Peep Show (now with added Mitchell & Webb Look)

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What would be cool is if they now did an ad for Dell or someone.

― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

i just watched all three of the series online over the past two days. pretty funny! is it wrong that i find robert webb and his flarey nostrils kind of cuet?

― homosexual II, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

No, no it isn't. If loving Robert Webb is wrong, I don't want to be right. Or something. He's kind of cute anyway.

― ailsa, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

I have heard *extremely* bad reports about the new Mitchell and Webb movie:
http://www.totalfilm.com/movie_news/the_peep_show_team_are_magicians

― Stevie T, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

i dont know, magicians are sort of automatically hilarious aren't they? it could be okay!

― homosexual II, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

anyone wanna take a crack at guessing what else is on jez's sex mix besides sweet reggae? i want the track listing.

― homosexual II, Thursday, 22 March 2007 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

it will be odd seeing teh new 'peep show' now they're properly famous.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

if it makes you feel any better they still mean fuck-all over here in the states

― Edward III, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

I have heard *extremely* bad reports about the new Mitchell and Webb movie

Sadly I have too. Perhaps if they'd got a proper director to direct it instead of letting the producer do it it might have been okay. Such a disappointment.

― Mark C, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

This isn't very good.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

Lets WHISPER exposition at each other because we've had a RENEWED marketing PUSH and thus may have NEW VIEWERS.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, if Sophie is from this minor aristocratic family why does she work in a medium pay sales job?

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

i am so shit at liking or not liking stuff. for some reason if it's been overexposed, i find it harder to like. so i wasn't loving this, there was no "welcome to big school" moment. but i can't say it was too bad either, just oppressively cynical.

― That one guy that quit, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

you're pretty good at not liking stuff surely.

i quite enjoyed this without thinking about it much at all.

― blueski, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

i mean 'Ramadan' is always funny.

― blueski, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

i like 'l o s t'

― That one guy that quit, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was fine. Not a spectacular return, but pretty good.

― chap, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

I realise I am disagreeing with people who think going 'OBIE TRICE' is funny, but this was great. The Jamie character was scarily well-observed (ie he is EXACTLY like my friend's little brother).

― Matt DC, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

So you think it was better than series 3 then Matt?

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

The grumpy father was a bit Meet The Parents and the randy Mum was a bit ho-hum. But I laughed; the suituations were all a bit obvious, but there were some good lines in there.

Oh yeah that Jamie character = just so, so like this kid I house-shared with a couple of years ago.

― DavidM, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was about as good as a middling episode of series one or three, which is to say very good. Problem is that the second series was so great it skewed everything.

Needed more internal monologues, and more Super Hans.

― Matt DC, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

OBIE TRICE

― That one guy that quit, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

Obie Trice: I'm a Mac
Joe Budden: And I'm a PC

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

"I [i]am[/i} James Bond!" - that bit was funny.

― Stevie T, Saturday, 14 April 2007 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck. I forgot this way on. Is it repeated on E4 or something?

― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Saturday, 14 April 2007 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

"Haven't seen this yet but one of the writers is a friend.

-- suzy (suzy), Monday, 13 October 2003 13:51 (3 years ago)"

down a shot

― That one guy that quit, Saturday, 14 April 2007 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

meh.

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 14 April 2007 09:06 (nineteen years ago)

wasn't great, too predictable and going over old ground, ie jez sleeping with the mum.

thought the scene that ended "I am James Bond" was probably the funniest, especially when Jez tried to look like there was nothing odd being said after whatever innuendo the mum made.

― Ronan, Sunday, 15 April 2007 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

we haven't even gotten season 3 over here yet. i bought the dvd from amazon uk. i might have to t0rr3nt the new ones.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Sunday, 15 April 2007 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

lols meantime we haven't even got '30 rock' here...

― That one guy that quit, Sunday, 15 April 2007 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

I thought his name was Super Hands. boy is my face red.

― blueski, Sunday, 15 April 2007 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

It's alright, I did too for ages (I assumed it was because he was really good at rolling spliffs).

― chap, Sunday, 15 April 2007 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

Okay last night's actually wasn't very good.

― Matt DC, Saturday, 21 April 2007 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

its unravelling, isn't it? it doesn't seem to have anywhere else to go, and is meandering poorly.

― stevie, Saturday, 21 April 2007 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Alan Johnson's character is just so different to when he first appeared, for no other reason than slapstick potential it seems. Last night was indeed rather pants, although I did like "I'm going to join Al-Qaeda".

― aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Saturday, 21 April 2007 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

that was just silly. on two or three occasions i assumed mark would wake up and large parts of it would have been a dream.

i'm still not convinced that won't happen at the start of next week's.

― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 22 April 2007 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

it's lost subtlety and specificity, the characters are becoming "i'm a mac"/"i'm a pc" in their polarity. i'm sure jeremy has said 'this is probably a bad idea but... i'm jeremy, so this is what i do' about three times in two episodes. although he always did stupid shit, pimping his hard-won girlfriend and then snogging mark's fiancee within a 24-hour period is a bit much.

please not to play the 'it's comedy it doesn't have to be realistic' card.

― That one guy that quit, Sunday, 22 April 2007 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

no i agree for once here. Series four is still excellent and worth watching, but half the point of the original serieses was that the situations could and probably would happen quite easily.

A lot of the characters have changed it's true, although I kind of like the way Sophie has gone from being a stuffy office frump to a ravey hippie chick over the course of the show. It reflects more the way Mark once thought about her to the way he thinks of her now. Al Johnson I'm not so sure about. He was always a great character but now his subtleties have been amplified to almost extreme proportions. He used to be this all-powerful corporate alpha male - you wouldn't have caught him sleeping around or getting pissed in a strip club before. But then again, maybe this is how the show works, same as Sophie. Mark saw him as this all-too-perfect boss when actually he's just a ratty little cunt like everyone else.

― the next grozart, Sunday, 22 April 2007 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

i think you're giving the writers rather too much credit. from where i'm sitting it's just really sloppy, lazy character development and nothing more.

― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 22 April 2007 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

As said elsewhere: Peep Show now feels like Peep Show fan fiction, the characters are far too broad, the situations are too obvious, it's like Peep Show used to be painted by watercolours and now they're using a ceiling roller.

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 22 April 2007 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Why do they put this on when its demographic is most likely to be at the pub, and why haven't the bastards at Virgin put it on TV on demand? Ah well, it'll be uploaded somewhere or other soon enough.

― chap, Sunday, 22 April 2007 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

Can't you watch them on the C4 website?

― Matt DC, Sunday, 22 April 2007 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

Not mac compatible.

― chap, Sunday, 22 April 2007 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

Ironically enough.

― chap, Sunday, 22 April 2007 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

it's repeated on c4 midweek.

― That one guy that quit, Sunday, 22 April 2007 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

Why do they put this on when its demographic is most likely to be at the pub, and why haven't the bastards at Virgin put it on TV on demand? Ah well, it'll be uploaded somewhere or other soon enough.

They obviously gave the Nathan Barley schedulers a second chance instead of firing their arses all the way to kingdom fucking come.

― the next grozart, Sunday, 22 April 2007 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

Or it could be that Channel 4 has shown all of its flagship comedy programmes on a Friday night for the past... 13 years now?

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 22 April 2007 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

Has anyone seen the pre-Peep Show sketch series "The Mitchell & Webb Situation"? My flatmate downloaded a few episodes and while it was funny, it did kind of get a bit repetitive. I did roffle at the farmer who's all

"Hey, if you want a quick tip on getting rich, listen to this - Get into farming! I just chuck seeds on the ground and bloody corn grows out of it! It's fucking easy! And you see those hens over there? They're MADE of CHICKEN! Real chicken - just kill 'em and sell 'em! OR, don't kill 'em and fucking eggs come out of their arses. You can't lose!"

― the next grozart, Monday, 23 April 2007 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

It could be that Mitchell and Webb are having more input into the show than before, now that they're nearly mainstream stars. Who knows what nonsense is going on behind the scenes - I bet the dynamic is nothing like S1 or S2.

Having said that, I have been enjoying S4 so far. It's much broader and dafter but it's making me laugh more than S3.

― Michael Jones, Monday, 23 April 2007 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

You may well be right Michael. I noticed the credits said "additional material by Mitchell and Webb." That may always have been the case of course...

― Stew, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

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