The sarcastic comedy where they were taking the pish went right over your head but still I like the genuine reaction 😊

What a bizarre reaction to Hard Nuts. I think it's one of the best episodes. Certainly well regarded with people I know.

I still maintain that this is one of the best comedies ever written.

in order to enjoy hard nuts as an episode, you can't be on the outside looking in, you have to actually live in Scotland to understand where it came from

theyre intentionally being cringe, and unbelievable. theyre not intentionally trying to come across as serious, how youre taking it is exactly as intended. theyre ridiculously cringe and over the top for the reason that their characters arent normally like that, so them over acting as thugs comes across as unnatural

I really don't think the 'Hard Nuts' episode deserved such a strong negative reaction. Still Game has always been a bit offbeat and silly, that episode was really not that diffrent from the rest. I don't really understand where he's coming from on this one...

Episode 4 is definitely of it’s time. It was at the time when BBC 3 started doing those “Britains Hardest People” type documentaries, so it made more sense why they did the episode at the time.

Loved the episode. The pausing and whining every minute. Not so much. Probably just an off day , yes not the best but really didn't believe it was so bad to pause every 30sec to tell us

Nothing like Still Game to cheer us all up.

This really highlights the differences between Uk and American comedy does he understand that the comedy comes from the characters making asses of themselves trying to get on TV and it backfiring whereas I feel in American comedy the comedy happens around the main character and it’s about how they react to it

Actually more people than you'd think have swords in Glasgow. The episode is in reference to Glasgow's gang culture and the TV shows of time glorifying that sort of thing.

Hard nuts is a pisstake episode of its time on what was a real TV show called "Britain's toughest pubs" It is intentionally being cringe & stupid. But to enjoy such an episode, being a yank is a massive issue, as it quite clearly goes over their heads & even after 5 seasons, they still don't quite get it.

Mate that first episode is famous, I feel like you didn't have a good day or whatever and it clouded your judgement or something mate, it's not meant to be serious and is meant to be silly haha

Glasgow gangsters and swords was totally a thing in the 60s 😂

I look forward to your reactions to these every week. I’m totally enjoying rewatching Still Game (one of my favourite shows of all time) along with you. Shocked at your thoughts on Hard Nuts! Can’t believe you said it was like watching two different shows haha! You know them putting on the act is the joke right? The Clansman is one of the tamest pubs in UK TV history. Anyways respect your opinion and looking forward to the next one. Keep up the great work mate!

think this one went over your head

It was meant to be like that all put on!! To get on TV, actors badly acting verry badly and failing miserably!! Nevermind!! The next one is fantastic Leci Beard!!😊

Hard Nuts never did it for me. The side stories in both are better than the main ones ie Navid's crisis and Winston leaving. 😎

The last 3 season of still game are good, the gap didn’t help mate, but the final seasons are still better than most tv and a guess your love for the characters, the final ever episode though is fucking beautiful and touching just how it should be. The few Christmas new year episodes are great also especially hootenanny” 😂 great reaction as always!

You didn't get it, from the very start of the episode it was a piss take of the overly popular reality TV which has sadly taken over

Alan, your abit judgemental today with hardnuts episode i liked it dont take it to literally have you woken up this morning &seen your own arse.you must have had a bad day.

I cant believe you didnt like hard nuts that is my favorite episode its so funny was shocked you wasnt into it ha still love you bro

Might want to google Ken Dodd for context Lol. Episodes 5 and 6 are a two part story hence the slower burn haha.

Apparently during the scene when the dog was jumping, there was actually someone just below the camera throwing the dog up😂

This is still grounded in reality they are parodying a phenomenon of British telly the reality program (Which is what Ricky Gervais's The Office was originally and which the American version missed the point !) This is the reason they was going through the telly guide at the beginning and talking about the demise of the actor ! At the time of the making of this there was shows along the lines of Britains hardest pub and although most reality based drama type programs have not yet caught on in the U.S.A Gordon Ramsey seems to be doing very well over there ! As you say "JUST SAYING !"

Hardnuts is parodying shows that actually existed back in the day " hardest pub" Shows where a real thing 😂😂. But hey, you're allowed not to like an episode .

Hard nuts isn’t the best but you’d enjoy both episodes more if you got the alot of the references/jokes that went over your head.

No idea why you disliked that episode. It's supposed to be fake and awkward. You seemed to laugh as usual. Still Game was often a bit "off", what made it what it was.

