Angel Summoner and BMX Bandit

Angel Summoner and BMX Bandit are a mismatched crime-fighting duo. Angel Summoner (David Mitchell) possesses the godlike ability to summon an unlimited horde of celestial beings to do his bidding, while BMX Bandit (Robert Webb) rides a bicycle and can do tricks. In three escalating sketches throughout the episode, the duo faces various criminal situations — a kidnapping, a drug bust, and a large-scale hostage crisis — and each time Angel Summoner effortlessly resolves the crisis with his angels, leaving BMX Bandit's skills laughably useless. In the final part, Angel Summoner magnanimously offers BMX Bandit the chance to handle the next problem himself — which turns out to involve disarming a group of heavily armed fanatics. The comedy stems entirely from the absurd power imbalance between the two partners and BMX Bandit's earnest but futile attempts to contribute.

The sketch originally appeared on the radio show 'That Mitchell and Webb Sound' before being adapted for TV. BMX Bandit is a reference to the 1983 Australian film 'BMX Bandits' starring a young Nicole Kidman. The sketch appears three times in S1E1, functioning as a recurring runner throughout the episode. The YouTube video uploaded by 'wannywan' on Jan 3, 2007 has over 1.3 million views. The sketch is widely cited as a perfect illustration of party/team composition imbalance, often referenced in discussions of D&D, superhero crossovers, and the Flash/Arrow TV crossovers.