That Mitchell and Webb Look - Gift Shop Sketch I'm looking for a gift for my aunt
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This is like every single American reality TV show.
This would be the point of the sketch yes
wolemai yeah reality tv sucks pretty much in general
British ones are the same. It takes fucking 5 minutes for the actual program to start. I find myself constantly saying 'get on with it' and fast forwarding.
This is BETTER than any American TV reality shows out there!!
THREE YEARS AGO, @McSuperfly said "This is like every single American reality TV show". That's what he thinks. Did he really mean "EVERY" show? Let's take another look...
I know this is meant to joke about American TV, but the first example that comes to mind is that Border Security: Australia's Frontline. 10 minutes of material crammed into a half-hour slot. Insufferable.
yeah...yeah it is a bit, isn't it.
Better than 48 hours which is 15 minutes crammed into a two hour slot.
The American "style" (if you can call it that) of reality TV/documentaries has definitely spread to other countries as well. I really hope it dies out eventually.
@@TheMetalButcher that's Numberwang!
Not really "crammed" then, is it?
I'm still confused, did he come to the right place?
okrajoe find out after these messages ... or next week in the next episode
MWUAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Yeah i waited the whole season for that and then they left it as a cliff hanger for series 2!
Just a recap; okrajoe was confused whether he came to the right place. Calvin Hall suggest that this was the best comment ever.. Ed Rothera was waiting for the cliffhanger.. AND STILL is. Meanwhile, late game review offered okrajoe advice suggesting he should view next week for the answer.
But has he got his thinking right?
who knows?
This is why I stopped watching The Discovery Channel.
They are so bad with this really gets on my nerves
Same here
Sadly true
Fast forward through it, never watch it live and, if it still pisses you off, write an angry email to the channel.
This is why we watch no regular tv at all.
Part 4 should have been a full recap of parts 1-3 to be accurate.
Part four should have been in a talk-show format where the host interviews the two characters for the entire episode without mentioning anything that's going to happen later.
@@danielm.mclaury3202 And part 3 should have been a complete non-sequitur where they all go off and taste wine or visit a local theme park or something equally inane that has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the episode.
Next week the assistant will be replaced by one of the posh, twisted people who still, unaccountably, run a gift shop.
I miss the nice Irish backpacker who used to work there (I'm in Australia so we don't have friendly Australians)
Were back, were all back
@@djackmanson He's gone, sir. They've all gone... probably backpacking, and we're back.
The only thing it's missing is that really annoying creaky metal sound when something dramatic happens or someone says something in a bitchy way(which is every 5 seconds in American reality).
I think it's a violin bow on a saw. Literally the most obnoxious try-hard sound effect ever. Well, that or constant bass drops in trailers.
cymbols annoy me
+JustJoe CYMBOLS ANNOY HIM, FOLKS
GORDON RAMSAY
Might be a waterphone.
My favorite part is that there's still a line they cut out.
which one?
"What sort of thing were you looking for?", At leas, I think.
They had too much material to work with, they couldn't fit it in
In a way i almost admire the people who have so perfected the 'art' of padding for time. It's annoying as hell, but you have to give them some twisted sort of credit for honing their 'craft'.
I wonder if this sort of television editing is exclusively catering to the channel surfing crowd, who are flipping around and never start watching at the start of a thing, so the show edits in recaps every three minutes so each wave of surfers can know what's going on. My dad is the worst at flipping channels constantly, and he does watch this stuff, and so the recaps let him watch about 5 programs simultaneously. I'd rather watch a single cohesive narrative, but when I was growing up he'd always change it immediately when a commercial came on and go back 15 minutes later.
That or they've adjusted to the mobile device crowd, and know most of their audience only looks up from their smaller screen enough to catch 1/3 of the content, so they can repeat it all twice without those viewers noticing.
@@annana6098 I think there's always been a market for the "distracted viewer" even before mobile devices were so common. My parents (especially my mom) are that way: often working on something and only half-watching what's on the TV.
@@annana6098 If it ever was, that was totally ruined by record and rewind technology.
@@annana6098 are you calling switching channels to not see ads channel surfing or was he just not able to get back on time?
@@tomlxyz My dad is physically unable to not flick away for ad breaks. The trouble is, he seems to have no ability to gauge a roughly 3 minute period of time either.
