I Asked 64,182 People About “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells”. Here's What I Found Out.

[@TomScottGo]

Merry Un-Christmas, everyone! And thanks to Jack, do check out his channel if you don't know it. (One bit of minutiae that didn't make the video: Bart also sang it in the very first episode, but the lyrics were slightly different and the show wasn't a pop culture phenomenon back then.)

[@lemmylol8774]

HELLO

[@TheElvisnator]

Happy Un-Easter, everyone!

[@TOPSTARrap]

@@TheElvisnator hi!!

[@TheElvisnator]

How you realize a Tom Scott Video: Comment older than the video Red T-Shirt(s)

[@TheElvisnator]

@@TOPSTARrap Howdy

[@akkristor]

The Batman Animated Series episode "Christmas with the Joker" featured the "Robin Laid an Egg" variant. It aired on November 13, 1992

[@stephanberger3476]

This! Tom totally missed this clear other reason for kids to sing 'laid an egg'.

[@mechakitsune]

Also came here to post this. Mark Hamill's Joker sang this before the Simpsons episode.

[@wraithgames]

Ha. I also came to say that. It has the wonderful "Crashing through the roof: In a one-horse open tree: Busting out I go: Laughing all the weeeeeeeee" second verse :D

[@the_original_Bilb_Ono]

Yes, i went to elementary school i. The 90s before the Simpson's episode in question and "robin laid an egg" variant was already the most popular by a long shot. I believe Tom's hypothesis is incorrect. That Simpson's episode may have changed how the UK sang the song, but in USA it has been "robin laid an egg" for a very very long time.

[@GARMkidd]

+

[@saifuusuri]

"And the Joker saved the day." That's no parental interference, that's straight up Joker propaganda.

[@aaronhe6877]

BREAKING NEWS: Tom Scott is hired by Joker to spread Joker propaganda

[@parahaxeus1267]

The gamer version

[@1234bobfox]

It's "the Joker got away" DUH

[@elijaha773]

The Joker ran away. No ballet involved. Although the image of the joker doing pointe is funny.

[@erictaylor5462]

But which Joker? Cesar Romero?

[@antialfrednt]

Today in lockdown: Tom Scott and Jacksfilms drop Royalty Free Christmas Songs 7 at the furthest possible point from Christmas

[@crate4886]

Not Alfred that’s a great way to understand it

[@holdenhankins2046]

It was a banger

[@nanamacapagal8342]

Who knew

[@Jamie-tx7pn]

December 26th

[@MRADOES04]

Can't wait

[@starhawk63]

I came across this much later, 4 years after you made it. But I have to say, I just turned 61, and the way it was done in The Simpsons was how we said it in the 70s. I grew up near San Francisco, California.

[@ant-fan]

"Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg. The Batmobile lost a wheel and Joker got away" was also sung by The Joker in "Christmas with the Joker," the second episode of Batman: The Animated Series from 1992. That's the closest to canon we've gotten, as far as I'm aware. It's also notably before The Simpsons.

[@nanszoo3092]

that is the version I learned, probably in the 70's (US)

[@davidkuhn3970]

I heard this somewhere between 1965 and 1969 and was “Robin laid an egg”. (USA.)

[@silvia.4442]

I watched that version. 😀 The Joker escapes on a rocket. 🚀

[@PuddilyOops]

Kenny Williams sang this version loudly in Mr. Mattus’ class in 1981. Ray Wiznowski tried asserting the ‘Joker did ballet’ version but Kenny said that was (homophobic slur) and so it was dropped. Correction not 1979 it was 1981.

[@Teanu.]

That's the one I know!

[@ZachD1127]

"Jingle bells, batman smells, Robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost a wheel and the joker got away!" Is sung by the joker in the animated series.

[@sam-fr5tc]

And the joker got AYWAYYYYYYYYAHHHHHH

[@anzoarts345]

That's the version I've always known

[@jak7826]

Thats the version i know because i watched batman: the animated series.

[@erinmcloughlin4045]

Mine was that, except we sang and the joker did ballet

[@elizabethgundrum2619]

I knew that version before Batman: the animated series did it. Circa 1987/88 SW Missouri

[@mberrios1875]

im convinced that those 10 people are just a friend group that are far apart from each other

[@MM-jf1me]

Yes, and how crazy would it be to see the particular version that you and your friends made up called out on a KZbin video?

[@yellowletters9465]

And the Mr Bloppy one

[@uber305]

@@MM-jf1me if they were friends I can see them messaging eachother the link of the survey but i dont see all of them doing it

[@slimjimmypage]

@@MM-jf1me I would have to assume they shared the quiz with each other.

[@MM-jf1me]

@@slimjimmypage Makes the most sense to me!

[@1a2b]

8:20 "firearm oviparity" is a truly incredible line

[@Nathan-wm8yb]

“Accumulated heatmap of egg responses” was not something I thought I’d read today.

[@robotslug]

Might very well be a new sentence.

[@WangleLine]

bwehehehe

[@Gold161803]

"Firearm oviparity" is a doozy as well

[@jackfroste]

The sheer amount of scientific rigor that went into this arcane and useless topic is exactly what makes KZbin great.

[@gemk7393]

Welcome to 2020

[@smpenn4430]

For me it was: “Robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost its wheel and *the joker got away*” I assumed it was like this everywhere at least in the US

[@Kaleii08]

Same, i was in California when i learned it

[@tylergow3026]

Thats how it was in Colorado

[@TURK_182]

Seattle too

[@thisisfine4093]

Brooklyn too

[@_JayRamsey_]

New Hampshire, same. Never saw it on the Simpsons

[@FnrrfYgmSchnish]

The only version I've ever heard was "Robin laid an egg" -- didn't even realize there *were* other versions until today! Which I guess makes sense if the "flew away" version was primarily British.

