I like to imagine that this wasn't even a sci-fi setting before it all started, just a normal office or something. All this progress happened in three weeks under Vectron's inspiring light.
@@maasro I think it's interesting to take this idea even further. Maybe there were no advancements, but they just imagine prosperity and progress because of Vectron. Maybe they don't even imagine. The closest thing they do to imply the future is a) the decorations and dress, which could easily just be religious iconography, and b) the phrase "galactic endeavor". But notice they didn't say INTERgalactic endeavor. In our society, without access to other galaxies, ALL endeavors are galactic endeavors. They just like the crisp snappy uniforms and snazzy decor. You know, like Catholics.
I love how they narrow it down to either a) The ancient Scrolls of Vectron discovered in the first age of Vectron, or b) last Thursday when Pete took a sick day
_Vectron was taken from an occurrence during the writing process. During a break, several of the writers'_ *[sic]* _were playing with a ball and one began shouting "By Vectron!" in the style of the Galaxy Quest catchphrase "By Grabthar's Hammer!" Another writer returned to find the writers making many references to the unknown entity Vectron._ *Source: **en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Mitchell_and_Webb_Look#Podcast*
To be fair, doing stuff in the name of Vectron, may his shining light ever guide us, allowed just the 4 of them to form a galactic empire and conquer vast swaths of the galaxy in about 3 weeks...
I'm preeetty sure General Phil said our Empire's capital planet has been standing for more than ten millennia. Although, on the other hand, I can't shake the feeling that as late as last summer we were a small import company based in Slough.
@@4675636b596f755954 The impression you get of the Galactic Empire in Star Wars, vs what you find out in the prequels, where you realize the whole thing's only been going for about 20 years...
@@calebfuller4713 To be fair we know that the empire only existed for a couple decades (4-5 max) at most, since Kenobi could remember a time before the empire.
Imagine my surprise to find this video after working for an electronics manufacturing company literally named 'VECTRON International' for nearly 20 years - I now have a mission to show this to as many of my fellow employees as possible...by Vectron's Beard!! 🤣
@@mr.daggersirl You said that with such strength of will and character, it was almost as if Vectron was channeling himself through you. PRAISE VECTRON!
Things we know about Vectron: He has eyes, golden wings, a beard, a kindly claw, and knees. He is eternal, the end, the beginning, the circle of (life?) He wrote the Scrolls of Vectron, commencing the "First Age of Vectron". He certainly seems to be an interesting chap if nothing else.
I love the fact that while trying to overcome the awkward situation they basically turned it into dealing with premature ejaculation. "Let's get some wine and see if we can get back into it".
This is exactly how UK businesses operate, you're off for a couple of days and on your return everyone's on new business bullshit bingo jargon and it's suddenly become the aims statement overnight.
It's that way in the states too. I work as an ASM for a major retailer. I work three long shifts a week and inevitably when I come back some from my four days off I'm confronted with some new policy/ fundraiser/ best practice that wasn't there the previous week and everyone seems to have known about forever. By Vectrons beard it can be disorienting.
The thing is, if advanced aliens ever turn up their names or designations will probably sound very exotic and weird to us, but they might just be the equivalent of "Geoff Bridges" or "Martin Scott", just like foreign names used to, before we all got used to them.
To be fair, Luke Skywalker had the same problem. And there's a rumour that before "Darth", Darth Vader was actually just Dave. Dave Vader of the Galactic Empire. So they changed it.
By Vectron's silver beard, I really enjoyed how they re-created the late-70s/early-80s aesthetic of this sketch. May Vectron smite our enemies eternally!! FOR VECTRON!!!!
@@ComicGladiator Oh by Vectron's sharpened claw, let us not get caught up in the whatfors and whys, for Vectron would want unity throughout the galaxy in these dark times! *FOR VECTRON!!*
I always imagined that these guys worked at a normal job in the modern world, and the whole Vectron worshiping alone brought on efforts to advance mankind into the future where we see them in this skit. Didn't occur to me until now that that was all in my mind.
