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Come with us now on a journey through time and space.to the world of the Mighty Boosh. The Mighty Boosh is a rather unusual British comedy series about two friends, Howard Moon (Julian Barratt) and Vince Noir (), who have bizarre adventures together. Howard is a humorless braggart with a love for jazz and a penchant for getting into trouble, and Vince (the 'King of the Mods', the 'Mayor of Camden', and the face of Cheekbone magazine) ends up saving Howard, which tends to involve him talking to animals and wearing silly outfits.

They eventually have to fight a (usually in song) while meeting a range of strange characters, many of whom are also played by Barratt and Fielding. The two work at a zoo and end up living together with the stoner shaman, Naboo (played by Michael Fielding, Noel's brother, whose hair is the show's ), and Bollo, Naboo's gorilla familiar (Dave Brown). Episodes have tended to focus on Howard and Vince leaving the zoo (first series), their flat (second series), or their second-hand goods shop (third series) but locations have varied from the Arctic tundra, Monkey Hell, and the planet Xooberon. The humor of the show is based on a combination of non-sequiturs, pop culture references, psychedelic visuals, and musical interludes.

The look of the show is intentionally low-budget but highly creative. The humor ranges from the silly to the surreal, but stays happy and sweet.

Much like a children's show, only with balls jokes. Part of the show's appeal is its homemade vibe. The visual elements (including the animations) are based on Fielding's art, while Barratt composes all of the music (and plays a mean guitar). Many of the extras are Barratt's and Fielding's friends and family.

The Mighty Boosh was a stage act, then a radio series, before it became a TV show. It returned to the stage between Series 2 and 3. Annother live tour took place between 2008 and 2009. The whole crew reunited in 2013 for several music-centric stage shows in the UK and one at Festival Supreme on Santa Monica Pier. If you've ever wondered what would happen if the characters of Bob Fossil and Dixon Bainbridge got their own show, see. Vote for your favourite episode by heading over to the. This show provides examples of: •: Done with Howard pretending to talk about jazz and Vince.

While they're both decked out in goth attire. It doesn't work. •: Lampshaded with the Shaman Tony Harrison. •,: Most of the second half of 'The Nightmare of Milky Joe'. •: When they're captured together in 'Tundra', Howard tells Vince that he loves him. Vince laughs, but tells Howard that he loves him as well, even though Howard's pride is too injured to believe him. 'You're just saying that because I said it to you.

It doesn't work. It doesn't mean anything.' 'No, I love you!' •: Vince Noir.

Pandas, Yetis, Polar Bears, Monsters, anything, although he usually just gives them cuddles. Also, Rudi was initially a one-shot character but had almost a whole episode dedicated to him after series one. •: Naboo 'doesn't really do anything'. Considering his, it's not like he has a choice. Vince Noir: 'Everybody fancies me, I'm the confuser! Is it a woman? Oh, I don't think I mind.'

•: Joey Moose the Australian zoo keeper gave off this vibe, seeing as how he was an obvious Steve Irwin Expy. •: Dixon Bainbridge, man of action. Vince: You think [Nanatoo] is in the forest? •: Taken to extremes with Howard. When he attempts to write a book, he comes up with a sentence that he believes is good enough to convince a publisher to commission his book. At even the tiniest hint of criticism from first, Vince, and later, Mrs. Gideon, he goes into fits of rage, even punching the latter.

•: Roger Daltrey, Gary Numan, the bands Razorlight and the Horrors, Diva Zappa as Howard's girlfriend •: • The Hitcher • The Crack Fox. Deleted scenes effectively make him a for urban animals trying to. •: • 'Don't kill me!

I have so much to give!' • Howard ending sentences with 'sir'. • For Vince, everything is 'genius!'

•: Rudi in 'The Priest and the Beast.' Assuming you don't count. •: about once an episode. For example- Vince's overstuffed suitcase, which kills the Queen Yeti in 'Call of the Yeti'. •: Vince and Howard have been friends since primary school and were in the same class. •: Many characters would qualify, but none as much as the Moon.

• 'Some people go awwww, look at the moon up there with his milky white face. He's all gentle.

