That Scooby-Doo joke caught everyone off guard.

I literally laughed out loud at his "notorious gang-rapists" comment 😂😂

@cessactdm

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah ikr, rape is funny but I would never make that joke on a woman

@cessactdm

4 жыл бұрын

​@@bladecast I am what I eat and through this logic I can see myself calling you a dick

@-YELDAH

3 жыл бұрын

I would’ve gotten away with it if it weren’t for those raping kids

@iordanneDiogeneslucas

3 жыл бұрын

the mystery machine seems so much more sinister now

The Code is more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules.

@ulmo5536

7 жыл бұрын

ChrisC - Captain Hector Barbossa

@michaelbooth2890

7 жыл бұрын

ChrisC bloody pirates!

@panduwidagdo7051

7 жыл бұрын

Savvy?

@ginamcgrosky6472

6 жыл бұрын

ChrisC thanks😁

@thomasalvarez6456

5 жыл бұрын

“What’s the thing you want most?”

Those meddling kids XD

@Bask3tballTrickSh0ts

7 жыл бұрын

What goes on in the "mystery van" is a mystery no more.

@okidokiboomer

7 жыл бұрын

omg xD

@stensoft

7 жыл бұрын

So that's the van used by Bangbros…

@davidharrison7825

6 жыл бұрын

That was actually gr8

@IIxIxIv

6 жыл бұрын

That joke was so good.

Apparently a lot of infamous pirate Captains were born in the south west of England, so the accent probably isn't historically innacurate.

@jackbonney7371

7 жыл бұрын

Sane Man Blackbeard were famously Bristolian, Sir Francis Drake spoke broad Devonshire to his dying day and southwesterners were the largest demographic of emigrants to the new world, so yeah, they used it in the films for a reason

@chainsawgood123

7 жыл бұрын

Blackbeard was from Bristol, which is also in the South West.

@rodittis

7 жыл бұрын

That was my understanding

@alexander.m96

7 жыл бұрын

there were a few infamous Welsh ones as well so yeah the typical pirate accent isn't accurate

@georgemills-burrows7052

6 жыл бұрын

Sane Man Benjamin Hornigold came from Norfolk which everyone incorrectly thinks is the same as a West Country one

Pirates: We don't tolerate rape. Stephen Fry: They really were very strict those pirates.

@petersenior5432

3 жыл бұрын

*for the time* and even today we don't give death to rapists, and he didn't say they were strict about that it was the lights out at 8:00 PM

@MrDJAK777

3 жыл бұрын

They may have given death for bread but it was much more common for the rapist to 'have' to marry them or pay them and that's if it even went anywhere in the first place.

@whalesnamedshark

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrDJAK777 on land

@gwen6622

3 жыл бұрын

@Tom Mccarthy that implies that rape was taken seriously, as it still often isnt today

@gwen6622

3 жыл бұрын

@Tom Mccarthy so you think women were treated better then than now?

"Roger the cabin boy" - which is not his name, but the favourite on-board activity.

@lucylincoln3285

4 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@AlRaw94

3 жыл бұрын

He's below decks with master bates

@-YELDAH

3 жыл бұрын

Alex Rawsthorne boooooo

@ghostparty2062

3 жыл бұрын

@@AlRaw94 surrendered by seamen

@MrFlashpoint1978

3 жыл бұрын

The Cabin Boy's name in Captain Pugwash was Tom, I believe.

hilarious in retrospect that Rhys Darby happened to be there for this topic

@casey6556

Жыл бұрын

Lolol my first thought too

@randomlycoloredbrick1555

Жыл бұрын

@@eleanorbartle5354 He's on a show called Our Flag Means Death. He plays the main character, the captain of a pirate ship called Stede Bonnet, the Gentleman Pirate.

How did this go from pirate ships to Darth Vader on a tractor?

@vondarkmoor1

7 жыл бұрын

2:55

@Katya_Lastochka

7 жыл бұрын

MrFireCowboy Because nerds lol

@Nemoticon

7 жыл бұрын

Well, if you watched it...

@ninjabluefyre3815

7 жыл бұрын

I love QI, I just forgot how it worked for a second.

@JonasHamill

6 жыл бұрын

Because the actor who played Darth Vader was Bristolian and thus spoke with a West Country accent, the same accent typically associated with pirates. However they used a different voice actor for Vader than the one to wear the costume.

0:58 That last bit was actually a fire prevention method more than anything. See, one of the first ships Bart Roberts sailed on burned to the waterline when an ox being transported on board kicked over an errand lantern. For the rest of his career, he was stringent about both fire safety and avoiding the keeping of livestock on his ships. Thus leading to his famous response to an offer of trade from another pirate vessel: "No, I shall NOT have a cow, man."

Dont do what you want cause a pirate is under a strict set of rules! You are a pirate!

