That Mitchell and Webb Look - The Quiz Broadcast (Parts 1-9) HD
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- Sorry about the issues in part 1, OpenShot doesn't show it in the timeline but does when exported. One might ask, "If the channel named That Look has uploaded all of these in 1080p, why make this?", but if you have two monitors and view the same second-ish side by side, you'll see that even though this is 720p, it is much clearer. If you look at 0:55 you can see the crispness on UNKNOWN MALE 282 compared to • Video
Here's the timestamps if you want to try yourself:
S03E01 06:54-08:58
S03E02 06:20-09:23
S03E04 05:00-07:32
S04E01 18:34-21:17
S04E02 06:02-08:16
S04E03 02:00-04:29
S04E04 13:35-15:58
S04E05 20:47-23:33
S04E06 15:15-17:07
Only Mitchell and Webb could get such a big laugh from a line like "the world would have been a different place if we'd managed to keep even some of the children alive".
It truly is the bleakest sentence ever uttered in a comedy scene
😂😂
It’s canned laughter…
It reminded me of what Israel is doing to Gaza
@@lordbored2706 stop bringing politics into unrelated things. By your comment the results dont change. Its not like ISRAEL itself is going to be watching this skit on YT and be like DAAAAMN LORDBORED2706 IS SO RIGHT WE GOTTA STOP THAT SHIT.
Yes it is sad, yes it is unfair. But for the love of whatever god you believe PLEASE stop commenting shit like that under places that were meant for people to relax or have laugh in this fucked up world. What you do is just bringing down unrelated peoples vibes, not helping any victims of that horrible war.
I love Sarah Hadland's performance as Sheila in these, it's impressive how she manages to be almost _constantly_ smiling while still communicating just pure shell-shocked terror and confusion with her eyes and body language.
Yes
This is genuinely horrifying from the vagueness of 'the even't and 'them', to the color pallete, I just love it and it needs to be a serious movie.
given that there are zombies and they used to be us, I have a strong feeling that the event may have been a zombie apocalypse. just a shot in the dark of course
@@plasticballs Certainly plausible
Don't give M. Knight any ideas.
@@plasticballs I'd say "they" are a little too human for zombies, they're more like cannibals. People being blinded by the event, it causing blindness and hair to fall out 2 years after exposure suggests a nuclear apocalypse to me. Maybe an advanced form of cancer is what causes all of "them" to die inexplicably at the end too. That's just my take though. The genius writing decision in keeping it vague is brilliant
I think that 'the event' was the US deciding to enforce a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
Watching Mitchell and Webb reminds me of my pre-Event life... I took it all for granted. The Event is good, it has humbled me.
I will never see the outside world again
there's nothing out there worth looking at. just stay calm and remain indoors.
Stay in your pod, eat the bugs, drink the soy and be grateful Citizen
@@jenhamilton3038 i will not live in a pod
i will not eat insects
i will own things
@@MultiTwentyseven STOP IT! .. NO! You can't talk like that :(
We don't know what will happen if you do! You are upsetting the survivors with hope words :(
@@shinobusmods8682 What is this "hope" of which you speak? Was it an animal? Or a country/ spice?
When you watch them in order you appreciate how dark they get at the end vs the beginning. Amazing sketch writing.
yeah watching them on the show just makes it a funny absurd thing to put into a sketch show but watching them back to back makes it like a bizarro hopeless tragedy
@@TheFaceSoap Yes.
i love the lore buildup in this one
Yeah honestly this entire thing could have made a brilliant Sci fi series
My God. The idea that the only two remaining Shakespeare works are Pericles and Cymbelline is easily one of the most underrated lines Mr Mitchell has ever come up with. It makes me laugh every time.
I’ve never heard of either of those. Is that for a good reason?!
