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Ted & Ralph: Drinking Game
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
Ted and his friends are enjoying a pub game that requires them to name vegetables between words. Ralph arrives with something serious to tell him, but every attempt at a private conversation is drowned out by laughter and demands for a forfeit. Reluctantly following the rules, Ralph finally communicates his news in the prescribed vegetable sequence. The table falls silent as Ted learns that his wife has died, while Ralph struggles to express sympathy without breaking the game.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 5
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
It's a drinking game, sir.
Tomato Ted, aubergine your, potato wife's, turnip dead.
I mean, tomato sorry.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
Mark Mylod
Director
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
In BBC documentary Comedy Connections, the cast recalled that filming this scene was difficult because the vegetable sequence kept tripping them up.
The rabbit hole continues
One more couldn’t hurt.
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