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Posted by: Ben Goren | May 24, 2010 8:18 PM

Well, it’s…um…er…that is to say…ah…I mean…well, I suppose it’s in the English language…?

Cheers,

b&

Posted by: Dianne | May 24, 2010 8:26 PM

I think they're confusing Darwin with Huxley.

Posted by: Peter H | May 24, 2010 8:27 PM

What a load of dingos' kidneys!

Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites | May 24, 2010 8:33 PM

Based on this new textbook I got from Texas, that's pretty much how Darwin lived.

Sez right here that after he strangled the last dodo (and wrote The Origin by reading its entrails), he invented communism solely for the purpose of creating bread lines to harvest souls on behalf of Satan and invented anti-Semitism so he'd have someone to blame his numerous crimes on—[skips ahead a few paragraphs]—before he was killed by Saints Heston and Reagan.

Man, everything I learned in school was wrong, apparently.

Posted by: humanizzm | May 24, 2010 8:57 PM

I especially liked the huge "SPOOF" lettering in the end, just to make sure any creationists watching this don't think it's a documentary.

Posted by: deriamis | May 24, 2010 9:01 PM

"Behold the rise of Man!"

I lol'd. But, yeah, good on the script writer for putting in an example of the drive to perpetuate the species. It wouldn't have been the same without it.

Posted by: Kirk | May 24, 2010 9:06 PM

Many things that start with Dar ...

This is not necessarily seasonal, but it is Darsonal.

Dar Williams

Posted by: Notorious P.A.T. | May 24, 2010 9:18 PM

That is funny )

Posted by: monado | May 24, 2010 9:49 PM

Of course, it's historically inaccurate: no proper young lady in those days would wear rouge.

Posted by: https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawnb-E55g7vrnvH-3L1M6d7QuDYWoM_IDEM | May 24, 2010 10:00 PM

Was that supposed to be funny?
If so, what was the target mental age?

Posted by: mike.r.bermudez | May 24, 2010 10:33 PM

Oblig.:

THIS. IS. EVOLUTION!

Posted by: ahtripp | May 24, 2010 10:52 PM

This might be the best thing I've ever seen.

Posted by: Shplane, some shit in french | May 24, 2010 11:00 PM

Meh, would be better if he was a Space Marine and there were robot pirates. And if he caught animals in balls and had them fight each other until they gained enough experience to evolve (That's how it works irl rite?)

And then he would play a children's card game with the Pope to decide the fate of the world.

Posted by: Andyo | May 24, 2010 11:29 PM

You really should have watched Sherlock Holmes to get it. It was funny.

#15: that's curious. In my case, I always thought of Dana Carvey as the funny Martin Short.

Posted by: DLC | May 24, 2010 11:52 PM

I guess I better shut up about my thing for Julie Andrews.

Posted by: sam.sparx | May 25, 2010 12:05 AM

My pitch for Young Darwin In Love

Embarassed publically by an uptight Clergyman with better prospects than Darwin's broke-arse science career (which is why he hates God), in front of his best girl, Darwin heads off to sea in search of redemption. There's a beautiful native girl on the Galapogos who teaches him to believe in himself and though they get intimate it can never really work because she doesn't speak british. There's the hilarious odd couple of a turtle and a finch who are best friends and cause comic havoc on the ship for some reason, and finally Darwin has to race back to Blighty in time for the big lecture for the Royal Society of Sciencey Stuff, and the object of his desire and clergy guy and her dad are all in the front row because her rich dad is a patron and Darwin turns up at the last minute, when everyone is looking at their pocket watches and murmuring, and he's all rakishly dishevelled and maybe he has a fish in his pocket and he starts speaking but he's nervous, but he makes a charming joke and the audience starts to warm to him and then he's off - showing how evolution is really like love, how you have to come through the fires of natural selection to be the best you can be in wheverer you are and how the single most important act you can perform is to help your species refine itself with the person you consider most perfect and she's almost convinced by his newfound fire and passion, but the Clergyman/fiance stands up and accuses him of killing God - but Darwin's best mate (the first mate from the ship, who I forgot to mention earlier), shows up in the lecture hall and it's revealed that he and the Clergyman were lovers, so her dad punches gay clergy guy on the nose and makes him speak with a funny nasal whine, and everyone is in an uproar and Darwin leaps off the stage amidst all the tumultuousness and gets on one knee and proposes. She accepts and they kiss and then God smites them all with bears.

