@@animatiz well yeah. I think we can both agree that not only making a sketch where "the punchline is that a father abandons his family to live on the banks of a river with men dressed in pink, to wear a pink tuxedo and drink daiqiris" requires to take some artistic risks. But also getting this close to flamingos for a TV skit, is also quite dangerous. Some people could've ended up trapped there
@@animatiz oh I mean, it could be a metaphor for homosexuality 🤔 But I think the whole thing is just made to be surreal, more than anything, which is quite nice. And usually, show exec and networks won't like risks because it might not be as profitable.
Ough, I feel you, brother. My old lady won't allow me to spend a mere couple years with my pals at the flamingo bar without bringing up how I haven't helped raise the kids anymore. So needy...
Hope I'm not reading to much into it but perhaps it's unsettling because the devoted Dad and husband so readily chose to give up his family to indulge in fulfilling his own desires? Like it was there all along and he just needed the right environment and isolation. Like the enticing mistress a family man might chose for temporary pleasure over lasting fulfillment?
They had one with Maggie Thatcher Ronald Reagan having sex transplants with each disguised as the other but the censors told them that was going a bit too far...
I've always attributed it to a form of class-based societal control. Keep the lower classes permanently in a state of low grade misery, and they'll never strive for anything better, and will become so indoctrinated they'll actively hate it if you try to do something to improve their lot. It's the only feasible explanation tion for the continued popularity of so many things in British life, such as Carling Black Label or Eastenders.
It is eerie for the same reason all faerie stories are eerie. It is about crossing over from one world to another, being unable to fully communicate between the two worlds. The only way for them to talk to the husband (or the other two “flamingos”) would be to row across that dividing body of water themselves, but then they too would be on the other side. Also eerie that the boat is just there, waiting to be used. Like faerie circles, DMT and death, you can never fully grasp the experience of the other side from over here, and even if you go there and come back, you can’t take the true memory of that experience back this way.
I love this analysis. It's so perfect. Also our reality seems so drab and miserable, but among the flamingos it's like pan's labyrinth. He seems genuinely happy to have escaped, but then the true horror is he has abandoned his family. This also has a dark tone that reminds me of La Cabina (1972)
What makes this sketch more than simply being interpretive or “something random” is that it manages to give strong feelings of familiarity and relatability without giving much to directly point to. The plot isn’t the only weird thing going on in this sketch. Everything is off, many details exist purely to cause discomfort. One that really stands out to me is how there isn’t a clear path to this extravagant (£35) “flamingo world” and the heavily pregnant wife is forced to maneuver over a fallen tree. Somehow you can tell this is one of those forced outings you’d have as a kid because “we haven’t gone out as a family in a while” or it was one of the rare times mom & dad had off and you weren’t at school.
@@Buckblacket My tooth hurts.. "wHeRe'S yOuR dEnTiStRy DoCtOrAtE??" Time to trim my lawn.. "WhErE's YoUr LaNdScApInG lIsCeNcE??" Ooh I dont think they cooked my food long enough.. "sO yOu'Re a ChEf NoW??" You bellend
Marc Geerlings Well, depends on how you interpret the lyrics. Its creepy as fuck regardless unless he was 15 when he wrote it in the way you seem to interpret it.
This is one of my favourite M&W sketches, just because its so confusing and weird. Most of the others are satires or running gags but this one is just there. I love it,
Yeah, from how you put it, it doesn’t sound like a gay euphemism. Just like that of a man who wants to escape his boring life. Like Reggie Perrin or something.
No you bruce wrote the song ”streets of philadelphia” that was the main title of movie philadelphia that was about gay folks. So the reference is there...
No you they act like exaggerated versions of women here. Catty and fake. This is my opinion, from Central Illinois, United States of amerikka, corperate entity, minus any soul :)
David Mitchell never disappoints in his non-standard characters, It's the bizarre sketches that always stick with me the most, even if I didn't love them the first time, they're the ones I can't stop coming back to.
