Looking Back At Two Drums And A Cymbal, Seven Years Later

[@BazilRat]

Tom's distant "YES!" is what convinced me it was real. Can't fake that.

[@tobymassoom]

I've been on that cliff so yeah

[@andrewrichardson3135]

Why are people raving over this anyway

[@comrademuds1951]

@@andrewrichardson3135 4 years ago ya twat

[@teammemesupremetms]

U556 no.

[@somuchsoul3041]

What could be fake?

[@ianj1828]

Can we look back on when Tom tried to remove his finger prints with Pineapple?

[@NickiRusin]

+ianj1828 Oh boy, that wasn't a fun time.

[@margaretmadole]

Yeah!

[@greyowl666]

+ianj1828 This! Would be great to hear more...

[@amandafreke1798]

+ianj1828 I heard this video referenced on Australian radio late last year. It still gets around.

[@RishabhDaga14]

+ianj1828 I was going to request it too.

[@johnathandagan]

"Looking Back At Two Drums And A Cymbal, Seven Years Later, Four Years Later"

[@icebearisicebear]

John Dagan and another six days later

[@AleksWorkshop]

And another 2 weeks later

[@leevikv]

@@AleksWorkshop and another week later

[@theinternetlemon2856]

@@leevikv and another

[@fasuto8656]

One month later

[@Nexipal]

Feels weird to watch the 7 years later video 7 years later. I hope they make another year later retrospective for this again just for the fun of it!

[@Watchers_Puppet]

It would lovely to have some videos like Park Bench again, would adore seeing exactly that

[@molybd3num823]

oh yeah just noticed that

[@eligal643]

yyyyyyyyep

[@Satellaview1889]

Looking Back At Two Drums And A Cymbal, Seven Years Later, Seven Years Later

[@KitKitsuneVixen]

that's honestly crazy

[@cellscribe]

If you truly hate someone, give their children a drum kit.

[@domesticcat1725]

Or a recorder

[@felixhughes8655]

Or a harmonica

[@ErikUden]

@Deadly Delight88 *their

[@dominicpirola8240]

@Deadly Delight88 That would be if u love ur neighbours

[@natesmodelsdoodles5403]

@@felixhughes8655 harmonica's only bad until you learn how to play it.

[@Mousy677]

I love the sense of mild panic about the origins of a £1 drum kit

[@ragnkja]

My personal hypothesis is fairly mundane: The child outgrew the drum kit.

[@Wirenfeldt1990]

Nillie if that were the case it'd cost more.. this smells more like a "i need to get kiddo's noisy as hell birthday gift out of the house before i end up losing my mind and start stabbing someone to death with a pair of drum sticks" kind of scenario to me.

[@pizzachu2281]

Is there even a pents (pence?) symbol?

[@ARSZLB]

Pizzachu22 it’s “pence”, and it would be £0.99.

[@really-quite-exhausted]

​@@pizzachu2281 Or you can write it as 99p where the p stands for pence (or pennies I guess)

[@TheLaXandro]

The blokes who sold the drum kit just wanted a minute of silence. Rule 1 of parenting: never give your kids noisy toys unless your nerves are made of nanotitanium.

[@ragnkja]

Children grow, so the child may just have outgrown the child-sized drum kit.

[@hadto8482]

no lock them in a bunker

[@tenacityxl]

Had To ah, you took a page out of Colin Furze’s book

[@AndyLundell]

Probably the sadness came from "I'm only getting 0.99, but at least they'll make a child happy! Oh, wait, the buyer is some student who clearly doesn't have a kid."

[@Hefonugget]

My parents got me a drum kit when I was six and look at me now....

[@richb313]

If you have to ask why a parent would sell a drum kit for 99p then you have never had children. I always threatened my sister I would give her little boy a drum kit for Christmas. I never did, I am not a sadist.

