I really like this channel, and i m very glad they changed the host to a black woman to be more inclusive.

I remember finding the article that made Karl think there was a dishwasher on Mars. It was just about a new telescope that had been built that was powerful enough that it could see a dishwasher on Mars. Karl took it a bit too literally 😆

Karl's mind and story telling is SO all over the place that it took me years to realise that according to Karl... the disco was abruptly ended to have a school assembly with a policeman 😂

I've always known 'sloth' pronounced 'slow-th' here in the UK. On the Mars stuff, Karl was talking about Beagle 2, which was a probe that was sent to Mars as part of a European mission in 2003. Because the probe was designed, built and managed in Britain there was quite a lot of publicity about it, and the project was led by a scientist called Colin Pillinger who became a bit of a public figure at the time because of his very engaging mix of enthusiasm, knowledge and eccentricity. The probe was supposed to land on Mars on Christmas Day but unfortunately something went wrong with the probe and it never transmitted. So in Karl's mind that becomes "a fella who said he could get stuff to Mars, but it all went wrong because he did it at Christmas and no one can be bothered to do a good job then", like he was building a rocket in his back garden and decided to try and launch it after Christmas dinner or something. A great example of how he can take in information and then retell it in a way that's basically right but then he layers his own take on it over the top.

'My camera broke! ... 'You bastard, get a new one!' Lol. 😂

Karl was a real heart-breaker back in the day with a trail of broken teeth and torn dresses left behind him.

After having heard all of Karl's stories about his childhood, I fully believe that his school in Manchester was as the way he's described it. A school dance leading into a presentation from a police officer is one of the *_least_* strange things he's said about it.

I like how with that little interval about the opposable thumbs in 29:16 they give him an "out" and a chance to fix that story or drop it entirely even though they know he wont even consider it and sure enough the next words out of his mouth are "so anyway" and he ploughs right through that

The “Disco” is more of an after-school babysitting situation than the type of nightclub disco situation you might be imagining.

If I recall the Monkey News in the old old days of the XFM radio show was Karl researching old stories himself. Ricky always went mental at it so fans started sending them in as factual news purely to wind Ricky up but he is Karl and it's written down so he believed it.

He's not really a pacifist, it's just that fighting is too much effort for him. He wants to have dinosaurs doing the fighting for him.

I genuinely love ur reactions to these thanks for continuing with it

I’m glad you’re feeling better.. I can tell because your voice is piercing my eardrums again

Mandy: “I’m taking the sun…” Me: “it’s -2 over here 😩”

I think of Karl as having 'random access memory' like a computer. It can't store a lot of information, it just stores like 10 different random things which he dips into. He doesn't have a hard drive to store all his memories, emotions and information he's learned and committed to his memory. It's like if you stopped him on the street on a normal day and asked him to write down everything he currently knows, it would be 10 sentences, none of which relate to any other and only half of them are true. Also sloth is pronounced both ways, it's one of those words that you could say either way and people will understand you.

As a fellow Northerner like Karl, a school disco isn't exactly like a prom or anything like that. It's usually like an end of term treat they would have for the kids or a fundraiser opportunity where they would charge admission and have refreshments which in my experience would be soda/juice cartons, candy (we call then pick and mix here) and hot dogs. They'd usually get someones dad who did mobile discos to do one for about two hours after school Usually prom nights are reserved for secondary school/sixth form which would be about middle school/high school

Yes this cheers me up during a stressful day at work!

"My camera broke ! " ... what was your dad reeeallyy trying to say ! 🤔😔😆😂 ... great video Mandy 😃

Your out of order 😂😂😂 show her a bit of bloody respect

At 7 i went to the school disco i was bustin moves even the teachers started copying my dance moves🤣

I've actually had the experience that Karl describes where I saw a child that looked like me and his dad doing something I remember doing with my dad at about the same place and I was like whoa this is weird, but I didn't actually think it was me. Just a strange form of deja vu. I had never heard anyone else describe it until I saw this episode lol

I like how Ricky & Steve listen to the entire story and are really nice to him through its entirety, but then Ricky gets really angry with him as soon as it’s finished. Because he’s wasted so much time trying to make sense of the complete bull shit. 32:50 is my favourite after the chimp doctor story 😂

This is at least the third time I've seen this episode - never noticed how weird it is that a cop was giving a talk at the same time a disco was going on. He must have combined two different memories.

