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TheVertigoOfBliss posted:From the first two episodes of masterchef it would seem spending a few weeks working in burger king qualifies you as a professional. My ex-girlfriend has qualified to be in the next Australian Masterchef. I think this compels me to watch it, even though who really gives a poo poo about Australian Masterchef? Other than you, of course.
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This is England was loving good. Utterly depressing, but brilliant. Was a bit annoyed at C4 for pretty much spoiling it. Halfway through they announced that there would be "scenes of sexual violence", which was pretty much followed by a scene featuring Lol and her delightful Father. Wasn't particularly impressed with John Sweeney's Scientology follow-up.
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# ? Sep 29, 2010 08:23 |
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I thought this week's Inbetweeners was better than the preceding 2. It was more like the first series, with Jay repeating the 'beep beep beep' and the juvenile shouting of 'Gilbert!' and 'Oceanside!' (or whatever it was). Plus Jay going on about he's clocked this game and that game, spending the whole episode behaving like the idiot child he is. For more accuracy they should have had him say 'clocked it, and it's poo poo'. Will at the end wasn't that funny, but you can see his rationale. He just doesn't understand that being right isn't the same as doing what's right.
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# ? Sep 29, 2010 11:19 |
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The thing with Will at the end is his main reason for getting angry is that everyone in the party immediately turns against him and then the girl claims he tried to have sex with her, when actually he did the slightly more noble thing by not using her for blowjobs. I think he's mostly angry at himself for not getting blowjobs.
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# ? Sep 29, 2010 12:53 |
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Perfect ending (well okay, not perfect, but you know what I mean) ending to This is England '86. I love it when characters get some sort of redemption, and Combo cradling Lol and repeating 'let me do this one good thing' nearly made me choke up. You can't half tell which two episodes were directed by Shane Meadows though, Jesus Christ.
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# ? Sep 29, 2010 13:56 |
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What do you guys reckon to Him & Her on BBC3? http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00twwyj/Him_and_Her_The_Fancy_Dress_Party/ I really like it. Funny and the girl who plays Rebecca is super hot.
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# ? Sep 29, 2010 18:27 |
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lionlegs posted:Don't know about that; I think "Eat the dog" is an even more apt phrase than "Jump the shark". Didn't think that episode was that bad, the one with the gym was worse. Peep Show has never been bad though, it was at its best last season. Leyburn fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Sep 29, 2010 |
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gently caress all of you, that dog episode of Peep Show was ridiculous but I can't remember many other things that made me laugh harder than Jeremy being forced to eat the dog in front of its former owner whilst screaming "it's just a hairy turkey!" "'Mummy' is probably the turkey's nickname! It could easily be."
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# ? Sep 29, 2010 18:58 |
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Yes yes but it's just not very Peepshow or subtle or realistic or based on sliiightly exaggerated cringe situations that very awkward people encounter. It was just completely over the top and unbelievable, regardless of how funny it is or isn't.
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# ? Sep 29, 2010 19:00 |
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Neris posted:Yes yes but it's just not very Peepshow or subtle or realistic or based on sliiightly exaggerated cringe situations that very awkward people encounter. It was just completely over the top and unbelievable, regardless of how funny it is or isn't.
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# ? Sep 29, 2010 19:34 |
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Personally I couldn't give a flying gently caress how out-of-character or unrealistic or ridiculous even something like Peep Show is as long as it makes me laugh, I accept that it wasn't based on the mundane like every other episode and admit that it was a massive departure from everything the show was before but beginning to end that episode made me laugh my arse off, based mainly on the fact that Robert Webb sold the gently caress out of it like he always does.