This reminds me of the artillery crew from WWII that named their gun and started dressing up strangely and doing things for it. Apparently as crew members would die or get rotated away the replacement crew members were inducted into the micro-culture. Apparently all the crew members were replaced multiple times and the practice still continued.
Indeed is it not written that Vectron will smile kindly at all positive comments and smite those heathens who mock his kindly claw and knobbly knees. In Vectrons name we drink this gin, cheers!
@@thomasmcdonough7867 I think he meant, Bye Vectra, because he no longer had it (triggers a different reading of the Vectra instruction manual and triggers 2,000 years of holy war)
I don't think so, for 2 reasons, one, that none of those are mutually exclusive, we've already established he has eyes, golden wings, a beard, a kindly claw, and knees, he could have a goard AND shoes and that wouldn't be blasphemy. And also, based on their tolerance of the 4th guy's blasphemy in the first place, going far further than implying Vectron had other parts they didn't agree with, he questioned Vectron altogether, so if that didn't lead to violence, why would saying he had a gourd cause that?
@@medexamtoolsdotcom The Right Honourable And Wise Keepers of The Gourd would disagree,if the ancient scrolls of Vectron didn't require them to assume a life of solitude, celibacy, and perpetual agreement with every sentence including the word "Vectron". The relevant passage can be found in the third stanza of the 26th scroll, just after the bit about sandwiches. May your filling always be moist, by Vectron's Holy Thumb!
Hm, let's say the sketch is 4 minutes long, four million minutes, when watching this sketch 12 hours a day, every day of the week … it would take you less than 15 years and 3 months. BY VECTRON, IT _IS_ POSSIBLE!
Dude... By random chance, I looked it up and rediscovered a show that Ive been trying to remember from my childhood. That is insane! Long live comments! For Vectron!
Yes, if history has taught us one thing it’s that if they wrote it down in some kind of holy book all uncertainties and disagreements about Vectron would immediately cease
Something about the society here really fascinates me. In front of the troops, in what seems to be a standard corridor - no functional items whatsoever - they have a highly formal conversation about tactics with no substance to it, seeming a showy rubberstamp affair, then, without dismissing them, privately conference like office workers, showing that they don't typically act so formally, and also, they play guitar. It's just so fascinating... I guess, I hunger for Battlestar Mitchell.
I have a tradition of watching this sketch immediately after midnight on new year's day. This is the third year running which no doubt pleases Vectron. FOR VECTRON!
No it isn't, that was started by a con artist, L. Ron Hubbard, passing around an elaborate set of beliefs and practices. This is some sort of emergent phenomenon in which it started from nothing at all and doesn't happen this way in real life.
There are many great M&W sketches, Homeopathic hospital, WW2 pilots, brain surgeon at party, corner shop alcoholic, the list is endless but this Vectron sketch is probably the best.
any one else notice that the music in this skit was from the show back in the 90's called "space, above and beyond?" ran for two seasons? AH, nostalgia, love it.
Adamski: The two flyers in "heroes" (apart from Peter who could steal other people's abilities) were Nathan and West. Nathan West was a pilot in SAAB. Coincidence?
@@The31stcenturyfox As did I. That was such a good series. After years of waiting for it to come out on DVD I bought the DVD boxset a few years ago. Now if only I could be bothered to actually watch it... no, by Vectron, I'll just wait for it to come onto a streaming channel.
A similar thing happened 2 thousand years ago when a man opened a cheese and rice stall, the locals said his cheese and rice was divine, and the rest his history.
Mindburner there's nothing wrong with this idea, except a few extra words (well the same word repeated), it provides something that can be very scarce: Motivation.
