Episode 23: The Old Rot

Running time: 42:57 mins

Intro

HAL’s “Daisy Daisy” bit from 2001: A Space Odyssey but with rap metal, crypto and James Corden books signifying brain melt.

Named Characters and References

Walt Whitman

Dr Burgerman (Bergemaann?)

Larry

Kwame

Bart Simpson

Bugs Bunny

Columbo

David Cronenberg’s “Scanners”

Keywords

Theme/runner: the real you, shopping centre metaphor, stupid tangled charging cables, infinite hall of mirrors

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Fire taking hold while doctor administers drug to subject of experiment

Crucial that patient is calm throughout

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Pipplewaites Home Warehouse in Bridwickston-Bridgebury

The Buy-to-Let Collection, including: the Bimberton buy-to-let fridge-freezer (£39.99), Grendel Humidex Pocket 2100 dehumidifier (£12.99 or 3 for £30), and McKinaminney Sports Supplies Titanium Baseball Bat (£24.99)

Answerphone

1. Life hack: open a bank account

2. Life hack: measure your heart rate with a wristwatch

3. Life hack: call out your children’s names in the middle of your house and they will appear

Correspondence

Saveloy the Postmaster first appearance (101 years old)

1. Aaron Rodrigues from Albuquerque, New Mexico (friend of the show) enjoyed the ‘unclear’/’uncle-ier’ sketch in episode 22.

2. Fraser Torry from Hertfordshire loves Patrick McGoohan, especially in ‘Brand’ (available on YouTube).

3. Matthew Stennet from Huddersfield with voice messages meant for Tom (1. doorknob/garden centre mysterious incident; 2. robot voice saying Tom was in a road traffic accident and calling him a ‘lanky dipshit’ when he’s only 5ft10; 3. GP with results back on Tom’s ‘taut anus’) with plug for his YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@firkinonfilm7683. Letter of the episode!

Next episode when?

As soon as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres comes up with a new idea for a really catchy hit song.

And remember

This podcast is non-fungible, unless at some point it becomes funged, when it will be reclassified as a ‘fungecast’.

Sir Chuntley Buffingham

(Timestamp 21:24)

Drama Parlour

Gwyneth L. Bodge’s chilling novel ‘The Nutters’

1970s London little upstairs flat

Madness (not the band)

Knife Steve & Cruelty Alan

Nom de stab

Governor General to lead the new independent Bahamas

Knifing someone up until they die

Meal at The Ritz: grilled sea bass accompanied by an ‘aggressive red’

Knife Steve’s mummy’s gallery opening

Chapter 2 featuring Pissy Keith and a bowler-hatted escargot vendor on the Champs-Elysees

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Chuntley and Tom discuss the former’s 70s filmography, including: ‘The Devil’s Coalpit’, ‘Scream Yourself Dead’, and ‘Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman Meets Funky Derek’

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Chuntley’s horror film director friend, Jimmy Skelton, and the BBFC

‘Curse of the Vampire’s Boudoir’ up in front of the censors: Mr Judd & Mr Pleat

Scene 19 with the cow turned inside out but features blasphemy from a child

Scene 34 with the woman split in half but excessive blaspheming

Scene 12 with Prince Caspar in a dockside bar hearing homosexual slang (‘Ducky’) from a sailor

Scene 22 with Prince Caspar (Buffingham) and Helena (Harriet Greenfield, later engaged to Chuntley) in the orchard cursing the Queen

Censors’ sweary, violent and lewd suggestions for rewording to avoid the blasphemy, cissy syllables and royal slander

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