Histeria's Shakespeare

[@MelVanders]

"They're wedded, they're bedded and then they're beheaded!" In a kids' show, no less! I love it, lol.

[@revinhatol]

It's something that later he kind of regretted.

[@lindacampbell7337]

But Shakespeare's plays are the best to be, but the violence and killing and murder, you see.

[@ExtraordinaryBoris]

When these voice actors were singing these songs. they probably had such fun.

[@AlmightyToonGod]

This song won Histeria an Annie Award.

[@Joshua_Quinzel_Isley]

Congrats to songwriter Randy Rogel for earning that award.

[@Heliogabalos]

I guess I appreciate that Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin are cast as Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, it feels fitting.

[@justinhillenburg9286]

Many of Histeria's historical figures are based on celebrities.

[@logantrimble006]

I'm a fan of both legends. How did I not notice that?

[@piratemac3]

I wonder if Mike Tyson ever gave back that ear...

[@miguelrodriguezRuso1995]

He did gave it back. Not too long ago actually.

[@gr4lvo169]

@@miguelrodriguezRuso1995 I haven’t gotten my ear back

[@mikegallant811]

Yeah he did kind of give evander holyfield the Joey Zasa special..

[@Syrailia]

​@@gr4lvo169me too

[@Queenie_leenie]

LEND ME YO EAR 🔥🔥🔥

[@tskmaster3837]

OK, it's the iambic pentameter that keeps screwing up my timing so immense and intense with this sort of rhyming.

[@Rgoid]

1:27 Toast as Romeo and Pepper as Juliet? PRICELESS!

[@adriannalikesconnor6341]

My favorite character is Bow-Haired Girl.

[@cartooncottage2024]

I ship these two.

[@elleramirez1373]

I miss these kinds of shows

[@doctor211]

"Because you spend 2 hours trying to figure out the plot" Unless you're lucky bob.

[@JSnow-st7hm]

Hi-o!

[@inuyakino]

I see. I just found Histeria recently by serendipity and I've liked it ever since I watched the Invasion Song.

[@dasovietpotato3784]

I started with the Lenin interview

[@sunsetgacha2386]

Where’s Cho-Cho?

[@broflovskie]

inuyakino I started liking it with the Invasion Song or the Peace Land and Bread Now I like love all the song

[@TheOnlyPlayerYT]

How tf do you even get the episodes

[@kate_cooper]

I counted 34, not 37. But if we’re counting the two parts of Henry IV and three parts of Henry VI as separate plays, it adds up.

[@Jpew2007]

That what I was wondering. Sometime when they said names or phrases I didn’t. See “subtitles” or title cards. So I wonder what’s “missing”.

[@Ryan-gt3ru]

Yes

[@KitsunesTrove]

I realize this was a year ago, but Shakespeare wrote 37 plays. The two parts of Henry IV and the three parts of Henry VI are all separate plays.

[@Blokewood3]

@@KitsunesTrove Yep, and then with Two Noble Kinsmen, that makes 38. If you count Edward III (which is debatable) that would make 39, and then there a few possible lost plays such as Love's Labor's Won and Cardenio, but since they're lost, we can't really count them.

[@shadowgouhl5000]

I tell you Warner Brothers really liked to cross the line to with the FCC. Like the other video with Mr. Smarty-pants where he was talking about the toilet origins. That we now know where the word crapper came from.

[@DJDizzyStorms]

They need to bring this show back.

[@astarteswillum5259]

I love this show.

[@JAY31072010]

3:12 Histeria All Stars Fun Fact: The Ghenghis portrayed here is holding his sword in his left hand.

[@TKGIOIA]

Randy Rogel's award winning song, THE STORY TOLD BY THE BARD

[@MARKALANPALMER]

I lost it during the Mike Tyson bit

[@imsokewl27]

+Mark Palmer I did too.

[@NobleKorhedron]

+imsokewl27: Yeah, that was hilarious, but corny as hell; one of the worst puns on Histeria! #IMO.

