Modern Major-General | The Pirates of Penzance

Modern Major-General | The Pirates of Penzance | TUNE

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@jobe616 3 ай бұрын

I didn't know "sat a gee" was a real phrase and thought he just made it up for the rhyme and everyone was playing along. I thought THAT was the joke, but the joke was on me.

@B-Randall Ай бұрын

Well my guy was really good at riding a horse, so I don’t know what you expected lol

@A4000 27 күн бұрын

The joke is not on you my friend. You are the joke.

@Victorblud 7 күн бұрын

Wasn't this song meant to show that generals were kind of worthless because they knew a lot of things but nothing practical to battle. That's how my uncle explained it to me.

@DivingDog0 6 күн бұрын

Exactly. He knows more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery (which is a poor boast), he has a "smattering" of "elemental" strategy (which is to say, not a lot), and he can tell a mauser rifle from a javelin (which anyone can do if they're not blind). They sum it up with "my military knowledge... has only been brought down to the beginning of the century". So he knows a lot about warfare in Napoleonic times, while he's living in the Victorian. Everything he knows is outdated and probably from a history book.

@lavamatstudios 2 жыл бұрын

I want to be as happy about my accomplishments in life as this man is about knowing high school math.

@strugglingcollegestudent Жыл бұрын

Pretty good for a pirate lol

@joshuaplotkin8826 Жыл бұрын

@@strugglingcollegestudent he's a general, not a pirate

@veebee854 Жыл бұрын

I just peed a little from laughing at your comment 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@insertnamehere_262 7 ай бұрын

@@joshuaplotkin8826 not just any general, but the very model of a modern major general

@sudanemamimikiki1527 5 ай бұрын

All of the stuff this guy is bragging about knowing is stuff that any person who finished school was expected to know.

@samuelgates5935 8 ай бұрын

This is the best version yet!!!!

@KingLouisII 3 күн бұрын

Nah… it cuts a verse. Disqualified.

@Gokou3036 Жыл бұрын

Nice high quality video of this song. Still like to listen to every once in a while since being introduced to it by a certain Salarian. This one makes me less sad 😂

@Hotarg 10 ай бұрын

The VA recorded a full version with orchestra, just in case you haven't seen it.

@B-Randall Ай бұрын

And once you know the song well enough, you can find it all over the place. Especially if it’s just the melody with “I am the very model of a ______” as the lyrics.

@SamPasserdoodlesandhappenings 3 күн бұрын

This must be one of the hardest songs to sing. It must be torture to memorize all the lyrics to the song and then sing it without stuttering or skipping a beat.

@ahobbit1273 3 күн бұрын

Actually, Gilbert and Sullivan were fantastic at making fast-paced songs that still had a flow that made it possible to learn and pronounce!

@rashakor Ай бұрын

Waaah! Kevin Kline and Rex Smith are in their absolute physical prime here.

@shimyku7820 5 ай бұрын

You know, Yakko's World doesn't seem that hard to sing, actually

@toga941 3 ай бұрын

He did sing a parody version of this song too.

@12neef 2 ай бұрын

@@toga941you are so right. I completely forgot about it.

@savannahnowicki4453 5 күн бұрын

This has 69 likes so I don’t want to mess that up but do know that I love your comment

@AitorMolina. Жыл бұрын

*Top 10 rappers Eminem was too afraid to diss*

@kaybryant5099 5 ай бұрын

Fr though

@Cherrybums-i5g Жыл бұрын

"Cup of tea!" "Allergy!"

@cretanarcher5914 7 ай бұрын

Drake's been real quiet since this dropped...

@JaceDanielFilms Жыл бұрын

I like that random intimidation kiss at 0:32

@adventureswithaurora 4 ай бұрын

Same. 🤣🤣🤣

@bucketsdoesstuff2824 Ай бұрын

PSA that listening to this while writing an essay makes you feel like you know everything and can write at the speed of light. I speak from experience.

@azvascos7542 3 күн бұрын

And I listened to mellow music like James Taylor and Simon & Garfunkel. I had it wrong!

@racoonracer7878 Ай бұрын

Old stuff. Classic stuff. Still entertaining when I first watched this decades ago. Man, I feel old now 😢

@StarWarsMoments 11 ай бұрын

He might be a major general, but he's also completely alone.

