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Fuck the Office
Fuck Little Britain

This is where the shit is at.

My god, this is the most ingenious and funniest thing ever written, acted and shown.

Ok this is probably a cult show.

Who else likes it?

― ketch, Thursday, 20 January 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

Peep Show

SEARCH FUNCTION YES

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 20 January 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

OK, we can turn it into a thread where you put your favourite quotes from the show!

Mark to Jeremy (after phoning sophie) :

"Fuck fuck fuck fuck".

Jeremy "Oh fuck!"

Mark "Oh my god"

Jeremey "Jesus"

Mark "I've really fucked it, haven't I? Have i fucked it?"

Jeremy "Maybe it was charming"

Mark "It was the behaviour of an oddball".

Ok you probably had to see the scene to appreciate this dialogue, but it is absolute genius. Taken from the second episode from series one.

― ketch, Thursday, 20 January 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

i do love this show. especially the last episode of the second season.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 20 January 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

The bleakness of the last one was great. I liked the one before that where Jeremy says 'Brilliant. My mate and your girl have gone off to fuck each other. What are we gonna do now? Make a tent in the living room and eat Dairylea? IS THAT WHAT YOU WANT? Cos that's what's gonna happen.' and it just ends. Robert Webb can totally do that dead-eyed amoral ex-student cunt thing to a tee.

Also 'I tell yer, that crack is really moreish', obviously.

― Ferg, Ah (Ferg), Thursday, 20 January 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

THAT'S RIGHT LITTLE CRISPS ENTER THE PIT OF THE SARLAAC

― Stevem On X (blueski), Thursday, 20 January 2005 01:43 (twenty years ago)

"Ooooo! Look at me, I'm from the eighties, dying from heroin, in a puddle, in the corner, in an advert!"

― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 20 January 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

"i'm not going to poo am i jez"

after mark gets stoned.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Thursday, 20 January 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

'It's just like watching porn, except I can't see anything and I want to cry'

Or something along those lines anyway.

― Judy, Thursday, 20 January 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

fucking amazing show.

when they're playing poker and he's with "the lads", jeff's mates, and he thinks he has a flush and bets all the money. I forget the line he delivers to try and sound hard but it's fucking hilarious.

"let's eat"

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 20 January 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

The porn line was: I haven't got an erection and I want to cry.

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 20 January 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)

I've only just discovered this but apparently it's been on for ages. It's been a long time since a show actually made me laugh out loud almost all the way through.
What I like about it is that the main characters are just so obnoxious but you can kinda see a bit of them in yourself, like The Office but maybe even more believable.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 20 January 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

I liked "and no one's even mentioned The Dambusters!" as Mark makes a new friend at work.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 20 January 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

I don't think it's as bad as I thought it was anymore.

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 20 January 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

when mark is imagining being jeremy's boss, in no nonsense 80s businessman voice

'get this photocopying done, where's my coffee, file these reports, now SUCK THIS... hang on, where did that come from?'

― debden, Thursday, 20 January 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

'I am doing excellent shopping'. The first series of Peep Show is the only DVD I own so that gives an idea how much I love it. I'd better not hang around on this thread though as I don't want 2nd series spoilers.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 20 January 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

"Fritz. The bratwurst munchers, the sausage-eating Bosch."

― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 20 January 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

FEEL THE LOVE!

Peep Show is teh GENIUS and I loves it so, as evidenced by frequent ejaculations on the other thread.

"It doesn't mean we can't still be friends, just because I'm...stalking you"

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 20 January 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

"This is my moment of madness - this is my Clapham Common"

and the one where Mark takes a picnic to the park so he can spy on Sophie and Jeff playing Crazy Golf. On seeing a TV crew filming there his inner monologue runs:

"Great, more evidence. Evidence that I'm an obsessive, stalking voyeur"

This show is fantastic.

― Bill A, Thursday, 20 January 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

still quite unfunny.

I watched it, last night, though, and laughed at the swearing on his mother's life bit.

I wonder if, eventually, I will think it is funny.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 20 January 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

love it obv. For some reason i really liked the "is that it? is that how easy it is to steal some education? life's just people walking in and out of rooms" thing

'I tell yer, that crack is really moreish' - harry Hill had a similar gag about Heroin in his older material, fact fans!

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Thursday, 20 January 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

the highly-addictive-drug-is-moreish joke is as old as the harry hills.

-- RJG (RJ...), December 27th, 2004 12:55 AM. (RJG)

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― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 20 January 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

Elf. Porn.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 20 January 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

i'm surprised you don't like it RJG - why do you think it is? what makes The Office and Alan Partridge funny (assuming you think they are) but this not?

― Stevem On X (blueski), Thursday, 20 January 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

is it right to just brand it a comedy or sitcom even? i laugh a lot at it but i also recoil in fear probably as much.

