been watching the box set again this weekend. I'm enjoying them a lot more this time around.
and was in tears of laughter at The Crying Game ending, showing The Scum newspaper headline
― bracken free ditch (Ste), Sunday, 13 December 2009 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh right, there's a Comic Strip thread. The GLC one's just been on London Live. LOL @ Neil Kinnock, portrayed as a dithering prevaricating compromiser being shot by Tony Benn, played by Lee Van Cleef. Interesting that the music in this episode was composed by Kate Bush!
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 March 2021 21:45 (three years ago) link
Oh I knew she'd done the song for the "Ken" Livingstone one...
― Mark G, Thursday, 18 March 2021 22:46 (three years ago) link
That's... this one
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Thursday, 18 March 2021 23:04 (three years ago) link
Ah I know what I think I mixed up "Strike" with "GLC" so dmm..
― Mark G, Thursday, 18 March 2021 23:09 (three years ago) link
Yes, this is Robbie Coltrane as Charles Bronson as Ken Livingstone. Good episode this one apart from Keith Allen doing a 'gay', especially as he'd played a very sympathetic gay character in "The Crying Game" episode. Prince Charles as kind of distracted upper class hippy was good.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 March 2021 23:12 (three years ago) link
spent a while watching these a few years ago, they are such an odd mix of obvious classic episodes, crap am-dram pissabout parodies which just baffle (The Beat Generation, Susie, Summer School) and the occasional wonderful surprise- I'd never seen Didn't You Kill My Brother? before and was not prepared for quite how intricate / granular it was, just a brilliant piece of writing.
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 18 March 2021 23:25 (three years ago) link
Kate Bush is actually in this one, getting mauled by a chocolate-covered Daniel Peacock right now.
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 20:11 (three years ago) link
I'd completely forgotten the existence of Daniel Peacock - who, it turns out, is the son of the recently deceased Trevor.
― 25:30 mins bongo solo (Matt #2), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 21:32 (three years ago) link
There was a definite family resemblance!
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 21:37 (three years ago) link
I also had no idea about this until Trevor passed away; Trevor also father of Daniel's much younger half-sibling Harry (Ray Bloody Purchase in Toast of London, married to Katherine Parkinson).
Has Gino: Full Story and Pics been on yet? I think more of that is imprinted in my brain than even Fistful.... "He was ranting about he was going 'get' Mrs Thatcher and I pretended to agree with him." "Oh, I could never go back to sheets and blankets."
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 8 April 2021 13:00 (three years ago) link