[@mattandtom]

+richb313 Huh. In hindsight, that's really obvious...! -- Tom

[@RealLuckless]

+richb313 I've threatened to buy bagpipes for my nephews (They live on the other side of Canada, so I'm safe from the sound of them learning), but sadly my sister seemed supportive of the idea, and I really couldn't tell if she was bluffing. So now I'm stuck in the awkward position of not knowing if I really should spend the money on a decent set of bag pipes for them or not, because if they DO want to learn, then I'm sure not getting them cheap garbage, but those things are expensive bits of kit if it it just for a joke.

[@RealLuckless]

***** 'smaller and quieter' rather defeats the purpose...

[@mackrelburgess9087]

*not a satanist

[@XandreUK]

+Matt and Tom Yup. I volunteer in a charity shop and I get put on till duty a lot. I don't know why, I'm a sarcastic git. But as a charity shop, we get a lot of kids toys that make noise, and I almost always make a joke with the suckers, I mean parents, about how they're going to regret buying said loud thing, and refer them to the permanent off switch. And in case you didn't guess, yeah, it's a hammer.

[@AgentWaltonSimons]

Britain's Got Talons? That show would be a hoot...

[@hairyneil]

A reality show would certainly be another feather in Tom's cap...

[@tncorgi92]

With Simon Owl

[@jferox]

+hairyneil +AgentWaltonSimons I'm sure he'd be flying high if he won

[@alistairhammond1564]

+jferox Something for the production team to get their claws into.

[@Tophu48548]

+Paul Drake I love that. Why is hardly anyone likening this joke? Lmao

[@mattandtom]

All right, fine, you complained last week that we weren't on a park bench. I've updated the opening title accordingly! -- Tom

[@JamesRadley]

+Matt and Tom Hehehe

[@hiveinsider9122]

park benches are for the weak

[@wiet111]

You forgot to change the end thingy ;)

[@WalnutOne]

+Matt and Tom I think the credits were neccesary, because they were really funny. (Im from Finland, that is why I can't spell properly...)

[@CoffeeOnRails]

+Matt and Tom Is that comic sans in your title!?

[@BMCGhastCast]

best thing is that I've never seen this channel until 10 mins ago, when I got 2 drums and a cymbal in my recommended.

[@liamkoehler8820]

someone me too. KZbin _knows_

[@konaccha]

Likewise

[@jennyhaskell7966]

Same here

[@eliotcougar]

Same here... I have no idea why... Omniscient KZbin AI knows what we need in our life - two drums and a cymbal...

[@oryn9761]

Me too

[@aBetterMove]

"Is the child alright? Has he gotten divorced?" That's one downbeat child, damn.

[@aditsood9369]

pretty sure he was talking about the father getting divorced but sure xD

[@vinnyreed723]

Wimpy Kid that’s the joke

[@ithinkitspickingupalittleb8011]

Vinny Reed No, that’s not the joke. The joke is thinking that he was talking about the child.

[@thebokchoy6854]

@@ithinkitspickingupalittleb8011 I think the joke was that even though in the context of what tom was saying it was obvious that he was talking about the father, when the lines a ree read in sequence without context ot is more likely to be interpreted as being about the child, as that is the only noun that the "he" in the second sentence could be reffering to in these two lines. Eithrr that or I'm retarded and have managed to misunderstand everything

[@ithinkitspickingupalittleb8011]

​@@thebokchoy6854 I think that when people ask what the joke is, they're asking what makes the joke funny. And what makes it funny is not that what Tom was saying can be interpreted differently when out of context, but rather that such interpretation involves a child being divorced, which is ridiculous :P. So, Vinny Reed would be right in saying that was the joke if Wimpy Kid's comment were about the situation being preposterous, but it wasn't about that. It was about it being much more likely that Tom meant that about the father. Admittedly, the original commenter was definitely already aware of this, perhaps making Wimpy's remark a little pointless anyway.

[@tararu4237]

The fact that this video is 7 years old makes me feel it’s time for Part 3: “Looking Back at Looking Back at Two Drums and a Cymbal, 7 Years Later, 7 Years Later.”

[@stumbling]

I like the way Tom says, "I can't beatbox", with a tone that suggests he had never tried before but for a brief moment there was a possibility he might be a natural.

