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19 Jul 20, 62 tweets, 17 min read
Very much enjoying making silly things throughout lockdown, so am putting them all in a thread here. If you like what I do, the dream is to get about 500 people to buy me a £3 coffee a month so I can just continue pumping out nonsense here for free. ko-fi.com/matthighton
If you can't afford that, obviously don't do it - I'll still be an idiot! Likes & shares give me delicious dopamine, so are a sustainable alternative. Or if you're a reckless millionaire a one off donation of a cool 20k? Anyway lets start with good old Liz
Here's the Stock Footage recreation of Buffy the Vampire Slayers intro that still keeps my notifications busy.

Here's The Voice a very silly short film I made with @JozNorris and @jonbrittain about the voice of Siri. As ever turning iPhones off before watching very much advised.

The original Stock Footage recreation (and therefor the Sandy Cohen father figure of the series). It's the intro of the O.C.

This is just a safety announcement. Dropping it in as a stark reminder on safety. #StayAlert

This is very much me just adding fart noises to a clip.

This is the one I want to be remembered by. My opus. My everything.

Distress Call: This short film was shot pre lockdown, I just wanted to see if I could film in my kitchen but make it look like space. I love this so much and want more people to see it.
Morrisey hitting a spider. The video no one went for, but I'm putting in because I'm so happy with how real the spider hit came out using photos of a table and some flowers.😆

Another and arguably the best (I love Fonzie) stock footage recreation it's the Happy Days intro.
Racist dancing man still ready to be blue screened into humiliation.

Michael Gove and Shaggy's absolute banger.

Next in the thread just actual footage of Dominic Cummings going to Durham.

Here's nice thread about the shoe people.

An early lockdown sketch when my hair was still neat.
Wish I'd numbered this thread so here's number 17 I think? Anyway it's Robin Hood drowning me.

It's another stock footage masterpiece. This time the Young Ones
Gonna carry on with this later. In the mean time here's the video that, of all the things I made, made people feel the most disgusted.

Heres a thread about Mambo No 5 with the most questionable use of phrasing in anything Ive ever done.
Next up the Inept Seiners. A remake of the Inbetweeners intro with Tories.

A thread about working in Yatses in Leeds.

Another serious public announcement about wearing masks.

Oh yeah. I put Boris Johnson into the original IT. Still not sure why... No regrets.

Actually forgot about this, but please consider this as my entire "acting showreel".

Silly short film about an egg. Part of a comp to make a 90 second film in 6 hours. The theme was egg.

Stupid FaceTime with Dad. This is very real.

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And finally, once again, here's the 52 second epic that is Alan Sugars DOOM. And that's about everything so far 🥴thanks if you made it this far/still following.

Here's the stock footage friends intro, for da thread.
Magic Trump. https://t.co/GKtxfVeZZY
It’s stock footage the Duck Takes intro. https://t.co/ix9MY479gs
Have you ever felt like this? It’s the stock footage Round the Twist https://t.co/NgQIFSOb7A
Here’s Phantom of the Opera sung by Dennis Nedry and the dilophosaurus.
Adding this horrible thing to the thread. So sorry.

https://t.co/h3tg5JtEJg
Better Call Saul:

https://t.co/uHPHpIgQPI
You know what. This can go in the thread.
I pity the fool who hasnt seen this yet.

https://t.co/UPf8nkVP1n
Thread add hoooooooooo. Don't know what that means, just adding this to the big thread of lockdown stuff.

Here’s a little story all about how I turned stock footage upside down. It’s the Frsh Prince of Bel Air intro.

https://t.co/Cg7UjUqs33
At the end of his training young Padowan Haley Joel Osmemt reveals to Master Willis a new force skill - a sixth sense.

https://t.co/rjUaxrP0vi
The spooky treats keep coming. Early Halloween video banned in 12 countries. Not really but it's got a sensitive content warning. 😎

The lockdown thread continues into Lockdown 2. Here's some other things that I made.

Staring with the Stock Footage Duckula intro for the Watsonathan.

I added Ghostbusters to Tasty Hoons amazing cheese in a chocolate fountain vid (honestly have watched the original 4000 times).

And I made the definitely official John Lewis Christmas as for 2020. Very emotional this one.

Gonna add this to the thread because it is badass. State of the art.

Adding old Dawson Leery to the thread. If you're new here, this is pretty much everything I've been making in lockdown.

This might be the way?
Let’s get old Gandalf the vaccinated in there too.
And again for anyone who needs to see this Victorian hornswoggler melt.
Little bit of Christmas Spirit for the thread.
Even though this is so last year, gonna add it to the thread anyway.
Wind yer neck in, Gove.

Bit of fun.
Just gonna keep adding to this thread until the sun consumes us all. And on that cheery note here's Priti Patel

And here's the best thing I've made in years (modest):

Gonna load up the thread with some more stuff. Starting with this:
Trumps last day:
Naughty Nige.
Here’s Bernie on Wonka’s boat:
Here’s Bernie in Lord of the Rings. Gonna be honest thought this would do better 😳
Finally this week the thing that took me the longest and the most pointless one of the lot. The Top Gun volleyball scene sans volleyball.
If you’ve not seen this long egotistical thread before it’s just a place for all the dumb stuff I’ve been making since April last year. If you want to support me with sweet sweet cash you can do so here. But shares and follows also appreciated 😘

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26 Apr 20
Was just missing pubs and started to think about the three years during Uni, I worked at a Yatses in Leeds. Here’s a highlight thread of some of the most violent, disgusting and unbelievable things I saw during my time there.
I saw a mother and daughter fight each other when they realised they’d been fingered by the same man, on the same night, in the same toilet cubicle. They were back out the next night.
One night I had to use a bin as a shield as a small riot/brawl started and people were rushing the bar to try and grab booze. All I could do was Gandalf it, trying not to let them pass. But again, holding a bin against a load of wronguns in Burberry after a bottle of Archers.
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THREAD If we allow ourselves to accept the concept of the Shoe People (1987-92), a show about sentient shoes living in Shoe Town, then we also must accept the overwhelming grief layered within. This is a town united in loss. Each shoe a surviving single of a once inseparable pair
Initially a quirky, cheerful idea. What we are actually looking at is a mishmash of citizens who are thrown together, trying to pick up their lives after, we assume, their other, their sole mate if you will, has been plucked away from them.
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It had been over 20 years since Elmo had last set foot on Sesame Street. Here he was again, clutching a wooden stake, frozen with fear at the steps of the Counts mansion. Here to finish what once he could not. Sunny days, he whispered and stepped into the dark.
The musk of the air brought it all back. The interior almost entirely unchanged. The deep red of the carpet, the spattered antiques, the stairs where he had found Ernie, cold, eyes open. Dead. Still in his pyjamas.
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