The Comic Strip, Part 26 - I'd love to hold you, I'd like to kiss you, I ain't got time for that now

"South Atlantic Raiders Part 2" - February 8th, 1990


I love the way they take advantage of the two parter by having the second part start in medias res. Actually as the beginning of a second parter is always in medias res, this episode starts in the middle of the second half of things.

To sum up, the first part ended with Stan busting his band of misfits out of a British prison, and part 2 opens with him in his skivvies about to be executed by Lemmy from Motörhead.

From what I recall of the American news coverage of the Falklands War at the time, events went like this:

Argentina invaded these islands that clearly belonged to the British. The British went to take them back because, even though they were useless, it was the principle of the thing. Months later, a big load of British warships showed up and the Argentinians went "whoops, sorry!" and scampered back to their llama farms, never to bother anyone again. No shots fired. Hooray for Thatcher because she behaved just like Reagan would if he were in a similar situation.

Really. That's how I remember it.

It seems that it was a bit more complex, have a look in wikipedia for details.

Two more things to mention: First, I notice that the soundtrack is by Jeff Beck. It's not that bad, I wonder if somewhere there might be a soundtrack album of all the sound cues from the series. Secondly, nice to see a good old-fashioned comedy airliner hijack. That's another thing that has gone away with the sensibilities of recent days.