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- The_Moaning_of_Life abstract "The Moaning of Life is a British travel documentary television series that is broadcast on Sky1. It follows Karl Pilkington around the world as he visits other cultures. Unlike An Idiot Abroad, which had a similar premise, The Moaning of Life sees Karl actually choosing to visit other countries in order to see how they face up to some of life's biggest issues with their cultures and customs. He also reassesses his life now that he has reached the age of 40, which he considers to be "middle age". The series has five one-hour episodes, and sees Karl visiting Ghana, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, the Philippines, South Africa, Taiwan, and the United States. Its original broadcast run in the United Kingdom began on 20 October 2013.Sky1 postponed the fifth and final episode – "Death", which sees Karl in the Philippines contemplating death with locals – after Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines in early November 2013. Originally scheduled for 17 November 2013, it was not broadcast until 17 December 2013.The series was released in the United Kingdom on DVD and Blu-ray on 18 November 2013. It included the fifth and final episode, "Death", which was not broadcast for the first time until a month later.Discovery Communications' Science began broadcasting The Moaning of Life in North America on 18 January 2014.".
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- The_Moaning_of_Life genre Comedy.
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- The_Moaning_of_Life releaseDate "2013-10-20".
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- The_Moaning_of_Life originalairdate "2013-10-27".
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- The_Moaning_of_Life shortsummary "Childless and uninterested in starting a family but hearing from his friends that he should, Karl sets out to learn why people have children. In Japan, he happens past a Tokyo restaurant where he finds a live turtle awaiting its fate as someones meal; to save it, he takes it in and keeps it in his hotel rooms bathtub, pondering the responsibility of caring for the creature before releasing it in a river under a bridge. He attends a traditional fertility festival in which huge phalluses predominate, encounters a mascot dressed as a phallus, and assists other men in carrying a large phallus on a sedan chair, opining that the testicles really deserve more credit for fertility than the penis and convincing a woman that she should not be so sure that she wants to have children. He also goes to a doctor to have his sperm tested, and is informed that he is quite capable of fathering children. He then travels to Indonesia, where he visits Bali to help at a natural birthing center and is awed by witnessing a birth; he also babysits an infant girl for a young couple, becoming frustrated when he cannot stop her from crying. His next stop in Indonesia is Sulawesi, where he spends time with the Bajau people, "sea gypsies" who spend very little time supervising their children and allow them to go out to sea to fish by themselves; Karl joins some of the children on a fishing expedition, and displays little concern for their safety and welfare during the trip even when they submerge and disappear for long periods. Finally, he visits the United States, where he hires two adult dwarf actors to pretend to be five- or six-year-old children while spending a day and night with a young couple in the Los Angeles area who are considering having children; the experience makes the couple decide to put off starting a family.".
- The_Moaning_of_Life shortsummary "Karl has never even attended a funeral, let alone given much thought to death – although he complains that dead people take up too much land and always get all the nice, quiet areas, while the living have to live in crowded, noisy places – so he sets out to see how other cultures handle death in the hope that it can help him prepare for the end of life. Finding the theme of British funerals depressing, he makes his first stop in Accra, Ghana, to look for more festive funeral customs. He shops for a "crazy coffin" – a coffin custom-made in any shape the buyer wants – and discusses crazy coffins with a man shopping for a coffin for his father and who says that people often choose a coffin based on the deceaseds profession . Karl gives an open Twix wrapper that had contained two Twix bars to the coffin-maker and orders a Twix-shaped coffin that can accommodate two people for himself and his girlfriend Suzanne. He next helps a mortician prepare the body of a 79-year-old woman named Madam Comfort Asaaba Cofie, who had died a month earlier, for her funeral. He applies make-up to her and helps to twist her body to overcome rigor mortis so that they can sit her up during her wake so that she appears to be selling things from a market stall, as she did in life. Upset with the process at first, he attends the wake and is pleased with the results. The next day, he dances and plays a noisemaker as part of a performing group that marches in a carnival-like atmosphere as her funeral parade makes its way through the town to the cemetery, where he attends a funeral for the first time in his life. He finds that he has enjoyed the day and thinks that Comfort had a good send-off. Unable to cry when sad, he flies to Taipei, Taiwan, where a professional mourner, who can be hired to cry at memorial services, teaches him how to cry and deal with grief. She has him learn to sob while talking about the deceased; advises him that it is unacceptable to follow his normal practice of swearing rather than crying when upset; and teaches him to stagger and crawl while grieving. He