[@MARKALANPALMER]

Now i really want to hear Mike Tyson do Shakespeare

[@NobleKorhedron]

Mark Palmer Better not ask him about it; you might end up knocked out.... #shrugs

[@limechecksout]

Tatar ball I KEEP FINDING YOU .-.

[@revinhatol]

2:55 - I can't believe you stabbed me in the back, that was a vicious, mean and unprovoked attack.

[@revinhatol]

It's unfair and unjust, this was never discussed, You're the ones that I trust, and I'm feeling disgust, 'Cause I'm biting the dust, and that's why I must, Say I'm really nonplussed...

[@tsurugikage]

I wonder how many times this episode played until they realized they said "damned" in a kids show.

[@nth460]

+Tsurugi Kage when??

[@tsurugikage]

+nicothecheeco at around 0:12

[@matthewboyd68]

+Tsurugi Kage in one of the civil war episodes lydia karaoke the network censor also complained about the famous phrase damn the torpedoes full speed ahead

[@scj6693]

Squirtle Master now that's the pot calling the kettle black

[@PhoenixAngel429]

Quoting Shakespeare so it's okay.

[@Brazil_dude]

My favorite part:King Richard II is a guy that went dumb,King Richard III is the guy with the hump.

[@cellogang6190]

And now from the Globe Theatre - the Histeria kid chorus! A play by William Shakespeare always simulates your thought Because you spend two hours trying to figure out the plot He wrote famous lines and phrases for his dog like "out, damned Spot!" (I'm a victim of circumstance!) So who is this guy the critics praise Who's famous for his turn of phrase Wrote 37 different plays And lived in Elizabethan days And made Lawrence Oliver's career? Lend me your ear He lived in Stratford von Avon apartment 2-B Was it to be, or not to be? I don't really know, it's confusing to me How do you understand Shakespeare with all of the harks and the hos and all the flowery prose that he writes? For men wearing tights! So bring up the lights And let's meet the bard Ladies and gentlemen, Histeria! proudly presents the plots of all 37 plays of William Shakespeare! Hamlet's real father is killed by his brother who now becomes king and them marries his mother, It ends up with everyone killing eachother And that is the story that's told by the bard Hey nanni nanni na, tra la la, fa la la la la la la! King Henry V is a play about war And so is King John and King Henry IV While Falstaff laughed, and fell on the floor While Henry VI went back to the gore King Lear, Shakespeare's Tragical ruler who casts out his daughter The story is sad, cos then he feels bad And then he goes mad And both of them die! Hey nanni nanni na, tra la la, fa la la la la la la! At Romeo and Juliet, everyone cries At Titus Andronicus everyone dies, Don't you just love these Shakespearean guys? Ahaaahahahaha! You go to the theatre and pay all that money To see all these actors who dress really funny You say to your date, are you getting this honey? Cause I'm really lost so explain it to me Hey nanni nanni na, tra la la, fa la la la la la la! Macbeth is a guy who is really ambitious And that's why the king soon sleeps with the fishes Then he kills others, it's really quite vicious, Until in the end, he gets stabbed in the duff! Oh, no-no! By MacDuff! Better! He wrote comic romances with laughter and dances, Where everyone prances while taking their chances With love, love, love, love, love! [make gagging noises] Like The Comedy of Errors and Pericles too, Then Measure for Measure and Taming the Shrew, Two Gents from Verona and then Much Ado About Nothing Then he'd write The Tempest and Twelfth Night, The Merry Wives of Windsor, As You Like It, and Cymbaline, Love's Labours Lost, A Winter's Tale, And also Midsummer Night's Dream Then The Merchant of Venice a debt is entangled, As Coriolanus where soldiers get mangled, Othello's the fellow whose wife ends up strangled, And that is the story that's told by the bard! Hey nanni nanni na, tra la la, fa la la la la la la! Troilus and Cressida, now there was a pair, They were in love and she had an affair, It's not a great play so we really don't care, Hey nanni nanni na, tra la la! Nixon: King Richard II's a guy that went dumb, King Richard III is the guy with the hump, Timon of Athens, he was a chump, 'Cause all of his money was lent, Now it's spent, And he can't, Pay the rent, And he has to go live in a tent! Julius Caesar's about an attack, All of his friends put a knife in his back, And then a great play that would come after that, Is Anthony and Cleopat... Tra la la, tra la la, tra la la la la la la la la! King Henry VIII has six different wives, He's faithful to each 'til the next one arrives, Most of them ended up losing their lives, One minute they're wedded, and then they're beheaded, It's something that later he kinda regretted, But Shakespeare's plays are the places to be, But violence and killing and murder you see, You really can't show it on childrens' TV, But that is the story, Though it's bloody and gory, Yes, that is the story that is told by the bard! All's well that ends well!

