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Angel Summoner and BMX Bandit
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
Angel Summoner, who can call down a host of celestial beings at will, and BMX Bandit, who rides a bicycle and does tricks, fight crime together across three short instalments. Each time BMX Bandit lays out an elaborate stunt-based plan, from freeing a kidnap hostage to boarding a drug cartel's boat, and each time his partner simply summons the angels instead. When BMX Bandit admits he feels redundant, Angel Summoner promises that the next crisis will be handled his way; it turns out to be a building full of armed terrorists that requires a seventy-metre jump. Mid-leap, BMX Bandit realises the angels are secretly holding him up and insists they let go, with predictable results, and Angel Summoner soon reappears with a new partner, Gymkhana Girl.
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Highly quotable.
Or I could just summon a horde of angels to sort it out.
Your ability to summon a horde of celestial super-beings at will is making my BMX skills look a bit redundant.
You pop a wheelie or do an endo or perform whatever BMX trick you think most suitable for disarming a group of fanatics with assault weapons.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
David Kerr
Director
Gareth Edwards
Producer
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Shown as a three-part runner across the first episode of That Mitchell and Webb Look. The duo first appeared on the radio series That Mitchell and Webb Sound, where the second series' third episode used the same hostage, cartel-boat and terrorist situations. BMX Bandit is named after the 1983 Australian film BMX Bandits. The show's website later ran a competition to invent a new sidekick for the pair.
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