It’s known in the business as ‘rolling the pastry’. Each roll covers everything and goes a tiny bit further
It should be known as "Unacceptable"!
this is pretty much spot on. amazing
It's like you've watched this video
+Nixo Monopip but have I arrived to the right youtube video?
ophios Find out in the thrilling conclusion
dad?
This IMO is not only one of the best Mitchell and Webb sketches, but one of my favourite all time sketches.
But was it the best sketch?
@@thegrimmretails3777 Coming up next in 'is this the best of all time sketches?'
"It's like you have met my aunt"
"Yes, she is my aunt too"
"DADDY?!"
... this implies a disturbing amount of incest.
I need this explained my brain isn't creative enough! How would a guy and his dad share the same aunt??
Poogle Smith Sally is Suzies sister.
Sally has a male child, tim.
Suzie is tim's aunt (sister of mother)
Tim has sex with his own mother and gets her pregnant, they name their child tom.
Suzie is tom's aunt (sister of mother)
Poogle Smith Sometimes a great aunt is also called an aunt, for not wanting to imply age.
But Robert says "Eh???" at the end, which could mean that David has got it all wrong...
I thought that just meant his dad cheated on his mother
1:30 Oh my god those dramatic lens flares made me laugh harder than anything else in THE GIFT SHOP SKETCH.
Brilliance. Pure unfiltered brilliance.
Oh, how utterly joyous! Lampooning the art of squeezing five minutes of nothing into an hour long programme, and yet still leaving enough room for a twist ending. Bravo, boys!
That woollen dog is what makes this sketch really pop.
1:32 This is possibly the greatest twist in all British Film and TV history.
These transitions look exactly like the ones in Hell's Kitchen.
American here. This is exactly what all American reality shows are like. That's why I've taken up a lot more reading.
Indeed.
And it was why we all switched to streaming services. The TV industry dug its own grave.
This is a great parody of modern TV editing and a perfect example of why cable subscriber numbers are dropping in favour of streaming models that let you watch TV on your terms. Congrats to Mitchell and Webb - they be nailing it - frickkin' funny.
Mythbusters is terrible at this. it's like watching a TV show edited by a micro-nostalgic person with ADD
At some point I started downloading the episodes as they were airing couple seasons behind in my country, and noticed I ended up just skipping about half of the episode because it was just repeating the same things over and over.
@@stebsis to be fair you have to account for all the advertising. basicaly whenever they repeat something it's after an ad-break
Micro-nostalgic is a great word.
I love mythbusters but ist sooo bad in its regular tv format
@@bnjkf9u3 Right? I wish that "Mythbusters for the Impatient" channel had done more uploads before going quiet.
Im looking at you Hell's Kitchen! (US)
Internet is a funny thing. I'm replying to a 6 year old post saying, "Yes! That's exactly what I was thinking". Or am I? Find out in part 2 of this post.
Phillip.
Horseradish
That was eight "I'm looking for a gift for my aunt"'s and seven "how about this woolen dog?"'s if we are keeping count (not counting the full unedited version over the end credits)
Thanks to this, every time I visit an actual gift shop, I think of this sketch and then have to go looking to see if they've got any woollen dogs for sale.
So many show do this thing where they show you clips from the episode you are about to watch.
There are no more dreaded words in television than “COMING UP…”
I need a conclusion - "Gift shop sketch revisited". Who is Daddy? How much was that doggy in the window? Will we meet the Aunt? Will she find the woollen dog "apposite"; so many questions...
"the type of gift that if it were a quote, it would be apposite" dude WHAT
seconds from disaster is like this for real, 2 minute of real life footage 2 mintues of computer animated crash and u have a 30 minute episode with those 4 minutes on repeat :D great sketch!
The only other thing that's missing is commercials every 20 seconds. Has anyone noticed that sometimes they literally give you 20 seconds of programme after 8 minutes of adverts, and then another 8 minutes of adverts (and I do literally mean 20 seconds here)
or they cut just some seconds before the credits (or even just before)
True
I remember watching TV when I would travel to the states back in the 90s and you would have the show intro music, then a fucking advert. Insane.
@@cecil123 I'm looking for a gift for my aunt.
