You can run. You can hide. You can justifiably explain your situation as he prepares to ticket you. But at the end of the day, no-one gets past Parking Pataweyo. Initially, anyway.
In comedy sketch show Harry and Paul, Kaluuya satirises everyone’s favourite hard worker Postman Pat, played by future Oscar winner Daniel Kaluuya. I can’t say I ever watched Postman Pat myself, as I found the animation a bit scary, and the narrative too lacklustre. Young Nancy was not impressed, and showed her distaste by turning her back on the show and watching more cultured fare like Teletubbies. Which definitely had a more coherent narrative. Anyway, the childlike setup of the sketch, with Enfield’s upbeat narrator and the light-hearted soundtrack, is amusingly undercut by Parking Patawayo’s harsh treatment of drivers who have just stopped momentarily to fulfil a quick task, and are unjustly ticketed before they can make it back to their vehicle.
Rather than seeing the ensuing argument play out with the accosted victim’s complaints that are often filled with colourful language, Enfield’s narrator instead voices over their speech, replacing it with a friendly arguing voice rather than the clearly angry words we can see being spoken by the apparent ticket offender on screen. Don’t worry though. The traffic warden gets his just desserts eventually. In his last appearance on the show, Parking Patawayo is enjoying a day off as he parks his car, walking over to get his parking ticket before he engages in conversation with warden Wagatonge, and ends up talking to him for so long that Wagatonge is forced to ticket Patawayo’s vehicle. Kaluuya’s physical comedy throughout the various sketches creates a knowing, sardonic wit with no words at all.
These clips are available to watch on Youtube, but I’ll regale you with the sketch’s opening theme tune nonetheless:
Parking Pataweyo,
Parking Pataweyo,
Parking Pataweyo,
And his black and white cataweyo,
Forget to feed the meter,
Pataweyo’s eager,
To pop a ticket on your car and get you towed awayo.
(You’re welcome).