Peep Show (now with added Mitchell & Webb Look)

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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)

"tube up his nose
tube up his nose
tube up his nose
tube up his nose"

this made me laugh long and hard.

― CharlieNo4, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

While I agree that this series seems to be more 'wacky adventures' whereas previously I particularly loved the everyday-ness of it, I'm still laughing like a drain. "That bloody hippy sold me down the river!" "Every man has a price... yours is £530" - awesome.

― Not the real Village People, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

lol that was shit

― That one guy that quit, Saturday, 28 April 2007 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

yeah that episode was completely crap. one or two mildly amusing moments.

― Ronan, Saturday, 28 April 2007 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

i actually lolled a lot more at that one than the previous eps this series, and then they pulled the scene accusing matt, and i didn't know what to think :-/

― Alan, Saturday, 28 April 2007 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

also 4OD pc only. fuckers. it's all on homechoice anyway. but that's not the point.

― Alan, Saturday, 28 April 2007 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

If they just got rid of Mark this series wouldn't be as bad as it has been.

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 28 April 2007 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

the end was the worst thing ever. it's kind of turned into one of the later series of 'bottom'.

― That one guy that quit, Saturday, 28 April 2007 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

Also, are the episodes meant to be self-contained nowadays? Why has nobody mentioned Mark pretending to be dying to get off his job? Was he fired? What?

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 28 April 2007 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

Still better than Ruddy Hell It's Harry and Paul, though.

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 28 April 2007 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

us both: "he's still got a job??? wtf"

― Alan, Saturday, 28 April 2007 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

not seen Harry and Paul, but I like the bits in the trailers showing Bono and The Edge.

― Alan, Saturday, 28 April 2007 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

it's really, really bad.

― That one guy that quit, Saturday, 28 April 2007 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

it's mediocre

― acrobat, Sunday, 29 April 2007 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

Am I the only person who thinks it's still really funny?

― chap, Sunday, 29 April 2007 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

i still think this is really funny (1st episode was just okay but its gotten a lot better since then - def as good as the earlier series). but im sick of seeing them everywhere now. all over the tube, the posters for the movie, then their stupid adverts are even on the screen when i check my yahoo mail. kinda ruins the 'loserdom' appeal of peep show.

― titchyschneiderMk2, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

They were saying that that haggard musician Jez was working for was in Norway, but then Superhans arrives having apparently just wanked him off at his house for £££, what's that all about?

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

I thought last Friday's was immensely funny and true. I've only ever watched PS sporadically, but this was as good as anything I can remember.

― Alba, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Friday's episode was back on form at last. As for Harry & Paul, well, it has its moments but it's got the same problem that all sketch shows have: using the same jokes with the same characters every week.

― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Last Friday's was really good.

I loved the bit with Jez speaking to the musician guy first: "you've been so high and just.....SO LOW" etc

― Ronan, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, last Firdays seemed fine to me.

But mnore importantly, where is the Not Going Out thread?

― Pete, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Why has everyone become so obsessed with Not Going Out just now, it was on ages ago and no-one liked it then.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

last night was a Not Going Out that i hadn't seen before. is it a new series? or just luck to see a repeat i'd not caught before?

― Alan, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I see, it's on again just now - we're not getting it up here. It would appear to be the first series repeated again anyway.

― ailsa, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

I loved the bit with Jez speaking to the musician guy first: "you've been so high and just.....SO LOW" etc

ha ha. yes. unfortunately i always think of that guy as Liam, Claire's Dad, from Eastenders in the mid 90s.

routine humiliation of Mark no matter what not actually v funny really. there must be something else they can do for once?

― blueski, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

this was a much better episodes than the others this series, for realsies.

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

~~seconded~~ ~~thirded~~ ~~fourthed~~ like everyone else, i agree. absolutely brilliant.

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

my leg actually went into spasm with acute embarrassment during the whole comedy farce denouement. it could only have been better if they'd contrived, somehow, to have mark dressed as a vicar.

― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

It's just time to admit that Webb is a much better comic actor than Mitchell, says I.

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

Agreed. Mitchell is very good at playing Mark, but not much else. He's rubbish in TMAWL.

― chap, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

In the last two weeks I have watched every episode of Peep Show, series 1, 2 and 3. I have laughed so much I think I am in danger of developing a six pack. I take back everything I said about it when I'd only watched bits of it while drunk.

And it is awful to admit this...but it was the awful mac/pc adverts that made me think I should get round to actually watching PS. Every cloud, silver lining.

― Zoe Espera, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

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