@cyborgjelly3202

7 жыл бұрын

muskatDR yarr harr don't meddle with me

@georgemills-burrows7052

6 жыл бұрын

Cyborg Jelly underrated comment

@annother3350

6 жыл бұрын

Muskat - you're right, we mostly live under maritime law - the law of the sea

@Taeerom

4 жыл бұрын

@JONATHAN SUTCLIFFE More like the press ganged sailors mutineed and became pirates because democracy is far better than the totalitarian hellhole it was on a regular navy ship.

Get orfe moi Def Starrrr!

@D4K44R1

7 жыл бұрын

Yer a trai'er with the rebel alloience!

@Phlebas

7 жыл бұрын

Ah foind yer lack o' fay'eth disturbin'.

@D4K44R1

7 жыл бұрын

Hoho, the furce is strong in this'n!

@TheAlps36

7 жыл бұрын

Search yar feelins, you know it be true

@egogeo851

7 жыл бұрын

Adrian Pietkiewicz Lu' i yam thy pops

0:52 Looks a bit like Steven's got an uncooked Pot Noodle on his head...

@winter_silhouette

4 жыл бұрын

Cannot unsee that now

I can never have enough of this show.

@kipperbill

2 жыл бұрын

Your comment says it all

Not a pirate ship's rule, but an Admiralty rule...No whistling on board. (In the infamous Spithead Mutiny, the entire Navy mutinied, and the signal to start the mutiny was a whistle...so, from then on, no whistling aboard His Majesty's Ships...except for the cook. He was encouraged to whistle. Why you ask? Because whilst one is whistling, it is impossible to spit, and that gave the crew great confidence that he was not spitting in their food. True.

How wonderful is it that Rhys Darby is on this episode talking about pirates!! #OFMD ❤️

Star wars: pride and prejudice. Good day, Mr. Darthy.

@meetaverma8372

2 жыл бұрын

Considering there are so many pride and prejudice adaptations, at this point, I'm just glad that hasn't been done

Bristol, Plymouth and Portsmouth. That's why pirates may have talked like that in reality.

@AngelEmfrbl

4 жыл бұрын

Anglia had smugglers and the west country had pirates. Both were caused by the lack of opportunity for the poor half the time to get past their status.

@Brasswatchman

4 ай бұрын

"Black Bart" Roberts, as mentioned here, was apparently Welsh.

"If someone returns from the raid mentally devastated, we talk it _through_ as a _crew_ ."

"...or is that a proposition?" I lolled at that...

Rhys Darby is playing a pirate all these years later. Lovely if he got the idea here

It's been ten years, Stephen, and I've finally come round to it. Jolly Rodger. .

As someone from Devon I must admit darth vador with a South West accent would be hilarious 😅

I am your fatherr.. and I'm your brotherr aswell

stephen, under his breath: "darrrrth"

I lost it at “That’s Mister Darth to you!” 😂😂

2:55 RIP David Prowse

Why were portraits of pirates always sketched with four sheets of paper? Well; they were drawn and quartered.

@oz_jones

4 жыл бұрын

Chiszle get out

@thomasblackwell9507

4 жыл бұрын

OOUU! That hurt but was a good one!

"Getting heckled!" 😂

I imagine a lot of these rules were just to make the actual ship safe and able to sail. Also, lights out at 8 makes sense if you don't want to be spotted at night by the navy

@treyjetson5320

2 жыл бұрын

I guess the same goes with playing music and such. Sound probably carries a long way on the ocean.

It was called "Going on the Account" and had very strict rules that were presented to anyone who wished to join when forming the crew. Specifics of the account would vary crew to crew. As for the final question, many captains used their own flag, but would only raise it at the last minute when attacking a ship. Prior to rising the jolly roger they would fly the ship of a peaceful nation and often hail for help or trade. Mostly it was the famous captains who had their own flag, as it was used to encourage surrender. Not all pirates had such rules on rape. When Henry Avery captured the Mughal treasure ship "Ganj-i-Sawai" he found large numbers of women passengers, who his crew subjected to days of rape. Some jumped overboard to their deaths to escape the horrors.

@AudieHolland

4 жыл бұрын

Using a 'False Flag' was also done by Dutch Privateers in the 1600s. Unless they were as organized and well-known as Piet Hein: when he set sail to capture the Spanish treasurefleet, he did so with a fleet of about 30 warships, provided by the Dutch West Indies Company. The Spanish, knowing Hein's objective, kept their fleet in their ports because their lumbering galleons were defenseless against such a well-organized force. When he did spot the treasure fleet, there was little fighting done. The Spanish commander led his vessels into a dead-end (Matanzas Bay near Havana), leapt ashore and kept running untill he reached the city. He left his ships, their crews and the invaluable cargo for the Dutch.

