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Mayflower Cruises
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
Styled as a cheerful cruise-line commercial, the sketch invites devout Puritans to pack their Bibles and families and sail from Plymouth to the New World. As the upbeat narrator promises religious freedom and a fresh start, the pictures undercut every claim: passengers include people fleeing the law, the ship is cramped for two rough months at sea, and the voyage brings boredom, hunger, sickness and seasick passengers hanging over the rail. A beaming Puritan family waves goodbye under the closing slogan for a trip nobody would want to take twice.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 2
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
We cannot guarantee against boredom, hunger, disease, death and puking.
Mayflower Cruises, the one-way trip of a lifetime, because you'll never want to do it again.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Advertisement parody from Horrible Histories' Series 8 episode "Mayflower Malarkey", made to mark 400 years since the Mayflower's 1620 voyage.
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