Can David and Robert just.....do this again? I want a new series in the EXACT same style. Sure it might not feel as fresh....and maybe it might seem like treading the same ground. But I’ll be damned, I want more of this! 😉
I was imagining a Lord of the Rings version of this. Just after the Council of Elrond, some elf called Colin speaks up, so they get Saruman on conference call, and realise that they all got "Sauron's Ring" from a chance remark about a dodgy curry 3 weeks earlier.
I am now convinced this is how the Imperium of Man started believing in the Omnissiah. Someone just started saying "By the Emperor!" and "In the Emperor's name!" and soon it caught on, and now nobody has the heart to tell the tech-priests that he sort of never existed... :P
I like how they're going to open a bottle of wine, loosen up with a few drinks, and see if they can "get back in the mood" of believing in Vectron... like when an amorous evening with one's spouse is interrupted by a knock at the door, the visitor is gotten rid of, and you've both returned to the make-out den but the lovemaking mood has chilled. 😂
I like to imagine that this wasn't even a sci-fi setting before it all started, just a normal office or something. All this progress happened in three weeks under Vectron's inspiring light.
Through Vectron's blessing, this branch of Staples has finally subdued the Jorgall Union, giving us free access to the Andromeda cluster!
You mean, they developed warp engines, space travel, a galactic empire and what not all in three weeks? THis Vectron must be something. For Vectron!
@@maasro Do not question what Vectron can do, for his powers are endless. Praise Vectron!
I guess thats what they are implying. They were just a normal company and after turning to vectron they became an interstellar empire.
@@maasro I think it's interesting to take this idea even further. Maybe there were no advancements, but they just imagine prosperity and progress because of Vectron. Maybe they don't even imagine. The closest thing they do to imply the future is a) the decorations and dress, which could easily just be religious iconography, and b) the phrase "galactic endeavor". But notice they didn't say INTERgalactic endeavor. In our society, without access to other galaxies, ALL endeavors are galactic endeavors. They just like the crisp snappy uniforms and snazzy decor. You know, like Catholics.
I love how they narrow it down to either a) The ancient Scrolls of Vectron discovered in the first age of Vectron, or b) last Thursday when Pete took a sick day
Both dates coincidentally coincide.
The scrolls were written in the first age of Vectron. Discovered possibly last Thursday.
That is indeed the plot and subject of the sketch! Well identified
@@StarlasAiko But by mere happenstance.
"By Plectrum!" Doesn't sound nearly as good.
"By Vectron's shiny shoes!"
This is what it looks like when your empire changes ethics in Stellaris.
So true! XD
Steve is when we forget that ethics were changed and we're like "oh... why did I do that ?"
Wise 🦉
"Vectron is dead." - Nietzsche
@Hugh Jones Vectron wills it.
"Nietzsche is dead." - Vectron
How could it? Vectron is the end, the beginning and the circle.
_"Nietzesche is Vectron."_ - Dead
By Vectrons mighty claw i think you are gravely mistaken!!
"If Vectron did not exist it would be necessary to invent him" - (not) Voltaire
Exactly what I was thinking!
Voltaire later lost his plectrum and inadvertently gave rise to this religion.
@@DanielVerberne Had he been a finger picker, this never would have happened!
"Don't believe everything you hear on the internet, especially in the youtube comment section" - Voltaire, 1777.
@@medexamtoolsdotcom "If it's on the Internet then it must be true, and you can't question it."
- Abraham Lincoln
By vectrons kindly claw, that was a good sketch
Uh Chancellor, who's Vectron?
In the unending light of Vectron's wisdom I must agree.
For VECTRON!
Really the kindly claw with that look is gold
Praise Vectron
_Vectron was taken from an occurrence during the writing process. During a break, several of the writers'_ *[sic]* _were playing with a ball and one began shouting "By Vectron!" in the style of the Galaxy Quest catchphrase "By Grabthar's Hammer!" Another writer returned to find the writers making many references to the unknown entity Vectron._
*Source: **en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Mitchell_and_Webb_Look#Podcast*
So this whole thing literally happened irl.... mind blown!
