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Scary Poppat
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
Presented as a trailer for a family film, the sketch follows Mr and Mrs Bhanks, a British Asian couple whose children have driven away one au pair after another. Their newspaper advert is answered by Scary Poppat, who arrives on a mysterious wind and replaces magic with strict Indian parenting, a ready slipper and a run of song parodies about chores and respecting elders. A Punjabi cockney chimney sweep joins the big number before the closing tagline suggests that the bad old days were really the good old days.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 4
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
I'll put an ad in the Punjabi Times.
Because some people think the bad old days were the good old days.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
Nick Wood
Director
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Scary Poppat was a trailer spoof in the Goodness Gracious Me reunion special, broadcast on BBC Two on 26 May 2014 as part of the channel's 50th birthday celebrations.
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