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# ? Sep 29, 2010 19:36 |
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... and that's why you like it! Whereas MOST people like shows like Peep Show and the Inbetweeners for their understated, specifically British semi-plausible comedy. I actually didn't really find it all that funny, maybe metric/imperial joke at the start but I guess that was it. vv
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# ? Sep 29, 2010 20:38 |
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Well, maybe I'm a weird case I know I bitched loads about Will being a bastard in the latest Inbetweeners, but I really don't mind changes in tone and style as long as they're handled well - Series 5 of The West Wing is the best example: The change from Sorkin to Wells is incredibly jarring and noticable and no one would ever argue that TWW was the same show once Sorkin left but a Wells-produced West Wing was still miles ahead of every other drama on television at that point and in some ways still is today. Peep Show did diverge into monkey random purple dishwasher cheese in series 4, it's just I lived with it because implausible Peep Show was still drat funny and never failed to make me laugh my rear end off. In either case, I definitely preferred it to Mark suddenly becoming an unstoppable lothario in series 5...
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# ? Sep 29, 2010 21:03 |
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Graviton v2 posted:What do you guys reckon to Him & Her on BBC3? I've been mentioning it in here after every episode, but it seems like either no one's watching it or no one likes it. I love it. Well written, realistic, understated and genuinely funny. It's better than Inbetweeners, and I'm enjoying that well enough.
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# ? Sep 29, 2010 23:49 |
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Gram-O-Phone posted:How the gently caress can you be an 'unemployed head of communications'? Haha I said exactly the same thing when I got this bellend in the office sweepstake.
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# ? Sep 30, 2010 00:51 |
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Junkenstein posted:I've been mentioning it in here after every episode, but it seems like either no one's watching it or no one likes it. e: reminds me alot of early rab c nesbit
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# ? Sep 30, 2010 01:44 |
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Graviton v2 posted:What do you guys reckon to Him & Her on BBC3? I really like it as well, it's both cute and crued. Yeah, she is pretty hot.
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# ? Sep 30, 2010 13:14 |
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Yup I'm enjoying Him & Her too, although I'm jealous that they're both unemployed yet seem to live in a massive loving flat.
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# ? Sep 30, 2010 13:16 |
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only seen the first two eps of Him and Her but it's pretty enjoyable, best BBC3 thing in a while probably
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# ? Sep 30, 2010 14:51 |
Him and Her is excellent especially the Costume Party themed episode.
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# ? Sep 30, 2010 15:27 |
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Anyone watch Whites? I quite enjoyed it; although it was a VERY pilot-y episode. But it does set up the characters pretty nicely. It has the woman from the IT Crowd playing the woman from the IT Crowd In A Restaurant though.
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# ? Sep 30, 2010 15:45 |
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BeeZee142 posted:Anyone watch Whites? I quite enjoyed it; although it was a VERY pilot-y episode. But it does set up the characters pretty nicely. It has the woman from the IT Crowd playing the woman from the IT Crowd In A Restaurant though. Seemed funny enough, in the slightly-sqirmy-awkward way that a lot of british comedy is these days. It's also got Dobby from Peep Show playing Dobby in a Restaurant as well.
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# ? Sep 30, 2010 16:01 |
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Is anyone going to be watching that new Phone Shop that's been advertised loads on Channel 4 when it's on? Anyone? No thought not. What scares me most about it is they may have put the best jokes on the advert, I'm cringing at the thought of the lesser material on it.
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# ? Sep 30, 2010 18:05 |
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I actually quite liked the Phone Shop pilot when they did that pilot showcase thing a while back. Does this mean Todd Margaret is coming soon too?
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# ? Sep 30, 2010 19:52 |
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Huh. I didn't realize that Trinny and Suzannah thing was a scripted thing.
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# ? Sep 30, 2010 21:10 |
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Anyone else watching An Idiot Abroad? I got a bit annoyed when he was complaining about the toilet. He has to sleep on the floor in a shop! On the other hand, "I don't want to watch you eating carrots on the telly!" "HD?" "Even in HD!!"
