What sort of creature would you expect to find in Ottery St Mary?
Otters, right?
Wrong.
BEARS!
An investigation is underway to find out how the bears escaped
... and yes of course I'm now imagining this as a continuation of the Ottery St Mary episode of Cabin Pressure.
Just after they drop off the piano they turn a corner and:
BEARS! BEARS, BROWN BEARS, ON THE GROUND! (of all places!)
For some reason at some point a bear would end up wearing Martin's hat (of course Martin has his hat with him for this. He's the CAPTAIN. And after all, they did end up taking the piano on Gerti. Obviously he needed his hat for that).
Arthur would be SO excited, and possibly suggest they should rename the town to Beary St Mary (and would be thrilled by the rhyme)
Martin would make that funny noise in his throat and/or have to be convinced not to go and retrieve his hat from the bear.
Douglas would make lots of wise cracks about Captain Winnie the Pooh, and after it was all over would still speak wistfully of "the old skipper" - much to Martin's annoyance.
... Obviously none of this would really happen in an episode because John Finnemore would write something subtler, cleverer and funnier. But STILL. You see my vision.
