"You'll frighten them! They'll think they're in a place they can't afford!" has to be one the best lines ever

When i get homesick I watch this and makes me laugh every time.

When I moved from nicholson to phoenix i was on the phone with my roommate and said "I'm at the store grabbin a couple-two-tree things need anythin" and someone two alleys over yelled "someones from NEPA, Heyna or no?"

There is a blend of German, polish, and Irish influence in most of the nepa dialect.

Thumbs up if you're from PA and talk like this :)

Ha! I'm from Scranton and I really appreciated this!

Great job on this film! Heynabonics has been a huge success story for Community Film Project (CFP). For those of you who don't know, Heynabonics was made as part of CFP SHORTS, a short film series that plays each summer at Endless Mountains Theatre (EMT) in Scranton (near K-Mart).

A friend of ours actually wrote "youse guys" in a christmas card she sent to us.

We need a new front end on our car, Too many potholes, Haynaa!!

Brilliant brilliant video. Left NEPA a long time ago. I'm glad dat youse guys still tock like dat.

Love this! I've heard many people especially from previous generations use this word - Heyna and it will always be a part of the history of our area. It's all about verbal economy. Yous guys are great! Thank you, it was really funny!!!

Best filum I seen in a long time.

I left "The Valley," 30 years ago. It's hard to believe I use to sound like that. Heyna or no?

I grew up in the area 50+ years ago. It is only recently that I learned that pank as in "pank the snow together to make a snow ball" is not used by everyone else in the world.

"You don't need the isn't it, IT'S BUILT RIGHT INTO THE HEYNA!!!" ha...hilarious 3:41

This is still the best video ever made,

As a NEPA-n myself, I can confirm... Yeah...yeah pretty accurate... Though there's no escaping "Da Valley."

This is truly a great homage to the dialect I grew up with...it's great to hear it spoke by experts, heyna?

I like how they play the chicken dance at the beginning :)

I love it. Makes me want to go up the lake to Hansons Park and get a couopla, two tree hoddogs.

This video is soo absolutly spot on with how we talk its hilarious

Bravo to whoever did this. Bravo.

I grew up in the Heights of W-B, in the 60's.. Many of the older people spoke this way. This is a classic video. I get back to "da Valley" very infrequently now, but I haven't heard any Heynabonics in a while. It might be fading out, or perhaps I'm not listening well. My wife makes fun of me - I still say "myan" instead of mine! LOL. Good ole Wyoming Valley / NE PA.

I'm from Old Forge...and this was FANtastic. I plan on using this to educate my friends from "up da line" AND "down da line." I do have to disagree with heyna not being an answer. You can answer the question Heyna? with a confirmation "heyna?" Both have question marks, but the second it just to agree with the original question. :)

Love this video. It captures the essence of NEPA.

It took eleven years for me to find this. Creative and fun. I grew up on the south western boarder of the anthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania. We had "youse" and "geet". We also had "sayna" instead of "heyna".

LOL I live in the Lehigh Valley and I've never heard heyna before! People here usually just say "aint it?" or "huh?"at the end of their sentences. Heyna's a good one :)

from a graduate of Da U (class of 97) - THANK YOU FOR THIS. i am in tears from laughing so hard. the memories!!!! :)

This never gets old!!!!!

haha love this video, very true. I'm suprised he didn't include the pronunciation of "Scran'in"

Moving near Nanitcoke after living in the south all of my adult life. Thank you. I needed this primer.

hahaha I'm from Dunmore & this is dead on! My entire family & friends talk like this..for someone to say they never heard anyone talk like this...they need to get out more!!! I love the party about T"H"roop..great video Heyna or no? bahahaha!

One conspicuously absent word here is onaconna. This roughly translates to "because of" as in: "I hadda go ta da Coney Island to get a hoddog onaconna the ones I got at the Ackamee were worse dan da ones I got up dee Eynon"! Note well the use of "dee" in front of Eynon, possibly the only allowed exception to the mandatory use of "da". Great video, hayna?!!

Finally, something worthwhile and educational on YousTube, heyna?!

