My gal Diana brought this to my attention, 8 minutes of pure TV brilliance. Watch it now!

If it weren’t for the bad file compression and less-than-perfect laugh track, this vid would be perfect. Still, it’s made me want to check out Mitchell and Webb asap, and so should you!

I realise I haven’t done justice to the phrase ‘bad movies’ beneath my blog’s title as of late. Mainly because I haven’t been watching too many movies, and I’m taking a break from mst3k and bad horror movies – I know, it’s a shame.

But on a loosely related note, I’ve been watching the 1967 UK allegorical science fiction television series starring Patrick McGoohan, The Prisoner. This show is a mandatory watch for any Iron Maiden fan, seeing as how they’ve written two songs about it and sampled a bit of the opening credits as an intro to ‘The Prisoner’, the song. By the way, have I mentioned I’m seeing Maiden this year? They’re coming to Romania in August, yay :D

The Prisoner isn’t bad really, in that case I wouldn’t watch it. It’s got a good sense of suspense and intrigue, and it’s always fun to see No.6 (the main guy) walk around kicking everyone’s ass, talking in a loud assertive voice and outsmarting No.2 in every episode.

That said, I was expecting this show to be set in a bleak dystopian future, sort of like 1984. This isn’t the case – the environment isn’t as menacing as I’d hoped, and the fact that no.6 is immune to dangerous brainwashing experiments (due to the infinite value of the information he holds in said brain) kinda takes away from the feeling of insecurity and paranoia that the Village is meant to inspire.

Well, maybe not ripping off 1984 wasn’t a bad thing, but fact is The Prisoner does look dated. Also, it’s often silly, and I especially mean the deus ex machina twists at the end of some episodes.

All this certainly doesn’t keep me from watching the show (only 5 episodes left, yay) and it’s left me with a couple of kickass phrases I wish everyone would use in real life:

  • “Be seeing you!”, coupled with a special hand-to-eye sign whenever you pass another villager.
  • “Questions are a burden, and answers a prison for oneself.” – this actually is the way Maiden paraphrased it in their song ‘Back to the Village’, and it’s a great way of replying whenever somebody asks you a question you don’t want to answer.
Oh, I almost forgot the reason why I started writing this entry – to let you know I’m taking a small break from updating the blog. In the meantime, go ahead and watch the Digby Chicken Caesar video on repeat. Be seeing you! :D