@@PurushaDesa Well, imo, the worst of Shakespeare is better than 95% of all the plays ever written in English, but yeah, let's just say that those are not among his best work. :D
@@gregmark1688
I would quibble with that slightly in that I’ve never found him that funny. Tragedies yes but I’m not into his comedies at all. (Although I guess you can interpret dark humour from the former like the Witches just deciding to fuck with Macbeth on a whim like the millionaires in Trading Places!)
What about Titus Andronicus? His most violent play
I actually really like Cymbelline, but like in the way I like old campy b movies.
The ending is actually really touching 😭😭😭
remove the laughtrack and it is all pretty poignant.
Yes, almost like the end of Blackadder
@@bigcatpants the laugh track sort of adds to it though because you can tell that its diegetic canned laughter. It even unnaturally cuts out a few times. Its emblematic of how their existence is only portrayed through this grim parody of a game show that they must act out week after week for sustenance.
@@bigcatpants It's not a laugh track. It's a live audience.
For the both of you: there is both a laugh track and a live audience, as it can be ascertained just by listening to it. I, originally, was referring to the canned laughs, however, if it was devoid of all laughter, then yes.
FFS, people. Get fuckin' lives.
Watching them back to back, you notice that the host becomes filthier and his suit becomes increasingly damaged. He also goes through a small character arc of
- Being in control
- Losing control
- Relying devotedly on the Regulations _(Blessed Be The Regulations)_ and the rules of the gameshow
- Trying desperately to maintain his contestants' morale
- Having a breakdown when Shiela is killed over his joke
- Finally losing hope once They all die
Sounds like Britain under Johnson in 2021
"Blessed be the regulations."
Reminds me of the fanatics rigidly following the new Covid religion.
I just noticed Sheila has TESCO on her forehead.
@@ChrissieBear the food packages
@@OsweebMosley You missed the metaphor. The ones who didn't follow the regulations became zombies. . . .
"And that's the alarming alarm, do not be alarmed!"
I also love the idea that the apocalypse just sort of ends without reason.
A bit like War Of The Worlds… and reality. 🙁
@@zhiguli8 Yes, I forgot World of the Worlds ends like that too! And, it does seem that it's case in real life. Nobody seems to care that there's a virus that could still, in theory, potentially kill everyone around.
The addition of laughing tracks actually made all the darker moments even more disturbing damn i rly love mitchell and webb
it was really clever how they just used the same laugh track every time basically (especially in the latter half) and had it cut off early sometimes.
@@SorchaSublime it was filmed in front of a live audience.
@@acex222 "laugh track" doesnt just refer to canned laughter. The laughter from the audience is always recorded separately from dialogue onto its own track, the "laugh track". hence how theyre able to make the laughter cut out in the last episodes in spite of the live audience.
@@SorchaSublime you said they used the same laugh track every time. These are recorded in front of a live studio audience.
@@acex222 in the last couple of episodes they clearly didnt.
I think these guys are the last humans left because "They" enjoy watching this show, so they give them just enough supplies to survive even though they've killed and/or assimilated everyone else
i think "they" were a new thing. the event created the infection and the infected became them.
Well, they WERE the last humans left.. but now, they've all died.
I'm grateful somebody finally put these all together... thx
THE EVENT IS UPON US
@@TheNeverposts Dont mention The Event!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@westyorkshirebiker8270 It will cause distress!!!!
Wrongorderthobutitskule
@@veneficus82 THE EVENT IS IN THE PAST
(Britain can take it!)
Mitchell And Webb is probably the best sketch show ever. They just went for stuff so big and conceptual that no one else would even attempt.
Well this has aged alarmingly well
Every time we have ten good years or so it seems like everybody suddenly thinks that the warnings of the past are ridiculous and could never happen again
don't be alarmed
All the disaster movies turned out to be completely correct: People are idiots and in an apocalypse will willingly put themselves in danger for stupid reasons.
@@eyescreamcake zombie bite hiders seemed crazy before the event
REMAIN INDOORS!!!!