Brilliant !!! I was starting to panic ! Being Scottish I've seen all these from day one - several times over, but your reaction to it makes my day - keep it up please !

I'm with you, I always skip that episode when I'm watching through

Alan please please don’t let 1 bad episode put you off mate you’ve watched over 30 episodes with us (1000s of subscribers) & im sure everyone has a bad/not good/boring episode it’s like that with every other comedy you have a good episode coming up when Winston is in finport & Xmas Christmas special witch is definitely funny next week when you watch the next 2 episodes episode 6 & Xmas special called cold turkey

This reaction seemed off. Was like watching a different person react. The first episode seemed to go way over his head.

So glad someone's finally called out the later stuff... it only goes downhill from here, especially the last couple of seasons. The believability was what made it before now. There are still some good bits, worth sitting through, but you've idenitified the problem very early on.

If you look closely at the TV listings there is Chewin' the Fat, another Ford and Greg creation that pre-dated Still Game. 3:20 on the vid.

Cheers EB been Lookin forward to more Still Game from your good self😊 All the best🙏

Every episode is pure dead brilliant so I have to disagree with you on E4 but we are all entitled to our opinions.. You left it too long between episodes but glad to see you back watching still game..

Ive watched still game over an over and i do agree the "hard nuts" episode i find very cringe too. And im scottish 😂

Love your reactions to this show but your dead wrong it’s ment to be like this it’s stemming from the beginning of the episode where there watching weird tv

Hard Nuts isn't my favourite either, but then the 4 episodes that precede it, from Who's The Daddy to Smoke on the Water, take some beating. We'll soon be in season 6, but there are still the pre season 7 Holiday Specials to watch.

Ive seen you watch ken Dodd you should have got that joke..

The bike gang at the end of ep4 was the Blue Angels. The oldest outlaw biker club in Europe. Like Hells Angels they have their heroes and villains but mostly a decent bunch.

Episode 4 was still better than all of The Inbetweeners, Friday Night Dinner, Dr Who and many more.. ✌🇮🇪

The way Jack and Victor talk when they walk into The Clansman whilst pretending to be hard men, isn’t actually too far off how those who thought they were hard spoke in Glasgow and its surrounding areas when I was young in the 80’s and 90’s…and they always had a swagger to them. And Scots making out their hard to the English, isn’t too much of a stretch either because many from England just presume that the Scots are a bit rough and ready. I know that when I was out with a group of lassies about the same age as me in London (and they were from London), on heading for The Tube around midnight, told me to do all the talking if anyone tried to hassle us because “Everyone’s scared of a Scottish accent”. The Finport scenes in the next episode are mostly filmed in Largs and I think Saltcoats. Largs is just along the coast from where I grew up and you’d be surprised at how cheap some of the flats are in the centre of the town…especially considering how popular a day trip location it is. I also can’t help but wonder if the name came from Millport, which is where you can get a ferry to from Largs…which is/was also a popular day trip destination. The Scramble or as it was called where I grew up Scrammie, always happened at weddings when I was a kid both outside the Bride and Groom’s homes as they were leaving for the ceremony and as they were leaving the ceremony to have their photos done just before the reception. It was always a good handful of loose coins that were thrown out for the neighbouring kids and back in the 80’s when I was amongst those kids, it’d be enough to get some sweets. I’m not sure if this happened outside of Scotland or even if it happened everywhere in Scotland.

Eclectic beard: what villain you talking about? Me: well I see Venom

24:45 This was the last thing I remember before I fell asleep and Boaby featured heavily in my dream, it was so freaking weird, lent me £5 for the bus though so that was nice of him 😭

This was a legitimate thing at one point that’s what made it so good when this came out

Not a 2 year hiatus between series 6 and 7, it was 9 years.

For the second episode “All the Best”, you really need to have been familiar with one of Britain’s national treasures… comedian Ken Dodd. As it is, you’ve missed a lot of the ‘in-jokes’. Nevertheless, Ken Dodd (‘Doddy’) is still well worth checking out.

