The Flintstones - Wilma says 'bollocks'

[igglepiggle1212]

vilma said the b word hahahaha

[lkirkup]

When U2 guest starred in the simpsons the word wanker was used at 18.00 on C4 here in the UK so it does happen

[jeffrey44]

@lkirkup

Really? What date was this broadcast? The word wanker has been cut every time I have seen it on Sky One or Channel 4.

[lkirkup]

@jeffrey44 whenever GTA IV came out so mid 08/summer 08 (ish)

[jeffrey44]

@lkirkup

Turns out you are correct. guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/­09/channel4.ofcom

Well done.

[jeffrey44]

@jeffrey44

If that link doesn't work, just Google the headline "The Simpsons: Channel 4 apologises for pre-watershed swearing"

[lkirkup]

@jeffrey44 thanks, I always thought they'd never edit it out cause Americans don't know what a wanker is LMFAO

[TB4000]

Considering what we know about the Flintstones, wouldn't the correct Stone Age version be "boll-rocks?"

[RichXbox360]

I LOLd, and found new love for the GORGEOUS Wilma.

[lilkartracer25]

It's bollix. Look it up.

Bollix ≠ bollocks

[LoneDragoon90]

@lilkartracer25 Although its pronounced similarly and means generally the same thing to bollix/bollocks something up.

[jehouse]

I don't think she said "bollocks"...her voice sounds off. Photoshop, perhaps?

[skellzz123]

shit,piss,fuck,cunt,cocksucker­, mother fucker, piss,fart,turd and twat......... nope if blink 182 didnt sing it its not swareing

[all13Doctors]

Was bollocks ever on the list along with shit, piss, fart, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker and tits? :D

[sallieparker]

bollix, not bollocks...fanny means something different too, as does fag...

[VHSsense]

I looked up Mirriam Webster, bollix is derived from bollocks but it's not considered vulgar, whereas bollocks is in the UK

[disneyhistoryfan]

I Love What Betty Says After Wilma Says Bollocks!

''I Dont Know Wilma Practice I Guess'' hahahahahaha!

[sootyferrari65]

I love the word Bollocks lol

[therealjoebloggs]

I wonder if the "bollocks" reference got deleted in the UK; it's not THAT naughty of a word-- politer than the term it usually replaces, BS, as a forceful statement of disbelief. As a transitive verb, as in "to bollocks something up" it's preferred to other expressions conveying the thought of fouling something up, if you're not going to use the word "foul".

[jeffrey44]

@therealjoebloggs

I think bullshit is generally acceptable too. I know Richard Madeley said bullshit at 5pm on his show and Joey Jones said it on Sky News when he was quoting someone (see the video on my channel).

It is interesting that according to Ofcom research, 'prick' is more offensive than 'bollocks'. I wouldn't have put them in that order myself.

[badwolf66]

@jeffrey44 On the Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio 2 some woman said "Bullshit" live on the air at about 1:30pmish

[stonedrose1]

bollocks

[jonfromncl]

This has got to be a wind up surely?! Very funny though.

[SmashLiXs]

i don't get it

[DonOfB38]

@SmashLiXs bollocks is a british swear word

[MusicrevolutionPromo]

hahaahahahahaha

[JumboJimbo2011]

This video is bollocks.

[MrJcb33]

Soooooo fake!!!!!

[Adnan248999]

You nutcases. Wilma uses the word 'bollixed' which means to throw into confusion or mess things up.

[jeffrey44]

@Adnan248999

You nutsack. That doesn't make sense. "How do they always manage to bollixed things up?" Why would she use the past tense version of the word? Surely she is using the word 'bollix'? "How do always manage to bollix things up?" makes much more sense.

[BlueKewne]

@jeffrey44 This doesn't make sense though, because Hanna-Barbera was in the United States...why would he use a british phrase?

I'd understand if this was Top Gear or some other british programming, but this was an American cartoon.

[jeffrey44]

@BlueKewne

I don't think bollix in this context is a British phrase.

[tablob]

@DenverCholoX3 here in Britain it's slang for testicles

[Primordialfan1]

BOLLOX

[therealjordiano]

wtf is this real? awesome

[TheMattyboy20]

OMG i cant stop laughing

[borgduck]

Maybe we've been in deep space too long, but, do you think Wilma Flinstone is sexy?

