Peep Show (now with added Mitchell & Webb Look)

Agreed that the school reunion one is the best of S4. It's also the one with The Orgazoid.

Just realised that Alex McQueen is the new Mark Heep/Kevin Eldon.

Starting from the beginning after seeing a few random episodes over xmas. First episode was a very promising start just now.

The episode with the dog on the barge is so far and away the worst ep, maybe rivalled by Mark's wedding.

I don't know about worst...well, maybe worst. But those are definitely the points (and S4 in general) where they were milking some pretty dark stuff for laughs, and the show threatened to become something more akin to League of Gentlemen.

The dog one wasn't great but I thought Mark's wedding was hilarious!

Yeah, Mark's wedding is one of my favorite episodes of anything. It's kind of amazing that a show can push the discomfort level that high without sacrificing lols. The whole scene with Mark and Jez hiding upstairs ("how many missed calls?", "prayer bucket", the coin toss and "I'm excited!") is brilliant.

Just re-watched season 6 and it's even greater than I remembered. Elena grows on you, and the Jez & Mez stuff is still pure gold.

oh great, now I'm getting an angry lapdance

isn't that S4? one of my favorite lines

then again I thought the dog episode was hilarious

The only bad thing about the dog episode was that they took it too far and it became really unbelievable and a bit stupid at the end. The stag weekend stuff with the two women was great.

Museum, lunch, and a snooze! The big three!

S1E3, the one with the teenage goth and the bowling and the shopping... oh my, that was wonderful.

Also, I love how "Jeff!??!!" has become a sort-of catchphrase. Every time Sophie/anyone mentions him it causes Mark to splutter his name angrily.

Elena grows on you

What, as a horrible horrible person?

> Museum, lunch, and a snooze! The big three!

as good as a blowjob and a twirl?

S2E1: "This is good. This is like watching a porno, except I can't see anything, I haven't got a hard-on, and I want to cry."

one of the classics.

The final scenes of S1E4, with the confrontation with Johnson and the realisation about 'the bad thing'...

What I meant about Elena is that I thought she stuck out as unconvincing - an actress playing a weird part - first time round, particularly as I totally buy every other character as being real.
Second time around she seems more believable, not sure why - maybe I've met some vile people in the interim :)

i think i would buy a script book of this show

pretty sure it exists

Am I right in thinking series 7, whenever it comes out, will be the final series?

There's been so many supposedly final series of Peep Show.

first time round, particularly as I totally buy every other character as being real.

I don't really buy into any of Jeremy's lust objects as being real, except maybe Toni. It doesn't really matter seeing as we only see them through Jeremy's crazed mind.

yeah big sooz is way too hot for jeremy

They all are! Elena and Nancy are both incredible looking too.

yeah i forgot how hot nancy was. it was kind of annoying i thought since soph and toni look like such regular people.

Toni's definitely prettier than average, but her personality makes her instantly repulsive.

Max you haven't even got to the best doomed potential girlfriend yet (ie DOBBY).

dobby <3 <3

Underage goth chick Mark sort of has sex with in season 1 is pretty hot (er, I'm guessing the actress wasn't underage).

Has no one re-edited the UK mac & pc ads to incorporate Jeremy's ruminations of raping Mark while he's ill in bed?

Dobby is my favorite (by which I mean least reprehensible and one whose company I would enjoy most IRL) character of the entire show. Which I'm sure is by design.

I think it was clear that Big Suz was always supposed to be slumming it with Jez, in a "Common People"-type way.

I always got the impression Jez himself was slumming it in a Common People way, with Mark constantly embarrassed at him. His mum was pretty middle class and well off, and she did name him Jeremy.

Underage goth chick Mark sort of has sex with in season 1 is pretty hot (er, I'm guessing the actress wasn't underage)

The goth chick wasn't underage either, depending on what kind of underage you mean. She was at sixth form college.

Disconcerted to see Big Suz appearing as the all-growed-up Queen of Narnia in LW&tW film over Xmas. I guess even Aslan wasn't immune to her charms.

she also married a minor royal iirc.

"I always got the impression Jez himself was slumming it in a Common People way"
Yes -- Jez is explicitly slumming with the carpenter who fixes the door Super Hans kicks open in the "I'm thinking about raping Mark while he's ill" episode.

Yeah, and he occasionally has great moments of self-awareness, like when he thinks he's not a proper person (with Elena) and when he off-handedly announces that his marriage to Nancy was a Visa wedding. This makes him a much better character than merely believing all the shit he comes out with.

Love Mark's response to one of Jez's moments of self-awareness: "Is he on acid? Or maybe he's watched a whole episode of Jeremy Kyle."

Yes -- Jez is explicitly slumming with the carpenter

"look at me, talking to a builder, like it was the most natural thing in the world"

started watching this on hulu :)

I'd imagine a good quarter of the jokes in Peep Show would be lost on non-Brits, which would still leave plenty to enjoy of course.

Yeah, there have definitely been Brit-centric jokes that went over my head, but I think it's universal enough that I get quite a bit out of it. One of my favorite sitcoms ever.

Oh christ, the shoe shop & dartmouth university episode from midway in Series 2! I watch this through my hands with a kind of self-loathing grimacing laughter.

I don't know if this is common knowledge but here are all series of Peep Show for free, legally from Channel 4:

http://www.youtube.com/show?p=yiRE6Z5QFLo&s=1

And which require the use of a proxy server for anyone outside of the UK...

hulu has the whole series too i belive

Said it before, but the Dartmouth Uni one is the best episode, an absolute masterpiece.