This hits way different post-2020
At 10:35, “it is the mercy” were the final written words of Donald Crowhurst, an English sailor who went mad from isolation during a competition to sail around the world without stopping
I'd heard of Crowhurst but only vaguely. I looked him up and found this on the Wikipedia page: "Although rambling and incoherent at times, he was attempting to set down, for the benefit of mankind, a "revelation" or new understanding that he believed he had discovered regarding the relationship between man and the universe. Life, as experienced by man, was a "game", overseen by "cosmic beings," apparently God (or several gods) and the Devil, who set the rules by which "the game" was played." No idea if that was also in their mind when they wrote the sketch(es), but weirdly relevant to the idea of having to keep playing the game.
@@leow3696 it’s a fascinating story. If you’re interested, there’s a movie about his time at sea called ‘The Mercy’, starring Colin Firth
If it wasn't for the laugh track, this would be a bonde-fide dystopian horror thriller.
*Bona fide
You think the laugh track makes it better? Are you one of 'them'?
With the laugh track it is a utopian horror thriller.
It's not a laugh track
It's 'them'
I love how it this event whatever it was has seemingly erased people's memories of the majority of human achievement in the span of maybe 2 years implying that this effect was something that was an inherent part of the event or that it was some kind of side effect. Honestly this entire premise could be turned into a pretty kick ass show or film especially if the dark comedy aspect is retained
I think this show took a bit of inspiration from Threads (1984) where after the bombs drop, the english language disappears into grunts and primative slang. With all the teachers and schools gone, you only learn to articulate the basics.
All those who remembered died, or became 'them'.
DO NOT THINK ABOUT THE EVENT.
This take makes me think of the Stephen King short story, The End of the Whole Mess, with the addition of "Them" and set two years after the story in the UK.
I think a huge electromagnetic disturbance, from, oh shall we say a Magnetic Pole Shift, may well mess with everyone's memories, because our brains are just miniature electromagnets living within a huge electromagnetic protective shield. The darkness and destruction are probably just the effects of this huge, imminent electromagnetic disaster. Still, we have some good quizzes to look forward to.
@@b8nnytez nothing you said is accurate
16:28 - "And that's the alarming alarm. Don't be alarmed" My favourite bit
They keep us alive for their sport
"This is Peter, whom you may remember, and Sheila, whom you are also permitted to remember."
17:34 Mock the Event, I also would have liked to have seen Never Mind The Event and Would I Lie About the Event To You, such a shame that everyone involved those shows became one of them, they used to be us... they...used to be us...
I used to like the Latin party show "no pienses en el evento del sábado", but it got sad after the dancing girls were electrocured.
@@mulletboater You mean "voltage-calmed" don't you? (Hint: Shiela could've answered this one...)
What about Quite Eventful?
Have I Got No News for You
Come Die with Me
Consume the week
8 out of 10 humans are now dead
Whose blood is it anyway
The Small Malnutrioned Quiz of the Dark Season
Panic Room 101
Shooting Shards - at intruders and
T H E M
And, of course, QE (Quite Event).
2008: lol what a weird and outlandish sketch!
2020-2022: *blessed be the regulations!*
*Blessed be the regulations.*
Blessed be the regulations.
Yes
I love how they ended this in a serious and sad way.
Its a bit like the "im afraid I was very drunk" in the fast show, that really gets me every time ua-cam.com/video/QlZFfXAUr2I/v-deo.html
'This Morning'
I was literally thinking this! Let's see what he's won!... Energy!🤣
In the Americas , there was a program called "The Game Show". Unfortunately: no one received any food parcels or recommended injections and no one remained indoors after the event. We are all one of them now.
RIP President Butterfly. The last President of the thing that used to be called the United Place.
You used to be us…
No, we would've died out much quicker because too many people went outdoors 'cuz "DAYUM GUBBERMINT CAYUN'T TELL ME WHUT TA DO! IT'S ALL A LIEBERAL HOAX ANYWAY! FREEDUMZ!!!"
