Journey to the Centre of Punk

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“Journey to the Centre of the Punk”
The Mighty Boosh episode
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 2
Written by	Julian Barratt Noel Fielding
Directed by	Paul King
Original airdate	November 22, 2007
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"Journey to the Centre of the Punk" is an episode of the British comedy television series, The Mighty Boosh, that was first broadcast on November 22, 2007. It was made by Baby Cow Productions for BBC Three.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Plot 3 Cast 4 Cultural References 5 Production 6 External Links

[edit] Synopsis

Vince is infected by The Jazz Beast. To save his life Naboo shrinks Howard and sends him into Vince's body to locate and kill the Beast.

[edit] Plot

Howard acquires a rare Jazz record ("Voodoo Scat" by Howlin' Jimmy Jefferson) which Vince, now a punk, bites in to, submitting to peer pressure from his new punk bandmates. It transpires that "Voodoo Scat" was made with a drop of Howlin' Jimmy Jefferson's blood, infecting Vince's blood stream with a corruptive rogue Jazz cell, causing him to embarrass his bandmates by scat singing at their gig in the Velvet Onion, which causes a riot. Vince is rushed back to the Nabootique, delirious, as the Jazz cell begins killing his cells. To save him, Naboo shrinks Howard and his blind friend Lester Corncrake down to microscopic size and injects them into Vince’s body to kill the invasive cell. Howard eventually succeeds in reaching the brain, where the Jazz cell begins to chase him. Howard and Lester catch it, and regrow to normal size. The Jazz cell is now also normal size, but is defeated by Lester, who stabs him with Sid Vicious' safety pin, causing him to run away crying.

[edit] Cast

• Vince Noir/The Moon/Jazz Cell/All of Vince's inner cells — Noel Fielding
• Howard Moon — Julian Barratt
• Naboo — Michael Fielding
• Bollo — Dave Brown
• Lester Corncrake — Rich Fulcher
• Donny Braindamage — The Rev
• Micky Jizz — Staurt Silver
• Jacky Jerkoff — Snell
• Dick Braindamage — Kim Noble
• Spectator — Dee Plume

[edit] Cultural References

• Vince claims to have the original safety pin that Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols wore through his nose. Lester Corncrake ends up using it to kill the Jazz Cell because it is supposedly full of diseases.
• One of Vince's immune system cells claims he's not Vince and he's really Roger Black.
• The punk band portrayed in the episode features two former members of Towers of London and was largely seen as a parody of the band, although Noel Fielding claimed in the audio commentary for this episode that it's more like a parody of himself.

[edit] Production

• The terms used for the infectious jazz organism varies between the word "cell" and "virus". This shows a lack of medical knowledge, although Howard and Naboo are not doctors. The two are not interchangeable terms for an illness. Viruses contain no cells and cell based bacteria should never be referred to as a virus.
• Noel's girlfriend, and member of electro band Robots in Disguise, appears as a person at the front of the mosh pit in this episode.
• The song "Electro Boy" from "Electro" appears in this episode.

[edit] External Links

• Journey to the Centre of Punk at the Internet Movie Database
• Journey to the Centre of Punk at TV.com

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