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Explorers: Greenland

That Mitchell and Webb Look 2008 Season 2 Episode 4

SKETCH-O-VISION

A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

Two polar explorers battle a howling blizzard until one of them settles on a name for the bleak white land they have reached, with a shrug rather than any ceremony.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

The camera creeps up from a wall of ice to a pair of snowshoed boots, then to two heavily wrapped explorers in goggles and scarves who stand roped together as the storm whips around them. Bundled up and barely able to see, they settle the matter of what to call the place they have reached. It is a very quick runner built on the gap between the grand tradition of naming new lands and the bleak, indifferent way these two do it, and it ends on a dismissive reply before the broadcast moves on.