[crazytosh1]

@borgduck I'd do Betty... but I'd be thinking of Wilma

[LivetysWiretys]

xD

[MrAloo14]

flinstone still come on anit seen it in on the tube for ages

[mramo]

I used to wank over Wilma on countless evenings before the 6 'o' Clock News with Moira Stuart.

[jeffrey44]

@mramo How did you get Moira Stewart to agree to that?

[weds9994]

@jeffrey44  I lol'd

[BamEaton]

@jeffrey44 This comment made me laugh so much, thank you haha.

[mramo]

@jeffrey44 I was under her newsdesk at the time. Peter Sissons sat further away to her left.

[spacecowboy7580]

@mramo

So what do you do now..wank over trevor mcdonald?

[mramo]

@spacecowboy7580 No - Mine is "Lynn" from the George & Lynn comic strip in the Sun Newspaper, beside the horroscope and Dear Deardrie section. You should try wanking, perhaps I can speak to Moira to set Trevor up with you?

[spacecowboy7580]

@mramo

God that's lame.

[lovelybeb]

i used to love watching this show. i miss does times i was like 12 every night i would watch it on cartoon network.

back then cartoon network was the bum, but now i don't know what does shit's are that the bees showing as cartoon.

[jeffrey44]

@lovelybeb

Christ! Is this how the youth speak nowadays?

[supersonicboom1]

@jeffrey44 to be frank yes allot of my generation do how ever aloot of us dont as well me for example i only swear if i get hurt (or if i get extremly annoyed) and same goes for a few of my friends

how ever saying christ the way you have can be taken as a swear and to be honest our generation have had to have learnt it from some where

ive heard several old people specking this way also i will tell you it isnt what you expect but ya know

[misscherrymoose20]

@jeffrey44 ..Yes. I personally find it appalling (and I'm 15)

[jeffrey44]

@misscherrymoose20

What? Your channel says you are 21. How is that so?

[misscherrymoose20]

@jeffrey44 cuz i was born in 96 - what teenager doesn't lie about their age on facebook/youtube/whatever ?

=]

[declanappleseed]

A meer slip of the tongue.

[LolalynnThomas]

This is the funniest argument going on about bollocks!!! Lol. Who cares anyway?

[sextonqpr]

I think there's one where she calls Fred a bastard aswell???

[rinuchi]

@sextonqpr Bastard would be different though. A bastard is somebody who is born out of wedlock and isn't usually considered to be a swear word in most contexts. But bollocks is considered to be a swear words in most circumstances, due to the fact that it's in reference to testicles

[sextonqpr]

@rinuchi Thank you very much for the brief lecture on what the word bastard means. I went to school,passed my exams and have quite a firm grip on my native language. Im also quite aware that bollocks refers to testicles aswell considering i own my very own pair of them you smart arse. I was merely stating that I thought I could remember an episode where she called Fred a bastard. I wasn't asking for a fucking dictionary reference

[Sailorsega]

Considering The Flintstones was a cartoon aimed at adults why is this surprising?

[sfoy2010]

oooooooooooo im telling



[MrBuch169169]

Wow!

I didn't think for a second that she would actually say it.

Wow. That actually made my day.

[ShadowIceDragon]

;D A lot of practice, she guesses.

[OldSchoolRasslin]

I remember watching this with my grandad in the 70s. When he heard the swear word he was so angry he put his foot through the television.

[jeffrey44]

@OldSchoolRasslin

What did he do next? Wear the television like a giant shoe and walk around your home town or city?

[ValkyrieCain123]

@jeffrey44 lol,i love you xD

[Sailorsega]

@OldSchoolRasslin He did not!

[ferolcat2009]

Americans are the ones that would say " Oh Shit, I stepped in some do do" lol....

[ShadowIceDragon]

@ferolcat2009 No, sir. No we would not. o_O Put down the controller, buy a ticket to America, and come see for yourself how different it is compaired to TV. The damned thing does nothin' but overflate the truth. Sure, some of us are obese, but no more then most other places.

