That Mitchell & Webb Look - Bronze Orientation

Bronze Orientation for stone-age chippers and tie-ers. A sketch from series 2 of That Mitchell and Webb Look.

[srjskam]

The chipper will become a man with lots of jewellery all of a sudden when everyone realizes they can't afford to just port everything to bronze and they need someone to maintain the legacy stone.

[tombrown]

Ironically the Bronze age saw the pinnacle of stone working. Archaeologically you rarely find bronze on Bronze age sites, but plenty of flints. Bronze in the Bronze age was very expensive, so it was frequently recycled, and kept in the hands of the wealthy, whilst flint remained the Bread and butter material for tools well into the Iron Age.

[TheMattastic]

I find it amazing how these people's language has the word "zeitgeisty" but not "three".

[karepanman]

Bronze is very nice and all, but there's just something more artisanal and authentic about a stone axe. It makes a "warmer" sound when you hit something with it.

[pavarottiaardvark]

This should be the intro video for Age of Empires Definitive Edition.

[Prederick]

"A family of as many hands as I have and then more than that" is such a fantastic line.

[Steve]

The Bronze Age Olympics was rubbish because everyone came third.

[chuffmunky]

Here's me spending a week writing an essay on the repercussions of robotics on the work market, when I could have just handed in a link to this sketch.

[stephaniecarr]

feed a family of as many hands as I have and then more than that.." lol!! The writing in this is just, well, brilliant! Just like BRONZE!!!

[hats]

My father and his father before him were chippers, all the way back generations. Neither of them understood when I told them I wanted to train as a smelter. They kept saying I was dishonouring the family name. Joke's on them though, they got killed by the tribe by the river with shiny hats when they raided the village at time when someone gets out of bed to have a noisy piss, but I managed to survive thanks to my bronze sleeping cover.

[kida]

Big Feet's next job could be in cyber

(He just doesn't know it yet)

[Yawehplaneswalker]

That part at the end "Will all the bronze still need tying to sticks" was my favourite. Whenever you come out with a new better technology, you still need tradespeople to actually install and maintain the bloody stuff :P

[SohanDsouza]

1:15 Extra points for the Cerne Abbas Giant on the helmet.

[WalkaCrookedLine]

The decoration on Harry Back's helmet is genius. The lines are so faint you almost miss them, but once you notice impossible to ignore. Shows up clearly for just a couple of seconds at 1:16.

[Georgieastra]

Could not the chipper just learn to code?

[Dayvit]

I love how everybody in the comments is combining actual historical facts with tongue-in-cheek parodies on modern automation. The most well read commenters I've seen on youtube in a long time.

[Psycandy]

before the digital orientation week, we had the, er, it was steam i think. For ages, everything was steam, steam phones, steam nightclubs and so on. The best part was that fire engines were also steam, which requires fire to work. The fire dept actually started more fires than they extinguished and were glad when diesel took over.

[whuforever]

Interesting little detail - the figure on the bronze helmet is in fact the Cerne Abbas giant, a famous ancient figure carved into a Dorset hill! I live nearby, and we even have a brewery in its namesake.

[nyar]

I specialise in the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age, and I am dying with laughter everytime I see this.

[gregoryashton]

How they fitted this into a clip under 3 mins is astounding - comedic gold.