By Vectron, that really puts this whole sketch into perspective. Thank you for sharing that. May Vectron smile upon you eternally!!
That is brilliant
These sales are fantastic!
Vectron's good grace upon you for sharing this information sir!
I just love how they are all so cool with admitting that they made a mistake and admitted it was a pretty cool mistake in hindsight.
Isn't that the joke?
Yes but what is a joke?
@@gelraldoldo5152 Jokes are one of the many blessings of Vectron.
I like the bit where they say vectron.
Well was it really a mistake?
To be fair, doing stuff in the name of Vectron, may his shining light ever guide us, allowed just the 4 of them to form a galactic empire and conquer vast swaths of the galaxy in about 3 weeks...
I'm preeetty sure General Phil said our Empire's capital planet has been standing for more than ten millennia.
Although, on the other hand, I can't shake the feeling that as late as last summer we were a small import company based in Slough.
@@4675636b596f755954 The impression you get of the Galactic Empire in Star Wars, vs what you find out in the prequels, where you realize the whole thing's only been going for about 20 years...
@@calebfuller4713 And that's eight years *more* than the third reich.
FSM move on over; praise Vectron’s shiny marbles
@@calebfuller4713 To be fair we know that the empire only existed for a couple decades (4-5 max) at most, since Kenobi could remember a time before the empire.
Ugh I hate it when I lose my plectrum and accidentally start a religion.
State of Aporia Praise Cloister the Stupid!
@@TheJovialBrit A piano playing heretic! Burn them in the name of Vectron!
*lose
Definitely gives the term 'guitar heroes' a new meaning.
I lost my son's muslin. That snowballed.
You can tell this is England in the future because it took him three weeks of being too awkward to ask before he finally cracked
Imagine my surprise to find this video after working for an electronics manufacturing company literally named 'VECTRON International' for nearly 20 years - I now have a mission to show this to as many of my fellow employees as possible...by Vectron's Beard!! 🤣
Progress report requested.
By Vectron it shall be so
Thank your kindly claw for this comment.
I think I've seen your point-of-sale systems here in Australia, by Vectron's striking brow.
The sketch writer might have named it after your company
By Vectron's golden foot, I have come back to watch this clip again.
*FOR VECTRON!*
By Vectrons Holy Ringpeice of Burning Fire...M&W was the last truly great sketch show.
@@jamesmaybrick2001 By Vectron's mild case of Dyslexia, you are truly correct!
In the name of Vectron's Indian take out leftovers, it's a good sketch.
FOR VECTRON!
@@mr.daggersirl You said that with such strength of will and character, it was almost as if Vectron was channeling himself through you.
PRAISE VECTRON!
Things we know about Vectron:
He has eyes, golden wings, a beard, a kindly claw, and knees.
He is eternal, the end, the beginning, the circle of (life?)
He wrote the Scrolls of Vectron, commencing the "First Age of Vectron".
He certainly seems to be an interesting chap if nothing else.
If I was a bit better as an artist I would love to draw that
His name sounds similar to plectrum
His kindly claw is presumably able to hold a pen what with the scroll writing and all....
This probably rules out a crab or lobster appendage.
Not dissimilar to Rassilon. Have you seen The Video of Rassilon?
He also has a mouth cause he smiles upon us
"By Vectron's eyes, I'm glad to hear it."
It's the little details that make the comedy work.
I love how they all salute differently 😆
''Vectron is a concept by which we measure our pain.'' John Lennon
Imagine there's no Vectron, I wonder if you can.
Vectron is Not Great
Christopher Hitchens
@@TomthatiscalledTom 'Vectron is dead' Friedrich Nietzsche
@@tintomara6209 The Vectron Delusion
Richard Dawkins
I love the fact that while trying to overcome the awkward situation they basically turned it into dealing with premature ejaculation. "Let's get some wine and see if we can get back into it".