[@Mjws2907]

Like he once said that he absolutely cannot drink coffee? I concur

[@meeperator]

@@Mjws2907 Or ride a bike... Or take down a wrestling heel, or give his producer a tattoo....

[@AaronTossing]

A kid can make a hell of a racket with a drum kit. I bet the guy was willing to pay you to take it away.

[@Teverell]

Fun fact two years later: Trespass in the UK becomes actual trespass (and therefore illegal) only once the property owner (or his representative - shop manager, bar-keep, bouncer etc) has actually told the unwanted person or people to leave. Which is why in the great Harrods sit-in a few years ago, the shop staff got the police to come down, then told the folks involved in the sit-in to leave - they knew the police couldn't do anything until the sit-in folks had been told but once they had been told the police had the power to shift them if they didn't go voluntarily. So, no, you weren't trespassing on private land but if the owner had asked you to leave and you didn't, that's when it would have become trespass. And that, pinching Tom's phrase, is something you might not have known. (I did the SIA door supervisor course a few years ago, we had to learn this stuff, is how I know it.)

[@dlbstl]

There's actually a course in how to be a door supervisor for Sia concerts? I figured she'd be rather strict but...

[@SamiJumppanen]

@@dlbstl 🤣

[@GumSkyloard]

So.. It's not trespass if you're not caught?

[@Teverell]

@@GumSkyloard it's trespassing once the person doing it has been warned... But that only needs to be a sign - the classic Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted will do it.

[@rainincth1381]

@@GumSkyloard i have a secret for you, you wont get arrested for anything if youre not caught.

[@JouvaMoufette]

"It never converted into subscribers". Maybe not a LOT of them, but I found Tom's channel through two drums and a cymbal and have enjoyed plenty of its content ever since.

[@CanadaPlayz48]

Now it's time for "Two drums and a cymbal, 7 years later, 7 years later"

[@IronBabyFists]

So it's Feb. 1st, 2019. I'm sitting in the bathroom, looking at KZbin on my phone (as you do) and I thought "oh my god....was 'Two Drums and a Cymbal' Matt and Tom? I saw that video back in the day, but thinking about it now 'badger in a blender' was *totally* in Matt's voice, right?" Sure enough, here we are. What an amazing, TEN YEAR circle to go through. I loved this video back then; I love your guys' content now; I just found that it was you two. How neat.

[@TheTetrapod]

For Sale Child's Drums Never Played

[@callumstewart5891]

Ernest Hemmingway.

[@robertmarley9380]

; _ ;

[@moreau3757]

*For sale* *Child* *Well used* UwU

[@sirentyper4457]

@@robertmarley9380 well that's the saddest goddam thing ive ever heard

[@ARVash]

I should have scrolled down

[@Wmann]

This video mentioning a video that was 7 years old, is 7 years old right now. Wild.

[@PinkThorn242]

3:44 In Tom's own words: THIS ISN'T TECHNICALLY ILLEGAL!

[@cazek445]

PinkThornRacin

[@wloxya7422]

Genius

[@7dog123]

It's only illegal if you get caught.

[@Trizo]

@@7dog123 not even that. It's a civil offense, not a criminal offense

[@matheusjahnke8643]

@@Trizo all crimes are illegal; But not everything illegal is a crime. Civil offenses are still illegal... even though they might not involve crimes.

[@NoahStolee]

He seemed down-beat... about a drum kit... *ba-doom-crash*

[@NoahStolee]

Interesting that Tom bought two tom drums.... I wonder if that's cymbol-ic of something!!!

[@JustOneAsbesto]

Don't be so hard on yourself, Tom. I'm sure you can beatbox better than any of the owls on Britain's Got Talons, and you've already got the gloves. Audition time!!!

[@onehillyboi]

It’s so weird that roughly the same amount of time has passed between the release of the Cymbal video and this video, than this video is to today

[@LauraLowe]

I clicked on this video thinking "heh, 'seven years later' seven years later... I wonder if someone has made that joke yet" only to sort comments by new and see everyone has made that joke yet

[@blargl121]

I think that's why it's showing in all our recommendations lately, all this comment engagement

[@freddyparkinson3820]

Nobody: Tom: Has the child gotten a divorce

[@nostalgic_brony1825]

i dont need sleep i need answers

[@zedc8599]

2:24 if anyone was wondering

[@machy8515]

@@nostalgic_brony1825 We must know.

