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May 14, 2020 7:33 PM   Subscribe

REMAIN INDOORS (SLYT)

A compilation of Mitchell and Webb's The Quiz Broadcast segments.
Extended explanation here
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posted by jojo and the benjamins (15 comments total) 21 users marked this as a favorite
 
I watched this months ago, before The Event, and it struck me as pretty darn funny. But watching it tonight I absolutely lost it.

It's comedy, so YMMV, but I love that it hits you hard repeatedly throughout the duration, all while very slowly and gradually dropping clues about the The Event, and when all is finally revealed it makes complete sense while simultaneously still being incredibly funny.
posted by vverse23 at 8:51 PM on May 14, 2020 [4 favorites]


Excellent use of Test Card F. Hard to make that more sinister and terrifying, but they did it.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 9:26 PM on May 14, 2020 [1 favorite]


The article about Test Card F is, in itself, a bit scary.
posted by drivingmenuts at 11:13 PM on May 14, 2020 [1 favorite]


How strange. It's Friday, and I literally have to go and get my food parcels.
posted by Grangousier at 12:52 AM on May 15, 2020 [4 favorites]


I'd only ever seen the first one. Now I've watched the whole thing and I have tears on my face.
posted by brainwane at 2:49 AM on May 15, 2020 [1 favorite]


"Let's stand together."

Oh, Beckett.
posted by From Bklyn at 2:57 AM on May 15, 2020 [2 favorites]


600 rolls of toilet paper.
posted by pw201 at 3:02 AM on May 15, 2020 [1 favorite]


"What was hope" got me the most.
posted by greenhornet at 3:54 AM on May 15, 2020 [3 favorites]


I'm sorry, that's not Numberwang.
posted by briank at 5:24 AM on May 15, 2020 [7 favorites]


Revelation 6:13-15 (referenced on one of the altered Test Card F's) for those interested:
13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul at 7:01 AM on May 15, 2020 [3 favorites]


Watching these led me, once again, on a grim path through early 80s British Cold War media. British existential dread is best existential dread.
posted by Don.Kinsayder at 7:32 AM on May 15, 2020 [3 favorites]


My spouse and I, old Gen-Xers, played this a couple weeks ago for our young-Millenial niece who is living with us for the duration. She was mostly horrified by how dark it was. I do think the humor of different generations responds to existential threat in different ways, and that sort of mundane resignation to annihilation is distinctly Gen-X.
posted by matildaben at 9:21 AM on May 15, 2020 [6 favorites]


“It's the quiz round. Fingers on hands, please”
posted by ambrosen at 11:12 AM on May 15, 2020 [1 favorite]


"Are we the baddies?" – Now topical and unfunny.

"REMAIN INDOORS" – Now topical and unfunny.

Good God, what is going to happen to us next that turns Numberwang into a huge bummer?
posted by schmod at 8:07 PM on May 15, 2020 [4 favorites]


now we know.
posted by ovenmitt at 7:02 AM on May 16, 2020 [2 favorites]


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