I'm from a country where Discovery channel (and all these other american channels) are not that widely watched so I very rarely watch it. And whenever I watch it with my dad, we're both confused because sometimes it doesn't even finish the programme. It just cuts to ads and you think "oh it's gonna continue in a few minutes" and then it doesn't... A new thing starts... And I swear to god once I've seen this new thing finish and then the previous thing continued like nobody's bussiness...
"The sort of gift that, if it were a quote, it would be apposite"
Hey I know this comment is 8 years old but I've been wondering what this line meant for so long, idk why I've finally snapped and asked, but what the fuck does that mean, as far as I can tell it's gibberish in context
@@ExactFlamingo It is pretty much nonsense, but he's making a comparison to explain how the gift would be perceived, to explain the kind of qualities he wants in a gift. He could straight up say he wants an "apposite" gift, suitable for an aunt, but comparing it to something gives his description more substance.
... The more I think about it, the more I realize it seriously makes no sense. Still my favorite part of the gift shop sketch
@@Pomodorosan it basically means the gift is a suitable one. But you're right, 'suitable' doesn't mean anything without the context of who the recipient is and their relationship to the buyer
The hidden gems here are some of the names in the credits at 1:54 !
I don't know why but R Webb's use of the word "woollen" makes me laugh every time.
I watched this sketch three days ago and I can't stop thinking about it.
I was watching 48 Hours Mystery, and they pulled this so many times in the episode that when I accidentally hit the wrong button on the remote and restarted the show, I didn't notice it for a full five minutes until the opening credits popped up again.
This is pretty much every episode of the Mythbusters except for the first couple of seasons before the show really took off.
Discovery does it on all of their shows, not just mythbusters
There are plenty worse than Mythbusters.
Actually, there's a british show based on a consept that I like, that is a lot more annoying to watch than Mythbusters: Pointless. As I said, the basic consept is actually quite good, but the show itself is very annoying. Half the show is explaning the rules, useless chitchat, and looking at the scores. Aaaaaargh!
@@egilsandnes9637 my family is watching pointless in the other room right now lol. (i actually really like that show but the rule explaining/ canned intro does take a while)
This is the exact format used for Married at First Sight Australia. Entire episodes dedicated to looking back on prior episodes with maybe 5 minutes of new stuff stuck on the end.
" I'm looking for a gift for my Aunt" love them💚
I'm just watching Undercover Boss and it strongly reminded me of this sketch. This adds some laughs to American style TV shows.
Discovery, why did it happen to you...
It was so good I'm the early 2,000s.
It goes to show the power of these editing mind-games when even knowing it's a joke, part of me is like 'Im not gonna close the video, I need to know how this ends'
Salvage Hunters anyone?
Drew: "I like the chair, it looks to be 1920"
Voiceover: Drew has found a chair from 1920.
Drew back at base: "As soon as I walked in saw the chair... From 1920.
Drew: "I like the antlers, they would make an interesting chandelier"
Voiceover: Drew has found some antlers which would make an interesting chandelier.
Drew back at base: "As soon as I spotted the antlers I thought... THEY would make an interesting chandelier"
But in all fairness... This is why I watch it... The excruciating exposition. 🏆🤣
You absolutely deserve a like.
The voiceover bloke in salvage hunters provides voiceover for loads of other shows like a shit '999 emergency services' style show too.
How to make a cheap tv program 101. So accurate it’s painful.
I'm looking for a gift for my aunt
Pridit How about this woollen dog?
That's perfect. It's like you've met my Aunt.
I have. She's my aunt too.
Daddy?
Eh?
It's like every programme on commercial tv - adverts every 5 minutes, lasting 7 minutes, then 3 minutes of recap.
History Channel is even worse than this sketch.
XeromeXHolland Implying that you aren't a fan of this sketch I presume. Or if you're just trying to say that you dislike the History Channel? Rethink your wording.
AimzS94 - You can't possible be that dense... but now I realize that is the obvious, yet unfortunate, reality of this current timeline.
He is obviously commenting on the over-the-top levels they go to (in this sketch) to highlight the ridiculous nature of these 'American' style shows...
...and that even when taking those (already) extreme levels even higher (to acheive maximum parody), The History Channel is *still* worse.
The crux of his point lies in the absurdity of that fact.
