That Time a European City Kept Throwing People Out Of Windows (The RollerCoaster Tycoon Joke Legacy)

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[@gaiusjuliuspleaser]

If you ask a Czech about "the defenestration of Prague", the response will likely be "Which one?" You have no idea how hilarious that is to me.

[@lued123]

It may not be *that* obscure, but I really like the word spaghettification. When an object is in a really strong gravity well, the force difference between the object's near side and far side can get really extreme, and this can cause it to stretch. In the case of black holes, this can stretch the object into a string of subatomic particles, and that's called spaghettification.

[@FigmentForever]

Mr. Fantastic went through spaghettification recently 😬

[@Feraligono]

It goes a step further. *"Nuclear pasta"* is the actual scientific term for our current model of the internals of neutron stars. Complete with structures like "nuclear gnocchi", "nuclear spaghetti", and "nuclear lasagna".

[@just1luckyguy229]

Well, some scientist was hungry while coming up with the names

[@Carlos-Mora]

Another great one is Thagomizer, which has become sort of an unofficial term for the spikes on a Stegosaurus tail, and it came from a one panel Far side comic strip

[@landonadams9935]

@@Feraligono “nuclear lasagna” nobody tell Garfield.

[@wendaythepotato2979]

Cinderella 3 is a surprisingly good direct to video sequel that has a great defenestration scene where the prince is eventually informed about the evil stuff that's happening and tries to run out of the castle to save the day. The king heats about his insane ramblings and tries to stop him on the stairs and states "I won't let you take another step down these stairs"! This prince darts his eyes to the left, simply responds "Alright", and fucking YEETS himself out the window like 5 stories up.

[@walkerx1813]

Finally, the prince has a fucking personality, and it's GLORIOUS

[@thetwomind5912]

@@walkerx1813 Himbo mode

[@Eva-kl3fy]

the whole video i was thinking of that EXACT scene, i see you are a cultured individual as well

[@MerkhVision]

Cinderella 3? I didn’t even know there was a 2!

[@PiscotV]

As a Czech, I never realized defenestration is something weird, it's just a part of our history :-)

[@cerberus144]

I love the word defenestration, one time while screwing around in a school assignment making a fake resume or something, I listed in the "Hobbies" section "Recreational Self-Defenestration" EDIT: I also put "Professional Flatulist" on that paper lol.

[@jewbearidk]

recreational autodefenestration is just a chad thing to put on any paperwork ngl

[@cerberus144]

@@jewbearidk Now that I think about it, I also think I put "Professional Flatulist

[@DieAlteistwiederda]

I always credited my cats on any papers I had to write. Without their emotional support this would have never been possible after all. Most people just got a good laugh out of it.

[@cerberus144]

@@DieAlteistwiederda I once handed in a drawing assignment in college with a corner torn off by one of my cats at the time chewing on the corner and I said to the professor, looking him in the eyes "I'm sorry, my cat ate my homework."

[@joshuamiller8898]

It's a hard choice, but I love the "implied" defenestration in BBC's Sherlock where he calls the police to report a robber fell out of his window an unknown number of times.

[@Mysterios1989]

The second defenestration is actually thought to every German pupil (even, when they mostly forget about it as it is in the earlier parts of history education), as it is considered a very important historical event for Germany. It is considered to be the starting point of the most bloody and deadly war on German soil (including both world wars), the 30 year long war that killed more than half of the German population, with some areas to be completely destroyed with up to 95 % deaths. It caused the separation of the German areas in protestant and catholic, as well as the start of the end of the Holy Roman empire.

[@Apophis40K]

The good old Prager Fenstersturz

[@BeOtterMyFriend]

Yupp. It's always x"*der* prager Fenstersturz", though, so I thought of it as a singular event. I also only remembered it to be important for some war or other, so I put it way later in my mental history book, than it actually was.

[@Mysterios1989]

@@BeOtterMyFriend To be honest, I also only learned that it was the second when I googled it to confirm my memory that it was the start of the 30 Year war. I think the third was mentioned in school, but that is too long ago to really say that with any certainty.

[@BrandonVout]

I heard that the 30 Years War got to the point where it was cheaper to have the mercenaries pay for themselves by looting and sacking places than stopping the wars and paying them to go home.

[@Mysterios1989]

@@BrandonVout Quite possible, but I think that was not that unique to the 30 years war. If I remember correctly, the loot was always a major part of the soldiers salleries, and because of that, it was considered such a big deal if any commander decided to forbid looting.

