Recently, it has seemed as though I can’t watch a vid on YouTube without first having to see at least part of a trailer for the “Downton Abbey” movie.
At least, it was that way for awhile.
Anyway, today something made me remember my favorite “Downton Abbey” trailer of all time — the one SNL did imagining how the show would be promoted if it appeared on the now-defunct Spike TV. A sample from the voiceover:
It’s about a bunch of honkeys who live in a church — or maybe a museum — either way, they don’t got WiFi…. There’s a MILF and a dad, and they’ve got three daughters named ‘Hot,’ ‘Way Hot’ and…’The Other One.’ And they all hang out with this old lady that looks like a chicken.”
Yeah, it’s lowbrow humor, and not overly respectful of the best character of all, the Dowager Countess. But it cracked me up at the time. And back then, I actually watched “Downton”… (I stopped doing so when they killed off a main character in a way that I thought was particularly emotionally manipulative.)
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Here’s the SNL trailer for the Downton Abbey movie:
That one was OK, but not as funny as their Spike TV version.
Of course, I also enjoyed the P. Diddy take on the show…
I make fun, but I do appreciate to some extent the appeal of the show.
I mean, I’d like to live in a world in which the biggest crisis is when you have to wear black tie to dinner because something happened to your white tie ensemble. Yes, that was an actual Downton Abbey plotline…