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{{quote|''“[[Comedic Sociopathy|There's nothing funnier than Karl in a corner, being poked by a stick.]] I am that stick”''|'''''[[Ricky Gervais]]'''''}}

 

 

The working title for the first season was "Karl Pilkington's Seven Wonders", and involved Karl traveling to the seven wonders of the world - The Great Wall of China ("It goes on for miles, but so does the M6"), Christ the Redeemer in Brazil ("It's like a big pylon"), Macchu Picchu in Peru (he never made it), Chichen Itza in Mexico, the Taj Mahal in India, Petra in Jordan, and the Great Pyramids in Egypt ("It’s like a game of Jenga that’s got out of hand").

 

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* [[Amusing Injuries]]: Karl attempts a Kung Fu move: throwing a needle through a small pane of glass to puncture a balloon. He winds up completely missing everything and spearing his cameraman in the bicep.

* [[BBW]]: Karl appreciates the full-figured Mexican women. For once, it's not one of his abstract statements and actually displays the profound side he only occasionally displays in [[The Ricky Gervais Show]], as well as an awareness, surprisingly, of contemporary body issues for women in much of the western world. Whilst mixed in with his usual pondering, he explains that he admires that the Mexican women can eat what they like and not worry about it, and actively seem to like their food. Western women, he suggests, wouldn't be able to do so.

* [[Shout-Out]]: At one point in the first season Karl says he thought his travelogue was going to be like [[Michael Palin]]'s. Karl also stays at one of the same hotels Palin stayed at (of course, in a much shabbier room) and sees an autographed picture of Palin hanging on a wall.

* [[Tastes Like Chicken]]: While in China, Karl was told that frogs (he keeps calling them "toads") taste like chicken.

* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: On a beach in Israel, no one except him cares about the IDF soldier in swim trunks still packing his assault rifle.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: In China in Season 2, Karl visits a village for midgets and dwarves, which is proportional to their size. When he calls up [[Warwick Davis]] to make sure this is OK, Warwick points out that it's completely exploitive and he's disappointed in Karl. Karl counters with the inane assumption that the dwarf in a king's outfit ''is actually a king.''

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