THE RUTLES - Piggy In The Middle (1967)

[Parrambusties]

From Beatles' to Rutles' the bus has lost one axis (from 3 to 2).

[angusyjr]

0:49 where did the bus go? LOLOLOL! XD

[rodrigocampossalles]

Please: Let's write in Lusythaine ( Porthuguese )! O conjunto The Rutles é bem melhor que os Beatles. Nesta música ( "Piggy In The Middle" ) chega a ser superior em qualidade musical ao da música "I Am The Walrus". Boo boo Boop!!!

[TheNamron55]

Do you think The Rutles will get back together?

[matelot95]

@TheNamron55 I wish!

[broncobra]

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[Monkofmagnesia]

One thing about the vinyl albums is you can play them backwards. At 1:12 is a backwards message by Nasty. I've played the album backwards. It's "This little piggy went to market."

[hanghang71]

evangalistick boxing kangaroo and i'm dancing in my underwear but i dont care both great lines

[MrSlitskirts]

Great stuff, it kind of sends up The Beatles but still pays homage/respects them. If anything, you kind of think more about their music/songs.

[matchbox555]

i dislike this.. vote down

[RoShamBohhh]

@matchbox555 I like this, which negates your vote down.

:)

[ragamuffin92]

Brilliant!!

[poughkeepsiejohn1]

Imagine if The Beatles actually did songs like "The Fool On The Pill" or "W. C. Fields Forever" or "Your Mother Should Go".

[spacecowboy7580]

@poughkeepsiejohn1

Or Say Dude?

[shutdafup]

Weird they chose to use the American album version at the start of the video rather than the British EP

[AlgisKemezys]

Yeah the Beatles stold oh so much from them.

[PC3900]

The irony: Neil Innes was actually in the Beatles MMT, with the Bonzo Dog Band.

[lutont59]

The Beatles appear to have stolen every song the Rutles ever recorded - Ouch!, Can't Buy Me Lunch, Goose-Step Mama. No wonder Nasty is nasty.

[VideoDaze]

...and biscuits

[Hexachloraphine]

if some child sees this in 2081 it will totally confuse their brains, unless they have a firm understanding of 20th century post war culture.

[larrystarstruck]

I can't say great parody enough. To those who have seen Magical Mystery Tour, no explanation necessary.

The ending of this segment, the parody performance of "I am the Walrus" was the best part of the movie. Plus, at the end, they came down the steps in the same order.

[weloveutdwedo]

GEORGE HARRISON Was the real legend

[mukatuna]

Tragical History Tour 'Piggy In The Middle' is just awesome, priceless. A perfect parody.

[cubuff80]

Completely hilarious - The Rutles were awesome!!

[atombomber25]

goo goo gajoob!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!

[suckaduck45]

I saw Arthur Hodgson and the Kneecaps at a convention. Well...the surviving members. They wouldn't talk about Leggy.

[orion1954]

Parody of I m The Walrus!

[TomthatiscalledTom]

FUCK TEA...Yes, it's very trendy to say it's harmless and inspired a lot of songs like this Piggy in the Middle (and The Beginning by the L.A. based group The Windows) But what about all the artists whose lives and careers were ruined by it? Bruno Wilsoneaux of Le Garcons de la Plage and the original singer of The Punk Floyd had mental breakdowns thanks to tea. The guitarist of Plywood Smock developed schizophrenia and thought he was Rod after one bag too many...

[Shadowblade168487]

I love this song so much...almost as much as "I Am the Walrus"...:D

[Selecta88]

The perfect antidote to pomposity of late Beatles stuff. Yes, I don't really like the Beatles and I'm English. Joe Strummer was right phoney Beatle-mania hashit the dust (in my book anyway).

[portsml]

IS there any truth to the rumour that a plaque will be added to the Studios outside of Shabby Road where the Rutles recorded their hits in Rutland? It is only fitting after the spotlight being shone on Rutland due to the prefab four, their trousers, and their tea.

[klbax63]

I'm having Tea and a Yellow submarine sandwich for lunch

[PL1b]

You know that glider wasn't intended...

