All language subtitles for The Ricky Gervais Show s02e09 Natural History.eng

For the past few
years Ricky Gervais,

Stephen Merchant,
and Karl Pilkington

have been meeting regularly

for a series
of pointless conversations.

This is one of them.

- Testing.
- Is that all right?

Hello and welcome
to "The Ricky Gervais Show"

with me, Ricky Gervais,
Stephen Merchant...

- Hello.
- ...And the little round-headed buffoon

that is Karl Pilkington.

Hi.

I should start
by just saying, Karl,

that the natural world
is so diverse

that we don't even know

how many species there are.

With plants and animals,

there could be
up to 10 million species.

Um, there are 37,000 different
species of spider alone.

What do you think of that?

Uh, it's a lot.

- It is, isn't it?
- Yeah, lot.

But if there's loads of stuff out
there that we don't know about,

and we don't know
what it's doing,

is it that important?
Is it worth finding 'em now?

Well, yeah.

- Why?
- Well, it may give us the key

to unlock other mysteries.

- A spider won't.
- Well, it might do.

A spider won't be
unlocking any mysteries.

- That's...
- What I mean is the police

- know about the gangsters.
- Right.

But they go, "Right,
we're aware of them.

Let them get on with it.
We'll keep our eye on 'em."

And it's the same in the jungle.
These spiders,

the deadly ones
you're aware of.

The ones that are just puttering out,
you go,"Don't even worry about them.

Don't even give 'em a name.
They're not doing anything."

But what if there's
another poisonous spider

they haven't identified yet,
lurking in the undergrowth?

- I'd be very surprised.
- So you'd be very surprised?

- I'd be surprised if...
- It sounds like laziness on your part.

They're discovering
new species all the time.

We know about all
the dangerous stuff now

- 'cause we have to. We live in a world now...
- No we don't.

We do. We know about a lot
of the dangerous stuff.

Whenever they find something new now,
it's like a new butterfly or...

Well, no!
No, look at AIDS.

When I was a kid no one had
ever heard of AIDS.

Yeah, but that's not a natural thing, is it?
That's not like a spider.

- What do you mean it's not a natural thing?
- It's not a natural thing.

It's not something that's...
AIDS hasn't been, like,

living under the soil for millions
of years going, "I'll wait

till the 1980s then I'll come
out and kill a load of people.

- No, but it is a natural thing.
- It's a new thing.

- It's new.
- Yeah, but loads of animals are new, aren't they?

Not in... not... I mean it...
evolutionary terms,

there's new animals
in evolution.

I'm sure. I'm sure there's
new stuff deep down

that's just like almost like
bacteria sat under the soil.

It'll never come
to the top, right?

It's like having... having an
old woman who's a neighbor.

She never goes out, she doesn't bother ya.
Let her be.

- What are you talking about?
- But what if that old neighbor

could unlock the secrets to...

- I don't think she can.
- Just even to us understanding the...

the complexities of the universe or the
way things are developed and grown.

- 'Cause we'd know about it.
- Why would we know about it?

Because I never understand why is it you
want to stop researching and studying now.

Why is it that you're happy to just
draw a line under everything else?

What if people had said this
back in the 19th century?

We've done this,
we've done this!

I think it's someone
in the 1900s that said

everything that's gonna be
invented has been invented.

And then look what happened
in that century.

Yeah, and I've said to you, look at
the stuff that is being invented now.

The frisbee and stuff like that, it's all...

It's all stuff that you
kinda go, "It's all right.

It's a good idea.
But we don't need it."

Yeah, but the frisbee
wasn't being worked on

by the top brains
of our generation.

That was some novelty toy
that some manufacturer made.

But it's like look at the
fuss we made over that fella

who came up with the Dyson vac.

Everyone was like "He's up there
with Einstein." Well, he's not.

It's a good vac.
It cleans up floors well and everything.

Who said he's up there
with Einstein?

- His P.R. people did.
- In one of those programs

where they did great
inventions of our time.

It was easy early on.
You got Einstein, you know. Newton did this.