@CountArtha

4 жыл бұрын

The black flag was also a signal that the pirates were willing to give quarter if the other ship surrendered without a fight - as opposed to a white flag (truce) or a red flag (no quarter).

@zapkvr

2 жыл бұрын

Well they were a bit silly

@Brasswatchman

4 ай бұрын

​@@AudieHolland So wait, the crews didn't see the captain go running off and think "well, that's not a great sign, is it?"

@AudieHolland

4 ай бұрын

@@Brasswatchman It wasn't the captain, it was the admiral of the entire fleet. Sure the Spanish knew they were screwed. That is why they only fired their cannon once then surrendered. I believe there were no casualties on either side.

Ay gota bran nu star destroya, an ile giv u da key!

@NaokisRC

5 жыл бұрын

Underated comment

@garypierce8392

4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant

@aaronhurst4379

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha

and now rhys darby is playing a pirate

This was on Dave on Tuesday.

Alan was great in this

1:50 What do you think the dog's for?

me wanna see the whole episode, that's a good one mate.

Lots of Jolly Rogering, I'm guessing...

@CharlieQuartz

3 жыл бұрын

Only with consent

@mallardofmodernia8092

3 жыл бұрын

@@CharlieQuartz you mean parlay?

Stephen's wig looks like half cooked ramen noodles.

@meetaverma8372

2 жыл бұрын

I felt like it looks like rice

The guy wearing glasses is in the new tv show Wrecked. It's one of the American channels.

They're more guidelines than actual rules.

@rasmusrw8140

4 жыл бұрын

It's more a comment innit?

@danielvandam

3 жыл бұрын

Awful lot of grey area around the definition of meddling

The last one up the old sea dog gets a lick of the cat.

pirates also had rules for compensation for injury while fighting.... there were also lady captains.... also Edward Teach (aka blackbeard) was from bristol. so maybe that.

Mad how Alan was dressed as a sailor

I knew a guy once who could do a marvellous impression of Darth Vader as he would have been if Dave Prowse had done the voice. Changed the whole character.....

Harrison Ford used to call him Darth Farmer on set.

Assassin's Creed Black Flag is a visually beautiful game and has lots of interesting Pirate information.

Why are pirates called pirates? Because they Arrrghh 😂😂

@meetaverma8372

2 жыл бұрын

Get out

60s-era Davy Jones there next to Alan was pretty funny.

The guy with the glasses looks like Hugh Jackman in disguise

Worth noting, David Prowse didn't say the "I'm your father" line. They recorded it on set as "I killed your father", though Mark Hamill was told the real line beforehand. Until release, Lucas, Hamill, and James Earl Jones were some of the only people who knew that twist.

@Blackbeard007

6 жыл бұрын

catfish552 no they recorded it as "obi wan killed your father" but then changed it...

@AmmaraSHAH773377

5 жыл бұрын

Thought it was obi wan was your father

Who's the guy on the left in the first second? seems so familiar.

Ironic that a pirate ship could be considered almost a “democracy”, when Royal Navy ships were about as absolute autocracies as you could imagine.

Thanks Horrible Histories because I already knew this lol

A professor of the history of the English language has mentioned that most pirates came from a certain area of Britain, and it was the area (and time) where Shakespeare grew up. So the original dramatization of Shakespeare plays sounded like classic pirate accents.

@just-tess

10 ай бұрын

I heard an interview with a researcher who said the Appalachian hillbilly accent is believed to be closest to Shakespearean because the population was isolated and their accent didn't change, and it also matches the rhymes that don't work with most accents today.

That "Darrth" made me drop my lighter and cackle

Missed all of this on Black Sails....

0:03 By hook, or by crook 😂🤣

New facts! New facts!

1:48 they pick you up in the Mystery Machine

Well, I always think of Wallace Beery as the forerunner of 'talk like a pirate' But, I see that Robert Newton took it up a notch. Listening to them both. I think Newton was influenced by Beery.

@ZondaFRoadster

7 жыл бұрын

My understanding was that Beery invented it, but Newton popularised it.

@the-chillian

7 жыл бұрын

Beery's pirate talk was dictated by the vocabulary of the script. As far as I can tell he's otherwise speaking in a normal American accent, a little affected by his native Missouri. A little gravelly, but not otherwise too unusual. As they point out here, the "pirate accent" of Newton is an exaggerated English West Country accent the equivalent of a "hick accent". No American actor was going to pull that out of his hat.

@Telstar62a

7 жыл бұрын

Maybe if he was aboard a "prairie schooner"? B^D

@the-chillian

7 жыл бұрын

Telstar62a And feasting on seafood like Rocky Mountain oysters?

Stephen Fry is a perfect judge!

Robert Newton, who like Stephen Fry has played Doctor Arnold in Tom Brown's Schooldays.

Cant watch scooby doo anymore without thinking of this

I want the QI theme tune played at my funeral

Yeah but Black Bart was a Sage and trying to find the observation

"rule of two" so pirates are sith

that's Davy Jones!!!!

