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Christmas Pudding

That Mitchell and Webb Look 2009 Season 3 Episode 3

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The setup

Three frostbitten explorers starve in a tent, yet refuse to touch the one tempting treat that is reserved for December.

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The funny people

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Highly quotable.

We are Englishmen, not animals.

But that was to be the nose for my snowman.

The premise

Here’s the bit.

After a blizzard strands a polar expedition's last three men in their tent, supplies have dwindled to a single tin of pemmican that nobody can face. The stiff-lipped leader rules out every other morsel, including a Christmas pudding, a harvest hamper, tinned peaches and the pancake batter, because each belongs to a holiday still weeks or months away and eating it early would make them no better than Norwegians. His principles collapse when he spots foil in a companion's beard and chocolate on a glove: the other two have already eaten the Advent calendar and the brandy butter. The confessions keep getting worse until the leader learns exactly which vegetable they devoured.

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