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the thing about that pixies reference is that it's *so* wildly obscure (album track off non-Doolittle album etc) that it goes far beyond yer standard 'Spaced'-esque "hey, we really know our demographic, and to prove it, here's a cred cultural reference for you" into genuinely odd territory, like the writers had a bet to see who could squeeze in the most arcane, random references - ditto European Bob. And I love 'em for it...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

and now that crazy bird from friday's ep has shown up on new bbc3 series man stroke woman, playing...er, a crazy bird.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

it's not bad this Man Stroke Woman. it took me seven minutes to realise it was actually a sketch show though...

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

i thought it was a bit dull, to be honest. some vaguely fun ideas, but it's fairly low on flair. spoons is funnier, and christ that's not half saying something - but then, spoons has a far greater grasp on realisty. man stroke woman seems to be mainly surreal/absurdist riffs, only they're not all that original in concept or funny in execution. ah well. i'll watch ep 2 just to make sure...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

i know not of Spoons.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/S/spoons/

New series beginning on Channel 4 Friday 30 September

Spoons is the brand new comedy sketch show from the producers of Channel 4's hit quiz 8 Out of 10 Cats.

The show follows the lives and loves of twenty and thirty-something urbanites as they flirt, argue and struggle to grow-up gracefully in bars, restaurants, parks, bedrooms, as well as the odd brothel. In this tangled web of fragile relationships and insecurity, we'll meet an colourful cast of spot-on characters.

There's the wife who constantly reminds her partner that she 'wants a f***ing baby' at every available inopportune moment, and the man who as a one-off treat offers to cook dinner tonight on the day his wife has given birth. We'll also meet the paranoid Keeping Tabs Boyfriend and the shameless Blind Date Man.

Written by Charlie Brooker, Ben Caudell, Peter Holmes and Neil Webster, Spoons features some of today's most talented comic performers, including Rob Rouse, Kevin Bishop, Josie D'Arby, Tom Goodman Hill, Rosie Cavaliero, Simon Farnaby, Elizabeth Bower and Kerry Godliman.

This blurb makes it sound less funny than it is: the guy who guesses entire afternoons of conversation and the guy who tries to convince people his girlfriend has kidnapped him are both pretty perceptive and funny despite repetition.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

the thing about that pixies reference is that it's *so* wildly obscure (album track off non-Doolittle album etc) that it goes far beyond yer standard 'Spaced'-esque "hey, we really know our demographic, and to prove it, here's a cred cultural reference for you" into genuinely odd territory, like the writers had a bet to see who could squeeze in the most arcane, random references - ditto European Bob. And I love 'em for it...
-- CharlieNo4 (starsandheroe...), November 22nd, 2005.

haha oh noes i was like god how obvious -- and not being an sf fan i don't get half of 'spaced'!

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:46 (twenty years ago)

the Pixies thing was lost on me as i don't know the song, still laughed at the wtfness of it tho.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

haha oh noes i was like god how obvious -- and not being an sf fan i don't get half of 'spaced'!

I dunno what you usually watch, but in my tv universe there is no corner where quoting a pixies lyric - any pixies lyric - is anything but slightly unusual at least, and wilfully fucking bizarre at most.

This is like that bit in "totally frank" the other day where the girl wouldn't let the guy shag her unless he correctly stated her favourite joy division song...("transmission", as it goes)

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:07 (twenty years ago)

it's horses for courses. i've never seen/read harrry potter or 'lotr' so a lot of mainstream entertainment goes over my head.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

I didn't have the willpower to resist clicking on this thread but I have managed not to read any of the new messages...that's because I managed to miss ep2 not once, not twice, but three times (if you include E4+1). We were up too, making Xmas cards, at 1am - all we had to do was change the channel. Ouch.

Subt1tl1ng job please, Two-E.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

Spaced and Peep Show = both north London sit-coms (Crouch End/Highgate/Tufnell Park)

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

i wonder what it's like, living outside north london...

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

presumably some fans of this show live elsewhere -- clapham, perhaps.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

I can confirm that anywhere outside of North London doesn't actually exist.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

i'm supposed to go to hackney this evening but there's a 'prisoner'-style white ball type thing stopping me, it just doesn't feel right.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

Apparently Peep Show is actually based in West Croydon! Which may explain a lot.

