Hyperdrive - british sci-fi comedy with loads of decent people in it.

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but is it me or is it not very good at all?

i'm sure i've seen a thread on this before but search revealed nada.

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Sunday, 19 February 2006 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

It's shit. Was it on the "death of the sitcom" thread, maybe?

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 19 February 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

I watched one episode, raised a smile once. And I love Frost and Eldon's other stuff. And it's co-written by Andy Riley, of 'Bunny Suicides' book fame.

― Cracks (Crackity), Sunday, 19 February 2006 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

it's a proper shambles though, innit. there aren't really any jokes. it feels like it was knocked out in about an afternoon.

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Sunday, 19 February 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

i mean, even the name "Hyperdrive" what the fuck is that?

― Vintage Latin (dog latin), Sunday, 19 February 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

Did you know Kevin Eldon was in a religious cult?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 19 February 2006 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

Well I always assumed it was the case.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 19 February 2006 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

Machadaynu, machadaynu, machadaynu daynu daynu!

― JimD (JimD), Sunday, 19 February 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

Eldon and his pretty ladyfriend came and sat next to me when I was trying to do some work in Foyles bookshop cafe on Friday afternoon. He was wearing a David Shrigley tshirt. While I was looking out the window onto the street below, trying to eavesdrop, I saw Rob Brydon swaggering down Charing Cross Road.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 20 February 2006 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

The only halfway decent joke in it is the spaceship being called Camden Lock. And I only think it's a halfway decent joke because I live really close to Camden Lock.

― chap who would dare to be slightly tipsy on the internet (chap), Monday, 20 February 2006 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

I don't even get why that's funny. Please explain for me, as I am hard of thinking.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 20 February 2006 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

I guess it's just because Camden Lock is such a mundane place to me that it tickles me there'd be a spaceship called that - like I said, it's absolutely a personal thing, not an intrinsically funny joke at all.

― chap who would dare to be slightly tipsy on the internet (chap), Monday, 20 February 2006 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, OK, not funny then. Fair enough. I thought maybe I wasn't clever enough to understand their smart sense of humour, but no, it's just shit.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 20 February 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yep, pretty much.

― chap who would dare to be slightly tipsy on the internet (chap), Monday, 20 February 2006 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

They're starting on a second series. Please, someone, make it stop.

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Monday, 20 February 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

This is better than TPOLAAPOCP and a couple of other things.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 20 February 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

JtN, I think you posted your affectionate parody of birthday Suzy to this thread by mistake!

Well, I suppose she does not have to eavesdrop.

Really, though - who is Kevin Eldon? Not the captain of the spaceship, I hope.

It seemed to me that it was quite shamelessly David Brent In Space, with relatively mediocre scripts and excessively expensive 'production values'.

― the spacefox, Monday, 20 February 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

This really is very very poor indeed.

― Abu Hamster (noodle vague), Monday, 20 February 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

"TPOLAAPOCP"

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Monday, 20 February 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

the Mexican high priest with a penchant for dirty limericks.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 20 February 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin Eldon is the always very strange man who plays the second in command, the cross between Avon and Spock. He's the thing that makes it just about worth watching, when there's nothing else on, for me.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 20 February 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

He will always be Simon Quinlank to me.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 20 February 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, that's not true. If I met him socially I'd probably call him Kevin.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 20 February 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Am I then the only person here who enjoys this? It's one of those things I can watch without being irritated too much and they are very few and far between. Having said that I think my comedy expectations are lower than they used to be as I was laughing along with the IT crowd thing as well. It's probably my age.

― Ned T.RIfle II (Ned T.Rifle II), Monday, 20 February 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

The idea of Gary Neville did make me chuckle a bit!

― Davel (Davel), Monday, 20 February 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

I like Jeffords.

"And there's never any excuse for juggling!"

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 4 February 2007 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

netflix keeps telling me i'll love this. will i?

― Mordy, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 00:48 (fourteen years ago)

Did anyone love it? I liked it but I never went out of my way to watch it.

― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 00:52 (fourteen years ago)

can't for the life of me figure out what TPOLAAPOCP is.

― second only to popcorn (or something), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 00:53 (fourteen years ago)

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/13/team-arrington/

After all the incredibly zealous LOOK AT OUR NEW LOGO LOOOOOK shtick a few weeks ago I didn't think the navel-gazing could possibly get any worse.

― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 01:30 (fourteen years ago)

o fuc i've done it again

― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 01:30 (fourteen years ago)

TPOLAAPOCP = a UK comedy called Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, I believe, though I have never seen it

― not bulimic, just a cat (James Morrison), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 02:37 (fourteen years ago)

oh jeez yeah

― second only to popcorn (or something), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 08:55 (fourteen years ago)

It's quite appalling. I blame the Miranda Hart factor, although there's something intrinsically unfunny running through the whole thing.

― Yo wait a minute man, you better think about the world (dog latin), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 11:06 (fourteen years ago)

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