Peep Show (now with added Mitchell & Webb Look)

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (1438 of them)

Has anyone bought/seen the DVD of the first series yet? Any good extras? I'm almost wishing I had a TV, just for Peep Show. If there was a way I could make it only receive Peep Show (and maybe The West Wing), I would do it.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 15 November 2004 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

It was very funny indeed. Having found Max And Paddy funnier than I possibly should have I was physically hurting by the end of Peep Show.

― RickyT (RickyT), Monday, 15 November 2004 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

What a superb friday eve, Max & Paddy (how dare you!) being really funny (I was worried that it might not be.) & then Peep Show. Perfect!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Max & Paddy was roundly panned by the Late Review - surprising as i would've expected it would totally be Tom Paulin's bag.

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 15 November 2004 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

mildly amusing.
it isn't what it wants to be.
constant POV shots = dud.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 15 November 2004 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

hmm, max and paddy wasn't great, peep show was, as usual, watched from behind my fingers, it's so excrutiating and yet brilliant.

the line about "HAVING A GREAT BIG WANK" was particularly well-received chez carsmile...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 15 November 2004 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Me disagreeing with ILX (again) shockah!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't forget Father Ted and The Simpsons, and even Friends. it was indeed a perfect evening, I thought M&P was pretty funny.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 15 November 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't really like Father Ted if I'm honest, it bugs me for some reason.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 15 November 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

it isn't what it wants to be.

? disagree there - it seems to be fulfilling the mandate 'make people laugh while presenting sitcom in a relatively novel way' - assuming that IS the mandate

constant POV shots = dud

whole point tho!

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 15 November 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

first episode of new series didn't really do it for me, and i loved the first one.

hasn't mark gotten fat???

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 15 November 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

constant POV shots = dud

whole point tho!

ya. still doesn't work though.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 15 November 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it works okay. personally i enjoy this style as it's not been explored much before and it can be quite interesting to have the characters looking at 'you'. you might argue that as a gimmick it wears off quickly but i would argue the same about The Office - it got to the point where the idea that a TV crew were filming it all for a documentary just became absurd. still hilarious tho, so whether it 'worked' or not didn't matter so much.

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 15 November 2004 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck, that was funny

"Wow, this crack is really moreish"

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 19 November 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

that was a great episode

so otm about racist friends too.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Saturday, 20 November 2004 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

should I buy this on dvd? will I enjoy it, considering that my touchpoints for recent britcoms are the office, alan partridge, and spaced?

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 20 November 2004 03:50 (twenty-one years ago)

yes

i should think so

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Saturday, 20 November 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

haha, yes, it is funny. although it didn't really take off for me until the third episode, and then, after the 4th, I felt like I'd watched enough in one sitting.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 07:09 (twenty-one years ago)

"Come on then Hands, let's go and get you some crack"

"I'm gonna broom you! I will, you'll get the broom, I promise!"

"Now your girlfriend and my best friend are going off to fuck, and what are we gonna do? Make a tent in the lounge and eat Dairylea Triangles? Is that what you want? Cos that's exactly what's gonna happen."

I fucking love Peep Show. It's never going to cross over like The Office did, being (I think) too close to the bone for mass mainstream consumption - ie although these character types no doubt exist in every office/pub/block of flats in the country, nobody really wants to think about that fact too deeply - but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I wouldn't recommend it to my mum and dad, certainly...

"Are you saying we can't be friends just because I'm stalking you?"

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 08:30 (twenty-one years ago)

best program channel 4 has come up with in ages. sad its finished though.

― splooge (thesplooge), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I was, in the end, disappointed by Max and Padddy. Every other episode was 'Max bumps into old friend who is a psycho just out of prison'. Truly it was a Road to Nowhere. It had its moments though. Tellingly, the best bit was back at The Phoenix.

I don't like Peep Show because they talk to the camera when they are supposed to be talking to each other. This is wrong. Over the shoulder shot and counter-shot is bad, but this is worse. Also it has too much swearing and appears to be genetically engineered for young people. Steptoe and Son wasn't specifically for rag and bone men, was it? I mean, I'm sure they enjoyed it, but you could still get into it if you were a roadsweeper.

― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 23 December 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought the last episode was maybe the best yet...

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 26 December 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

rubbish.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 26 December 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

why's that?

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 26 December 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

it isn't funny.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 26 December 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

'15 storeys high'?

― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 26 December 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I would like to put paid to the rumours I myself have ever created a tent in the living room and/or eaten dairylea triangles and discovered the "processed cheese hangover".

― Not Starry, Sunday, 26 December 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

If this show comes high in this 'tv treats' thing on right now, i will feel strangely elated. It was the best thing on telly.
Max and Paddy was shite.

my fave Superhans bit: "i tell you what that crack is really moreish"

― Bumfluff, Sunday, 26 December 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

superhans during the wedding all coked up in the bathroom stall!

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 26 December 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Thinking about it, the unexplained oddity (within certain 'type') of the subsidiary characters - Super Hans and Toni particularly - works really well.

