Talking to people via the wall mirror so, as Karl says: "you don't have to turn your neck so there's no neck usage".
Sounds like a time saver to me. Neck usage is not something we consider enough in this busy world we live in. 😂

I like how Stephen and Ricky were the two heckling old guys from the Muppet show.🤣

Think the cat artist you’re thinking of is Louis Wain

He did wallpaper over it lol. These animated episodes arent animated in order of podcast episodes. They are just sort of flung in bits here and there thats why the mirror is back again unwallpapered lol.

I think Stephen does a super job.  Ricky often goes over the top and I worry that he'll shut Karl down but then Stephen steps in, cools things down a bit and encourages Karl's thought process.

The first 4 or so minutes of this episode (and it's even more so in just the audio version of it) is one of my favourite moments from these three cause it is just three blokes with different opinions having a serious discussion about an interesting topic with barely any comedy or stupid stuff being said and I wish there was more conversations like this from them.

Obviously then Karl mentions the mirrored wall and it all comes crashing down.

Louis Wain is the artist with the cats. He was mentally ill but probably not schizophrenic. There's debate over whether or not his art actually deteriorated over time. He did some "normal" cat paintings after he supposedly lost it and was only doing psychedelic cats.

Speaking of art and sculptures/statues. There was a statue of a horse in a village near where I live, someone stole the horse becuase it was Brass, so they replaced it with a rocking horse. If you look up Ryhope horse it'll pop up

The Muppet Christmas carol is awesome 😂😂😂

I love how you pick up on all the small animation/sound subtleties! Funnily enough, a lot of work I do in sound design is doing the reverse to what they did here -- I add IN the small sound effects to fit the animation/scene, so I always appreciate when someone notices the small things like this :)

Interesting about the artist and the cat paintings. Made me wonder if his actual perception of what a cat looked like changed, or was he still trying to present a faithful image but his mind wouldn't let him. If it's the second scenario, then that would be absolute torture for him.

Re: cat paintings and schizophrenia
There's s great series of self portraits done by an artist through the course of his LSD trip with some hilarious quotes along the way. You should def look it up it's quite easy to find
It was an experiment from the 1950s

Thanks for being our tour guide to the Karl Pilkington Experience on art. I don't know much about Karl but I know what I like!

Hmmm, onions. 🤔
Yes. A good point, well made Mandy! 😂

The CGI artist was most likely using a video of the studio when they where recording the show. So she could make the animation directly from a real video

The reason Ricky said there is no point in whistling is because he meant in public (especially in enclosed rooms) where it can annoy people

Mandy the next episode has the best ending ever! Can’t wait for it 😅

Your facial expressions are awesome, Mandy 😊

So wait, now I'm thinking about onions, am I in charge of my brain, or are you in charge of my brain?!?

The best example of art I've ever seen is the stone carvings outside York minster, they're all hand carved and made by people hundreds of years ago.
There's even a ghost story about them, when experts were renovating some of York minster in yhe 1970s one person was approached by a scruffy looking man wearing a threadbare shirt, he asked what they thought of the carving then said "i made that" then disappeared.
Even if the story isn't true it makes you think these carvings had real effort and time put into them, someone was very proud of making them