Hey I know you made this comment 10 months ago, but you should definitely watch Twin Peaks if you haven't before. Fall into the rabbit hole and see how far it goes!
This is like a window into what a David Mitchell produced version of "The Twilight Zone" would be like. Now I realize what's been missing in my life for all these years.
Yep, it's now entrenched in Christmas tradition for the press to run a story of heartbroken families complaining about being thoroughly ripped off by some shithouse version of Lapland somewhere in the country. The photos are always hilarious.
I can never workout if the season ticket is so the family can now visit their father who lives there or if it means that the father has been sucked in and will want to keep returning. Both pretty sinister but I like the first more
You see all the other fatherless families there at the beginning. Several mothers try to stop him from going. The season ticket is definitely for the children to visit their fathers.
In Italy (and Germany and probably somewhere else) "reaching the opposite shore" is an euphemism for "turning gay". These guys seriously know their subtle visual metaphors........
I like to scroll through the comments for every Mitchell and Webb youtube clip that has Olivia Colman in it until I find the comment from the twat who tells everyone that she won an Oscar. It's aaaaaaaaalllllwaaaaays there. They don't do it for anyone else, like Emma Thompson, Miranda Richardson, Felicity Jones, Sacha Baron Cohen, Maggie Smith or any of the 50 others.....
this is the saddest fucking thing to watch. I actually knew a guy who was pondering taking the boat over to the other side and leave his family. I don't know what happened in the end, but he had two kids...
question is, two husband, two wives, two kids before Robb joined them. But who attracted the first husband over? :o who is really the flamingo the first guy went to see.
There was a theme park in Yorkshire called Flamingo Land, they went bust and all the rides and attractions have been removed so now it's just a park that also has flamingos
I think it's supposed to be a joke about men escaping their responsibilities to drink and talk about music. What we're witnessing the most surreal "lads night out" there has ever been. The pink suits are a uniform and the bar is some kind of promised land. That's about the most I can get from it.
haha very clever sketch and kinda creepy as well, seeing as you realise at the end that the other people are there waiting for their men to come back, lol
@buttersyrupnpancakes I think Flamingo Land is just such a nice place to live with it's daquiris and Bruce Springsteens that no one ever chooses to leave. It's seductive and once you step foot there you'll forget the outside world even exists.
I don't know about Flamingo World, but there is Flamingo Land in Yorkshire. I've only been there once, in the 1970s. It was called Flamingo Park then, and was weirdly similar to the place in this sketch.
I actually work here. I work at this lake and I live in a small prefabricated building near the lake. I live in flamingo land. I work on the trees and help keep the lake clean.
Much like everyone else's opinion, this is definitely their eeariest sketch ever. I don't know why but it creeps me out and gives me a very melancholic feeling. It can be read in so many ways. I wonder who the original flamingo was.
Probably the ticket seller. He has supernatural ability to appear in different places, you know. It is that or he got one of his lads as the first for a favour
See, the flamingos not being real flamingos actually symbolizes how the sketchy tourist trap guy is a sham. The river and boat symbolizes the dad's journey across a river on a boat. The joke is that he makes a lot of money because the families stay there waiting for the dads to come back. It's fine to read further into it, I guess, but sometimes surreal stuff is creepy and funny just for the sake of it and that's valuable too.
nah you wouldn't be left with a disturbed feeling if it was just a joke about tourist trap/shams. It touches on middle aged family men feeling angry and lost and the excitement and guilt of leaving his family behind and also the shame, confusion and loneliness the family is left with. Even a bit of deciding you're gay with the "special club" and pink suits.
@@Its3am they are wearing pink so people across the river think they are flamingos, because no binoculars. The joke is that it's a scam. Its that simple.
Reminds me back in the 1990’s of an Australian sketch comedy show called The Late Show that had a sketch called ‘Pissweak World’ with stuffed animals and stuff. It’s on RUclips somewhere.