Hey, Mandy! It's great to see you got some colour in your cheeks due to the seasonal weather in your region! 👍 I got some colour too, for exactly the same reason. 😁 Of course, mine's mostly pale blue! 😢😢

THANKS !!!!! -For the sight chat translation !!!!! Totally missed that before

I reckon Karl was talking about the end of what we called infants school , we were about 7-8 yrs old. some have a party on the last day , before you go to the next school which is called primary school. (8 yrs to 12 )however some schools were both infants and primary joined.

"Taking sun" is such a Spanglishism!

"When you were born, my camera broke" is hilarious.

I appreciate the use of "kerfuffle" here

School discos at primary school age (up to 11) are definitely a thing in the UK

The probe thing was actually a big plot point of the first Transformers movie 😅. Beagle 2 I think it was called, was a failed probe that didn't open proper. In the movie they said it actually captured footage of Transformers and it was a cover up

I am from the UK and I personally have always pronounced it sloth as apposed to slow-th, and a lot of people I know also pronounce it sloth. however I do also know people who pronounce it slow-th so I assume it varies depending on what media you was exposed to growing up and how people around you say it.

😂 Your energy is amazing. I love your explanation of things 😂

It blew my mind when I was listening to the original full podcast of this, to hear Ricky saying that chimps don't have opposable thumbs. Of course they do. How does he think they swing through trees and grip things? Ricky's a pretty smart guy but he slipped up on this one. There's more stuff about Doppelgangers to come too, I think, and Karl says something that Ricky thinks is the stupidest thing he's ever said. But I don't agree with that because I think I know what Karl was trying to say. When it comes up, I'll mention it. I don't want to spoil anything. Another great reaction. Your reaction to baby Karl going to sleep made me laugh. 😂 In the morning,s when I check KZfaq for new vids from people I subscribe to, your video is always the one shown first. I guess KZfaq knows me and what I want to watch before anything else. :) Hope your cough gets better soon.

31:01 "i want a little bit of idle CHIMP chat"

Blue light discos, it’s a generational thing lol they were all the rage back in the day, probably just an excuse for our parents to drop us off somewhere as it’s a police youth run thing lmao hope that clears up the disco questions somewhat explains the cop in carls story 🤣

Docklands. It a modernised area of London which used to have docks and wharfs when London was a major port.

I think with the fight story Karl is just remembering things badly - he was probably older than 7 - more like 12. And the policeman coming in was probably the next day or something. The boxing story was he went boxing once for one session but he mentions it a lot as if he did boxing for years. I think with the dishwasher on Mars story he is probably getting a story he read or saw wrong and that the article or clip he saw probably said that a probe that was sent was the SIZE of a dishwasher and that it's now abandoned due to an unsuccessful landing.

if you live in the north of england its quite norma to have that thing in schoolsl.I grew up in nineties and had similar experiences. lol

I'm from England and i also say Sloth the same as you. Never heard it the way Karl said it before.

Karl is like 10x more funny in animation form 😂 I think it’s because his views are so different that their almost cartoonish. He kinda suits being a cartoon. Ps: if your in the south of England you’ll pronounce sloth like Ricky does but if you’re in the north it’s more like Americans say it. I bet Karl says it the same way you guys do but ricky and Steve won’t

You do seem much better now yay. I had noticed you changed colour a bit recently but I thought you were wearing different make up lol, so there is an obvious difference. I'm loving the cold weather. I walk in the countryside a lot and today the sky was perfectly blue and the ground frozen rock hard with pure white snow. So much better than grey skies and walking through mud which is how it usually is around here. Has been a nice change. I have a weather station in the garden and right now it's the coldest it has been for over 10 years here so i'm definitely glad i'm inside with my chocolate and cup of tea watching your amazing reactions. I reckon we would eventually evolve to have wings especially if we started flapping our arms around like crazy and standing on our tiptoes intensely wishing that we could fly. Doing that would probably speed up the process a bit but i'm sure it would still take many thousands of years. The way we will evolve in the future isn't set and depends on how we behave and what challenges the planet may have for us too. I do find it fascinating to think about that. Anyway lol this was soooo funny and entertaining. Never fails to deliver. 🤩🤗

It's weird I'm from the UK but never heard sloth pronounced "slow-th" except David Attenborough but apparently its common haha, I've always pronounced it how it's spelled

31:16 he see her nose as a frowny mouth! like if if u hold up your hand to cover her lips you cant unsee it 😂

Karl does Thai boxing in s2 of An Idiot Abroad.

Karl reads Fortean Times - it’s where he gets a lot of his weird stories.