[@krell.1415]

My favourite defenestration is probably from BBC's Ghosts, where they change the time on the clock to change when the character falls each day so it doesn't wake everyone up so early in the morning

[@walkerx1813]

How would changing the clock do that though?

[@cymraegandconfused9721]

@@walkerx1813 the character falls at a certain time each day (the time of day she originally died), and it's specifically when the old clock chimes (I can't remember the exact hour). So, by changing the clock, it tricks her into falling at a more reasonable time, since her falling is based on that old clock.

[@thunderbuns6811]

my favorite obscure word is "absquatulate" meaning "leave abruptly"

[@EvieWingweaver13]

That's a good one.

[@thehydragoose]

I'm using that word from now on!

[@Meatbag05]

I can fully imagine Rami just being confused with very similar games from around that time, as even back then, games had their moments of weirdness. Specifically in Theme Hospital, you had a multiplayer option where each player had their own hospital on the same map, and you could buy bombs and place them in the other person's hospital.

[@AzraelThanatos]

There also was a mod for one of the roller coaster tycoon games that let you see the parks of other players that way...adding a multiplayer race aspect to it. I'm not sure if you could interact with the other parks other than comparative checks to determine who was winning, but I remember the mod existing...but it was more recent than 10 years...

[@jackukridge5381]

Michelangelo's David was partially smashed after someone threw a table through a window above it and knocked the arm off, apparently noone noticed/ cared for over a day.

[@stickykeys7413]

'Nearby Nisha' is pretty catchy

[@danjudex2475]

If I had a nickel for every time a defenestration caused a massive European religious war I would have 2 nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

[@VitaeLibra]

First off... Great shirt. Second off... I literally learned about your rollercoaster tycoon joke yesterday and looked it up and your timing is perfect!

[@lordofuzkulak8308]

“That escalated quickly.” - and then it swiftly deescalated when the defenestrated politicians hit the ground. 😜

[@lordofuzkulak8308]

Don’t know if it’s my favourite defenestration in fiction, but a memorable one for me is in, I think it was, Firefly, where there’s a fight that breaks out in a bar and someone gets thrown through a window, but then the window flickers and is instantly repaired because it’s actually a holographic window, because presumably the landlord was genre savvy and knew that a bar in a Wild Westy town will inevitably have a bar fight that will inevitably involve someone getting chucked out a window and it’s presumably cheaper just to have a hologram constantly running than it is to constantly be having to replace broken windows.

[@vHindenburg]

You mean deaccelerated.

[@lordofuzkulak8308]

@@vHindenburg err no, decelerated means slowed down. Deescalated here being punned to mean the opposite of escalated, ie the opposite of gone up, ie gone down.

[@vHindenburg]

@@lordofuzkulak8308 r/woosh

[@NotiCes]

It's fun, that's why. We do that all the time so we stop counting after 3. Cheers from Prague. :D

[@johnsmith8906]

My favourite obscure word is an Icelandic one that has a very specific meaning: Vaðlaheiðarvegavinnuverkfærageymsluskúrslyklakippuhringurinn Which means: "The key ring to the tool work shed in the road works of Mount Vaðlaheiði".

[@GoddessAstrola]

Ejecting one's self out of the window I would think would be an act of auto-defenestration.

[@z3r0t0l3r4ns]

The fact that we have a word for the act of throwing someone through a window, but not for "the day after tomorrow" is both hilarious and vexing at the same time.

[@sgtmm]

There is a word, 'overmorrow', which means exactly that. For some reason it has been largely abandoned, and is no longer commonly accepted in day-to-day conversation.

[@geekdivaherself]

_BRING BACK OVERMORROW!!!_

[@positronixartandlife4545]

In addition to overmorrow, there is also ereyesterday which means the day before yesterday

[@Scriven42]

The Darwin Awards aren't necessarily about dying, it's about removing yourself from the gene pool, so something like losing your testicles would also work. And IIRC the story about the person who popped the window out was the TD building in toronto and it was a lawyer with a room full of law students!

[@sleepingkirby]

Someone removing themselves from the gene pool w/o other's being harmed. I submitted a story for the Darwin awards and it was rejected because someone else got hurt in the process.

[@Scriven42]

@@sleepingkirby OH I didn't know that caveat, thanks!

