No Such Thing As Mambo No. 2 is the 324th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 12th episode of the seventh year, and the 23rd episode of 2020. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded from home due to COVID-19.
Description[]
Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss Shameful Tunes, Moving Dunes and Historic Cartoons.
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Facts[]
- Sand dunes are brilliant at social distancing. (Schreiber)
- According to a recent publication people from the North of England are more than twice as likely to be naturally funny than people from the South of England. (Harkin)
- In 1943 German troops who were rescuing Mussolini had to seize control of a tourist funicular railway so they could ride a cable car to the top of a hill and pick him up. (Ptaszynski)
- In Medieval Germany bad musicians were tied to an instrument called the flute of shame. (Murray)
Trivia[]
- This is the eleventh Working From Home episode due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
- Harkin went on holiday to Peru during Episode 182, and he returned with a fact about the country in Episode 183: No Such Thing As A Bouncy Theatre.
- Harkin jokes about the Mongolian Death Worm, an old favourite which was last mentioned in Episode 150.
- Murray mentions a film set being buried in the desert, which was also a headline fact in Episode 198: No Such Thing As Cleopatra Movie Trivia.
- The Beano was discussed at length in TBA.
- The coincidence of the British Dennis the Menace and the American Dennis the Menace was discussed in TBA.
- The comic strip about the life of a coat is discussed again in TBA.
- Ptaszynski jokes about Murray's "obsession" with moss, which was a headline fact in Episode 315: No Such Thing As Tedious Moss, and referred to again in Episode 319.