― Stevem On X (blueski), Thursday, 20 January 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

the office was quite good, I think.

hm.

I don't like the people in it, most of all, I think, haha, and I can't seem to forgive its a bit more than occasional obviousness or try-hardness, which I don't mind at all in the parts of partridge that are a little similar, to me.

also, the gimmick that doesn't work, although, I don't care about that, really.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 20 January 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

according to my eavesdropping-on-the-guy-who-plays-Mark spy at Soho House, Peep Show has just been nominated for...some award or other. Any ideas what?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 20 January 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

at least it isn't narrated by tom baker or geoffrey palmer.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 20 January 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

but they are the greatest narrators of all time

― Stevem On X (blueski), Thursday, 20 January 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

BOOOOGALOOO

― Tom Baker On X (blueski), Thursday, 20 January 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

Tee hee hee.

― alix (alix), Thursday, 20 January 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

it's not as funny when it's just words on a screen granted.

― Stevem On X (blueski), Thursday, 20 January 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

Still pretty funny.

― alix (alix), Thursday, 20 January 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

RJG is right - the characters are totally unlovable but in a Mr Bean/Alan Partirdge kind of way so you do feel kind of bad watching them, but yes it is funny!

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

just what is unloveable about jez?

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Best programme of last year.

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Thursday, 20 January 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

COMPLETE DUD CHANGING THE THEME SONG TO FUCKING HARVEY DANGER.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 20 January 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

that was just for the American audience, ha ha, you

― Stevem On X (blueski), Thursday, 20 January 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

no it wasn't, we haven't gotten season two over here. i downloaded it myself.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 20 January 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

I think Peep Show is brilliant and better than The Office and severely overrated Little Britain but alas it gets rather ignored by the press and media. Of course if C4 put the repeats on at a better hour more people might see it. I fucked up last night by forgetting to video it because I was watching Curb Your Enthusiasm on the unvideo-able BBC4. I just remembered and managed to get the second half. Bugger.

Speaking of which, why hasn't the BBC put Curb on terrestrial TV yet? It might take off, although I will admit it is a little different.

― Nick H (Nick H), Friday, 21 January 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

you can't video bbc4?

― gil thelander (Cozen), Friday, 21 January 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

it's better if lots of people don't see it - media saturation ruins good telly

― Stevem On X (blueski), Friday, 21 January 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

aw Jez dancing on his own at the wedding last night, fcking hilarious!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 21 January 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

Best (the only?) good thing Channel 4 have shown in years

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 21 January 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

Best thing Channel 4 have shown in years - maybe the only good thing they've shown in years. Robert Webb is brilliant... even tho he does exactly the same thing in "The Smoking Room" and it isn't funny there.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 21 January 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

oh The Smoking Room has it's moments, even if they are only moments

― Stevem On X (blueski), Friday, 21 January 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

Peep Show? Distinctly average.

― David Merryweather (DavidM), Friday, 21 January 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

I rather like The Smoking Room. I don't see how you can say Robert Webb does the same thing in both; in The Smoking Room, he's a lot more subtle, even when the script hits him with a big "LOOK WHAT CLOSETED GAY PEOPLE HAVE TO PUT Up WITH!" sledgehammer.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 21 January 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

Is he supposed to be gay in "The Smoking Room"?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 21 January 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

Um, I thought so. I thought it was fairly obvious. Have I gone and got completely the wrong end of the stick somewhere?

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 21 January 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

I've only seen a few of them and I suspected he maybe was supposed to be gay, it wasn't done very well

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 21 January 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

(as far as I can remember, he has a huge crush on another male character, who you never actually see. They've started to turn that into a big of a gimmick - in the last episode (of series 1) you saw his legs, and in the Christmas special you saw him, completely hidden inside a snowman costume)

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 21 January 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

There was a joke in one of the episodes where Johnny Briggs' Dad tells a story about when he saw ghosts (ghost pirates?) on the photocopier AND ONE OF THEM HAD A PENIS WHERE HIS MOUTH SHOULD BE. It's made clear it was Robert Webb sucking off some bloke (who left the company for some reason?) and Johnny Briggs' Dad's Brain has just come up with the ghost story to pretend it didn't happen.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

That's who it is! JOHNNY BRIGGS' DAD!

That's been bugging me for months.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

also the vicar's dad in eastenders (mid 90s edition) and that guy in Planet of Evil (Tom Baker dr who story)

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

> you can't video bbc4?

it's probably a connection problem rather than any special property of bbc4. you can usually put a scart from the decoder to the video and another from the video to the tv and the video will let the decoder signal pass-thru to the tv (sometimes the video will have to be on, sometimes the video will only have one scart socket, sometimes the tv will have to be turned to av1, it all depends. then there's the uhf connection...)(i have 2 videos, 1 dvd, 1 freeview box and a ps2 all chained to the tv using scart and the videos, freeview, tv and tv card on the computer are all chained using uhf. mmmmm, wirey)

jez also does the voiceover to those 2 for 1 burger adverts. he is in danger of being overexposed.