[JohnSandwich]

I'd like to go on a hitchhiking tour of tea shops in the Rutland area.

[franzchick66]

I know! When is starts with "four oxford history professors.." I can't stop laughing.

[nickremick1]

Hahahaha the Plot for the movie

[Geoglyphic]

Was that Richard Simmons at 1:24 the last one going in the tent?

[trsfan]

I think it was the real George Harrison

[WileERobby]

And here's another clue for you all ... the Piggy was Dirk !

[broncobra]

@WileERobby btyu

[TomthatiscalledTom]

Tea was a CURSE....it ruined so many good artists in the late 1960s. Bruno Wilsoneaux of Le Garcons De La Plage took too much and became an obese recluse, the original font man of The Punk Floyd suffered a mental breakdown and spent the rest of his life wandering around Rutland. The lead singer of Plywood Smock took so much he developed schizophrenia and believed he was Rod

[holmsatlarge]

I`m excited .You speak like you were there.I had thought to try TEA ,but I`m afraid of having to do BISCUITS.Must they be done together?Do I have to go to Rutland or is that just a metaphor?

[MartyRotten]

You gotta be careful. You start off with biscuits and then it's cookies and before you know it you're on the hard stuff, muffins, bagels and even SCONES!!

Just say no to biscuits.

[holmsatlarge]

do you speak from experience or are you repeating anti- teatime propaganda? just what went on at the american "BOSTON TEA PARTY"did the revolutionaries know of the dangers of tea?was tea the reason for the"AMERICAN REVOLUTION"?

[STEPASAUR]

hey spare a thought for others, i've been slowly rebuilding my life since I acquired a 3rd rate version of the Rutles single 'Happiness is a warm spoon' b/w 'Everybodys got somethin to hide except me and my strainer' so i'm all for anti-teatime propaganda if it helps spare others the lows I've hit, saving and reusing bags, sharing flasks in shop doorways, it was a long time ago but i still get the shakes around 4ish, it was ok for us English, poor Americans had to wake up & smell the coffee!

[holmsatlarge]

Bags?In my time we used raw leaves,letting them "steep" in the "teapot".The paraphenalia alone cost me everything..special "spoons",Tea Services,trips to Japan to learn their Tea Rituals. I have since moved on to embrace "cheese and onions"The buzz isn`t as strong and people do notice you`re using,but I feel it has lowered the my need for Tea....honest.I hope to start an anti-TEA-SHOP campaign once I no longer get the shakes.Withdrawal will be difficult.

[STEPASAUR]

I tried Cheese and Onions but it didn't work for me, i still needed tea, I spent hours just laying there 'stir crazy' and just when I thought I was strong again I'd turn on the tv and they'd be showing films like The leaves of wrath or One brew over the cuckoos nest, i smashed kettles, cut my gas off but even in my weakest state always still found a way to boil water, oh what a curse to humanity..

[holmsatlarge]

I see in your previous post that you reference Americans and their coffee-are you aware that the American revolution was all about TEA?It wasn`t the TEA-TAX that they were against it was the TEA that Britain was forcing on them.Thus was the under-lying theme of the Boston Tea-Party.Coffee was their route to freedom.Perhaps you can go the way of the coffee-drinker?(Not that erzatz "CAMP"coffee stuff.Camp indeed.).

[holmsatlarge]

SCONES!?Are they still legal?I thought the SCONE gangs had been dunked by the E.U.?

[broncobra]

@TomthatiscalledTom ttu

[silvanski]

Nasty was right when he said that the Rutles were bigger than Rod

[PUKEsleepTUBE]

LMFAO!

[drunkeneagle]

Rutles/Oasis same band

[luludevolvo]

such a great parody! one of my favorites

[DroolingImbecile]

Dirk Nasty is the best.

[luisg55555]

Sorry for that comment, I put it like that for this reasons:

1. When I was listening to the radio they said that the JB made three covers of Beatles´ songs.

2. The JB fans think that they did the songs.

3. The JB made a commercial with one song promocionating their new CD´s.

4. Some people said that the covers and the parodies are better than the original ones.

5. Some people say that the JB will be the next Beatles (idiots no one wil be like them ever).

So, sorry if I upset you guys.

