Season 2 Episode 16 - 11th January 2003
Episode Description
Karl has been digging deep on the web for important information and reads that you can buy wigs for dogs in Tokyo, he also reveals that his mum used to shave the cat when it got sick. Ricky has found one of those instruments only ever heard in “Carry On” films.

Steve overhears people slagging off Ricky in a restaurant and complains that he never attracts any cool fans. Karl is panicking coz he can’t remember the answer to one of his own Rockbusters clues.

Karl tells a believable story about a woman who once met herself and talks about his dad sawing the bed. Karl’s new feature includes yet another story about a hairy kid.



Selected Quotes & Passages
Sick Cat
Karl: Have you ever seen like a bald pet?
Ricky: No.
Karl: It's weird.
Ricky: (laughs out loud) What do you mean!
Karl: Coz me mam, we used to get through loads of cats.
Ricky: (laughs out loud) Oh god, it's started early today, innit! It's only 10 past one.
Steve: What were you doing, running a restaurant?
Ricky: (laughs out loud) Oh god, what do you mean!
Karl: No, we lived on like a main road, right.
Ricky: Oh yeah, yeah.
Karl: So we used to get through a lot of them.
Ricky: It was their risk.
Karl: Me dad kept saying stop wasting money, you know.
Ricky: Stop wasting money, not wasting cats!
Karl: Anyway we had this cat that was ill all the time.
Steve: He was just a bag of nerves probably.
Ricky: (laughs) Yeah, malingerer, "I'm terrified".
Steve: "I'm going to which house, don't let me go to the Pilkington's"
Karl: For some reason it kept being sick all the time, right.
Ricky: (laughs)
Steve: That is nerves, that's definitely nerves.
Karl: So me mam sort of kinda thought "well I've had enough of this", and she shaved it.
Ricky: Whoa! Whoa! Whoaaa! Now I know you're not vets in your family but what correlation did your mum think there was between it being sick and shaving it?
Karl: Coz it kept being sick and it was a pain to wash.
Ricky: So she wanted a dry wipe cat, why didn't she just varnish it?
Steve: (laughs)
Ricky: So now it's cold and sick.
Karl: No, not all of it, she left sort of the back half but sort of from its waist.
Ricky: I love that, shaving coz it's sick on itself! That is genius.
Karl: It's the weirest looking thing, I mean I normally I like cats, I'm always like giving yours a stroke on the head n' that, but as soon as she did that it's like, ohh.
Steve: Yeah.
Ricky: Poor thing! So now it's sick, cold and hated.
Steve: The other cats must've been taking the mick out of it constantly, you're just making things worse, did it get, I'm hoping it got run over and was put out of its misery.
Karl: No I think it got alright that one, or is that the, no it did get run over.
Ricky & Steve: (laugh out loud)

Woman who met herself
Karl: I tell you what, talking about ghosts n' that, do you know how I'm into them right, how weird do you think this is, right?
Ricky: Well it's not true, before you say it, play a record.
Steve: (laughs) No, go on, go on.
Ricky: Go on.
Karl: Right, it's this woman, I don't even know if it's ghosts really, it's just a bit weird, there's this woman, and she's, well she's not a woman she's a kid.
Ricky: Sure.
Steve: (laughs) Ok.
Karl: She's walking down like a street in her area, it's a nice day and everything, everything's normal, she's walking down and this woman comes up, cycling past, right, the woman on the bike looks at the kid absolutely terrified, right, got a really scary face on her, the kid's thinking why's she doing that.
Steve: Yeah.
Karl: So anyway she thinks nothing of it, goes, I think she was playing in the park or whatever, goes and has a nice day, about 15 years later...
Steve: Oh right, yeah.
Karl: She's, I dunno I think she was going to work, right, on a bike.
Steve: She was riding her own bike?
Karl: Riding her own bike, cycling down the road.
Steve: Oh yeah.
Karl: Looks at the kid, that's the thing that happened 15 or 20 years ago, it's her on the bike looking at her as a kid.
Steve: Right, not another child.
Karl: Nope, so it's her, she's seen herself.
Ricky: Karl!
Steve: (laughs)
Ricky: I mean I don't know where to start.
Steve: Firstly where's this information come from?
Ricky: But I mean, why do you ever, I mean, I don't know what part of that you think can be true, I don't, honestly, I'm speechless, I don't know what to say, what are you talking about.
Karl: Bit weird though, innit.
Steve: But it's not true.
Ricky: It's not true, nothing happened like that.
Karl: She says it did.
Steve: Well she's wrong.
Ricky: Who, who, she says she saw herself.
Karl: She saw herself as a kid, didn't she.
Ricky: And as an adult when she was a kid.
Steve: Did she stop and talk to herself, or did she ride on by and think, that's a bit weird, there's me as an 8 year old, I won't stop i'll be late for work.
Ricky: (laughs) Yeah, yeah, if I'm late again the boss said he would be in trouble.
Steve: And where was this information, did it happen to someone you know?
Karl: No.
Steve: You overheard it on the bus?
Karl: No it was in the Fortean Times.
Steve: Ah right, that's the answer, we got to the bottom of that.