Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. —Henry Fielding

30 November 2020

Tomorrow I'll Get Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977)

Zítra Vstanu a Opařím Se Čajem (Tomorrow I'll Get Up and Scald Myself with Tea) is an absurd time-travel comedy of errors that I found completely and totally hilarious. 

This movie involves a plot in which Nazis in the future have taken anti-aging pills to keep themselves young and now are going back to Germany in 1944 to take Hitler a Hydrogen bomb so he can win the war. In order to get back to 1944 they hijack a tourist time-travel vehicle that takes people back to various places in history for tours – things like going to see the dinosaurs or visiting Pompeii – but instead of going back to Waterloo they go back to Berlin in the 40s. 

This comedy of errors is compounded by the fact that everyone in the film doubles and triples as times get crossed. It's positively Shakespearean (or Plautine, depending on how far back you'd like to go in your theatre history).

Tomorrow I'll Get Up and Scald Myself with Tea is totally insane and I loved it.

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