And others go UGH, he's a vanilla rapist, get 'im away from my kids.' •: The place Howard and Vince live in is supposed to be London, but instead of British currency they use euros, animals attempt to get busy with humans (and indeed talk and DJ at clubs) and no one finds it odd, time travel is as simple as hailing a taxi, sometimes popstars are birds, magic is real and involves both bureaucratic councils and a lot of drug taking, and strange, immortal Cockney green witches inhabit the streets. • It would seem this extends to the rest of the solar system, as the Moon is something of an (apparently having driven a man who looked up to the Moon to '[Have] a shit on a salad.' ), is completely and utterly batshit insane, and often mentions other planets as living beings, with Jupiter showing up to eat a fake moon that inexplicably appeared from nowhere. •: • Inverted, in numerous moments in all three series, reference is made to the age difference between Howard and Vince; sometimes they are the same age, sometimes they are up to 10 years apart.

These moments are invariably followed with a musical cue and pointed looks into the camera. • After Naboo tells the story of the peacock and the magpie in 'The Power of the Crimp', Naboo and Bollo are shown to be watching Peacock Dreams in 'Party'. •: • Everybody join in! 'Bouncy bouncy/Oh such a good time/Bouncy bouncy/Shoes all in a line.' • Bob Fossil attempts this and fails in the radio series with the 'Nicey nicey zoo zoo' song, partly because no-one joins in, partly because, in his excitement, he hurls a small child into the lion enclosure. •: Naboo gives Howard a picture of kittens in a barrel to look at, as a form of Anger Management therapy. The one on the right is named Philip.

•: Montgomery Flange in 'The Chokes.' Could also possible apply to Howard in 'Bollo' when he calls Vince from Limbo, though he does come. •: Howard sold his soul to the Spirit of Jazz in exchange for musical talent. •: In the radio series, Joey Moose turned up alive during the events of 'Mutants' and even helped Vince and Howard on their quest. In the TV version, he's at the start of the episode. His actor Dave Brown played one of the mutants (Specifically the breakdancing one), so it's possible he was turned into mutant, but the mutant shows no recognition towards Howard and Vince so it's up to interpretation if this was meant to be Joey or not. •: • The episode 'Bollo' is almost entirely based around the death of the eponymous gorilla.

He becomes a major character in Series 2, and even makes a brief cameo later on in series 1, wherein the fact that he died a few episodes ago is not mentioned. • Also, Saboo and (presumably) Tony Harrison die in Series 2 only to return in Series 3. Not to mention the Hitcher, who was liquefied in Series 2 but returned in the next series perfectly intact. •: The Hitcher does this with Vince and Howard in the live show..

•: Word of God says that they wanted one animation per episode, but this proved too much work for the animators. •: Bob Fossil, zoo manager doesn't know the names of any of the animals in the zoo, calling them such things as 'grey leg-faced man' (elephant), and 'black-and-white Chinese person who eats sticks' (panda). Here's his description of a kangaroo.

You know those guys, with the little hands? You know, with the big pockets? You know, with the little version of themselves in the front pocket?' •: Lance Dior and Harold Boon of 'The Flighty Zeus' are dopplegangers of Vince and Howard respectively who copy their styles and personalities, much to the annoyance of the latter two. Naboo, Bollo, and even the moon also end up getting their own doppelgangers in the same episode. •: 'Howard Moon, colon, explorer.' 'Howard Moon, colon explorer?'

Download Free Software Hung Chang Oscilloscope Manual. •: Vince is frequently mistaken for a woman, though how attractive people find him varies. At one point he's called Howard's ugly wife, while in another a 'nubile princess'. Vince himself brags about being 'the confuser' who attracts people of every sexuality. •: Naboo is an extremely long-suffering and cynical version •: Every single character on the show including one shot extras think that Howard and Vince are in a relationship •: Vince is frequently hit on by several male characters.

•: Bollo the ape, Naboo's familiar. •: The Hitcher has a nice cackle. •: Played with - the 'Flighty Zeus', consisting of Lance Dior and Harold Boon, who copy Vince and Howard and essentially try to steal their lives. They also have evil copies of Naboo and Bollo to round out their troupe.

•: The Black Tubes, Kraftwork Orange, Orange Work-Kraft, Pete Neon (half-flamingo, half-pop star), Terminal Margaret, Rudi & Spider, Black Tubes (played by real band Horrors). The radio show also includes the Ladder Coins. •: The Pencil Case girl. •: The Crack Fox uses his bad diet against Vince to render him unconscious.

•: Vince kisses Howard to folly an angry shaman into thinking they're in a relationship, but despite Howard taking it a bit more seriously than Vince at first, he quickly gets over it when a girl that he's attracted to shows up. Vince then get's jealous for about a minute before another girl shows up, and he leaves with her. •: Howard selling his soul to the Spirit of Jazz in exchange for musical jazz talent. •: Old Gregg is an aquatic monster who is also a green man with seaweed hair and a shiny windbreaker. •: Hello, mirrorball suit! Vince is the only person in the world who even remotely pulls it off. •: Howard and Vince's conversations throughout Party set up their session and Howard's resulting temporary infatuation with Vince in several ways: Howard practically falls in love with a girl he'd only spoke to once and states that if he doesn't get with a woman soon, he's 'going gay'.

