Mrs. Gideon's Spontaneous Amnesia of Howard Moon

Here, Vince, ever the best friend, uses a cue card in lieu of Mrs. Gideon's nonexistent memory.

One of the running jokes in Series 1 of The Mighty Boosh involves Mrs. Gideon, Snake Keeper at the Zooniverse where Howard Moon and Vince Noir are also employed as zookeepers. Howard pines for Mrs. Gideon, but this affection is unrequited. Even worse, Mrs. Gideon can never seem to remember Howard: not his name, his face or the fact that they have had to be reintroduced every time they meet, much to Howard's distress.

Vince turns to the Camera as Ghost Howard stares on in a monkey suit (not a tux)

The only way I have been able to survive database maintenance this week has been to watch Disc 1 Series 1 of the hilarious The Mighty Boosh (2004).  Unfortunately, it is too good a distraction, and I end up watching it instead of updating fields, like any sane person.  The British get away with so much in their comedies, which end up being a weird mix of high and low humor.  Suspension of disbelief is par for the course.  It's like looking directly into the imagination of a precocious, snarky, impressively literate teenage boy with a proclivity towards musical numbers, mod culture, the strangest and most creative insults ever with occasional witty repartee, and touching moments of real emotion thrown in here and there.