Americans React | BLACK BOOKS | Grapes Of Wrath Season 1 Episode 3 | REACTION
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
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King and Queen Boomers' Reaction to the British comedy Black Books where Bernard and Manny stay at a friends house and come across a really expensive assortment of wines while Fran goes on a date. ENJOY!
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I can't think of a single show that hasn't been improved by casting Kevin Eldon, and he's been in A LOT of shows. He is a mark of quality.
Had his own show, his amish sex pistols sketch is awesome.
He played the incoherent help desk operator brilliantly in The IT Crowd.
He was in Game of Thrones twice
you mean 'the actor kevin Eldon"
agreed he's superb in every supporting role ever.
especially Hyperdrive
apart hls own show "It's Kevin" which managed to be awful 😞
@Harani66 no the travel agent Kevin Eldon
Kevin Eldon still works with Bill Bailey on his stage show. Their rendition of the hokey-pokey (as you colonials call it) by Kraftwerk, is stupendous.
Ja, ja, und ja.
JA, DAS HOKEY-COKEY.....
@@ajorngjdonaydbr Knie gebeugt, Arme ausgestreckt, RA-RA-RA
Kevin Eldon, the cleaner!!! get used to seeing that chap, he's in most British television. never as a main character, but always somewhere! legend.
he was the french tech support guy that jen called up in it crowd.
@@3zObafouzr yup
Kevin Eldon is a comedic Prince amongst men.
Yes. I had reason to write to him a while ago and he actually wrote back. He was lovely and helpful and kind.
There's a top 10 cult TV shows thing on UA-cam I saw the other day. Kevin Eldon was in 5 of them.
@@davidtaylor4204 he does have a knack of picking good shows, or the shows are good because he picks them…
Since watching this 20 years ago, my friends and I have used the phrase “cheap and dusty bottle” to refer to expensive wines.
The cleaner is the IT helpline guy from IT crowd and multiple things you’ve seen
I only just realized
Helluw, canibeeyovazistonce?
@@eggzaki sereiisnoonelseavailublu
The dust in the air visual gag kills me every time.
Anall cleaners ltd - "if we don't clean it, it's not dirty!" 🤣
My favourite episode of black books.
I can't wait for you to see over a dozen scenes during these episodes. Scenes that made me slide off the sofa and cry in a fetal position laughing .
" where are the turrets ?"
Ha-ha! Naughty little passport! Hiding in the crisps again!
When King B is sleeping tonight, Queen B will whisper into his ear "You dirty, dirty man....".
The “cleaner” is Matthew Bockersbiege. From Jam. Dr sketch.
Or more formally known as Kevin Eldon. One of Britain’s best comedy performers,
Awesome as 'York' in Hyperdrive.
*The Actor Kevin Eldon
@@tyreshredding obviously.
Or Simon Quinlank
I’m going to drink my weak lemon drink now!
Oh now, I’ve just made a rubbing of a Vicars Arse!
Drink your weak lemon drink............now!
Manny's pigtails were the highlight for me.
This is probably the best black books episode. It’s so perfect and so much going on with so many great characters.
I bought the DVD set of these when they came out years ago. The set was only available region locked to Europe so I had to change the region code on my computer DVD drive to watch them. Then I couldn't watch DVDs for North America. Totally worth it!
You lucky Brian having Queen B saying Dirtey in your ear has to be the highlight of your day.
0:25 I think what you meant to say to QB was “I am a giant ear, waiting for your songs of niceness”.
Well... That's a side of Queen Boomer we've never seen before!!! LOL
Great episode. Remember, "Must do "Brasseye"".
Queen Boomer was an absolute legend on this one!
I have to admit, I only watch videos on this channel that contain Queen Boomer. She adds a crucial dynamic.
Black books!
Party on!
Excellent!
-"So let's....parrrr......."
-"Don't you dare use the word 'party' as a verb in this shop!!!"
Hyperdrive is a good British sci-fi comedy, worth a watch.
About wine: James May and Oz Clark did a fabulous "wine tour" through France, in a jaguar car. They visited all famous wineries and Chateaux, while Oz tries to learn a sceptical May all about wine. Is very, very funny.
"Dirty". Such sotto voice semi-erotic disgust from Kevin Eldon is pure comedic gold in just one word.
His voice almost uses that sinister whispered sound put to great effect by Gabriel Woolf in a Dr Who story "The Pyramids of Mars".
Woolf plays the evil incarcerated Egyptian god Suhtek, banished by other Pharaohs. When you hear him saying "Time Lord, kneeeeeell before Suhtek, you are now my plaything", I can't help thinking he'll say "Dirty!!"😅😂
Yes! This! You've hit the nail on the head there! @@andrewphippsphillips1455
Watched that episode when it first aired. Have been using “dirty” ever since.
can't beat good wine aged properly. i kept an award winning chardonnay for 5 years and eventually drank it when my friends daughter was born. it was amazing. we then cracked open a $5 supermarket wine and it was like drinking petrol by comparison.
also this was the best episode of Black Books imo, followed by the next episode 'The Blackout' - the whole series is brilliant but those two episodes i can rewatch and laugh at any time.