[dubassman]

@ShadowIceDragon and those other places all have mcdonalds,i grew up in the 60s/70s and there were only the odd fat kid, no obisity (i know i cant be bothered to spell check)

[ShadowIceDragon]

@dubassman xD Are you saying that everyone else who isn't America isn't obese? Cause if so, you might wanna go check your facts before spewing them online, broski. We're not even the fattest. >:P

[maniac1075]

@cccecider

I remember that, Barney kept saying "Here I go again, huh huh"

[idis1abad]

Hey ya'll my name Wilma Flintstone and I'm rapper and R&B/ soul singer. I'm from Bedrock, Massachusetts and ma girl Betty Rubble is from Springfield. Check out my page if ya'll want to hear good music. My man, Freddie is my producer and manager and he be holdin' me down. peace ;)

[drogheda1966]

My mother said that once in the 70's. It's really gone by the wayside. Like 'thunder jugs'...

[GetThisThingCrunk]

The phrase "bollix things up", frequently misheard in the UK as "bollocks things up" appears in episodes of The Flintstones,[63] which are frequently broadcast in the UK as part of BBC children's programming. To "bollix things up" is not considered offensive in American English.

[TheToddy30]

@GetThisThingCrunk But even the word bollix does originate from the English bollocks.

[TheMichaelsierra]

they ballsed it up

[XXDarkMewtwoXX]

lol, why would she say that? XD

[tashpish]

chas and dave - the bollocks song, thats all the explanation you all need!!

[robsmith000]

WOAH.....she actualy said it.. i was expecting her to mumble something that sounds like it!!!

btw: yes, bollocks/bollox IS a swear word...in Ireland anyways, it's a more comical one though.

[howardb02]

@bh5496 Bollocks is an English word that I've not really heard in America, I've lived in both countries but I'm from the uk. it can mean lots of different things, from making a mess of things, talking crap, not having the bollocks or balls to do something etc. It's not as bad as swearing but it's not a polite word to use

[BowdenCage]

I don't understand... Is this like a swear word in America? Or do the Americans on this page THINK that it's a swear word over here?

[jeffrey44]

@BowdenCage

It is a word you wouldn't expect to hear in The Flintstones. Whether that be spelt 'bollox' or the more common 'bollocks'.

[bh5496]

@jeffrey44 wait, so bollock is a rearly used english swear?

[1970datsun510]

my dad's an American from the world war 2 generation and they used the expression "to bollix up" (spelled like that, I believe) to mean to "foul up" or "mess up". I don't think they realized it was a corruption of "bollocks", or even what "bollocks" are, and as such, I'm pretty sure it wasn't considered rude or vulgar at all in the US.

[lishakara]

@BowdenCage

Well, more like the Brits... you could run down the street screaming "bollocks" in america and no one would bat an eyelash.

[ocerg1111]

@BowdenCage last i heard Bollocks was a slang word for testicles

[BowdenCage]

@ocerg1111 True. But it has multiple meanings and that's not the context in which it's used here. It can mean your balls, it can mean to mess things it, it's even enjoyed a brief stint as a synonym for awesome (eg: this stuff is the bollocks).

[ocerg1111]

@BowdenCage true but i think thats what americans are reacting to here, especially since the recent american tv invasion of Gordon Ramsey ;p

[TheMadPsychoFox]

I do know that that it means something else in the US but after growing up watching British sitcoms like Bottom and Men Behaving Badly, I couldn't help in thinking she meant the U.K. meaning of the word. xD Incredibly funny, lol.

[VGRetro]

Even though it doesn't mean the curse word, it's still very funny.

[eddiemurphyfan100]

i thought she said "buttocks" in the title

[antlantis7]

Guys calm down. What they really mean is Bollocks (mess things up)

How do they always manage to mess things up?

How do they always manage to testicle things up?

Bollocks= mess things up wins!

[EalaDubh]

@antlantis7 It'll be the Irish-American vernacular, so it's actually 'bollix'. Means the same thing though.

[123merceditas]

Since when does anyone west of the Atlantic give a shit about the word "bollocks" anyway...? She might as well have said "bloody," "wanker," "tosser," or "bugger."

[jeffrey44]

@123merceditas

You forgot 'arse'.

[blobby1972]

@jeffrey44 forgot knob too bell end baps shoulder bolders oohh I could go on ;)

[WeirdoJames]

@jeffrey44 turdburger,,dickhead..soo many to choose so they chose bollocks

[stig781]

@123merceditas Since a while.

