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YMMV: That Mitchell And Webb Look

YMMVs for That Mitchell and Webb Look:

  • Genius Bonus: One The Quiz Broadcast sketch has the Test Card Girl writing "Revelation 6 13 15" on the blackboard.
    Revelation 6:13-15 reads: "and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
    Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains."
    (remain indoors)
    • Also, during the Cheesoid sketch, about an expert soup chef who loses his sense of smell. The chef has his copy of Perfume stolen, a book about a character with an overwhelming obsession with the sense of smell.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: Angel Summoner and BMX Bandit, about a duo of superheroes with vastly different power levels and the tension this creates, is a rather apt metaphor for Mitchell (Angel Summoner) and Webb's (BMX Bandit) later careers.
    BMX Bandit: Your ability summon a horde of celestial superbeings at will is making my BMX skills a bit...redundant.
  • Memetic Mutation:
  • Misaimed Fandom: The snobby vicar/tailor/waiter sketches seem to gather a lot of people who straight-up agree with Mitchell's character.
  • Padding: One sketch featured a quiz show host who dragged everything out for as long as possible, interrupting or ignoring the contestant's attempts to give the right answer and repeating himself. It turns out that it's not a quiz show at all, but they're on board a spaceship headed for the Sun, the host has six months to live and he wants to drag it out as long as possible.
  • Shallow Parody: They are more frequent in That Mitchell And Webb Sound, with some sketches parodying things like Batman or Pinocchio with little or no resemblance to the parodied material, but they do show up a couple of times in the TV version as well.

YMMVs for That Mitchell and Webb Situation:

  • Ending Fatigue: A one-episode recurring gag where Mitchell and Webb play co-workers in various professions who are, in the end, revealed to be gay.

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