Yes Prime Minister - S02E07 - The National Education Service - Part 3

[DevelopEquity]

thank you, bernard!

[justme2me]

genius

[roshangurumurthy]

very very nice one!!!!

[monkfan72]

Why not prosecute the two students who stole the wood? Why would their act discredit the whole school?

[jsyn1230]

@monkfan72 jim was concerned with the media effects...because he said it was a "model school"

[monkfan72]

@jsyn1230 I realize this, but wouldn't the media be able to tell the difference between a couple of bad apples in a good program and a bad program? Well, considering it's the media...

[MartianSanta]

@monkfan72 the writes wanted sir humphrey to win this round

so they gave him a tool to do so in the last moment

it's called Deus ex machina, or in other words the writers had no ending, but didn't want the prime minister to win, so they invented this stupid plot twist in the last moment to just end it...

[100Underscores]

This show is very funny, without being dumb/crass. 5 stars!

[tomenicus]

literally it's a great idea, it just musn't happen. Because of our chaps in department of the education...

[MrSelidor7]

Oh dear. One for old Humpy there.

[nikobrown1990]

"we-have-no ... a-gen-dum ... to-day" =P

[YodatheJedi12]

Lulz, that was lucky for Sir Humphrey

[thisreddot]

and still, none of the fantasticly simple, brilliant and productive ideas that have come from this program have influenced any change to date...

education is still a mess, trident is still here and the prime minister as far as we can tell is STILL powerless.

[EnoshII]

so the civil service realy has that much power as shown on this show? :D

[1aundulxaldin]

"It's actually a very good idea, it just mustn't happen". That doesn't make a whole lot of sense. That would mean they intentionally want the country to run into a political train wreck. Seriously, the twists this shows goes into... the lines are amazing. XD

[icemachine79]

@1aundulxaldin Well of course they want a political train wreck. When the politicians fail, what happens? They get voted out of office and replaced by some other politicians chosen by the people to supposedly clear up the mess. But who really clears up the mess? The civil service! The bigger the mess, the bigger the departments created by the politicians to handle a particular area must be to handle it. The country may go to hell, but civil service always wins out in the end.

[1aundulxaldin]

@icemachine79

Britain goes to Hell in a handbasket, but a Civil Servant is a happy beaver as long as the checks keep rolling in, as is what you said.

[sheavepin]

@1aundulxaldin US is absolutely no better. Sadly. I've been told that in Germany, they have the habit of creating unimaginable redtape and useless paperwork.

[Dristarg]

My only criticism of this series is that solutions do sometimes tend to come out of the blue; a 'deus ex machina', almost.

[19hula]

@Dristarg Haha, the only reason Humphrey's solutions come up out of the blue like that is to protect the writers from having to imagine a Britain where education isn't a total mess! It would have been impossible for them to write the next episode if the PM had got his way. (Leaving aside for a moment that education in the UK is still a total mess.)

[abhinavc]

Love it when Sir Arnold comes on... He is like Yoda to whom even other masters, like Obi-Wan (Sir Humphrey), have to turn to for advice

[goombabear]

Poor Prime Minister, he has a good heart.

[sudha4128]

Fantastic Show! Thanks for the uploading of the series.

[niemanickurwa]

I hate to be crass, but i would love to see bloopers/behind the scenes for this show. The epic monologues must have some entertaining outtakes.