[HarryWessex]

@123merceditas Well Bugger works.... for what she said :P

[peanutismint]

Wow... seems there is actually a word 'bolix' as in 'to bolix things up'. Who knew?! (i prefer thinking she says 'bollocks')

[Chsrles62]

At least she didn't say "cock things up."

[bitterclinger100]

We should definately try harder to incorporate the word "bollocks" into American vernacular.

[dub1423]

@bitterclinger100 Not until you learn how to spell definitely

[bitterclinger100]

@dub1423 Yeah, definitely!lol

[Manbagdeluxe]

They meant testicles when they said this.

[declanspirrett]

I think that's probably "bollix" rather than bollocks. It means to make a mess of something!

[DarkArtist]

that's just a different spelling... it means the same thing

[declanspirrett]

@DarkArtist Not at all friend, like I said, bollix means to mess something up. Bollocks is a colloquialism for testicles, though it can be used to mean a mess. However, in this context, bollix is more appropriate. They're definitely different words!

[cheeriosinabowl]

Wilma is the best wife a guy could want.

Sexy, funny, smart, hard working, reliable, reasonable, and no wrinkles.

[Amaenaideyo1]

So "Bullocks" was the reason for the PG-rating for "mild language" in the UK?

[penguindiverz]

they should have said "bollrocks" haha!

[jackdoe83]

Its not an offensive word.... Still some grandparents would prefer you said "messed up" instead.

[jakthemak]

yh on bbc when this aired the entire speech between wilma and betty were cut out

[DokiEnchantix]

@jakthemak I find that interesting, I've never considered bollocks to be a cursive word. I think this is the third instance I've heard of something american based needing to be censored or changed for a British younger audience because the word had a harsher meaning in Britiain or something, like one of the Mario games and the word Spastic

[aliciabrillante]

Back in the day many UK terms were used more commonly in the U.S.

[ant851114]

im guessing bollocks was supposed tobe bolrocks or somin with a rock joke init

[deemod555]

@ant851114 (hahahhahaha!)

[XxXMsLovelyXxX]

It was meant as in nonsense. Most of you have to be teenagers lol

[MrJailbreakingGuy]

WTF??? THEY R ALOUD 2 SAY IT???

[departments2006]

Never mind the bollocks...

[TANMAC43]

@departments2006 Here's the Sex Pistols!

[ericstaltz]

Pah, Bart Simpson says it too. Yanks just don't realise what it is.

[sashamarie711]

@ericstaltz Ur right...i know its a bad word tho lol i just dont know what american word i would maybe compare it to, it there is one to do so?? idk

[evilunixuser1]

I want Wilma Flintstone to bear my child as Betty watches

[alub1220]

@evilunixuser1 lol! sick bastard. I love it.

[rapidkid28]

thumbs up if that david walliams show brought you hear

[Soopytwist]

@rapidkid28 Yeah, me to! Can't find the Jimmy Crawford Blend or Mork & Mindy "Arnold Wanker" episode on here though :( Still looking for the Buck Rodgers "Fuck and Wangles"...

[tripitaka500]

Bollocks, bollix...whatever it's still funny...I mean where does the word bollix come from anyway...bollocks probably

[ronson232]

It's "Bollix things up" NOT "Bollocks things up"

[spinemelter2000]

Does bollocks mean testicles? I don't get it. What do testicles have to do with Fred joining the army?

[mariahmerry]

@spinemelter2000 you need to have the balls to do it ;P

[DenverCholoX3]

Why is that funny?

[garbagelasagna]

She says "bolix". Look it up on dictionary dotcom.

[JanineRobin]

@garbagelasagna bollix is the SAME as "bollocks", it just got watered down in America but the word has the same root.

[CyberLance26]

I did not even know Bollocks was a bad word.

[PufferBluntman]

I knew it! Welma is Johnny Rotten's sister, it all makes sense now!

[al3699]

i remember watching this in disbelief on the bbc

[tintinfan007]

whats the big deal in dat

[jeffrey44]

@blondeboy1994

What is "BOXX"?