[@timothymclean]

I feel like that's not what the pronoun was intended to point to.

[@gatlina6019]

@@timothymclean it's funnier this way tho

[@DoubleD20s]

I can't help but notice that the clip of the drum drop at 5:43 seems to be higher-quality than the original video. Perhaps there's room for a remaster to celebrate its 7th + 7th anniversary.

[@AalbertTorsius]

"He seemed a little downbeat." - Badum-tsh!

[@jalenbrewer6871]

Such an underrated comment

[@ciangrant3042]

How did they both miss the obvious joke about the guy with the drum kit feeling DOWNBEAT???

[@shaunoleary7092]

This needs to be edited with a " ba dum tssss" right there actually. :)

[@carnanya]

Main takeaway from the video: Tresspasing is legal in the uk

[@orionliketheconstellation3003]

Gonna go to the uk and tresspass tyvm

[@dafoex]

So is crossing the road

[@beatbasher]

It's unlawful not illegal.

[@randomactpg57]

Same thing in Canada, you have to actually be told to leave (in person or by a sign) or open a closed gate in order to be technically trespassing

[@TonksMoriarty]

Owl based reality show? Reminds me of this line from Citation Needed: "Simon Cowell's Owl Towels, made with real owls."

[@CatieMaria]

Tonks Moriarty This reminds me of Owl Trowel from Gravity Falls

[@Starwarsfan161]

Tom I'm afraid you need to buy a red coat...

[@L7vanmatre]

Redcoat, heh...

[@nunyabusiness7858]

L7vanmatre JOANNA DROVE SLOWLY INTO THE CITY-

[@jackw4498]

Nunya Business THE HUDSON RIVER ALL FILLED WITH SNOW

[@nunyabusiness7858]

JackW SHE SPIED THE RING ON HIS HONOR'S FINGER.

[@jackw4498]

Nunya Business OOOOOH, OH OH

[@nekolalia3389]

Looking back at looking back at two drums and a cymbal, seven years later, seven years later It’s like if Michael Apted had big ‘guy talking about the Garfield pipe strip’ energy

[@HSkraekelig]

InSEPTion !

[@WizardOnDuty]

I'm so glad that you're proud of your older work (or at least that video). I still enjoy rewatching that "era" of your videos - Extra Light Pancakes, Iron Fortified Breakfast, etc. I've been following your work for around ten years now, and I think all of it is brilliant, and I'm very happy you're still making things.

[@neonicplays]

The pineapple fingers haha

[@manchmalscott]

We're all waiting for "Looking Back At Looking Back At Two Drums And A Cymbal, Seven Years Later, Seven Years Later"

[@sparkyprojects]

When you buy a drum kit for a small child, there's no batteries to remove. first there would have been joy when he got notified it was sold, then the deflation when you handed him a pound, probably didn't know whether to thank you for the peace and quiet he gets, or to be angry at the measly reward. :D

[@blisles7626]

Lockdown: Watching this years later. Goes back to video filmed years earlier. Goes to see pineapple fingerprint video. Overall reaction: Tom's HAIR!!!

[@meetaverma8372]

Yeah, me too

[@hallamhal]

He seemed a little downbeat... well it was only a little drumkit! :D

[@skyeplaysgames6734]

Hallam Crafer drops drums and cymbal

[@skyllalafey]

Rewatching this in 2022 after the Tom Scott Pluss episode with Matt as a guest and they meet some owls, made me giggle at the Britain's got Talons part of this.

[@kamelabogle7926]

The out-takes are my favourite part. You're adorable.