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Um, I thought so. I thought it was fairly obvious. Have I gone and got completely the wrong end of the stick somewhere?

I just got the impression he was meant to be, y'know, a non-blokey bloke whose life (AMAZINGLY IN TV LAND) didn't revolve around FHM, football, leering at secretaries, Xbox and pornography. Yer average sensitive indie chap, basically.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

also the vicar's dad in eastenders (mid 90s edition)

His name was Jeff, and he was a roadsweeper? (In addition to being the vicar's dad, obviously) Didn't he almost end up married to Pauline Fowler?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

just what is unloveable about jez?

I dunno, just his demeanour? I can't pinpoint what it is about him I don't like - his tone of voice? He kinda reminds me of Arnold Rimmer off of Red Dwarf trying to be cool.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

like Partridge and Brent, it's tempting to sympathise with Jez, but of course they ruin it and themselves with their paranoia, cynicism, pedantism, arrogance ('i'm right everyone else is wrong'), general insecurity, child-like comprehension of all but the most geeky of things and peculiar but unpleasant quirks. that's comedy!

― Stevem On X (blueski), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

the trick is to not make the audience want to take pity on them too much. they have to be seen to be fucking it up for themselves when push comes to shove, not just being stitched up by people around them/karma. not that this is actually the funny part, but i just couldn't watch if it was just a case of them being innocent, decent well-meaning losers being kicked in the teeth all the time (that is NEVER funny).

― Stevem On X (blueski), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

I can totally video bbc4, I just remembered. I've been taping their movies for a while now.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

I don't like that "Fawlty Towers", that Basil Fawlty's so unloveable

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 21 January 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

also the vicar's dad in eastenders (mid 90s edition)

Lets not forget the small part he played as a member of the EMPIRE in Star Wars.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 21 January 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

'hello, JLB finance, FUCK OFF'

― debden, Friday, 21 January 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

oh god, yes, but thankfully he didn't come out of light speed too close to the system. that was mr bronson.

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Friday, 21 January 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

yes he was just clumsy.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 21 January 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

http://www.michaelsheard.com/

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Friday, 21 January 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

"This is the abyss. I am in the abyss. I am getting my post forwarded to the abyss."

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 21 January 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

(or something)

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 21 January 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

"I'M NOT FUCKING BEZ"

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 21 January 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

a friend and i dreamed up a new vehicle for Michael Sheard after Bronson left Grange Hill. he was to be play a psychic crime-solver dubbed The Convincer. unfortunately Chris Carter pre-empted us by doing Millennium with that bloke that was the robot in Alien.

― Stevem On X (blueski), Friday, 21 January 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

"at the moment it's a bit... duh-duh-duh we're doing the fucking song, when's it fucking finished"

― cg, Friday, 21 January 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

"hey jez, can you give me the name of that chinese doctor for cancer sue (or someone)"

"yes its, dr wang tung ping chang ting tang po wing tang"

"ah. i see. you were lampooning me. it was a simple lampoon"

= best racist joke in british comedy in last 20 years

― cg, Friday, 21 January 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

i may have to watch the whole series again because of this thread. so many good quotes.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 21 January 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

haha "we need to get the maximum amount of dread ... (super hans plays note on keyboard) ... the longer the note, the more dread"

― cg, Friday, 21 January 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

best interaction or mark and super-hans is the riki-tiki-tavi mongoose button pushing scene!

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 21 January 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 21 January 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

I don't like that "Fawlty Towers", that Basil Fawlty's so unloveable

I didn't say I didn't like it. I really like this show, I'm just agreeing with what Stevem said that the characters are slightly annoying in a funny way.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

I have no idea why I can't video anything other than the 5 terresrial channels but the blokes who fitted the whole system said we couldn't. It's through a Freeview box. I daren't fiddle about with it because for one I would probably fuck the whole thing up, and secondly it's my parents' house and system.

― Nick H (Nick H), Friday, 21 January 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

has this run in the US somewhere? I bought the DVD of series 1 and liked it a lot, but like I said in the other thread, it took it until the 3rd episode for to really click for me. Also, I feel like I missed something; I didn't understand why they were living together at all for ages (that one had broken up with his girlfriend); was this actually referenced somewhere inthe first episode and did I just blink and miss it, or was this show developed from sketches that were shown elsewhere?

