A- Level French - Mitchell and Webb

[AutumnDevi]

There needs to be a gif of Webb's "TRES BIEN!" face.

[MrWoweeZowee]

Til' then Da' Coreeeeeeee

[xgentis]

Hercule Poirot is Belgian not french go read some books...

[HdDan13]

@xgentis And Simon Le Bon is English. It's one of those "joke" things I believe

[ProjectWolverine]

@xgentis I know right, I mean it's like they've decided against accuracy for the sake of comedy or something......

[rococonroll]

TRES BIEN

[SicilianGuy93]

"Look, it's rusted!" was the quote of choice from one of these dreadful education videos.

[funkgerat]

Le whisky, très bien!

[mikeymikemikey1]

d'accord?

[Treblaine]

TRES

BIEN!!!

[KnockoffNigeI]

I'd kill fro a packet of proper Gauloises 

[arrghgarry]

@KnockoffNigeI RThats s funny I`d kill you if you smoked them near me

[eveDjakku]

I didn't lean any French...

[punksickjordan]

Keep pressing 3

[ChainsawVsGod]

I really can't understand how people find this show funny.

[Will86004]

Why do all French people were onion necklaces?

[MisaMumintroll]

is the camera man high or something??

[ronocko]

@MisaMumintroll No but kids love edgy jump cuts and spiral effects, you're obviously not hip and with it.

[MisaMumintroll]

@ronocko "kids love jump cuts and spiral effects" that's exactly what I meant :)

[kparker1145]

TREMBLE!!!

[belkano]

@kparker1145 It's "Trop bien" which means "so nice" i think

[godmonster333]

@belkano *too nice

[kparker1145]

@belkano Oh! Haha! :P

[TheYoo2b]

@belkano actually i think is 'tres bien' which means 'very good'.

[RzTriikz]

SACRE BLEU

[MrDoubiste25]

Nan mais retournez chez vos parents les deux attardés !

[fibreoptix]

I like the bit where he goes tres bien.

[IoEstasCedonta]

0:51 "Le whisky écossais," idiots!

[kasy0s]

Il fallait rigoler ? Dites le moi car là c'est limite des cas sociaux ... Les pauvres je prend une réservations pour l'asile sous peu, il auront le droit à une joli camisole de force avec en option une chambre avec des mur en mousse !

[ho7s0]

Hmm, We learn french on school and believe me that language is SHIT!

[randomsamno9]

For a couple of people who hate stupid people Rob and David do seem to spend a lot of time ridiculing any kind of education ordinary or 'poor' people might be getting by suggesting all education is useless unless they pay thousands a year. I'd like to see them be so smug if they had the same start to life most of us did, surely any education is better than none at all.

[cmrnmoir]

@randomsamno9 I'm sure they would agree with you. However, is it wrong for them to point out that the system could be improved to the extent where people don't prepare to cringe every time they go to watch something educational?

[TheYoo2b]

@randomsamno9 they're actually making fun of the way educational videos are made, not education in general.

[ThatOtherSophie]

Tres Beeeergh

[TomSFox]

Tres bien!

[logibear123]

I'm taking A level French. This pretty much sums it up. Merde.

[ProtestantsRUs]

Haha, this is hilarious. French is a silly sounding language that is dying pretty much everywhere outside of France, but this was hilarious. loved the tresbian by Webb.

[nakedmambo]

@ProtestantsRUs Are you joking? French is the second most widely-taught foreign language in the world, after English. That's hardly 'dying' is it?

[ProtestantsRUs]

@nakedmambo Very few people will be speaking it in 50-100 years. You honestly think schools will waste resources on French when Mandarin, Portuguese and Spanish are so widely spoken? Not likely...

There have been protests in Vietnams by students who are forced to learn French rather than English; English is now more widely taught in Lebanon than French, and it is quickly killing off French (along with Arabic) in north Africa.

[nakedmambo]

@ProtestantsRUs Of course dear boy. People were saying this about 40 years ago and it still hasn't transpired. It survived the Western craze for learning Russian and the growth of Arabic and Chinese. The Moroccans did the whole 'shirking off colonial French language' thing but it's still widely spoken. I'm sorry to upset your ideas but about 70% of the world does not have a proper working command of English, many have none at all. Your 'global English' is a fantasy.

