Dan Dare, Earth's Greatest Adventurer!

Dan Dare, intergalactic explorer and adventurer, has been captured by the dreaded Mekons. As they prepare to execute him by lowering him slowly into a pit of boiling snot, he yells to the head Mekon, "You can't kill me! I'm Dan Dare, Earth's greatest adventurer! I'm beloved by billions! If you kill me, it will start a jihad which will wipe the Mekon race from the galaxy!"
The head Mekon is not overly impressed, but having seen many years of Earth's TV broadcasts he knows just how stupid we can be. So he sets Dan a challenge. "We will take you back to Earth," he says, "and if no-one recognises you in the first 10 seconds, you die. Oh, and your planet gets vaporised. Mwahahahahaha!"
Dan agrees, somewhat reluctantly. He racks his brains to think of some way to accomplish the task. The Mekon saucer lands, at 2am, in Dublin. The Mekon Advance Reconaissance Group run out, weapons drawn, shooting lasers wildly in every direction. Once the perimiter is established, they push Dan down the ramp into the empty, dark Irish street. The head Mekon looks at his watch. "Well," he tells Dan, "It's coming up on ten seconds..."
Dan is at a loss, but then, he attempts to escape! He jumps the Mekon perimiter but instead of taking off up the road he trips over a heap of garbage bins and falls to the ground. Suddenly, a window opens and an old Irishwoman yells, "Eh, what da fook's goin' on dan dere?"