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 21 January 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

series two has not run anywhere in the US yet, kyle. i downloaded the episodes off of uknova. series two is way better than series one.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 21 January 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

so i come onto this thread to talk about how i laughed more at a particular scene in this show than almost anything i can ever remember (seriously) only to find it's the *very* scene that is mentioned upthread by ketch. i've just about recovered 24 hours later.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

The DVD is worth getting for Jez's Prodigious home-made video alone.

"It's OUTRAGEOUS! It's CONTAGIOUS!"

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

why hasnt series two arrived on DVD yet?

― blahbariantheoriginal, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

Apparently they are waiting to tie-in with the start of Season 3 - end of the year?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

We subtitled the first series but no sign of the second as yet (our delivery date usually about six weeks ahead of release date). Could mean we're not doing it, of course.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:39 (twenty years ago)

offtopic, how does one become a subtitler?

― blahbariantheoriginal, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)

any love for the Sound of Mitchell and Webb here?

― ja (_ja_), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:48 (twenty years ago)

Still not very funny. And what's "ingenious" about it? It's just yet more flustered middle class kidults fretting over plain girls called Sophie.

― dm, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

Keep meaning to listen to SoM&W but never seem to manage the difficult art of actually tuning in to a radio show at a specific time (exception: football).

Subtitling? You just kind of fall into it when all other avenues are exhausted. (Seriously, subtitling companies - if they're looking for any permanent staff and, seemingly, they're not thesedays - usually like an English degree and perhaps some evidence of proofreading/editing skills. I had neither, but this company were a bit desperate at that point and I was able to demonstrate competency in their tests/interviews. Email me off-list if you're really interested).

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

thanks - will email now. i am genuinely interested.

― blahbariantheoriginal, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:19 (twenty years ago)

the difficult art of actually tuning in to a radio show at a specific time = using the listen again player on bbc radio website

also i found series 1 on BitTorrent. poor quality mp3, but what the hey

― ja (_ja_), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:21 (twenty years ago)

have you got TMWRNJ series 2 yet, by any chance?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

not me. i do have samurai jack eps 1 to 13 tho. YAY

― ja (_ja_), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

was anyone watching the re-runs of this last nite?

'hes in a k-hole right now. he should be alright once the speed kicks in'

'superhands, did i do it right, superhands!'

― Michael B, Sunday, 28 December 2008 15:59 (sixteen years ago)

Dammit I thought this might be news of a 6th series ...

― Not the real Village People, Monday, 29 December 2008 00:14 (sixteen years ago)

David Mitchell is the new voice of governmental anti-drugs thingy "Frank" nowadays, fwiw.

― tucker max r (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Monday, 29 December 2008 00:17 (sixteen years ago)

that must be kind of counter-intuitive. Having clean-shirt tell the kids not to take a drug.

― what U cry 4 (jim), Monday, 29 December 2008 00:19 (sixteen years ago)

Super Hans

― Number None, Monday, 29 December 2008 01:20 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

watching this series for the first time, almost done swith season 4. at its best it's some of the funniest shit ever imo.

― ian, Thursday, 27 May 2010 06:32 (fifteen years ago)

weirdly just been watching season 3 yesterday. even though I've watched them all like 50 times I am still amazed at how great it is.

― Not the real Village People, Thursday, 27 May 2010 07:25 (fifteen years ago)

I had to stop watching it halfway through, even though I loved it. It was too painful! I'm pretty sure I was actually getting blood pressure spikes from cringing so hard

― Dan I., Thursday, 27 May 2010 08:12 (fifteen years ago)

I'd be hard-pushed to decide what the cringiest moments were. But I recently re-watched the one (s4?) where he goes to a conference with Johnson and has to give a presentation and ends up running off then coming back and telling them all he has a brain tumour. That one is almost toooo bad (but I love it really)

― Not the real Village People, Thursday, 27 May 2010 18:19 (fifteen years ago)

1st season rewatchability is high, every episode is just some classic shit

― (e_3) (Edward III), Thursday, 27 May 2010 19:19 (fifteen years ago)

I've got to back on the stick with these, I'm about halfway through season 5

― (e_3) (Edward III), Thursday, 27 May 2010 19:20 (fifteen years ago)

mark's presentation to the board episode had some frightening resonance for irl me

― (e_3) (Edward III), Thursday, 27 May 2010 19:21 (fifteen years ago)

COMPLETE DUD CHANGING THE THEME SONG TO FUCKING HARVEY DANGER.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, January 20, 2005 5:36 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark

^ yeah and this

― (e_3) (Edward III), Thursday, 27 May 2010 19:24 (fifteen years ago)

fifteen years pass...

Peep Show festive Bake-off...

with Olivia Colman, David Mitchell, Dobby, Superhans and Big Suze

― koogs, Friday, 21 November 2025 09:39 (three days ago)

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