[@zachprime4683]

The only one I’ve heard is uncle billy lost his Willy on the motorway 😂

[@penguosk]

@@zachprime4683 wot

[@Gweebi]

@@penguosk jingle bells, batman smells Robin flew away Uncle Billy Lost his willy On the motorwaaayy HEY

[@LuxioV2]

@@zachprime4683 I couldn’t remember the version I knew until I heard him say that 😂

[@beans1629]

I thought it was someone how both, like maybe it looks and it's the other one

[@Tabbycat2701]

The version I always heard in Nz was “the Batmobile lost it’s wheel on the motorway” which honestly makes a lot more sense than any of those other things various people were supposedly losing on there lmao

[@threelettermax924]

Batman: Loses parents to a gun Robin: BECOMES parent to a gun We're through the looking glass here people.

[@violetnhz]

HAHA

[@hioeo]

I prefer gun. I am american and was born in the 90's, but I prefer gun now.

[@AndrewJJ-0114]

Because I'm a '90s kid, I read "We're through the looking glass here people" in Milhouse's voice.

[@notamuffin]

The "Uncle Billy lost his willy" part legitimately unlocked a long forgotten memory of me and my friends as kids nearly pissing our pants with laughter singing this.

[@NotMadA47.2]

“- on the motorway. Hey.” Rest of what I know.

[@Fane7]

I was born in 2007 and this was still the version in my primary school.

[@qwaabza]

​​​@@NotMadA47.2yo, 'new' bottom surgery just dropped

[@ForestFire369]

​@@qwaabzaBruh I laughed way too hard at that

[@TheMoonRover]

I remember hearing that as "Uncle Billy had a ten foot willy"

[@jolotabani]

In Finland we had one rhyme it went along the lines of: "Batman oli mielipuoli, hyppäs katolta ja kuoli." Which is translated to English: "Batman had a mental breakdown, jumped down from roof and died." *And yes, kids are truly monsters if you ask me.*

[@pleasecontactme4274]

XD

[@sphinctergaming4352]

Just Finnland being Finnland

[@gentlemancharmander4411]

If you think that’s bad, here in America, we had at least 5 different variations of Barney the dinosaurs death through songs

[@patu8010]

Another one is "Kevät tuli, lumi suli, lumen alta esiin tuli Bätmään!" ("Spring came, snow melted, from under the snow appeared Batman") But both of these are sang to the tune of the old Batman theme song

[@thatoneguy9582]

_oh_

[@dudethedude1220]

12:24 I love how aware Jacksfilms is of how annoyed his fans get when he stretches the sponsorship segment way too much, but continues to do it anyways because it is funny

[@BenM.Davies]

Tom Scott and Jacksfilms, the crossover no one really asked for, but the one everyone loves.

[@MeGaDwarf2008]

My sentiment exactly! When I've noticed link to Jack in the description, I was WTF?

[@vishnugopakumar8807]

Jack is exactly what this channel needs

[@nicolask.3825]

I would have never expected it, but it turned out amazingly.

[@benwest5293]

@@MeGaDwarf2008 i, for one, didn't know who that guy was. For people like me (who I guess are strongly in the minority), that's much appreciated

[@vunga8195]

Copied

[@cheeto.burrito]

"Joker saved the day" is a variation only found in WB Kids' version, where the _Joker_ is the one singing that part

[@BashoftheMonth]

What episode was this? I didn't watch the WB episodes too much.

[@WateverWatever04]

+

[@jackofclubs9751]

@@BashoftheMonth christmas with the joker

[@something3530]

But in batman the animated series it's the joker got away so it depends

[@siam1832]

@@BashoftheMonth think it may have been between shows or something like a promo

[@oromain]

Tom Scott and Jacksfilms was a crossover I was not expecting but I greatly appreciate

[@KJJ3DS]

The sponsor joke was brilliant

[@savvy7146]

Same

[@Flossyandthebirds]

The forehead boys duo we didn’t know we needed

[@Clusterbucker]

Dude same

[@SlurpyTheDog]

Considering it was going to be a live performance, was Jack supposed to come on stage at some point?

[@karpi470]

Another influence in the 90's could have stemmed from the Batman franchise itself. There is a Christmas epiaode of the animated Batman TV show where the Joker sings that song, and he also uses the "laid an egg" version.

[@zarinaa1135]

I'm not sure how this affects the data but Joker in Batman the Animated Series in the 80's sang this song and there it was "laid an egg". *90's. Sorry about that. '92 to be exact*

[@lDanielHolm]

That was in the 90s, not the 80s. (TAS began airing in '92.)

[@cles0v]

Yes

[@kykywox]

That's where I learned it from! I never saw the Simpson episode but I grew up on the Batman Animated Series :D

[@williwonti]

Right, I don't remember the Simpsons being where I learned it but rather "Batman: The Animated Series". I seem to think I actually heard it on the playground before I saw it on Batman. Now I see that "Christmas With the Joker" aired in November 1992 so Simpsons didn't change it.

[@_PatrickO]

@@williwonti The batman animated series likely never aired in the UK and it was likely always laid an egg in the US, the UK was different and changed by the simpsons for a period of time.

[@r520jr8]

I thought everyone grew up with “Jingle Bells Batman Smells, Robin Laid an Egg, The Batmobile Lost a Wheel and the Joker got away, hey” especially since that version was even sung BY The Joker

[@nilesmith8124]

No i grew up with jingle bells batman smells robin laid an egg uncle billy lost his willy on the motor way

[@_bludie_]

Mine was joker did ballet

[@arcashark389]

Actually same and then Batman's in the kitchen Robins in the hall Jokers in the bathroom pissing on the wall, hey

[@pandaragons6388]

i heard that version but then i thought, "hey what if joker did ballet, that would be funnier," so i always sang that one. i actually didnt know other people already sang that version in other places XD

[@Moald]

I grew up with Billy losing his wily

[@JAaronMattox]

The “Robin laid a gun” one is probably mixed from the version “Jingle Bells, shotgun shells, granny had a gun...”

[@itairoz1434]

what wrong with your country

[@Saphfeu]

I thought it was “911 911 grandma has a gun”

[@JAaronMattox]

“...shot me in my underwear in 1991” is how it ends, I think. It probably varies from grandmother to grandmother though.

[@katiefinch9414]

I’ve heard “911, 911, Santa’s got a gun! Shot a deer in the rear in 1981” as the addition to the broken skis variant

[@joshbbrill]

i'm from the us and i've never even heard this

[@matejmalesevic8892]

As a person currently taking sociolinguistics returning to this video after years, I am amazed by how good of a study this is. This can/should straight up be a paper. Tom is many things, but I'm glad to see he's still a scientist (and a linguist) at heart plus most sociolinguistic studies can only dream of such a sample size

[@KarlBaron]

I was today years old when I realized that “laid an egg” was a bird joke. I always thought it was that Robin farted (why else would Batman smell?). “Who laid an egg?” was slang to ask who farted at the time.

[@kisinja4582]

is it not a double entendre ??

[@smoothred9453]

@@kisinja4582 yes

[@Liam3851]

It had also never occurred to me that it was a bird joke. I wonder- is "laid an egg" a slang term for farting in Britain, or purely North America? As a fart joke, only laid an egg makes sense. But if "laid an egg" isn't common slang in Britain, it makes complete sense they have a different version-- as a bird joke, "flew away" rhymes better and is just as sensible.

[@cl0msy]

THATS WHAT I THOUGHT

[@cristlewrite7944]

Tbh, I just realized conciously now. I always thought to myself as a kid "why would robin be laying an egg???"😂 The parody version overall just confused me cause I would always overanaylze it in my head. I have a learning disorder that has the side effect of sometimes taking words/phrases very literally, though, so thats probably why🙃

[@Copur_]

"Robin laid a gun" is the most american thing that could've happened to it

[@PopsiclesInMyCellar]

So true

[@PyroPuffs777]

Excuse the technical term is _firearm oviparity_

[@supernerd1999]

8:12

[@dtp0119]

I actually remember that version

[@carlwheezer55]

More American if it was in a school

[@samlamping5047]

“Robin laid a GUN.” The keyboard slam just straight up killed me.

[@Dicen_Delirio]

"Keyboard"

[@607]

Galia Del Rio Yes, in English that part of the organ, piano, etc, is called 'keyboard'.

[@LetoDK]

@@Dicen_Delirio that's what it's called. Its been called keyboard long before computer keyboards came around.

[@JasperJanssen]

LetoDK they weren’t called keyboards before the piano and harpsichord, though. In organs, they’re called “manuals”, and you typically have 2 to 5 of them. I know, I know, etymology isn’t relevant, but it is also the subject of this entire video.

[@LaserKoray]

Umm, it’s called a Letter table

[@schtinky1151]

At our school we had the second verse that goes as follows "Batman's in the kitchen, Robin's in the hall, Joker's in the bathroom Peeing on the wall!" I know its an outlier to the question at hand, but its still interesting to know whether or not the song continues, and how, in certain places.

[@ezekielmartin4323]

@reconramos1 had the same version! Maybe y'all are from the same area?

[@ezekielmartin4323]

@meismecubes has this version too!

[@scorpinope]

As an Australian this unearthed so many memories... Christ we were violent

[@yellaturd]

I wanted to see the results for what Australian's call "tag". I always knew it as "tiggy" growing up in QLD for whatever reason.

[@fivesquared7822]

@@yellaturd I would have liked to see that too. In Sydney we called it 'tip', at least in southern Sydney where I grew up. Northern suburbs had a high expat community, especially from South Africa particularly, where they called it 'it', and my parents had friends up there, so we often called it by two names

[@daidarabotchi3891]

@@yellaturd Tiggy in Victoria too. I'd love to see all the data! Did you by any chance have 'the batmobile lost its wheels, all on Christmas day, hey'?

[@awfulwaffle6154]

It's Chasey. Fight me irl

[@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaao]

@@yellaturd It was 'chasey' at my primary school in SA in the 00s. I had no idea there was so much variation across the country!

[@rash8153]

Jacksfilms on tomorrow's YIAY: "Describe Batman's body odour in just 4 words"

[@Hello-yr1ux]

Goose if you are right, wth

[@ZR-kp5qh]

30 likes in 1 minute

[@Neymarinet]

NEVER would have expected to see a jacksfilms and tom scott collab video. my likey

[@mohamadeen]

@@Neymarinet it's a very me me big brain moment

[@abelnagy422]

you misspelled LWIAY

[@kayleighh6213]

Honestly, this could have been a Bachelor's thesis for a linguistics student

[@JetstreamGW]

I mean, surely it'd have to cover a broader range of things.

[@papagunit]

Would've taken them years to collect this much quality data haha

[@MattsAwesomeStuff]

Tom Scott's degree *is* in linguistics. Not computer science.

[@denelson83]

Bang your lingui-sticks on your ear-drums.

[@ilyaholt8607]

@@papagunit I feel like Tom has a slight advantage of having millions of people watching his content in that sense.

[@Nanagos]

This is such a great topic, especially everyone of us experienced how something spreads around by mouth in school but we often didn't know where it originally came from.

[@culturedcrazygirl]

When you said “children are monsters” I was confused until I remembered that there was a song at my elementary school were you beat Barney to death with a bat.

[@lordpsi99]

Was it "I hate you, you hate me, let's team up and kill Barney. With a baseball bat to his head. Now Barney (something something) dead."? It's been years since I heard it!

[@culturedcrazygirl]

Lord Psi yep exactly that!

[@WeAreComingHome]

Flushed his body down the potty... When you mentioned the Barney song this popped into my head but I'm struggling to remember the other words we used.

[@InkFilledCity]

@@lordpsi99 the one I had was a bit different I had "I hate you, you hate me, let's team up and kill barney, with 1 shot 2 shot 3 and 4 no more purple dinosaur"

[@howdopplthinkofthese]

"With a baseball bat and a needle(?) up his nose, no more purple dinosaur "

[@dishwashee]

honestly, jack’s attempt at swedish was very good, and i hadn’t heard that rhyme since i was little. what a wonderful surprise

[@michaelcooper3633]

"Now repeat it in Swedish!"

[@Chasta1n42]

How was Sweden

[@untitledswed1661]

@@Chasta1n42 it was very swedish!

