I get the owl sanctuary story. Not knowing what to do to get the picture, not really wanting to talk to anybody about it, and just leaving. It makes sense.
I'm studying to be an ecologist. I absolutley get it. I just don't like touching birds. I'm fine with literally everything else. I had no problem whatsoever with dissecting fish, insects, even a slug. No problem with collecting spiders and amphibians. Birds though.... Idk. For some reason I just don't like touching them, dead or alive. And that's absolutley fine. Everyone has some irrational phobia. Also moths. Moths can go fuck themselfes. Ugly ass hairy legged worms with wings. Fuck moths.
David thinks hes so socially awkward and so does everyone else but when Miranda is asked to be his assistant and does literally exactly what he was already doing, he plays it off really nicely. Its like the 7th time I've watched that clip and only just noticed that an awkward situation COULD have happened there if David wasnt so smooth :p
@@MegaXron211Respectfully disagree. Actors/performers often have a public and a private persona, which can differ wildly. It is not at all uncommon for successful performers to be shy and awkward off stage. I, myself, am quite shy and introverted, but the few times I've been on stage in an acting role, I actually felt and behaved very free and extraverted.
@@Broccoli_Highkicks I second this. I stink at social interactions (and am happy to avoid them), but the moment I'm put on a stage--even if it's being pulled from the audience or just performing an audition--I feel so free and open--and arguably more like "myself".
Every time I hear the "McPheasant Zinger" joke I just wish that David had known that a Zinger is a KFC thing and not McDonalds, because correcting Rob on that would have been the ultimate comeback to prove that joke wrong!
To be fair to Anna, she’s obviously watched these guys be hilariously savage to one another, and expected to manage the same. The problem was she lacked the warmth and fondness they show for each other even when being right bastards!
I think another key point that everyone seems to be dancing around is that she's a woman saying it (to a man no less). A man giving that type of ribbing is widely accepted (it shouldn't be either but it is) but if a woman does it she's a heartless bitch.
Exactly, this is like when a bunch of old friends relentlessly rip the piss out of each other, and then some newbie turns up and thinks they have the right to do the same.
@SuperbStevieG I wouldn't say she felt she had the right but more it was expected of her as part of the shows routine If they are not regulars I can see a problem people have. Do they joke along and act like the rest of them but could be seen as a arse or do they come across more serious and be seen as boring and standoffish and unwilling to be part of the group
I think it's more just that the joke falls flat and doesn't actually match with what we all know David Mitchell to be. Pointing out without sarcasm and irony that David isn't the epitome of masculine protectiveness doesn't make for a good joke. He's already claimed to not be that himself, it's not really clever. And the imagined impression was very much the opposite of the "civil, posh and socially anxious" impression David gives off. It sounded more like a Catherine Tate character.
This Anna person being mean to someone for something that could very well, for all she knows, be a phobia can go... where the sun don't shine. I wonder what would happen if David replied "I also get the jeepers talking to people with an ugly lisp".
I can't believe you missed the story where he could ring a bell at his grandparent's house and they'd check up on what he needed. Lee Mack makes a whole joke about David asking them for "a more posh upbringing!"
Okay, to be fair to posh boy, walking home from work one evening I had an owl with something like a six foot wingspan dive mere feet in front of me to grab some small prey and I jumped about two meters.
Two meters? High or long jump? If the former, you definitely have a future in athletics, basketball, or volleyball. If the latter, don't bother with any of that.
@@maartenvandam344 distance backward. If I’d tried to do it I would not be able to, but a huge bird suddenly swooping down in pitch darkness can give one powers.
@Sammyandbobsdad Unfortunately, that's not an Olympic sport yet. It should be, though, and 2 meters is an impressive start. Could you do it without the owl, though? The owl might be hard to get in there.
Im glad I am not the only one who did not get the best impression from the first lady. I am not sensitive or anything but there is a difference in a little funny slight cheeky comment and a full go about another person and covering it up with a laugh to mimic it as a joke.
I loved the McDonald’s one; Rob; David was telling a lie, of course…. David has never even BEEN to a McDonald’s…. David; (with absolutely zero emotion) of course I’ve been to a McDonald’s…. 😂😂😂😂
Yeah mean is the new clever apparently. She may have been trying for dry, deadpan humour and failed horribly. At least with comedians like Sean Locke you knew that it was at least partly an act..
@@victorialloyd1341 Thank God, I was looking for a comment like yours! That remark of hers was so unnecessary, nothing comedic about it (so not sure what all the laughs were about). It reads like she's saying that men aren't allowed to be afraid of owls and nothing more
No joke I actually had a dream where the doctor visits mitchell in a Vectron planet and the whole episode plays out like the the mitchell and webb sketch
Sometimes I wonder about the friendship between Lee and David. They wont be able to talk about the most interesting things in their life just so it could be used in wilty.
Hearing Anna MM speaking in the beginning, I got chills, and not in a good way. I soon realised she is Beelzebub in Good Omens I. I just didn't think she actually spoke like that 😳
David attended Abingdon School: a VERY posh and expensive public school (in UK, ‘public school’ actually means ‘fee-paying private school’ - they often have charitable status for the tax breaks).
I was attacked by an owl once-- at night on a dark path through the forest. It swooped down right over me. I just saw this huge shadow above me. Thirty seconds later, it came back, this time raking my skull with its talons. I turned around and hightailed it out of there.
People are complaining about some lady being "over the line" mean to David (while the regulars are supposedly so much better at being cordial in their bullying) but I still remember the time Lee broke David's pen specifically BECAUSE he thought it would be funny in the context of David's anxiety about lending people his pens. I love how All 3 (David, Lee and Rob) are also making jokes in this clip about how they'd never be mean like that to David, which are apparently going over people's heads and being taken literally.
There is a difference between not fully believing how anxious a person is about something (after all Lee did think he was lying about the pens at the time, plus it wasn’t even really his pen, it was from the BBC) and getting all personal and insulting. Repeatedly.
Sometimes also called a linen press: in UK, it’s a large closet (cupboard) where household linens and towels are stored. The shelves are slats of wood instead of solid, so air can pass through. Some people like to keep scented soaps or herb bags in there: I’ve heard that Vetivert is popular in France.
Why would David's mother have made a 9-year-old an adult-sized cape? There was another episode where they had a song queued up when it was mentioned in a story that turned out to be fictitious. That made me think this show may be more rehearsed than they make out.
When I started watching WILTY (only a few years ago), I loved Lee Mack, and therefore... hated David ! David has now grown on me SO much that I was absolutely disgusted by his ill-treatment at the hands of that wretched woman in the 1st clip.
I don't know that much about the English, but it's clear to me that a working-class bloke would never be scared of a few owls, not even a bit. I'm talking about the sort who'd abuse Oliver Twist, of course.
