 Рік тому +1

    My favorite thing to do on Ryan’s channel is going to “the stuff” playlist and pressing shuffle, I could watch his videos for hours, and I have

  • @FuzzyStripetail
    @FuzzyStripetail Рік тому +23

    After eating five birthday balloons (followed by two more birthday balloons due to his short-term memory), balloon eating Ryan was bursting with excitement (or possibly popped balloon air that might explode his organs) by eating a piece of cake.

  • @DracoSwordMaster
    @DracoSwordMaster Рік тому +3

    This is the only channel where I actually watch the sponsorships. "Now listen, I use my ears to listen to stuff all the time" 😂 Brilliant.

  • @TheFiddleFaddle
    @TheFiddleFaddle Рік тому +4

    One of my favorite random things to Google is the origin of idioms. Some of the origins of these common phrases really tickle my fancy.

  • @someonefromsomewhere6650
    @someonefromsomewhere6650 Рік тому +1

    “Let’s address the elephant in the room”
    “Are you calling me fat?”

  • @cedricatmoore
    @cedricatmoore Рік тому +1

    That was outstanding!

  • @SeraphsWitness
    @SeraphsWitness Рік тому +5

    This is the hardest part of learning a new language for me.

  • @berhonkusbardledoo
    @berhonkusbardledoo Рік тому +4

    I love the Ryan verse because nobody is toxic about it and it is just generally the best.

  • @annabellecupcake8863
    @annabellecupcake8863 Рік тому +3

    I love how angry balloon guy got when there wouldn’t be cookies 😂

  • @jakeyboy7656
    @jakeyboy7656 2 місяці тому +2

    This is a mountain! 🏔️

  • @NerdyElsa48
    @NerdyElsa48 Рік тому

    i was JUST thinking earlier today about how the heck these phrases came around, that's wild.. Thank you for giving me the answer

  • @shethjrebbell
    @shethjrebbell Рік тому +5

    Having listened to the pitch meeting revisits, I laughed extra hard at the surprise curse lol