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Explorers: Virginia

That Mitchell and Webb Look 2008 Season 2 Episode 4

SKETCH-O-VISION

A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

Sir Walter Raleigh proudly christens a new colony in honour of his queen, until his accomplice points out exactly what that name announces to the world.

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The funny people

Meet the cast. 2

Robert Webb

Accomplice

Explorer · Sidekick

Say it with us

Highly quotable.

Who's Virginia?

Why, the Queen of England, you dog!

Welcome to Virginia.

The premise

Here’s the bit.

Two Elizabethan adventurers wade ashore on a windswept beach and survey the new world at their feet. Raleigh decides the land must be named after the Queen, and his hapless accomplice is slow to grasp which of her qualities he means. Once the penny drops, the accomplice politely raises a few diplomatic reservations about advertising that fact to every other nation. Raleigh counters by pulling rank as captain and owner of the boat, and the quiet argument ends with the name settled his way.