Silly Brass Band Music
Prof Brian Cox | Fantastic! So we've just three days to create the Andromeda Spiral in Mr and Mrs Sagan's garden in Dorking! And what have you got there, Francesca? |
Dr Stavrakopoulou | Well, Brian, I've designed a flower bed containing Aaron's Beard, Lily of Sharon and some of that notorious weed, Jacob's Ladder. And I'm going to prove that none of them really exist. |
Rt Revd Tommy Walsh | And I've brought in a small JCB, to help with the sheer amount of mass we've got to move here... |
Prof Brian Cox | .... a million, million, million, million, million stars..... |
Rt Revd Tommy Walsh | I'm going to need a bigger digger. |
Dr Stavrakopoulou | I'm going to wear this different outfit, but still use some long words - because I am a proper academic... |
Prof Brian Cox | And I'm going to stand over there - just where the sun's setting behind that fantastic, marvellous, wonderful sweet chestnut... |
Rt Revd Tommy Walsh | ... which I'm going to cut down to make way for the water feature. Before I put some decking around Messier 42. |
Principal Alan Titchmarsh | Oooh! It's all getting Messier and Messier! |
Rt Revd Tommy Walsh | Clear off Alan. You're not pretty enough and you're not a proper academic. |
Dr Stavrakopoulou | I'm going to stand over by that water feature. Partly to show you our special-effects recreation of the Parting of the Red Sea - which didn't really happen... |
Prof Brian Cox | ...and partly because we've actually managed to put a Black Hole into it. Which was the only way we could fit in the appropriately-named Crab Nebula. By crushing it into the black hole, we've made the Crab Nebula denser than a million, million, million, million, million.... [collapses, hyperventilating] |
Rt Revd Tommy Walsh | Typical. So it's just down to the traditional, salt-of-the-earth Cockernee, with his traditional spade, to move the entire Crab Nebula into the Water Feature. I'm gonna need a bigger wheelbarrow. |
Tony Robinson | So now we're going to go and see what Francesca has found in Trench Number 2. |
Dr Stavrakopoulou | Trench? You think I'm going to be digging with these fingernails? That would turn the whole point of this documentary upside-down. |
Tommy Walsh | Come on, Phil. Looks like it's me and you again. You dig up the old warrior who died of the Black Death, and I'll put in the crazy paving. |
Dr Stavrakopoulou | So having created the Andromeda Spiral in Mr and Mrs Sagan's garden, we've proved that the book of Genesis Chapter 1 - believed by every Christian that ever lived to be a chronologically-accurate description of Creation - is simply not true. |
Rt Revd Tommy Walsh | And we've finished in the nick of time. Here come Mr and Mrs Sagan - just as their house is pulled into the singularity caused by putting the Crab Nebula into a black hole. |
Silly Brass Band Music - Prof Cox balances on the trellis, watching the Sun explode in silhouette. Meanwhile Dr Stavrakopoulou smiles winningly in a bikini in the water feature. Tommy Walsh shrugs, and walks off with his spade.
Rofl! It should win a BAFTA.
ReplyDeleteI am disappointed, Archdruid. Where is Tony Robinson and the TimeTeam in all this?
ReplyDeleteAnd - not being able to watch any of these programmes (damn DRM, damn!) - what exactly is suggestive about Stavrakopoulou leaning over the sunken water feature, or rather: what is it suggestive of?
Mystified-and-miffed yet not from Tunbridge Wells,
Holger
Holger, just for you....
ReplyDeleteThat's more like it! And I get the suggestiveness at last.
ReplyDeleteThough... I was hoping for some 'geophys' involvement. Time Team wouldn't be anything without geophys. But... at least Tony is in it. Many thanks. I am sure it will be a success when you send it to the BBC. Not that I will get to see it. Humph.