I used to watch these all the time as a kid, glad it’s still good
@finn40124 жыл бұрын
boomgoesblitzhound I think about 10 years ago
@paigeeden44964 жыл бұрын
@boomgoesblitzhound 2009-2013
@kalvingoodlaxson Жыл бұрын
@@TM-tm5bd they revived it in 2015 and is still doing new episodes, sadly the original cast left after the very first season of the revival.
@KarahRobinsonDigitalCreations11 жыл бұрын
Okay...its been like three hours now and im still watching "Horrible Histories" (will never grow old...)
@verilyheld9 жыл бұрын
I hold that Admiral Horatio Nelson should have been one of these Stupid Deaths. "Name? Admiral Horatio Nelson." "Nelson? Nelson? You mean, The Nelson?" "Yes." "Turn a blind eye Nelson? Battle Of The Nile, England Expects, That Nelson?" "Me, Me, and Me." "This should be good. Now come on, tell us how you died." "Well . . . It was at the Battle Of Trafalgar . . ." "Yes yes, we know, went to school, read the textbooks, saw the Column, go on." "Well, at the height of the battle I appeared on the foredeck of my ship, Victory . . ." "Not the poopdeck?" "No, not the poopdeck." "Pity, could have had a good laugh there, anyway, there you were on the foredeck . ." "In my full Admiral's uniform, all nice and natty-poo." "Ah ha! I knew there's be a poo there! . . . sorree, do go on." "And a French sharpshooter in the rigging of a French ship nearby saw me . . ." "This is getting good." "Took aim . . ." "Yes yes . . ." "Fired and wounded me, and I died." "Ha ha ha ha . . . no wait, not really getting the joke here . . ." "Well see, I showed up in my dress uniform . . ." "Yes, we've established that." "To inspire my men . . ." "Yes . . ." "So I really stood out from everybody else on the foredeck, so I made myself a target for the French sharpshooter . . ." "Yes, well, bit silly but not really that stupid . . . I mean, officers get shot all the time . . ." "How about the fact going into the battle I knew the French would be putting sharpshooters in their rigging just looking for officers to shoot?.." "Now we're getting someplace...." "And that when it was suggested we British do the same . . ." "Oh ho this is getting good...." "I said No!" "Ha ha ha ha ha! So you stood out on the foredeck, making yourself a target . . ."."Yes." "And rather than have sharpshooters in the rigging of your own ships to shoot at the French sharpshooters in theirs . . ." "Yes." "You said No." "Yes." "HA HA HA HA HA! Oh, that's good! You're through to the afterlife, Admiral!"
@ew64834 жыл бұрын
And his last words were asking his second in command for a kiss!
@carlbirtles45184 жыл бұрын
After Nelson died, the men shoved him in a barrel of brandy to preserve his body so when he got home, Nelson could have a proper funeral.
@animelife48823 жыл бұрын
@@ew6483 he actually said kismet hardy. Why would he say kiss me fucking idiotic. Kismet means destiny.
@ew64833 жыл бұрын
@@animelife4882 People on their deathbed tend to confess their secrets. Don’t know if he did love Hardy but it’s certainly plausible.
@christophersudbrink49463 жыл бұрын
Nice work
@Kdssow11 жыл бұрын
So....these two were the cause of the Norman succes, and the end of Anglo-Saxon England? That's sad xD
@carlbirtles45184 жыл бұрын
Harold Godwinson: "Worst. Brothers. Ever." Gyrth and Leofwine: "Sorry, bro." Harold: "How can you be sorry?! Thanks to you two, I've got an arrow in my eye!"
@pabloneizion25923 жыл бұрын
Fair play to the Normans
@knotofnine11 жыл бұрын
"Fair play to them" LOL - very fair guys
@lewisirwin53634 жыл бұрын
Suddenly Tostig doesn't seem so much like the disappointment of the family.
@sheev98524 жыл бұрын
Horrible histories will always be great, no matter how old I am.
@sophiehale11713 жыл бұрын
Yessss
@cantbetamed22104 жыл бұрын
Battle of Hastings Disaster... Confidence vs Feigned retreat
@danieldelrosario74474 жыл бұрын
Also, they got too confident from killing Harald III Hardrada
@Quinntus794 жыл бұрын
Wasn't it Sun Tsu who wrote something along the lines of make your enemy think you are strong when you are weak and when you are strong appear weak to your enemies?
@cantbetamed22104 жыл бұрын
@@Quinntus79 Guess I had to re-read the Art of war.
@Nova7o911 жыл бұрын
I could watch these all day.
@ThePrussianChick12 жыл бұрын
I think it would have been an even stupider death if they had also tripped while running down the hill and got impaled by their own swords. Now THAT would be stupid.
@blackcat7382 жыл бұрын
wow. they lost even when they had the high ground. obi-wan would be very dissapointed
@rashkavar11 жыл бұрын
Well if the enemy is actually running away, it's strategically sound (assuming diplomacy is no longer a possibility) to ensure as many of them die in the process as possible. Thus the enemy has less troops to attack you with next time (or to defend themselves during your attack). (Bonus points for getting the survivors to desert because they're so scared of you.) Problem is, they have to actually be running away, and not baiting you.
