Peep Show (now with added Mitchell & Webb Look)

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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)

One Foot in the Grave, or some similarly awful programme

i'm with alba here: OFITG was basically masterful. it was a little too, er, "traditional" in some of the set-ups and secondary characters, but as traditional sitcoms go it's godlike.

"peep show" is very funny but - even as someone who's enjoying this series a lot more than most people here - i wouldn't say it's a classic at all.

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 12 May 2007 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

I am not an Alanmal.

― Alba, Saturday, 12 May 2007 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

One Foot In The Grave was great.

― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Saturday, 12 May 2007 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

what's a ba - or, for that matter, an an - between friends?

sorry alba, for (maybe wrongly) casting you as the number one fan of OFITG. sorry alan, for not being able to read properly. in fairness, i was in bed drinking coffee.

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 12 May 2007 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

What kind of excuse is that? I do some of my best reading in bed.

― Bob Six, Saturday, 12 May 2007 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

I am still loving this series although I wish they wouldn't do the crazy farce thing all the time. Dead bird in series one was get-away-with-able but this is too much. I really liked the first half, esp Jeremy's genuine attempt at getting Mark a stag weekend of boring stuff he'd like.

― Not the real Village People, Saturday, 12 May 2007 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

I do some of my best reading in bed

as you can see, i do some of my worst.

Jeremy's genuine attempt at getting Mark a stag weekend of boring stuff he'd like

... which, of course, he can't actually see through - just like everything else in his life.

i thought they nailed jeremy brilliantly in last week's; how quickly he switched to bullying mark, and the associated thought-over ("stay in with the stronger group", or whatever, and later "how can something so wrong feel so right?") it's little bits like that which *do* lift this above the norm.

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 12 May 2007 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

as dom's ben saying they've subtly made mark the main character with jeremy as comic foil. i suppose the second half of last night's ep doesn't stand up to that analysis but i don't really want to think about it, it was so fucking dire.

― That one guy that quit, Saturday, 12 May 2007 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Final episode of series 4: complete waste of Superhans, my favourite character, but I enjoyed Mark and Jez hiding in the church.

Superhans has been woefully under represented in this series.

― Bob Six, Friday, 18 May 2007 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

Not very funny overall, and the whole wedding-avoidance thing wasn't good enough to make me stop thinking about how well Seinfeld did it with George. And the bodily functions thing is really getting tired.

Still,

"There are no badgers"

"You're going to get us killed because of 'your legacy'. You're not fucking Blair."

"It's a moot point"

all gems.

― Alba, Friday, 18 May 2007 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

yeh this one wasn't so bad, some gold from jeremy. it is getting kind of depressing though.

― That one guy that quit, Friday, 18 May 2007 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

somehow i cant really imagine alba watching a comedy show

― 696, Friday, 18 May 2007 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

it is getting kind of depressing though.

the end surely? This series worst altogether, but nicely tied up at the end i reckon.

― Bocken Social Scene, Friday, 18 May 2007 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

i think i snickered - at some of ~~alan~~alba's gems. but the bit at the shops was by Harlesden Blockbusters. which was quite the highlight here.

― Alan, Friday, 18 May 2007 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

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