Summary Mitchell and Webb: "Are we the baddies?" (Youtube) www.youtube.com
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Hans Very well. They're coming. Now we'll see how these Russians deal with a crack SS division.
n/a Hans?
Hans Have courage, my friend.
n/a Yeah. Hans, I've just noticed something.
Hans These communists are all cowards.
n/a Have you looked at our caps Recently. Our caps. The badges on our caps, have you looked at them? What? No.
n/a A bit. They've got skulls on them. Have you noticed that our caps have actually got Little pictures of skulls on them. I don't, Hands. Are we the baddies?
Hans Let's see. We should be able to hold them at this point here, at least for a few hours.
n/a And why skulls, though? Why skulls?
Hans Well, maybe they're the skulls of our enemies.
n/a Crap. Maybe. But is that how it comes across? I mean, it doesn't say next to the skull, you know, yeah, we killed him, but Trust us this guy was horrid. Well, no.
n/a But, I mean, what do skulls make you think of? Death, Cannibals beheading, pirates.
Hans Pirates are fun. I
n/a didn't say we weren't fun. But fun or not, Pirates are still the baddies. I just can't think of anything good about a skull.
Hans What about pure Aryan skull shape?
n/a Even that is more usually depicted with the skin still on. Whereas the ally
Hans Oh, you haven't been listening to ally propaganda. Of course, they're gonna say we're the bad guys,
n/a but they didn't get to design our uniforms. And their symbols are all, You know, quite nice. Stars, stripes, lions, sickles.
Hans What's so good about a sickle?
n/a Well, nothing. And, obviously, if there's 1 thing we've learned in the last 1,000 miles of retreat, It's that Russian agriculture is in dire need of mechanization. I mean, talk me about it. But you've gotta say it's better than a skull. I mean, I really can't think of anything worse as a symbol than a skull.
Hans Rat's anus.
n/a Yeah. And if we were fighting an army marching under the banner of a rat's anus, I probably would have a lot less worried hands. Crap. Okay. So