Was there a President called Windflaps or was that a type of ugly fish? Nobody knows.
I don't know about you, but I always imagine the Quiz Broadcast taking place in the same universe as Threads.
I was literally just trying to remember the name of that film as I was watching this. Thank you
I think it heavily implies it, for sure. Although maybe with a bit more of an alien nature too. But the stuff about people being unable to have sex or give birth, and people in charge trying to follow the rules even when society has collapsed, the 80s fashion and only rudimentary power/technology working in the aftermath and years after.
When I saw this originally in low definition I thought the clock was a talisman with a giant eye on it ("we don't know but they're everywhere")
But that was before the event...
This is by far the most horrific and hilarious sketch I've ever seen in my life. It's pure dark comedy at it's finest, making a mockery of both fiction and real-life. Every sketch is sad and tragic or scary and ominous and I can't stop laughing.
I watched it in 2021 and 2022. Every year it becomes more and more real.
THE EVENT IS IN THE PAST
16:34
“Have a look at this clip”
“I... can’t”
Yes
Watching this in 2022 is very topical I have to say. All the 'stay indoors' stuff really hits home 🤣
I remember watching these during the first wave of Covid and it felt genuinely terrifying
Same here
I miss those times
DONT REMEMBER THAT EVENT DONT REMEMBER THE EVENT.
The highest-quality version on UA-cam, thanks for uploading.
“Take whatever injections are recommended in your sector” this is savory
We did. REMAIN INDOORS.
Wow. This is more interesting, atmospheric and horryfying than all of the Hollywood horrors these days
I’m just gonna pretend I have no idea why this was uploaded just last week
Corona Virus
Im pretending Im watching heat
What is a week?
@@werxeh8027 It was 25 money if I remember correctly.
@@Awelbeckk Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
EDIT: *BANG*
geez the ending is so sad
✊EEEEEEHH EEEEEEHH
The El dude Brothers Yeah, shame the audience had to ruin the mood by laughing.
Kind of like Waiting for Godot as well.
Let's stand together.
Are you there?
Oh the days after the first event, they seem so blissful now.
There's only one piece of pre-event footage because they've used all the tapes to make streamers.
They recorded over all the old tapes because The Quiz was newer and so much better.
Some said it's a shame about Kevin McGrand, David Planet, Dr Woo and Top Leer, but what would they know.
I love the poignant ending. The last Sherlock Holmes sketch from the show ends on a devastatingly sad note, i love this show so much.
In this new modern age, I really relate to Maltesers
Can we eat maltesers?
@@SamuelBlack84 NO, THATS AGAINST THE REGULATIONS
@@OnyxHC Blessed be the regulations
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You've got some balls saying that
This really looks like it could be taking place inside a Fallout vault. With the whole event thing being the nukes, the soldiers being vault tec employees and the game show being an experiment.
Reddit pattern recognition
Not really, no.
I've made a video with that premise
You do realise that fallout shelters existed before Vaultec.
Also, do not think about THE WHOLE EVENT!
@@JohnSmith-jz2ke spot on assessment LOL
I enjoyed watching this late at night. Along with a lot of other gems on channel 4 in the 2000s. TV late at night was brilliant.
Love the war paint on Shelia's head,. A Tesco is probably her communal fortress to ward off "them".
Or perhaps a very good source of food, enough to have survived the inital event.
It's religious markings.
If you don't have the loyalty card, you have to stay outside, we can't let 'them' get inside.
Tesco, very little help.
"I think he can go outside now"
Damn
DO NOT IMAGINE THE EVENT HAPPENING AGAIN, best bit 5:53
This aged like a fine wine
That leads me to the next question: what is fine wine
@@Bullshit_MediaYes
@@Bullshit_Media Was it a book, a film, or even a song?
Top move by Peter to get the food.
Absolutely genius. This was probably much more enjoyable to watch a few years ago. Now it's still hilarious but at the same time hella disturbing and sinister. Still brilliant tho. "Praise the regulations!".
