Running time: 42:37 mins
Intro
Martha asks Julie why her skin looks so good: it’s Crowley Time!
Theme
The relaunch of the pod after Madrigal is now a party experience, like Mamma Mia! The Party or The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Forking Good Night. It’s called Crowley Time Party Time and includes themed cocktails, set decorations, a DJ/Spotify playlist, and drama school graduates with beards playing all the characters.
Luxury Ents. are the events company putting it together. Their Creative Director outlines some of the plans: scary laser light display matching the theme tune – scared punters will buy more drinks. £80 per head. The Marco diPoni dancers: terrifying.
Turns out Luxury Ents. was being run by Tim Crawley, TC’s nemesis and sworn enemy (who he hasn’t heard of). Tim is arrested in the coda to this episode.
First mention of a potential Crowley Time live show (feat. horse-riding, fireworks, and a giant paella).
Wesley Westchester, American 50s game show host outlines all the TC upcoming projects: Marvel Moves, Victoriocity, True Tales of the Illuminati episode, The Nordlund Railway, Beef and Dairy episode 107, The Rez.
Sketches
(3:23)
Coming Soon to Plus Max Go Extreme Flavour (and to a cinema in Bangor for one day so it’s eligible for the Oscars): a film based on a really, really long book, set across the whole of the twentieth century and driving its creative team to breakdown condensing its 1300 pages into 3.5 hours. Dalí pops up to drop the occasional ‘surreal’ with no context.
(9:30)
Government minister looks to get a grip on his party, a grip as tight as that from the hand of Trelawney the Grey Shadow, but his advisor will just blackmail them with sex photos instead of invoking the shadowy one.
(14:22)
The Charity Commission panel grants the Bisexual Dog Trust charitable status. Mr Klent wishes to set up a charity to help thick people who just “don’t have anything about them”: Help the Thick, UK. His son’s friend, William (14), is thick: tried to play a tune by blowing into a courgette until he lost consciousness. Mr Klent wishes to use the money to buy the thick a big house in the country to run around outdoors and a big telly on which to watch The Fast and the Furious. The panel calls for lunch before seeing their next applicant, the Campaign for Real Boobs.
Answerphone
(9:10) Someone suggests, in the next ep, Madrigal should fight Muhammad Ali on top of a mountain.
(13:31) Someone disappointed there will be booze at the Crowley Time Party Time events, as he’s used to just having a hit of the bong at his church.
(20:28) Someone who went to a wine tasting but loaded the bottles of wine onto their van to sell on at a knockdown rate.
Correspondence
(Sorting Room opens at 20.51)
Saveloy tries to warn TC that the Crowley Time Party Time has gone viral, but for the wrong reasons. The Luxury Ents guy is wandering around a car park asking the partygoers for £20 and a “Wingnut” is creeping people out by asking to climb into their brains. Trelawney the Grey Shadow also asks for £20. Luxury Ents’ only known address is in the public bogs in B&M and their business card has half dissolved as it was printed on a cigarette paper.
- Philip Chirsik (sp?) writes to say how much he enjoyed the Madrigal ep.
- Marcus Ponting listened and signed up to Patreon based on the rec on Three Bean Salad.
- Trevor Post is also a listener thanks to the Beans’ shoutout and is doing a ‘Merlin listen’ (backwards).
- Charlotte Parks works on a crisis helpline and laughs out loud while listening (but not while working) and wishes to know which episode the ‘good boy’ sketch is in. It’s episode 8! * Letter of the Episode *
Next episode when?
When Christopher Nolan first thinks “maybe this bit could be shorter”.
And remember
Nobody ever got rich throwing seashells over a bridge, but maybe you could be the first.
Chuntley Buffingham
(27:03)
Actor, raconteur and member of the British Erotic Bobblehead Collectors Association (BEBCA).
Drama Parlour milieu: 1960s London organised crime world: sniffing charlie at the Groucho Club with Reggie Kray (entirely nude)
Solomon Funkmeister’s “Who Knows What Harm”
Desmond (Des) Renfrew shot Bill Clatterman and is digging him a shallow grave in Epping Forest but interrupted by 2 ramblers looking for a Berni Inn, an Avon lady, a dozen camouflaged nature surveyors, and a dog, all of whom he kills and buries. Bill’s corpse rises from the grave and slurs a message about chemical spills while murdering Des.
Chuntley once mashed sleeping pills into a rival actor’s sandwich on audition day and told everyone at the studio he was a junkie when they were both up for a Dracula thing in ’78.
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