James May's Man Lab: Difference between revisions

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James May is a man on a mission.

The show debuted in October 2010 and had two [[British Brevity|short]] series, plus a [[Christmas Episode]]. A third series has officially announced as being commissioned.

 

* [[Ascended Extra]]: The people who appear on the show who are not James May or established experts are usually members of the ''Man Lab'' crew who seem to have been roped into appearing on the show. Most prominent are producer Will, director Tom, and researchers Charlie, Cassandra, and Rory, though there are many others.

* [[Ashes to Crashes]]: Averted; the space pet funeral goes as planned, and Tommy and Budgie's ashes are released into space.

* [[Bad Date]]: Charlie and Cassandra's date seems to be going well until {{spoiler|Cassandra reveals she already has a boyfriend}}.

* [[British Brevity]]: Series one had three episodes, and series two five episodes.

* [[Cat Scare]]: Actually a ''Bat'' Scare; one flies behind James and Tom at the castle and sends them running back into the safe room.

* [[Double Vision]]: James manages to hold conversations with himself on two separate occasions at the Man Lab bar via a split screen-type effect. In the first he complains to himself about the state of British cinema, and in the second he chides himself on the apparently abrupt ending of the prison break/orienteering segment. In the second segment, via a cutaway, he even manages to give himself a drink.

* [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]]: Employed to keep Oz on task while cooking Christmas dinner.

* [[Dreaming of a White Christmas]]: Several segments in the Christmas episode address trying to create this, as James has never seen one in his lifetime. In the end {{spoiler|they manage to make a tiny quantity of real snow which they launch via leaf blower. After this, they resort using to fake snow.}}

* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: The first series had Celebrity Man Task, in which a celebrity was charged with showing off a useful skill in a limited frame of time. This was done away with the second series, replaced with the Viewers' Letters segment.

* [[Happy Rain]]: During the first failed snow attempt. James is happy with the result of Oz's cloud seeding, convinced that if it were actually cold enough outside the rain would be snow.

* [[Haunted Castle]]: Lympne Castle, in Kent. Used for the ghost hunting segment, and supposedly the most haunted castle in England.

* [[Informed Obscenity]]: During the Christmas special, James uses "baubles" and "figgy pudding" as curse words.

* [[Institutional Apparel]]: James and Oz in blue boiler suits during their prison escape, which they later cover in mud in a failed attempt to blend in.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: James would have appeared to invested in a lampshade warehouse based on his voiceovers alone.

* [[Loud of War]]: Rather than hurt Dodger the dog to activate the Powder of Sympathy, they instead make him listen to Susan Boyle sing "I Dreamed a Dream."

* [[Motion Capture]]: Used to examine the ways James can improve his football penalty kick skills.

* [[Rearrange the Song]]: Each episode in series two ends with the theme being performed in a different style. The Reinventing The Boiler Suit segment also has a nifty and barely-recognisable techno version as background for the catwalk show.

* [[Rummage Sale Reject]]: James lampshades his taste for loud shirts during the introduction to the boiler suit segment, in which he has an entire rack of them he has worn over the years. Especially hilarious when he pulls out a certain legendary [[Mythology Gag|purple-and-pink striped jumper]]:

* [[Scare Chord]]: The motion detector that James sets up in the great hall of Lympne Castle later scares the crap out of him and Tom when they blunder into it during their nighttime exploration.

* [[Scarily Competent Tracker]]: A [[Real Life]] one, Ian Maxwell, chases after James and Oz after they "escape" from prison.

* [[Serenade Your Lover]]: James will teach you how, with some assistance from [[Running Gag|Thomas Campion (1567-1620)]].

* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: "Oz Clarke played by Oz Clarke."

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