Point of order Madam Chairman. Chimps do have opposable thumbs and a precision grip. Yet again Ricky and Steve show that they know less than Karl! 😂😈

We say Sloth because it is Slow in movement. Another Good Episode and more Good Reactions. I can't remember, have you seen, '8 Out Of Ten Cats - The Great Mel Giedroyc's British Burp'. I think it was S14. 🙂

We had discos at the end of every year at school in the UK

I had the same experience with the family photo, when I asked I was told that by the time I came along my dad had gotten bored with the camera.

Hilarious Mandy 😂 I only have one baby photo of me,and I've got a really grumpy look.. my only reference.... My children's only reference is a black and white grumpy face photo 🤷

Plenty of words pronounced differently in American English, but the real problem us in the UK run into is the different spellings. America removes a lot of superfluous letters from English words, and because lots of spell check software is American the English spelling is flagged as wrong, so we end up copying the American "simplified" English. English is slowly morphing into American, even over here.

I love random ! I loved it! Thxs! Congrats Argentina!

Festivus...for the rest of us 🎉♥️🥳

YAAAAY RICKY GERVAIS SHOW LETS GOOOOO!!!!!

For the record, chimps DO have opposable thumbs. Ricky is too smart for his own good sometimes in an effort to shut down Karl. It's the poor quality of the precision grip they have though which is the problem. Instinctively they'd use a more primitive power grip that they use to smash things open etc. Which is how youd stab with a dagger as opposed to the precision grip using a scalpel or pencil correctly

AWW Now I want to see Mini Mandy 🥰

Gratz on the tan! Thought it was Snoop Dogg for a second there.

Just a footnote: chimps DO have opposable thumbs..Not only that but they have big toes that are "opposed" (so to speak, I don't know what the adverb of that would be) to their other toes...and its the same with all simians especially monkeys: Monkeys feet are basically upside down hands which is why watching them climb trees is as entertaining as listening to karl.

Sloth 🦥 to rhyme with cloth. Sloth 🦥 to rhyme with loaf. It's regional, I believe . Or class based. 🤔🤷‍♀️

Karl is notoriously bad at remembering or estimating how old he would have been during supposedly notable times in his life. I'm sure he once recalled an incident during which he could have been anywhere between 3 and 12. I expect this school disco / fight thing was a middle school disco, like a junior prom. Probably his last year of middle school. I had a similar thing. He was probably 11. Not 7. Karl was still pooping in a litter tray full of tic-tacs at 7. And the assembly with the policeman? Almost certainly the next school day, not moments after the fight. I'm sure that makes a lot more sense. 😅

Many - "I have a tan" Me - turns down brightness

It’s cold everywhere else 😤

Discos aren’t the same as proms, but they’re like a mini party for kids lol. Sorta party where they play that stupid song that goes “aga do do do…” is anyone knows what song I’m referring to let me know lol

"There's still people dying, but not as many as there should be." Okay, Karl. Whatever you say. 😂 If my current self say my childhood self pass by, I'd be spooked. I'd be thinking The Twilight Zone actually happened. I'd be looking for Rod Serling.

Mandy is absolutely gorgeous… I mean literally out of this world 😍😍

Oh yeah n you need to do idiot abroad soon, on the next eppisode ur about to watch is where they finally reveal to Karl that the program is called “an idiot abroad” 😂 poor guy haha

Spin the bottle as kids was normal but it wasn't like what you're imagining as in a very adult game. Was a lot more innocent and actually quite sweet.

I've been listening to Ricky, Stephen and Karl for years. Not just the HBO but all their podcasts and the xfm radio stuff. Karl thinks things that no one else thinks. There are times I wonder, what planet is this guy from? But probably the craziest thing I've ever heard him say (next to a 78 yr old woman dying and has a pip inside of her and out pops a baby), was the death of Priness Diana can be contributed to flower shops because business was slow!! And as far as their pronunciation of sloth, thr Brits say their vowels differently than we do but, I've heard other Brits pronounce it the same way we do, and I've heard it pronounced the way Karl says it. I googled his monkey stories and discovered a guy who researched all his stories and found out they were all untrue....except one that is "based" on truth

You know I'm certain it wouldn't have been too unusual to have seen a policeman in a school disco in Manchester back in the 1970s. The place was nicknamed Gunchester after all. You're trying to follow Karl's thought process? Good luck with that, cause I've been following them since the XFM days and I still can't work him out. I was the 2nd of my mother's kids, my brother first in 1971 had hundreds of photos then he took the wrong road in life. I was in 1984 and I was the best kid in the family before my sister turned up in 1994 and she became the worst kid if us all and she has way more than my brother, my mother has photos of her all around the house and her own 3 kids scattered everywhere in frames, and I have ONLY ONE photo in the living room behind the door. I know how you feel my dear. You have to check out Rab C Nesbitt, a great Scottish TV show from the early 1990s.