Archimedes... Dyson.

And they started to run out

because it's harder to come
up with something new now.

Because everything that's needed...
Remember the things we've invented

are things that we sort of
go, "We could do with that."

Inventors don't sit there
going, "What can I make?

Oh, I need a toaster."
They've sat there,

they've burned the toast under
the grill and they've gone,

"I need some sort of device
here I can put bread in."

Yeah yeah yeah, necessity is
the mother of invention.

- Yeah.
- However there are, uh uh,

people who sit around going, "Where's,
you know, a loophole in the market?

Where's a little...
where's the niche?"

Well, here's something:
About a year ago,

I came up with
a see-through toaster

so that you can see how
much the toast is cooked.

- Right?
- I found it about two months after that.

Someone had done it,

so I'd just been beaten
to the post.

I met a bloke
on a conference once

who sent a drawing
to "Blue Peter."

It was their design a car
of the future and he sent them

a drawing that was a car
and the only innovation

was that you could have
a shit while driving.

And then he put,

"Shit goes down pipe
which becomes fuel."

They must have looked at that
and gone, "What a maniac."

I think that's a brilliant...

I mean, I've driven a long way.

I drove to cornwall recently
and I would have loved

- a lavatory built into...
- But I think he did it when he was about nine.

And he must have thought,
"Oh, I'm being driven to school.

I need the toilet.
Wouldn't it be good if..."

- But why hasn't that been done?
- What?!

Like Steve says. I've been in the
same situation when you're driving

and you go, "Oh where's the service station?"
You see a sign saying, 36 miles.

- You're in agony.
- So you suggest, pull your trousers down

and shit down in the seat
that's a toilet?

- Ah, what's wrong with that?
- Well, you got your nan in your back...

- She's got one as well.
- So you are going to cornwall all shitting?

Not all the time.

But it's more useful
to me than a lighter.

- So also what...
- Where do you wash your hands?

At what point to you wash your hands or
wipe your ass? At what point does that occur?

- At the end of the journey.
- Oh God.

So you get in, you have
a shit at Deptford

and you wipe your ass
at Polperro?

Yeah, but like I've said to you,
this isn't like just people going,

"Oh, I think I'll have one."
"You need one?"

"Not really. But it's
something to do, isn't it?

I'm sick of playing I spy.
I'm having a shit."

You have it when
you really need one.

When you have to pull off a motorway,
it's a lot of messing about.

There's probably gonna be
a queue at the toilet.

- No more queues at toilets.
- 10 minutes, that takes, doesn't it? 10 minutes.

- Pull off, have a quick shit.
- It's 10 minutes. Driving along.

It's just going on,
don't even know about it.

The radio is on, everyone's happy.

It doesn't matter.
I don't know... I mean, we all do it

as well.
That's the thing.

Anything else
you'd come up with?

There's so many things...
Chocolate fountain.

Anything like that,
I just go, "What are these?

Who's invented these?
Who's okayed this idea?

"And yet I can't have
a shit on the motorway."

- Think of computers.
- Yeah, computers are a good thing

and it baffles me as
to how they came about.

When you think a computer chip
is just made out of sand.

Now for someone to come up
with that, you go,

"This... there must have been some
sort of alien involved here."

What do you mean?
Why do you think that?

So I love it.
So the frisbee... rubbish.

Anything too clever... "Well, it wasn't
an invention. It was an alien."

So there's nothing between
frisbee and computer chip?

What I'm saying is
it's not even an idea, is it?

- What do you mean?
- A computer chip...

Where does that come from?

That is amazing.
It's astounding, yeah.

So you think it was an alien.
What are you talking about?

- It's great.
- Because I can't believe

that someone would go, "Right, I want to
make something that will hold information

and be able to... "I know, let's use
some sand. We've got loads of that."

- You'd go...
- That's what genius is though, isn't it?

But, Karl, there's
no alien involved.

No, but when I say alien, I don't
mean an alien came down here

and said, you know,
"Oh, do you wanna buy this?"

There could have been...