This is exactly how UK businesses operate, you're off for a couple of days and on your return everyone's on new business bullshit bingo jargon and it's suddenly become the aims statement overnight.
Only when you’re off
It's that way in the states too. I work as an ASM for a major retailer. I work three long shifts a week and inevitably when I come back some from my four days off I'm confronted with some new policy/ fundraiser/ best practice that wasn't there the previous week and everyone seems to have known about forever. By Vectrons beard it can be disorienting.
Mission statement. Get the nomenclature right
Yup, plenty of corporate policies crop up overnight e.g. 'synergy' 'proximal' etc
I just saw the new Star Wars and, by Vectron, the scenes with the First Order reminded me of this sketch.
By Snoke!
@@BarterTom No! by Vectron!
These uniforms kind of slap. The military coat with kind of a skirt thing looks surprisingly cool.
It's a type of greatcoat😊
Love the incredibly mundane names they have
By Vectron, Geoff is a wonderful name - it inspires - um,. hang on, - ah, OK, I'll give you that one, ^oo^
The thing is, if advanced aliens ever turn up their names or designations will probably sound very exotic and weird to us, but they might just be the equivalent of "Geoff Bridges" or "Martin Scott", just like foreign names used to, before we all got used to them.
I thought it was to imply that before Vectron, they were ordinary modern day office workers.
To be fair, Luke Skywalker had the same problem. And there's a rumour that before "Darth", Darth Vader was actually just Dave. Dave Vader of the Galactic Empire. So they changed it.
@@bernardthedisappointedowl6938 Geoff was the name of the giraffe mascot of toys r us. Rip toys r us.
The world needs Vectron's light right now
More than ever. And his kindly claw
By Vectron's silver beard, I really enjoyed how they re-created the late-70s/early-80s aesthetic of this sketch. May Vectron smite our enemies eternally!! FOR VECTRON!!!!
By Vectrons kindly sneeze I"m in,Hail Vectron the source of all reality and being!
Plus the Star Trek-esque background spaceship hum.
Camp is the word! Blake's 7 comes to mind too.
@@GudieveNing It's not camp, it's stylized retro-futurism.
@@ComicGladiator Oh by Vectron's sharpened claw, let us not get caught up in the whatfors and whys, for Vectron would want unity throughout the galaxy in these dark times! *FOR VECTRON!!*
I always imagined that these guys worked at a normal job in the modern world, and the whole Vectron worshiping alone brought on efforts to advance mankind into the future where we see them in this skit. Didn't occur to me until now that that was all in my mind.
It took them only three weeks to get to a star empire, by Vectron's shining wisdom.
It's amazing what a unified culture with common ground and a singular goal can accomplish.
This reminds me of the artillery crew from WWII that named their gun and started dressing up strangely and doing things for it. Apparently as crew members would die or get rotated away the replacement crew members were inducted into the micro-culture. Apparently all the crew members were replaced multiple times and the practice still continued.
In times of hardship you have to find a way to manage it no matter how weird.
Vectron's kindly claw had me cracking up :')
🖐
Not as good as the Flying Spaghetti Monster's noodley appendage.
yeah, me too
For Vectron! He surely smiles down upon this video
Indeed is it not written that Vectron will smile kindly at all positive comments and smite those heathens who mock his kindly claw and knobbly knees. In Vectrons name we drink this gin, cheers!
@@Agent_Pumpkin a toast to Vectron!
@Bill Patrick Jones - as indeed he is Bill, as indeed he is
I had a Vauxhall Vectra a few years back, good car. By Vectra
Quality.
Buy vectra*
No Vauxhall is good..
Ah - the multiple Vectra heresy. There is only one Vectron!
@@thomasmcdonough7867 I think he meant, Bye Vectra, because he no longer had it (triggers a different reading of the Vectra instruction manual and triggers 2,000 years of holy war)
This and the "Are we the baddies?" sketch are my two favourite Mitchell & Webb sketches!
how tf did the music of Space: Above and Beyond end up in there,
I do not know but I am grateful
That shift from regal, aristocratic tone to everyday office speak. Genius.