[@theblackcoat4615]

*Congratulations, you played yourself.*

[@sniperniko]

Dont expect a reward kid for writing it

[@sethcarlow8363]

tha tha tha Ye all Folks!

[@JSone4Design]

“Friends, Romans, Holyfields, lend me yo’ ears!”

[@ireacttoeverythingeverythi4833]

I wish this show had more publicity

[@12roses8]

Buster Moon's next singing competition will be The Histeria Kid Chorus vs The Tiny Toons vs the Kids from Chalk Zone who would win?

[@samorowell535]

2:39 I was not expecting a Richard Nixon cameo

[@TheThirstyBacon]

my favorite part

[@mpa-vr]

I wasn't expecting the Napoleon cameo either

[@sadlobster1]

As a lover of Shakespeare's work, I strongly question the accusations certain "scholars" have made against him. Statements saying things like he never wrote a single word of his plays or that he was horribly illiterate. If that is true, what proof do they have to back it up

[@iansturkey546]

So far, this is my favorite Histeria song.

[@Joshua_Quinzel_Isley]

Same here.

[@LacertaZilla2024]

William Shakespeare would be impressed

[@thekazakhstanvideoeditor1938]

1:05 hey nanni nanni na tra la la fa la la la la la la 1:23 hey nanni nanni na tra la la fa la la la la la la 1:41 hey nanni nanni na tra la la fa la la la la la la 2:29 hey nanni nanni na tra la la fa la la la la la la

[@StellaCartoons]

😂😂😂

[@TheOnlyPlayerYT]

2:38 hey nanni nanni na tra la la

[@KaylaTheKindOne]

The accuracy of the information in the song may be debatable (apparently), but some of these lyrics are pretty awesome!

[@sunsetgacha2386]

Where’s Kip Ling, Chipper the Crooked Mouth Boy, and the Bow-Haired Girl?

[@revinhatol]

Troilus and Cressida, there was a pair They were in love and she had an affair It's not a great play so we really don't care.

[@sadlobster1]

Was Troilus and Cressida really that bad?

[@Simscinderellafella]

Umm yeah

[@namingisdifficult408]

Slender Canada how so?

[@sunsetgacha2386]

The girls sound like the ladies

[@garybritt1483]

That was fucked up how they had mike tyson with a human ear lol

[@Banana_Judge]

The hell is he even doing in this

[@javaPhysician]

"You really can't show it on children's TV." At least they are referring to the violence, and not the vulgar, crude dirty jokes made throughout!

[@XDrang93]

No wonder why all the world is a stage.

[@SamtheBravesFan]

0:27 Oh, that's ICE cold!

[@piggylady225]

Dang, Animaniacs has some more translations to do in its reboot! They’ve only for three out of the, what was it? Thirty-seven Shakespeare plays? I want to see their rendition of Romeo and Juliet.

[@michaeltucker2047]

To Dr. Prune: They did only show 33 plays, but two or three of Shakespeare's plays were so long that they had to be released in different books and plays. Sort of like how we have the original movie, then the producers come out with a sequel, and then usually a third movie. This was the same case with Shakespeare's plays. I think these were Henry VIII and one or two of the plays that has the name of a king in it.