Spent 24 years in Jermyn and truly love the folks, but everyone in Virginia for the last 37 years will take a glance at me as if I have an IEP.

Thanks I moved here 20 yrs back and people still make fun of my NY slang. But you tune it around in a good way. Love it.

I have family Naticoke, Old Forge, and I could never understand "Heyna" (henna). This cleared things up completely! LOL! What a great inside joke! Thanks

lmao., I grew up in the mid-valley and i lost my nepa accent, but this is DEAD ON!!! hilarious. i tink tree tings that are vital to a good meal ketchup, salt and pepper.

I moved to Pittston TWP from Plattsburgh, NY a few years ago. I've lived in many states in my lifetime and have experienced many cultures and accents, but nothing makes me scratch my head more than when a NEPA native speaks to me. They're hard to understand at times.

"Yas are here ta learn Heynabonics", haha, amazing!

Oh sweet Jesus, I LOVED that parody. They're going up the Eynon Ta get a cup a coffee And maybe eat a sangwich The Heyna Family! Sore troat! Close da light!

Awesome!!! Loved it!

Wow, that's was amazing. ^_^ Definitely something you can only appreciate if you've lived here.

Laughed my 'duppa' off and shared with all my friends down south-some want to learn other local pronunciations- like That's gonna hide a Southern accent! LOL! Has anyone else heard of this Very limited regional quirk of calling peppers 'mangos'? Where the heck did That come from?? Last, but not least, don't forget 'up the line' or 'down the line' (Laurel)! Been out & about in the world, but still, seriously, 'there's no place like home'!

Amazing. It's like I never left home.

From Frackville and Shenandoah (Chendo) all the way up to at least Dunmore, this is the language. I love it. Makes me hungry for Halushki.

My whole extended family os from Scranton I can attest they all still speak like this especially the "mayan"

no matter how many times i see this i still crack up

this was absolutely brilliant. i loved every bit of it. hats off to whoever masterminded this piece of comedic art. of course, only nepa'ers like me will get it but thats besides the point. great job.

Youse are da best!! Makes me smile very much and long for home.. " 'Tree' could be a ting dat grows in da woods, OR da number of wisemen dat went ta see da Baby Jesus." CLASSIC!

This is GREAT!!!!!!!!!! Thanks

This is hilarious! Please make a sequel.

HAHA I also live in Scranton, and man o man, this video is right on. Thanks for making this!

This is Daniel, Evan's friend from (now FORMERLY) O'Reilly. (Chris & Shivaun know who I am.) I absolutely loved this. Now I'm showing it to everyone I talk to online, so they can get a feeling of what it's like to be here XP

It's funny how accurate this is. My mom was almost crying with laughter.

Everyone in our family enjoyed this video and, being NEPA natives, we all got a great laugh.

The best fun I hve had all morning! I'm ready to do a polka!

Still lauging!!! Priceless!!!

oh my GOD, this is amazing!

Was born in Scranton. To this day my kids make fun of the way I say stuff. We live in Nebraska now where there is no accent whatsoever!

I'm from ...The Heights...The Polish Alps...Austin Heights. :) Graduated in '93.

OMG! I couldn't stop laughing when I saw this for the first time. This is dead on. Don't forget about when giving directions on the west side, everything is on "the ave" ie: you go to the ave and make a right. lol.

love it henya,henya,henya i'm from wilkes-barre pennsylvania!!!

so true.. moved from the coal region 30 years ago and learned real fast to drop the YUSE lol. I remember my little league baseball coach saying Trow it to Turd base.. and the dat dare for that there. when I was in basic training in TX I had several people there ask me if I was from the Coal Region of PA.. they knew right away and I actually do not,or did not, have a very thick coal region accent. lived in Mt Carmel but grew up in Eylsburg but went to school in Coal twp and both parents born and raised in Atlas and Shamokin respectively so I guess I picked it up anyway. watching this brings back great memories.

Very informative and funny. Makes me want to visit.

It's scary how spot on this is but damn funny too!

Great video guys :) Made me laugh even though I rarely hear anyone speak fluent Heynabonics these days. Though, being from the area, you can always 100% understand it :)

This WINS. I'm so homesick for Moun'n-top now!

