Some of these are blatantly obvious, but I wanted to compile a list of the references, parodies and tributes in the video.

@0:14 "What's with the masks? You guys shy?" probably refers to Shyguys, one of the basic enemies in SMB2.
@0:36 "Enough [coins] to buy 10,000 new lives." refers to the free life you would receive for each 100 coins you collected.
@0:56 "Well excuuuse me, princess!" is from the Legend of Zelda cartoon.
@1:01 "...Bowser, the king of the koopas." If I remember correctly, Bowser didn't get his name until SMB3. He was known only as "King Koopa" in SMB1.
@1:13 "Minus World"
@1:16 "Shit just got real" and the camera work are a scene from Bad Boys 2.
@1:25 "Here's the cash, you reptile." refers to Bowser being a giant turtle in the games. The scene being set in a dinosaur exhibit may be a reference to the real Super Mario Bros movie where the villain (Dennis Hopper) was actually some sort of evolved dinosaur.
@1:30 "Your princess is in another castle." is the infamous line uttered by every toadstool upon being rescued at the end of each world.
@1:38 "It's a trap!"
@2:16 "Now you're playing with power" was the tagline for the original Nintendo.
@3:40 The music Mario is whistling is part of the overworld and underwater themes from Super Mario World. I want to say I remember it being in SMB3, but I can't find or remember where.
@3:52 "It'sa me, Mario!" was something of a catchphrase of Mario's for a while. The cartoon was the first place I can remember hearing it.

What have I missed? I suspect there's a lot of movie references that I didn't catch.

@residue

Backstory is that karl pilkington has a huge cult following amongst people in the know. He met gervais and merchant working at XFM radio station (small local london station) which gervais did as a favour to someone who gave him a job early in his life.

Since then, gervais has mercilessly taken the piss out of karl. Karl is unique in that he's the only person in the world who's both the stupidest person ever and a complete and utter genius.

They made loads of radio shows and loads of podcasts, then they made an idiot abroad. The format basically goes like this: Karl says something rediculous, gervais and merchant take the piss out of him. They often ask him questions which he has no chance of understanding just to see what stupid things he'll say. He is fascinated by anything different (such as warrick, the elephant man, gay people, siamese twins, ANYTHING different to your average human), he's entranced by monkies and thinks that monkies are basically humans who can't speak properly.

He used to come up with pathetic game shows in which he'd come up with clues that he'd label cryptic (to gervais' chagrin) where he'd give a clue and a pair of initials, and you would have to guess what band or artist name he was referring to, it amounted to this;
"The jamaican fellow is swinging a fish around his head, DS"
-- Detroit Spinners (The trout spinners, in a jamaican accent - de trout spinners)
"I told the gay man that the grape tree was mine, MG"
-- Marvin Gaye (My vine, gay)

The radio show was an absolute shambles, it was barely even a radio show and more a case of 3 blokes having a chat in a pub with a microphone left running. And i will say with certainty that i have never laughed so hard or so much at any kind of comedy. I'd say gervais' BEST work is the podcasts and radio shows he did with pilkington.

During the course of the podcasts, pilkington has dropped MANY clangers and had many more catchphrases - gervais uses a lot of references to karl in his work. For example whenever gervais wants to play his 'arrogant jerk' routine he refers to a gay person he says "little gay fellow", because it's inherently condescending. That's actually something he got off karl who refers to EVERY diversity as "little <x> fellow" - little gay fellows, little chinese fellows, little gay chinese fellows, little disabled fellows and very particularly "little midget fellow".

So.....gervais introduced him to warrick. And they've talked about warrick on the radio show/podcasts before.

Edit:
Might actually post this as a sift talk so people know who the new guy on the sift is.

I see said the blind man. Duh, I mean doh, I mean....
In reply to this comment by thepinky:
What I actually said was "doh", not "duh." Big difference. One is a Homer Simpson catchphrase, the other is not.

In reply to this comment by chicchorea:
No duh intended or needed, please. I think there are too many reasonable ways for it to happen so no fail as I see it, respectfully.

You are, of course however, always welcome. Good luck to you and thank you.

In reply to this comment by thepinky:
Doh! Thanks for the heads up.

What I actually said was "doh", not "duh." Big difference. One is a Homer Simpson catchphrase, the other is not.

In reply to this comment by chicchorea:
No duh intended or needed, please. I think there are too many reasonable ways for it to happen so no fail as I see it, respectfully.

You are, of course however, always welcome. Good luck to you and thank you.

In reply to this comment by thepinky:
Doh! Thanks for the heads up.

In reply to this comment by chicchorea:
This is a dupe of http://videosift.com/video/4-year-old-drummer-is-feeling-it.

I think you are closer on his age however.

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That's what that one lady said.

Damn I always screw up catchphrases.>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

>> ^Entropy001:
That snake is huge!

Uh oh.. I wonder who's gonna say it? hm.

As if cheesecake weren't enough, upvote for her sassy catchphrase at 1:30

Nope that's not him. Now I need to find some video to make sure I"m remembering things right.>> ^arghness:

>> ^Grimm:
I don't remember seeing this guy until I was much older. The guy that I remember had a German accent I believe and used to use big house painting brushes. Every time at one point it looked like he had messed the painting up but it always came out looking great in the end.

Okay, I may sound stupid here, but are you referring to Rolf Harris? He's Australian but often painted with large brushes and had the catchphrase "Can you tell what it is yet?".
I don't have a great example video to show, but if it was him, this might ring a bell.

>> ^arghness:

>> ^Grimm:
I don't remember seeing this guy until I was much older. The guy that I remember had a German accent I believe and used to use big house painting brushes. Every time at one point it looked like he had messed the painting up but it always came out looking great in the end.

Okay, I may sound stupid here, but are you referring to Rolf Harris? He's Australian but often painted with large brushes and had the catchphrase "Can you tell what it is yet?".
I don't have a great example video to show, but if it was him, this might ring a bell.


Ohhhh... I'm Jake the Peg, deedle eedle eedle um, with my extra leg, deedle eedle eedle um.

>> ^Grimm:

I don't remember seeing this guy until I was much older. The guy that I remember had a German accent I believe and used to use big house painting brushes. Every time at one point it looked like he had messed the painting up but it always came out looking great in the end.


Okay, I may sound stupid here, but are you referring to Rolf Harris? He's Australian but often painted with large brushes and had the catchphrase "Can you tell what it is yet?".

I don't have a great example video to show, but if it was him, this might ring a bell.

Almost without exception, police officials have staunchly supported the arresting officers. This argues strongly against the idea that some rogue officers are overreacting or that a few cops have something to hide. "Arrest those who record the police" appears to be official policy, and it's backed by the courts.

"Bonjawrno" has been the latest catchphrase between me and my girlfriend since the movie came out.

What can I say, we're both easily amused.

>> ^blankfist:
Haha. Way to go statist idiots.


Is that your catchphrase now? I don't really see how it applies here.

Camera is the new gun. That's the new catchphrase.

I hate to spoil your fun ladies and gentlemen but this is sadly a fake. Notice the poor editing on the letter F.

Do kinda love it though, makes us seem quaint. But this shows us in a truer light

Catchphrase - Say what you see

"To hell with the otters and the turtles!!!!!!!!"

That better be the next meme catchphrase on the inter-tubes.