The teeth of ken dodd is excellent,google ken dodd then you get the joke 😂😂

my name is Tom Mullen same as Tam Mullen in still game, love the show rewatched in numerous times, ps love your show, all the way from Belfast UK

"Who has a sword" Eh.. me! Got one sitting on ma tv stand. This is Scotland Alan.. we dont do guns here boss. This ep is still before the hiatus. Hiatus takes place after the 'hospital' episode. There is 2 eps of still game I actually hate in later seasons involving a swap with boaby & navid & a love triangle with wee fergie. Those 2 were utter dross

Still Game Is The Best Scottish Sitcom That Is Why We Love It So Much In Scotland It Is So Fantastic And To Think That Jack And Victor Started As A Skit

That bit with Winston puting on the hard man act. My dad just talks like that when thing's are serious, & he just is, he just lives that. The bastard'll be 70 in 7 months, he thought he'd be deed by 60 at the most, but he still has that same spirit. And it's served him well in the last 20 years, some of the pricks he's encountered on his way home a few times, once got set aboot by 7 very young idiots couldn't've been more than 25. He gave them a speech very similar to that, as he described it, & then followed through on it. Fortunately there were witnesses to coroborate the story, gave them all a decking, he was about 62 at the time, it's really not that long ago. All 7 of the pricks, only gave him a few bruises on his arms ribs & face, absoultely bugger all when you think what 7 vs 1 should look like Aye, he talks like that, because he lives it, he, Means it, it's just the world he grew up in in Glasgow in the 50's & 60's How the hell can anyone paus this much for that amount of time & possibly be able to enjoy the show, wtaf that's mental man, so much of this show is in the pacing of things, which, is just completely lost like that

Stop it Alan you're making me laugh lol😂😂

In total agreement. This season is where the ‘social realism’ started to falter, then fade completely into tryhardy absurdism in the following seasons. The latter seasons are painful - it’s like watching a once charming and sharp relative slowly develop Alzheimer’s.

Sup man, hope you and the family had a good Xmas and New Year, all the best for 2024! 💙💙💙

Calm the fcuk down! Of course it's put on, they wouldn't know how to act tough, if you paid them. They are acting like the tough guys they've seen on their TV's. That's why it's so over the top. :o)

Batter the shite oot of it. I laughed for about a week at that line.

49:17 I swear the guy says 'Paul' before correcting himself saying Mr Ingram. 😂 Paul Riley is the actor that plays Winston

Yay we're back❤

Victor could pass as a nasty piece of work, and Jack would be able to get away with it, because he's mate.

The small silver device on top of the V.C recorder is a cable channel box, adding 50 odd channels to view.

They are taking the piss out of all the fake reality shows that took off at the time, and regarding swords in a pub, that was something that happened in rough pubs in Glasgow back in the day.

I'm Scottish and love still game but I avoid hard nuts because it's utter garbage

Gangsters in glasgow have been known to fight with swords on a few occasions😂

You think this storyline is bad? Wait until you watch the newest ones 😂💩

Bobby's lip' going like a cats when it sees a bird!

My Mum use to have scarf 'just like the one Victor's got at the start of the episode....only 'Still Game'

Hard Nuts is a pretty good episode, in my opinion. Series 7 (a nine year gap after series 6) is far worse.

Hope you and family had a good new year 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

You may like rab c nesbitt aswell, its a Scottish comedy where they drink all the time and live on benefits, you may find the Scottish accent a bit hard in it compared to still game

Normally I enjoy your commentary, but the problem here is somewhat cultural. Firstly, your reference to swords. It is a fact that swords have been use in gang violence in Scotland. It's not too common but the reference to swords was relevant at the time the episode was made. Secondly, you seem to assume that all the gangland references are all base on American gangsters, certainly that is true to a great extent in Jack and Victor's playing up to the camera, but the UK and indeed Scotland have had their fair share of hoodlums too. There is a nod and a wink to Glasgow gang culture here every bit as much to the play acting pretence of Hollywood gangsters. Thirdly, you seem to have missed an obvious point. Navid is not the only one having a midlife crisis, they all are. That's the whole point. Anyone who thinks this is a poor episode is welcome to their opinion. Perhaps, it's the case that the clever cross cultural references, deliberate ham acting baloney etc. do not translate too well, but I have to confess I really like this episode. All that said, it may not be one of the the best, I don't think they quite pulled it off, but certainly not nearly as bad as suggested. Edit: I should say, since this is, I think, the first time that I have left a comment on your channel, that I am genuinely impressed by how well you have picked up on the humour of Still Game and Scottish cultural in general. It’s been great fun watching this with you. I have it all on DVD but it’s great fun watching someone seeing it for the same time through different eyes a quarter to a third of the way around the planet. Slàinte Second Edit: A sea town in Scotland isn’t necessarily as glamorous, warm, and hence as expensive as the California coast or the Florida Keys. Hence, Winston’s relocation to Finport, a fictional west coast location of Scotland, is not quite as unbelievable as all that. Not that believability is the chief concern of Still Game. Scotland does have beautiful beaches and some of the clearest pollution free waters in the Northern Hemisphere. But … they are rather cold!!