I'm not sure anything really beats the summer episode "Fever" for sheer weirdness: Especially when Manny suffers an attack of "Dave's Syndrome" as a result of the temperature rising above 88 degrees F (31 degrees C). I always wondered if this could have been an "Easter Egg" type reference to the "Back to the Future" movies, in which the Delorean time machine car needs to reach 88 mph in order to time travel.
Will you guys be doing The Mighty Boosh with Noel Fielding anytime soon?
Kevin Eldon = National Comic Treasure.
Kevin Eldon is absolutely superb, never seen him in a bad role.
I had a couple of bottles of Champagne from the 1900s and a bottle of nice port older than myself (50+ years), but I drank them for last Christmas and new years. I was going in for major heart surgery in January and thought there was a risk I wouldn't survive, so what the heck. I'm not leaving that behind for someone else.
The bubbly was all right, but the port was the bomb. No use in drinking anything cheaper than that in the future. Anything else will be meh after this. :D
"That is a 15 year old me!"😱😂😂😂😂💜
There will be an episode with Fran and a guy she gets "confused"... (He was in " Sean of the Dead" as Pegg's roomate)
You mean Nick Frost?
Fran (Tamsin Grieg) has a cameo in "Shaun of the dead" too.
When Shaun's posse run into another group of survivors, they all cross paths and awkwardly meet their mirror/opposite character.
Well, one on them is Fran/Tamsin.
I love Kevin Eldon and Bill Bailey's tribute to Kraftwerk in the stand-up shows.
At 5.30 ish i see king boomer tryna remember a certain bee's name, maybe it was the only bee that provides milk, the boo bee.
I love this episode but can't help wonder if they saw THAT episode of Northern Exposure? Great video, atb
Which episode? I loved Northern Exposure
@@Strange_Club Shelly breaks Maurice's extremely rare wine, Eve helps make a replacement, sorry can't remember the name of the episode
Black books is one of my favourites - was obsessed when it was on - I remember one evening flicking about on the TV and landed on an episode on Channel 4 - was hooked. This is my favourite episode. I have the boxset on dvd
Really glad you are getting into this. Really hope you watch the IT crowd blooper reels too!
After they've finished Black Books, they may be about ready for Green Wing - if for no other reason than to follow along with Tamsin Grieg's career , meet Mark Heap again (and to introduce themselves to the force of nature that is Michelle Gomez!)
One of my favorite episodes in the series. You guys need to react to Big Train. Specifically the episode "evil hypnotist". Mark Heap (Jim) Simon Pegg and Kevin Eldon (the cleaner) Hilarious!😂
I love that bit in Goodfellas. Most reactors skip it. It is made even better by knowing who's mother she is too.
Kevin Eldon. Gomedy Cod.
There is a series called Hypersonic, which is a bit like the curate's egg. BUT, Nick Frost, Kevin Eldon, Miranda Hart ensemble. It is however, very British and doesn't get the airtime it deserves.
"Jeffers, Jeffers!" I know I'm being that guy but the series is called Hyperdrive, not Hypersonic. To be fair, I looked it up to see if the series also went by a different name before commenting, but no. Also, and again to be fair, I didn't know what a curate's egg is and looked it up too: meaning "partly bad, partly good", yeah I think I know what you mean about Hyperdrive, there.
@@adamfurness8824 Yep. Thanks. Don't know why I wrote Hypersonic, reflex perhaps, because it's a thingy.
Oh, and spitting the wine back out is simply for not getting (too) drunk when you're tasting a lot of different wines in a couple of hours. _Some_ alcohol will still get in your bloodstream since the molecules can penetrate the thin skin in your mouth, but it's only very little. If you're just tasting a few wines, let alone just one, and don't need to drive afterwards or so, you probably don't want to spit it back out...
"ill tell u who i am..im the king of hobbies"!!!!!!
I’ll raise my thermos of orange squash at that reference !
Someone knew a bit too quickly and well what Fran was doing with the salt.. Did one of you have any alcoholics on your first date and suddenly was just unbelievably thirsty? 😂 😂
Kevin Eldon (the Cleaners), also patient in sex-line doctor's office (Jam), bad support line telephonist (the IT Crowd) - see also Jam, Brass Eye, Look Around You.
Queen Boomer did wine tasting correctly
Kevin Eldon as "Tony Rudd' singing 'Machadaynu' in 'Look Around You' is an all time classic!!
