Peep Show (now with added Mitchell & Webb Look)

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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)

Yes. Good. It is Alan in his suit and tie who is disturbed for not having such thoughts.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 26 November 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

i missed ep 2. last night's was transcendently brilliant. "and now i'm standing here, tripping my nuts off, watching you do ... endless poos!"

the whole dynamic does appear to be changing, though: whereas it used to be about two very different but equally tragic people, mark now seems to be presented as a *slightly* more sympathetic character ... probably simply because jez is becoming alarmingly psychotic.

either way: glorious, glorious stuff. i should track down episode 2 somewhere, i suppose. or just wait for the DVD :)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 26 November 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

the flat where they live (although that seems to be different in this series)

It *is* different - this series is the first one where they've used a studio set for their flat, rather than shooting on location. Apparently, the people who actually lived there were getting a bit bored of it all.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 26 November 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

-We're going to smash through the doors of perception and see all the things that you don't normally see, cause-

-Cause they're not really there?

-No, they are really there but we don't normally see them cause we're distracted by all the-

-Things that are really there?

...marvellous

― Zora (Zora), Sunday, 27 November 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

I kiss you.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Sunday, 27 November 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to know quite what the Pinefox means by its being 'trendy', exactly?

― Tom May (Tom May), Sunday, 27 November 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

yeah, it seems the opposite of trendy, really! i loved it. i loved last week's too.

― N_RQ, Monday, 28 November 2005 09:22 (twenty years ago)

Trendy (perhaps) = it's stuffed with sexual and drug references and "Why does it have to be so rude?"

I sort of know what he means. But I also don't.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 28 November 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

mm, certainly eps 2 and 3 fit this profile (although this last ep was very much 'the jeremy show'). but in ep 1 i almost thought they'd made mark too much of a fuck-up -- the whole sex-angst thing might've gone too far.

xpost

the show is obsessed with poo, it must be said.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 28 November 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

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