Morgan Spurlock is back in Britain, this time so that he can get a twelve year old on film pretending to choke on a ham sandwich:

Homer Simpson helped save Wakefield schoolboy Alex Hardy’s life.
As Alex choked on a ham sandwich best pal Aiden Bateman strode over with a scene from one of the most popular Simpsons episodes etched in his mind.

He performed the Heimlich Manoeuvre after seeing the same lifesaving technique on The Simpson’s third season episode "Homer at the Bat."

Now Aiden’s heroics – in the canteen at Crofton Junior School in December 2007 – are to feature in new film ‘The Simpsons Anniversary Special – In 3D! On Ice!’, to mark next year’s Simpson’s 20th anniversary celebrations.

American documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock travelled from New York to Wakefield in August to meet the two pals and film a re-creation of the life-saving moment in the canteen at Thornes Park College in Wakefield.

Click through for a cute picture of the kids and all the horrible details. 

So, good for the kids in remembering that scaring someone is for the hiccups and good for Spurlock in making them reenact the trauma for entertainment purposes. 

What makes this whole incident even funnier is that in the episode no one ever actually does the Heimlich Maneuver.   All you see is the image at left, and even that’s on screen for less than two seconds.  Homer just stops choking as soon as he realizes it’s time to sign up for softball again.  That, boys and girls, is the communicative power that The Simpsons possesses, it teaches children lifesaving techniques without any formal training and in doing so uses less screen time than Zombie Simpsons routinely uses for Homer to stagger around in pain or fear. 

And, since we’re talking about the Heimlich maneuver in relation to Britain, and because there’s a lobster flying out of that man’s mouth, here’s world renown Heimlich expert Eddie Izzard: