Peep Show (now with added Mitchell & Webb Look)

so cringey I had to watch it with my hood pulled over my face. terrifying

guys the 'cocktail'

'this tastes like-'

'it's moroccan. very subtle, isn't it?'

Is this Ribena?

ep 2 was my fave so far, the "best man" speech was all-time

reminded me a bit of the Enya funeral speech though

I was going to do that post

also, Mark was making his own hummous in that series where he'd lost his job and was making cutbacks

Easily the weakest of the series so far this. Still some great moments. Enjoyed Mark on Cocaine. But the plot seemed underworked.

Thought this week's was suddenly in danger of being the weakest so far, but it picked up in the second half considerably.

ha, they said they were going to fill the series with references to previous episodes and i noticed one last night - two slices of toast, one brown, one white. brown for main course, white for pudding.

speaking of Toast, it was better, as it usually is

Mark's original bit about the brown and white toast in s1 is probably one of my favourite Peep Show quotes of all time
'but I'm the one who's winning because I actually love brown toast'

also the cereals in the flat a la Gog

Sophie sliding in the ball pool is the most 'me irl' of all time too

feel this season is stretching things a bit too much. cmon mark would never even consider getting back together with sophie.

Kind of lost touch with this, but have they done a callback to Business Secrets of the Pharaohs yet?

They did a whole episode a year or so back about Mark pitching it to someone. It wasn't really a gag that merited an entire plotline.

That does sound like labouring it, yeah.

The episode wasn't bad though iirc.

Last two have been less good definitely, though still fine. Hard to believe that next week is the last ever episode of Peep Show.

Peep Show has been on for a third of my life.

Peep Show has been a third of my life.

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Never known where the show was set.

I thought this episode was great.

They really missed an opportunity in failing to utilize the phrase 'ball pit viper' in this week's episode.

"well that was actually probably my favourite line of the two!"

Perhaps inevitably it was a bit of a disappointing last episode - but what a fantastic run since 2003. I'm really going to miss it.

The last one oddly enough was the weakest. The kidnapping was a bit too ridiculous.

But the thing I felt I'd miss was Super Hans. I was marvelling at his eyes.

yeah it was a bit weak. jesus christ 'toast of london' is an awful show

That didn't feel like a last show, but then anticlimax seems appropriate.

I haven't actually seen it yet, though im not worried about spoilers, but i can't imagine a finale of peep show being anything other than underwhelming or anticlimactic. wouldn't be in the nature of the show to have a resolution, certainly wouldn't be consistent for them to have a happy ending, and in keeping with the general futility and self-inflicted misery of the el dude brothers' sad-sack lives i fully expect the show to end with them in much the same state as when the show started.

That all makes sense but it just wasn't that great an episode in general. I'm not pissed about it but I thought it deserved something a bit better.

I liked it a lot (tho agree ANOTHER kidnapping a bit ott) but bloody recording chopped off what I assume was the last couple of lines :(

**SPOILER**

I almost thought Mark was going to win for a bit although I guessed who'd sent the text

**MORE SPOILERS**

Yeah I guessed who sent the text but thought they'd actually gone

Thought it was a good ending tho.

The last line is important.

"have you been pissing in my piss?"

series 9 began stronger than it finished def, thinking back to hanses party & bagging up the prior rmmate bloke lol

I really enjoyed this as a finale, reminded me of the Father Ted finale a bit, this glimmer of light that things might actually change, but no, this purgatory lasts forever. I'm glad they didn't sugar the ending.

Loved the reveal that when it comes to relationships and living arrangements, Hans is way more Mark than Jez.

It was a perfectly fitting finale, I wasn't expecting some pull out all the stops extravaganza. There was probably the closest it's ever come to sentimentality in the central relationship, but all served with dollops of trademark cynicism and misanthropy.

A favourite bit(s) of mine that I often think of is Jez being disgusted by the Elgar bank note in two different scenes.

"Butter the toast, eat the toast, shit the toast. God, life's relentless."

"This is basically like watching porn, except I can't see anything, I haven't got a hard on, and I want to cry"

Anyone watching Mitchell/Webbs "Back" ?

I didn't know it existed. Would probably be pretty hard to divorce myself from thinking of them as Jez and Mark.

completely agree. The show presents them as fundamentally similar to those characters, but range is overrated anyway. Some good laughs, but not excellent like PS so far

I mentioned it on the Rolling Comedy thread. Felt like a pair of slippers where your toe sticks through and you can't find anywhere fresh to write on the sole with biro.

Made me chortle a couple of times, but yeah most of time I was thinking "What's Mark doing living in some village? Why are he and Jez pretending they've got different names, what are they up to?"

Did you guys have the same reaction to Sir Digby Chicken Caesar and his trusty sidekick Ginger?

Thanks for the heads up. I had no idea they were doing a new thing.

I can't believe ppl upthread were down on the mark's wedding episode. One of the best television episodes of anything ever

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