pretends to be mourning Suzannes death, but suddenly interrupts his moving performance when he thinks he has put his hand in dog feces. His lesson complete, he attends a memorial service with the mourner to see her at work; her act bewilders him, as does his discovery that the family has hired a pole dancer to perform outside to attract more people to the service. He next goes to the Philippines, where he visits Manilas biggest cemetery, a place where people live and work among the dead in what amounts to a small town. He inspects their accommodations, which he finds reasonable. Demand for space in the cemetery requires the removal of bodies, and he assists in the exhumation of the body of woman who had been buried there for five years, and is amazed to see she was buried wearing a brassiere. His next stop is Sagada, a community in the mountains north of Manila where people bury their dead in exposed coffins hung on the side of a cliff so that dogs cannot open the coffins and consume the bodies. He likes the concept of cliff burials because it does not waste land on the dead, but finds it to be hard work as he assists in carrying a coffin to the burial cliff and hoisting it up to its position. He ends his exploration of death back in England, where at his home in Swanley he has taken delivery of the two-person, Twix-wrapper-shaped crazy coffin he ordered in Ghana. He must keep it in a storage unit because Suzanne does not want it in their house, but he thinks that a two-person Twix coffin will fascinate future archeologists. He then drives to Hastings to demonstrate his idea for a useful memorial for the dead along the boardwalk at the beach there. Inspired by benches dedicated to the memory of the deceased, which provide people with a place to sit, he notes that there are never enough litter bins at the beach and points out a memorial litter bin he has purchased in memory of Comfort, complete with a memorial plaque for her. He thinks the idea of memorial litter bins will catch on, and, after eating an ice cream bar, discards the wrapper in Comforts memorial bin.".
- The_Moaning_of_Life shortsummary "Karl has never felt that he had a true vocation, and has moved from job to job without following any particular plan. He says that he thinks it would be terrible to be one of the best people in the world at something, because it would mean that you are so indispensible that you could never quit even if you became bored with doing it; he thinks it is better not to aim high, and instead to merely do something useful. Nonetheless, Karl travels overseas to explore how people find their vocations. In Tokyo, Japan, he spends time with an 85-year-old inventor who shows him his various inventions, has him sit with his head under a "Cerebrex" hood to stimulate his memory, and attempts – without success – to teach Karl how to be a genius by sleeping and eating less, having a brain-friendly diet, keeping busy, and holding one's breath underwater for as long as possible to stimulate the brain to come up with good ideas. Karl then tries out the career of a traditional Japanese odd-job man. His first assignment, to rescue a cat from a roof, is cancelled, so instead he assists in cleaning a womans house. He then reports for duty as a nude model for students in a drawing class. He balks at posing nude, but does pose wearing jeans and shoes but no shirt; he is pleased at how good he looks in the drawings, but disappointed that the male students have drawn him to look better than the female students have. He flies to Johannesburg, South Africa, to meet Kenny Kunene, who was born in the slums but has become a self-made millionaire. After passing through extensive security checks at Kunenes home, he hangs out by the swimming pool with Kunene and several beautiful young women in bikinis. Kunene shows him his collection of expensive liquor and luxury automobiles, takes Karl on a drive in a new sports car, scares Karl by driving it at very high speeds, and gives Karl a aerial tour by helicopter of the slums. Karl is not sure he approves of Kunenes lifestyle, so Kunene has him fly to Cape Town to stay in a luxury hotel room with his own butler, chef, masseuse, and proivate rooftop swimming pool, and to meet a sales representative to look at very expensive watches. Karl decides that his favorite thing is the view, and that nature – which is free – is better than the expensive hotel amenities. Karl meets Kunenes business associate, Gayton McKenzie, who shows him how Kunene and McKenzie got started in business by "hustling," purchasing fresh fish at a fish market and selling it on the streets of the slums at a profit. Karl fails completely as a fish salesman and finally is reduced to giving the fish away. McKenzie credits him for trying, but Karl says that trying was not worth it because he actually has lost money. That night, Kunene and McKenzie take Karl clubbing in Cape Town and encourage him to eat sushi off of a beautiful young woman in a bikini lying on a table; Karl objects, and instead strikes up a conversation with the woman about her pay, benefits, and work conditions, and he concludes that jobs like hers exist because all of the normal jobs are already taken. His final stop is the United States, where he visits the Los Angeles area to see what it is like to be a catwalk model in a Hollywood fashion show. After an awkward performance in practice, he makes a good impression in the actual show, and he learns that his success at modeling means that it is good to give anything a try, because you don't know what you will be good at. At the party following the show, he lies down on a table wearing only shorts so that guests can eat sushi off of him.".
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