British Comedy Guide

Lab Quickie

Int. Laboratory

Scientist 1 is looking through a microscope. Scientist 2 stands by.

Scientist 2: Is it like we thought?

Scientist 1: Hang on.

Scientist 1 fiddles with a dial on the side of the microscope. He looks up.

Scientist 1: Yep. It makes things look bigger.

ENDS

Badoom tish, nice.

Likewise. Very good! Like it!

Made me laugh out loud, very good.

Yeah, liked it as well.

Haha! I like this one alot.

Has the feel of a gag from something like Police Squad. Maybe a line to use in a script rather than a stand alone sketch.

Liked it. I'd change the informal "Yep" to a "Yes" though. Gives it more gravity.

Hahaha. Great.

Timbo's right. I could see it in an episode of Police Squad, but it's funny enough on its own.

Feels very Mitchell and Webb to me. I can imagine David Mitchell looking up from the microscope very slowly and seriously and then delivering the line.

Or the line could be delivered quickly, but then there could be a dramatic musical swell as the camera slowly pushes in on the other scientist.
Arrghh, there's infinite ways you could do this. It's just pure joke, is what it is.

Thanks. This was one of those ones that seemed so simple that I didn't think it could possibly be funny.

The set-up's the key with things seeming perfectly normal. Good joke.

They could have done with it on Lab Rats. Shame they used all their rubbish.

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