@IAsimov4 жыл бұрын
That's the thing. Sun Tzu advises *against* attacking fleeing enemies, since in their breaking ranks, YOU have to break ranks as well to pursue. If a rout remains organized, it means the fleeing enemy still has a chance to find a better position. Letting your emotions take over your strategic mind is the worst thing you can do. Or, to quote one of Murphy's laws of warfare: If an attack is going well, you're walking into a trap.
@neinno81724 жыл бұрын
Untrue, depending on the offensive and defensive taken it may be sound, in this case, it was not. Plus in this circumstance, the only way of retreat was back on ships to France. Afterwhich invasions would most likely cease effectiveness, the amount killed mattered far less than certain victory. They acted brashly by compulsion. Thirty-six Strategems: In order to capture, one must let loose (欲擒故縱/欲擒故纵, Yù qín gù zòng) Cornered prey will often mount a final desperate attack. To prevent this you let the enemy believe he still has a chance for freedom. His will to fight is thus dampened by his desire to escape. When in the end the freedom is proven a falsehood the enemy's morale will be defeated and he will surrender without a fight. Shut the door to catch the thief (關門捉賊/关门捉贼, Guān mén zhuō zéi) To capture your enemy, or more generally in fighting wars, to deliver the final blow to your enemy, you must plan prudently if you want to succeed. Do not rush into action. Before you "move in for the kill", first cut off your enemy's escape routes, and cut off any routes through which outside help can reach them.
@joecurran28112 жыл бұрын
@@IAsimov Well tbf Harold Godwinson knew that well and stood his ground. You can understand the soldiers getting excited but these two should have known better.
@roguishpaladin Жыл бұрын
Three problems: 1.When you have the high ground, and especially if you are manning even crude earthworks, you need to maintain your advantage. This is especially true for a tired force, as Harold's was said to be, and for a native force who has a greater chance of support and reinforcement from the land than the invaders. Harold didn't need to wipe out William - just contain him. 2.An orderly pursuit might make sense in some contexts, so long as you protect your flanks as your advance. That didn't happen here. 3.An all-infantry army pursuing an army with cavalry in it isn't going to have a lot of success in their pursuit, and that cavalry has chance to regroup once out of range of the pursuit.
@quup311 жыл бұрын
1:07 - best ''yeah'' ever!!!!!!!!!!!!
@cutiepatooty1234 жыл бұрын
...and I think 1:04 is: SHIELD WALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Holds-up shields) .
@rashkavar11 жыл бұрын
You need to read more. In this case, either Sun Tzu's Art of War or Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince. Both are treatisies on how to be an extremely effective leader (Sun Tzu is more military specialized, Machiavelli is more political). Both works also completely ignore normal concepts of morality and decency. But both would say the entire point of war is to take away the enemy's will to fight, their ability to fight, or both. Annihilation of the enemy's army achieves this quite effectively.
@neinno81724 жыл бұрын
Perhaps you've forgotten some of the chapters in the Art of War? Therefore, the art of war lies in: never face a high mountain, never retreat from a down hill, never follow an enemy army faking defeat, never attack an elite enemy army, never bite a shark-bait, *never chase after a retreating enemy army, leave opening for a surrounded enemy army, never pressure a desperate enemy army.* This is the art of war. -The Art of War by Sun Tzu, Chapter Army Conflict
@aciddeathadder11 жыл бұрын
LMAO! At least, they were honorable warriors.... :D
@carlbirtles45183 жыл бұрын
Yeah, nobody likes a sore loser!
@LadyTaurus9511 жыл бұрын
those shields look like the ones used in the spartan skits
@daroth71273 жыл бұрын
couldn't bother making viking roundshields i guess
@brianfuller76913 жыл бұрын
We remember that the Huscarls did not break at Hastings.
@TomFynn Жыл бұрын
Can we have a big shout-out to all the historical people who died stupid deaths for our enjoyment?
@janetalee4433 жыл бұрын
I love Horrible Histories always 💙
@kellydalstok89007 ай бұрын
What is barely ever mentioned is that king Harold and his Saxon army fought another battle in a different part of the country shortly before the Norman invasion, so they were tired and had already lost a lot of soldiers.
@Invisibleplqnetsmusic4 жыл бұрын
3,2,1 SHIELD WALL!!!!
@andrewhutchinson36 Жыл бұрын
If Harold"s brothers had not made this mistake and Harold had won? Well there may well have never been a united British state, no British Empire, no modern, USA, Canada, Australia, NZ, no British rule in India etc etc. In fact the whole history of the following millennium across much of the globe could have been very different. A graphic histortical illustration of the butterfly effect don"t you think?
@googoojnr12 жыл бұрын
XD bets death ever loving the mummy too
@carolsamson34792 жыл бұрын
1066 SOS, Norman NORMAN NorNorNorNor SOS. Finnish! Turn Round And NorroN SOS. In A Nutshell… New Swimming Is About To Finnish!
