This September the Emmy-winning men behind the mockumentary / situation comedy TV show "The Office", are bringing the first season of "An Idiot Abroad" in TLC Asia. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's latest brainchild is an elaborate practical-joke-turned-sociology-experiment in television history. It is a travel documentary television series that features the close-minded, Karl Pilkington wandering the globe in order to visit each of the Seven Wonders of the World. During his travels Pilkington visits The Great Wall of China, Christ the Redeemer in Brazil, Macchu Picchu in Peru, Chichen Itza in Mexico, the Taj Mahal in India, Petra in Jordan, and the Great Pyramids in Egypt.
Super excited with this series that I watched most of the first season episodes on YouTube. Anyway Karl Pilkington hates just about everything in this travel series, the seven wonders of the world never seems to impress him the way a regular person might. Here are some of his funny and outrageous observations:
- The Great Wall of China: would be better if you could drive on it.
- The Wailing Wall: full of junk mail.
- The Taj Majal: a gravestone with Sudoku on it.
- Brazil: great place to live if you’re deaf.
Pilkington is an idiot abroad. He hated China and warns Gervais that he’s wasting money shooting in high definition because the whole place is gray. It just doesn’t look like where the iPod is made. He discredits the entire international cuisine because he doesn’t want to develop a taste for, say, frog legs, and not be able to find it back home. No sugarcoating, no predictable travel dialogues premiering this Wednesday, 7 of September at 10pm.
No comments:
Post a Comment