[@CitiesTurnedToDust]

When I was in the military I heard that it used to be popular among drill instructors to defenestrate particularly troublesome recruits. That's where I first encountered the word.

[@EricMuller]

A better twist would be a level in roller coaster tycoon where the rival park is using your suggested strategy against you and and you have to defend against it

[@AntonBagin]

A guy from Slovakia here. The second I looked at the title I was like: "Oh Karl made a video about Prague cool"

[@iainhewitt]

I rather appreciated the refenestration of David Lister in Red Dwarf's Backwards.

[@whitegelfling]

We need this as a Easter egg in a new version of the game, a way that if a coaster crashes at the edge of a map it comes up with "You have obliterated the roller coaster of the neighboring startup competition.. "Smallwood Large rides" is now out of business

[@irishdc9523]

Think my favourite is in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy where they try to cure Billy of his fear of clowns. He jumps out the window, sees Grim and Mandy dressed as clowns, and jumps out another window, and repeat. When he realised he smashed every window in his own house, he knocks on a neighbour's door then jumps through his window

[@Over_It]

I found that Rollercoaster Tycoon post years before I found your channel. And I found them separately. I had no idea they were both you until last year. Many videos and the post as well have brought me untold amounts of laughter (often in public due to earbuds, when I can't explain to my bosses why I'm giggling uncontrollably at my work station). I have thus come to the conclusion that I was indeed destined to be a Fact Fiend fan.

[@The_Pronato]

I set up a fightclub in Sims 1 where I put two sims each in a room without a door together and made them hate each other until they had 'fight' as an option on each other, eventually, one would actually leave and no longer be controlled by the player, which made the other sim avance in the bracket

[@wgebert9367]

my favorite defenestration scene has to be the beginning of the Good the Bad and the Ugly when the guy jumps out of a window with a huge bib holding a turkey leg in one hand, and a gun in the other

[@FriscoFlame]

Defenestration is ABSOLUTELY my favorite obscure word because I can't believe it happened often enough to make a word for it

[@ShozzleMeNoz]

I never played Rollercoaster Tycoon but you could definitely do that in Transport Tycoon. You could completely destroy another company's buses by putting two depots directly opposite each other with track across a road where buses were running and running a train between depots constantly. The trains would destroy the buses and hurt their finances and reputation. Similarly, you could buy up all the land next to a rival's train station or train tracks and stop them building the tracks. Meanwhile, the rival company's reputation went to shit because all these people at the train station weren't going anywhere. You could even do it to rival airports but it took longer and hurt your own reputation. You could demolish buildings near their airport and buy the land and leave it empty, slowly reducing the population in their catchment area. Also, you could buy up the land surrounding it so the town couldn't grow around their airport.

[@DUCKDUDE4100]

2:35 ME2 when you chuck that cocky Eclipse merc off a skyscraper.

[@arianae1993]

The twitt history at the end reminded me of the time I made up a story about a ghost in my catholic school (because everyone was telling ghost stories) and like 10 years later a girl from primary school in my mom's carpool told my story because it had happened to one of her friends and they were so scared.

[@petrsoukup6904]

I am from Prague and I remember learning about this in history class and it was just a history thing that happened - for years I had just assumed that it is something that was done in all countries at that time.

[@BrowncoatInABox]

Thr "oh" at 00:16 sounded like Nisha was so taken aback by the awesome power of Karl's weirdness

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

Defenestration is one of my favorites; another is "Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia", the fear of Long Words.

[@setarcos42]

This is perfect insight into Xorvintaal. I've been running a campaign with the great game and this really reassures most of my design.

[@laral094]

In one of the rollercoaster tycoon or similar games (can't remember the exact name) I discovered that there were park signs that allowed you to set paths as one way... So I placed one at the park entrance/exit so that nobody could leave. *Insert evil laughter*

[@Fionor01]

As citizen of Prague I'm proud of all our defenestrations. First one was uprising of Hussites (basically proto-christian ISIS who stood up to Holy Roman Empire). And the one in 1618 was about Protestants against Catholic government. Both hillarious and important in Czech history.

[@zedbee2736]

My favourite defenestration gag has to be from Scary Movie 3, where *multiple times* a character is thrown from a first or second story building and *immediately* pops up and walks away. It's always so funny to me for no good reason

[@zackwalker2172]

Defenestration is probably my favourite word. Thanks Magic The Gathering for teaching it to me.

[@purpledevilr7463]

The fact I already knew this and that it’s connected to a holy war, just sums me up.

