That Mitchell and Webb Look - Professor Death

Nooooo!!!

First

Mitchell and Webb are unique. Such a good sketch...

If you really think about it, this is basically how the govt and Nikolai Tesla interacted with each other.

My great uncle actually invented the barcode scanner, so he must have worked with Professor Death.

This might be the cleverest thing ever committed to film

The doom melon has to be the best anti climax. When I first saw this sketch, thought Robert was going to say the Doom melon is ... Well, it's My Lunch...

Is the US President meant to be Harry S. Truman? 😂

They gotta get that scorpion together with ED209 from Robocop 🤣

Helpful bullets are ballistic missiles which will provide, to the target, quite irresistible advice.

So good hahaha

This is fucking horse shit. Evil science FTW. I mean nukes are child's play next to a robot scorpion.

Him and Dr. Mobius would get along.

I love how the hammer doesn’t actually do anything. Those’re some robust inventions!



Well, except the Doom Melon, of course.

James had the best line in this

If Jay Cartwright was an insane Nazi scientist and Will McKenzie was a powerful US President 😂

Secondary English education. PERIOD.

not their best work

I love that the kept in the crazy flubbed line of "laser plated armoured scorpion of death"

Oppenheimer 2 seconds after inventing the nuke

I like how Robert Webb's accent oscillates between German Scientist and James Mason.

The Deaeth ray sketch is very good. There was a guy round our way used to sell life insurance his name was Deaeth. His wife was a marriage celebrant

Today I learned that the English believe an American accent is just a muted Irish accent.

Oppenheimer:

We're currently so short staffed on the day shift at work, that that Armoured Scorpion of Death Assistant (ASDA), would be really useful where I work.....Can't say where that is obviously!.....As*a!

This sketch is all I could think about during Oppenheimer

This is literally the entire plot of Oppenheimer.

Basically,opennheimer

Gonna tell my kids this was Oppenheimer. XD

If only more scientists exhibited that level of integrity.

More accurate than Oppenheimer.

Maybe it's the Mills in me, but military applications pops into my mind first.

I am a man of science to help mankind not destroy it .....

War has helped mankind evolve and science of war leads to a better quality of life ..nothing focuses the human condition quite so much as war

This was literally the first idea that was dreamed up when we split the atom. "We can make a bomb out of it!"

Funnily enough , the price is NOT part of the Barcode , never has been and never will. The price is determined by the Store , the barcode is just a product identifier. So put that in your pipe and smoke it

Nooooooo! I created my swarm of autonomous killer death robots for good not evil!!!

I still absolutely love the sudden sass of "i'm onto you Major Agnew, yeah i got your number" that comes in. Great way to escalate and continue the bits, this show had so many well written and made sketches.

Mr President: "We can drop these nuclear bombs on select cities in Japa-"
Oppenheimer: "NOOOOO! I'M SORRY MR PRESIDENT I MEANT THE NUCLEAR BOMBS TO HELP MANKIND NOT DESTROY IT!"

Why I oughta… 👋

I've only just noticed that their American car is right hand drive.

David Mitchell's American accent lol

I just loved Peep Show so much that I couldn't bring myself to watch this at the time. It's p*** yourself funny now though, would have been then if I'd watched it. 😓

I see the confusion... his name is actually spelled 'Deth' though. I guess the president was only told that verbally.
His first name is Krul and he comes from a family of engineers. His father was called Imenant.

My favourite Mitchell and Webb sketch "NOOOOOOOOO"

"A giant death ray? Military application?"

When it beeps, I always lose kt 😅😊

The Armored Scorpion Of Death from a British sketch show has better CGI than a modern Marvel film

This sketch accounts for 90% of the M&W budget lmao