Galaxy Song

[GreenandRedLollipop]

I work as a Science teacher and we were learning about Space. One of my students wrote the lyrics to this song in her workbook. When I questioned her and asked is she is a Monty Python fan, she replied with 'I may be 14, but I know good comedy when I see it.' I have the feeling that this year is going to be an epic year. 

[Elian522]

Eric Idle is the Willie Wonka's hidden brother !!

[PayNoAttentiontoCaes]

Can we 'ave your liver then?

[MrHughes89]

77 people are creationists.

[TheAJC021]

its funny how in a couple of hours its got 300k+ more then before. o.O LOVE THIS SONG. I LOVE MONTY PYTHON :D

[sundragonra412]

This song, along with Always Look on the Bright Side, always puts a smile on my face. Thank you, Eric Idle!

[MultiMagoon]

@blongerr thats not at all a strange thing to say.. join the mass murderers convention today!

[MsAnnieTyler]

Thumbs up if you're bobbing your head along with this song and you do when listening to Eric Idle's other songs. (ex. "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life")

[MsAnnieTyler]

Am I the only one who thinks Idle looks a bit like Bob Barker?

[Blueberry1916]

if people don't like the song/video then don't watch it. Don't complain about it

[ezzibbes]

We actually had to listen to this as part of our physics course today.... OCR actually has a worksheet based on this song.... Genius!

[MisterMaker2point0]

this song is blasphemous.

[masmanwbma]

@MisterMaker2point0 I know right! :)

[MisterMaker2point0]

@masmanwbma

AH you knew i was trolling... and kinda referencing other MP sketches lol

[masmanwbma]

The key was perfect for his range, too. Especially when he hits the high note it was perfectly smooth, and at the last note when he just told a cynical joke the note falls perfectly on a pitch which fits his normal verbal voice, and that makes it very "real", the joke funnier. :)

[lowisao]

british people can't do comedy.

[airnbobo]

@lowisao Awww the video must not be working for you. You should get YouTube to fix that for you.

[theledg3092]

@lowisao and where are you from?

[lowisao]

@theledg3092  brazil

[theledg3092]

@lowisao ahh yes, the hotbed of comedy

[lowisao]

@theledg3092 you dont speak my language my friend! that means you do not know shit about brazilian comedy... british comedy sucks... the only exeption is ricky gervias or gervais

[FireNaow]

hmm usually when i put people in my fridge and freezer they don't come back out...

[kallemick]

@FireNaow i guess that both your fridge AND your feezer must be a portal to another world then..... try and go in there yourself and you will find out

[slovan]

Monty Python rocks!

[51m0nnn]

Eric, you can take my liver. You persuaded me!

[dibbleeve]

i am convinced in some way this will help me pass my physics GCSE!

[TheSlipperyImp]

@dibbleeve My GCSE physics teacher showed my class this video. Twice.

[xDRUNKxAPACHEx]

@TheSlipperyImp me too

[nobullshits999]

lol

my physic teacher told me to watch this

[chuckd393]

Willy Wonka would be jealous!!



[Ischaey]

Because theres bugger all down here on earth.

[dustbunster95]

Weird question: is the animation at 1:37 supposed to be a reference to the Cosmos where Sagan was talking about black holes and worm holes? Just saw that episode today, and it looks almost identical.

[Dunewalda]

@dustbunster95 It's the Big Bang.

[dustbunster95]

@Dunewalda Yes, but I'm talking about a very specific and similar animation from Carl Sagan's Cosmos, not so much asking what the animation was.

[hayesy316]

Keep watching Terry Jones in this clip. He's perfect.

[suad01]

The Aethiests Hymn

[ninjawraith17]

@suad01

Personally, it's songs like these that reinforce my faith. It puts one in the humble mindset of being surrounded by something greater than yourself. Plus, the Bible features several key passages about astronomy. There are passages of scripture that talk about the shape of the Earth (Is. 40:22; Job 26:10), the expanding universe (Is. 40:22), the stars and planets (Genesis 1:14-19, Is. 40:26).

Read the ESV, it's a direct English translation of the original text if your curious. Cheers.

[hayesy316]

@ninjawraith17 Be honest. Is there anything you can imagine which WOULDN'T reinforce your faith? If your answer is no, then you're not really saying anything.

[ninjawraith17]

@hayesy316

To be honest, yes there are several things about the world that do not reinforce my faith. Often those moments lead me to question my faith, but I have learned it is human nature to question why things are the way they are. I am by no means like Scrooge after the 3 Spirits visited when it comes to a viewpoint of the world. Only truly quiet (walk in the woods) or informative moments (like Idle's song about the universe) lead me to reflect on God and examine Scripture. God Bless.