[ProtestantsRUs]

@nakedmambo You jealous? Sounds it. There is only one country in the entire world where French is spoken by the majority of people- France- and its declining economy and status will hardly entice many more people to study it for future generations.In Canada, the vast majority of immigrants learn English, and French outside of Quebec is becoming increasingly unknown. In Algeria, its decline has continued, including the recent closure of French schools, as Arabic and English become the standard.

[nakedmambo]

@ProtestantsRUs Jealous? English and Dutch are my first languages, I have nothing personally invested in French. You are just wrong on nearly every assertion. French is a first language in Switzerland and half of Belgium. It's also a common second language all around Europe. The post-colonial reaction is obvious and understandable, but it's a false idea. The ex-British colonies didn't throw off English it's too intertwined. But as I said, claiming global English is nonsense.

[ProtestantsRUs]

@nakedmambo Most of Switzerland speaks German as a first language, not French, so you've got that wrong. 60% of Belgians speak Dutch- so, the majority don't speak French. It's not a common second language in Europe- that accolade goes to English, the most popular second language in Europe. French is a rather obscure third language, learnt by a small minority in each country.

[nakedmambo]

@ProtestantsRUs I don't have it wrong you condescending arse. I know full well that 60% of Belgium speaks Dutch, I live next door to it and my father was born there. There is much more French in Switzerland than you're trying to make out. I get the feeling you're really anti Quebec more than anything, or just another tedious American who is mystifyingly anti-French.

[poolidoor]

@ProtestantsRUs yes and that s a good thing, now keep in mind that there was time where french was speaking all over the world even at the court of england, so it may arrive an era where the first language used will be not english but cantonese for instance,

[poolidoor]

@ProtestantsRUs right now it seems like a fiction but time are changing and economy as well as diplomatic language can also reverse, personnally i prefer english , it s more easy and logic to learn, french is so hard in some way that most of french can t speak or write it properly

[AlexLong1000]

Le Whiskey

[JDLupus]

TREEH BIERGH

[AceToneRecords]

well that was easy.

[lakshmimittal]

Robert's so thin!

[androwbmx]

@lakshmimittal haha I noticed that too, he put on a bit since then :S

[TDogthe3rd]

If anyone else has had to suffer the indignity of BBC bitesize, you'll know this is disturbingly accurate.

[Eccleswaslegendary]

@TDogthe3rd Simply clicking 'Like' doesn't quite express how right you are there.

[Smallenface]

@TDogthe3rd hahaha its painfully true

[baldurus1]

Bonjourrrrrrrrrrrrrr... you cheese eating surrender monkeys.

[HerEyesWereWild]

*Shudder* Baaaaad memories of BBC Bitesize... D:

[Andarthiel]

Haha, this is hialrious because Poirot is Belgian XD

[GingerJoberton]

"D'accord" as a replacement for goodbye sounds very violent.

[Jcolinsol]

This reminds me of nothing so much as when a theater group came to our school and performed, not one but three, Shakespeare plays condensed into 15 minute bites and done in Ebonics.

The result managed to be neither cool nor educational.

[sl8m]

is it me or has david mitchell got a lot hotter scince last time i looked

[Senni7]

I'm dizzy. Too many facts and swinging camera!

[kikkette]

TRES BIIIEEEN!

[GiraffeOmelette]

I miss 'Allo 'Allo. :3

[gthreek]

D'ACCORD

[trotskychu]

This is actually not far off

[michalchik]

I guess this would be funnier if I had been subjected to whatever idiotic education videos this is spoofing.

[theotendleeey]

i really do hope an education minister sees this and endeavours to change the loathsome way in which GCSE and A level french are taught in this country

[PassTheMarmalade1957]

Perfectly sums the pathetic attempts to be cool, interesting, and 'down wiv de kids' made by every educational video on the planet.

[Dungarth]

@PassTheMarmalade1957 ..in England yes, but take a trip to China or Japan, their educational videos are full to the brim with old men in grey suits & thick glasses talking about Calculus..but the kids there love it!

[TheFinlandnator]

Sacczrgrrccree bleeeeuyghhh!

[AlanSmithySculptor]

umm.........omelette du fromage?

[Aeoliandorian]

@smile221 Très bien*

[smile221]

He pronounces Tray Bee On wrong

[lvaley]

want an unlimited life-time suplly of whisky? press 6. lots.

