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Dying of Embarrassment

That Mitchell and Webb Look2008Season 2Episode 5
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The setup

A doctor tells two overbearing parents their teenage son is dying of embarrassment, and their loving vigil makes it worse.

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The premise

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In a hospital room, a doctor explains that a sleeping teenager's illness is terminal embarrassment. His doting parents promise him a perfect final few weeks, then proceed to humiliate him with talk of Disneyland, a childhood photo in the bath, his old party outfit and a new cardigan. As he fades, the doctor logs the time of death and the father plans a funeral that includes limericks and a celebrity impression.

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I've never seen levels of embarrassment like this before.

Uncle Jeff will read some of his blue limericks and I'll do my impression of John Major singing Thriller.

ScriptEnglish · 23 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.

  1. 00:00

    Mr Chamberlain

    About bloody time. What is it?

  2. 00:01

    Mrs Chamberlain

    What's wrong with our little boy?

  3. 00:03

    Doctor

    Calm down, Mr and Mrs Chamberlain. We have diagnosed your son's condition.

  4. 00:07

    Mrs Chamberlain

    Oh, well, that's good news, isn't it?

  5. 00:09

    Doctor

    Yeah, well, no, I'm afraid it isn't good news.

  6. 00:16

    Mr Chamberlain

    Tamblyn. Tamblyn, wake up. Tamblyn

  7. 00:18

    Doctor

    can't hear you, Mr Chamberlain. There's no nice way of saying this, but your son is dying.

  8. 00:26

    Mrs Chamberlain

    My little pumpkin!

  9. 00:27

    Mr Chamberlain

    Hang on in there, Tamblyn.

  10. 00:29

    Mr Chamberlain

    Dying? What of?

  11. 00:32

    Doctor

    Embarrassment.

  12. 00:33

    Mr Chamberlain

    Brave little soldier.

  13. 00:37

    Mrs Chamberlain

    Have you been cutting up his egg for him? Because he does like it cut. Oh, look at the state of you.

  14. 00:42

    Doctor

    I've never seen levels of embarrassment like this before. We estimate that he's got six weeks left at most.

  15. 00:48

    Mr Chamberlain

    Well, nothing's too good for him. We're going to make these last weeks the best ever. Do you hear me, Tamburlaine? The best ever. We'll take you to Disneyland. You can meet Mickey Mouse himself, shake his hand. We'll make them do a parade just for you.

  16. 01:01

    Mrs Chamberlain

    You can get that singer and he likes. The one that did Achy Breaky Heart. He can come in and wake you with a song! What was it called?

  17. 01:08

    Mr Chamberlain

    Right, says Fred.

  18. 01:09

    Mrs Chamberlain

    Says Fred! That's the one! You'd like that, wouldn't you, poodle-pops?

  19. 01:12

    Mr Chamberlain

    Remember? You danced to it at your Auntie Pauline's boob-job party!

  20. 01:16

    Mrs Chamberlain

    He was five! Little purple page-boy outfit and a white sailor's hat. It was so adorable! I've got some photographs. Oh. Oh, no. Hang on. That was him, too, in the bath. Look at his little dinky-doo. We're losing him! Binky, don't go! You haven't tried on your new cardigan!

  21. 01:37

    Doctor

    time of death 11 26 a.m

  22. 01:41

    Mrs Chamberlain

    mr bungles is crying

  23. 01:45

    Mr Chamberlain

    we're gonna give you the best funeral ever uncle jeff will read some of his blue limericks and i'll do my impression of john major singing thriller

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