I dreamt of a Gatiss lizard, and lo, it were hilarious
So, yeah...very weird dream this morning involving The League of Gentlemen.
The Gents were running a sort of resort hotel, like one of those murder mystery weekend things where there's stuff going on in each room and you have to figure out who the killer is by the end of your stay. Only the format of this thing was a bit looser and was populated with the different characters from the show. I remember following one of Gatiss's characters through a few of the different rooms (he was a Viking, only without all the cheekboney makeup from The Wedding of River Song) and thinking how very unnecessarily tall he was. I also wanted to ask him if he was on a "loop"...like, did the different characters come out at set times over and over throughout the day? Apparently some of the guests had been to this place before, because they were ignoring him and playing skee-ball as he wandered through instead of interacting with him. Plebs.
Later on there was a big climactic scene with a character who was the "matriarch" of the whole weird family that lived in this weird house. Gatiss played her, and she was a sort of lizard-frog like creature who kept flicking her tongue out a la Barty Crouch Jr in Harry Potter as she spoke, and making this weird clicking noise when she did so. And for some reason, I found this absolutely the most hilarious thing ever in the world and could not stop laughing. We were supposed to be interacting with the characters, but I couldn't even look at Gatiss; I had to cover my mouth and nod occasionally when he asked me something, I was shaking so hard with suppressed laughter. Eventually it got infectious and I looked over and saw Shearsmith starting to corpse, and then finally Gatiss cracked up too. They managed to finish the scene, but not without quite a few giggles.
After that the story moved outside. Oddly, the house was in the midwest, and there was one hell of a thunderstorm rolling in from the south. One of the characters or maybe one of the other guests was planning on driving somewhere, and I pointed at the churning bilious grey-black malestrom and said I hoped they weren't planning on driving through that.
Anyway, as all the rooms in the house were being used for scenarios, we had to sleep in our cars. I was in the back hatch of a little Tercel that I used to have (and loved dearly), when all of a sudden in the middle of the night something woke me up. The moonlight was that really bright buttery blue you can only get in the midwest out in the middle of nowhere. I looked up, and it was Noel Fielding's character of The Moon from The Mighty Boosh. Only in this dream he was apparently one of the Gents. He started to tell me something important about the plot that was going on inside the house, but before I could really hear what he was saying I woke up.
I have no idea what all that was about, subconsciously speaking. All I do know is that HOLY SHIT WOULD IT NOT BE THE COOLEST THING EVER IF THE MAKERS OF HIT BRITISH TV SHOWS DID STUFF LIKE THIS?? I would knock over the whole of Wall street to pay to go on The League of Gentlemen Adventure Weekend, or The Mighty Boosh Murder Mystery Hotel.
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