[@MetFanMac]

Wikipedia lists a total of 38 individual plays, including two parts for Henry IV and three parts for Henry VI, making a total of 34 different stories. The song omits The Two Noble Kinsmen, probably because it was co-written with John Flecther and Shakespeare's own contribution was a point of contention for a while.

[@doctor211]

So like the last 2 harry potter movies

[@kevp9601]

I LOVE THE HISTERIA CARTOON SERIES SOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!! :-D

[@thefrozenbahamas-hurricane5818]

They said damn in a kid's show, and then started mentioning all the "adult" plots in Shakespeare's plays. That's what makes this show so great. XD I'm still wondering how'd they get away with getting this on air as a kid's show.

[@StefonTV1]

I feel like in this sense it's okay since this is history and culture in an educational sense.

[@dukejordan8147]

Well, they said "dammed" not "damn". They mean different things.

[@Savagewolver]

Because they were praising Hilary Clinton.

[@sadlobster1]

Don't worry, I respect that you're more of a science lover. I've been a fan of his for years. Recently bought the movie Coriolanus with Ralph Fiennes and Gerard Butler. Really good modern take on a Shakespeare play

[@sadlobster1]

I have read the following of Shakespeare's plays. Romeo and Juliet Julius Cesar Antony and Cleopatra Henry V Coriolanus Midsummer Night's Dream I've also read a few of his sonnets as well. My point being is that as of now, I have come close to reading all of Shakespeare's pieces

[@Kolezenstwo]

Romeo and Juliet The Merchant of Venice Much Ado About Nothing Lessee... only 34 plays to go, then?

[@sadlobster1]

Only 28 left for me to read

[@AdamYJ]

Romeo and Juliet King Lear A Midsummer Night's Dream The Tempest I have paperbacks of both Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice but haven't gotten around to reading them.

[@sadlobster1]

Out of curiosity, has anyone ever read all of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets in one lifetime? If so, would that be a worthy life achievement

[@J_Alezzandro]

Romeo and Juliet Macbeth Hamlet As you Like it King Lear

[@notexactlyinteresting8906]

Actually my great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandpa (not kidding) was friends with Shakespeare and he being one of the shipwrecked people, he being a priest. I don't know if he made it in or not, but he was there in the real life events

[@johnfapcock7986]

Zeit Geist you realize that's like 15 generations back, which if a normal lifespan is around 40, means that's like 700 years ago...

[@notexactlyinteresting8906]

John Fapcock I think that I accidentally put another great in there, but going by your logic they each had their kids at the end of their lives, which is not the case. But he was a Jamestown settler

[@notexactlyinteresting8906]

John Fapcock Actually, I had added the ages of when they had children and it had ended up to 415 years

[@johnfapcock7986]

Oh, makes sense.

[@namingisdifficult408]

Zeit Geist interesting

[@ZenomanKnows052706]

0:26is that the ear that Mike Tyson bit off in wrestling match?????

[@MetFanMac]

Zenoman Knows Can't be, it's a white ear :P

[@sunsetgacha2386]

👦 👧🏼 👦 👱🏻‍♀️

[@এহক]

This day's, no more education entertainment

[@hardcoreoptic7695]

i lost at when some guy seid he sleeps with the fisses

[@debbiealley3834]

+kevkev gamin it means the king is dead

[@snakes3425]

Yeah for everyone who thinks Romeo and Juliet ends Happily Ever After...the full title is the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet that doesn't sound like a play with a happy ending. Also name one play Shakespeare wrote where half the cast didn't end up dead or going insane

[@hithedragon7842]

snakes3425 all of his comedies....

[@BLGStudios]

These kids are insane

[@D12345]

They were able to say damn on network children's TV. haha

[@IanTheThomasGuy2007]

01:34 he sounds a lot like the red M&M

[@DVDRAR]

Billy West, he's also Ren, Stimpy, Phillip Fry and about a million more

[@robertmiles1603]

"Out, damned spot"? I didn't know you could say "damn" on a show like this.