This is awesome. So True!

Just watch this a couple, two , tree times!

Heynabonics had a one week theatrical run; it played 30 times prior to Evan Almighty during June 2007 at EMT. CFP is an organization that was founded in NEPA in 2004 to facilitate the production and promotion of regional motion picture projects.

I'm from Central PA, and I love this so much, even though we don't speak that dialect here.

Incredible!

Ahh, oh well, I still love it!!!

This funny piece was a great homage to the dialect I grew up...or which grew up wit me.

Good job, Greg!

OMG!!! He's dead on!!! I'm from Harrisburg and thats exactly how I say things...especially the did you eat part hahaha

Nice, teaching folks how to fit in up there in good ole Pennsyl-tuckey.

Love it!

Me too! And hoagies, Middlesworth chips, Stegmeier and Angelo's Pizza on Hazle Street.

I'm from that area and this is great! lol

JohnCandyesque, heartwarming, and PS, Jerry and Son (West Nanticoke), and the Park Market (Nanticoke-Proper) make the region's best "Kielbossi". It is now time to "down-Da-Boilo" then act like a tourist in Polish Markets while purchasing 50 'rings of smoked' (kielbasa), with my cousin, just to hear the locals in each-and-every butcher shop stop conversing in English, then switch to (either) Polish or Slovak. We're 'gossip-mining', you-see, did I mention that we are fluent in both languages?? It's precious to see the looks on everyone's face as we translate some of that gossip into (spoken) English, bid them farewell, then inform them that we're heading over to "Stookies" for da barbecue sammies. Eh, and maybe da Tilbury for da 'swingset show'. Pray I don't get "da ooze" again!!

I am from the hill section and the die in-the-wool screen tonian and I'd like to offer.... "Me and jobesy went dahn 2da paahhhrk. He sez" oh noon turdy, it's lunch heyna? Go arder tree hahddahgs 1 wit mustard, 1 wit not, u can have dis1, dudder1, or dahbodavum"

this is so true, it's great.

Spot on! :)

Born in Wilkes-Barre, PA. I talked like this for a long time. when I arrived in the south, no one could understand a thing I said. I caught myself saying another NEPA thing today: "I need you to run in your brother's hoodie." Heh. my daughter knew what I meant ;)

Sounds like you knew my grandparents! They were from Wilkes Barre. I was born in Nanticoke and have been trying to explain to my sons the beauty of "heyna". They just kind of stare at me. That's what makes it so funny!

what i love most about this is people from the area who watch this and are still in denial about the fact that they actually talk like this.

I lived in Wilkes Barre for almost 20 years and I don't think I ever heard anyone say heyna..(However, I heard most of the others, haha).

Pennsylvanian variety of Inland Northern American English. Very similar to accents in cities such as Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland & Detroit.

I had family in Plymouth & Kingston & Larksville & shavertown, I heard plenty of that kind of talk growing up, especially around my Polish grandparents. I don't get around that part of the state much anymore & haven't in a long time, I wonder do they still talk like that there or is that something that died off

Do you want to go to Bimm-ing-ton? Heyna, or no? Having grown up in NEPA, ALL my relatives pronounced Binghamton, N.Y. that way. I enjoyed the video, this IS who we are. Sometimes you just have to step back and have a laugh.

you said it straight on.

Sounds like my childhood XD

I'm from williamsport pa bout an hour away an we have a lot of this going on here.

The original sketch did contain the line "or is that a homonyn?", which was cut from the film for time considerations.

Omg! I was born in scanton, and this way of speaking is rigjt on da money. Even if u have been gons a long time . 2 min of sittin around talkin, and it all coes back,and yer tlkin like a pro great vid! Tanks fer puttim it out dere? Does anyone know where I can find the (Were goin up da eynon, ta get cup coffee an maybe eat a samwitch,the Heyny faily. IT WAS SUNG TO THE ADAMS FA,ULY SONG

I must have watched this video a million times & it still cracks me up!!!! 38 years old & I lived in NEPA all 38 of those years!!!

You'se guy's, I love dis.

Haint that right