Also, if you're going to criticize others, while being so incredibly ignorant - and hilariously cocksure - at the same time; maybe *you* should rethink your logic, or lack thereof, before you make yourself look like a fool agai next time...
*Side Note: As an American, it beyond embarrassing that such shows even exist, and mainstream ones for that matter - that are no doubt viewed and loved by many who are happy to be spoon-fed such pathetic content as they shell out hundreds of dollars a month for it. They willfully accept their lives in general being dumbed-down more and more every day, and allow themselves to be controlled and 'trained' what to think, how to feel, and who to hate/be scared of. It's pathetic, shameful, and disgusting, to be blunt about it.
Only thing missing is the generic rock background tracks changing every 5 seconds
as a canadian who watches only american television, this is very accurate for a lot of shows
Literally kitchen nightmares
How many Americans watched this and mistaken this for a legit reality show?
Apposite, as in apt. The joke is that "how about this woolen dog?" is a concise and apt quote to use in the context of the "coming up" preview to show the viewer what's happening in the show. It's making fun of the fact that reality shows always throw in expositional lines to be used in the previews.
This sketch has made it nearly impossible for me to watch half my shows now
Reminds me of some of the over elaborate crane shots Reeves and mortimer used in some sketches for no end apparently.
soo god damn accurate, and americans will never understand on what level it really is
Oh yes. Please enlighten the word, notoriously hilarious Brits.
Tyler1243 I don't think you understand sarcasm, like a true American.
PotWeedKush Ah yes "sarcasm" aka "I've been called out on something stupid I've said, so I'm going to say I was being sarcastic."
"and americans will never understand on what level it really is " Because all Americans watch reality TV.
Why would Americans "never understand?" Seems to me Americans would understand better than anyone.
I don't know why, but I find it really funny when David Mitchell keeps repeating "I'm looking for a gift for my aunt."
The dramatic editing kills me
The only active people who are in the morning of the more popular ones is called from less than a few days ago and I will be your teacher today for a while back and forth between the two of the day before and it will not stop the same as a name and number one priority is the point is the point is the point is the point of view of the more popular than the one I was wondering what the heck is the best count on you and I will not be able to get the bow out of town for a while back to the scene of hate to see if you are truthful the same time as a result of the more you know that you can get on the door.
@@conelrad22 wtf?
You forgot the twenty commercial breaks each lasting a half hour
While everyone else is talking about reality television, I'm just here wondering why Brian called the gift shop employee Daddy, if the giftee is both of their aunts. Surely that would make them brothers?
Then again, perhaps that's why the gift shop worker looks confused and says "Eh?"
Or cousins.
How did the shop owner know that she was also his aunt?
@@FortoFight Like so many modern documentaries, you're left with more questions than answers because they've spent so much time recapping and predicting.
This is EXACTLY what Evan Davies' commentary on "Dragon's Den" is like.
This is so well done that it's raising my blood pressure.
Man, this series paid off, but boy do they string you along.
Here in france we don't have any good tv show. Thanks to the both countries for the good show !
Indeed.
I swear the walking dead show is like this. NOTHING ever happens in every show, hardly much happens. Sometimes it does and it's still not enough. You should leave an episode feeling satisfied and not feeling like you just ate fucking small meal before the main course.
This is the sketch that just keeps giving. I keep watching it!
This is 100% the truth. Some yank shows drive me up the bloody wall.
The only active people who are in the morning of the more popular ones is called from less than a few days ago and I will be your teacher today for a while back and forth between the two of the day before and it will not stop the same as a name and number one priority is the point is the point is the point is the point of view of the more popular than the one I was wondering what the heck is the best count on you and I will not be able to get the bow out of town for a while back to the scene of hate to see if you are truthful the same time as a result of the more you know that you can get on the door.
@@conelrad22 What the fuck did I just read? Here, you dropped these:
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I would love to know if his aunt liked the gift... can't wait for the next episode to find out!
It's too real. I can't take it.
This should be required viewing for TV editors and producers.
I must start looking for a gift for my aunt.
Original punchline be damned, it just occurred to me how much impact proper editing can have.
You're giving MacGyver here a few scenes with next to nothing, and he makes them into a masterpiece.
This is just a full episode of One Piece
Lmfao yes. 🤣
Same in EU, first you watch American Masterchef, then an hour later, Swedish Masterchef!