Kory Fredrick okay.. so it’s pretty much just any childhood day trip out in England. When then they get there it’s just people sitting around bored and it turns out they were pretty much just conned out of 30 odd quid. There’s really not much to understand as it’s mostly just random humour mixed with depressing English comedy and the bleak reality that dads gone now. He left the family to go and drink with his friends and talk about music. What is kind of most disturbing about this sketch is that when the dad gets over there he quickly gets distracted and forgets about his family, opting for the easy way out of his troubles, while pregnant mum is left to fend for herself... It might seem like I’m pulling at nothing but I’m literally not.. Me and almost everyone I know’s parents have had this happen..... and that’s the joke. Or at least one of them. There’s also the fact he shouts “OF COURSE THEY’RE REAL FLAMINGOS!” At the very beginning, the music, the fact it’s just men in pink suits, the fact he says “No binoculars!” And snatches them away, the acting and persecution of the actors is hilarious and complements the drab depressing English day out.. I could go on.... The reason I list stuff is because the original commenter said “I don’t think I totally understand this sketch.” Implying the commenter has seen other That Mitchell and Webb look sketches and has previously understood all of it (I find it very implausible that s/he would comment this if they felt this way with every sketch), whereas with this sketch they are unsure of some of it. That Mitchell and Webb look (and most other sketch comedies) is largely based around random humour, I’m almost certain the original commenter knows this and is familiar with this, therefore I come to the conclusion that s/he just doesn’t get the drab depressing English family outing reference (as everything else there is to get is random comedy). Now this is not to say they for sure are not English, it’d just be unusual for them not to have experienced something that is _very_ much like this a few times growing up if they weren’t. Anyway I don’t really care I’m just procrastinating from studying for my A-levels. So good day :)
@Sam I am, you missed the best part of the sketch... "The season ticket is £500".. he mentions it is very popular earlier on because once the men go over they never come back, the only way for their families to see them is to head back to flamingo land every week!
This whole sketch is about a man discovering his attraction to other men. The Pink Flamingo is obviously flamboyant symbolism. Heads down to the river for a bit of cruising. He crosses to the other side. First thing he's offered is cocktail. His wife and kids are left behind confused and forgotten. Also, they're fans of Bruce Springsteen.. It's all pretty gay.
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Can’t believe he casually walked in the water with no regard for the rest of his day
He spent 35 punds, mate. He's gotta get his money's worth.
That was the most haunting part of the whole sketch.
Flamingo World will have that effect on you.
Flamingo world IS the rest of his day
You mean the rest of his life
I love how artistic and surreal this sketch was. They took risks on this one and it just makes it amazing
Too bad it wasn't sponsored by lion bars
Risks?
@@animatiz well yeah.
I think we can both agree that not only making a sketch where "the punchline is that a father abandons his family to live on the banks of a river with men dressed in pink, to wear a pink tuxedo and drink daiqiris" requires to take some artistic risks.
But also getting this close to flamingos for a TV skit, is also quite dangerous. Some people could've ended up trapped there
@@Mr.Redink Jesus yeah after you just spelled out the whole sketch to me I can see how riskayyy it must of been for them to touch on taboooooo.
@@animatiz oh I mean, it could be a metaphor for homosexuality 🤔
But I think the whole thing is just made to be surreal, more than anything, which is quite nice. And usually, show exec and networks won't like risks because it might not be as profitable.
When my wife nagged me to stop impersonating a flamingo and come on home, I knew it was time to put my foot down.
Boo! Get off the stage! 🍅
Ough, I feel you, brother. My old lady won't allow me to spend a mere couple years with my pals at the flamingo bar without bringing up how I haven't helped raise the kids anymore. So needy...
Where?
Had to drop the old brod?
Great one. Lmao
I don't know why, but this sketch has always somehow stuck in my mind. It haunted me for a while after I saw it first.
yeah, it's unsettling lol
it haunts me still
@@ineffablemars It's unsettling and I can't really quite explain why lol
Hope I'm not reading to much into it but perhaps it's unsettling because the devoted Dad and husband so readily chose to give up his family to indulge in fulfilling his own desires? Like it was there all along and he just needed the right environment and isolation. Like the enticing mistress a family man might chose for temporary pleasure over lasting fulfillment?