[@Im.just.wisconsin.]

"Troilus and Cressiea, now there was a pair. They were in love and she had an affair" Understood why they chose those certain people-💀

[@Cassofalltrades]

Who's the female supposed to be modeled after?

[@mazrimtaim1]

Josephine and Napoleon

[@newzealandmapping537]

2:43 haha *foreshadowing*

[@FeedingFrenzy91]

I used to watch this show but actually don't think I knew the name. God bless everyone.

[@angelgalaxy9001]

And made Lawrence Oliver's career?😀🎵🎶

[@AngelPerez-cm1wd]

Lend me your ear!🎵🎶

[@lindacampbell7337]

He lived in Stratford von Avon Apartment 2-B! 🎶🎵🎶

[@AE149823]

Would love a list of all the "cameos" in the piece XD

[@beatricesanfilippo6925]

Did Elizabeth Tudor talk to Shakespeare about her family especially her dad Henry Tudor and her great uncle Richard III before Shakespeare Made the operas?

[@DV1287]

Wow they missed one. The two noble kinsmen is one Shakespeare co wrote with John fletcher

[@sailordarty9032]

The Tempest remains my favorite.

[@sadlobster1]

One of my favorite bits from the show was how they made the Lewis and Clark team act like Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Although, they made Clark LOOK like Clark Kent from the WB's Superman cartoon. The weirdest thing I remember from the show was how they made Eva Peron (Evita) sound like Charo

[@ink1931]

that was actually charo voicing her lol

[@revinhatol]

Great Heroes of France

[@jailbreak-bob1670]

Imagine Clips of Videos with All Of Greg Weismann’s Work.

[@revinhatol]

2:41 - The Guy with the Hump!

[@generalamsel437]

I was in Comedy of Errors, it was seriously funny.

[@theluckiesteh9058]

"Out, Damned Spot!"

[@doctor211]

I'm sending a theme here... I dont know what that theme is, but its there

[@tarheelking2515]

2:32 what was sammy davis, jr. portraying on the trollus and cressida

[@sethcarlow8363]

ye all Folks! All 's Well that end's Well Joke of Shakespare.

[@louisxiv631]

LEH' ME YO EEEEEEA

[@randomboy3m98]

Armand Louis d'Utrecht that was the pointless part of the song

[@thatfellow7556]

"Henry V is a play about war" Ah, now I understand!

[@randomboy3m98]

2:43 is that the same voice actor from the M&m commercials?

[@SarumanOrthanc]

Random Boy 3 m No, that is Richard Nixon.

[@randomboy3m98]

No, the guy after him in the Roman clothing.

[@sadlobster1]

I'm just happy I was more exposed to William's work at an early age and spared of today's literary trash. Like 50 Shades of Gray and Twilight

[@bateywilliams4060]

WHAT THE HECK that was Mike Tyson!!!!!

[@hyperdragondx9584]

2:44 is that deadpool?

[@jordanclark7053]

2:43 isn't that the same guy who voiced Zapp Brannigan in Futurama?

[@Cweisman35]

Yes, that would be Billy West, also the voice of Stimpy (and later Ren) and original voice of Doug Funnie.

[@CorvoThePlagueDoctor]

Was that Billy west?

[@JamaalSimpson]

yes and Maurice LaMarche was William Shakespeare

[@Vincentmyd]

hey nanni nanni na fa la la tra la la la la la la la

[@obiwanobiwan13]

@t1czer "The rest is silence" is Hamlet, his last words. ;)

[@sadlobster1]

Agreed, I just wanted to blow off that bit of steam. It's just how can people negatively criticize such a beloved author? While obviously not as beloved in the Renaissance as he is now. To have scholars speak ill of his name, after gaining such immense praise seems wrong

[@AJR-zg2py]

omg that Mike Tyson gag has me DEAD

[@richarderikssonhjelm8838]

Notice that Lydia Kareoke wears her arm band like the nazis wore theirs? 3:17

[@MetFanMac]

Is there another way you're supposed to wear an armband?