@petertupman42733 жыл бұрын
This is intresting
@ameliajones982712 жыл бұрын
I was wondering if you could upload Stupid Deaths: Diodorus, so that I can see it.
@emmafeathers93673 жыл бұрын
Love love love
@MaugzSR9 жыл бұрын
This is just genius!
@user-gi8pk9uc7q11 ай бұрын
William the Conqueror fooled them!
@TEHORANGEAVENGER10 жыл бұрын
Are those Hoplite shields?
@mrwabbit957610 жыл бұрын
They are also no where near as large and have not rim or oak base.
@Tareltonlives3 жыл бұрын
Earl Godwin died of a stroke; he probably learned what happened to his kids.
@britishgamingnerdbgn803111 жыл бұрын
HEE HEE NOT HOO HOO!!!!
@zakwright60842 жыл бұрын
1:03 to 1:05 for 3,2,1 SHIELD WALL! 😅
@patrickweber39542 жыл бұрын
I will add that they disobeyed their brother and King's order to hold their ground when they charged down the hill.
@KlingonGamerYT3 жыл бұрын
wow what a pair of plonkers
@mrsippi110712 жыл бұрын
yeh but it would be funny ;) !
@mystupidboxers12 жыл бұрын
and funny
@drake963411 жыл бұрын
this is not a total war game.
@ramirogalletti10 жыл бұрын
who act as death?
@EILYHERE9 жыл бұрын
Funny
@carlbirtles45184 жыл бұрын
0:47 Death: "So, Leofwine and Gyrth are in charge of the fyrdmen?" Anglo-Saxon names shouldn't be that hard to pronounce, should they?
@ferdinandvonschill45124 жыл бұрын
If the Saxons had won, that would be normal english names, like the norman (frankish) names Richard, Henry or Charles.
@carlbirtles45184 жыл бұрын
@@ferdinandvonschill4512 We had 3 kings named Richard, 8 named Henry and 3 named Charles. I was pinpointing the bit where Death tried to pronounce the Anglo-Saxon names.
@ferdinandvonschill45124 жыл бұрын
@@carlbirtles4518 I know what you meant, old chap 😊 no problem. And I know your kings . All Richards and most of the "Henri" were "de Plantagenêt et Anjou" and Charles is also a french version of your name, Carl. The first english king since 1066 who spoke English as his mother toung was Henry IV. My point was, that the joke of misspronoucing wounden't work, if the Saxons had won, because then their names were most likely still common. The name "Edward" survived only, because "Henri" III. explicitly wanted an english name for his heir and not a french one. Alfred also survived, but no more Æthelred, Æthelstan, Odda, Egbert (still used in Germany in the 20th century) or Cenwulf. And that is a pity.
@2up3rm4n14 жыл бұрын
It's as if he could get the same leverage, "stupid deaths, stupid deaths, so stupid 'cause they're true" could take off the same way, "I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay, I sleep all night and work all day" did. Maybe if the tune were longer, but it really is just a bumper tune, which it mocks, so it can't be too long, but his voice, the minimum of words, the subject, "hope next time it's not you" all come across the same way, as well as then the skits, but this tune has definitely clicked with me and if someone else tried to do it, it would not be the same.
@inkheart1513 жыл бұрын
Who was he talking about at the end? Noose women?
@ferdinandvonschill45124 жыл бұрын
Are Leofwine and Gyrth realy stupid names? If the Saxons had won, that would be normal english names, like the norman (frankish) names Richard, Henry or Charles. At last the names Edward and Alfred had survived.
@AMinibot3 жыл бұрын
Well, they're unusual names that might be hard to make out properly when spoken aloud, because they're unfamiliar. And like... since kids in particular often struggle to pick up on new, unusual words, and HH is a kids' show, I don't see the harm in adding an acknowledgement that the names are tricky to make out - it keeps the sketch on a level accessible to the children the show is made for.
@ferdinandvonschill45123 жыл бұрын
@@AMinibot Yes of course! I didn't mean it seriously. I just want to point out the irony of history, that old english names sound so strange to Englishman today, just because of the norman conquest.
@rosegirl987111 жыл бұрын
Lol
@williamadams968211 жыл бұрын
Who charges cavalry, anyway?
@adammullarkey49964 жыл бұрын
To be fair, they probably didn't. They probably charged the infantry, and then the cavalry charged them.
@paulroberts89464 жыл бұрын
Swiss pikemen didn’t think twice about it and always won
@lindathetford37764 жыл бұрын
I'll take gertid!!!!! 😍😍😍 he's so HAWT
@carlbirtles45184 жыл бұрын
Forgive me, but it's spelt Gyrth.
@lindathetford37764 жыл бұрын
@@carlbirtles4518 oh thank you! My bad haha 😁
@carlbirtles45184 жыл бұрын
@@lindathetford3776 That's ok. Anglo-Saxon names aren't easy to spell.
@lindathetford37764 жыл бұрын
@@carlbirtles4518 nope apparantly not haha!
@Dim43234 жыл бұрын
Not really stupid death.
@lafingscarecrow4 жыл бұрын
what do you mean not stupid? they literally caused the end of an entire historic era. if that's not stupid, i don't know what is