# Life Imitates Art: Monty Python/COPS/Damo and Darren\*

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**Created:** [May 12, 2017, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-imitates-art-monty-python-cops-damo-and-darren/786428 "2017-05-12T05:15:24Z")\
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“Im Jus Waitin ona Mate”

[This clip on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6SMGrIaals) is like some real-life mashup of Monty Python, COPS, [Damo and Darren](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmL72sgVdAQ&list=PLaRbIj8RyZIZs7dTbNhMpGlkQL2m4yGSL)\* and maybe America’s (Australia’s) Funniest Home Videos.

Its 6:52 long. The whole thing is pretty funny but the first minute or two are surreal in a Python-esque way.

\*[Damo and Darren](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmL72sgVdAQ&list=PLaRbIj8RyZIZs7dTbNhMpGlkQL2m4yGSL) is a Australian series of short animated bits about a couple of “bogans” (roughly equivalent to “rednecks” in the States) that seems outwardly modeled on Beavis and Butthead but really only in the style of animation and graphics. I had a good laugh at it, and a good laugh at myself trying to figure out what in the hell they were saying!

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And now… some sample dialogue from our Program:  
_[OPEN]_

_Nighttime. Scene opens on a small blue car that’s clearly been in an accident. The car has run up on a curb with flat tires and the front end smashed in. A young man, **JAMES** , is casually sitting in the drivers seat. A **CONSTABLE** approaches the car to investigate._ \ ***JAMES** is in good spirits and converses pleasantly with the **CONSTABLE**. \*

**CONSTABLE:** _(Politely)_ What happened man? What’s going on?

**JAMES:** I’m just waiting for a mate.

**CONSTABLE:** Is that why your car’s all smashed up and you’re up on the grass at the moment or what?

**JAMES** : Yeah.  
I’m just waiting for a mate.  
He’s - - - _[Can’t transcribe]_ … in there. Why?

**CONSTABLE:** I’m just wondering how the collision with your car happened, man.

**JAMES:** What collision?

**CONSTABLE:** Well, the one that’s got all your wheels and stuff twisted up and your front bumper bar hanging off, man.

**JAMES:** Well…  
I’m just waiting for a mate.

**CONSTABLE:** As I said-- Who’s your mate?

**JAMES:** Huh?

**CONSTABLE:** Who’s your mate?

**JAMES:** (Points forward toward nothing) James.

**CONSTABLE:** Yeah? James who?

**JAMES:** Huh?

**CONSTABLE:** How’d you get the - - -? _[Can’t transcribe. Might be referring to alcohol or an injury]_

\*(Pause as **JAMES** grins and looks up and down) \*

**CONSTABLE:** How’d you get the - - -?

**JAMES:** _(pleasantly)_ Does it matter?

**CONSTABLE:** It kinda does, mate, because you’ve just been involved in an accident.

**JAMES:** _(Incredulously)_ No!

**CONSTABLE:** Yes you have.

**JAMES:** Have I?

**CONSTABLE:** Yeah.

**JAMES:** What kind of accident?

**CONSTABLE:** One with a curb, mate. Your whole car’s smashed up.

**JAMES:** _(With apparent concern for the welfare of **CURB** )_ What’s wrong with the curb?