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Introducing a Toilet in the 18th Century

Mitchell and Webb Are Not HelpingNot Helping
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The setup

An eighteenth-century house meeting turns into a revolt against indoor plumbing.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

A housemate calls a meeting after discovering that nobody else uses the newly installed water closet. His companions defend chamber pots and throwing waste into the street, objecting to the inconvenience of visiting a separate room. Attempts to explain flushing and indoor urination only strengthen their resistance. The loudest skeptic treats sanitary plumbing and the abandonment of witch drowning as equally disastrous signs of modern life.

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Say it with us

Highly quotable.

Can you pack it in with the harpsichord? We know what century it is.

How is this a step forward?

The rabbit hole continues

One more couldn’t hurt.

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