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Horrible Histories Was So Goddamn Funny

Okay, so. Most of the jokes in Horrible Histories were pretty surface level. Which is fine, because ‘surface level’ is not the same thing as ‘unfunny’, and also it was for children. But every so often there was something that only got funnier the more you thought about it.

In Horrible Histories, sketches were often based around a show-specific trope I call the Unremarkable Time Traveler. A sketch would be set in a modern day school, or hospital, or pet shop, or whatever, and the whole thing would revolve around someone from the past showing up and trying to get the modern people to do things the historical way. So an Ancient Greek doctor’s working at the hospital, or the school’s hired a Victorian headmaster, that sort of thing. The whole joke of these sketches is very British - it’s an Absurdity interacting with the Mundane, but the Mundane’s reactions to the Absurdity never address the core strangeness of the situation (i.e. an Ancient Athenian practicing medicine in a 21st century hospital), but instead only object to the inconveniences it causes (i.e. his outdated medical practices not working). You see this sort of thing all the time in British comedies, especially classic ones. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is built on this.

So when you first watch the Historical Paramedics sketches, you have every reason to believe that this is just another Unremarkable Time Traveler situation. Two guys claiming to be from the Stuart/Victorian/etc. era show up, try their weird old medicine on people, and leave. Except.

EXCEPT. 

In the other Unremarkable Time Traveler cases, they’re never the same people. It’s different every time. But with the Paramedics, it’s always the same two guys. Now, you might say ‘hey, no! This show stars a troupe of character actors, they’re constantly doubling up on roles, it’s just the same actors playing different characters!’ To which I say no! Do not presume you know more than me about this! It is, without a doubt, the same two guys! Because the Historical Paramedics have names:

(They are also, apparently, a couple)

Horrible Histories has tonnes of running characters that transcend era, but most of them are modern-era characters (Mike Peabody, Cliff Whiteley, the host of Historical Fashion Fix, etc.) who talk about or interact with the Time Travelers, or in Mike’s case, are themselves Time Travelers. The Grim Reaper, as an immortal being, is basically the only exception (and I guess the Shouty Man, but he’s really just a representation of a concept). Which makes Jeff and Nigel a bit of an anomaly, being named, recurring characters… from all manner of historical eras. What’s up with that? 

Perhaps they are immortals, like the Grim Reaper, living through all of history, but popping in and out of our modern era from time to time, by whatever method the other Time Travelers also use? Could be, but I don’t think so. Jeff and Nigel are uniquely aware that their actions are not appreciated in the modern era, as demonstrated by the fact that they always run away before the real paramedics arrive. So I propose a different theory:

The Historical Paramedics are actually modern-era characters.

Jeff and Nigel are not Unremarkable Time Travelers. They are, in fact, history enthusiasts who have always lived in the late 20th/early 21st century, have somehow got their hands on an ambulance scanner, and, instead of handing it in to the authorities, are using it to harass the sick and injured while wearing silly costumes. 

In other words, these two are perhaps the truest embodiments of Be Gay, Do Crime in all of televised media. 

This show was so great, you guys.

(It is, admittedly, the tiniest, slightest bit possible that none of this was intentional and I have brainrot. But I don’t think that’s the case, do you? And even if it is, this idea still makes an already funny sketch that much funnier, doesn’t it? Yes. Of course it does. I knew you’d understand.)

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Revenge on @floofynewfy's oc Copper!

I'm so late to this help me

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Guys... I finally did it... I may be rlly late but my Artfight profile is finally fully updated and ready to go!!

Y'all better attack me this took over two weeks to set everything up 🙏🙏

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Deny it all you want, there will always be something innately healing about turning your comfort characters into cats and dogs

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Okay, now that I've done the show, I can finally LOCK IN and join in with artfight I left y'all waiting for WAY too long 🙏🙏

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I am so fucjking tired

Show tomorrow wish me luck 🙏🙏

She Jabber on my wocky till I Brillig Braelig oofishness un cryptic diagnosis

I've gotta be at the theatre for a full twelve hours tomorrow help me

Nah dw it's gonna be epic I'll tell y'all about how it goes when I recover from the inevitable energy drain

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Show tomorrow wish me luck 🙏🙏

She Jabber on my wocky till I Brillig Braelig oofishness un cryptic diagnosis

I've gotta be at the theatre for a full twelve hours tomorrow help me

Nah dw it's gonna be epic I'll tell y'all about how it goes when I recover from the inevitable energy drain

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Who up managing they flamingo

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It's only culture and it's more afraid of you that you're of it...!

Always making sure I break out of my art block with a banger, and if I'm back drawing Will Wood you know I'm not messing around

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SHITTTTT IM STARTING TO FEEL LIKE I MIGHT AS WELL JUST REDESIGN MY OCS AND JUMP IN A LIL LATE

DAMN that artfight fomo guilt hits HARD now that I no longer use my ocs

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Running low on things to post since I'm not rlly drawing at the moment so here's a little teaser for something I'm scheming

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forever claiming the headcanon that Thomas’s father left him when he was younger

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DAMN that artfight fomo guilt hits HARD now that I no longer use my ocs

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They make me ill I fear

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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You saw nothing

Guys help I'm already having pfp doubts 😔

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Guys help I'm already having pfp doubts 😔