I remember going back to watch these in March 2020.
"...face zips on your safety bag." 😅😬
I love all the little touches, like the Host wearing an incredibly 80s suit - probably because it was in storage for years and survived The Event, Sheila wearing the clothes of a supermarket worker, probably what she was doing that when it happened. The fact it’s being filmed on old style cameras and has transmission problems, because the power grid is unstable, probably being run by just a few people. The clips and photos they show are all from film, probably because it was stored safely and not destroyed by any potential radiation and EMP from the Event. Most people are blinded by the event, but Peter was blinded by raiders like some apocalyptic Mad Max situation. The conveyor belt scene has all the people going past in quasi-fascist military uniforms that suggests there’s some rudimentary form of government, probably a dictatorship ruling by control of food. Everyone seems to have lost the concept of time because they’re not really sure how long they’ve been in there, or even what a month is.
I think whatever happened involved nuclear and radiation, and what’s left of humanity lives underground. Nearly everybody is infertile due to irradiation, and there’s no children so the population remaining is slowly dying.
Man, there's a lot of subtle jokes in here. I hadn't caught the "Boeing Boeing" bit in the Shakespeare question before.
If you enjoy this story about culture disintegrating in the wake of technological breakdown and civil disorder, you might enjoy the classic sci-fi novel _A Canticle for Leibowitz_ by Walter Miller. A friend of mind told me several years ago that full strength sci-fi is one of the few ways you can get weird enough to match how weird the world is going to get over the next few decades and my God, he's dead on so far.
Strange you mentioned that book - I remember reading it when I was 16 back in the 80 s. It’s quite brilliant.
Oh excellent! Read it when I was 13. Not sure I could face it again at present …
I didn't get the Boeing Boeing one :(
Hopefully it's on audiobook. Most of us are blind now.
"Sheila, any pre-Event knowledge you wish you'd absorbed?" "Well, I think if I'd taken in more survival tips for children, that would have been helpful..."
Damn that is dark... my goodness.... taken too quickly by the follow-up and concluding to let that one fully sink in.
Told my grandma I was visiting Portland last fall and she watches so much cable news I think this is what she imagined.
Pre event Peter used to host a game show called Numberwang
Which brings us to question two: What were numbers?
@@chrisbeer5685 Yes.
Good, but unrealistic. Lee fucking Mack would still be on there.
Blessed be the regulations
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Oh fuck, I think the UK government watched this back in 2019.
Well, given Matt Hancock has admitted and bragged his reaction to everything in the last year has been based off his obsession with the film Contagion, you could be righter than you think
You think the UK government intentionally caused a global pandemic?
Wait til the Russians come
@@LeonTrimble Wow, do you still believe the nonsense and fairy tales the government and MSM spoon feed you???
This is a masterpiece. A work of horrifyingly hilarious genius.
God I love the existential just, sadness in that last one. Even describing what happened to "them". Course it's not a good sign if even "they" couldn't last.
"They used to be us. And they all just died."
This is one of the best sketches ever made
Of all of the mitchell and webb sketches, this is the one that I most prefer to watch while sober
It's better if you have about a glass and a half of something alcoholic. No more mind!
This isn't just comedy. It's art.
REMAIN INDOORS
If I was rich I’d be throwing money at them to make a movie of this. This is great.
Approach them and crowdfund it, but after the event I doubt they would think it wise in case it infuriates 'them'.
It wouldn't make any money, for a start most people find movies about The Event depressing. Also we have no money, or really any clear idea what money was.
@@newperve We could ask for the last of the food and fuel.
Jokes aside, filling out details makes it worse.
I really want to know if there was a reason Mitchell and Webb chose BS490 Fault Rectified specifically, or it it was a random number. BS 490 is related to lifts (elevators) and conveyor belting materials. Rather stupidly the information for that British Standard needs to be purchased.