...Uh, a spaceship crash.
Right?

- Right yeah.
- And there's all them rumors, isn't there,

in that hanger? They've got the
spaceship, they take it apart.

They go, "Yeah, wheels,
we've got them.

Yeah yeah, steering wheel."And then
they go, "Hang on, what's this here?"

And they find the chips

and they break it down
and they find it's sand.

Karl, but the fact that
sand makes computer chips

is not the interesting thing.

The interesting thing is how the
human being discovered that...

What am I talking about,
sand makes computer chips?

That silicon can have
information, uh uh, put on it.

But we're made out of
oxygen, nitrogen, carbon.

- Yeah.
- Do you know what I mean? And hydrogen.

- It... that... the...
- But that's nature.

You see, nature is amazing.
You can't beat nature. Right?

- No.
- It comes up with some amazing things.

But man is nature.
Don't forget that we are... we're an animal.

We're a brilliant ape.

We're actually 98.6% genetically
identical to a chimpanzee, Karl.

Think of that.

We only differ

on 1.4% of our genetic makeup.

That... that must be the ass.

'Cause that's a lot different.

Animals rights is a...
is a hot topic.

- It's a big issue.
- What rights should they have?

We test drugs on animals
and we're basically saying

if they die, they die.
We'll learn something from them.

People do make distinctions
between animals, right?

They... they know that it's
probably more acceptable

to kill an ant,

- than, uh...
- Punch a cow.

- Ah, exactly.
- I told you, didn't I,

about me... me dad's mate who had a
monkey and he had to thump it?

- What?
- What-wh... Well, there's two things there.

One, why did he have a monkey? Two, what sort
of discipline is thumping a monkey?

- What was the monkey doing?
- It kept... it was annoying his wife a lot.

And sort of pinching her
ass and stuff like that.

- That's not true.
- Wait a minute, we've never heard this before.

How have we had all these years of monkey
news and we've never heard this before?

I'm sure I told you
about it ages ago.

Your dad had a mate
who had a monkey?

- I'm sure I've told you.
- Why did he have a monkey?

- Just for a laugh?
- It was back in the day when you... people did.

- They all had like odd sort of pets, didn't they?
- When?

- In like about '68.
- Oh 1968?

When... oh, when everyone
had a monkey.

But he had to thump it.
Now the weird thing is...

- No, that's weird enough.
- Is this the... this is all the story?

- This is the entire story?
- No.

All the information you've got is he
had a monkey and he had to thump it?

Yeah, me dad told me about it.
When he found out that I was into monkeys,

he said,
"Oh, Benny thumped one."

Benny thumped one!

Oh, my son's into natural history,
particularly the simian variety.

"I've got an interesting fact
for you, Karl. Sit down."

"What is it, Pater?"
"Um, Benny thumped one."

- "Brilliant."
- But what was interesting is

the way that people are thumping
other people all the time.

No one bats an eyelid.
Thump a monkey,

people go,
"You thumped a monkey!"

Yes!
Yes, they do.

They do go...
"You thumped a monkey."

So that's what's weird,
isn't it?

This chimp doesn't wanna be caged and kept
in a fucking council house in Manchester.

- No, it was quite happy.
- It wasn't happy!

I mean, in the '70s, there were all
the tea bag adverts and all that,

- and they were loving that.
- No, they weren't loving it.

People go, "Oh that's unfair."
Now they're in like a cage in a zoo.

"It was better when I was
pushing a piano up the stairs."

They weren't really...
they weren't really...

They weren't really

- sitting down and having a cup of tea.
- It wasn't a documentary...

"A week in the life
of the monkey deliverymen."

Oh, I love that...
chimps in a zoo now going,

"Fuckin' hell. At least we
were... at least we were free."

"Remember when we used to
drive a van for a living?"

- "And we were on 58 quid a week."
- Yeah.

They're not meant to be kept
in a house in Manchester.

It's cruel to keep a person
in a house in Manchester,

so it's fucking cruel to keep a monkey.