[@TheLullaby44]

"Forget the X factor, Mongolia's got talons" was the name of a newspaper article we had as a source in a GCSE English past paper

[@tildesofie1533]

i got 2 drums and a cymbal in my recommended today, which led me to this now 8 year old video about the 15 year old video. hii to anyone else that got sent here by the algorithm

[@alexsaladalt]

and now this is 7 years ago

[@neoncolours]

this video is now 7 years old. can we get a video looking back on this video looking back on the two drums and a cymbal video please.

[@skyclaw]

Also: ‘Looking back at “Looking back at ‘Two drums and a cymbal’ seven years later” four years later’?

[@yoavshati]

Only 2 years and a day until that video!

[@vinunleaded312]

@@yoavshati nah 4 years after this vid was 2020

[@rhinogamer1076]

“Looking Back At “Looking Back At Two Drums And A Symbol, Seven Years Later” Seven Years Later”

[@xkrislandx8829]

Britain's Got Talons, hosted by reality star Simon Owl

[@maksimgamuvka4975]

Who?

[@xkrislandx8829]

@@maksimgamuvka4975 Simon Owl

[@timothymclean]

@@maksimgamuvka4975 Would he be more recognizable if we called him Simonk Owl?

[@USG_Gaming]

"Looking back at two drums and a cymbal, 7 years later, 8 years later." I missed the 7 years and 7 years 😢

[@thenerdyouknowabout]

It has now been 7 years since this 7-years-ago video. We need a "'Looking Back At Two Drums And A Cymbal, Seven Years Later', Seven Years Later".

[@PokeBallZSack]

We need a remake in HD

[@giantflyinghog3550]

It feels very fitting I saw this seven years after it was posted.

[@gdragon521]

Did you hear about the man who had to sell his drum kit? He was rather downbeat.

[@Anaeijon]

cool... I just watched the old video... And a few hours later you upload this video.

[@LordMoku]

Between the man selling a child's drum kit for £1, and the student buying a child's drum kit for £1, I can only imagine they looked at each other, made the exchange, silently nodded, and parted ways without a word.

[@daburgerbandit1598]

I love how Tom simultaneously looks 50 and 23.

[@Ved_Overclocked]

I mean ever since he was a college student he had that hair so I'm assuming that when he was a child he had a very pale hair. To be honest he kind of looks like he's in his early 30s

[@madmikefollower6939]

Now’s the perfect time for the sequel

[@Brook_tno]

Only someone with no kids would say "I don't know why someone would sell a perfectly good kids drum kit"

[@ArYa-ui]

Now we need Looking Back At "Looking Back At Two Drums And Cymbal, Seven Years Later", Seven Years Later

[@donutcrafter5973]

"looking back at two drums and a cymbal, seven years later, seven years later"

[@lforlight]

For sale: baby shoes, never used.

[@ragnkja]

For sale: parachute, used once, unopened.

[@dbzfanexwarbrady]

XD

[@theX24968Z]

LforLight the fact that this post is from 9 months ago just makes it even better

[@coolinator-ro5hn]

sry im only interest in the feet

[@beethreefour]

This story is much sadder in the original form. "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn." means the same thing, but stings much more.

[@genericvader5676]

“Looking back at two drums and a cymbal seven years later” seven years later

[@krisztianszirtes5414]

If you guys have raw footage of it, why can't you re-edit it so it's in better compression? :)

[@Camberwell86]

Nah, it's a homage to 2009. Leave it be

[@creepnt1080]

8 years after, I somehow doubt they still have the video

[@erickcapitanio1957]

they aplyed a clip of it in HD in this video, they clearly still have at least different angles of it

[@BeaChapman]

@@creepnt1080 If anyone has a video from 13 years ago it would be Tom Scott

[@MaraK_dialmformara]

Please do one about the Large Pina Collider.

[@sethbettwieser]

11 years later and the video is still gold.

[@christophervalkoinen6358]

That was a fun day - I also got one of my favourite photos of me on that day on the Flying Fox (thanks Matt).

[@LifeSizeTeddyBear]

They tend to be called a "flying fox" here in New Zealand too, rather than a "zip line"

[@zijduck123]

Im here for looking back at, looking back at two drums and a cymbal, seven years later, seven years later.