Well he did have a tractor beam

It actually was not so strange a democracy. It was a corporate democracy - one share, one vote. Crew members bought shares to fund the expedition.

"First, ye must be a pirate for the pirate's code to apply... and the code is more what you call "guidelines" than actual rules."

I can't believe no one on the panel knew Robert Newton. He played Bill Sykes, Ancient Pistol in Henry V, Detective Fix in Around the World in 80 Days, lots of war movies and was frequently impersonated by Eric Morecambe.

Is the guy with the taran lapels the alpha werewolf in what we do in the shadows?

@AndrewTBP

Жыл бұрын

Yes. Rhys Darby.

whats up with the compression on these videos?

@benshepherd2076

7 жыл бұрын

it's interlaced footage

Is that Brian Cox, aka CERN's Supervillian head of the LHC

@marklandgraf7667

7 жыл бұрын

Yep

I have a blouse made from the exact same fabric as Jason Manford's shirt. I am an 18 year old girl.

@EthanThomson

6 жыл бұрын

Isobel Marchant thats nice?

@Serai3

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, fabrics are often used for more than one type of garment. Shocking, I know.

@DJogdog

5 жыл бұрын

Cotton?

@darkamora5123

5 жыл бұрын

@@DJogdog if so then I have pants (in both the British and American sense) made from the same fabric as his shirt and her blouse. I think she meant the pattern though, in which case I don't : )

@illdeletethismusic

4 жыл бұрын

prove it

J series is hard to watch, Stephen sounds so unwell :(

Prescient, seeing Rhys Darby there...

3:32 what's going on there??

the captain was the one who would be the least able to steal the crews part of the loot. If the captain took part of the crews loot he would be swimming with the fish.

I was thinking, “Rule 1: No poking in the eyes” like an MMA match.

Is 1080i really still a thing?

@jolichja

7 жыл бұрын

converted from 1080i... It's pretty obvious when stuff moves around, see the pirate flag on the screen in the beginning.

@Steelmage99

7 жыл бұрын

+jolicha * hold up two fingers and blows a raspberry * Jog on!

@thomasbruinsma

7 жыл бұрын

It's not 60 fps 1080p. It's interpolated 1920x1080. Interpolation (i) was necessary for older televisions, but nowadays it's all progressive (p)

@skrenos

7 жыл бұрын

The 'i' stands for interlaced, not interpolation.

@thomasbruinsma

7 жыл бұрын

Yes! It does, my bad

Funny fact about pirates, branding is everything

Rule #1. You don't talk about Barrel Night. Rule #2. Its your turn in the barrel tonite. Rule #3. When in doubt, see Rule #1 & 2.

You cannot spell pirate without an “Arrr!”

was that rhys Darby to the right of fry? lots of camera shots but didn't say anything..... also FIRST!

@kanameitsuki8130

7 жыл бұрын

But you made this comment twice.

@MrMushyPeas101

7 жыл бұрын

No, that's Alan Davies.

@tinglydingle

7 жыл бұрын

That's left dear. "To the right of Fry" not "on Fry's right."

@jonathangibson9098

7 жыл бұрын

to the right of fry is correct as its from our perspective. I didn't say on frys right. if I had that would have been incorrect. but thanks youtube comment police for your input.

@MrMushyPeas101

7 жыл бұрын

Sorry, my mistake. I have bad sense of direction and often mix left and right. So, to answer your question correctly... yes.

Mr. Darthy, then.

The West country probably had something to do with Bridgewater being a "free port" for so long.

RHYS DARBY! YAY!!!

Anyone who likes pirates should immediately watch Black Sails.

That would be nice, to have someone at work who decides what the senior boss gets paid, and makes sure they don't get overpaid compared to everyone who does the actual work.

1:35 lol

I blame Penzance.

I like music and comedy ...it's Jarvis Cocker until it's clearly Rhys Derby!

What is Norm doing there

Roger the cabin boy...well, not his name actually, just the crew's favorite pasttime when not plundering booty.

@pauledwardconlon662

3 жыл бұрын

Plundering booty?Lol.

@ratreptile

3 жыл бұрын

@@pauledwardconlon662 Booty has two definitions, but the original one is stolen valuable goods or treasure.

@pauledwardconlon662

3 жыл бұрын

@@ratreptile Yeah.I knew that.I think I was just having fun with the double meaning.

Is that where Jolly Ranchers got their name? What it sounds like when Brits say Jolly Roger.

@meetaverma8372

2 жыл бұрын

When you make a ranch over a ship

What’s the Pirates favourite letter of the alphabet? You’d think it’d be the Rrrr, but really it’s the C

What AAAARRRRR the rules on a pirate ship?

arrr! D'arrr Vad'arrr! ... arrr!