[blondeboy1994]

@jeffrey44 its when you put each other in the other channels section of your channel... look it up on youtube, type in.. how to put someone in your other channels :) when you find out can you put me in yours? thanks :)

[jeffrey44]

@blondeboy1994

What benefit do you get from this? Also, what benefit do I get from this?

[animeguy2356]

@jeffrey44 It looks a lot like spam to me. I wouldn't trust him.

[christosisanah]

Was The Flintstones meant for kids or adults? I've heard both. I'm a bit confused.

[aggo2008]

@christosisanah It was originally intended for adults.

[mattyh50]

On a kids show? ahahaha

[jeffrey44]

@mattyh50

No, on the animated sitcom The Flintstones.

[mattyh50]

@jeffrey44 Oh bollocks, I stand corrected

[Roadiepat]

@mattyh50 The Flintstones is an animated, prime-time American television sitcom. The Honeymooners was used as the basis for the concept.. so.. not a kids show..

[OinkySetsTheCurve]

@mattyh50 actually the flintstones was not a kids show .... it was oriented towards an adult audience , closely following the jackie gleason show "the honeymooners"

[antlantis7]

@OinkySetsTheCurve Yeah your right. But although it was for adults, a lot of kids back then and still today watched it anyway. But i don't get why its for adults. There's nothing sexual about it or something. And kids smoked back then so cigarrettes weren't inappropriate, sounds like a kids show to me!

[ChristopherDone]

@antlantis7 "And kids smoked back then" — what. How old are you, 12?

[antlantis7]

@ChristopherDone Its true. Kids were allowed to smoke back then, mostly in the 1920's. They were even allowed to have toy guns that looked 100% real, and some kids even made it shoot real bullets as early as age 10. Also, Tatum o'neal smoked in the movie paper moon and was 9 years old in 1973. It wasn't until probably the 80's when it really became a bad health issue.

[LOCOMOTIONNUMBER1]

I thought that the Flintstones was just a load old.....bollox.

[EdwardPlatt]

Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Flintstones:

[ecafsub]

Have none of you ever heard of the word, "bollix"? Meaning to bungle, mess up.

[Rachiejane1]

@ecafsub Bollix sounds different to bollocks though...

[Rachiejane1]

@cheybobstevepants testicles...

[BasicEvil18]

They still play a episode of Tom & Jerry when Spike calls Tom a jackass...

[Rockerboytom]

we've gotta remember the 60's was a time when you could really say anything you wanted on a kids tv show, they could use the N word and get away with it, you could say bollocks and get away with it because those words were not seen as bad

[will4ward]

-Bollocks doesnt have the impact in the US as it does in the UK.(having lived in both)

My theory is that american servicemen occupying england in the forties picked it up. and brought it over mangling the usage ,and one was a probably writer for hanna barbera in hollywood. Thats my theory, what it is!

[gunnerdan70]

@cheybobstevepants it's a British word it means to (Vulgur term) to mess things up or a load of trash ie That guy there is talking bollocks

2* A mans testicular sack ie I have itchy bollocks

[midmodgal]

She only said "bollix" a sadly underused word in the U.S.

[flakbunny]

My folks used to say bollocks all the time when we were kids (60's) In this case, its meaning is "to bungle" (wiki)

[NinjaStarfish94]

rofl XD

[teedonster]

how the hell did i get here? and lol btw

[randoley]

Bollocks doesn't mean the same in the US as it does in the UK. It only means, to mess something up. There is nothing dirty about it.

[kingsindiandefence]

@randoley

It also means that in the UK and the way Wilma says it here sounds exactly the way it does in the UK...as a substitute for a worse word...in the UK the contexts in which the word is used are many and it can be either inoffensive or offensive. The meaning is often inferred only in the situation in which it's used.

[gunnerdan70]

@kingsindiandefence Naw worse word you can use is the U.K is cunt

[weeryzo09]

@randoley I live in the UK and I didn't know about bollox/bollix (Proper spelling). Yet I know Bollocks. Are you English maybe? I'm Scottish, it might just be an english thing.

This video is a load of Bollocks, she said bollox!

[reno145]

My dad used to say it all the time. It is another way to express FUBAR. Unless you are from the UK, then it means something else.

[Rachiejane1]

@reno145 FUBAR? It means balls...

[IAMMIKE456]

Reminds me of the episode where barney makes a dick joke. lol.