When I was about 13, 14,

I once tried to improve
the animal kingdom

by making
the hardest animal ever,

the most perfect animal.

Now, just to clarify, you didn't
in sort of frankenstein-style

- try and bolt various bits of animals
together? - No.

It was a drawing
that I sent to "Blue Peter."

There was no competition
going on.

You just thought they
would be appreciative.

I thought they'd look
at that and they'd go,

"This is... He's a genius.
This like Da Vinci."

- Sure.
- And this is the animal.

This is what I thought
the perfect animal...

I mean when I say perfect,
I meant the hardest animal.

This animal,
it could take anything.

It was just the strongest,
hardest, fastest. Right?

So I started with the head of a lion.

- Of course, that makes sense.
- No, I mean, roar! It looks good.

I'll bite you, right?
Okay,

I popped that on the body
of a rhinoceros.

Okay, so it's got the toughness
and the armor if you like.

Oh, it's full of strength.
Head of a lion... think of that.

So you've got this picture
Head of a lion, body of a rhino.

Okay?
Hold on though.

Pop some arms on it.

The front arms were
the arms of a gorilla.

- The arms of a gorilla? Okay.
- So it could punch and grip.

It could make stuff.
The lion, I mean, that's where

- the lion falls down because it can't make stuff.
- Sure.

- You think that's got enough weaponry?
- Sounds like it.

No.Pop on the tail
of a giant scorpion.

A giant scorpion?

- Yeah yeah.
- So a scorpion that's the size of a rhinoceros?

Exactly. So the tail was
as long as that, right.

So now this is a scary animal.
And this is where the animal fell down.

Uh, I thought,
"Right, legs."

- Well, the fastest animal is the cheetah.
- Cheetah.

Popped on four cheetah legs,
it would have collapsed.

Crushed under the weight
of the rhinoceros.

It would have collapsed
immediately. So, uh...

- And you drew this, did you?
- Drew it, yeah.

- Did you show it to anyone...
- My mates went,"That's brilliant."

- Right.
- They said that's brilliant.

And then just sent it straight
to "Blue Peter." Any reply?

- No reply at all.
- Really?

- No reply at all.
- I'm surprised.

What do you think
of that, Karl?

If you wanted to make the ultimate
fighting animal, what would come up with?

If you had the power like
the fellow in "Arabian Nights,"

size of a chimpanzee,
you could change into anything,

but you could change
into, you know... like that?

I don't think I'd go for strength and that.
I'd go for survival.

What would you do?
Cockroach?

No, I'd have, uh...

I'd have like
an armadillo's body.

Right okay.

I'd have

- the head of an owl.
- Right.

- The head of an owl?
- Yeah, why... why come up...

What does that
bring to the table?

The head's thereto sort of make it
look friendly to the human race.

- Okay. - Because if you look
half decent to the human race,

- they'll look after you.
That's the way it works. - Right.

Like the cat and the
dog and all that.

- So the owl makes it look nice.
- Right.

I'd have...
I wouldn't have legs.

I'd go for, like,
the slug juice.

What do you mean?
So now

you're a really slow moving,
legless armadillo

- with the head of an owl?
- Slithering along.

How is that gonna be friendly?

They'll see the beautiful face,

but be terrified by the sludge.

No, because
the head's that nice,

that they'll forgo the sludge.

But hold on.
But wait a minute.

So it's got this thing
that's stuck, right?

Going 0.1 miles an hour,

going "Hoo," right?

You come over, you kick the head off.
How is this survival?

No, 'cause the head can go into
the thing like a tortoise.

- Can it?
- Yeah.

Of course it can.
Into the armadillo body.

Well no, an armadillo doesn't do that.
It just curls up into a ball.

- No no, it isn't an armadillo, is it?
- So it's...

Why has it got the slug...
Why is that so attractive?

Because what I'm thinking
is an armadillo,

they're good when
they're on their feet.

Flip them, they get
stuck like a tortoise.

- Right.
- Slug stuff keeps it down.

So if anything attacks it, it's like
a limpet that can glop to stuff.