@@CalvinCJHall Chief Wiggum! Don't! Eat!... the... clues!
Their strangest, creepiest sketch.
They had one with Maggie Thatcher Ronald Reagan having sex transplants with
each disguised as the other but the censors told them that was going a bit too far...
@@charliedawson6318 Yes! Anyone who enjoys this sketch should watch Jam. Mindfuck guaranteed.
@ Its' not really it's just social satire. Look with your eyes. :P
Take the music away though and with it goes most of the creepiness lol
@@rikkiswift4479idk the scene is pretty creepy, cult like
Sums up most childhood days out in the UK fairly well really
+Bob Mob - Though there was something quite appealing about going to some dull attraction, run by surly amateurs.;)
I only rated Gweek Seal Sanctuary because I went the day after I saw Babbacombe Model Village.
It does for me too, especially because I went to flamingo land regularly as a kid
Why is everything in the UK just always a bit naff
I've always attributed it to a form of class-based societal control.
Keep the lower classes permanently in a state of low grade misery, and they'll never strive for anything better, and will become so indoctrinated they'll actively hate it if you try to do something to improve their lot.
It's the only feasible explanation tion for the continued popularity of so many things in British life, such as Carling Black Label or Eastenders.
The best opening line to a sketch ever... OF COURSE THEY'RE REAL FLAMINGOS
Yeah, the sketch could´ve ended there and it would still be an awesome sketch.
I like to say this to random people at work.
But the opening line was “hi”
@@MadCapMag opening line not word
And then it basically became The Shining.
Not to be confused with Flamingo Land, which is a theme park and holiday village in North Yorkshire, and does indeed have real flamingos.
OF COURSE they're real flamingos!
Apparently a season ticket is only £500..
Christopher Luxford Sure it does.
@@Zero_Ninety thats actuallt pretty close to a family season ticket, and individual season ticket is about £130
(source: worked there for two years)
OF COURSE THEY HAVE!
The last line is almost chilling...
WanderingRandomer I agree. £500 is so expensive! >_
It's such a well designed skit
It is chilling. 😂
Somehow reminds me of the guy who becomes a sad clown in "The Blue Angel"
Damian Freeman how can you put a price in seeing your dad?
It is eerie for the same reason all faerie stories are eerie. It is about crossing over from one world to another, being unable to fully communicate between the two worlds. The only way for them to talk to the husband (or the other two “flamingos”) would be to row across that dividing body of water themselves, but then they too would be on the other side.
Also eerie that the boat is just there, waiting to be used. Like faerie circles, DMT and death, you can never fully grasp the experience of the other side from over here, and even if you go there and come back, you can’t take the true memory of that experience back this way.
I love this analysis. It's so perfect. Also our reality seems so drab and miserable, but among the flamingos it's like pan's labyrinth. He seems genuinely happy to have escaped, but then the true horror is he has abandoned his family.
This also has a dark tone that reminds me of La Cabina (1972)
If the dads don't come back, does that mean the ticket guys brings a new boat everytime?
The season tickets are 500 pounds for a reason
Casey Broughton 😂😂😂 so he doesn’t make any profit 😂😂😂
Why else would tickets cost so much
boats on a string. he pulls it back in the evening
@@lord_scrubington because he's extorting them so they can still see their fathers/husbands
In German, being gay is often called "Vom anderen Ufer sein" which translates to "being from the other side of the river/the other shore".
I'm German, never heard that before. Well, you learn something new every day..
Similar story in Italian.
@Jacob Zondag Very funny :)
The front sidewalk, in Spanish, LOL
Very homophobic...
One of their most surreal and alluding sketches. Simply love it!
There's something very David Lynch-ian about this
What makes this sketch more than simply being interpretive or “something random” is that it manages to give strong feelings of familiarity and relatability without giving much to directly point to.