Navid mid life crisis is fking great

The small device onto of the V.C recorder is a cable channel box.

its to highlight how fake reality tv shows are and how badly the people in them play to the camera

I work where they recorded the next episode in finport .. it’s called Saltcoats in north Ayrshire.. it’s not to bad & ain’t that expensive to live right next to the sea etc .. we are on the coast in 3 towns so it’s not to bad buddy 😅

hard nuts a poor episode ,definitely agree

I'm surprised you didn't acknowledge the ken Dodd joke, as you've watched a couple of his videos.

alan these last two episodes shall we say two little bumps in the road.lol

your'e taking it far too seriously it',s a comedy for gods sake, its not a drama my son loved this episode chill man

The thing with the McGill thing in the pub, there were a gang in Glasgow a few year ago , I know I'm a McGill that's why I know

Did you see the error cut when Winston enters the pup twice when Victor is asking tam for money for the kitty

Still Game maybe the Greatest sitcom since Cheers Glaswegian style!

Hard Nuts, needs a bit of perspective, this was broadcast when "big brother" mania (reality shows) where the big thing, they where basically taking the p!ss, that's why Jack says that at the end. Hope this makes sense, coz I wouldn't want you missing out on the best to come ✌️

Sweetie, you do what you do... and you do it so well.. Besides apologies that is. I love your reactions and I will wait for whenever your real life lets you do them. Really, you do you (although it is very sweet of you to continuously apologise for what are, to my mind, very short gaps between reactions.) Enjoy. I certainly do.

Bro,I know a guy from Glasgow that drives about with a sword,no shit 🤣🤣🤣

agree mate , wisny my fav , made me cringe a bit

The best of the best stuff sg

I used to have 7 swords I got rid of 3 I still got a lot of knifes like Kukri, survival, throwing knifes I know a few people who have collections they are still very popular I know few people with gun collections as well, but that list is smaller I have family members who have gun licences even my neighbour has a gun & a sword they are far more popular than you think in Scotland

First episode was wrote like that ,the new last 3 seasons I really enjoy

You think vodka and red bull gives you a caffeine hit try and get yourself a bottle of buckfast

I think they took the show to far, the reasons fawlty towers had only 13, episodes was because they didn't want it to turn into mush, I think some American shows hung around to long as well.

Who has swords? The Household Cavalry have swords. I wouldn't argue with them. Anyway, it's not a bad episode, and the final scene is worth it.

Your reaction to blighties hardest boozers help me realize it was a turning point, when I saw it was that episode, I didn't get the usual buzz when I see beardy upload a still game video, I didn't know I hated that episode, you have an eye for shows that I don't, unfortunately this is the beginning of the downward spiral of still game that I and probably a few others warned you about, it only gets lesser than the first 4 seasons and three episodes, the good news is the live shows that you can find on KZfaq are good, if you are a still game fan like your good self, something I've been watching on netflix is called "detectorists", I don't think it would be great reaction content but I think it will be something you'd enjoy, you seem to enjoy realistic stories with dry humour, detectorists is decent.

Alan- I think for someone from Scotland-or outside, that expects a SG episode to be one continuous decent storyline, it's fair that this episode is a bit off-cue... it doesn't particularly go anywhere and lead to a decent conclusion... I can totally understand your enthusiasm for the episode to go down the Navid storyline, but it wasn't the case lol. Being from Glasgow though, I can guarantee that there are plenty of people who own swords around here haha. Best wishes :)

The put on is the comedy, not that hard to work out, maybe the sarcasm was too much.

yay here he is :-)))))))

I'd recommend you look up Ken Dodd and then the jokes will make sense about the wife

While this is weaker I feel you’ve been a bit harsh and missing the point, it’s not as bad as you make out imo anyway. This reflected the growing trend in reality tv shows and it’s funny boaby wants the money so tries hard to act the hardman

Great video you can't beat a bit of still game. When You finish watching still game you should watch Rab C Nesbitt and Chewin The Fat they are funny scottish tv shows.