[draculon5]

This is so perfectly typical of the useless crap that they turn out for us students, the cheesy computer generated music, the patronising way of trying to connect with kids. It's like being back at my GCSE's all over again.

[the12thdiciple]

@draculon5 don't forget the obscene way them film it with the constant zooming in and out and making it look as though the person holding the camera has Parkinson

[RelativelyHostile1]

@draculon5 don't diss GCSE's they were so much easier than the A-levels I'm taking now

[draculon5]

@RelativelyHostile1 Hey, I'm doing A-levels too. Just because they're harder doesn't mean that GCSE's were any good at the time.

[RelativelyHostile1]

@draculon5 thats true, Damn u GCSE French, IT, RS and Geography. But the rest was easy ;P

[draculon5]

@RelativelyHostile1 Maths was always my big problem, Could never understand it.

[RelativelyHostile1]

@draculon5 Opposite for me, I can do maths and science easily but i was incredibly shit at english lit/language type subjects where u needed to write essays and 'read between the lines' and such. Also, coursework was a bastard cos it took forever :p

[manaburn]

I don't think this is Mitchell and Webb.

[aksquash]

Learn about Highlander and whiskey? Best damn lesson ever.

[tokega]

Who's the woman?

[AMockTurtle]

Love the camera angles/movement in this... makes me slightly dizzy. But sadly true of A-Level and other educational videos!

[LimeyThunder]

this is kringetastic

[CaptainLumpyDog]

And that's how I achieved native-level fluency in the French language.

TRÉS BIEN!

[fearthefurby]

TRES BIEN

[blade3337]

This is funny, but it's co-written by Ricky Gervais, therefore I'm gonna stop laughing.

[UchihaKat]

This sends me back to that nightmarish year I took AP french.

[05AT1]

I now actually want to see their A-level German programme.

[AmbientMemories]

im panicking im panicking im panicking 

[walkingwhilesleeping]

I think it got worse in french.

[FrankEdavidson]

@patchbunny that's the joke the BBC and other broadcasters have dumbed down factual programming to make it interesting and yes you will find programmes with cameras at jaunty angles, low and drawn out factual content (see QI) and bass riff lift music (GCSE bytesize revision)

[TJPinoy]

Sacre bleu... hoz cun toi hanglish pig-dogs fourguet too sai mon dieu?

[Dungarth]

..Thisis not Mitchell & Webb its from ''Bruiser'' which is the first TV show Mitchell & Webb were on back in 2000.

[Nitrxgen]

I feel sea sick.

[patchbunny]

Good lord, I hope there's not an actual BBC show with that camera style.

[YoussefDonovan]

@247custard Christophe Lambert was born in USA and Simon Le Bon is English... maybe.... maybe that was the joke?

[Flitteriffic]

@YoussefDonovan Yes... Yes that was the joke...

[MrNnpivo]

@YoussefDonovan and hercule poirot is from belgium

[38dragoon38]

I am poosing in mai pantz!

[SkimpyDoughnut]

I wish it was this easy ;(

[sollge]

i do a level french and am dissapointed that its nothing like this.

[boiledelephant]

I for one admire cthulu11111111's outstanding trolling effort, and am amazed that almost everyone has been fooled by it.

[PathToVendetta]

I think I may have actually become worse at French thanks to this vid...

[mrmemanme]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHa this is exactly what BBC bitesize is like, it sooo shit.

[Awakeandalive1]

Hercule Poirot is not a bloody little frog! He is a bloody little Belgian!

[mrmemanme]

@Awakeandalive1 its part of the joke

[Awakeandalive1]

@mrmemanme Well aware. Also, Simon LeBon was born in Hertfordshire if memory serves me right. I just love that particular Poirot quote!

[mrmemanme]

@Awakeandalive1 ah ok :)

[Awakeandalive1]

@mrmemanme Well aware. Also, Simon LeBon was born in Hertfordshire if memory serves me right. I just love that particular Poirot quote!

[jwilson2409]

tres bein

[EvilLamas]

In GCSE German, there were videos like this.

[m3erw]

Yesterday we learnt A-Level German.....

[RelativelyHostile1]

i don't get films like this in my school, instead they are much older and ancient and i know they will never ever be updated, plus they always have porn sounding music in the background ;)

[MrEifla]

TRES BIEN: my only reaction is to break down sniggering.....

