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The Outer Limits: Ripper (1999)
Good episode except for the link to Jack the Ripper.
As well cast and acted as this episode is, it would have worked far better if they had not made it about Jack the Ripper. It would have worked better as a totally fictional story about a fictional series of murders.
Anyone who knows even a little about the murders attributed to an unidentified person or persons dubbed Jack the Ripper would know that this episode has completely ignored any and all facts.
The locations of the murders, and the injuries sustained by the victims, bear no likeness whatsoever to the actual murders.
The only forgivable incident of dramatic license is the attribution of the murder of Martha Tabram to the Ripper. Some believe Martha to have been the first victim while others are convinced that she was killed by someone else.
When Star Trek tackled the subject of Jack the Ripper ("Wolf in the Fold"), and made the culprit an alien, the non-corporeal alien possessed a human host who was then compelled to murder.
Absolutely Fabulous: Job (2012)
Absolutely brilliant, but are you in on the joke?
Hilarious episode with Edina arranging a come-back concert for a French screen legend, and favourite of Saffron's, who, it turns out, is utterly mad. Jeanne Durand can speak, but when she "sings" no sound is produced. Durand believes that her adoring audience hears her.
Jeanne Durand is referred to as one of the "singing umbrellas of Cherbourg". There is actually a French musical film, made in 1964, called "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)", although Jeanne Durand is a fictional character so was not actually in the film. The film is entirely sung-through with the dialog taking the form of recitative. Most of the actors' singing was dubbed, however. The brilliant joke in this episode is that Jeanne Durand's singing was dubbed and Edina is unaware of this very important fact. I like to think that Saffron knew and decided not to clue Edina in. Jeanne produces no sound when she sings because when she "sang" in the movie she was lip-synching. Jeanne is delusional and believes that when she mimes singing, people will hear her sing, just as they did in 1964.