Eggheads and Morris Dancers
September 6th, 2007 at 18:58
I know I’ve written about Eggheads before, but today’s episode had such an incredible opening that I have to share it with you. As every episode of the quiz begins, the team introduced themselves. Today’s team were a bunch of Morris Dancers. They introduced themselves and their jobs something like:
“Hello, I’m a chartered surveyor”
“Hi, I’m a data analyst”
“Hello, I’m a supply-chain distribution manager”
That sort of thing. Some of them had moustaches, some had beards. Basically they all looked like dull, mediocre people. It turned out that the name of the team was Berkshire Bedlam Morris. Host Dermot Murnghan asked why the “Bedlam” in the name.
“Well”, one of the contestants explained, “Bedlam is an old word for mad house or crazy person… which I think describes this lot!” (paraphrasing).
I actually visibly flinched, involuntarily turning my head away from the TV and putting my hands over my ears on hearing this. There’s only one thing worse than when terminally boring people claim that they’re “mad” or “crazy”, and that’s accusing someone of being mad when they are actually mentally ill.
I actually located their Morris Dancing website to try and determine whether they are a crazy and wacky bunch or not. And I’ve come to the conclusion that whilst not as boring as I originally thought they were, I think they’re closer to being actually mentally ill than being wacky crazy guys. Either way it makes Bedlam a more accurate name than I gave them credit for.
They seem to go into town dressed as extraordinarily camp Power Rangers.
It would appear they have quite an expansive repertoire, but as you might have guessed, I’m no Morris Dancing expert. I wouldn’t know a jig from a heel & toe dance. I can’t quite tell if the descriptions on the page are written in a knowingly funny way or not.
And after delving further into their website, there’s some genuinely weird stuff. There’s photos of them dressed as women, cockneys, australians, angels, next to nothing, and, er, dressed as women again. To be honest, them in their normal Morris Dancing attire is bizarre enough.
So it looks like Morris Dancers are slightly livelier than I gave them credit for. But are they merely annoyingly deliberately trying to be wacky, or are they actual proper nutters? You decide.
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