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The Unbelievable Truth
Apr. 9th, 2013 02:49 pmThis is the first thing in a long while to cause me to laugh out loud at work to the point where a nearby colleague asked me, later, what was so funny.
The Unbelievable Truth: Series 11(?!) Episode 1
It's been years since this happened, but I still have a very strong association with the theme tune: I was flying to the UK solo for the first time, on an airline whose entire aesthetic, from the distance between the seats to the colour of the plastic utensils, seemed designed to be as irritating as possible. The person I was seated next to was in on the game, and extremely loud dance music was leaking from her headphones through the whole flight. The airline's one redeeming feature was two episodes of The Unbelievable Truth, which I put on loop/repeat in an effort to drown her out, in the hope of getting any sleep at all on this long flight. So when the gentle trundling guitar comes up, no matter where I am or how awake I may be, a small part of me (usually the kneecaps) is instantly back in that cramped, loud, excessively red and purple plane, trying to force myself into dormancy in the imagined company of some clever people making up funny things and trying to trip each other up.
This experience is one reason I fell in love with Air New Zealand. The only count against them is they don't have The Unbelievable Truth in their entertainment library ... but on the other hand, if any airline is going to play the overture to Russlan and Ludmilla after the initial cabin address, it would be Air New Zealand.
It's been years since this happened, but I still have a very strong association with the theme tune: I was flying to the UK solo for the first time, on an airline whose entire aesthetic, from the distance between the seats to the colour of the plastic utensils, seemed designed to be as irritating as possible. The person I was seated next to was in on the game, and extremely loud dance music was leaking from her headphones through the whole flight. The airline's one redeeming feature was two episodes of The Unbelievable Truth, which I put on loop/repeat in an effort to drown her out, in the hope of getting any sleep at all on this long flight. So when the gentle trundling guitar comes up, no matter where I am or how awake I may be, a small part of me (usually the kneecaps) is instantly back in that cramped, loud, excessively red and purple plane, trying to force myself into dormancy in the imagined company of some clever people making up funny things and trying to trip each other up.
This experience is one reason I fell in love with Air New Zealand. The only count against them is they don't have The Unbelievable Truth in their entertainment library ... but on the other hand, if any airline is going to play the overture to Russlan and Ludmilla after the initial cabin address, it would be Air New Zealand.