[@qwikmav]

The nazis wore it on their left arms, thats on her right arm

[@wothri]

​@@MetFanMac On your leg, duh

[@GemmaCallahan-tj5wl]

They sang it to the tune of Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring

[@sadlobster1]

I'm glad I sounded much clearer to you, the second time around. What's your take on Shakespeare's work? Did you enjoy any of his plays and do you believe he wrote them?

[@hihohe4067]

Does anyobe know what classical song this tune is?

[@jasonryan5572]

1:28 don't try to translate Romeo and juliet to modern-day English. Tried To. The first act is revolting.

[@Blockhog]

Is that phil hartman?

[@MrWrestlingman85]

At 1:17 who is the lady supposed to be historic wise? Also is that an actress they’re parodying?

[@SUPERTYRIQ_12]

Joan of Arc

[@Muster_Muckee_II]

Really thought there may have been a line about Abe lincon getting shot while watching Hamlet

[@scj6693]

Pendragonx1 Abe Lincoln wasn’t watching Hamlet when he was assassinated...

[@Muster_Muckee_II]

Oh.

[@stronkergloryrussiansoviet1400]

I'm a victim of circumstance ~ Talking dog 2k17

[@newzealandmapping537]

2:43 seems about right for a greek

[@StudioEyeball]

2:25 Mom (from Mom's Friendly Robot Co.) is here, too.

[@Zinthaniel]

Anything that reaches high praise and frame will fall under heavy scrutiny. The tallest trees catch the most wind.

[@AE149823]

It bothers me to no end, that Henry's wives light up in order of 3rd, 6th, 4th, 5th, 2nd, 1st.

[@Banana_Judge]

Why did granny spit pure bars at the end

[@glenbard07]

How did they get away with that Mike Tyson cameo?

[@firehound100]

I don't like the bit about Henry VIII. The play itself isn't a history of his entire reign or marriages at all, but rather a general piece of trashy Elizabethan propaganda. Many of Shakespeare's histories are careful in their depictions of earlier monarchs, but the song goes into detail about Henry VIII.

[@V2011F]

all of the plays detailing real people were fake like Macbeth a Scottish king who fought and won several wars against the English was vilified by Shakespeare. Julius Caesar and Anthony and Cleopatra were dramatizations of what actually happened and anything regarding the English crown was changed in order to make the Tudors look good and the other families look bad this was common especially following Henry VII's and VIII's reigns which stopped for a while until Elizabeth I was queen of England in which case you had Shakespeare write a lot of his political and war based plays to get the queen to join and enjoy his plays. Simply put if it makes her look good she's happy and was more often than not seated in the best comfy chair in the theater when ever his plays were available.

[@lseths]

The description of Henry VIII always bugged me also; they described his reign (which was similarly done in the song "The Tale of the Tudors"), but not the play. The play ends with Anne Boleyn still his wife; it doesn't get at all into the rest of his wives at all. It's a pretty darn good song otherwise, but that part always bugged me.

[@callumwynne5370]

not Cymbaline its Cymbeline said like (Kim-beh-line) based off Cunobelinus 1st true King of the Britons.

[@pikppa]

Falstaff's part is the best

[@karlmarx3949]

Oh, I mean that there is no play called "Henry V". There's Henry V part one, and Henry V part two. I think Henry IV is divided into two parts, and Henry VI is split into three. So that's seven plays total, but the song would only count that as three.

[@rigbysanders2881]

Karl Marx ii

[@qwikmav]

They made a song about you

[@revinhatol]

"LEND ME YOUR EAR!"

[@sadlobster1]

Oh no, not at all; I love both the song and the show Histeria. The one dislike was someone else

[@chantzgonzales]

I never understood if these were educational or not

[@jeffinition]

They are.