Peep Show (now with added Mitchell & Webb Look)

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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)

I was at the cinema yesterday morning (The Painted Veil, lots of old ladies) and there was one very talkative pair. Then a Mac/PC advert came on and they remained silent and I was vaguely wondering what they were making of it. When it finished the older one said "What was that about?". "Computers", nodded the other.

Sorry, that seemed a more interesting story in my head.

― Alba, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

You could smell the lavander in the Painted Veil screening I saw. I kept expecting Inn of The Seventh Happiness bird to walk across the screen.

― Pete, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

Another of her comments, about Edward Norton's character: "He's straight-necked, that one".

― Alba, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

haha, that's much funnier than Peep Show.

― jed_, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

I am so not "straight-necked".

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

― stevie, Friday, 11 May 2007 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

^^^ this. It comes from shifting the entire focus of the show to Mark with Jeremy as his tagalong. Mark comedy has to be pained farce comedy of embarassment, Jeremy can just be simple stoner lulz. Maybe they'll get it right with series 5?

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

that was shit

― Alan, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

The Ruth Badger joke was funny, tho.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

was the only lol for me, yeah

― never acid again, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

that was shit

-- Alan, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:04 (4 minutes ago)

qft

― That one guy that quit, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

thee worst.

― jed_, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

ah. i quite enjoyed it. utterly beyond far-fetched, but gruesomely so; and still strangely more believable than the whole office nonsense of ep 2. we chortled away and watched the last three minutes through our hands.

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

pretty good episode.

― Frogman Henry, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

i switched off when he got on the boat with the dog in the bag. too horrific. i'm too squeamish for this...

― stevie, Friday, 11 May 2007 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

i find that squeamishness only really affects me when it's in some way related to a situation that could actually happen to me irl.

― jed_, Friday, 11 May 2007 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

i'll leave you to draw your own conclusion there.

― stevie, Saturday, 12 May 2007 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was good, particularly the second half on the canal.

― Bob Six, Saturday, 12 May 2007 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't think it was much cop, except for "We're not in the euro". Their heart didn't seem to be in it, really.

― Alba, Saturday, 12 May 2007 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

i thought the exact opposite to bob. it went downhill amazingly fast. the whole diesel/petrol thing was stupid enough, but the dead dog material was just shit.

also why the fuck is every episode set away from their flat now?

― That one guy that quit, Saturday, 12 May 2007 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

its only fools & horses xmas special syndrome - spend the extra budget on location

― stevie, Saturday, 12 May 2007 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

i seem to recall (from DVD commentary) that it might be the other way around - the flat is not a studio but a real flat that they don't have constant access to.

― Alan, Saturday, 12 May 2007 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

lol i realize the other day i was saying 'what's the big deal with single-location comedy?' but this episode was too much like the first in the series: go to the country, meet tory grotesques. i preferred it when they went to pubs and bowling alleys mark's office, and super hans was in it.

the flat was a real flat in series one (and maybe two?) but i saw a newspaper article, i think, where it said they'd had to start using a studio (somewhere in north west london).

― That one guy that quit, Saturday, 12 May 2007 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

i don't like this programme anymore. its too heartlessly cruel (to and via its central characters) to be funny. and the farce element is getting so obvious now. its like fawlty towers, and while i appreciate fawlty towers is great, i can't watch it as as i feel stomach ulcers forming with every passing minute.

I agree with everything here, especially the Fawlty Towers fear. I almost switched off Peep Show last night, because it all just seemed too horribly locked on to a farcical course. I'm not seeing a lot of difference between it and One Foot in the Grave, or some similarly awful programme, apart from its cruelty levels being higher.

― accentmonkey, Saturday, 12 May 2007 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

I'm probably easily pleased with tv at the moment: it's the only programme I've watched all week apart from Tony Blair's speech.

― Bob Six, Saturday, 12 May 2007 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

difference being that One Foot in the Grave was expertly and densely plotted. And often very funny.

― Alan, Saturday, 12 May 2007 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

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