[@wileng8655]

@@Chasta1n42 väldigt svenskt

[@phrodendekia]

I can't understand swedish, so it sounded very swedish to me

[@andrealabonair3519]

"Children are monsters" and "You can't get 98% of Americans to agree on anything." are my favourite lines from this video.

[@ZUnknownFox]

both are true.

[@SoloPilot6]

Actually, you could probably get 98% of Americans to agree that you can't get 98% of Americans to agree on anything.

[@vg6761]

You can get

[@KusaneHexaku]

@@vg6761 you really think that when flat earthers exist?

[@shizune_]

@@KusaneHexaku What does that have to do with water?

[@Joevenon]

Here in Brazil, the most common version is "jingle bell jingle bell acabou papel, não faz mal, não faz mal, limpa com jornal" which means to clean your butt with newspaper when there's no toilet paper.

[@DoubleSidedSpoon]

wise words

[@Electricity0]

Friend: "Robin laid an egg" Tom: "Its Robin flew away" Friend: "No it's not!" Tom: "Let me ask 64,182 people"

[@JrgPt96]

This is just him getting back at Gary for the last season of One of these people is lying.

[@Lo33y_]

@@JrgPt96 one of these people??

[@iabervon]

@@Lo33y_ There's the infamous "one of these people is lying, one misunderstood the article, and the third made up an answer that's the most accurate" game.

[@Lo33y_]

@@iabervon oh tromso

[@eziitis8]

It was probably Matt

[@niklasschmidt3610]

As a german who never liked singing it was "Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, [mumbling]..., Hey"

[@Metal_Tao]

Haha, I love this

[@s4ndwichMakeR]

There is no such Jingle Bells parody in German-speaking countries, right? I only remember parodies of the “Advent, Advent” poem with different outcomes.

[@viktorg6823]

As a German, I'd be surprised if many Germans actually knew how the lyrics continue after 'Jingle Bells'.

[@s4ndwichMakeR]

@@viktorg6823 „Weihnachtszeit, Weihnachtszeit, sag allen Bescheid!“

[@2rooms19]

s4ndwichMakeR Leise rieselt der Schnee / Christkind fährt mit ˋnem VW / höret wie leise es kracht / Christkind hat ˋnen Unfall gemacht

[@TheDarkTrooper]

"You can't get 98% of Americans to agree on anything" - My personal favourite line in this video.

[@void1313]

they can agree on the fact this is the only time you wanna go back to school

[@nathand9834]

What about “Children are monsters”

[@truetentic]

Mine is “Children are Monsters”

[@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim]

@@void1313 no, sadly. . . :(

[@redshift1976]

That two percent are Republicans 🤣🤣🤣

[@wavewingman5993]

Having Jack do this is like getting an honorary bonus track to Royalty Free Christmas Songs.

[@tobyjohnson3898]

Personally I think this should become a series “Tom Scott sends random surveys to a lot of people and rambles to the camera about his results for 15 minutes”

[@resterdebout57]

And it will still be more regular than "YGS every Friday"

[@zachkennedy6992]

truthbegins such an underrated comment

[@wuliajeber]

Yes!!

[@Amcsae]

I loved this, so I'd watch more!

[@chesspiece4257]

i mean this is just reading any scientific paper XD

[@theunwelcome]

"you can't get 98% of Americans to agree on ANYTHING!" so, so true Jack's singing is hilarious here, especially the gun version

[@eliasmg9144]

Not even 80%

[@CobaltKuma]

*GUN.*

[@poigikibobo]

@@CobaltKuma *G U N.*

[@krissp8712]

He's having waaayyy too much fun with that singing lmao

[@name_tag_]

8:10 you're welcome ;3

[@urbicide_if]

I was born in 2005 and live in Michigan, no one ever used the “flew away variant” everyone agreed that it was “laid an egg” the real divide was “joker got away” vs “joker did ballet”

[@justinrf7662]

I knew of "and the joker lost his head, hey"

[@jebpeterson6418]

laid an *gun*

[@LilCheesyBean]

Flew away makes more sense to me because all of the endings I know rhyme with it

[@whizkid0521]

I too was born in 2005 and I live within the UK. Everyone in my area would say “laid an egg” and the most common version we had was “Uncle Billy lost his willy”. However, we would occasionally hear “The batmobile lost it’s wheel and the joker got away”

[@NinjaPickle]

2004 in Alabama, and the Joker ballet variant, while rare, was still a version I had heard. Same with the Saved the Day variant

[@DarthBoardBVE]

Three years late here, but the version on the Simpsons was definitely the one I heard/sang as a kid, and that was long before the Simpsons came out (I was in high school when Simpsons started). The Joker also sang it in Batman:The Animated Series in 1992.

[@sappyfx]

"Children are monsters" - Tom Scott 2020

[@Kaktanternak]

he's 100% correct

[@snyfalcryo524]

And that's a fact

[@rushdesigns]

SAPPYFX

[@rushdesigns]

LMFAOOO

[@Bullshit_Media]

@@Kaktanternak YES.

[@SheaStevenson]

"Time is meaningless, let's talk about Jingle Bells in the middle of summer." Sounds like a typical Christmas in the southern hemisphere

[@tobybartels8426]

Exactly, it's more of a winter song than Christmas; in fact, it was originally written for a different winter holiday (Thanksgiving, celebrated at the end of November, which is already winter where it was written in the northeastern USA). So perfectly appropriate in Australia (and New Zealand, South Africa, etc) now.

[@jenniferflorance944]

Toby Bartels Haha no we only sing Jingle Bells at Christmas time in Australia. Very few parts of Australia get cold enough to have snow in winter

[@RanEncounter]

What do you mean? It is not summer in the southern hemisphere right now.

[@caelummccartin4310]

@@tobybartels8426 have you ever seen snow? Cause where I live (north west of melbourne) it only snows once every 2 years

[@captain-chair]

@@jenniferflorance944 What about the Rusty Holden Ute variant?

[@DefinitelyReagan]

Tom: "Let's talk about Jingle Bells in the middle of summer." Me: * Laughs in Australian *

[@fatal_goose4017]

lmaoooooooo

[@Banzybanz]

Aussie winter is sunnier than English summer.