[hayesy316]

@ninjawraith17 Like what? Give me some examples.

[ninjawraith17]

@hayesy316

I will tell you of one that happened recently. I received a call in my dorm late at night from my father who told me my older brother was viciously assaulted by 10 men. They broke several of his ribs, blackened both eyes, and bruised a majority of his body. I couldn't do anything, but sit there with hate. I walked for hours alone questioning my faith and God's reasoning for allowing it. Now he's finally healed up and still is strong in the faith. He reminds me to stay strong. Cheers.

[guitarpedant]

@ninjawraith17 Wow, you really are God's doormat aren't you? 'Staying strong' does not mean continuing to believe in an arbitrary religion out of humanity's many religions, even when its promises are plainly broken again and again by reality. Sorry to hear about your brother though, and I'm glad he's healed now.

[URProductions]

Can we have your liver than?

[FearThyTaco]

oi, lads! Remember, in the words of Eric Idle: 'Pray that there's intelligent life, somewhere up in space, coz it's bugger, down here, on Earth.'

[Lilynstar]

I love how my science teacher said if rewrite with the currently accurate information we get extra credit

[finewinematt]

perfect song, except that it was later discovered that the universe is actually accellerating as it expands, rather than just moving at the constant speed of light. Still, quintesential for any high school physics teacher to show their class.

[neobahamut0]

@mosainagant Someone does understand you. They are known as Monty Python

[Felixlol]

Learn this song by heart and you know more facts over our universe than a common physics teacher.

[greeniem]

This song makes aspies happy

[cuckooclown101]

Monty python, the group that can never be replicated by even the tiniest percentage. these men are not only comedy GODS but just plain awesome. I love Monty Python and I always will!

[DeviousBetrayer]

@cuckooclown101 The animanics get their influence from monty python.

[IronTalos]

My vote for the 12th doctor

[TheWaluigiman1]

My faith in humanity has been restored.

[TheKenTerry]

I keep wondering to myself why they use the Imperial measurements instead of the Metric system. Probably because Americans would be like "Kilometers? Fuck off."

[jonnypotpuffer]

@TheKenTerry Erm...because they're English so they use the imperial system, as do the rest of us. The hint is in the word "imperial", as in Empire, as in British Empire.

[TheKenTerry]

@jonnypotpuffer

America uses the Imperial system which consists of inches and feet.

England uses the Metric system which consists of..kilometers and shit.

THE MOOOORE YOU KNOOOOOW

[jonnypotpuffer]

@TheKenTerry I don't want to be rude but I think I know which system my country uses. We have a familiarity with the metric system but the roadsigns are in miles, speedometers are in miles per hour, people are measured in feet and inches and a football pitch has an 18-yard box and a 6 yard line. Does that sound metric to you?

[TheKenTerry]

@jonnypotpuffer

If this is true, I apologize for ignorance. In America they teach us that everybody else uses the metric system for everything.

[jonnypotpuffer]

@TheKenTerry No problem lad, it's not exactly a clear situation. You could describe us as partially metric. We started metrication in the 60s and a few decades later we still haven't finished it. Fuel economy is measured in miles per gallon but petrol is now only sold in litres. Beer and milk comes in pints but a coke can has 330ml written down the side. Everyone knows how tall they are in feet and inches but some people only know their weight in kilos, not stone and pounds. Weird isn't it?

[TheKenTerry]

@jonnypotpuffer

That is weird, and they did attempt the metric system here in the 80s but Americans were not going to have it haha.

[hotelmario510]

@TheKenTerry Not exactly. We still use MPH speedometers, but we measure certain things like fluid weight (or whatever it is) in litres and some distances in metres.

[BloodyBart888]

The Doctor from Doctor Who should sing this song.

[Faizaking]

Eric Idle = genius. Period.

[burntham77]

It's the grey hair that seals it.

[pika23]

Where clint performed this song

[pika23]

I was at a Clint Black concert so many years ago! About 1998

[PVSector]

brilliant music and video! that's amazing!

his estimates are pretty good too.

2:00 is that a new universe being born (expanding) ?

[watzizname]

Amazing song..

[buffaloface1]

12 million miles a minute doesnt sem to be the fastest speed there is i mean the neutrinos at cern

[blongerr]

I wouldn't mind finding Eric Idle in my fridge...

[namekman01]

@blongerr wait...r u sayn that doesnt happen to every1?

[Gareth7685]

Feeling sort of insignificant! (Bing!)

[ultrapersonthing]

can we have your liver then?