EDIT: I only wonder because it seems like a little joke Mitchell might have put in but I don't get it. It was also very brief just before you see him struggling with the blind Webb character over the box
A BS-490 is a biochemical analyser.
I'd googled it and found out it was related to conveyor belts. Given that they'd earlier had a conveyor belt that wasn't working, I feel like it was probably a reference to that.
It's a liquid chemical analytic machine.
So post event they couldn’t remember; how to grow food, what water is, what books or songs were, what traffic cones are but could remember how to film and broadcast a tv quiz show. *should be read in Mitchell’s ultra logical, pedantic voice
How to keep children alive.
I like how it's been roughly 2 years and they know practically nothing of the world they lived in for around 30 years before the.... Well you know.
DO NOT THINK ABOUT THE EVENT
Yes.
Now we know. Yes, we do know now.
It looks like there’s some form of autocratic government judging from the uniforms of the conveyor belt staff, so it might be that they’re trying their best to suppress any pre-event information to control the population…
I came here expecting a slew of covid reference comments that mitchell and webb would probably have savagely satirised, and I was not disappointed
Hands down my favorite running bit across all the series.
See this? This is what I need the Amazon Fallout show to be.
It's so dire and accurate it hurts my soul
Ah, a fine documentary on how things are in the great indoors.
Blessed be the regulations.
Really hope we get to see some of 'Mock the Event' at some point, hopefully get the perspective of some of 'them' on the event
I miss the days when we were ordered to remain indoors.
@Samuel Black they're back, woo-hoo!
@@mbateman1293 They’re gone again
@@lunavenj5189 Don't worry they're coming back. Why wouldn't they lol
But you could still get all recommended injections.
@@MetalheadAndNerd Recommended in your sector
This is equal parts hilarious and terrifying
Watching this hits differently in 2022
Thanks for the upload, man! Great timing
This pretty much sums up my lockdown experience
Wow .seeing this about the event in 2022 is fxcking thought provoking to say the least 🐜
Glad for the high quality video. A shame about the audio being off...
1980rlquinn yeah, I noticed afterward, I have no idea how to fix it. And you can’t replace videos unless you’re a giant company, so we’re stuck with it. I left all of my notes in the description in case someone else wanted to try.
@@MrTobyck wait, big companies get to replace videos ? gah who am i kidding of course they do
@@Envy_May it’s how they were able to swap out a 360p copy of Take On Me with a 4K copy
The New Normal was rougher than we thought.
Seriously, this is awesome. Even aside from the comedy, this is super awesome
I think, in a way, the quiz broadcasts are a parody of the British "stiff upper lip" culture. Here is the most horrific thing that has happened to humanity, and yet we still aren't allowed to feel vulnerable.
Thank you for this. In HD no less!
They keep us alive for their sport. Do Not Think About The Event!
Well..I guess we now know The Event
I actually cried at the end
I think the best way to guarantee survival post event is to become a conveyor belt repair technician, and maybe a podiatrist.
Or a voltage therapist.
This is very appropriate
The most underrated sketch show ever
Watching this in 2022 got an edge to it
And more of an edge every day
Somehow the laugh track makes this more depressing. It makes everything uncomfortable, almost like it was part of the original broadcast and put there to attempt to calm the minds of the viewers as best as possible.
There is no calm like voltage calm
Blimey, has it really only been 11 years since The Event? Keep Calm and Remain Indoors. Blessed be the Regulations!
So, basically American Horror Story with a laugh track. Brilliant writing and Mitchell is perfect.
Don't see much connection there myself and this was written first...
It's incredible to say that if the host exclaimed "GET BOOSTED NOW" it would just fit in with the sketch. These two have always been miles ahead like that skit they did talking about a horrific monster, pans out to a picture of Jimmy savile before it came out so publicly. Love this sketch, it's good to watch it in order
Came here for advice in 2021.
Remain indoors and don't think about the event
this feels like an episode of Black Mirror