[silvanski]

who are the Beatles?

[lomje70]

A very funny fictitious group that parodied the Rutles.

[elinmagg]

very funny!;)

[daredoener]

First: Its not easy to play songs that sound so wrong and at the same time they sound like they were composed like that.

And second: George Harrison helped producing this Band and the movie The Rutles (and I think one of the Monty Pythons was involved as well)

And third: It was never the intention of the Rutles to build an successful own band, but a funny project to honour The Beatles.

And fourth: Sorry for my english

[luzspitifire]

Go wacth a Monty Phyton filme before say anything, or even the entire Rutles movie, wich George Harrison himself appears.

[Erikih]

This little piggy went to market. @ 1:11 - 1:14

[dunkiep]

yeah, I was just thinking how clever that was, working it into the song at the same point of 'umpa umpa stick it up yer jumpa' in Walrus.

[43egglane]

The Rutles rule. Noel Gallagher take note - this is how to write a decent song.

[dunkiep]

Listen to 'idiot song' by Neil Innes and you'll hear the start of 'Whatever' by Oasis. Gallagher lost a court battle over that.

[QVrat123]

i know that george actually helped making this parody, but did he lend them his guitar " Rocky" cause it looks like it

[WileERobby]

The Rutles were great at hiding lyrics & meanings into their songs. This one is their most complex song... scholars are still arguing the meaning of "poo" to this day...

[nostalgiahistoria67]

Sheer lunacy but totally brillant! A classic!

[macacoun]

Very good "a la maniere de"

[Talalay]

I don't know why Lennon is hailed as such a genius when he blatantly ripped off Ron Nasty.

My only consolation is that it did result in a particularly violent lawsuit.

[faulconandsnowjob]

I love Firk McQuigley

[IwillKillYourCereal]

Rutlemania, those were the days :)

[ZenLay1968]

I bet the beatles where laughing there butts of when thease guys where together. There simply making fun of themselves.

Signed, ZenLay

[brabon1]

as george appeared and produced the movie and the album...i guess you are right

parody is always a great compliment

[gammagrass]

i like this better than "I am the Walrus"

[pinkmileyemily]

hilarious but kinda creepy

[neilus]

Cant believe how much the Beatles ripped off the Rutles, its fcuking outrageous!

[colbertLOTR91]

beatlesfan4eva456

If you actually were a beatles fan you will know that George Harrison himself was part of the parody. Infact,one of the main stars: Eric Idle was part of Monty Python a comedy troup that Geroge Harrison loved that he payed for the roduction of "the life of Brian"

[dinglegonzo]

They should be ashamed!!!!

[junkie4vids]

This was the period when The Rutles were all into excessive tea drinking. You can feel the creative juices flowing during this era of The Rutles. This video brings back old memories of all of us hanging out and trying all sorts of tea - Earl Grey, Oolong, green, and even heavier types of tea. Crazy times.

[poenadare]

@junkie4vids Chamomile, man, chamomile.

[fumeres]

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAH!!!!!!!­!!!! Rutles rules!!!

[DEKA1]

they Airplane part was'nt in the script, it was a mistake buy some crazy pilot, but they just kept it in because it looks great, thou if it was any lower those cops would of been killed !

[soxfan801]

It was a glider

[SixteenMilliMeter]

Yes, I've heard that claim, and I'm amazed, for several reasons: There *was* a passing airplane in "I Am the Walrus" in "Magical Mystery Tour," so it would make sense to include an airplane here. Plus, it's such a well-timed bit of pointless symbolism, it's hard to believe it *wasn't* planned.

[jzerony]

I remember when the Rutles album first came out I actually played this part 1:12 backwards on my turntable - and it's Ron Nasty going "this little piggy went to marrrr-ket!!" ......Brilliant!!

[BeatlesNRutlesBootle]

It was actually George Harrison saying it, which makes it the only Rutles recording that includes a real Beatle in it.

[jzerony]

Cool! I didn't know that.... that makes it even MORE special!!!!

[stiles101]

I want to get on that bus and go tea shop touring.

