History Teacher Reacts to Washington's Dream | SNL | Nate Bargatze

[@MrTerry]

Check out my reaction to Shane Gillis's bit on George Washington: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWHJe4iXh6mrbck

[@ymeynot0405]

@MrTerry The entire SNL cast is expected to write. Part of the hiring process is showing up with your own material. They have additional writers as not everyone one can come up with a winning idea every week, but think historically some of the best SNL bits were written by the cast. Wanye's world == Mike Meyers Church Lady == Dana Carvey Now, they do less characters but rather single skits (age of the viral video)... Chloe does a lot of impressions and the writing for those.

[@DHizzle82]

There's a really good story behind this sketch. During table read, it wasn't landing that well with Lorne Michaels. He wanted to cut it early on, but Nate knew it needed an audience. He convinced Lorne to let them try it during Dress Rehearsal, and Lorne agreed. It did so well in Dress that Lorne approved it for the live show. Nate's delivery was amazing. The cast were amazing as well.

[@krkhns]

Nate and the writers of the skit, Mikey Day and Streeter Seidel, just did a podcast about two weeks ago. They go deeper into the story. The reason Lorne Michaels didn't like it was because it was too long. They said there was about five minutes just on millimeters. There was a part about guns being in mm and caliber. The table read part is funny because its not at a table. Everyone sits on the floor in Michaels' office. They said what really changed everything was the costumes. In street clothes, everything fell flat. The only ones that liked it were those three. All it took were the costumes and the dress rehearsal audience started busting up at "Our own system of weights and measures" and didn't stop.

[@Cory182]

Mikey Day wrote this sketch. He was the one on Washington's left. They're basically all writers who compete to get their sketches on air. ;)

[@TDHSFV]

There a part 2. A different Washington sketch Nate did when he hosted again.

[@lemiless]

Nate Bargatze came back on SNL and did a Washington's dream part two .. maybe you wanna heck that out, too

[@clarkbarrett6274]

The inspiring music carries so much in this sketch. Gets you fired up for those weights and measures. Coulda been a scene in The Patriot.

[@DanSolo871]

This sketch almost got cut. It wasn’t working with a dry read through. But Lorne asked Nate which sketch he wanted to do and he said the Washington sketch. During the dress performance done in front of an Audience before air, it was the last sketch on the flow chart. Nate knew that in front of an audience, and with his delivery, he can make it work. And it did. It went over so well, that it got moved to the third slot. Opening sketch, opening monologue by host, the Washington’s dream. Day and Skeeter wrote it.

[@tylerpaschall4363]

In Britain, there was association football and Rugby football at the same time. American football is more closely related to rugby, so we kept the football part of that, while keeping the association part of the other.

[@HastDuWasSuchen]

Interesting. Just like in Australia where football often refers to Australian football.

[@BruceMcFarling]

@@HastDuWasSuchen Yes ... lots of different local varieties of football were played in Britain in the 1700's and 1800's, and later in the 1800's rules for Rugby Union Football & Association Football were codified. But the American colleges were not members of either, and once they started playing rugby union football, they were free to tinker with the rules, which early on included moving from a side feed to a center feed if enough progress was made in previous efforts, creating the first down. It was a Teddy Roosevelt led effort to reduce injuries in college football which eliminated the scrum altogether by creating the neutral zone, and extended the first down distance from five yards to 10 yards. With Rugby Union making blocking illegal (The "shepherding" foul in Rugby) with a similar motivation, and then with the American development of the forward pass, the American style descendant of Rugby Union became more and more different from 15 a side Rugby Union Football.

[@BruceMcFarling]

@@HastDuWasSuchen It seems like Australia basically plays a version of most every form of codified football except American football ... Ozzie Rules was developed from the Gaelic Rules football played in Ireland, but modified to fit onto a cricket pitch, because it was developed in part to keep cricketers fit during the winter months, while in the east of the country, the 13-men-a-side professionalized version of Rugby Union called "Rugby League" is the dominant form of football. Rugby Union is also popular in the Eastern states, and Association Football is also played, with the former semi-professional league replaced by a fully professional league and Australia moving from the Oceania Football Confederation to the Asian Football Confederation around the turn of the current century.

[@Doughboy1917]

This is correct. American football developed from rugby rules instead of assocation rules. The name's a holdover. Probably would have been better to call it American rugby, but it's too late now.

