A thread for 'The Thick Of It' (and 'In The Loop' as well)

end of oct.

Wicked.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/i/512xn/400f50c532a3f35781a73ad7d2af43c64ee49ca3.jpg

A to-do list that's longer than a fucking Leonard Cohen song.

israel

This is still the funniest thing on TV.

"Knife addled rape sheds" = lololol

I find this so unfunny. I think I must be old or something.

liked the whole set up with the name Liam Bentley and idea of Tucker setting it up, and Murray calling Glenn a 'batty man'

has Capaldi actually got that much greyer himself since The Rise Of The Nutters (the difference between him now and in that is striking) ??

i didn't notice that. love the idea of somebody being able to go tow to toe with malcolm and this new gal might have what it takes. when she fucked with malcolm about her eldest daughter the look on his face was priceless.

toE.

No laughs here, either - actually unwatchable. Just an angry man act and no direction whatsoever.

I do want to see the earlier episodes (just happened to come across it randomly last week). I suspect this was much funnier when there was such a thing as a *New Labour* project.

Lots of laughs, highly watchable.

It was a little slower than usual episodes - seemed like they were setting the scene for stuff later in the series now they have longer run.

Best line: "You're like the fucking coffee machine: from bean to cup, you fuck up"

all the way to the boathouse

you would seriously need to watch this like 3 times to catch all the lines

I do like the idea of Capaldi/Front relationship developing into some screwball love/hate bitch-match - kind of like an Anglo Donaghy/Lemon... or even Grant/Russell.

just hoping Jamie will show up before too long

Think it'll be a few episodes before we see Jamie, building anticipation, cake/icing and all that.

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Now I think of it, I can totally see Fey muttering to herself "He is *so* Russell Crowe" on the way back from the lift.

Grant/Russell?

http://www.astrodiary.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/russell-grant-2.jpg

(Cary and Rosalind, yeah?)

Ken Livingstone says:

"I can't bear the swearing and the aggression. It's not funny: it just reminds me of too many people I met among the Blairites and I hate the sexually aggressive language."

What a cunt.

KEN 4 MAYOR, etc etc

I'm with Ken. It's just boring after a while. I enjoyed it early on (you know when it was all green fields and warm beer and cricket on a sunday) but now it really does seem like, what's the fucking point?

I walked into In The Loop knowing goose-egg about it or the show--my friend gets free tickets; "wanna go to a movie?"; "sure"--I was pleasantly surprised. Serious loling.

I liked it by and large, but for the first time the flowery swearing felt a little try-hard, rather than off-the-cuff.

The plotting was less baroque than usual. Still fucking funny though.

Charlie i agree - the hard open on Malcolm was a mistake imo - why not let things bubble a little and build the anticipation?

"I wouldn't piss on you if you were allergic to piss."

a face like dot cotton licking piss off a nettle

and the violent sexual imagery warning

"today, you have just laid your first big fat egg of solid fuck"

probably my biggest laugh was at:

"the kraken awakes!!"

malcolm had no comeback for "well at least my career's got a trajectory, you're working for a party that's going to lose the next election" - suddenly he found he had no leverage with this person

there was some great stuff on the red button as well

"get your feelings out for the lads"

loved this one

No Jamie in this series according to Chris Addison :(

Some genius has made a Best Of.. =
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRC0qQ8zA-E

I love the "oh I'm terribly sorry" when he bumps into the cleaner.

that is great, that he and malcolm understand and are polite and appreciate the consequences and don't live in a bubble, where as bumbling ben doesn't.

If I felt every conjunction like it was an event then I'd be pretty bored of them too. A little gutted about Jamie, if only they were saving him for a next series w/Tory govt. Not in the bubble is right, having those two to root for as the incredulous outsiders to the south-east/oxbridge/political bubble is more cathartic than a million newspaper jokes about moats.

Best one so far in this series, maybe. WILMAAA!

"I've got a to-do list longer than a big willy"

I love the "oh I'm terribly sorry" when he bumps into the cleaner.

Ripples through into this one as well, when we see that Malcolm pretty much instantly knows who the peoples champion woman is just from her name and knows exactly how to behave round her (until she blabs about Glen, then he can revert to type). Actually, when he punches Glen there is a maid making up the rooms in the background -I kept on waiting for the reveal it was her who leaked the story.

Love the press officer guy, need more of him. "Hey you, twat face... and I mean that literally by the way." "You can't actually break your nose, you know, it's a myth."

Favourite bits might actually all be from the red button. "Are you autistic or something?" "No, but it's surprising how many people ask that..." and Malcolm being told he's live on the Telegraph's webcam blog from conference and running away. And Glen kissing that woman - "It's like a really bad porn film, where the woman wants an economic advisor to come round and explain the last five years of government policy. And then they start fucking."

It's being set up for Tucker to have some kind of mental breakdown, isn't it?

Because that's never happened to a Labour press apparatchik before...

The press machine's being totally unable to deal with the internet and yet trying to nonetheless was bound to crop up in this series. They did it brilliantly I thought.

"Am I being threatened by Harold Fucking Bishop or something?"

"You breathe a word of this to anyone you mincing fucking CUNT, and I will tear your fucking skin off, I will wear it to your mother's birthday party, and I will rub your nuts up and down her leg while whistling Bohemian fucking Rhapsody, RIGHT?"

Daaark episode.

KNOWLEDGE IS PORRIDGE

This Canadian is really frustrated by his inability to track down DVDs (or, better still) torrents for "The Thick Of It". They simply don't seem to exist. Or rather, a torrent for the first series does - if you sign up for some private site that banned me based on my email address (?). But no other sources, and nothing for the second series - and I guess the third is on now?

Anyone out there have a better source or anything?

season 3 seems to be ending up on the usual sites soon after broadcast. season 2 is apparently not out on dvd yet in the uk : (

p.s. the last ten minutes or so of that last episode of season 3 were dark!