[TomthatiscalledTom]

Sad but true. Give a band too much artistic freedom and too much tea and they will turn out pretentious wankery. Leggy would never have allowed this farce. Still, the Rutland Stones fell into the same trap that year with their psychaedelic concept album 'Our demonic highness' vest'

[ctdsnark]

Not too long ago,someone DID post the complete song,with the film the Beatles did for "I Am The Walrus".

Why it was removed,I don't know---I just want the complete song back.

[ctdsnark]

Somebody PLEASE post the complete version of this song{without Idle's narration obscuring the first verse}!

Visuals,put up whatever you want.

[Mandi7882]

Wow...that request may be a tad bit difficult, I would think. This came from the show - and Eric's narration is a part of that. But...I do remember a Cassette Tape of the Ruttles Songs from this show being sold - it would be a 'gas' if anyone actually still has it. That might be the only way you could hear it uninterupted..?

[redtuliporg]

I have the album of it on CD. Complete song.

[Mandi7882]

red - where did you get it??!?! Let us know!!

[wildenfree]

Buy the album then!

[beatlesfan5670]

I've tried to do it but YouTube deleted my video.

[smitpauly]

God bless the rutles!we shant see their likes again..........hopefully.

[mesmeridium]

Apparently the glider was an incidental happenstance from a small airfield nearby and was very close to knocking the extras off the wall.

It's appearance in the film gave good effect to the segment and was kept in.

All in all, this parody of I Am The Walrus is a main highlight of All You Need is Cash.

[49Classic]

"Stig has been dead for years....seriously."

:-)

mike

[wildenfree]

I buried Stig

[cannonballsax]

"do a poopoo do a poopoopoo"

[Thejbirdy]

Always a huge Rutles fan.

Music that would last a lunchtime!

[Easterleight]

what oldbrownshoe69 said about the oasis is the really truth.

You have just to listen how "whenever" sounds dangerously like cheese and onions....

[konkursmann]

their best parody, this is absolutely excellent!!

[Gatakumo]

I saw this entire movie befor I knew any of the beatles songs lol

[Thejbirdy]

Long live Rutlemania!

The pre-fab four!

Jbirdy

[hellochuffy]

oldbrownshoe69 and beatleboybob ,carefull what you say about oasis I made a comment about Ten Masked Men and their version of wonderwall and had a reply from some shit for brains you would not want your mother to read.

[stiles101]

SID... Stig is gone,,, am I the only one who hears this??? OMG !

[abcbeatle]

lol

[oldbrownshoe69]

ha ha the coins just dropped, OASIS were ripping off not the beatles but the rutles!!!!

[crinkleman123]

ha, the reversed vocals ar "this little piggie went to market" lol

[thkoby]

Possibly the greatest song ever.

[SKYVOLTAGE]

Brilliant, Genius. Dirk is Deaf...Barry is in Bed (Tax Dodge) Stig has no fixed hair style and Nasty is...well..."I'm not Tellin Ya"...Tea Time.

[beatleboybob]

Ah well, beat's the crap out of oasis.

[rhys90210]

evangelistic boxing kangaroo lulzzzzzzzz

[gbraae]

Ron was always my favourite Rutle. Just listen to these lyrics!!!

;)

[Charlienmeg]

The glider going over was a complete surprise - not arranged and no warning - and pretty much everyone nearly crapped themselves :-)

[HEV29]

i love the beatles and the Rutles is the most majestic, beatlesque,m brilliante, parrale universse type thingy thing xxxxxx

[kangaroocomedy]

excellentewellbrillianteagreew­weeed

[poughkeepsiejohn]

I love the titles of the other songs on "Tragical History Tour". "Your Mother Should Go". "I Am The Waitress".  "W. C. Fields Forever". Although The Beatles probably got the last laugh in all this, I still think The Rutles are terrific.

[beatlevicke]

lol!

[bayster912]

'Donald Duck & Mickey Mouse, even Pluto too' brilliant

[PreacherofArrakeen]

"They say revolution's in the air, I'm dancing in my underwear 'cos I don't care!" lolllllllzzz

[Ihavearubbersoulforu]

I wonder what the backmask says??