Vince tries to explain that it's not that simple and that Howard is the least gay person he knows. Howard also says he doesn't fancy Vince, but Vince egotistically insists that all men do. Later, Howard is revealed to be a virgin who's never even kissed anyone. He declares that when he finally does 'make that leap across the physical boundary, it'll be forever'. •: Vince can communicate with animals. He to chat to them about Gary Numan. •: Naboo acts like this at a party after a bottle (used to play ) breaks.

He claims that it wasn't and ordinary bottle and that they released a demon that's hiding inside one of them, causing everyone to worry. He then clarifies that it will only possess the body of a virgin. This causes Howard to scream in terror. Naboo then says that he was only joking, causing an embarrassing moment for Howard. •: Vince's friend Leroy.

He's appeared onscreen a grand total of one time, and even then he was wearing KISS makeup and a wig so we're not entirely sure what he looks like. •: • How you gets to kill a 'roo. • The Cockney Cockpuncher. • Dixon Bainbridge's habit of kicking Bob Fossil in the crotch. •: The Hitcher, after deciding that kids these days don't like eels and Victorian imagery. •: Old Gregg.

He's got a manginaaaa! Howard as well apparently. According to Old Gregg he has a 'Shenis'. And they're going to make sweet, sweet love.

•: In the episode where they get lost in the zoo, Howard's mentor sees Vince and shouts 'A Mod! I am a Rocker, he is a Mod.

We are mortal enemies!' This is a reference to the two eponymous subcultures which clashed in England during the early to mid 60s. •: Rudi van DiSarzio: 'I go by names.' •: Kodiak Jack licks Vince's hand, considering him a 'nubile princess'.

•: well, Vince's hair is always improbable, but it's exceptionally so in 'The Nightmare of Milky Joe' • Not to mention 'Journey to the Centre of the Punk.' • Inverted briefly in 'The Power of the Crimp', when Vince temporarily has a. 'probable' haircut, and it's an enormous shock to the system for everyone involved (the audience included). • Then there's a mullet on a 68-year-old sailor. • And a perm on the Ape of Death. Not that there's a specific hairstyle you'd expect the 'Ape of Death' to have. But if there were, it probably wouldn't be a perm.

•: • Howard Moon, Fox Bummer. • Vince and his Panda, the same Panda who eventually steals Miss Gideon away from Howard.

• Bob Fossil and Bollo; they had a 'summer fling', which Bob apparently didn't get the memo that it's over • In, one of the early Boosh stage shows, both Howard and Vince sleep with a yeti, and get romantic tattoos to commemorate the fact. (Howard thought they had something special!) •: Dixon Bainbridge is loud, abrasive and sometimes violent. •: (In the stage show) The Hitcher murders the entire main cast, including the off-stage decapitation of Howard and Vince. •: 'Party,' which has some fun with the age difference between Howard and Vince (and actors Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding). •: Dixon Bainbridge in particular, and Bob Fossil in every episode he appears.

The Hitcher also qualifies here, and the other characters have their moments. •: Both Alan and Kodiac Jack (both played by Rich Fulcher) greet Vince by licking his hand.

•: in 'The Chokes'. •: The Spirit of Jazz to Howard in 'Journey to the Centre of the Punk'. First he's his father, then his uncle, then his second cousin twice removed on his sister's side. •: The Boosh could definitely qualify as magical realism, as it involves elements of magic that the characters generally take in stride and pay little mind to. • This essay deals with the idea: •: Is completely insane.

•: Parodied in 'The Nightmare of Milky Joe'. Vince: Hey, Howard, why don't we eat this guy? He's made of eggs and sausages. •: How you gets to kill a 'roo.

'Grab his balls. Geez you're thick.' •: 'Howard Moon: Man of Action. Don't kill me!

I've got so much to give!' •: Again, the Hitcher, in 'Eels'. •: Lance Dior and Harold Boon in 'The Power of the Crimp'. •: Parodied brilliantly in 'Mutants'.

•: White dudes in blackface and brownface (and playing very broad racial stereotypes). Although the Spirit of Jazz isn't really 'blackface', per se. He's supposed to be Baron Samedi as a reference to New Orleans culture. •: Many, many times, but (usually) not in a romantic way; Howard and Vince are best friends, but since both are stubborn, they find it very hard to admit their affection for each other and it usually takes a near-death experience for them to say they need one another. Vince's distraught speech to Howard in the episode 'The Power of the Crimp' seemed to shock them both. It was probably a.