[Drowninginantimatter]

D'accord means OK, not bye

[MrMushroom33]

@Drowninginantimatter Bonjour also means Good day not "Hiya"

[LeamingtonSteve]

this is a good take on the dumbed-down stuff put out in an attempt not to appear 'elitist'.......... funny but sadly true

[StrictlyUKXlIl]

Christophe Lambert!

[Idole18]

I live in France, and the thing about the whisky is that there are pratically no words in french that begin with W that aren't english...

[247custard]

Hercule Poirot would be dissapointed because as I'm sure you're all aware, he is actually Belgian!

[RustlessPotato]

@247custard yes, don't take what little Belgium has from us =(.

[MrSecurefuture]

@247custard Furthermore Simon Le bon is English and Christopher Lambert is Swiss. :)

[heald111111111111111]

@247custard I to was about to make this observation.

[wigginsist]

@247custard I'm pretty sure that's the point

[TheMackiable]

@247custard yeah, most people know that. (everyone also know tintin is belgian. BUT not Haddock.) But they just put into account that he SPOKE FRENCH....not that he's french....

[elliecoffey]

@247custard I think that's the point ;) They weren't trying to be massively factually accurate in this sketch were they :)

[tomodlin]

@247custard None of them are French. I think that was the joke.

[247custard]

@tomodlin I thought Christopher Lambert was French? But yes, I take your point.

[bristolchronic4eva]

@tomodlin C Lambert is french.

[Easyandy100]

@247custard Thus the humour I think. Tres bien!

[TheProjectpenpal]

@247custard clearly you have missed the point.

[trentmuch1]

@247custard

True enough, but I think that the audacity of a teaching video that doesn't know what it's talking about is kinda the whole point! :P

[Highice007]

What is Tress Bien?

[WhattoZhaFacku]

@Highice007 "Très bien" is French for "very good"

[DAYDREAMER6677]

hahahah this is so much like bbc bitesize

[goldfishpaste]

Hold down 3 lol

[TwoBlumen]

Press 3 for endless TRES BIEN

[elephantmali]

@TwoBlumen I just can't stop pressing 3. I just can't.

[diamonddog49]

Hercule Poirot is Belgian

[1991NickC]

@diamonddog49 haha! quality

[johnnye87]

@diamonddog49 Whereas Simon le Bon, of course, is as French as they come.

[GingerTud]

@diamonddog49 That was the joke ;)

[outsidepers]

TRESS BIEN!!



[nipponfanDA]

Just what i need to see on the morning of my french A2 exam

[Penko83]

My GCSE French consisted of a teacher lobbing over a Werther's Original every time we successfully translated a French phrase into English. I left with a grade D and the teacher in question went on to become head of a different school, which was subsequently placed into special measures by the LEA.

[CeleryPuppy]

D'accord! *does 'cool' hand sign* D'accord!

[HarduntheRanger]

*cough* Hercule Poirot is Belgian...

[asdfqwerzxcv6]

My A level German lessons are something like this, but a bit more... edgy.

"The German for INCEST is the same, but with an ACCENT. Everybody say it! INCEST INCEST INCEST"

*facepalm*

[asdfqwerzxcv6]

My A level German lessons are something like this, but a bit more... edgy.

"The German for INCEST is the same, but with an ACCENT. Everybody say it! INCEST INCEST INCEST"

*facepalm*

[mysticclaw]

Hercule Poirot is from Belgium, not France.

[herbaliser555]

@mysticclaw Yes, and Simon Le Bon is English. The scriptwriters knew this, hence the comedy.

[WalkingTravisty]

Like every French lesson I've ever had summarised.

[magicsoundify]

Tres biennnnnnnn

[Kinshasa76]

@squreshi10 Really weird ! XD

Why do they have garlic ... necklaces in the first place ?

[TheDigitalStone]

@Kinshasa76 To scare off vampiric Frenchmen?

[Kinshasa76]

@TheDigitalStone Oh, interesting theory. I think I'll try that next time I'll go out. XD

[etspoiss1]

Allo allo ! Love it

[blahicicle05]

OH GOD SO TRUE.

[rjconnolly64]

Hercule Poirot is Belgian

[madbeetz11]

@rjconnolly64 that's the point you farfernoogen

[bajoojoo]

love the onions

[johnbicket]

if french A levels are that easy I'd like to see them do it!

[rindow1995]

0:13

[rindow1995]

0:14

[squreshi10]

How weird would it be to watch this if you were French?