[mikeblaze1983]

Hahaha, 90%+/-9.99% of YouTube comments are clearly made by people who have the cognitive skills of a primordial, inbred, prehistoric human that has developed an ability so sniff glue and open coconuts with their forehead, who has been lobotomised......and is dead. But then I watch a python video and get an update from CERN on the latest info regarding Heisenberg theory, well done you clever people.

[oughton42]

@mikeblaze1983 *cough* douchebag *cough*

[KleenerBro]

so...can we have your liver then?!

[Drusan36]

The nostalgia critic brought me here.

[InuYasha0329]

@Beheaamoth no one cares but me and my scientist friends basically but i like funny things too so don't be a kill joy =P and they didnt know that back then its pretty old...

[BadPsychicsTV]

One of my favrouite MP songs ever!!

[MrSuzanne88]

priceless. bravo.

[MarVarCas]

♪and pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space

'cause there's bugger all down here on Earth♪

jaja

:D

[Prawncrackers25]

This song never fails to make me happy

[guitarstarforever12]

my music teacher showed us this me and my class gave him a strange look

[gamok]

@Beheaamoth That's the Heisenberg Principle and that's where probability comes into play according to the laws of quantum physics. And it is not new math, but new Physics; A new conceptual way at looking at phenomena that occurs in our everyday life where the same laws can be apply to another.

[HarrisonLaine12]

I felt olike crying when I heard 0:14 for the 1st time.

[electronfun]

Impressive.

[skinnydipper16]

@Beheaamoth wasn't that a glitch? I think they said they didn't take into account the earth's rotation or something silly like that

[gamok]

@skinnydipper16 According to Cern, all variables were accounted for yet there has been theories of accounting for the effect of relativity of the satellite above the earths surface that was responsible for providing accurate measurements. When doing the math from this scenario they found that the error accounted for the 60 nanoseconds that Cerns' experiment didn't measure.

[gamok]

@gamok But like i said, the prestigious physicist at Cern claim that it was accounted for. Now the big argument is the loss of energy of the neutrino when traveling faster than light.

[fr3ewritergurl]

I memorized this song for my science class. I sang it to everyone, and I got loads of extra credit. :D

[Spattinfire]

This is my favorite porn...

[Samuelthemule]

fantastic.

[seanflannes]

Eric Idle is my Idol !

[CreeperSlayer13]

can someone dubstep this plz?

[faaqtehwurld]

@CreeperSlayer13 No, just no...

[CreeperSlayer13]

@faaqtehwurld WHY?! D:

[WarGreyDan]

Care Bears 3 rips this song off.

[kallemick]

@WarGreyDan i havent seen the movie but why do they rip it off?

[TheEddGould]

1:40 ....THE FUCK?

[ZedemMonk]

Indeed there is bugger all down here on earth - just look at the youtube frontpage for proof!

[StrockMicks]

@ZedemMonk

Indeed ZedemMonk. That two or three twisted eyes girls that always appear on the frontpage. How is that called? Ah, Vlogging

[FishCeiling]

As fast it can go, the speed of life you know...

...Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space...

...that can solve those pesky neutrinos...

[youngian]

That's my funeral song sorted out

[DanM25456]

Carl Sagan meets Willy Wonka.

[mosainagant]

This song reminds on how fucked up everything is, what the fuck is this? It's ridiculous... What are we? Where the fuck are we? We're nowhere and here at the same time, what's behind the universe? Too bad I'll never get to know. I'm an atheist btw... But I hope someone understands what I mean :p This world / universe is strange, I find it funny :p

[melosebrainuhoh]

@mosainagant Well said. Life is absurd, but might as well just embrace it with its uncertainty, imperfections, and impermanence, because, well, what else is there?

[BaronessStrange]

@mosainagant

I'm not an atheist...but i still wholeheartedly agree with you.

[1qwsdcazsx]

2:16 what about neutrinos

[cuckooclown101]

@mosainagant Hell yeah! Thank you for bringing some much needed intellectual insight to the youtube comments section.

[GeorgiaHarry15]

We got to listen to this in our physics lessons. Love Monty Python <3

[lcmiracle]

@GeorgiaHarry15 now I love your physics teacher/professor

[mysterioso2006]

I WANT THAT SUIT. SO BAD!

[fresshmnm]

wtf at 2:04

[fresshmnm]

@fresshmnm i mean 1:58

[lcmiracle]

@fresshmnm go watch Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey,

[TheGreatMightyPoo1]

This song taught me more about astronomy than I ever learned in school.

[EveDaDingo]

These is easily one of the most important songs ever written. It should be taught in ever school ever.

[EveDaDingo]

Wish my hair was that color!

