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Cash4Plutonium

That Mitchell and Webb Look 2010 Season 4 Episode 2

SKETCH-O-VISION

A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

A glossy cash-for-gold style advert invites viewers to mail in any spare plutonium, and the cheerful presenter gets steadily more candid about who is buying it.

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Community rating

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The funny people

Meet the cast. 1

Robert Webb

Cash4Plutonium Presenter

Say it with us

Highly quotable.

With the cash we got for our unsecured plutonium, we bought more plutonium.

The premise

Here’s the bit.

A spiky-haired presenter in a plush office pitches Cash4Plutonium, a service that turns unwanted plutonium into cold hard cash. Satisfied customers appear, including a Russian army officer and a row of robed men waving banknotes, and all of them say they spent their payout on more plutonium. The presenter ticks off acceptable materials with green onscreen graphics, reminds viewers that cash does not grow on trees (nor will anything else after a nuclear winter), suggests spending the proceeds on a plasma TV or fruit, and recommends searching the sofa and dresser drawers for spare isotopes. A premium-rate number flashes up, and the closing shot reveals the presenter has been quietly irradiated, standing in the office on bare skeleton legs.

Behind the scenes