"And finally, a future Poet Laureate — if some massive poet disaster happens."
—Greg Davies introducing Tim Key, Taskmaster
Donna: So, if the Capitol Building blows up...
Josh: Yes.
Donna: The man my country will be looking to is the Secretary of Agriculture?
Josh: It's my country too.
Donna: Yes, but you'll be dead.
Josh: Which is why I really don't care that much.
Josh: Yes.
Donna: The man my country will be looking to is the Secretary of Agriculture?
Josh: It's my country too.
Donna: Yes, but you'll be dead.
Josh: Which is why I really don't care that much.
Greg: Yeah, but I guess through her dad, she's, like, eighth in line for the throne of Luxembourg?
Tom: Eighth in line? Greg, you marry her, you're a plane crash away from becoming Europe's weirdest king!
Tom: Eighth in line? Greg, you marry her, you're a plane crash away from becoming Europe's weirdest king!
— Succession, "All the Bells Say"
That Thurmond was able to become president at all was the result of the most staggeringly implausible sequence of events in American political history. That the president and vice president were simultaneously killed while the speaker of the house "conveniently" recused himself from taking the position all so the president pro tempore of the Senate could take the title was technically a possibility, but one so utterly unlikely that only the faintest of preparations had been made for it.