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

b-b-b-but in the opening credits, it's crouch end.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

they've also been in Stepney, and Herne Hill, so far this series. it's definitely a zone 2 sort of show.

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

No, it's Penge. They have a Crouch End tribute street.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

Michael I've got episode 2 on computah if you want copy.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

Oh yes please!

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

didn't find episode 2 as funny as the first, superhands doesn't seem to be as funny as he used to be either.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

Only the opening credits are in Crouch End, nothing else, certainly not the flat where they live (although that seems to be different in this series). Also, the opening credits are a lost Crouch End from 2003. That Powerhouse shop with the TVs in closed last summer.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

ha. it's 5 minutes' bike ride from my flat, and i didn't know that.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

'just you, me, some chinese food, and a whole shitload of spreadsheets'

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

"meet you in chicken corner"

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

it's horses for courses. i've never seen/read harrry potter or 'lotr' so a lot of mainstream entertainment goes over my head.
-- Theorry Henry (miltonpinsk...), November 23rd, 2005 11:11 Am

Me too, I've never seen or read any of the Lord of the Rings stuff and don't even have any idea what the plot is. I've never seen The Sound of Music either. I suspect that my everyday life is full of unnoticed references to these things.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Fantastic tonight.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Friday, 25 November 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

Yes - that was brilliant.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Friday, 25 November 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

So, so good. An unbelievable improvement from last week's debacle. I laughed out loud 6 or 7 times, absolutely tremendous stuff. Johnson was superb too, good to see him again!

― Cracks (Crackity), Friday, 25 November 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

Really really classic.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Friday, 25 November 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

NO SPOILERZ PLEASE!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 25 November 2005 23:48 (twenty years ago)

Big Suze is apparently the daughter of

http://www.f4group.co.uk/images/eve_pollard.jpg

― Masked Gazza, Friday, 25 November 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

Is that a spoiler? It spoils something anyway.

― Masked Gazza, Friday, 25 November 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

I have seen two episodes, not the latest, the two before. I can see some quality but not as much as is alleged. It feels trendy to me. I'm not crazy about it. I'm not sure. I think it has some qualities, but is dislikeable. I like RJG's scorched earth campaign agin it, upthread.

― the bellefox, Saturday, 26 November 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

The latest episode is better than the two preceding it.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Saturday, 26 November 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

Immeasurably better, especially compared to ep 2.

― Cracks (Crackity), Saturday, 26 November 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

yes, highly impressed by tonights episode.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Saturday, 26 November 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

i think it would be much better if mark and jez were played by these people:

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b118/sarahlibertine/ALEXDAMONOMGZZZZZZ.jpg

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Saturday, 26 November 2005 08:45 (twenty years ago)

Peepshow works best when it's not just focusing on Mark and Jez in a scene. Johnson and Super Hans are my faves.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Saturday, 26 November 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

Jez is getting more evil isn't he? "mustn't think too hard about what i'm actually doing..."

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 26 November 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)

"It's not like I'm going to rape him. I could rape him... I'm not going to rape him."

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Saturday, 26 November 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

YES that was a really disturbing line

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 26 November 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

I agree with CharlieNo4. When I was a lad, I liked the fact that these members of Blur were, to my mind, attractive.

― the blurfox, Saturday, 26 November 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

I found that line funny, not disturbing. Oh dear.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 26 November 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

I think I found it funny because I knew the "...I could rape him" bit was coming. I can relate to this sort of mental Tourette's Syndrome.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 26 November 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

NB. I don't want to rape anyone. I don't even think I could rape anyone. Even if I wanted to, which I don't. I don't even fantasise about raping anyone. Thanks.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 26 November 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

"...and anyone who says otherwise is lying" is the traditional end to such protests.

i found it disturbing AND funny. don't worry N. i laffed much more at this ep.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Saturday, 26 November 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

Everyone thinks things they shouldn't/don't even mean, what's funny about this show is that they generally go ahead and broadcast them...

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Saturday, 26 November 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

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