This is, hands down, our favourite story of the week. And to think it’s gone 5.30pm on a Friday and we could EASILY have started drinking and completely missed it. IT DOESN’T BEAR THINKING ABOUT.
Anyway, some internet genius unearthed this footage of Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch narrating a BBC documentary from a few years back, and it turns out the cheekbone god can’t actually pronounce the word ‘penguin’.
Yep. Reeeeally struggles with those two syllables. At one point he attempts it, only to crash, flailing, back to Earth like a burned Icarus. ‘Pengwings’, he went with. ‘Penglings’. HAVE ANOTHER GO, BENNY.
‘Penwings’. ‘Pendlins’. ‘Pognims’. ‘Piddlings’. ‘Pendwings’. ‘Poingwings’. We imagine there’s just reels of tape littering the cutting room floor right now, Benedict just trying to force ‘penguins’ out of his mouth and failing terribly. Benedict storming out of the studio and angrily hailing a taxi to London Zoo. Benedict hurrying to the penguin enclosure and just staring at those black and white bastards murderously.
P.S If you watch from 0:12 it totally looks like the penguin is watching the video tracker. THIS AMUSES US.