[@fifteens]

me: laughs in new zealand

[@sadenuttie2234]

scrub *Australia’s inferior little brother

[@fifteens]

@Saden Uttie ! true, but im actually australian. I moved to new zealand when I was 2

[@kagomeshuko]

I was SO CONFUSED when I was little when children in the neighborhood asked if I wanted to play hide and seek, and then ALSO combined it with tag. So, you hid, and when you were found, you had to run to the safe base before being tagged by the seeker. If you got tagged, you became the seeker.

[@ManaPirate]

"Let's talk about jingle bells in the middle of summer" As an Australian, I see no issues with this statement

[@vflowersimp]

lmao mood

[@elisap75]

I know, right!?!

[@puterafahimilmibinmohdhilm1764]

As a Malaysian, I never knew about other seasons until 7 years old.

[@Booklat1]

a message from >south hemisphere gang

[@LordOfAllDaGames]

Sustained

[@MoLaupi]

Jack: "Today's sponsor is.." Tom: "We don't do that here."

[@meagancamara9743]

XD

[@jordan3400]

XD

[@joshuatiso7561]

XD

[@harrytodhunter5078]

DX

[@sawcon5628]

px

[@helloitsowen6639]

The fact that Jack hits the "Heyyyyaaaayy" the same way every time.

[@TJTrickster]

Except for the motorway

[@jslasher5330]

Simpsons S1E1

[@Baset_]

Robin laying an egg is just a funnier idea than him flying away

[@bennetthaara8144]

The Joker actually sang the “Laid an egg” version on a Christmas episode of the Batman Animated series

[@toomanyfandoms1684]

only it ends with "Got away" not "did Bailey"

[@hannahalice1000]

So - another Tom episode to see if that was what "informed" the Simpsons writers to their version or if it was inherent to the USA before then

[@jeebsmagee]

@@toomanyfandoms1684 Who is Bailey and why would the Joker be doing them, especially on a show for children?

[@greenyodadude]

@@hannahalice1000 based on how long it took animation to get made in the 90s, they probably came up with the line independently

[@Xylos144]

Doesn't the Flash also sing (say) it in the Justice League cartoon?

[@zacgilbert8871]

“You cant get 98% of Americans to agree on anything” -Tom Scott 2020 The sad truth

[@nukelernicky7793]

Would you rather they were all the same and didn’t have differing opinions?

[@trashtrash2169]

cant get 98 percent of any group to agree on anything perfectly.

[@synonymous1079]

You can probably get them to hate the Brits.

[@isaace436]

Except independence from Britain, we got that one right

[@tobybartels8426]

@@synonymous1079 : Americans? No, we love Britain! And usually at least some actual British people.

[@TheCandoRailfan]

"Children are monsters." - Tom Scott, twice.

[@otakuman706]

It's an important lesson. Children ARE monsters.

[@juliánito59]

Feel free to ask any parent that have spent the last 2-6 months* with their children under lockdown.

[@mozkitolife5437]

@@juliánito59 😭😭😭😭 Kill us. Kill us, now.

[@BlazerDarkness]

Agism is an invisible enough issue that I don't by any means like Tom less for this, but I hope it becomes less so in the future, enough that people look back on this and think it aged poorly. Youth rights!

[@basione]

@@otakuman706 And we all have one in our heads.

[@ferretyluv]

You should do the “Trick or treat, smell my feet” song next.

[@allocatingdesign7884]

@ferretyluv Oh man I forgot about this one! I remember it as being: “Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat If you don’t, I don’t care, cause I can see your underwear”

[@digilici951]

i knew the ending as “i’ll pull down your underwear”

[@leemckenna8214]

"Robin laid an egg" "Batmobile lost a wheel and the Joker got away" the ONLY WAY I KNEW IT GROWING UP. I started hearing SOME of these others the more i grew up and the internet brought as all closer together.

[@leemckenna8214]

And of course... " ... HEY!!"

[@meahlive9124]

me too! tho I think I had Horay! at the end of it :)

[@foggy_nights]

ya! surprised "saved the day" was more popular

[@jalapeno1119]

This was exactly my version, too!

[@phoebethefey]

That was mine too. It was in one of the Batman cartoons

[@PentaB313]

“Jingle-bells Batman smells, robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost a wheel and the joker got away, hey!” is the only way I ever knew it

[@kaejamieson1458]

Yes

[@bossbabyfunnymoments6187]

Same

[@JoeboWasTaken]

same

[@ayt444]

Same

[@thenobalnacho]

"The joker took ballet" is the nonsense version that I learned

[@FD-vj6hd]

The timeline where jacksfilms sings ‘mr blobby did a jobby’ in a Tom Scott video is the best one

[@FroZenMemes]

Ffs😭

[@cwmd7651]

Gotta say, I thought “a jobby” meant something much more demonetized than what Tom said

[@rarehipster3145]

CW MD I believe it is

[@JakubS]

the prime timeline

[@furretar6484]

@@JakubS over here we call it the Steins;Gate

[@WolfsbaneHollow]

US, senior citizen, and traveled to Europe during my "tween" years... the game is tag and the version I've known since sometime in the late '60s was always "Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost its wheel and the joker got away..."

[@megbennett626]

Being able to sing along with the “dashing through the snow, on a pair of broken skis” part was an immediate and jarring throwback to my childhood

[@hannahheeeh]

Seriously though, I didn't even remember that this was from the same song!

[@caeleysimon2582]

I know right?

[@mrh8142]

Yes

[@snowgrave2475]

What about 'dashing through the sand...'

[@matthiascheah3519]

From a distance far, shooting Commissars

[@RafidW9]

Jacksfilms and Tom Scott, a Collab I never thought I would ever see.

[@Sestrim]

I never knew how much I wanted this before I saw it.

[@andybradley8347]

Same but I couldn’t be happier

[@meetaverma8372]

I commented something similar, it is unbelievable

[@Keijo_]

Yet more proof that literally anything can happen in 2020

[@TimofejBliki]

They both make grammar videos I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@themanmrbijok7364]

...You forgot to mention one key factor. Batman The Animated Series did “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells” and it mentioned the fact that Robin laid an egg, but also that the Batmobile lost its wheel on a German Motorway.

