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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
In comedy sketch show Harry and Paul<\/em>, Kaluuya satirises everyone\u2019s favourite hard worker Postman Pat, played by future Oscar winner Daniel Kaluuya. I can\u2019t say I ever watched Postman Pat<\/em> 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<\/em>. Which definitely had a more coherent narrative. Anyway, the childlike setup of the sketch, with Enfield\u2019s upbeat narrator and the light-hearted soundtrack, is amusingly undercut by Parking Patawayo\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rather than seeing the ensuing argument play out with the accosted victim\u2019s complaints that are often filled with colourful language, Enfield\u2019s 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\u2019t 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\u2019s vehicle. Kaluuya\u2019s physical comedy throughout the various sketches creates a knowing, sardonic wit with no words at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These clips are available to watch on Youtube<\/em>, but I\u2019ll regale you with the sketch\u2019s opening theme tune nonetheless:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Parking Pataweyo<\/em>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Parking Pataweyo<\/em>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Parking Pataweyo<\/em>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n And his black and white cataweyo<\/em>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Forget to feed the meter<\/em>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pataweyo\u2019s eager<\/em>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n To pop a ticket on your car and get you towed awayo<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n (You\u2019re welcome).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyepton.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}