The plot isn’t the only weird thing going on in this sketch. Everything is off, many details exist purely to cause discomfort. One that really stands out to me is how there isn’t a clear path to this extravagant (£35) “flamingo world” and the heavily pregnant wife is forced to maneuver over a fallen tree.
Somehow you can tell this is one of those forced outings you’d have as a kid because “we haven’t gone out as a family in a while” or it was one of the rare times mom & dad had off and you weren’t at school.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Agreed! Especially the hay bales.
gachiF
barry is a recurring character who consistently runs shonky, fucked-up enterprises. of *course* there isn't a clear path to flamingo world.
It’s funny
There is an Oscar winner in this sketch who didn’t say a single word!
She mainly won the Oscar for always being pregnant in their sketches.
@@CycolacFan she's so method
Shes so shit.
@@LordNeckBeard where's your Oscar then?
@@Buckblacket My tooth hurts.. "wHeRe'S yOuR dEnTiStRy DoCtOrAtE??"
Time to trim my lawn.. "WhErE's YoUr LaNdScApInG lIsCeNcE??"
Ooh I dont think they cooked my food long enough.. "sO yOu'Re a ChEf NoW??"
You bellend
This should be an SCP.
Best observation.
I second... or according to the thumbs up onhundredninetythree this.
lol you are totally right ahaha
Ffs the last video I watched had this exact comment! 😂
Lol.
Characters in Mitchell and Webb sketches seem to have seen Bruce Springsteen live in Philadelphia a lot. It must've been amazing.
Bro Bruce Springsteen is always awesome
Jack Tainsh You misspelled "overrated".
Daniel Knight, ooh, look! Nouveau “hipsters” trying to achieve cool by talking down one of the great all-time poets and performers.
Bravo, arrivistes!
Get the fuck out with that race shaming, @Evi1M4chine, it's almost 2019
Marc Geerlings Well, depends on how you interpret the lyrics. Its creepy as fuck regardless unless he was 15 when he wrote it in the way you seem to interpret it.
This is one of my favourite M&W sketches, just because its so confusing and weird. Most of the others are satires or running gags but this one is just there. I love it,
This sketch... I love how subtly sinister it gets at the end.
Escape from the confines of masculine imprisonment, don a pink suit and drink sweet, fruity liqueur on the other side. What a euphemism.
Ed Eranged It’s not gay. It’s flaming flamingo.
Yeah, from how you put it, it doesn’t sound like a gay euphemism. Just like that of a man who wants to escape his boring life. Like Reggie Perrin or something.
No you bruce wrote the song ”streets of philadelphia” that was the main title of movie philadelphia that was about gay folks. So the reference is there...
The flamingos were talking like stereotype gays.
No you they act like exaggerated versions of women here. Catty and fake. This is my opinion, from Central Illinois, United States of amerikka, corperate entity, minus any soul :)
David Mitchell never disappoints in his non-standard characters,
It's the bizarre sketches that always stick with me the most, even if I didn't love them the first time, they're the ones I can't stop coming back to.
Wow that got dark
I've never seen Twin Peaks but I imagine it being exactly like this.
yes, but with damn fine coffee
The flamingos are not what they seem
Man, smell those Douglas firs!
Hey I know you made this comment 10 months ago, but you should definitely watch Twin Peaks if you haven't before. Fall into the rabbit hole and see how far it goes!
@@biralbass You mean the movie or the series?
1:30 absolutely love the music here. It'd be one of their best sketches without laugh track
Yeah the laugh track really damages it. I wish they'd cut it from all their sketches and re-release them.
@@WalterLiddy The song is by Calexico and called untitled iii :)
@@joeypunkrock11 Thanks!
This is like a window into what a David Mitchell produced version of "The Twilight Zone" would be like.
Now I realize what's been missing in my life for all these years.