[@kestrels-in-the-sky]

Yes the defenestration of Prague my favourite thing to throw into conversation

[@olsirmonkey]

Defensstrations* i think you mean 🙃

[@Jedi_Spartan]

5:27 That reminds me of the sound Nick Frost's character makes during the fence scene in Hot Fuzz.

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, is the official name for the fear of long words.

[@SimbaLionheart]

Mass Effect 2 when you get the Renegade option to push the guy through the window during the mission to find Thane

[@proxidabest]

I think there was another defenestartion in 1948, but that one might be unconfirmed. It’s kinda funny, that defenestrations are a big part of our history.

[@sariya74]

If recall corectly one person to survive a defenestration received an aristocratic title ( hope i translated that correctly). I could be wrong, since my history teacher told me about it a couple years ago.

[@talongaudio939]

My favorite Defenestration is from Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, when Friar Tuck throws out the corrupt Bishop saying "you will need lots of gold on your journey... On your way to hell!"

[@samius1149]

The defenestrations are interesting and all, but the occasional sections on old Karl content that went viral always leaves me awed.

[@d3lta1]

My favourite episode so far. Karl you’re a bloody genius 👍

[@dpk6639]

Ah, I've been waiting for a video about history's earliest examples of bounced Czechs

[@hellaboveme500]

How is this not pinned 😭

[@mr.perfectcell1887]

Talking about torturing Sims and people in Tycoon brings my memory back to Call Me Kevin playthroughs.

[@Greed70]

Anglets: That plastic on the tip of your shoelaces. I guess my favorite defenestration is Def Jam 2 Fight For N.Y, when you throw Snoop Dogg out the window. A close second is Geese Howard, and third would go to Ma Ma from Dredd.

[@samanthaw3845]

Ok but the best defenestration scene of all time is that one renegade interrupt in Mass Effect 2. Even when I do a straight paragon run, I always kick the guy out the window.

[@thepurplebox380]

My favourite obscure word is "circumambulation" which just means "the act of walking around something"

[@nelly5954]

Karl your hair is looking absolutely fantastic today. Please keep that style.

[@ArchOfWinter]

Ah finally, a medieval word for YEET!

[@josephgrimminck6855]

The Assassins Creed clip..... I really thought it was going to show the Splat. My imagination got me laughing, good vid!

[@daveymadness]

Hey Karl do you have any footage of your stand-up? I'm sure a lot of us would love to see that! Maybe on the second channel?

[@neegek]

Have not fully watched the video yet but the thirty years war started because some guy got thrown through window also in prague

[@maxmachac9756]

I love how essentially the Rollercoaster tycoon joke "theories" can be answered by " my source is that i made it the fuck up"

[@harrybisto3786]

great video as always guys!!

[@nonFireresist]

As a Czech I say, that those actually had a pretty good reason. And all those defenestrations are tighten to pretty significant historical events. The first was led by Jan Želivský, and it was directly after Jan Hus' death... King's shock is kinda understandable, becase he held over Jan Hus to inquisition. Those days are actually seemed by historians as start of hussite wars (and some unsuccessful crusades to Czech lands). The third one was kinda simmilar in nature, because habsburgian regime started "recatholisation" - denied rights to protestant mobility, previously granted to solve "Czech situation"... Third defenestration caused Thirty Years War, which btw. ended in Prague in 1648 on Charles' Bridge, few hundred metres from the Old Town Hall itself...

[@michaelabetteridge]

I want "Fuck it, window." on a t-shirt

[@fredsmith-kingofthelunatic7810]

The Brett Domino trio makes some great music based around obscure words. Well worth a watch.

[@grifkiller]

I really want to go to Prague, set up a thick crash-mat under one of the windows, and set up the volunteer-only 4th defenestration of Prague.

[@GreatTurnabout]

Billy& mandy and one of the Private Snafu shorts had characters repeatedly jumping out windows, they go to do it again, realise te window is already broken and go through an unbroken one instead

[@robbiewood68]

All I can imagine is Doofenschmirtz, "If I had a nickel for every defenestration of Prague, I'd have three nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it is weird that it happened three times."

[@skylarheitzman7958]

So I am watching this with my Dad behind me, and he thinks you look like, and I'm quoting him here a "Teenage Michael Palin" with how you look and some mannerisms. And I sort of have to agree with him if I imagined what a teenage Michael Palin would look like. XD

[@andrewshages7413]

You have no idea how badly I needed to learn this word today!