- Why not have a limpet then?
- No.

But it can't get any... how... it can barely move.
It can hardly get anywhere.

- Just go and kick it.
- What do you mean it can't get anywhere?

But how can it escape from danger?
It's gonna move very slowly.

- It's rubbish.That's the worst animal.
- It'll lock itself in.

- Then I'll just scoop it up...
- You can't scoop it up.

It locks itself in
if it's in danger.

I'd give it peacock feathers.

This is the worst
animal I've ever heard!

Why has it got
peacock feathers?

- Again, it's just sort of...
- It's the worst animal I've ever heard.

- Why has it got peacock feathers?
- It looks more threatening.

- That's what peacock feathers do.
- That's the least

threatening thing... peacock feathers.
It's like Danny la Rue coming at you.

There's nothing remotely scary
about peacock feathers.

To humans.
But the humans won't be harming it

'cause they like the owl head.

People will like to have
these things in the garden.

Uh, they eat lettuce.

They eat lettuce.
They eat...

Why has it got a beak?
They eat lettuce.

He's telling it what's
it's gonna eat now.

The owl's going, "Fuck that.
I want a mouse."

I love the fact that
he's based what it eats

on the fact that...
How it moves a bit like a slug.

- Yes yes.
- That it'd eat lettuce.

It moves that
and it'd eat lettuce.

Like I said, it's not
that weird if that existed.

If that was normal that when you
went out to empty your bin,

there's one of them
sliding up the wall,

you wouldn't... you wouldn't
even double take.

You'd be just like,
"Oh there's the...

The owl-head
peacock-feathered thing."

I don't know why it's climbing walls
in an effort to find lettuce.

Why is it
climbing up that wall?

'Cause that's the only way
it can see properly.

'Cause it's head's
coming out like that.

So even though you've designed this animal,
you're even explaining its limitations.

- Now it's got problems.
- It's mainly made to be on walls.

'Cause what else is living on walls?

Oh God.
Oh fucking hell.

What a useless animal that is.

- Karl I mean.
- But nature chucks up odd things, doesn't it?

Don't... Why are we
starting on this again?

No, I'm... I'm just saying
that is nature.

Now and again you'll get...
you'll get stuff that...

- Oh, was he looking at you?
- Yeah.

Was he really?

Look at his fucking head. Look at his stupid,
round, fucking orangey head and... Oh.

Why aren't you a freak?

You've got a little bald head.
We're not meant to bald.

Well, I was I think.
That's the thing... that's what nature's done.

You see, I didn't do anything
with my hair when I had hair.

I didn't style it.
I didn't do anything with it.

And it probably thought,
"What am I doing here?"

Whereas people who love
their hair and they comb it

and have different styles and look
after it, they have hair for ages.

- No. It's absolute nonsense.
- Nonsense, gobbledygook.

- Absolute nonsense.
- It's a little bit weird though, isn't it?

And that's what happens
with old people.

- Once they lose their, you
know, will to live... -

...Once they lose their job, they get old.
"What's me purpose?

What am I doing here?" And it's like
nature goes,"You're not needed."

And they die. Maybe that's
what happened with the dodo.

What's it doing?
It can't fly.

Its wings are useless.
Eat it, it tastes horrible.

- Bleech!
- Kill it.

- No, they did eat it.
- Nature.

- I think they did eat it.
- Yeah, but it wasn't very nice, was it?

I think they over-farmed it.
I think that's why it was extinct...

- 'Cause they did eat it.
- No, but they did eat it,

but they didn't like it.
Everybody, you never...

You never saw like a fully-eaten
carcass of a dodo.

- It would be half-eaten.
- You're making this up again. All conjecture.

No, but they didn't eat it all.

Everybody would try it and go,
"It's not for me, that."

- But you don't know this.
- You're just making it up.

What's this based on? The people... and
also, why would that kill it out?

- Because I'll tell you why.
- Why?

Because if it's not nice, people
go, "Don't get another one then."

