Blunder (TV series)
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| Blunder | |
|---|---|
| Format | Comedy |
| Starring | Nina Conti Simon Farnaby Tom Meeten David Mitchell Rhys Thomas Tony Way |
| Opening theme | by Steven Burge |
| Country of origin |  United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Alan Marke |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Channel 4 |
| Original run | 2006 – 2006 |
| External links | |
| IMDb profile | |
Blunder was a Channel 4 comedy sketch series shown in the UK on E4 and repeated on Channel 4. No announcement of a second series has yet been made.
[edit] Characters
| Character | Played by | |
|---|---|---|
| The Baron | A hyperactive puerile madman who claims to be the most evil man in the world. He notably tires out towards the end, and often finishes attempting to leave the stage in a strange fashion. | Tom |
| Karate Johnson | A martial arts expert who tells morality tales, ending with his catchphrase "This is karate" and following it up with a flurry of kicks which reveal too much seemingly accidentally at first, but it becomes more deliberate as the series goes on. | Tom |
| Franco Franco | A Euro style crooner who sings inappropriate and nonsensical songs about his unfortunate family. | Tom |
| Colonel Rudd | A maverick wannabe vet who ill-advisedly uses his animal practises on humans. | David |
| Edgar Ford | A doddery old man, who's "unlikely to make it to Christmas". | David |
| Nigel Livid | A man who is constantly annoyed by today's poor TV shows. He storms the channel 4 offices, only to realise he should stop watching them in the first place. | David |
| Mr. Pratt | The swimming teacher with the barnacle head. | David |
| Tollund Man | A 2,000 year old peat bog man who has come back to life. | Rhys |
| Malibu Man | The Malibu man gets randy on Malibu rum and tries it on with a member of the audience. When they refuse his offers he turns to the camera and says "Oh, blow!". | Rhys |
| Frank | A man who wants to perform a bodily function, such as farting, but refuses to do it in a public place because it's "disrespectful", and says he'll be "back in da minute". He ends up carrying out his function inappropriately, and is frowned upon by a man in a bowler hat and moustache (David Mitchell). | Rhys |
| Mr Whippy | A domineering father who won't let his son (Rhys) get a word in. The sketch usually ends with Mr Whippy attacking his son. | Tony |
| Emperor Boswellox | He's conquered moons along with his followers, but his memory isn't quite so superhuman. He asks each member of his group if they would like a particular food item, such as a poppadom or a falafel, before moving on to the audience. | Tony |
| Trish | A woman who can only talk in a "comedy" language. | Nina |
| Pru the Bored Housewife | who does unspeakable things with household appliances | Nina |
| Stuart Ogilvy | A frustrated middle-aged, middle-class golfer who literally gets steamed up about what's wrong with society. He makes several references about the "gowlf clerb". | Simon |
| Mighty Mouse | A race horse who is unlucky in love | Simon |
| Singing Cat | Taking place in a car, a singing cat puppet sings (meows) a tune from a TV soap such as Coronation Street, and the owner (Tony) utters obscenities at it. In later episodes, however, the cat would sing a popular tune, and the owner would join in. This was shown at the credits of each episode. | Tony |
[edit] The Baron
The Baron's vulgarity is infamous for he uses obscene language such as "Jizz-face". Channel 4 were criticised by Ofcom for allowing this to be aired. Channel 4 said in their defence a lot of other more offensive bad language has been used for the same time slot. Ironically Channel 4 did issue a spoof apology at the end of the second episode which was interrupted by a barrage of insults from the baron. Another common criticism of The Baron is that his character is very similar to that of The Hitcher from 'The Mighty Boosh' (A show which pre-dates Blunder by a number of years)
[edit] External links
A youtube video of The Hitcher, who many claim The Baron to be imitating
