"It was a little surreal".
These turned the story of the band into a surreal sitcom, casting them as a hapless odd couple – Spinal Tap meets Men Behaving Badly.
And it was so surreal how it happened.
The first half of the Channel 4 chancellors' debate brought us the surreal experience of watching George Osborne being berated for his disregard for the national debt.
Days earlier, at the Berlin premiere of Nymphomaniac, LaBeouf responded to questions about his sex scenes by quoting without attribution a surreal statement by Eric Cantona, in another reference to his plagiarism scandal.
Viggo stumbles and sweats through the unforgiving landscape and a series of surreal encounters.
In one of the more surreal moments during the election campaign, I ended up with Osborne in an ice-cream parlour in Cleveleys.
First, though, we are stopped by the gatekeeper of a quite surreal bridge over the Sile canal: it's a ponte a pagamento (toll bridge) resting on second world war pontoons, and we part with 70 cents for the privilege of crossing.
Cutting from the Chilterns in Oxfordshire across the Thames to the North Wessex Downs, the trail has existed for 5,000 years, and the sense of following the ancient tread of travellers, herdsmen and soldiers is quite surreal.
To make matters more surreal, on the sun lounger directly next to us sits Gary Lineker, his presence challenging the band to work up the courage to ask for a photograph.
At least there's nothing quite so bizarre as a polar bear in Mad Dogs, although the man in the Tony Blair mask was pretty surreal.
