Missed my favourite line in this scene: "What angle do you think the press will take with this story?" Bernard: "Oh, wide angle I should think, Minister."

Hacker: 'Make a clean breast of it.' Humphrey: 'Not the happiest of phrases in the circumstances.'

I love it: "Not a complete coincidence, Minister"

@geoffkench1339

3 жыл бұрын

N in my high G gv C no

@geoffkench1339

3 жыл бұрын

Mcc C🖕🏿

@shahedbabu1636

3 жыл бұрын

😎

2:26 'Its the parents you know?'. Comedy can hardly get better.

@RonJohn63

3 жыл бұрын

He's right, though.Too much "freedom" and not enough cold, hard reality.

@mattevans4377

3 жыл бұрын

Hoisted by his own petard, lol.

@loganvanderwier8866

2 жыл бұрын

@@RonJohn63 Well, cold hard reality sounds like somthing you would see at a nude protest...

@JJVernig

2 жыл бұрын

@@RonJohn63 This is literally 40 years old, and 40 years earlier they probably would say the same....

@RonJohn63

2 жыл бұрын

@@JJVernig it's only gotten worse.

"Puts a different complexion on it" "Especially in this weather" Only a British writer could put that line in............

"It's not the badgers who are going to have kittens, Minister."

Paul Eddington was an absolute master at reacting. His comic double-takes are one of the highlights of this wonderful series.

@jwestrik9308

3 жыл бұрын

I concur. Naturally comic expression. He was also cheekily funny playing the neighbor in "The Good Life". Only overshadowed by "Barbara" for obvious reasons...

"It seems she's a Miss Hacker... " "Ah, that's my name! :) "

Jim's look of surprised amusement sliding into dread 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Flawless!

@nottmjas

7 ай бұрын

Surpassed only when he, as PM, heard of his predecessor's death

Hacker's smile when he thinks it is a coincidence.

@MrGroganmeister

Жыл бұрын

Poor Jim. The father is always the last to find out.

Bernards interjections are priceless! Love him!

"So they just take it out on innocent people like...me."

Fowldes face through the entire dialogue makes this gold

*Sir Humphrey:* "Well, this puts a different complexion on it." *Bernard:* "Yes, especially in this weather."

3:10 what a performance from Paul Eddington. Delight to disappointment in his expression done effortlessly..... Sorely missed. In fact... just thought...all three in this clip are dead now. Such a bloody shame.

@leonhart4eva

3 жыл бұрын

@Me, Myself and I he's gone now. Jan 2020

@Tacitus-qd3ev

3 жыл бұрын

@@leonhart4eva Indeed. Neither Paul Eddington nor Nigel Hawthorne grew particulary old. Derek Fowlds at least lived into his eighties.

@shan4680

3 жыл бұрын

@@Tacitus-qd3ev John Nettleton who played Sir Arnold is still alive in his 90s.

@57_a_sarthak22

3 жыл бұрын

@@Tacitus-qd3ev yeah it feels so bad thinking both Hawthorne and eddington died such painful death from cancer.

@Stilgarsan

3 жыл бұрын

He did very little harm.

“Do you mean starkers, Bernard?” That line just gets me every time!

Easily one of the best comedies ever made. Superb writing and acting in a way only the British can pull off

@horseradishpower9947

3 жыл бұрын

It isn't a comedy. It is a fictionalized documentary disguised as comedy. This series is to this day an accurate insight into British politics.

@jbosco3970

2 жыл бұрын

It is a documentary with laughter

@anon-rf5sx

Жыл бұрын

Politics is comedy. Well actually we do know Yes Minister is mostly fictional. Because politics is *bad* comedy, on the other hand Yes Minister is a superb one.

Do you mean the starkers Bernard.. Well yes yes, well this puts a different complexion on it 😅 especially in this weather.. Hahaha good lord!

Sir Humphrey really saved his ass on this one

@KawaiiStars

Жыл бұрын

and his daughter's bare one lol

"All right, Humphrey: Make a clean breast of it." "Not the happiest of phrases, I must say..." 😂😂😂

@weckar

2 жыл бұрын

If it is going to be exposed, at least let it be clean!

Would a couple of extra seconds at the end be so difficult? I've seen a few of these clips and they're all cut short.

To BBC, thanks a lot for putting up those lovely snippets. One, if not the best comedy ever made!

"What a coincidence.....thats my name"

one of the best of ym, includes explanation of "the significance of significant" . been there, literally done that trick ...

@adrianjohnson7920

Жыл бұрын

Like Bill Clinton's classic waffle ". . . that depends on what the meaning of "is" is. . . "

all children are equal but some are more equal than other

I've been speaking American All My Life I watch this show and I realized that I need to learn how to speak English

@samil5601

8 күн бұрын

Better late than never!

Can somebody explain the lack of a health warning before this clip. If I had been drinking a hot drink there could have been a serious accident.