@akiva2112 6 күн бұрын

“I am the very model of a Scientist Salarian!”

@eldorados_lost_searcher 2 күн бұрын

Thanks. Now I have to go to the corner and cry.

@CatherineLopez-fp4ox 2 күн бұрын

Thank You For You’re Service’s To George Rose R.I.P Royal Marine 🇲🇵

@craigmcfly 7 күн бұрын

The only crime with this version is that the middle verse is removed.

@JustineWittich Ай бұрын

G&S, beautifully done, is always a delight!

@WanderingWayfinderLibrarian 4 сағат бұрын

What a rockstar

@nathanielhirshfeld5618 2 жыл бұрын

Aha! So this is where The Sailor's Hornpipe comes from

@LextheRobot 15 күн бұрын

The tallest daughter, unless I am mistaken, was the Muppet performer who played Annie Sue Pig.

@lorenwoirhaye4687 3 күн бұрын

Now, in my 50s, I like this stuff. These silly kids know nothing.

@daneelolivaw1972 8 күн бұрын

Wow... How hard it must be to sing at that speed... 😮

@58christiansful 3 ай бұрын

This is supremely funny.

@TooRudeProductions 3 күн бұрын

I'm so glad I dropped out of this musical in high school

@LoftBits 10 ай бұрын

If they were to make this movie today, they'd have problems finding actors who can speak that fast whilst remaining intelligible... Watch another jewel from this flick "It doesn't really matter" with Kevin Kline and Angela Lansbury.

@kaybryant5099 5 ай бұрын

I can I just need words

@reginabillotti 3 ай бұрын

Not at all, unless they insist on Hollywood a-listers. Plenty of theater actors could handle these roles.

@JahJah-CleverHandle 18 күн бұрын

I mean, I learned this song in a few weeks practicing only a bit each day. I can (and have done) the whole song on beat.

@CSLucasEpic 7 күн бұрын

Man... I wish I was a Modern Major-General...

@davidbaxter4910 Жыл бұрын

I SMILE...

@mitchweiss4568 5 ай бұрын

I SAW THIS ON BROADWAY, 41 YEARS AGO

@reginabillotti 3 ай бұрын

Why did they cut out a verse?

@cobracorporal6738 Жыл бұрын

1:07 - *I am the very model of a modern major general, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral* *I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical from Marathon to Waterloo in order categorical* *I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical, I understand equations both the simple and quadratical, about binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news*

@martythetickler Жыл бұрын

*Got it - with many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse!!*

@thephysicistcuber175 10 ай бұрын

@@martythetickler*I'm very good at integral and different calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animaculous, in short in matters vegetable animal and mineral I am the very model of a modern major general.*

@JahJah-CleverHandle 9 ай бұрын

@@thephysicistcuber175 *I know our mythic history: King Arthur and Sir Caradoc’s, I answer hard acrostics I’ve a pretty taste for paradox, I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus, in comics I can floor peculiarities parabolis.*

@EcaciaOfficial 7 ай бұрын

@@JahJah-CleverHandle*I can tell undoubted raphaels from gerard dows and zoffanies i know the croaking chorus from the frogs of aristophanes then i can hum a fugue of which ive heard the musics din afore*

@kurtporschmann2530 Ай бұрын

I want to know why this was recommended to me... I've watched three different versions so far...

@pippipster6767 4 ай бұрын

Very nice quality, but not a patch on the performance by Andrew Shore as Major General-Stanley, with Joshua Bloom as Pirate King and Claudia Boyle as Mabel in the ENO production by film director Mike Leigh. (Is on YT.)

@A4000 27 күн бұрын

lol, terrible taste.

@lionsjourney29 4 ай бұрын

Though the lyrics are the same, did anyone manage to keep up with the fast paced bit? I got almost 90% lol the rest seemed a bit slurred/combined

@ErinChappel 2 күн бұрын

I wonder how long it took for him to get all that right.

@thomasrinschler6783 10 күн бұрын

I really like the Broadway album with this cast, and while I mostly like the movie version here, they cut too much out - the biggest offender of which is cutting the entire second verse of this song.