You know how

if you stay up late enough, you sometimes find yourself watching TV shows that you swear are only on TV because you're tired enough that you're hallucinating them?

Last night I switched on BBC2 and found myself halfway through a short film in which a man finds a case full of IOUs and in trying to track down their origin, something he's obsessed by, finds himself being shot in the chest by Satan. That's Satan played by David Fucking Ginola. Of course.

Obviously after Satan shows up, it's even harder to work out what's going on, because every one of Satan's lines sounds like he's saying 'Baguette baguette baguette j'adore ABBA". But in fact he turns out to want rebranding because "Godd ges' all de good prrress, ah ges' norzing bot assel" (for anyone who thinks this is unfair mocking of the French accent, have you actually heard David Ginola speak? His voice is unfair mocking of the French accent.) so the guy he shot in the chest who was killed by being hit by a car in a scene we never originally saw that doesn't make any sense and doesn't realise it until he's shown it by a girl at a computer who appears to have no function whatsoever...takes his name 'Mr Lucifer' and after much deliberation (well, a minute) renames him 'Mr Firecul' (those of us with a scattered knowledge of French may laugh now). Then some policemen have an acid trip and David Ginola dances badly in front of some zombies.

The end.

Apparently it wasn't just some caffeine hallucination, but I bet everyone in it wishes it had been...

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