James May's Man Lab: Difference between revisions

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James May is a man on a mission.

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

* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: James's speculation on what might been cooked in the kitchen of the haunted castle:

* [[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.

* [[Do-It-Yourself Theme Tune]]: Written by Dr James May, BMus.

* [[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.}}

* [[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.

* [[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.

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