All american shows
Not every American show is a reality show...
Congratulations on figuring out the obvious and deliberate joke!
@@johnmartinez7440 Found the offended American
@@callumcowan7047 A) I'm not American. B) That wouldn't even make sense if I were - I was pointing out that it was the obvious joke.
WHAT FEVER DREAM HAVE I STUMBLED INTO
This is amazing! I say the same thing about any of the reality shows my wife watches.
The thing that always sticks out to me from American shows like this is from Worlds Wildest Police Chases, they show a car crashing or 1 second from crashing just before And After the ads and the presenter says "You won't believe what happens next" then after the ads they show the clip...........I would believe what happened next because you basically showed it before the break
This bothers me more than it should... but if they have the same aunt, they are brothers or cousins. Not father and son. It should end with... "It's like you've met my aunt" - "Yes... she's my sister" - "Daddy?"
Mateus Bittencourt She could be a great aunt. Then she would be both of their aunts!
That's why he says "ay?"
Incest creates confusing family trees
They look the same age, maybe David even slightly older. They're not supposed to actually be a father and son. It's probably just absurd for the sake of it, or maybe making fun of a specific show.
I found this video out of frustration that House Hunters constantly does this. Between the constant previews of what's coming up, the constant recaps of what's just happened, and the fake drama they try to insinuate is happening while looking for a place to live, they could have just shown 3 more damn houses. If anyone knows of a show where they just get on with it and show the houses without all the filler, please let me know.
I'm curious as to why Robert annunciates both Ts when he says "She's my aunt too". Most native English speakers wouldn't do that unless they're trying to speak very clearly.
Indeed.
Totally sums up TV nowadays - especially when you realise that they preview the weather forecast now!
Amazingly _The Great American Baking Show_ is done in almost the exact same style as _The Great British Bake Off_. Shame other US reality shows didn't do the same.
Is that a real show? Didn't they realise the _Great_ in 'Great British' is geographical? As in Great Britain lol. 'The Great American Baking Show' just sounds boastful haha.
I nearly had an embalism laughing at this. The impromptu line drawings virtually sent me over the edge! Thank you Mitchell and Webb! Genius.
Are you OK now?
Just watched Hell's Kitchen and had to see this sketch. A perfect send-up of the ridiculous the attempt to build tension out of nothing.
Hardcore Pawn comes to mind .
Sometimes the way these kinds of TV shows edit clips and sound effects feels like some kind of surrealist psychological torture.
So Rob is David's dad. They also share the same aunt, apparently. This is only possible if they are brothers. If they are brothers and Rob is David's father, it means David's mother is their sister.
So he's not, in fact, looking to get a gift for his aunt.
It's for his aunt-sister-mother, actually.
As an American....I still watched it to the end enthralled. Then I was like "WOW that's dumb, who would watch this crap?!"
Speaking as an American; most of us don't actually watch this stuff. Trust me, people from other countries, we're sick of it too.
He's lying to fit in. This is the ONLY thing we watch in America.
I think it's also mainly about the amount of ad breaks
This is painfully true
This is ALL American TV ever is.
yeah, this is pretty accurate. It's why I never really watch TV anymore, except on DVD/Netflix/Hulu/etc.
what about this woolen dog?
How I get to 500 words on my essay
Every Channel 5 program nowadays. The two most dreaded words on TV "coming up" ...Coming up - 56 charity begging adverts, an orthopaedic chair, a 3-hour paid promotion for a bed thing and 9 minutes of previews for shows you watched again yesterday! All this before 5 × 3second animations to tell us who is sponsoring the sponsor's sponsors, which channel we're on (twice) and then a long recap of the 3 seconds of actual program we've actually seen in the last 48 minutes!
This is literally like trying to watch "60 days in", the first half of every episode is a recap and every little detail has to be interupted and repeated constantly.
This reminds me of Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler
This sketch deserves more views
Watching hell’s kitchen. Fucking hate that god damn violin.
I'm American and I thought this was HILARIOUS! Plus, I like British TV too, and more than just Doctor Who, though that is brilliant
Love how this rips it out of reality shows. 10 mins of random crap shoved into an hour like make over shows.
You have not seen true magic of editing if you haven't witnessed Indian Daily Soap