On expensive wines... According to an actual vintner, sure, there are some great, old wines that actually cost quite a bit, but that's usually in the couple of hundred Euros/dollars range. The *_really_* expensive stuff (upper 4-digit range and above) for the most part gets bought by newly-rich guys who want to impress their buddies, they order and buy dozens of bottles and come back a couple of weeks or so later, saying how great the wine was - even when that specific wine actually tastes like bad vinegar. Bordeaux apparently doesn't age all _that_ well for example, but you can buy some _really_ old and expensive Bordeaux - it's of course pretty famous (and it _is_ a really good wine, it just doesn't age all that well), and age=value for wine in general, so old Bordeaux is really expensive, so it _must_ be really good... Nope, but it _is_ really useful for showing off that you can afford it - and for showing off that you don't know much about wine...
Kevin Eldon looks like Dean Stockwell from Quantum leap
My friend was clearing out his parents house and found 2001 bottle of red wine, good quality stuff. It was definitely way more delicious and smooth than a typical bottle. I'm not a wine guy but it was really good.
Did you check it's value or just drink your way through it?
I would like to taste a mouthful of really expensive wine, just to see what it is like. In fact, a blind test against an average bottle of supermarket wine, to see if I can guess which is the really expensive one.
@@hedgehog1965uk I think we checked I dont think it was particularly valuable but its aging seemed to make it a lot better then it would have been otherwise.
I was sitting outside my local pub in Windsor yesterday (The Queen Victoria) and the barmaid (Sara) sat by me watching something on her phone while I was busy writing a song... Guess what she was watching... That's the end of that sentence. It's a small world.
As others have said, Kevin Eldon (the cleaner) is a superb comic and character actor. He's worked with many of the UKs best comedians, and he always delivers. He worked with Stewart Lee for many years, as well as Bill Bailey and many others. A comedy genius 👌
5:43 Funny enough I've only ever seen one person with an apartment like that, and it was a woman, it was my ex from 16-17 years ago. She was super nice, cute, friendly, social, but she just would not clean her apartment, it was weird, I mean she cleaned herself, she showered daily etc, but when it came to her surroundings, she did not give a flying f**k, it was weird.
Good to see the long standing irish tradition of toast on the ceiling isn't dying out
My absolute favourite episode of Black Books!
When I was drinking in the 90's, I drunk a bottle of 1975 australian wine in about 15 mins. How it wasn't valuble becasue I didn't appretiate the taste of it.
Loved Black books first time I watched, and it’s just as good seeing it again.
*dir...ty* in that Kevin Eldon voice is STILL a catchphrase in our house. Or anywhere we go where somebody has been slovenly.
This is minor detail but if you look closely at when Bernard sits down his cup and it sticks to the table, it actually moves in the next scene it's handle is in a different direction.
Your wife is funny as, smd you’re both so literal, when confronted by absurdist whimsy. ❤️ Gold
This episode is fucking funny
I love that you guys are watching this. One of my fav's for sure. I also recommend Ricky Gervais' After Life. I normally dislike him a lot but my god is it worth a watch.
Can't stand that man, in anything.
Black Books is brilliant and crazy… Manni and Fran are my favourites… it’s great to see Americans enjoying British humour 👍🏻🇬🇧🇺🇸
Big Spender,sung by Shirley Bassey.(Birly Chassis )The first tune in the restaurant.
Underneath it all, Bernard and Fran are as attractive as King and Queen Boomer..
A good British comedy show I really like that has Tamsin Grieg (Fran) in it, is called ‘Green Wing’, or a British/American show with Matt Leblanc also in it, is called ‘Episodes’.
If they're not into wine, why is there a painting of a wine glass on their wall?
Last Christmas my son and I played drink along with black books with this episode and a bottle of Dom Perignon😂😂😂😂❤
"Bernard, look..."
look Bernard
Bernard.
Bernard look
Bernard!
The cleaner is Kevin Eldon he's a comedian actor he was in the sketch show Big Train with Simon Pegg and others written by Graham Linehan also in the late 90s and 00s very funny man 😂
Probably the best black books episode.
My favorite episode for sure. I love the Simon Pegg episode and the Peter Serafinowicz one and a bunch of others, but this one is my absolute favorite.
Nooo..... The Entertainer with the piano is too funny
Yup, my favourite, although there are a few others to rival it.
The rival book shop next door is my personal favourite
@@ajorngjdonaydbr yes that was was good too, plus I had the hots for the girlfriend back then…. 😂🤦♂️
The lady with the pram is the pregnant woman in episode 1.
This reminds me of when I bought a ver large country pub and when rummaging found a box of six white wines from 1982 my beer rep turned up and I asked him if they were worth anything, he got onto his wine expert who said not really just drink and enjoy them so we did , some expert he was, about ten years later I was reading an article in the Sunday times about wine apparently these six bottles would have fetched 250k at auction 🙄🤣🤣
The Iznik restaurant is just up the road from where i live ! It's still there.
