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
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.
_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*
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.
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!!*
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.
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!
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.
@@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)
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!
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!
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
0:01 Pre-modernity 0:48 Age of enlightenment 1:49 Modernity 2:40 Post-Modernity 3:29 "God is dead, and we have killed him" 3:46 Returning to pre-modernity
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 am convinced this is 40k (replace Vectron with the Emperor of mankind). There was never an emperor, only Malcador and the Primarchs. The Primarchs aren't even related, but they were all so similar in power and stature, they kept making jokes in reference to some shared father figure, the Emperor of mankind and it caught on really hard.
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.
