Now, THIS is how you get me to like Downton Abbey. Bring back the dead characters as zombies. Courtesy of Conan writer Rob Kutner, here's an audio play with comic-book illustrations that's pretty good with the impersonating. Thomas Lennon is the biggest notable name among the cast members.
if you're still catching up on the show, there are spoilers. Video after the jump.
via Nerdist
Tags: Downton Abbey, Zombies
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@philipisard Hilarious! Of course the dowager rues the day. But why is Mary American? And Sybill swinging from the chandelier, brilliant.
Hey, Brian Stack is in it, too. I always loved his characters on Conan. Especially -
"ME! The Interrupter!"
The Interrupter? But I thought you were -
"A forgotten relic of late night TV?"
Yeah, but now I find you -
"Trolling through your message board posts in a desperate bid for attention?"
It's a good thing I'm -
"Too lazy to keep this bit going?"
Yup.
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As someone who watches Downton Abbey, (#dogbutt) I have to say that these guys pretty much nailed it. Shame about the inconsistent sound quality though.
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I loved Pride and Prejudice and Zombies...this is equally pretty cool even though I have not seen one episdoe of Downton Abbey. Also, can someone create a movie where people from the Victorian era have to deal with zombies because that would probably be my new favourite movie of all time.
@Canadian.Scott Poor Lincoln. First Vampires and then Zombies. Why doesn't Jefferson Davis get off his lazy butt and help!
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@Canadian.Scott @DrAbraxas The common cold doesn't kill the aliens.
It mutates within them and turns them into supercarriers of a contagious zombie virus.
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@DrAbraxas @Canadian.Scott Had typed something (at least I thought) was good then realized isn't that what the War of the Worlds T.V. show was basically about.
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No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the eldritch worlds of death as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of animation upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be life after death, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet beyond the grave, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unliving, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