If you watch this without the laugh tracks, this becomes the darkest, most surreal physcological horror-thiller, like Bird Box or something
psychological
@@abhigyanrastogi1662 Dárnit Google Chrome autocorrect!!1
@@jkk45 lol, is ok. i dont know how to spell diabetolical and dibotese.
I think it would be even funnier
“Like bird box”
Mate that movie was ass
The more Mitchell and Webb I see, the more I realize they must really appreciate the work of Chris Morris.
Everytime I hear that music I get the feeling I'm playing a Professor Layton game
YES! This was my exact thought. The top hats sealed the deal.
Also the music from the film Dead Mans shoes
@@collectorduck9061 omg the original commenter had my exact thought, and your reply was my exactly reply to it too. Mad.
Do you know what the name of the music is for the video? Is it original to the video?
@@j.a.6310 I believe it's called Pluie Sans Nuages ABBC
I swear for the longest time I thought this was a dream I had. I must’ve seen this before while half-asleep
I love how the Webb side is really good at portraying different class versions of a normal guy
Directed by Yorgos Lathimos.
When Mitchell and Webb feel threatened by Chris Morris and decide to out-weird him.
I recognised the creepy music used in the film Dead Man's Shoes. Pluie Sans Nuages.
*Backs away slowly.*
Having paid a bloody fortune in NZ to sit for hours waiting for about 20 penguins to struggle up a slope and then rush away I can sympathise.
Everything in NZ costs a bloody fortune.
Why not just do that for free at sunset in Oamaru?
You mean the toddlers in tuxedos?
@@Arthurzeiro only if you're from overseas. If you want to see penguins take a kayak out on Wellington harbour.
It's a flamingo world, we're just living in it
its strange like horror but sad and kind of mystic at same time
Love this sketch, probably one of their best.
I think this is the highest level art that has ever been birthed from our feeble mortal minds.
Truly beyond our understanding.
Found the song, Pluie Sans Nuages by ABBC. Can't find a proper version thought. It really makes the sketch into something strange and sad.
shazam. type it in.
You can tell this sketch was David's idea xD
Why so? I don't see Mitchell as more absurd than Webb.
cielvague I agree, but David has that dark, creepy edge.
I don't remember Webb talking about the merits of necrophilia.
The sketch is from David Scott.
Funny that you mention that... www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2017/09/robert-webbs-how-not-be-boy-bittersweet-picture-men-dealing-loss
I live in the UK and can confirm this is accurate
Yep, it's now entrenched in Christmas tradition for the press to run a story of heartbroken families complaining about being thoroughly ripped off by some shithouse version of Lapland somewhere in the country. The photos are always hilarious.
This sketch has a definite Bang, Bang, It's Reeves & Mortimer feel to it. I can totally picture Matt Lucas playing the kiosk guy.
This reminds me so much of Chris Morris' Jam
For the 500 pound season ticket to be worth it, you'd have to visit like 15 times a year.
I can never workout if the season ticket is so the family can now visit their father who lives there or if it means that the father has been sucked in and will want to keep returning. Both pretty sinister but I like the first more
Definitely the former in my opinion.
You see all the other fatherless families there at the beginning. Several mothers try to stop him from going. The season ticket is definitely for the children to visit their fathers.
This made me homesick for Royston Vasey! ❤️🇬🇧
Can’t work out if this sketch is intentionally genius or unintentionally genius
Well since it's from a show filled with genius comedy from 2 comedy geniuses, I'd say it's intentional.
it was probably a collaboration of the team that writes the hits and the team that writes the misses.
This is profoundly amazing
Ah, brilliantly quirkie, lovely-creepy, thank you for uploading. 😁
The happiest of nightmares
In Italy (and Germany and probably somewhere else) "reaching the opposite shore" is an euphemism for "turning gay".
These guys seriously know their subtle visual metaphors........
And in Japan, i presume.
"Turning gay"
*subtle*
I love the fact that there is an Oscar winner in this little gem.
They’re everywhere these days. Even Doctor Who has one.
