That Mitchell & Webb Look - Old Sherlock Holmes

[Tiberius]

So in the penultimate episode of the hit comedy "That Mitchell & Webb Look", the pair joked about Blackadder ending the series with a sad, serious, scene (the lads climbing over the trench wall and into German gunfire). For the end of that episode, they did a similar slow motion scene, and at the end the words "Sod Cancer" came up as a sort of punchline.

Then, in this week's episode (the last of the current series), they did something for real. The start is funny, but wait and watch until the end of the sketch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZKWs7VA0lU

I'm not sure if any of you have relatives with Alzheimers, but I've heard that those moments of "clarity" that the sufferer sometimes gets can be the most heartbreaking. I'm glad they ended the show with such a powerful message.

[leo-rcc]

My uncle committed suicide presumably during a moment of clarity. Even though we were all very sad and upset about it (obviously) I don't think any one of us didn't understand why he did it. We could see it when he felt so hopeless and it really pained him.