[@SylviusTheMad]

American football arose after a match between the team from Harvard (which played soccer) and the team from McGill (which played rugby). They played one half of each sport, and Harvard liked it enough they started adapting the rules. This is why Canadians like to claim they invented American football (they didn't, but they like to say it). But thus does explain why there are so many weird little differences between American football and Canadian football; they developed in parallel for a century.

[@keithewright]

One explanation I heard was that Football is from the game being played by peasants on foot. The nobility had pastimes that took place on horseback.

[@Fxcloud9]

Can't wait for part 2. Nate is so good with his deliveries.

[@jessetorres8738]

Just in case you're curious: 1 Liter is 0.26 Gallons while 1 Gallon is 3.79 Liters. Also, 1 Kilometer is 0.62 Miles while 1 Mile is 1.61 Kilometers. I used to work at a water heater plant in Central Texas, & we shipped them internationally so everything was measured in Metric units, so I had to memorize the conversion rates.

[@RedBeardTheFirst]

I prefer Knots and Nautical Miles

[@Asmodis4]

@@RedBeardTheFirst and i use gon instead of degrees in circles.

[@romanmartynenko3575]

Also, US is officially a metric country. All imperial measurements are defined through their metric primary counterparts. Scientists use metric.

[@scottnowell4975]

You shut up

[@jeremiahkivi4256]

Is it not 1.75 liters to a gallon? Pretty sure that's what it says on a gallon of alcohol.

[@geomax3465]

Only "Mericans" civilians use Imperial System. The engineers, the scientist the military and the rest of the world use metric. 😂

[@douglasg.9271]

This is one of the best skits ever from SNL

[@tkreitler]

I agree. It was brilliantly done.

[@jackson857]

Do part 2 as well!

[@JDJax671]

Celsius made his scale based on zero being the freezing point of water. I think Fahrenheit made his scale based on zero being the temperature it was outside his house at that moment in time. Dark and foreboding how one of the first acts perfectly representing modern America was done by a German living in Poland.

[@SprayInk-Kreatïv-Nouveau]

Let us be thankful that they didn't decide to make an imperial system for time measurements, using segments instead of seconds on a 1:3.49007 scale and whiles instead of hours, but there are 79.12 segments in a while 😂

[@SprayInk-Kreatïv-Nouveau]

How many whiles are in a day? > Nobody knows, instead we use moments, and there's 3 moments per day! called noon, dinner and alcohol.

[@P3wP3wPanda]

The term "Football" was invented in the late 1400s, and was used to describe any ball sport played on foot, as opposed to played on a horse.

[@brianmcgarry1632]

So technically golf is football

[@iesickboy]

Sometimes the football gets kicked without the possibility of scoring a point, unless a player picks it up and runs with it.

[@MrJoeandJenn]

They are all called football, soccer is the real name given to the other football. Rugby is also a type of football.

[@Lightningrod75]

A lot of sports were played on horseback, 'football' let you know that it was a sport played on foot.

[@PaNDaSNiP3R]

You should watch the scene from ridiculous 6 where they made up the game of baseball. 😂 similar to this

[@november.foxtrot1]

You should check out the other SNL bit with Nate about Washington

[@MarkPickavance]

I think it's called Football because it's related to Rugby, which is properly called Rugby Football. And, bonus info, when Washington was around, the US Mile was actually a different distance than the UK Mile, which was only resolved in 1959.

[@RyanMcMahon-bz7ri]

I love this sketch

[@kakarotwolf]

"there's a little kicking" 😂

[@Qirronis]

Also, Baseball is essentially Cricket on steroids. And without the Tea.

[@Shifty69569]

I love Nate lmao his bit on the snake bite in South America is hilarious

[@J.Battles]

Nate is great!

[@gggooding]

A fourth of a gallon shall be named a quart because it is a quarter of a gallon. An eighth of a gallon shall be named a pint because...nobody knows.

[@Kingdom_Of_Dreams]

Nate did a similar skit in his Christmas special, which was about the nativity story 😂

[@fredericlatreille]

You need to react to "part 2" as well. There is a second sketch as hilarious as this one!

[@TayNez63]

you have to watch part 2!!

[@UnwashedPearl]

When I was a kid in the 70's, the SUA was scheduled to switch to metric. Foe example, highway signs stated to list miles and kilometers. I was in grade school or jr high and the thought of learning a different system was daunting. Apparently, to our leaders as well. "We're 'Murica, dammit," ...probably.

