Peep Show (now with added Mitchell & Webb Look)

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

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

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

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

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

Tonight was pretty good, yep.

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

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

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

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

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.

The eating a dead dog bit was a low point. How hard is it to get rid of a bag of dog... by a fucking canal?

I didn't actually laff too much during this though. Setting up the E4 player was a fucker as well.

4OD, whatever.

4OD really sucks, not as badly as ITV's equivalent but it's pretty bad. The iPlayer is the best of these things by a mile.

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

-- Mackro Mackro, Friday, May 2, 2008 7:48 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

unfortunately no. but you can get series 2-4 from amazon.co.uk or cdwow.com. if your computer's got a dvd drive, it's possible to play dvds from other regions (NTSC/PAL isn't an issue for computer monitors), as long as your software player will disregard region flags.

you can also find cheap region-free dvd players in the US pretty easily, there are quite a few toshiba or philips models that are region free with built-in PAL converters.

I've got series 4 sitting unopened on my shelf, haven't got around to watching it yet.

i have a region-free dvd player. Just wondering if I had to get the imports or not. Thanks!

yes much better. thx peep ppl

astonishingly, they're giving away this episode free on iTunes (UK, i guess).

anyway, yeh. tick tick VG.

Something I noticed - the burglar shouted "clean shirt!" at Mark. The actor that played him was in the first episode of Peep Show, playing "bicycle teenager" - the same character that shouted "clean shirt!" at Mark in that episode?

yeahuh.

Aha - I was wondering if this was meant to be the same character. Great episode. Someone elsewhere pointed out that Jez has already mentioned having chlamydia in the episode where he gets together with Mark's sister - not sure if this is intentional or what, I can't work it out.

Maybe, they brought back an old character and another even older, very obscure, character for this episode, so maybe there's some more nerdy continuity stuff going on aswell. I like it.

Needs more Dobby.

Yeah seriously, I hope she comes back!

"Iggy, Bowie, Lou Reed... Tupac, they're all sucking each other off"

hahaha. I did think the ending, when they just kept repeating "sucking off" was trying to replicate the (better) episode when everyone's like "If you even think of sectioning me I will section you so fast".

Still: "Old-style pedoing, before it got a bad name."

Yeah it all unravelled from the bit when they found Sophie in the toilet. To be honest I was hoping they'd write Sophie out altogether for this series to avoid getting bogged down in that stuff, but then I remembered how classic Jeff is.

i once worked with a guy who out-jeffed jeff. but had none of his redeeming qualities.

still laughing about "old-school paedoing".

That episode was dark.

http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/P/peep_show/images/episode_guides/series_5/s5_ep2_dobby_mark_200x150.jpg

Just....fantastic.

I think this was maybe the best episode ever.

Whilst waiting for this episode to appear on 4OD I made my girlfrend watch (cos she hadn't seen any of the first 2 series yet) the episode from the first series when they go to the party and then Mark get off with the goth-teen and they go bowling, and I thought that was the best episode ever, and then I saw this, and thought this was the best episode ever, so it's probably true. Even though I did think Dobby was being played by Josie Long. (disclaimer: I saw Cry Baby at ATP, and thought Johnny Depp was Shane Richie)

This episode didn't even touch the majesty of "For the worst thing that can possibly happen, this is actually going quite well" or "I am a drug user! Fuck da police!"

The best episode is Mark stalking the cute history student.

If only because it feels a lot like an episode of Family Guy, with Mark as Brian and Jeremy as Stewie.

Chick that played Dobby is actually one of Josie Long's "crew", I think.

^^^ This. My housemate and I binned an entire trip to our old university town during Fresher's Week on the basis of that episode.

Also, genuinely most heartbreaking ending.

I agree with Dom on the best episode. It doesn't end with a punchline, but with a savage indictment of human nature.

I might well revise my 'best episode ever' opinion as I make my way through previous series. I might even like the 4th series by the time I get around to that.

Peep Show series 2 episode 4: http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=4731945431959116536&q=Peep+show

Bit of a lapse in quality last night, excruciating without the usual cleverness. I've known Aussie girls just like that, though.

Bought and watched the entire first season over the weekend. Going to need to get Season 2 very, very soon, I think.

Season 5 is brilliant - so glad they turned it around after the totl drop in quality in season 4. My fave episode is the magic mushrooms/toilet door one from Season 3.

BTW if anyone's thinking of getting any of the past series on DVD then you can buy the season 1-4 box set for peanuts on HMV... £18 delivered

http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=2590;-1;-1;-1&sku=703800&WT.ac=offer_of_the_week-PBODY-offer_of_the_week_2-703800

Gah, it was £16 as well...

Pretty fucking great.

"Not proper rape, like up the bum or anything."

Jeremy's become too much of a dick as a character. Good Superhans and "Mark isn't very good at being an intellectual" lolz though, so they're getting the basics of the show right.

Jeremy's total cuntishness toward his mum could've been subtler. Great episode nonetheless, this continues to be the darkest since S2.

i dunno. i thought that one was a bit overplayed -- ciphers rather than characters. like some of the more excessive bits of the last series, it just didn't quite hang together as an entirely credible sequence of events.

the nicholas lyndhurst gag made me choke laughing, mind.

Aye, I know some people who've been cunts to their mums, but Jeremy was just a step too far last night, I think.

it just didn't quite hang together as an entirely credible sequence of events

This is what I've thought about the whole series really.

Not that credability is necessary for laughs of course, just that they were more believable, now they're just horrible.