House 2001

This sketch involves Bill Gates after his newest hi-tech invention "House 2001" malfunctions. It portrayed the recent release that year of Windows XP.

Plot
The Gates family is introduced to their new home, House 2001, but the children preferred House 2000, to which Gates replies is completely obsolete. Gates shows his family around the house, and tries to launch the Multiphonic Cyber Cinema, but it crashes. The family tries to go out and come back in again, but by doing so, the cinema disappears completely. After fighting with the controls, the Gates family accidentally causes the house to perform an illegal operation and shut down, leaving them in the middle of nowhere.



Trivia

 * The family appearing in this sketch is loosely based on Bill Gates' real family, given that there were two Gates children at the time of this sketch's original broadcast on ITV1. Phoebe, the third child, was born in 2002.
 * Sound effects from Windows 98 were used.