[@arcanics1971]

But it came after the Simpsons.

[@hexeddecimals]

@@arcanics1971 still important to consider

[@bdf2718]

Which explains Kraftwerk's lyrics "Wir fart, fart, fart auf der Autobahn."

[@windhelmguard5295]

@@arcanics1971 but it was in an actual batman show and performed by mark hamil, so it is infinitely more memorable since this version is directly associated with batman.

[@qwerfa]

@@enemyinc.6741 the song was also sung by Bart in Christmas with the Simpsons in 1989.

[@ScouseDronePilot]

Damn I miss Tom Scott videos. His enthusiasm about things unmatched.

[@ohalice1854]

Hearing John sing a song in swedish that was deeply buried in my childhood memories - - - i have no words. My mind is blown. Thank you.

[@MomentMediaSW]

Same asså

[@digilici951]

his name is Jack

[@HaraldHardraade1066]

@@digilici951 No, his name is John. John Patrick Douglas

[@seireiart]

"Ugh... Don't call me that." -Johnsclips

[@ATM648]

5:57

[@Thatguyyousawonce]

"You cant get 98% of Americans to agree on anything!" Aint that the truth.

[@Oscario]

It’s fax

[@cathacker13]

@@Oscario I don't know about you, but I don't think that's how a fax machine works

[@ryanday6491]

You know when we do it's something so incredibly rooted into us that we're all just "Yup, that's the way it works"

[@Kriae]

Amen

[@chaonegamesandmore4490]

98% of Americans agree to this statement

[@katherineloya5793]

I love this video, it has amazing statistical content and it also has: 1. "It's June 2020, time in meaningless, let's talk about jingle bells." 2. "You cants get 98% of Americans to agree on anything." 3. Jacksfilms trying to sell us something on someone else's video

[@samuelstrachan2726]

The joke also being Brits see that type of advertising as taboo, and Americans have been used to it since birth

[@UnforgetableLuncheon]

4. "Children are monsters."

[@khaitranngoc4176]

5. Robin laid a Gun.

[@EthanWithoutTheK]

3:20 the flashing text says “nice”

[@woodrobin]

The version I remember made more logical sense: "The Batmobile lost a wheel, and the Joker got away, hey!" That's also the version Mark Hamill sings, as the Joker, in Batman: the Animated Series, November, 1992 (Season 1, Episode 38, credit to andybearchan) immediately before using a rocket hidden in a Christmas tree to escape from Arkham Asylum.

[@honeyfugle]

I know this version too but I think just from TV

[@josiah2070]

Thats where i heard the song as well

[@JoelYoder]

Considering the spike in the UK happens in the 90s, I wonder how much the Batman animated series contributed to it.

[@nkelly5851]

That's the one I know but I've never figured out where I got it from!

[@StarWarsomania]

woodrobin That's the version I know! Though I (mis?)remember it as "Joker ran away".

[@Purpleyoshisinthesky]

Joker himself said “Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg, the batmobile lost a wheel and the Joker got away” in the Batman: the Animated Series episode “Christmas with the Joker” which aired in 1992. So I’m counting that one as correct

[@Jolll4]

And this happened the previous year from the Simpsons episode. Due to the timing it is likely that the Simpsons got their reference Batman: the Animated Series.

[@jdmaxim5738]

That’s where I’ve heard it!

[@stareyedwitch]

"Crashing through the roof, on a one horse open tree, breaking out I go, laughing all the wheee!" I've never heard that continuation of the song anywhere but that show.

[@mister_i9245]

Thats the one I know

[@wowgrab7553]

That’s the exact version I know!

[@Itsspelledketchup]

You have admit, Robin laying an egg is a more humorous image than just flying away.

[@fullym5484]

Yet laying a gun just surprised me

[@hartman.4744]

Absolutely

[@Pepperjack57IsAwesome]

Where tf did the gun come out of

[@suspiciousbakedpotato]

@@Pepperjack57IsAwesome Robin, it came out of Robin.

[@goodguycwyzz4768]

They are both bird puns

[@Muggins1046]

Oh my gosh, Australia has a series of books like that British one. Someone catalogued childrens playground rhymes for posterity. Books in the series were: Unreal Banana Peel, All Right Vegemite, Far Out Brussel Sprout etc. Also my region called tag ‘Tips’

[@fromchomleystreet]

NSW?

[@maulanamuhammad7633]

"It's 2020. Time is meaningless" -Tom Scott, 2020.

[@sweetsweetwafflecones2747]

I think you mean -Tom Scott 1981 (“ *HEY* ”)

[@jodofly1158]

Its 2020 , the comments section is pointless - everybody

[@shapgfx]

Yesterday, I asked you: “Fill in the blank: Jingle bells, Batman smells, __________.” Here are your best answers.

[@TheBestcommentor]

This is why Jack is the perfect person for this

[@meetaverma8372]

@@TheBestcommentor it's a perfect collab

[@chance6696]

robin lost his pants in the middle of france

[@pavloverboy]

Never did I ever think that the JohnsVideos community and the Tom Scott community would come together like this and I’m so proud to live in a time where I can see that happen

[@shapgfx]

Andromeda we live in wild times

[@blinky5247]

“Robin laid a gun” unearthed so many childhood memories I didn’t even know existed until now

[@squirlmy]

a traumatic flashback? I hope you're just getting nostalgic, but that version kinda creeps me out. What kind of twisted mind would make that up?

[@cocoafox]

SAME

[@aureliabackup7313]

The logistics of laying a gun are incomprehensible.

[@PixelBoyMiner]

@@squirlmy children where firearms tend to be a realitively common thing lmao

[@cade579]

@@aureliabackup7313 kids think its funny to lay a gun and most kids don't think about logistics

[@Fayrayz]

The way my jaw dropped when I heard “Joker did ballet” was a Canadian variant after hearing it all my childhood in Toronto 😆 I thought it was like that everywhere!