•: Sandstorm, Evil Tree, Mister Susan, the Black Frost, Old Gregg, the Ape of Death and the Mod Wolves. The Hitcher probably counts as well. •: Noel Fielding, who has won a 'Sexiest Man' NME, and is also just pretty. • Julian Barratt has his own dedicated fandom. •: Howard makes unbelievable boasts all the time, but they're occasionally shown to be true, like his job offer from Walt Disney, or the sale of his soul to the Spirit of Jazz. •: and •: Howlin' Jimmy Jefferson, a.k.a, the Spirit of Jazz, and no, the hat being on fire is not part of his look • 'OW! Man, my hat's on fire!

What's wrong with you, you blind?! Why didn't you tell me?!' • Also, Jonny Two-Hats, named thus because he wears.two hats. When his confidence is rattled, he wears about five. • Saboo's hat is really something else. • The Polynesian feathered headdress Howard gives Vince in The Power of the Crimp. Also, Vince's hair is 'virtually a hat', apparently meaning by extension that 'all hats suit [him]'.

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He mostly sits around and looks beautiful, although he sometimes goes to rescue Howard •: and Vince's love interest at the end of 'Party'. • She was revealed to be Old Gregg wearing a disguise in a deleted scene.

•: Many many. But, the Incident With The Binoculars. It was in The Guardian. •: If you count the Live show, then it's Howard and Old Gregg. •: The Moon, the musical numbers. It's got a couple of bits. •: Vince, temporarily, in 'Nanageddon'.

Not you, naan bread! • Howard and Vince tend to pretentiously describe their musical performances as 'making shapes' •: 'Jungle,' the live show, etc. •: done by Howard.

His obstinate refusal to understand that Mrs Gideon has no idea he exists, his denying that he is a vain and shallow man (he thinks himself dark and artistic) and he refuses to accept that fact that people find him and his interest/anecdotes/jokes boring. See John Coltrane, the 'Pencil Case' story, and everything else Howard enjoys. His way of wooing women? Trumpets and bookmarks.

• Which apparently could've worked on Mrs Gideon. If it weren't for that meddling panda. And the fact that Howard had just. •: In the episode 'Party', one of the guests on the dance floor looks suspiciously like Faust from.

• The episode 'The Legend of Old Gregg' contains an extended homage to and the P-Funk mythology. • From their Future Sailors tour. What in the name of was that about? •: The Pieface Showcase features in the second series, while the Colobos the Crab appears in the radio variation. • Peacock Dreams could also be an example, though the show itself is only described rather than shown. •: Several characters have mistakenly treated them as a couple, often thinking that is Howard's wife.

They usually leave it alone, but Howard denies it in a couple of episodes. •: Howard.fw •: In the live show, Vince tries to get Howard to wear pink pants.

Howard refuses, saying he has poise and dignity. Vince says he has poise and dignity, too—while putting the pants on his head. •: 'Lester, will you put that trombone down?' • Happened at least one on the radio show. In 'Jungle', the swelling music behind Howard's dramatic scene cuts out when he stops the cassette tape he was playing it on. May have also happened twice with the mood music in 'Mutants.' •: Although, more accurately, Stage to Sound to Screen to Stage and Page Adaptation.

•: Montgomery Flange in 'The Chokes' •: The Hitcher loves calling people slags. • He peppers his conversations with a variety of Mockney phrases pretty much constantly. • Lampshaded by one of his minions who mutters 'Apples and pears and other assorted fruits' • Also, Colin the Death Cab dispatcher, who mutters at one point, 'I'm a Cockney, I'm a Cockney', after a (not-quite) stereotypical round of 'How's your old woman?' With the cabbie who brought Howard to Limbo. •: Vince's 'glam rock ski suit.' •: In 'Party', Vince kisses Howard in order to convince someone that they're a couple. Howard, who hadn't been kissed before, overreacts to it and declares himself gay, but quickly forgets about it when a girl that he has a crush on shows up, and it doesn't come up again.

•: One character receives a phone call on an expedition somewhere in the arctic. We can safely suspend our belief to include it, considering that at the time the expedition, comprised of two zoo-keepers, was trying to defrost the frozen last words of an explorer killed by the Black Frost. •: Played with in the episode 'Jungle' - Bob Fossil eats a key, slowly biting bits off and chewing them. •: In the live show, against a cereal mascot they felt had.

