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Explorers: West Indies

That Mitchell and Webb Look 2008 Season 2 Episode 4

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The setup

Two Tudor-era explorers argue on a beach over whether the islands they have just reached deserve to be called the West Indies.

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And therefore, I hereby name these islands the West Indies.

The premise

Here’s the bit.

Christopher Columbus solemnly claims a stretch of newly found islands and names them the West Indies. His accomplice objects, reasoning that if the world is round, there ought to be an East Indies somewhere beyond them, and he lays out the logic at some length. Columbus settles the argument not with geography but with a point about who is wearing the captain's hat.