'''''It Couldn't Happen On this text''' is a Pet Shop Boys movie released within 1988. It was originally conceived as an hour-long streaming depending about their album Actually'', but it turned into the surreal good-all-out feature directed by Jack Bond and co-starring Barbara Windsor, Joss Ackland and Gareth Hunt.

Plot summary

These are a early morning inside Clacton-on-Sea. A bit of dancers come warming au courant the beach, & Neil Tennant appears on the wheel. A song "It couldn't happen here" is existence played. He rounds as much as a stall, in which he buys occasionally post card from either the market keeper (Gareth Hunt). A market keeper complains all about a political faults of the contemporary world, however Neil ignores him & fills out his post card.

Meanwile, Chris Lowe is at a Bed & breakfast. He is inside his room packing all about into the trunk. He diarrhea down the stairs & waits for the landlady (Barbara Windsor) to bring him breakfast. In the breakfast room, the Uncle Dredge (Gareth Hunt) is making bad jokes. Whenever a vast deep-fried breakfast arrives, Chris empties a contents of a tray above the landlady & diarrhea out onto wall street. He line the promenade existence pursued by a class action of Hell's Angels on bikes.

Back at a beach, Neil continues to period along a beach. He lives the priest (Joss Ackland) who is reciting verses when leading the person of school youngsters. Both of a boys come the Pet Shop Boys at an younger age & it do to the pier. Inside a building on the pier, the fully grown Neil is seeing an exotically dress female fortune teller, as he leaves she uncovers her face to reveal that "she" is Chris Lowe. the immature Neil & Chris look within a Victorian era Mutoscope and see the short chamber farce: the slapstick performance featuring the squire (Chris Lowe) and the butler (Neil Tennant) making advances to a French maid (Barbara Windsor). A priest catches higher by owning a boys & outcry other verses at the two. the boys escape into the amusement arcade around which it view a rock star (Neil Tennant) in a gold tassled lawsuit. So it pass into the theatre, in which it watch the class action of nuns perform a risqué dance routine to "It's a sin". A priest catches higher by using a children again & he will require the children outside in which these are at present the evening. On a pier, he commands 12 fisher to haul the hufe cross away from the sea & onto their ship.

A grown Neil & Chris pass trine rappers performing "West End girls" & attend choose the clasic car. A salesman (Neil Dicksin) insists on presenting his gull sales line of gab, then Neil & Chris try to interupt. It invite a car inside cash & turn back using Chris at the wheel. In the car, the report on the radio tells of a hitch tramper world health organization has hacked to demise triad humans world health organization use at times given him lifts. Chris pulls all over for the female hitch tramper world health organization it understand on tour side, however it's the human (Joss Ackland) world health organization gets within. A rider fits a description of a execution from either the radio. He turns higher a radio after "Always on my mind" begins & quotes a equivalent verses that a priest said earliest in the film. At length he asks to exist as let out & a Pet Shop Boys prove my point whole.

It arrive at the conveyance coffee bar in which it're sat next to the traveler (Gareth Hunt). It a correct sequence an out or keeping epicurean meal, however the waitress doesn't flinch. At an additional table the pilot (Neil Dickson) fiddles frustratedly by having the hand-held computer game that goes "divided by...divided by...zero" (ingesting lyrics from either "Two divided by zero"). a voice from either the traveler's briefcase asks to exist as let out & the traveler does sol, revealing a ventriloquist's dummy. A dummy starts philosophising just about a construct of instance. He asks whether instance may be compared to a teacup in this the teacup is there are no yearn the teacup in case no a single has the intention to let it run intrinsically. To shut him higher Neil puts the record on the jukebox ("Rent") and a wall of the coffee bar rises to reveal a bit of dancers.

Meanwhile, the pilot is seen back within his professional reading a book all about instance. Fallowing a patch he reaches the guide that "the man's a blasted existentialist". He boards his plane, determined to put an prevent to such flakiness. Neil & Chris come camping along a united states lane, whenever the pilot attacks. "Two Divided By Zero" is swimming. A car is covered using bullet holes however a Pet Shop Boys cause in, over again unscathed.

It prevent by the telephone kiosk which is existence vandalised by the class action of youths. Instead of attacking Neil, it courteously open a door for him & he phones his mother (Barbara Windsor). a babies of them exchange the lines to "What Have I Done To Deserve This?". At a prevent Neil puts his head against a broken glass on the door & blood appears.

Inside the suburban street the commuter leaves residence & there is a half-clothed woman within his upstair window. He is covered inside flaming however doesn't seem to notice. At the train depot, the zebra is led into a goods van. Neil & Chris sit on the platform watching, so wear the second van in which a big snake coils itself around the children. A van requires the two to Paddington station.

At Paddington station, army soldiers could have guard as much as & there is a limousine waiting for Neil & Chris. It become around & cause across a burrow when the chauffeur (Neil Dickson) quotes passages from either Milton's Paradise Lost at them. It is caused across the field of honor by owning bombs exploding completely in the babies. It pull higher by the club & Neil & Chris enter. It perform "One more chance" to the crowd of dancers. From each one dancer has the total in their back. Another time a song is finished, Neil & Chris hike higher a step to leave & in their back come amounts as well - except that each of the babies page through "0".

Featured songs

A picture show features a when punishment Pet Shop Boys songs, either in their original form, played as background music or even sung per characters:

"It couldn't happen here" (from either a album Actually) "Hit music" (from either a album Actually) "It's a sin" (from either a album Actually) "What have I done to deserve this?" (from either a album Actually) "Rent" (from either a album Actually) "West End girls" (from a album Please) "Always on my mind" (from either a album Introspective) "Two divided by zero" (from either a album Please) "King's Cross" (from either a album Actually) "One more chance" (from either a album Actually) "I want to wake up" (from either a album Actually)

Cast

Pet Shop Boys/Neil Tennant & Chris Lowe - Themselves Joss Ackland - Priest/Murderer Neil Dickson - Salesman/Pilot/Chauffeur Gareth Hunt - Uncle Dredge/Postcard seller/Ventriloquist Barbara Windsor - Neil's mother/Landlady/French Maid

DVD/VHS release

''It Couldn't Happen On this text was available in VHS however this has currently been discontinued. The laserdisc release was likewise available in the America however this has as well been discontinued.

Pet Shop Boys keep around mentioned an eventual DVD release in their official places whilst questioned by fans, however nothing has been announced. Pet Shop Boys own recently re-freed their older VHS releases in DVD. Within 2004, it re-freed their 1991 Performance tour in DVD & it keep around mentioned farther plans for the similar re-release of their 1994 Discovery tour.

Trivia

A music streaming for the individual "Always on my mind" occurs as compilation of clips from either a film. The working title for the moving-picture show was A Firm Day's Looking'', the information to The Beatles' film ''A Hard Day's Night and the Pet Shop Boys song "Shopping" from the album Actually. An album of the songs from either It Couldn't Happen On this button wwhen planned, however was cancelled as it would good include tracks from either Please and Actually''. Although a film was badly received by critics, it did receive an award at a Houston Film Festival in 1988.