And they die out. The reason we've got
loads of chickens and loads of cows

is 'cause we eat them. If we ate polar
bears, we wouldn't be short of them.

Because you'd farm it.
You'd take more care of it.

What's a polar bear doing? It's sat
on a block of ice floating about.

It's no use to us, is it?
It sounds harsh.

Once again, got his information
from a glacier mint advert.

No, it's no use to us.

We know they're there and
's all very sad when you

see them on the news sort of
struggling and all that.

But it's gonna
make 'em stronger.

I saw this trailer

for this documentary that said

the man who's having a baby.

And I turned it on

and it's a woman

going through a sex change
and she's pregnant.

That's not a man having a baby.

That's a woman having a beard.

Having a breakdown.

Uh uh, what... what...
why is that... that's a con.

That is pure sensat...
it's a man having a baby.

Look, world's first...
No, it's a woman.

It's a woman.
What do you think of that?

What would you do if you're a
doctor and I came to you and went,

"Karl, listen, I'm having
a bit of a rethink of these."

Uh, I don't... I...
the penis,

"I hate it.
I hate this cock."

But what do you mean,
you hate it?

I hate... I don't want it there.
It doesn't look right.

It doesn't look right.
It just sits there resting

on these fucking awful testicles
that I'm gonna get rid of.

I want... I want this
thrown away.

Yeah well, it's... you know,
they're not a great look.

I know that.

Everyone knows that.
It's just the way they are.

I mean if we're all being
honest, they're an odd design.

I don't think anyone
likes their own, do they?

That's why we cover 'em.
They're not a great thing, are they?

But that's not why we
cover them though, is it?

It's part of it, I think.
I think deep down.

I mean, even if, like, I know you
hate the Adam-and-Eve thing,

but even if back then he was
like, "Good God, cover 'em up."

- And he had a leaf on.
- No, that isn't why.

So are you thinking
fundamentally then,

that aesthetically,
the testicles and the penis

isn't as good as it could be?

What would you
have there instead?

Well, it's designed that way 'cause
that's the way it's gotta be designed.

- It's more about function than, uh...
- Yeah.

And that's... that's the thing, isn't it?
With modern technology...

The thing is the testicles
have to be outside

'cause they have to be a few
degrees below body temperature.

- Yeah.
- Otherwise the sertoli cells die

which sort of feeds
the semen and all that.

So they... they... to be functioning
and sort of like fertile,

they have to be outside,
which is annoying,

'cause I'd put a little
ribcage around 'em like that.

I'd pop a rib cage round those,
protect 'em, wear a cricket box,

have that built in
so you cannot get a kick in...

a swift kick in the bollocks
that makes you feel sick.

No, but it'd be better if
they could sort of reverse up

in a way that they...
they were hidden away.

So that they would just... then
you dropped 'em. It's like,

"Right, we need
to cool 'em down.

Be at it in about
half an hour."

- Yeah.
- Zzzzt! Drop 'em down.

Yeah, like the gear on a... on
an airplane, landing gear.

Yeah and, uh,
"Landing gear down."

And the bollocks
in the cooling down.

Or you could just like... just pop
'em in the fridge for 10 minutes.

They could detach
and you could pop 'em

- in the fridge, cool them there?
- Yeah.

- Can you make me some breasts?
- Easy.

Okay, go on.
You say easy,

what are you gonna do?
What's your plan?

Just...

How do you do that?
It's tablets, isn't it?

- No, but...
- "Testerone," right?

- Testerone?
- No, Toblerone.

I wanna... yeah...
I want some Toblerone.

Just some pointy...
pointy tits, like Madonna.

Where do you stop though?
Supposing I came to you and said,

"Doctor, listen, um,
I like the bollocks."

I like the penis.
But I don't like 'em where they are.

I'd... I want them...

I want them in the middle
of my chest.

I want breasticles.
Yeah?

The ass, I don't like it around the back.
I can't see what's going on.

Pop that on the front
where the bollocks were.

I want my ass where I can look
down and see what's going on.

"Can you do it?"

I think it's just easier
to move the head, isn't it?

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