I like to scroll through the comments for every Mitchell and Webb youtube clip that has Olivia Colman in it until I find the comment from the twat who tells everyone that she won an Oscar. It's aaaaaaaaalllllwaaaaays there. They don't do it for anyone else, like Emma Thompson, Miranda Richardson, Felicity Jones, Sacha Baron Cohen, Maggie Smith or any of the 50 others.....
I love the music in this. So sad.
Gorgeous in all details!
this is the saddest fucking thing to watch.
I actually knew a guy who was pondering taking the boat over to the other side and leave his family. I don't know what happened in the end, but he had two kids...
did the kids die?
Umm... what?
@@pauljames1807 HE GOT DA BIG GAY
The music in this is fantastic
..."You've always been the caretaker."
This is one of my favourite sketches.
I love this, even if it is the strangest and confusing sketch in the entire series
question is, two husband, two wives, two kids before Robb joined them. But who attracted the first husband over? :o who is really the flamingo the first guy went to see.
black lodge
Maybe just the bar and the little radio playing Springstein.
(what do you think they make the daiquiris from?)
You have always been the caretaker. Flamingo.
And how does the boat get back to the other shore?
That David Lynch Look
Talk about an actress with a wide range, Oscar-winning mum😍
There was a theme park in Yorkshire called Flamingo Land, they went bust and all the rides and attractions have been removed so now it's just a park that also has flamingos
Really reminds me of Chris Morris, particularly Jam/Blue Jam!
Probably my favorite sketch
I think it's supposed to be a joke about men escaping their responsibilities to drink and talk about music. What we're witnessing the most surreal "lads night out" there has ever been. The pink suits are a uniform and the bar is some kind of promised land. That's about the most I can get from it.
It's about flamingoland.co.uk I think
Looks shit.
I like your reading.
the guy goes gay
Thanks Captain Obvious
That's Black Park Lake. It's amazing how many sketches and tv shows are filmed there.
Webb: "I can hardly see anything!"
Bercow: ""I could not give a flying flamingo what your view is!""
Underrated comment.
I'm probably gonna remember this sketch for the rest of my life now lol
Why? Why is it so good?
An Seasonal Ticket is £500
This could be a really interesting horror short lol
Unnerving that it's just a bit of barricade tape and social conventions keeping the wives and kids there.
haha very clever sketch and kinda creepy as well, seeing as you realise at the end that the other people are there waiting for their men to come back, lol
I'm amazed they didn't get sued by Flamingoland, which is a zoo and theme park in North Yorkshire!
@buttersyrupnpancakes I think Flamingo Land is just such a nice place to live with it's daquiris and Bruce Springsteens that no one ever chooses to leave. It's seductive and once you step foot there you'll forget the outside world even exists.
Haunting
Now I understand why binoculars aren't allowed
I don't know about Flamingo World, but there is Flamingo Land in Yorkshire. I've only been there once, in the 1970s. It was called Flamingo Park then, and was weirdly similar to the place in this sketch.
I actually work here. I work at this lake and I live in a small prefabricated building near the lake. I live in flamingo land. I work on the trees and help keep the lake clean.
You're a flamingo pretending to be human...
The best sketch of all time in my opinion.
The music from dead man's shoes makes it even more creepy
One of the best British films ever made.
Feels like this was just a reenactment of someones dream. I like it!
Much like everyone else's opinion, this is definitely their eeariest sketch ever. I don't know why but it creeps me out and gives me a very melancholic feeling. It can be read in so many ways. I wonder who the original flamingo was.
Probably the ticket seller. He has supernatural ability to appear in different places, you know.
It is that or he got one of his lads as the first for a favour
Flamingo world. Stay for a while. Stay forever!
This reminds me of "a league of gentlemen".
I've always loved this sketch
This sketch has a very Shearsmith/Pemberton feel to it :-)
Merrily, Merrily episode of #9, although that obviously came later. 😊
The delivery of "Yes, that's nice!" creepa me out the most
See, the flamingos not being real flamingos actually symbolizes how the sketchy tourist trap guy is a sham. The river and boat symbolizes the dad's journey across a river on a boat. The joke is that he makes a lot of money because the families stay there waiting for the dads to come back. It's fine to read further into it, I guess, but sometimes surreal stuff is creepy and funny just for the sake of it and that's valuable too.