[@jessemorris744]

Pete and bas "windowframe" is just running though my head

[@Kvantum]

"Juxtaposition". And not just because it's the ultimate Scrabble play if you can ever get things to set up juuuuust right on the board.

[@dickreckard5026]

YAAAAAASSSSSS!!!! I Haven't watched the video yet, but the 1618 Defenestration is my favorite historical event. There's a primary source from one of the defenestrated magistrates that mainly complains about having his nice new hat with a genuine ostrich feather ruined.

[@stuartmorgan3654]

When Denholm Reynholm, jumps out the window on the IT crowd to avoid dealing with the police regarding irregularities in the pension fund.

[@celester8318]

The scene in Thor Ragnarok where Thor is escaping. "I choose to run toward my problems and not away from them," *throws ball at window* "Because that's what" *gets hit in the face with the ball he just threw* "Because that's what heroes do"

[@spankywzl]

'Defenestration' has been in my lexicon for years. I also enjoy the word, 'circuitous'.

[@calebhill3446]

"The small world of Smallwood" i -want this movie. Please make this real.

[@BlackKnightOfTheWind]

This is like the fifth time that Karl got to say "that was me, I wrote that famous thing".

[@danielstocks9088]

First being the source of that spiderman clip then being behind the RT tweet is any part of my teen years not been influenced by you Karl? 😂😂

[@aristeraaristera]

pusillanimous: no courage floccinaucinihilipilification: the action or habit of estimating something as worthless or of little value.

[@grins9882]

There's this word that I absolutely love, I have no idea what it means but it just feels so fulfilling to say, I think it was gobbleygook, or gooblygunk something like that.

[@lewispowell3156]

Denim Reynholm in the IT Crowd is the GREATEST out-of-the-window jump

[@rakdos36]

indeed. I was looking for someone mentioning. Im a little disappointed so few seem toknow it.

[@shwup]

"...in that world" That's one way to talk about the Czech Republic

[@misad6308]

Four times, actually. One goes unnumbered. They taught me that in history class, I would know. Might be time to do it again, looking at our government, but I worry they might die before hitting the ground, and what's the point of tossing them out then. We did it because we didn't want them there! Nothing quite as effective in replacing a governor as yeeting trhe old one outta window and sitting a new one down on the still-warm chair. Also, at least the third defenestration wasn't lethal - the guys fell into a pile of hay and feces and were fine. EDIT: I just got my copy of Lady's Choice! Came in this morning.

[@olle7609]

City that threw people out of windows... Oh yes, defenestration. Prague. I do vaguely remember learning about this in Swedish middle school. Enough to immediately have made the above association, although I couldn't recall any details.

[@metalflameful]

Scary Movie 3 when George gets thrown out a window and immediately gets up

[@00Snake77]

I'm fascinated by this topic but I really like your shirt.

[@tru_710]

Happens out here all the time. It wasn't a murder. It was a suicide. They didn't kill u. The ground did it.

[@poppaspank]

I know where I know that word from. "Arthur C. Clarke's The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch was first published in the story collection Tales from the White Hart."

[@wingshad0w00982]

The thing about the defenestration's that might not have come across, its not that it was the same city, or even the same building. Two of these happened from the same *window*.

[@jhindley1982]

There is a DC superhero whos called Defenestrator. He throws people throw windows as his superpower. Team mate (amongst others) of Dog Welder. Who welds dogs to criminals

[@Splitfire1997]

My favorite "out the window" moment comes from the rangers apprentice series where Halt gets fet up with a noble and decides he could use a bit of a swim to cool off... before tossing him out a window into a moat.

[@chopczyk374]

Love your shirt!

[@pinkertonbyweezer]

Decimate, old definition - Exactly 10 removed.

[@Drowzeeking04]

Gotta give a shout-out to my favorite fictional defenestration; The Cowardly Lion..:

[@waldemarhachaj]

It would be great to have video of Karl stand up routine available to view

[@Eva-kl3fy]

wait, KARL is the one behind the iconic RollerCoaster Tycoon tweet?!?!?!?!? i feel like my entire world has been flipped, what is this simulation i am living in

[@basstedson]

If ever there was a chance to use the Johnathan Frakes 'we made it up' montage that was it.

[@toric6005]

Haha I used this word on a Matilda video. The Trunchbull defenestrates a few students 🤣