This is how everyone talks in the 41st Millenium
By the god emperors golden aura!!
By the Aquila's kindly claw, did people speak differently in the Dark Age Of Technology?
That perfectly synchronized "FOR VECTRON!" at the end tho!
By Vectron's radiant nostrils, this is brilliant!
Underrated oath.
"..honestly Steve, no one, I mean none of us, had ever said the word "Vectron"-in our LIVES- until I took that day off.." Lol!!! One of my fave skits!
"By Vectron's gourd!" "No! By Vectron's shoe!" Then came the arguments, hatred, inquisition, bloodshed, war and final self-destruction.
As fortold by the Scrolls of Vectron!
He's not Vectron he's a very naughty boy!
I don't think so, for 2 reasons, one, that none of those are mutually exclusive, we've already established he has eyes, golden wings, a beard, a kindly claw, and knees, he could have a goard AND shoes and that wouldn't be blasphemy. And also, based on their tolerance of the 4th guy's blasphemy in the first place, going far further than implying Vectron had other parts they didn't agree with, he questioned Vectron altogether, so if that didn't lead to violence, why would saying he had a gourd cause that?
@@medexamtoolsdotcom The Right Honourable And Wise Keepers of The Gourd would disagree,if the ancient scrolls of Vectron didn't require them to assume a life of solitude, celibacy, and perpetual agreement with every sentence including the word "Vectron". The relevant passage can be found in the third stanza of the 26th scroll, just after the bit about sandwiches.
May your filling always be moist, by Vectron's Holy Thumb!
@@knusern666 Vectrones eunt domus!
Ooh, that uncomfortable silence was joyous. By Vectron’s spleen, I proclaim Mitchell and Webb to be fine comedians!
@A Laishram I’d be hard pressed to argue otherwise
Never spoil a good cult with logic!
Thank Vectron for wine!
The soundtack from Space Above and Beyond sure helped
@@seantrevathan3041great show. Could do with a remake/reboot
This is my favourite skit from the show. I could watch it a million times.
By Vectron, you should!
Hm, let's say the sketch is 4 minutes long, four million minutes, when watching this sketch 12 hours a day, every day of the week … it would take you less than 15 years and 3 months. BY VECTRON, IT _IS_ POSSIBLE!
The music played in the background of the first 50 seconds is from the short lived but awesome 90's Sci-fi TV show "Space Above and Beyond"
I loved that show :)
Dude... By random chance, I looked it up and rediscovered a show that Ive been trying to remember from my childhood. That is insane! Long live comments! For Vectron!
@@delryn256 awesome mate!! Ha ha gotta love the internet....sometimes. Enjoy!
Everything happens the day you take a day off. Every damn time.
By Vectron’s burning gaze, they should really write all this down.
Yes, if history has taught us one thing it’s that if they wrote it down in some kind of holy book all uncertainties and disagreements about Vectron would immediately cease
This has enormous rewatch value, by Vectron's wang!
That's numberwang!
@@ginge641, by Vectron's sticky numeric seed, it _is_ numberwang!
@Dissociated Women Incorporated
Best crossover gag...ever!
Nice one. I’d suggest we change the name of Vectron’s wang, but you’d respond with “what hat am I wearing?” “A captains hat...,”
Oh.... he out the pussy on the chainwax!
2000 years from now this video could be discovered and start the Age of Vectron
It would be the ancient scroll
Something about the society here really fascinates me. In front of the troops, in what seems to be a standard corridor - no functional items whatsoever - they have a highly formal conversation about tactics with no substance to it, seeming a showy rubberstamp affair, then, without dismissing them, privately conference like office workers, showing that they don't typically act so formally, and also, they play guitar. It's just so fascinating...
I guess, I hunger for Battlestar Mitchell.
