YT Tues: Sir Digby Chicken Scooby Scooby Doo!

Personal Note: I went rock climbing today, and this one godforsaken VB has eluded me for weeks. If you ever wanted to feel like your entire body was encased in glass...and then shattered, go rock climbing and then wait 5 hours. 

"That Mitchell and Web Look" ran in the UK from 2006 to 2010, costarring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. Ok, guys, I know I'm a serious yet non-obsessive anglophile, but I find these skits to be better than anything an American equivalent has put out in years. It's entirely British, humor and all, so it's callous and unforgiving and clever.

My friend Rachel first introduced me to Mitchell and Webb through the recurring sketch "The Surprising Adventures of Sir Digby Chicken Caesar," and it was love at first watch. Sir Digby explains  himself more properly than I ever could: "On a lonely planet spinning its way toward damnation, admit the fear and despair of a broken human race, who is left to fight for what is good and pure and get smashed for under a fiver, yes, it's the surprising adventures of me, SIR DIGBY CHICKEN CAESAR."

It isn't the video that I want to show you, but if I'm going to do this at all, I'm going to do it right. You can't make bacon without getting out the skillet, if you get my drift.

(The meat metaphors (heh) are in full swing these past couple days. A dear friend once said to me, "If you truly appreciate someone, truly care for them, then you get them a basket of smoked meat." I hold this truer than any other motto offered to me in my 23 years.)

Anyway, here's Sir Digby:

"As usual, Ginger and I are engaged in our quest to find out what the hell is going on and save humanity from my nemesis, some bastard who is presumably responsible."

Now Sir Digby is great: hilarious while offering some implied social commentary, but I find my favorite sketch to be "Friends of....", and in this instance, "Friends of Fred and Daphne." Yes, you've guessed right: THE MYSTERY GANG.

Slight Tangent: Now, if I had to choose to have relations with any of the Mystery Gang, it would Shaggy, hands down. He's down for a good time, weirdly skinny but not enough to make you uncomfortable, and his clothes don't fit. If we were at a hypothetical party, Shaggy would have laughs and the beer, ipso facto, I would want to have Shaggy. The whole package is just a recipe for a winner, really. After Shaggy, it's Velma, because she pulls off that orange sweater really well. And it's a really ugly orange sweater.

After Velma, I'll just take one of the random ghouls or ghosts. I wouldn't touch Fred, even if that meant I'd get the Mystery Machine. I don't trust any man with biceps wider than his thighs, especially if they wear an ascot. Also orange. Why don't people realize orange is a very ugly color. Picture for reference:

All are before Scrappy Doo, though. Man, fuck that dog.

This just all leads up to the "That Mitchell and Webb Look" skit, where two men are discussing invitations to a party. It's the 70s, so the decor is better than great....except, no wait it's orange. Seriously 1970s, why did your entire existence look like a vomited Sex on the Beach?

So for Youtube Tuesday, here's "Friends of the Mystery Gang!"

("That Mitchell and Webb Look is on Netflix instant, if anyone was interested!)