[@poemedufeu]

Can you do a follow up to this 6 years from now the meta would be so hype

[@rattyeely]

Just three more years to go

[@poemedufeu]

rattyeely i’m looking forward to it

[@maniczzz]

Two more years now..

[@ViraMotorko]

One more year

[@sapnupua5]

someone email them

[@antiantiderivative]

That one was great! It was so funny (not the joke, but your reaction when it succeeded). :-)

[@raf42]

Old video, but I can certainly tell you why he was selling it for a pound. A family member had almost certainly given the kid a drum kit for Christmas, and it was driving the poor parents insane. Source: my uncle gave me a drum kit for Christmas, when we lived in a tiny apartment. My mom didn't speak to him for several weeks afrerwards.

[@BGDMusic]

looking back at looking back at two drums at a cymbal, seven years later, six years later

[@hotfishdev]

Happy seven years on this one!

[@BastuGubbar]

Now you need to do a ''looking back at looking back at two drums and a cymbal, seven years later, seven years later.''

[@k.a.u.4599]

Me finally realizing that I HAVE actually seen Tom and Matt on the internet before.

[@MalcolmParsons]

Two Drums and a Cymbal is probably the first Tom Scott video I watched.

[@reo4540]

Matt's laugh makes me happy :D

[@Eeevonn]

this video is as old now as the "two drums and a cymbal" video was when this video came out

[@flora5090]

Looking back at "looking back at two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff seven years later" seven years later

[@dankness420]

“Looking back at Two drums and a cymbal seven years later, seven years later”

[@PeterBarnes2]

Seven Years... it's like a war could fit in that time, and you could even name it after fitting into Seven Years, not taking any longer. Or... well... you couldn't, but it's a good name.

[@LedeEleven]

But the seven years war took 23 years!

[@georgemangco7186]

LedeEleven No it took 9 years

[@raffaellospadini5983]

Can't wait for "Looking back at looking back at two drums and a cymbal, seven years later, seven years later" in 2023

[@poja82]

Warching this vid 7 years after it was made.

[@dacheesesdoggo]

2:29 _Great choice of wording right there._

[@maxaslagolis]

This video is now older than 2 drums and symbol was when you made this video. How time flies

[@ThAlEdison]

It's 7 years later, feels like they should look back at it.

[@Trek001]

Would you mind if I started a Change.org petition to get Britain's Got Talons started?

[@meetaverma8372]

Do it

[@dragonick2947]

I want a show about dragons! Wait, do dragons have claws or talons?

[@ItsMeKriqu]

Now we need Looking Back At Looking Back At Two Drums And A Cymbal, Seven Years Later, Seven Years Later

[@lebesnec]

It's time for the "looking back at the 'looking back at the two drums and a cymbal, seven years later', seven years later" video

[@beretperson]

For Sale: Child's drum kit. Never used.

[@gorillaau]

Mateo Gg Your child has passed away!! Sorry to hear that.

[@moreau3757]

*For sale* Second hand child Lightly used

[@s.s.a8741]

That's a good reference

[@MegaTuroc]

now we need a video looking back at this video, 7 years later again

[@cheezewizard]

"Looking Back At Two Drums And A Symbal, Seven Years Later, Seven Years Later"

[@lewisblackwiththenicehair]

Matt and Tom, it's finally time, looking back at two drums and a cymbal, 7 years later, 7 years later

[@michelfug]

It's time for another look back video, I think

[@Trafoder]

Can’t wait for “Looking Back At Looking Back At Two Drums And A Cymbal Seven Years Later Seven Years Later” only one more year.

[@game_generation]

The sequel we never knew we needed.

[@BoringKaiju]

And now it's seven years later.

[@maahirpasricha3900]

“He seemed a little down beat about it.” Bu-dum che

[@christianwilliams1690]

please please please PLEASE make "Looking Back At Two Drums And A Symbol, Seven Years Later, Seven Years Later"

[@tristansahm2315]

Now we need a "Looking Back At Two Drums And A Cymbal, Seven Years Later, Seven Years Later"