I have a tradition of watching this sketch immediately after midnight on new year's day. This is the third year running which no doubt pleases Vectron. FOR VECTRON!
By Vectron's quivering ear-hair, I miss this show
Praise upon Vectron in this dark time. By his golden wings we shall endure. 😆
I just love that they went all out on the costumes and settings for a 4 minute stand-alone gag...
4 minutes? But Vectron is eternal!
This is how scientology started.
How ANY faith started.
No it isn't, that was started by a con artist, L. Ron Hubbard, passing around an elaborate set of beliefs and practices. This is some sort of emergent phenomenon in which it started from nothing at all and doesn't happen this way in real life.
@@medexamtoolsdotcom definitely made more money than from his fiction.
@@medexamtoolsdotcom You will be Audited for that blasphemy!
@@DanielVerberne No. You're nuts.
There are many great M&W sketches, Homeopathic hospital, WW2 pilots, brain surgeon at party, corner shop alcoholic, the list is endless but this Vectron sketch is probably the best.
The WW2 pilots are by Armstrong and Miller, not M & W, in case anyone is still trying to find them!
You can use this in a Philosophy of Religion class
@@DavidB5501 they did however collaborate and played a second pair of pilots in a sketch. So in a round about way it all comes together.
No mention of sir digby chicken caeser?!
Praise Vectron! In Vectron we Trust!
I was on a game called SteamWorld Heist when a character called Vectron showed up, and all I could think of was this bloody sketch XD
he is in all things my child
T'was Vectron himself, incarnate within the very code of the game.
@timebomb456
“He is in all things my child”.
Me: Eurgh!!!
I'm still playing that game. Truly is Vectron eternal.
26 people were smited by Vectron's powerful nose of justice.
The normal names just elevate this to genius "Didn't Jeff find the scrolls? The ancient scrolls?"
I love this, I think its the way they drop into using each other 1st names.
A masterpiece, by Vectron's kindly claw.
That is the music from space above above and beyond. I'm glad I'm not the only one to notice.
This is the slowed down theme from Space: Above and Beyond ... one of the greatest Scifi-Shows ever created.
Glad someone else noticed it!
Could do with a remake/reboot. In fact I'm surprised it's not happened yet
Dammit so it is!
By Vectron's kindly claw this is cracking stuff!
any one else notice that the music in this skit was from the show back in the 90's called "space, above and beyond?" ran for two seasons? AH, nostalgia, love it.
Adamski: The two flyers in "heroes" (apart from Peter who could steal other people's abilities) were Nathan and West. Nathan West was a pilot in SAAB. Coincidence?
Only one season.
I may be six years late to correct a person on the internet, but by Vectron’s golden wings it shall be done.
Yeah 7 years late but I picked up on it and had to search the comments to see if anyone else did. Good job!
@@The31stcenturyfox As did I. That was such a good series. After years of waiting for it to come out on DVD I bought the DVD boxset a few years ago. Now if only I could be bothered to actually watch it... no, by Vectron, I'll just wait for it to come onto a streaming channel.
Whoa, that's the "Space above and beyond" theme music...! It's been so long since I heard it.
A similar thing happened 2 thousand years ago when a man opened a cheese and rice stall, the locals said his cheese and rice was divine, and the rest his history.
the more I think about this sketch, the more funny and at the same time puzzling it seems
BY VECTRON!!!
very serious point of this sketch. How normally sane folk can get carried away with a a stupid idea. Human nature. Great sketch
Mindburner there's nothing wrong with this idea, except a few extra words (well the same word repeated), it provides something that can be very scarce: Motivation.
By Vectrons spiky hair gel, you're right
Nick Turner which one of us?
By Brexit...I mean Vectron, you're right!
@@simonhowles3646 Get Vectron Done!
Nice use of the Space : Above and Beyond theme tune. 😁👍❤️
I was about to mention the same thing.
They are so happy in the grasp of Vectron's kindly claw.
I love this when it originally aired, so glad its up one youtube, thanks. For Vectron!