Agreed, not everything has to have a philosophical meaning behind it.
Guy Random Or maybe it's just a good piece of surreal comedy? Not everything needs to have psychology applied to it or to have a 'deeper meaning'.
nah you wouldn't be left with a disturbed feeling if it was just a joke about tourist trap/shams. It touches on middle aged family men feeling angry and lost and the excitement and guilt of leaving his family behind and also the shame, confusion and loneliness the family is left with. Even a bit of deciding you're gay with the "special club" and pink suits.
@@Its3am they are wearing pink so people across the river think they are flamingos, because no binoculars.
The joke is that it's a scam. Its that simple.
tuscanyiscol Tuscanyiscol if it were that simple the sketch end when we discover that they weren’t real flamingos. But it doesn’t end there.
The music in the background when Simons in the canoe is very nice... Would go well in a trippy film
The Flamingos seem like very nice people.
Reminds me back in the 1990’s of an Australian sketch comedy show called The Late Show that had a sketch called ‘Pissweak World’ with stuffed animals and stuff. It’s on RUclips somewhere.
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Excellent interpretation.
this is their finest hour
I don't think I totally understand this sketch. But I do like it!
You must not be English
Alright, explain then
Kory Fredrick okay.. so it’s pretty much just any childhood day trip out in England. When then they get there it’s just people sitting around bored and it turns out they were pretty much just conned out of 30 odd quid. There’s really not much to understand as it’s mostly just random humour mixed with depressing English comedy and the bleak reality that dads gone now.
He left the family to go and drink with his friends and talk about music. What is kind of most disturbing about this sketch is that when the dad gets over there he quickly gets distracted and forgets about his family, opting for the easy way out of his troubles, while pregnant mum is left to fend for herself... It might seem like I’m pulling at nothing but I’m literally not.. Me and almost everyone I know’s parents have had this happen..... and that’s the joke. Or at least one of them. There’s also the fact he shouts “OF COURSE THEY’RE REAL FLAMINGOS!” At the very beginning, the music, the fact it’s just men in pink suits, the fact he says “No binoculars!” And snatches them away, the acting and persecution of the actors is hilarious and complements the drab depressing English day out.. I could go on....
The reason I list stuff is because the original commenter said “I don’t think I totally understand this sketch.” Implying the commenter has seen other That Mitchell and Webb look sketches and has previously understood all of it (I find it very implausible that s/he would comment this if they felt this way with every sketch), whereas with this sketch they are unsure of some of it. That Mitchell and Webb look (and most other sketch comedies) is largely based around random humour, I’m almost certain the original commenter knows this and is familiar with this, therefore I come to the conclusion that s/he just doesn’t get the drab depressing English family outing reference (as everything else there is to get is random comedy).
Now this is not to say they for sure are not English, it’d just be unusual for them not to have experienced something that is _very_ much like this a few times growing up if they weren’t.
Anyway I don’t really care I’m just procrastinating from studying for my A-levels. So good day :)
Sam I am , Same
@Sam I am, you missed the best part of the sketch... "The season ticket is £500".. he mentions it is very popular earlier on because once the men go over they never come back, the only way for their families to see them is to head back to flamingo land every week!
Brilliant!
That incidental music is from Shane Meadows" "Dead Man's Shoes".
This broke me
This whole sketch is about a man discovering his attraction to other men. The Pink Flamingo is obviously flamboyant symbolism. Heads down to the river for a bit of cruising. He crosses to the other side. First thing he's offered is cocktail. His wife and kids are left behind confused and forgotten. Also, they're fans of Bruce Springsteen..
It's all pretty gay.
It was the flagrant homoeroticism of Springsteen that tipped it for me. There's a reason his nickname is The Butch.
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