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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)

I quite like how this series has explored Mark and Jez's relationship a bit more than previous ones - there's been a real sense of how tragically symbiotic they are.

― chap, Saturday, 19 May 2007 02:24 (nineteen years ago)

so was that the final ep in the series or not?

i enjoyed it. a lot. i was a bit drunk, though.

― grimly fiendish, Saturday, 19 May 2007 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

yes that was it. but the next series is now confirmed.

― CharlieNo4, Saturday, 19 May 2007 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

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― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 9 August 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

That is damning. I didn't much like s04, and Jeremy is clearly the better of the two (and criminally underused). I mean really, this is wonderful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXLlhNsbncI

― Will M., Thursday, 9 August 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

haha dom, one of my "friends" just joined some group which is "petition to get [david hassel]hoff songs on jukeboxes".

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 10 August 2007 08:45 (eighteen years ago)

i really went off this show during the last series.

― stevie, Friday, 10 August 2007 08:48 (eighteen years ago)

didn't they have a film out? about magicians? anyway students like comedy, shocka huh dom. it's not like you can quote family guy episodes verbatim is it.

― acrobat, Friday, 10 August 2007 09:01 (eighteen years ago)

they did have a film about magicians which was universally panned.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 10 August 2007 09:02 (eighteen years ago)

RIP big man

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 10 August 2007 09:48 (eighteen years ago)

you really gotta stop doing that

― acrobat, Friday, 10 August 2007 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

"mark" is in voiceovers for life now, doubt he's too bothered.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 10 August 2007 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

I'm off to watch Mitchell & Webb filming tonight, I'll report back.

― Mark C, Friday, 10 August 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

tell them to do some more sketches with the drunk tramp, because he's funny

― stevie, Friday, 10 August 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

are you:

a mark

a jeremy?

― pc user, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

That was... good.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 2 May 2008 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

Like, surprisingly so, considering how much I was booing the last series. Very series 2.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 2 May 2008 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

It was an improvement on the last series without ever being hilarious. I liked the burglar in the living room bit.

― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Friday, 2 May 2008 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

I'm off to watch Mitchell & Webb filming tonight, I'll report back.

-- Mark C, Friday, 10 August 2007 13:19 (8 months ago) Bookmark Link

so many lies on this board

― ledge, Friday, 2 May 2008 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

The moment where Mark tried to lay blame for the megatron on the burglar was where I did actually L.O.L.

― DavidM, Friday, 2 May 2008 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

Tom I did report back! And told everyone how genius Cheesoid was. Did you listen? No.

Tonight was pretty good, yep.

― Mark C, Friday, 2 May 2008 23:31 (eighteen years ago)

I liked it. I was one of the few people to like series 4 as well.

― chap, Friday, 2 May 2008 23:35 (eighteen years ago)

is anything beyond season 1 available on DVD in the U.S.?

― Mackro Mackro, Friday, 2 May 2008 23:48 (eighteen years ago)

"If I have to, I will fuck you in order to get to fuck her."

― G00blar, Saturday, 3 May 2008 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

Basically Peep Show S4 lost the plot because it went right through the limits of plausibility, the lolz in Peep Show stem from it being something that could realistically happen.

Eating a dead dog/setting fire to a neighbours barn = nah
Apprehending a burglar and then acting the hard man because you think it plays well with your date = yay

― Matt DC, Sunday, 4 May 2008 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

Also watching Mark and Jeremy acting on their respective class neuroses is always funny. TS: "I'm wrestling with the white working class!" vs Jeremy trying to bond with the burglar.

― Matt DC, Sunday, 4 May 2008 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

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