That Mitchell And Webb Look - Old Holmes

"I'll just watch some Mitchell and Webb, that'll cheer me up"

robert webbs reaction is beyond heartbreaking, phenomenal acting

He always calls him Watson, right until he says "I know John", it's when he moves from colleague to friend

when David delivers delivered that line "I can't get the fog to clear" i was so shocked. i thought it would be way more piss takey. amazing performance.

Fun fact: this was the last sketch of That Mitchell and Webb Look. Perfect, heartbreaking way to end the show.

You only laugh once at this. The first time.

"I can't get the fog to clear." WHAM! Right in the feels! :'(

I lost my Dad to dementia. He had moments where he was lucid, but he just couldn't clear the fog, it was so distressing to watch him disappear. Tears running down my cheeks right now.

Many have mentioned Robert's brilliant acting in this( rightly so) but the devastation in Mitchell's eyes when he tells John ' I know' is what always gets me..the releasation that this brilliant man has not only lost everything that made him remarkable but that he is aware of it and aware of his friends pain as well..so much conveyed through so few words, it's a shame neither of them have been cast in more dramatic roles since then

They did it. They Blackadder Four'ed us after all.

Jesus thats brutal. Life long friends and for that one brief moment he was back snapped out of it. Just to tell him he knew that he was gone. Horrible.

'I know John' Broke my heart

This goes down with the “Over the top” scene in Black Adder season 4 as one of the starkest contrasts of humor and pain in a comedy series’ histories. While the Black Adder scene invokes a hollow feeling like you’ve just had the wind knocked out of you, this scene is absolutely devastating. Having experienced a close relative go through memory loss and a loss of cognitive and later physical function, this scene never fails to wreck me emotionally. I find that I come back to it even years later because it hit me on such a visceral level. Mitchell and Webb were an absolutely brilliant duo.

Fucking Monsieur Garnier. Alzheimer's could have been prevented if he didn't use his laboratoire for the Sleek and Shine series. Joking aside, this is one of the best emotional sketches I have ever seen.

TV Producers. Please let Robert Webb act in a drama. He's clearly brilliant. Plus, it may stop him from doing those bloody awful Movie Mistakes programmes on BBC3.

This should be shown in every writing class, the perfect blend of comedy and tragedy one of the greatest sketches ever.

While everything is heart-breaking, Lestrade's slow realization that the brilliant Holmes is just gone and he'll have to solve the case himself is particularly powerful when you keep in mind their relationship in canon (and most adaptations) is usually very antagonistic and bickering. It's almost like Lestrade is wondering if he took Holmes for granted all this time.

This is that odd mix of absolutely hilarious and horribly depressing

My grandfather had Alzheimer’s, so it’s always been difficult to watch this, but I commend Mitchell and Webb for their respectful seriousness in this scene. Their acting ability is on full display. As heartbreaking as this is to view, its quality cannot be denied

Man that ending hit me. My grandad had dementia, and whilst for a while it didn't affect his intellect too much in that it still allowed him to make witty quips. For example one time a year before he died we were asking him about some of the stuff in his house, and we moved onto some spoons and we asked him "did you buy them when you were traveling the world with Joyce (his wife)" and he just said "nah, i stole them". His dementia affected him in other ways tho, like he would often piss himself or spill his tea on the floor and the like and other stuff like this. But one time he had messed himself all up in the night and stuff, and so my grandma called me up to help clean him up, and when i got there and was washing him and stuff, he started crying (the first time i'd ever seen him show any emotion like that) and constantly being like "am i a nuisance" and "do i make your life hard". It absolutely broke me, as he had always been a witty funny sort of guy.