Today she'd be superglueing her hand to a road, or throwing soup on a painting.

Nice way to cut off the final line there.... I remember when the BBC had standards, 😂

@chavzone

3 жыл бұрын

Goodness, you must have been there at the dawn of the dinosaurs!

Funny scene and I'm starting to get into this type of humor...but holy cow, they're taking forever to tell Hacker about his daughter!

@jahndrahm262

Жыл бұрын

it's called subtly

@Twister6424

Жыл бұрын

@@jahndrahm262 and in humor timing is key

@highdownmartin

5 ай бұрын

So he can dig a hole for himself first, thus restoring the dependency on the civil service!

British Understatement carried out nagnificently

This series was made years before the controversial DEFRA "TB badger cull". A classic is not only ageless, but often prophetic . . . . ☺

The best part is when bernard tells jim talk to her with reason Jim responds reason? She's a sociology student

Masterpiece!

What incredibly inept editing! They cut the scene just before all the best lines.

Such great clips so utterly embarassingly edited. Who on earth cuts a video off mid-punchline?

@dilis5105

3 жыл бұрын

It is BBC, brainwashed in current cultural revolution means they don't have the cultural tools to recognize their former civilization anymore.

@kjaamor2057

3 жыл бұрын

@@dilis5105 What an absolutely bonkers answer. We're talking about video editing here. I don't believe Adobe Premiere has a slider from left to right wing.

@dilis5105

3 жыл бұрын

@@kjaamor2057 To edit something you make a choice based on your knowledge. This basically tells me that BBC does not cherish what they once made.

@tom.parryjones

2 жыл бұрын

@@dilis5105 Or it was more likely a simple mistake made by someone who was under the cosh to get 20 videos made in a single day, and this one just slipped through the net.

@c2757

Жыл бұрын

BBC Comedy grates

"they will be... that is, will not not be"

it itchy haha

Thats your name, Dude

Lucky Hacker wasn't a Troll!

And then Hacker's daughter was never seen again...I think.

Ohhh that's my name 🤫😅😅

His daughter must not be "well-endowed." Otherwise, her picture would have been on Page-3.

Very poor cut. Could at least have ended the scene.

The worst cut at the end

Ha lol

ah yes, the final, and indeed, often the first recourse of those without much to say - taking ones clothes off as a shorthand for a meaningful statement

I am sure Eddington never got the 1st prize because Thatcher opposed making fun of a prime minister.

Does anyone know which episode this scene belongs to?

@Horsley-Green

9 ай бұрын

The Right To Know, the sixth episode of the first series.

I suppose if Americans have beavers, then badgers are the closest we've got, if a lot bigger and hairier. Save The Badger!!

@richardlloyd2589

2 жыл бұрын

But what about Ratty, Mole and Toad?

@cloudsparrow7729

2 жыл бұрын

@@richardlloyd2589 I'll leave it to you to find something sexual about Ratty, Mole and Toad. Weasels? Weaseliy done. Stoats? A stoatally different matter (boom boom)

@richardlloyd2589

2 жыл бұрын

@@cloudsparrow7729 Ever heard of the naked mole rat? It’s appearance has been likened to a certain part of the male anatomy. So that’s a 2-4-1 answer 😉 I don’t know how much physiology Toads share with frogs, but long legs, and tongues certainly feature in many a fantasy. As a side note, ferrets are part of the stoat/weasel family and are famed for slipping up a trouser leg 😁 Edit. Typos.

@cloudsparrow7729

2 жыл бұрын

@@richardlloyd2589 I don't know what part of the male anatomy you're referring to, but I don't think I've got one. I'd remember something like that. Unless you mean prostate gland. I'm sure that looks pretty horrible

They just take it out on innocent people like ... me.

Who likes the idea of a modern comedy sequel to this show staring a grown Up Lucy Hacker who has gone down the road of left wing politics with a reputation of a insufferable labor mp the weight of legacy on her shoulders as the daughter of a former pm and has now been appointed to her fathers old job as the head of the department of administrative affairs Sir Humphrey has been retired for many years so now his position is now filled by non other than Bernard. The same kind of antics goes on just in the original series just 21st century but as her character progresses Lucy starts adopting/exiting many of her fathers well to put it diplomatically his behaviors where political idealism meets the reality of then civil service.

@theylivewesleep.5139

2 жыл бұрын

Cringe and possibly even crunge.

@deanfowles3707

8 ай бұрын

Sounds pretty insufferable

Whos the gal in the thumbnail? Shes not in the clip?? Is this supposed to be Hackers daughter?

@Horsley-Green

9 ай бұрын

Yes, that's his daughter. I don't know why she's in the thumbnail because she only has about 5 minutes screen time in 2 different scenes.

Its cute english people talking about how far away their cities are. Meanwhile it is only the size of illinois which is just one of 48 continental united states