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Voodoo Doll

Hale and Pace
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A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

A holiday souvenir puts the duo’s disbelief in voodoo to a painful test.

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The premise

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Hale and Pace return from Haiti with a voodoo doll and treat its supposed powers as a joke. Their cheerful demonstration with a handful of pins becomes much less reassuring for the person the doll resembles.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 2

ScriptEnglish · 22 turns

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  1. 00:04

    Oh, good evening. Gareth and I are feeling really good today, aren't we, Gareth?

  2. 00:08

    Yeah, yeah, we're feeling really great.

  3. 00:09

    And we're feeling really great because we've just been on holiday.

  4. 00:13

    Yes, they even go on holiday together.

  5. 00:18

    I go on holiday with Gareth because he's my best friend.

  6. 00:22

    And I go on holiday with Norman because he pays for it.

  7. 00:26

    We had a good time, though, didn't we?

  8. 00:28

    Yes, we did have a good time because this year we went somewhere really special.

  9. 00:32

    we went to Haiti hello hi Haiti not Tahiti sorry you see in Haiti the high

  10. 00:43

    priestess of voodoo makes a little doll that's meant to represent somebody or

  11. 00:48

    other yeah that's right while we were over there this old hag came up to me

  12. 00:52

    and she she gave me this doll and it's this was supposed to be Norman look at

  13. 01:00

    that a bit of old donkey hair on that head it's close in one respect and what you're supposed to

  14. 01:07

    do is you you stick a pin in the doll and it's supposed to hurt the person it represents what

  15. 01:14

    a load of nonsense right so here is the doll of norman danger and here is the pin i'm terrified

  16. 01:21

    And what we do is we stick the pin in the doll, like that, so we stick it in here, and

  17. 01:30

    here.

  18. 01:31

    and here, and here,

  19. 01:34

    Nothing happens whatsoever.

  20. 01:36

    Even if we stick it in his jugular like that!

  21. 01:42

    A load of rubbing.

  22. 01:45

    Nobody who takes this loony stuff seriously must be completely out of their skull.

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