Double Take - This Is the End

This Is the End

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By Warwick Evans

Judge:

Prisoners in the dock. You've been found guilty of the most heinous crime - that of making a humorous satirical CD about Hong Kong society and the high and mighty. Have you anything to say before sentence is passed upon you?

All:

Well, I (etc.) ...

Judge:

Very well. It is the sentence of this court that you shall be transported by minibus to the Siu Lam Psychiatric hospital and, on the appointed date and at the appointed time, be taken thence to a place of execution, where you shall be forced to watch Hong Kong television night after night after night . . . until you are dead - and may the Lord have mercy on your Soul.

(Perry Mason Music)

Announcer:

The cast of Double Take watched Hong Kong TV for several years - and lived. They were eventually released for bad behaviour.

Vaughan Savidge put up with 248 episodes of Tube Time before buckling under the pressure, confessing his guilt and being rehabilitated into society. He now runs a video games parlour in Sham Shui Po.

Warwick Evans almost beat the system, but eventually succumbed to three episodes of Police report, edited together in a continuous loop and played non-stop over a period of five months. He's now working as a cardboard cut-out cop in one of the territory's supermarkets.

and Barry Bakker, against all odds, stubbornly survived incessant reruns of Eye on Hong Kong for a record five-and-a-half years - only finally pleading for mercy, when threatened with having to share a cell with Paul George. He was promptly thrown out into the real world, where he now does voice-overs for diaper commercials.

All events described on this CD are true - only the names have been changed to protect the guilty.

Double take - yet another fine product from the Hong Kong Radio Sweatshop.