For Vectron!
“I ask for mandate to pursue the endeavour”
I've been a fan of M&W for some time, yet I just saw this skit last night for the first time. It is now my favorite. Classic!
By the power of Vectron this is still good
The automatic captions on this are pure gold. 0:27 - in the name of the trauma i ask for for the mandate to pursue the antibiotic
It's as if vectron himself wrote those subtitles!
could THESE be the fabled scrolls from the first age of Vectron?!
By Vectron's pointed shoes, this is wonderful!
We've all been there - had an afternoon off work, come back the next day, and they've started a new religion.
By Vectron's ball-hammer that was eye-wateringly funny.
More M+W brilliance.
Damn, this just really makes me want to be a part of the vectron cult 😂
Then by Vectron's light you shall be. FOR VECTRON!!!
This is one of the funniest from this show. It also has a good replay value and inside joke validity.
I love how they all have a different salute.
this sketch always speaks to me because in my family we also enjoy *really* commit to the bit as well, by Vectron's hoary breath.
LOVE the robes of state!
Can David and Robert just.....do this again? I want a new series in the EXACT same style. Sure it might not feel as fresh....and maybe it might seem like treading the same ground. But I’ll be damned, I want more of this! 😉
Seconded.
'Why can't they just do their life's work again? It's easy.'
@@benhurley7366 : Well, they already know how to do it.
Yeah, not sure why british shows have so few episodes and get cancelled so quickly
the mismatched salutes are the best part
Thats the music from the 1990s TV series 'Space Above and Beyond'. Great sketch. Great music!
Just discovered this show about a year ago. These guys are brilliant. Don't know how I missed it. Maybe it just didn't air in Canada.
I was imagining a Lord of the Rings version of this. Just after the Council of Elrond, some elf called Colin speaks up, so they get Saruman on conference call, and realise that they all got "Sauron's Ring" from a chance remark about a dodgy curry 3 weeks earlier.
I am now convinced this is how the Imperium of Man started believing in the Omnissiah. Someone just started saying "By the Emperor!" and "In the Emperor's name!" and soon it caught on, and now nobody has the heart to tell the tech-priests that he sort of never existed... :P
Universe belongs to the Necrons 😝
By my mighty name, I 100% endorse this skit.
Dungeons the Dragoning 40K 7.6th edition makes much more sense now...
I like how they're going to open a bottle of wine, loosen up with a few drinks, and see if they can "get back in the mood" of believing in Vectron... like when an amorous evening with one's spouse is interrupted by a knock at the door, the visitor is gotten rid of, and you've both returned to the make-out den but the lovemaking mood has chilled. 😂
Good lord what did I just read. How many fedoras do you own?
@@glenthemann : None. How many buttplugs do you own? Give me your mailing address, I'll have a few shipped immediately.
I like that there's a train - the Siemens Vectron. If I ever see one, I will announce "For Vectron!!!" loudly
Loving the Space Above and Beyond sountrack
I was amused when the Big Bad in 'Steamworld Heist' turned out to be 'Vectron'.
Immediately reminded me of this favourite old sketch.
BY VECTRON'S NAME, THAT SALUTE IS AWESOME
I love those awkward silences lol.
Vectron is inspiring me to create a range of merchandise, yet i fear the wrath of the copyright monster. May Vectron in his wisdom guide me.
Coronavirus...Vectron, why have you forsaken us!!!
By Vectron, trust in his eternal glory!
By vectrons healing hands we shall be blessed
By Vectron, who are the 38 people that cleary doesn't know his glory?
Should we not focus on the 4000 souls who have seen the glory of Vectron's kindly claw? Praise Vectron!
By Vectrons scary chronometer, 2023 here...14 years and still a joy, By Vectron this never gets old.
When you unmute the group chat after working all day
22 people are not smiled upon by Vectron. For Vectron!
Gareth Wilkins may mighty Vectron's talons rend them.