[@TheRedStateBlue]

Mikey Day (guy to Nate's left) and Streeter Siedel wrote this sketch. it was terrible at the table read and got pushed to the last sketch of the show. then they did dress rehearsal and it killed and got pushed up to the third sketch of the night.

[@h0tel1]

Yes, it needed the audience.

[@masamune2984]

They/Nate said the dress rehearsal actually also bombed though, and it wasn’t until the live performance that it killed.

[@TheRedStateBlue]

@@masamune2984 no, he didn't. he very clearly stated that as soon as there was an audience, it murdered, was his exact word.

[@RCon25]

Now you gotta watch SNL Washington's Dream part 2 with Nate Bargazte again!

[@mikepaulus4766]

I remember looking up the basis for the Fahrenheit. Zero is ice with salt, how cold can that get. Boiling, well the difference needs to divisible by 9. Now gradute it.

[@ppsh43]

I understood that 100 was set to normal human temperature.

[@didier75012]

Unfortunately, despite all our efforts in France, we now have inches when we want to measure computer and TV, smartphone screens.😂😂😂

[@007NowOnline]

Lmao!! Great reactions. 😂

[@ki_we8980]

I’m under the impression that the reason American Football is called Football is because when the British still called soccer soccer they were calling rugby football and when us Americans started modifying rugby we continued to call it football as people were doing at the time. When the British started calling their version of the game rugby we continued calling ours football. At least that’s what I have heard.

[@dennismalmgren8627]

Love the reaction. It's insane that you almost had the same responses as Washington to many questions.

[@JDJax671]

My favorite stab at history comes from Family Guy when the pilgrims came over to America. Peter looked around and said something like America. Where we will know freedom. But only old rich white married Christian males from England, Wales, and maybe southern Scotland.

[@marchbriner3603]

I think I heard that this sketch had been written for months, but the writers were waiting for the right host to play George Washington.

[@spornge]

In the sequel : he says we settle slaverey by war : this war sir, and responds A war.

[@Sedona_FD3S]

Terry is the CEO of history.

[@JesperoTV]

I've heard it said that it's called football because the ball is a foot long, although it seems more likely that it just retained the name from older versions of the sport

[@natejanke3907]

3:42 We do how many yards are in a mile (1,760), it's just that not many people care to do the math.

[@shamusmcwright2640]

ya thats the joke

[@Unknownentitties]

My 5th grade teacher always said when we turn 17 we can drive 60 and it made so little sense that I have never forgotten.

[@2buxaslice]

A football is a foot long.

[@vivianjones9749]

You hoser! You’re right! Had to measure it for myself

[@Dallen9]

there's a Goofy cartoon from Disney that covers the History of American football and in proxy covers the history of Rugby also. might be fun to do a react video on it.

[@CultyClips911]

There is a great video where and the SNL writers are interviewed about this sketch

[@misterkite]

American Football got called Football because it wasn't played on horseback.

[@Underpantsniper]

Yet I've never seen a horse play water polo. Strange.

[@abrahamtorres4744]

Nate Bargatze talked about the sketch on the Rich Eisen Show. SNL writers wrote it, and didn't play well during table reads. It was going to get scratched from the show, but they decided to run in during rehearsal with the audience and it killed. So it got moved up and well, the rest is history.

[@LobsterSpecial]

My understanding is that, starting in the UK, football evolved into separate sports, what in North America is called soccer, as well as Rugby football. Rugby football was played primarily in the universities in England and was brought over to North American universities before it had fully evolved into a separate sport and while it was still just referred to as 'football'. Because the rules were still informal the North American schools came up with their own versions of the rules of the game, and eventually the North American universities agreed on specific rule changes (such as the forward pass) that caused the game to evolve into a separate sport, Gridiron football, or what we now know as American football and Canadian football. Meanwhile, in the UK Rugby football evolved into its own sport distinct from what they then called 'association football' (or 'soccer' for short).

[@irisblue2332]

Just as soccer grew out of association football, American football grew out of rugby football and carried on the football part of the name since rugby was its own sport. The same sort of migration happened as rugby football developed into Australian rules football.

[@dragonweyr44]

There is a second Washington's Dream with the same guy Nick Bargate

[@jessetorres8738]

I wonder if James is supposed to be James Monroe since he served under Washington?

