Masterful use of doublethink in children's telly, I reckon
So the mice are claiming to be making chocolate biscuits (Viscounts, no less. Classy!) out of breadcrumbs and butterbeans. The only mystery being that they keep on whipping them away before Yaffle can grab one and scoff it.
However, the moment he looks round the back and discovers that it's a sham - that they're just pushing the same biscuit out of the chute every time, they instantly turn to the opposite view of 'Of course you can't make chocolate biscuits out of breadcrumbs and butterbeans'.
Genius.
That and at the end of something of an existential crisis for Yaffle, who starts to doubt that all the work they do with The Things That People Had Forgotten was worth it. He expresses his crisis in faith to the mice, and is instantly dismissed by the narrator, who says 'Well anyway. They pushed the thing to the front of the shop etc.' and then they all went to sleep.
Mint.
(, Tue 23 Dec 2008, 0:03, Reply)