Posted by: Tabby Lavalamp | May 25, 2010 12:13 AM

It's still better than the Lost finale...

Posted by: Usagichan | May 25, 2010 1:17 AM

Shplane

If you were watching the video linked by Rutee, you were watching some (outdated) satire? on Japanese politics (Koizumi was Prime Minister, Taro Aso was a hard line member of his party who would later become Prime Minister (and an Anime fan), both of fairly right wing leanings (but that's true of almost all Japanese politicians)).

The bad guys (in case you missed it) were Kim Jong-il and Kim Jong-eun.

Posted by: jennyxyzzy | May 25, 2010 2:06 AM

OK, Brownian has already won this thread, but I'm distressed to note that after 30-odd comments, no-one has noted the lack of bacon AND cephalopods in this film. I won't be going to see it :-(

Posted by: Rutee, Shrieking Harpy of Dooooom | May 25, 2010 2:14 AM

Actually, my favorite part was in the manga, when it became clear that Yulia Tymoshenko is actually bedding her assistant, rather than Koizumi.

Either that or Space Hitler kidnapping The Pope.

I don't think it's Satire. It's sort of like Metal Wolf Chaos, but for Japan. It's just plain old hot blooded awesome!politics that runs on cool and nonsensoleum. There is awesome and win and not a god damn bit of it is recognizable in the real world.

Personally after the last presidential campaign I think I'd prefer it if the presidential candidates fight in giant robots then do what they do. It'd certainly destroy less of the country.

Posted by: Moggie | May 25, 2010 2:20 AM

#7:

Being English, I doubt Darwin would have to deal with Catholic bishops.

Why on Earth would you think that? England has more than enough Catholic bishops.

Posted by: RobertL | May 25, 2010 2:30 AM

One - that would be more than enough Catholic bishops!

Posted by: SaintStephen | May 25, 2010 4:54 AM

Dana Carvey just slays me. His comedic genius is quite literally on a par with Darwin's scientific genius. I cannot even look at him without smiling. Carvey is just unequivocally, unabashedly brilliant. Definitely in my Top Three Comic talents, right up there with (the young) Bill Cosby and (the young) Woody Allen.

Regarding this movie, I am SO there, that when I get there, there will be no more there, there.

Posted by: Andrew Hall | May 25, 2010 6:33 AM

Brilliant!

http://laughinginpurgatory.blogspot.com/

Posted by: Ray Moscow | May 25, 2010 8:15 AM

I loved him thrashing the bishop and kicking him in his "origin of species", but that poor dodo.

"What have I done?!!!"

Posted by: alex.asolis.net | May 25, 2010 12:57 PM

Pure awesome. :D

Posted by: Notkieran | May 25, 2010 8:11 PM

To expand Catsmate's comment at #47:

There actually is a book called "The Amazing Doctor Darwin" by Charles Sheffield, which is a collection of Victorian-era mysteries involving what would, at the time, have been cutting-edge science.

As Catsmate pointed out, that was Erasmus Darwin.

I would be shocked that Dana Carvey never realised this, except that I am resigned to an entire world of people who live up the trope of "DID NOT DO THE RESEARCH" since it's all entertainment anyway.

Posted by: melior | May 26, 2010 1:02 AM

I always get a chuckle watching the "Ancestry.com" TV ad where the guy says, "I found other people on ancestry.com who created [lineage] trees, and was able to trace my ancestry back to the Civil War!"

Makes me want to produce a parody ad where the guy says, "I found other people on evolutionarybiology.org who created trees, and was able to trace my ancestry back 2.5 million years!"