[zabalv15]

I want an Eric Idle to walk out of my fridge and start singing whenever I open it!

[whowhatwhereandwhy31]

Uploaded on my birthday!

[jonathanled]

Everybody should have an Eric Idle in their fridge.

[ilam3d]

British had this back in the 70s? Wow...

[jazzx251]

@ilam3d

80s - 1983 I think. It was rated 15

[Jez32uk]

@jazzx251 got a feeling this one was an 18

[oldemaceddie]

i realy love the meaning of life movie and especially the snongs!!!!!1

[benpatrickjohnson]

In high school my friends and I memorized the lyrics to this and walked around quoting/singing this for about a year.

[Zephyrbal]

Great lullaby. 

[goodideaatthreeam]

this song helped my pass my Physics of the Cosmos midterm. Thank you Monty Ptyhon :)

[stuntsnyc]

who are those guys, they're great! just watches some of their other videos too. so much better than mad tv, or even snl. wish they'd bring more shows like that (i assume they're british?) over here. anywayy, good stuff, thanks for posting

[Ellie8969]

@stuntsnyc Collectively known as "Monty Python" - and yes, British. Big in the 70s & 80s.

[kallemick]

@stuntsnyc these guys are the funniest people on earth just watch some of their tv show "monty pythons flying circus" and yes they are british which explains their brilliant humor

[LetsPlayFourFun]

Anyone from reddit?

[hnbsniper]

@LetsPlayFourFun yes.

[Diamondmaster93]

@LetsPlayFourFun Sure is

[hroarkable]

@LetsPlayFourFun Yarp

[Endiegogo]

@LetsPlayFourFun what is reddit? (no)

[fAgalloch]

Carl Sagan's Cosmos: The Musical!

[Raydienz]

If everybody had Eric Idle in their refrigerator, I've no doubt humanity would be much better off.

[mishival]

@Raydienz you mean like cutting him up and hiding his body parts in people's fridges? I can do that

[draggardevir]

@Raydienz to call that an epic win of a comment would be a severe understatement.

[MrLaraignou]

Thumb up if you cant see the dislike bar :D

[obiwanobiwan13]

"And our galaxy is only one of millions or billions in this amazing an' expanding universe!"

Unless you believe the Earth, rather than all that, is a master creation of a robed Galactic Big Daddy that created it just 6,000 years ago, and THEN decided to place evidence all about to suggest everything to the contrary.

...WHY must you try and teach (Un) Intelligent Design, US South? You're embarrassing the rest of us in the US!

I'd say abortions are needed...but then, Every Sperm is Sacred! ;)

[smackachris]

can we have ur liver then?

[fourminuteswiser]

Gotta love Eric Idle's accent

[blackmage98]

So can we have your liver

Well you've talked me into it ...

[waterskippers]

70 people come from a galaxy that's "just" 3000 light years wide.

[Spaceman585]

1:45 what did I just see...?

[mshilah]

@Spaceman585 My first introduction to what a vulva is at the age of like 10

[wolfgang1331]

so i watched this movie stoned tonight and couldnt get over the song. then when i find this on youtube i see that 1,100,000+ people feel the same way. i love the internet you guys are awesome

[randas00]

Seriously passed one of my classes because I knew the words to this song.

[HardcoreSk8trPunk]

This movie blew my fucking mind.

[SlightyLessEvolved]

So, um, can we have your liver then?

[mrkearns92]

pray that there's intelligent life in space cus there's bugger all on earth.... so true hahahaha

[123sadnoob]

i got exited when i saw the vagina:)

[welshgirlism]

2:01 wtf????

[MidnightRandom]

If Eric Idle says its true. It's true.

[edhunter664]

I learned the lyrics to this as revision for my physics GCSE.

[blankitsan]

pure genious more than funny

[Elderos5]

for some reason, this was the song that my children loved when they were babies & small to get them to sleep

[Exodarks]

Ya, lock that genius up in yo freezer

[HappyHeathen77]

70 thought they were significant

[CthulhuianBunny]

"...It's a big universe and it's ours!"

[Exospray]

why does this song have a happy tone when it is saying that everthing you do is pointless

[EnglishGavz]

@Exospray Because that's the only way to approach the matter.

[nintycommunity]

Hes wrong its not the fastesr speed there is lol

[TransmissionEpicts]

@nintycommunity I was just thinking that whilst hairdrying my wallpaper. CERN beat the meaning of life. Never thought I'd say that.

[cosmiclayercake]

the person that has been born in the time its taken to post this comment will never hear of this the person who passed hardly had the time to convey the message. Quite frankly the odds are stacked agaisnt Us.

[Elite20001]

Did they even use one woman for that movie?