[@stevenmclennan1953]

Jay Mohr's autobiography goes into a lot of detail about how they create the sketches and who has to get involved. Essentially yes, the comedians are completely involved in coming up with stuff, there are dedicated writers but everyone has to pull their weight.

[@Parker--]

He meant the guest hosts.

[@randysake5031]

You're pimpin' the jokes.

[@michaelfletcher9640]

Comedy is more recreational when You listen to the words during the routine and do the monologing at logical break points, separately! If you do those things simultaneously, both are lost in confusing babble!❤

[@Drexskii]

Football as a name doesn't really have a known origin, but it seems to be the name taken for completing a goal (scoring points) by using your foot (running) not necessarily using your foot to kick for points

[@Jan_Koopman]

American football, rugby, and (association) football all evolved from the same sport, which was simply named football iirc. The American variant was hence named "American football", the rugby variant was named "rugby (football)", and the association variant was named "association football" or "soccer". In the USA, American football was and is the primary version they play, so it's shortened to simply "football"; same goes in the rest of the world for "(association) football". "Rugby football" was shortened to "rugby", 'cause that's a unique enough name.

[@karateman302]

I am not 100% sure on this but my recollection is that they didn't necessarily descend from the same sport but that the term 'football' was just used to a variety of different games and sports before things started to get standardized and rulesets codified. May be wrong on that though.

[@Parker--]

Not sure if you're saying the rest of the world called soccer football, but in the UK specifically, it was known primarily as soccer up until the late 80's before the term football even got used again. They had abandoned the term football for the bigger part of a century before reusing the term.

[@jurgnobs1308]

I think Football is called Football because the ball is supposed to be about a foot long or something?

[@TrekBeatTK]

There’s a “civil war song” sketch with Jimmy Fallon that I like

[@mastadonman]

We were taught in school that we have different measurements due stave off invasion with confusion about distance for fuel and such

[@bukka6697]

Hahaha, love it!

[@binaway]

1 British pint=1.2 US pint The British Aristocracy engaged in equestrian sports. The peasant played sports on foot. If a ball was used it was called football. That would technically make even basketball a type of football.

[@haydenbsiegel]

I loved this sketch. It was one of my all time favorites!

[@mawortz]

the military using the metric system tells you all you need to know about imperial

[@liferiot]

Washington was smart enough to know when to retreat and save lives instead of sending wave after wave into the meat grinder.

[@dandavidson424]

That wasn't all that big a deal. The fact that he kept his army intact the whole time he did it though, was an incredibly big deal.

[@ScottLahteine]

5280, of course. Because it’s so conveniently 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 3 x 5 x 11.

[@LJ-pi6np]

Thanks, hilarious sketch. Probably only the Key and Peele sketch on if teachers were treated like sports stars sketch is as funny😮!!! See Suggestions!

[@LeighMet]

It was to distingiush itself from rugby called Rugby Football and then dropped the rugby.

[@brewstopher2233]

I believe the hosts have input on the sketches, like when Steve Seagal hosted and he took control of the whole show for his ego.

[@jarsenaultj]

7:20 From what I heard, the 'u' was dropped from most words due to printing (especially newspapers). Every letter typed costs money, so dropping a letter from a bunch of words (which would be used many times and reprinted many more times for each copy) would save a lot of money.

[@MrTerry]

Interesting

[@Irish_Wristwatch101]

It is kind of funny how us not using the metric system is technically due to the British

[@zap117]

do the second one !

[@chrisdunn3817]

4:58 NFL, American Football, is a derivative of Rugby Football [RFU]. Originally a "try" in rugby scored no points, but gave the attacking team a "try at goal", which was a kick through the top posts. So points were only scored by kicking between the posts....hence "football". Rugby in the UK was for years an "amateur" only game, until the working men in the north of England broke from the Rugby Union and formed Rugby League, a professional game with a greater emphasis on territory capture rather than a running game, and far more like gridiron. Rugby League "RFL" is the elder brother of NFL. RFU on the other hand has family in Australian Rules Football AFL, and Gaelic Football which still uses a round ball instead of the torpedo ball. To this day, the AFL champions play the Gaelic League champions in the annual International Rules Exhibition Match where they alternate the ball shape and rules according to whether it is played in Australia or Ireland.

