Originally, I thought oh, I could have a Horrible Histories week here on the blog, celebrating the new series and all, but that has failed. Basically because for that idea to work, I would’ve had to have seen one new episode a day, which I’ve not been able to do because Tuesday is our roleplaying night, and so on. So instead, here’s a catch-up post about the first three episodes!
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I get the feeling that this series has a slightly higher pace, there are more clips, or at least they have fewer of the same kind in one episode. It feels as if we see the screens with “Terrible Tudors”, “Slimy Stuarts” and the rest more often. Or maybe it’s just me. The new ones for this series are “Fabulous French”, “Angry Aztecs” and “Nasty Knights”.
Episode one had a French nobleman who drove his friends and visitors crazy with his “hilarious” pranks, using “You’ve been Artois’d” (a play on “You’ve Been Punk’d”) as a catchphrase. Not to my personal taste, it was too over-the-top. In episode three, the French Revolution Report reported how many heads got chopped off, as well as some soldiers that tried invading Wales and were captured by a group of women. That worked better.
There are a couple of new sketch themes as well, parodies of popular TV shows. These are great. The mere title Invasion Invasion Invasion (3.3) had me giggling and it was definitely a Location Location Location property hunting type show.