Mandy I didn't get to watch your reaction as your glow blinded me 🙃😂🤗

18:20 I think it just depends on accent, I'm from North East, not far from Manchester where Karl's from, we say Sloth, I've heard people from Yorkshire and like Barnsley and what have you saying it like 'Slothe' before it's weird. But people say stuff different allover, like I imagine somebody from Texas or like Wyoming or somewhere would probably pronounce it similarly to Karl

You look good Mandy. Hope you're feeling better

a school disco in the 70s 80s 90s , was basically just gormless kids in the school assembly hall trying to dance with crappy pop music playing basically ,dont worry, no alcohol ..

I am from the South East of England and I would pronounce, sloth the way you pronounced it.

Karl does talk about population control a strange amount for a simple man 😂

Another great reaction 👍. Just wanted to recommend another British TV series that's funny if you're interested. It's on KZfaq and it's called "Game on" based on 3 room mates, one of them is a cool guy named Matt and a bit psycho but he's agoraphobic so he never leaves the flat. Funny stuff, just watching them today for the first time in ages and forgotten how good they were. FYI this was made in the 90s so it has some content like mild discrimination in 1 or 2 scenes and abit of sexism that wouldn't be allowed on TV today. Its nothing too heavy imo.

I've always pronounced sloth the same way as you, so it also sounded weird to me too. Hopefully, one day after you catch up with your 3 year's worth of reactions to get through, you do sick of it, staring the Round headed buffoon, lol. You seem to have your mojo back, too. Xx

Really enjoyed this, you're a delight. I say sloth the same way you do (I'm American).

One of Karl's greatest lessons for humanity is that truth is stranger than fiction, after all. Thanks for a great reaction! :)

As a 3rd child I totally understand. My mum and dad don't even know what my 1st word was.

Theres a small game of karl pilkington with this style of art, and u just adventure out in this small area with different objects that reference to stories hes told or short sound clips of his phrases/stories, its not like professional tier game like Fifa or Call of Duty, but its a funny little game

9:38 LOL yes we had primary school discos. We start school from basically age 2/3 nursery, age 4 year R . Because of that i reckon we are a bit more developed at a younger age than americans . Thats my view anyway, The average British toddler/little kid is pretty advanced.

Agree I wouldn’t recognize myself as a kid too.

I got into an argument with my wife once about the pronunciation of sloth. Turns out Sir David Attenborough pronounces it “slow-th”, which is the highest possible authority as far as I’m concerned!

18:42 Really? Yes!!

Sloths are called sloths because they are slow. See: grow -> growth That's why we say 'slowth'

I bet you’d recognise yourself, the human brain is ridiculously heavily programmed to recognise faces, it’s why you sometimes might see faces if you look at like say the paint on a wall up really close or in random patterns n stuff. Surprises me sometimes when I recognise someone who’s aged like 20 years since I saw them last n look completely different. There’s just something about faces where your brains super good with them

If you rememeber whan you first started watching this show I told ya Karl's mind is like a child's in many ways. He has a very weak understanding of the concept of time in the long term, like when looking at over a century etc. What's sometimes scary is his ideas about Eugenics, because he means it, he thinks only certain people should be allowed to have children and pass on their genes. Let's just hope Karl's way of thinking doesn't become dominant in society, because a world run by Karl would be a dark dark place.

I say sloth. Some people say sloth. But I say sloth. 🤣

there's a reddit post that rates all karl's monkey news based on how connected to real events they are

how have you not mentioned anything about argentina being in the world cup final??? VAMOS ARGENTINA! 🇦🇷

As a kid, what were your favourite shows/films?

Mandy competed in the tanning Olympics and she got bronze! 😂 I absolutely love the Karl stories. A writer could take 3 or 4 of his thoughts and come up with a great science fiction novel.

Hi Miranda, I have to say you look much than you did a few years ago! Can we have some more vids of you singing?

Well done to Argentina getting to the world cup final I'm sure Argentina is full of buzz and excitement at the moment best of luck on Sunday against France

Thank you for one more funny Karl reaction. I would like to suggest you a funny WILTY compilation with the title: Miles Smiles and Guffaws - Miles Jupp on Would I Lie to You?

People say sloth the same way you do it's just karl that says it the other way.

I way he says sloth it depends on where you are in uk we say it in a different way I say it the same as you

school discos every year until you're 10 lol