[jaxon1024]

this little piggy went to market

[seeingtheunseeable]

He actually says, "I'm gassin' up my underwear and I don't care" - they even put it on the lyric sheet. Goes nicely with the "Do a poo-poo" lines, don't you think?

[LadyDi4476]

Is that what Nasty is singing about? Do a poo-poo? LMFAO!!

[geoemrick]

Sounds so much like John Lennon. Love The Ruttles. LOOVE The Beatles always though.

[Bizarronumber4]

I love this sequence from the Rutles movie.Very clever parody of 'I Am The Walrus' and the 'Magical Mystery Tour' movie.

[chelzter]

haha man these rutles songs are almost as good as the beatles.

[gbdinelli]

This song is great! Maybe Oasis "All Around The World" was inspired in this very song.

[EuthanizeReligion]

For a parody this song is great.

[tommy30507]

The Rutles.....ARE FANTASTIC...FABulous, even...

[ideacuccot]

Brilliant!!!

[monkmellon]

awesome. I remember I had the rutles soundtrack on LP and played the hell out of it.

[vanillaorchid]

Me too.

[LemonLemonade1]

OMG!!!!!!!!

iTS GREAT

[mrsky1962]

I remember buying the soundtrack LP when it first was shown on TV. Great stuff

[grazy617]

Piggy in the middle boo ba ba boo

[lorrephile]

It's "Do a poopoo"

[JokribPjotr]

Bible punching heavyweights....evangelistic boxing kangaroo

[stratman123]

"tekram ot tnew yggip elttil sihT" 

stick ah miss no eager foot and synth!

[JokribPjotr]

"I'm dancing in my underwear...and i don't caaaare"

[thaibites]

I love Barry Wom! I'm getting a sex change so I can have his baby.

"Do a pooh-pooh."

[tvdruggedzombie]

Still one of my fav Rutles tunes!!!

[bobvar]

When they first presented this on NBC,I was rolling on the floor . This is spot on.

[fifteenmoo]

It came out in 1978

[IndyJones95]

Random stuff, that is what made it so funny, i literally fell on the floor and exploded into laughter!!! =)

[Senorpoppy]

then you would be dead now... FAIL!

[squonkness]

lol 1967! the rutles started in 1975

[jaxon1024]

no lol they are makin fun of i am the walrus. the wanky beatles sound.

[weenyone]

The Rutles sound a lot like Oasis in this one song or is that the other way round :) Maybe I'm not an Oasis fan

[Djunfitforwork]

Barry Wom's drumming is great on this

[eximod]

That part with the tent was so WEIRD! It was like an existential dilemma of inness and outness and falling over!

[beatlesgirlyy6828]

hah four oxford professors hitchhiking :]

[freakchic9]

Those pig masks are so effin' CREEPY!

[jamestkirkesq]

I think the pig masks are awesome, "freakchic9"

... not creepy at all.

But as for the big white rabbits (and those nuns) on the other hand! ... :LOL

Great mickey-take of a great song. ;-))

[ahcapella]

I wonder if Charles Manson thought The Rutles were talking to him in their lyrics?

[TheJMRshow]

No Bob Charles did

[jaxon1024]

haha the backmasking says this little piggy went to market!!

gotta love the rutles

[Spartan2Mike127]

LOL!!! It's a spoof on "I am the Walrus" and "The Magical Mystery Tour"

[itaigalgal]

Noooo....really?! we all thought it's a parody of barney's theme!

[JohnsHouseofFun]

the back masking at 1:13 is genius...really indicative of lennon in the later albums...

[Yardbird68]

I hate to admit it .......I'm a tea head! My favorite Rutles song!! I seen the movie when it first came out and I still have the album I bought when it first was released.

[alapoet]

The critics were wrong... Their "psychedelic period" is where the mighty Rutles reached their full potential!!!

:-)

[melinOH]

This looks like outtakes from the actual MMT, they nailed it!

[SPENCERJOYCE]

They look so damn funny in pig masks!!!!

[TomthatiscalledTom]

Tea can open certain creative doors. But if you abuse it, it can be the catalyst for pretentious rubbish....as the Rutles found out the hard way