This second series really did impress me, especially as it moved along. The characters - if not perhaps so strongly the situation - were pushed into interesting waters. And why is a developing, serial situation now seemingly what I want in a sitcom? Probably a bit too much Reggie Perrin watched of late (though of course the brilliance there, is how the basic melancholy situation is eventually reaffirmed, after, say, the novelties/experiments of new identities, Grot and the commune...) ;)

The occasionally more 'reflective' tone of this was very pleasing; just the sort of thing I was looking for after the last series. Questions remain as to whether the show can perhaps 'speak to' a larger audience, and extend further its reach (aye, maybe change the whole dynamic by removing the POV? would throw up a whole new set of questions about the characters)... but it was more than good enough to be getting on with.

― Tom May (Tom May), Sunday, 26 December 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

so, it's all old jokes and crap jokes?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 27 December 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Not sure it is all necessarily about 'jokes'; 't ain't stand-up comedy.

― Tom May (Tom May), Monday, 27 December 2004 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

uh-oh

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 27 December 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

All this talk of Green Wing begs the question, why was it hyped so, and Peep Show raised barely a, er, peep.
I suppose it has a lot to do with sharing producers with Smack The Pony and having an all star cast.
Green Wing was okay, but not a patch on Peep Show, in terms of laughs, invention and soul.
Yet where is Peep Show in the TV reviews of the year?
I freelance for C4 Ideas Factory. Next time I'm in the office I should tell them Peep Show is the greatest C4 sitcom since Spaced and everyone in it should be given lots of money to do what they want, while Avid Merrion gets beaten unconcious and thrown in a hole into which wet concrete is poured. That would certainly be funnier than Bo Selecta! (I laughed my ass off first time I saw Michael Jackass ice skating with two raw chickens on his feet, but now it really is diabolical - witless, boring and useless)

I'll third the admiration for the "That crack was really moreish" line. Greatest line of the year, all the more so in the light of Pete Doherty's ongoing self-destruction.
The university episode was particularly heartbreaking. The Columbo bit was genius, Peter Capaldi was on fine form (stop taking easy money voiceover jobs and ACT man), and Mark's awkard dealings with the girl were really close to the bone. We've all been there at some point.
The final episode even had its own mini Brent telling Finchy to fuck off moment when Mark asked that knob to leave.
And that Nancy girl is totally hott.

― stew, Monday, 27 December 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

the highly-addictive-drug-is-moreish joke is as old as the harry hills.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 27 December 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

ha. why do you keep reading this thread if you dislike the show so much?

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 December 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Spaced was poor, and yet I miss it.

― Bumfluff, Monday, 27 December 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I dislike the show so much.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 27 December 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i respect that. but you are bringing nothing to the table to convince me i shouldn't like this show!

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 December 2004 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't mind, if you like it, but it's pishy!

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 27 December 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i see you've also graced the green wing thread with claims of RUBBISH!

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 December 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 27 December 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

I just downloaded the old Radio Shows of 'That Mitchell And Webb Sound'. It's fantastic.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 25 July 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

NEW SERIES starts this friday and Mark gets mugged by teenagers.

then the series 2 dvd is out not this monday but the following one.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Sunday, 6 November 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

There might be a film in the works!

― theantmustdance (theantmustdance), Sunday, 6 November 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

i love peep show so much. yay to its return! boo to its enduring not-crossing-overness!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 6 November 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

YEAHHHH!!!! COOOL!

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 6 November 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

excited.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 6 November 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Oh fuck, missed this. Is it repeated anytime soon or does anyone know where to find a torrent for it? (can't see it on Piratebay or Torrentspy.)

― Affectian (Affectian), Sunday, 6 November 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Oops, I see it was this Friday coming up and I'm an idiot and I'm walking away now.

― Affectian (Affectian), Sunday, 6 November 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Skipping 1338 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

yeah, do it DL.

https://img.gifglobe.com/grabs/peepshow/S07E05/gif/6ruw4aya3h72.gif

― kinder, Saturday, 22 November 2025 17:28 (seven months ago)

The final series is really really good

― chap, Saturday, 22 November 2025 22:11 (seven months ago)

OTM. eg. Olivia Colman's final few scenes have been haunting me anew for a couple days now lol.

― It’s a powerful boat for a powerful mind. (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Monday, 24 November 2025 06:38 (seven months ago)

With any episode anybody describes as weak I just immediately think of at least one thing that's indispensably good about it. Matt Townsend gym episode has one of the single best jokes in the series ("what's a novel?"). Jury episode has Mark's big spiteful lecture about consumer capitalism as he reclaims the apartment. Jeremy's "you've ground down my self-worth" thing as he wets himself on the church balcony is fantastic and probably emotionally necessary as a lead-in to the ceremony itself. You have to get a lot closer to the end before reaching any where I just think eh, yeah, that one's not great.

― ን (nabisco), Monday, 24 November 2025 22:55 (seven months ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.