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The Gift Shop Sketch

That Mitchell and Webb Look2010Season 4Episode 2
That Mitchell and Webb Look
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The setup

A customer's hunt for a present for his aunt is chopped into a cliffhanger serial by a narrator who cannot stop teasing what happens next.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

Brian walks into a gift shop looking for something for his aunt, and the shopkeeper eventually offers him a knitted woollen dog. That is the whole story, but a breathless narrator turns it into a multi-part event, opening every segment with what is coming up, recapping what came before, rerunning the same few lines and asking whether Brian has come to the right place. The long-delayed payoff is a sudden family revelation between customer and shopkeeper, and only under the spoof end credits is the entire exchange finally played straight through, taking barely twenty seconds.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 2

Say it with us

Highly quotable.

Well, you've come to the right place. This is, after all, a gift shop.

That's perfect. It's like you've met my aunt.

Yes, she's my aunt, too.

Behind the scenes

The people who made it.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

Contemporary TV previews, including Metro's, read the sketch as a parody of the trails and recaps that pad out factual television.

ScriptEnglish · 68 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.

  1. 00:01

    Coming up on The Gift Shop Sketch.

  2. 00:03

    Shopkeeper

    Can I help you, sir?

  3. 00:04

    Brian

    Yes, I'm looking for a gift for my aunt.

  4. 00:06

    Brian is looking for a gift for his aunt.

  5. 00:08

    Brian

    I'm looking for a gift for my aunt.

  6. 00:09

    But has he come to the right place? Find out in part two of The Gift Shop Sketch. In The Gift Shop Sketch so far, Brian...

  7. 00:18

    Shopkeeper

    Can I help you, sir?

  8. 00:18

    ...is looking for a gift for his aunt.

  9. 00:20

    Brian

    I'm looking for a gift for my aunt.

  10. 00:21

    Shopkeeper

    Well, you've come to the right place.

  11. 00:23

    But has he come to the right place?

  12. 00:24

    Shopkeeper

    Well, you've come to the right place. This is, after all, a gift shop.

  13. 00:27

    Brian

    Well, yes, this is what I was thinking.

  14. 00:28

    But has Brian got his thinking right? He thinks he's in the right place, but will he get that gift that he needs?

  15. 00:34

    Brian

    I'm looking for a gift for my aunt.

  16. 00:35

    Find out in part three of The Gift Shop Sketch. Coming up in The Gift Shop Sketch, part three.

  17. 00:41

    Shopkeeper

    How about this woolen dog?

  18. 00:42

    The shopkeeper makes a suggestion.

  19. 00:44

    Shopkeeper

    How about this woolen dog?

  20. 00:45

    But what will Brian's reaction be?

  21. 00:47

    Brian

    I'm looking for a gift for my aunt.

  22. 00:48

    But what sort?

  23. 00:49

    Shopkeeper

    How about this woolen dog?

  24. 00:51

    We already know the shopkeeper says that, but what does Brian, who's...

  25. 00:54

    Brian

    Looking for a gift for my aunt.

  26. 00:55

    ...say before that?

  27. 00:56

    Brian

    Well, the sort of gift that if it were a quote, it would be apposite.

  28. 00:59

    Shopkeeper ?

    Hmm. How about this woolen dog?

  29. 01:01

    Does the shopkeeper have a woolen dog? Will Brian like it? Find out in part four of The Gift Shop Sketch. Previously on The Gift Shop Sketch...

  30. 01:10

    Shopkeeper

    This woolen dog.

  31. 01:11

    Brian

    Yes, I'm looking for a gift for my arm.

  32. 01:13

    Shopkeeper

    Can I help you, sir?

  33. 01:14

    Coming up in part four...

  34. 01:15

    Brian

    That's perfect. It's like you've met my arm.

  35. 01:17

    What does Brian say that about?

  36. 01:18

    Shopkeeper

    How about this woolen dog?

  37. 01:20

    Is it that?

  38. 01:20

    Shopkeeper

    This woolen dog.

  39. 01:21

    Brian

    That's perfect. It's like you've met my arm.

  40. 01:23

    Yes! Coming up in The Gift Shop Sketch, the end of The Gift Shop Sketch.

  41. 01:27

    Shopkeeper

    Eh?

  42. 01:27

    But first, the bit before the end.

  43. 01:30

    Brian

    That's perfect. It's like you've met my aunt.

  44. 01:32

    Shopkeeper

    Yes, she's my aunt, too.

  45. 01:33

    Brian

    Daddy!

  46. 01:34

    And now the end.

  47. 01:36

    Shopkeeper

    Eh?

  48. 01:36

    And now them both together.

  49. 01:38

    Brian

    That's perfect. It's like you've met my aunt.

  50. 01:40

    Shopkeeper

    Yes, she's my aunt, too.

  51. 01:42

    Brian

    Daddy!

  52. 01:42

    Shopkeeper

    Eh?

  53. 01:43

    Which is a world away from how it started.

  54. 01:46

    Brian

    Yes, I'm looking for a gift for my aunt.

  55. 01:48

    Next week on The Gift Shop Sketch.

  56. 01:50

    Shopkeeper

    Can I help you, sir?

  57. 01:51

    Until then, good night.

  58. 01:54

    Shopkeeper

    Can I help you, sir?

  59. 01:55

    Brian

    Yes, I'm looking for a gift for my aunt.

  60. 01:56

    Shopkeeper

    Well, you've come to the right place. This is, after all, a gift shop.

  61. 01:59

    Brian

    Well, yes, this is what I was thinking.

  62. 02:01

    Shopkeeper

    What sort of thing were you looking for?

  63. 02:02

    Brian

    Well, the sort of thing that, if it were a quote, it would be apposite.

  64. 02:05

    Shopkeeper ?

    Hmm. How about this woollen dog?

  65. 02:08

    Brian

    That's perfect. It's like you've met my aunt.

  66. 02:10

    Shopkeeper

    Yes, she's my aunt, too.

  67. 02:12

    Brian

    Daddy!

  68. 02:12

    Shopkeeper

    Eh?

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