[@amarevite8388]

I was very unprepared for Jack’s “today’s sponsor is” at the very end and laughed maybe more than I should have

[@pewpewdragon4483]

I now strangely want to know, who is today's sponsor XD

[@benelliott9158]

@@pewpewdragon4483 movement watches

[@luketurner314]

I was laughing more at Tom's "No"

[@JV-vk1lh]

R a i d s h a d o w l e g e n d s

[@SheetMusicBoss]

Revisiting this video because I made a poll between "ran away" and "flew away" and everyone told me I was wrong

[@rafidoza9180]

That's why I'm here too

[@sHooIT]

Really? Most people put robin ran away?

[@matthewvreeke9872]

I came here directly after seeing your poll

[@Magst3r1]

I actually came here because of your poll. It's laid an egg though, because the bird pun fits better

[@Paranitis]

@@sHooIT I think they are trying to say that the options were "ran away" and "flew away", and didn't take "laid an egg" into account because they may not have known that was an option if they never heard of it themselves, therefor the people taking the poll were saying they were wrong for not including "laid an egg".

[@exnihilo8388]

I love how Jack tried dropping a sponsorship in a colab. Also the fact that Tom Scott and JacksFilms even did a colab is mind boggling

[@InItForTheLoot]

Tom Scott did a clown with William osman and Micheal reeves

[@helper_bot]

Jack using a red sweater in this collab is amazing

[@exnihilo8388]

@@InItForTheLoot Tom Scott does what seems to be completely random colabs that no one asked for with KZbinrs you'd least expect

[@amyvictoriab]

I watch this annually. His excitement about the year of birth breakdown graph is adorable and I must always come back to it when I hear jingle bells drifting in from the distance when this time of year comes around. Thanks, Tom. ❤️

[@Elvalley]

Talking about Jingle Bells in the middle of summer sounds plenty normal to me.

[@maxmori8616]

You're Australian, I presume.

[@Elvalley]

@@maxmori8616 close enough for the purpose of making sense of my comment, but quite far off otherwise. I'm Latin American.

[@theythemgae9025]

Kiwi concurring

[@azreal4633]

@@maxmori8616 Australia is not the entirety of the southern hemisphere

[@higgystardust9866]

It’s 2020, anything can happen 😌

[@noidea2568]

Tom Scott and Jacksfilms - a collab that we didn't even know we wanted.

[@ayoitscat]

But I'm so glad it exists

[@depressed.lemonade]

we did not know we wanted it, but deep down inside, we knew we needed it

[@cmckee42]

Not going to lie. I was definitely expecting Jay Forman instead.

[@hareezkaikyou]

Hey Im not complaining

[@jackielinde7568]

But, what I really wanted to know was... Who is today's sponsor? Was it the number Seven? I bet it was the number 7.

[@forge23]

"Firearm Oviparity" I'm sorry, but that had me in stitches so hard. Brilliant word use.

[@x3ICEx]

Hi. Timestamp please? It's not in the subtitles/transcript. Edit: 8:20 on-screen text.

[@noahmorris1015]

it's not the version i grew up with... but it is certainly the most american version i've ever heard lmao

[@ThatNerdGuy0]

I did not expect jacksfilms here! Justice for jacksfilms

[@Booksds]

Yesterday, I Asked You: “What’s the next line of Jingle Bells, Batman Smells?” Here are your best answers.

[@JakeD567]

Underrated comment right here 😂

[@baguetteyeeter]

I wonder if that will be a real episode

[@datorangutan2696]

Jingle bells, Batman smells A light switch

[@Deveron4]

Neeko robinsinjim

[@Scarletraven87]

I unsubscribed that channel in 2015.

[@hello-jy9hf]

"Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid a *gun."* personally, growing up in Canada: Robin laid an egg and Joker did indeed do ballet.

[@hello-jy9hf]

fuckin love it bud

[@elisem4489]

it's an american version, of course it's got firearms

[@rileysteidel7084]

Can concur, aswell as the missing tire on Batman's mode of transportation

[@matheuswohl]

"Robin laid a gun." is the most american thing I could expect

[@199NickYT]

Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, Robin laid a G U N

[@Victoriasm31]

Playground rhymes and their evolution are fascinating, because they are being passed down from year to year, rather than generation to generation. Nobody is learning them from their parents (unlike, for example, nursery rhymes); they're learning them from older kids who learnt them from older kids who learnt them... I wonder if this gives them the opportunity to develop 20-30 times more quickly than nursery rhymes.

[@airierwitch4116]

That would make sense - it's like the evolution of viruses compared to the evolution elephants.

[@evilfriedchicken5965]

I even remember changing playground rhymes on my own when I was in kindergarten, then trying to convince all the other children to use my version. It was minor stuff, like changing a pronoun or negating a phrase to turn it into the opposite. Most of the time, you couldn't even tell which version was the original because the change was so subtle.

[@shadycharacters1934]

@@evilfriedchicken5965 I remember kids making ruder and more cynical versions of rhymes and overusing them to the point where everyone just went along with that being the original.

[@lightonthehill8548]

An interesting thing about the rise of xbox and ps games for children is the potential decline in playground games. Where did you learn "tag" as it's described in the video, or red rover, or hide and seek, or, if you're female, skipping rhymes or hopscotch? Children learn from older children, which may mean the end for these games if children's games on xboxes and the like continue to grow. I know I sound like a boomer, but this is a genuine thing that scholars worry about. That sounds even more like a boomer.

[@lightonthehill8548]

@Cj wattsup agreed, it's not a bad thing. Just interesting that this thing based on for generations may end soon. And a little sad. It's healthy to get out in fresh air for a while!

[@AvitalShtap]

Your face when you saw that data was so happy and adorable!!!!! I was so hpapy for your hypothesis being right XD so cool! thank you for tracking this! saw the simpsons episode and thjought of you and had to come back!

[@AugustBreak]

I love this collab with JacksFilms because anyone who isn’t familiar with his content might check him out for music and end up finding classics like Top 10 Farts

[@coobk]

or raping vs rapping

[@VNdoug]

This Christmas I want to give you my heart... but not if you can't tell 'rapping' and 'raping' apart!