This is my favourite episode ❤
Recommendation for you, Sire Boomer - Villa Maria, Sauvingnon Blanc - New Zealand. One of my current favourite affordable whites at the moment.
Ah, Boomer, I was hoping your GoT cast recognition skills would kick in. The Cleaner, he was the lead in the troupe of actors performing in Bravos, played the campy hammed up Ned Stark, and he also played one of the Gold Cloaks that Gendry kills when Davos and Tyrion sneak into Kings Landing.
Wow it sounds like your face recognition skills are way better than mine. I would never have spotted that one.
@@KingBoomer lol nah, I've just seen that guy in so much stuff here in the UK, he's like the anti Where's Waldo to me!
31:05 I did wonder, thanks.
The most memorable episode of the show for me! An early highlight! Still some excellent stuff to come...
The cleaner is the ot help guy Jen phones in the IT crowd with the ridiculous accent. He's also from Big Train
Red wines mellow and become more complex with age, white wines don't, which may explain why King Boomer prefers white. Those are ready already! New reds from some grapes can be a bit harsh and tannic and cause a bad hangover - as noticed by Queen Boomer. With whites the only real difference in years is in whether it was a good vintage and with wines aged in oak casks which have more of a buttery vanilla taste if they were aged in casks longer. That's also why many Spanish wines are older off the shelf, as they love that.
Being a wine connoisseur used to be part of my job, and though I don't have that job any more, luckily I was allowed to keep the skills and taste. :)
Just do a Kevin Eldon retrospective. He's been a major low key character in so many amazing British comedies.
'I'm a fireman for God's sake'
The great Kevin Eldon as the clean man! One of many came appearances by top comic actors in this series. Eldon was fantastic in the sketch show "Big Train", and is often seen in supporting roles in TV shows. PS - no, white wines only last about eight to ten years before they're no longer any good (and I'm like you - I like white, but not red).
Oh yeh back then the pound was Strong against the dollar, I went to Jamaica around this time and remember the exchange rate making it worth around double!actually came back with spare spending money!lol 😱💜
Fran is talking about the Greek chap on Masterchef!
Black books, come and get your books (was very team America, fuck yeah!) 😂
Your reactions are awesome guys! Also, it's spring, I'm single....Queen Boomer looks great! (you are a lucky man!) :)
Season 3 is amazing
I absolutely love this episode.
Boys, if you want a girl to fall in love with you, sing Kukaborough Sits in the Old Gum Tree to them in a crowded public space. That's proven and tested.
As for wine, I had a glass of wine from a bottle valued around £250 and it was one of the best things I ever tasted. No sharpness at all. Otherwise I get red wine like Rioja. Which is heavy but velvety. Red wine makes you into a Neitchian philosopher. White wine makes you into a melodramatic drama queen.
I don't think I've seen these since they were first on TV!
Green wing please my good man . 😊
If you want a cheaper experience of drinking expensive wine just take a trip to Italy, and drink it straight from the vineyard. You'll be drinking something totally free from all the crap mass-manufacturers put into wine to make it consistent/travel well/last/etc. "Organic" wine for lack of a better expression. Cheap as shit, and tastes so much better than anything else I've had. But unfortunately, for whatever reason, it doesn't travel well - so you can't take any home with you.
My grandad was in the RAF during WW2 and made friends with some Italians at the end of the war (supposedly, I'm half-remembering the story) but it led to me spending 6 months on a vineyard in Tuscany in the early 2000s drinking the best wine I've ever had, pretending like I was helping on the farm (they let me drive the tractor, that was about it). Took a case home with me and it tasted like utter crap.
Give me a "P"! Queen B's accent is quite good.
If you can please watch a video called fame in the frame an artist who was a famous art forger paints famous people in different styles of art and one-off the people he paints is Tamsin Grieg and she and the portrait look amazing
The woman pushing the pram is the same person Fran was supposed to be the birthing partner for in episode 1.
I got to drink a glass of wine over £1000 when I used to work at a high-class hotel, that was the only wine I ever liked the taste of... I guess I have expensive taste lucky I don't drink
omg I love that scene in Goodfellas you mentioned 😂
I love the fact that the "mom" was Scorsese's real mom, and when they did the scene she felt like she was just having her son's friends round for tea. I also think the discussion about the picture was adlibbed.
Black boooks!
Drinking time!
Excellent! 🤘
Some people keep wine as an investment. The wine is kept in a secure location in perfect conditions and it is bought and sold without leaving the location. It is treated like gold and likely as not, is never consumed. Not my idea of fun and certainly not something I could afford. My wife also went to catering school like Queen Boomer and drank a lot of extremely expensive wine as part of her course. The course tutor had carefully weeded out people before getting to the really expensive stuff by only allowing those who had passed the test of eating escargot's and frogs legs in advance to stay on and be among the chosen few!