[@bigludo22]

The reason american football is called football is because it is decended from Rugby Football. when the government of Britain banned the rough mob rule game known as football, it allowed the two most popular rule sets to remain. Association football was called soccer for short and Rugby Football was known as Rugger. eventually as it is want to to do, language and slang changed here in the UK and things evolved differently accross the pond.

[@FirstNameLastName-io5co]

There's a 4-part series on Peacock about SNL that takes a look behind the scenes and so far, it's pretty damn good. I think it's called Beyond SNL.

[@spinalobifida]

At first the name soccer came from England. Then for whatever reason, they named it football

[@Parker--]

Yeah, they started to reuse the term football in the late 80's and then acted like Americans, who had been using the term football well over half a century before England started reusing the term, stole that name from them. It's arguably the Crown's last semi-successful colonization attempt; taking the term 'football.'

[@XhodanXeus]

I remember i was still tought "color" as in "colour" (but in germany before i moved to america, as far as i know it might be different now but in most schools around the world they teach British English)

[@jamesalthaus1229]

@MrTerry football is called football because it originated/spun off from rugby football and was later shortened to just football.

[@weepingscorpion8739]

Rugby football... aka ruggers.

[@AdamPFarnsworth]

Now you need to watch the new one!

[@EMarvinJohnson]

Nate Bargatze is hilarious.

[@stuartcollins82]

As much as we joke about it, i think football is called football because it's a ball game played on your feet, not with your feet.

[@chriswaight2762]

I think you might be wrong

[@mattadulting]

Metric didn't exist yet. The French developed it later and British pirates kept is from getting metric.

[@danielstartek9729]

History Teacher ate a dozen donuts, pies, cakes, cows! Oink Oink!

[@anathardayaldar]

For those who really want to know, a quick and dirty conversion of pounds to kilogram: First divide by 2. Then subtract 10% of what's left. Example: 180 pounds: Half is 90. Less a tenth is 81 kg. Close enough to the actual 81.63kg for government work.

[@RyanMatthewCampbell]

American football is called football because it was based on Canadian rugby football.

[@michaelsedor6807]

There’s another SNL George Washington sketch with Nate.

[@bigredtlc1828]

2.54 cm to an inch. It's burned in my memory. I did try to see it on a ruler and it was perplexing to figure out what 2.54 looks like. And yet, we were born into it so we didn't care. I posted on Twitter a few years back about mm/dd/yyyy is better than dd/mm/yyyy and got some flack. Amazing how we are so different.

[@willcityaway7971]

American football was adapted from Rugby League rules. Only way to move the ball forward is to kick. Why the forward pass was so important. Jim Thorpe played rugby more than modern football. A working class code.

[@provicate4334]

For the sports the Football refers to the sport be played on foot not horse back. So Soccer was Association football. Rugby was Rugby football, American Football is Gridiron football.

[@Nostripe361]

i mean most countries have some weird measurements that your regular person can use. Britain uses stones sometimes.

[@mike5d1]

American Football is a derivative of Rugby football. Soccer has never been a popular name in Britain, it is just Football.

[@Qirronis]

Also, there is a name for a dozen dozens, which is a ”gross” (144 of something).

[@Ichigo2k9]

Is SNL done in front of a live audience and that’s real people laughing? Because if so these guys never breaking is amazing.

[@deniseporretto6738]

You’ve never seen SNL? Yes it’s done in front of a live audience!

[@HoneyMelon_candle]

Can someone pay for his chip like why are they so expensive

[@orenthalsimpson]

I don't think Keenan or Bowen Yang would have been there

[@TheCatholicNerd]

5:10 American football got its name because it was originally a off-growth of rugby football. So in England you had association football and rugby football, both of which evolved from a game that was basically bedlam. I can't remember the guy's name but the guy that basically created American football created the football down system to replace the scrum and the rest is history

[@LB1973]

Walter Camp - he changed the Scrummage (Scrum) to Scrimmage

[@iesickboy]

Don't forget stones are still measured in pounds. 1 st. = 14 lbs. or 6.35 kg. I'm a boxing fan.

[@sudano9958]

Julia Louise Dreyfuss who is super talented but only lasted a year on SNL before getting pushed out explained why she wasn't on much. She didn't realize you basically had to befriend or make a writer write something for you and kinda become annoying to them and pitch ideas and basically become a co-writer coming up with funny ideas and lines. No one told her, she thought writers wrote and Lorne decided who acted in them. Doesn't work like that.