[@mkoldewijn]

Ah a true fan!

[@Jonathan-xi5mb]

UK and the US: ok let's stick to the theme with batman. Sweden: thicc bear.

[@ludvig9184]

The Swedish one has nothing to do with batman to begin with though. It's not "sticking to the theme" with batman because batman was never even mentioned. It's just a parody of jingle bells. If anything the english version is strange because batman has nothing to do with jingle bells.

[@marcifeil3612]

@@ludvig9184 way to ruin a comment

[@mrmccranky]

@@ludvig9184 Is there a Norwegian version of Debby Downer? Cause you are being one.

[@wellidontknow5745]

I’m Swedish ;-;

[@user-iz8rr1kt5w]

the broken skis version was so iconic as a kid, everyone knew it. i can’t believe so few people knew it

[@Whitsoxrule1]

I think it was a totally separate rhyme, I knew that rhyme but I didn't include it when I responded in the survey, didn't even come to mind because I don't associate it with the "Batman smells" rhyme

[@divineengine547]

@@Whitsoxrule1 It was a different rhyme. I guess it got included here because it was just a different part of the Jingle Bells song.

[@annhaas2613]

It's a different thing for me. The Batman and skis are completely separate

[@soupinabagel4021]

I had always heard the version where the final line was woke up in a hospital with an artificial head

[@5jay540]

i remember this part of the song and imagining the joker was the one singing while getting chased by batman and robin then yelling at harley quinn Take me to the hospital or shoot me in the head

[@ariatheroyal]

At the start of this video, I remembered it as 'Robin laid an egg' but then I heard the 'Robin laid a gun' and remembered that's the one that actually filled up my entire childhood and I didn't remember it Darn you, REPRESSED MEMORIES!

[@Viperzka]

Given how many Americans agree on "laid an egg", I would bet that the Simpsons used that version because it's what they personally grew up with and didn't even realize there were other versions.

[@alexn1168]

Or thats what influenced the change in lyrics

[@kadenlopez1051]

Alex N the chart showed there was no big change in America when the episode aired

[@alexn1168]

@@kadenlopez1051 I thought that was birth year of the people voting not years passed

[@EebstertheGreat]

@@alexn1168 That's the year at which the person was 8 years old. So kids in elementary school in the 90s in the UK were likely to use the "laid an egg" version, but the rest of the people from the UK who responded remembered something else (especially "flew away"). But Americans of all ages remember "laid an egg," even if they were already adults when the Simpson's episode aired.

[@Olivia-yk8lm]

I’ve never even watched the simpsons (don’t attack me) and I’ve always only know the “robin laid am egg” version.

[@davidwassink9501]

Jack: "Today's sponsor--" Tom: "NO!" Easily the highlight of my KZbin viewing all month. :)

[@MatthewMilton]

Nice

[@rafidsiddique2010]

I’ve started to dislike all the videos that are personally advertised to me constantly. I’m going to watch the world burn from this

[@theillusionist1494]

“It’s 2020, time is meaningless, let’s talk about Jingle Bells in the middle of summer.” All right, I held off for long enough; that line earns you a subscriber.

[@Vearru]

I realized I wasn’t subscribed after reading this and am too now a subscriber.

[@isabelchmontuenga]

Shame on you. Tom has deserved your suscription all this time

[@lifeontheledgerlines8394]

Whaddaya mean, time doesn't exist

[@Meaxis]

Thank you for reminding me that I needed to sub to him.

[@theillusionist1494]

isabelchmontuenga You’re absolutely right, and I feel bad for waiting. Honestly, the only reason I held off is because my sub box is already crowded as is, and I was worried about putting any more quality videos in there that I might accidentally miss. He’s good enough to be worth it, though.

[@martinconnerty1201]

Primary School circa 1986 : Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, Robin flew away. The Batmobile lost a wheel and ended up in hay.

[@MZZenyl]

These two could make an interesting linguistic duet: - Jack: Your grammar sucks. - Tom: ... and here's the historical reasons why.

[@joshuaneiswinter253]

Please? Can we have this?

[@anty.]

Having some cool scientific explanation as to why so many people unironically type incoherently would be cool.

[@JontyLevine]

Jack the linguistic prescriptivist vs. Tom the linguistic descriptivist is a dynamic I could enjoy.

[@osamaalazzam9744]

@Tom Scott need to see this Asap

[@jakeartang7550]

I like

[@godlovesjudah3701]

“Robin laid an egg” was sung in Batman The Animated Series

[@Beregorn88]

That's the version I knew: the batmobile lost a wheel and the joker got away.

[@ivy.t.t]

i was going to comment this as well, as it is another popular show from the 90s, albeit not as popular as Simpsons

[@blockchaaain]

You're right! Christmas with the Joker, 1992. Simpsons episode was 1993. I know nothing of how much exposure Batman Animated got in other countries. Simpsons has always been everywhere.

[@sabaideebee]

I never saw the Simpsons, but I think I remember seeing a commercial/intermission during the holidays on KidsWB (possibly Saturday morning cartoons?) using clips from the animated series, and the Joker was the one who sang it.

[@anthonynorman7545]

Omg I forgot about that! I bet Tom doesn't know

[@b1tchymitchy]

I'm surprised the broken skis one wasn't as popular. I heard it all the time as a kid

[@boomer.beasley]

for me it was sorta a second verse so maybe people just didn’t include it

[@cur1ouscatf1sh]

I knew that as a completely separate jingle bells version. Dashing through the snow On a pair of broken skis O’er the hills we go Crashing into trees The snow is turning red I think I’m almost dead I wake up in a hospital With stitches in my head > (I also heard “peeing in the bed” as an alternative to this line) (Oh!) 911! 911! Grandma’s got a gun! Shot a deer Up the rear In 1981 (hey!)

[@addiosnia]

Same here

[@b1tchymitchy]

@@cur1ouscatf1sh same

[@garfled]

I sung this one but the ending was either "holding Rudolph's head" or "holding my own head"