•: Bollo, various bears, fish, the Crack Fox, etc. • Actually, just about anyone played by Rick Fulcher. •: There are other hints of this throughout the series, but in 'Party', after Vince kisses him to get them out of a situation, Howard declares that he's gay and argues that all their previous arguments and bickering were all just a part of their sexual tension. However, this only lasts a little while, and they both end up with women by the end of the episode, and it doesn't come up again. •: On a dare, Vince bites into one of Howard's records and breaks it into pieces. •: The moon talks, often rambling about some nonsense mostly unrelated to anything else going on in the plot. •: An episode had an army of grandmothers attacking people with different items, such as knitting needles.

Made more dangerous by the fact that they're actually demons inadvertently summoned by Vince and Howard. •: Naboo and the Shaman's Council are made up entirely of 'super magic men'. •: Between Howard and a coconut.

General • Discipline: sure, being is impressive. Sure, being the maverick hero who doesn't answer to anyone and save the day by going against everyone's expectations looks cool. But in the end, these expectations exist because following orders in a disciplined fashion is just damned efficient. And this becomes when a huge army comes in a massive. • In the: the Allies in general count. Contrasting with the Axis side's love for devices (the Tiger, Panther, Type-93 Torpedo, Type-97 20mm AT Rifle, Yamato-class Battleships, the list continues.) the Allies simply used less flashy (a.k.a boring) things that neverthless did their job very well. The aformentioned trucks?

Japan, Italy and Germany combined didn't produce as many trucks as Canada alone. •.speaking of which, Canada's contribution to WWII in general. While they fought with distinction in many places, and were responsible for one of the five beaches on D-Day (two Brit, two US, one Canuck), their most important contributions to the war were industrial (trucks and arms production), training (aircrews), and raw materials and foodstuffs. • 'Amateurs study tactics.

Veterans study strategy. Professionals study logistics.' • A tale commonly told in the military: Generals are a happily blessed race who radiate confidence and power. They feed only on ambrosia and drink only nectar. In peace, they stride along confidently and can invade a nation simply by sweeping their hands grandly over a map, pointing their fingers decisively up terrain corridors, and blocking defiles and obstacles with the sides of their arms.

In war, they must stride more slowly, because each general has a logistician riding on his back and he knows that, at any moment, the logistician may lean forward and whisper, “No, you can’t do that!” • This is why most generals tend to be far behind the front lines; they have the experience and knowledge to know where sending supplies or causing a disruption in enemy logistics would make or break a battle. Their knowledge can also help avert more hotheaded behaviour on new recruits, ensuring that they can inflict a maximum amount of damage to the enemy while maintaining a minimum of casualties (which is why discipline is so important, as the reason for a commander's orders might not be immediately clear to you, but certainly is to the guy shouting it). They're also often too old (or in some cases too injured) to be physically fit for combat, so while paperwork and map plotting isn't exactly exciting or glamorous work, it's certainly practical as hell. • Even more boring is the suppliers who have to accompany the infantry in order to keep them fed and armed., suffering many of the same inadequacies and woes as their peers, oftentimes not being even armed, the humble caravan seeks to it that the rest of the army is able to do their jobs, Unglamorous and under-appreciated as they are, other branches of military wouldn't function as smooth as planned without 'em.

Just don't mess with — it isn't wise to anger the men who are responsible for you being watered, fed, shod, clothed, sheltered, supplied, and equipped perhaps for years on end. • As mentioned above and below in Technology part cargo container, it's very important to deliver the necessities (food, uniforms, fuel, ammo, blankets, tents, etc.) to the guys on the front lines while also important to prevent guys from the other side retrieving theirs. Differences of competence of logistics can greatly tip the balance of war. One of the reason the Allies won was that Allied logistic corps (both Western and Eastern and both Pacific and Atlantic) were far better than any Axis logistics corps. For example, the notoriously undersupplied Chinese (though there were exceptions) managed to maintain a defensive stalemate against Japan into 1945, despite huge losses of land, manpower and a lack of adequate foreign aid, mainly due to their much better-supplied Japanese opponents severely overstretching their supply lines. Another example was in North Africa - while Rommel may have been a brilliant tactician, he's widely considered a terrible logistician by many historians.

In his eagerness to drive back the Allied forces, he often overran his own supply lines, so much that capturing fuel dumps barely saved the Africa Korps from defeat in some cases. • Julius Caesar once said an army marches on its stomach. Napoleon similarly said 'The outcome of the battle is incidental to the decisive question of supply.'