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# ? Sep 30, 2010 21:30 |
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I am a huge fan of Karl Pilkington, on the XFM shows and podcasts (less so the newer ones) he is genuinely funny, moans but about stuff that we all do and you can see where he is coming from, and the stuff you dont understand is hilarious. But I think they have to be really careful with an idiot abroad because even though I loved the first I thought that tonight's episode was pushing it a bit with how much he was complaining, and its not the endearing kind of complaining, its starting to come off like hes a massive dickhead, when anyone who has listened to the XFM shows knows hes not like that at all. It was still good but was just a bit to much at times, I know he isn't going to love it, but there's more than one good thing about India, and the one good thing he mentioned was on the river looking at the Taj Mahal. It reminds me off when Gordan Ramsay went to India for channel 4, sounded great but then when you actually watched it it was cruel, forced and he just came off like a massive oval office. I'll still be watching though, its not terrible by any means.
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# ? Sep 30, 2010 22:39 |
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Akuma posted:Huh. I didn't realize that Trinny and Suzannah thing was a scripted thing. I laughed at the Trinny: "Don't shag the talent! Bet your vagina hurts!" Bloke: " It wasnt her vagina.."
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# ? Sep 30, 2010 22:47 |
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So The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret is starting in America tomorrow. The tall stupid guy from The Inbetweeners is now playing the guy he works with(at least I think it is), not sure how well he'll be in that role, a cocky bloke-ish guy worked well. Everyone else is the same as far as I can see. Site here: http://www.ifc.com/todd-margaret/
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# ? Sep 30, 2010 23:01 |
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Junkenstein posted:I've been mentioning it in here after every episode, but it seems like either no one's watching it or no one likes it. It's not better than the Inbetweeners. It's a completely different animal. It's nice, and enjoyable, but it's not unmissable. The Phone Shop trailer looks horrible too, although I was quite surprised they didn't plaster Ricky Gervais' name over that despite how loose his connection to it is. Or maybe that says something about how bad it is. Todd Margaret is now a US thing? At least Sharon Horgan is still involved.
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# ? Oct 1, 2010 00:04 |
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Roidweiser posted:Is anyone going to be watching that new Phone Shop that's been advertised loads on Channel 4 when it's on? Anyone? No thought not. I haven't seen the adverts, but I'm going to atleast watch the first episode since they filmed it in my local highstreet. I'm fully expecting it to be poo poo, though.
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# ? Oct 1, 2010 00:34 |
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I'm really loving The Inbetweeners at the moment. The end of the first episode was so cringworthy. Actually, all the episodes are.
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# ? Oct 1, 2010 01:22 |
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Why did nobody mention that QI was back on? Gyles Brandreth the Sex Pest was on it aswell.
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# ? Oct 1, 2010 20:01 |
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I am currently watching Paxman interviewing Russell Brand, and it's delightful. I like Russell Brand, but it's clear who the dominant intellect is despite Mr Brand's forced vocabulary. Also, our American friends make such a noise about Stewart and Colbert. We have to remember that we have loving Paxman.
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# ? Oct 2, 2010 03:14 |
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slotbadger posted:I am currently watching Paxman interviewing Russell Brand, and it's delightful. I like Russell Brand, but it's clear who the dominant intellect is despite Mr Brand's forced vocabulary.
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# ? Oct 2, 2010 03:21 |
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slotbadger posted:Also, our American friends make such a noise about Stewart and Colbert. We have to remember that we have loving Paxman. If Paxman was as influential to current affairs here as Stewart and Colbert are to current affairs there, we'd be a hell of a lot better off...
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# ? Oct 2, 2010 04:12 |
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Trin Tragula posted:If Paxman was as influential to current affairs here as Stewart and Colbert are to current affairs there, we'd be a hell of a lot better off... Amen to that. Did you see what happened when they tried to make him do a weather forecast in "Newsnight"? (it's a serious, in-depth news analysis programme for those who've never seen it) - Have I Got News For You made a compilation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMAt8ZXqtbc&feature=related The laughter is the audience for HIGNFY, Newsnight does not normally have a comedy angle.
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# ? Oct 2, 2010 16:17 |
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Did anyone watch that Trinny and Susannah thing on channel 4? I was surprised by how well written and funny it was and would recommend it to anyone who is a fan of Curb your Enthusiasm
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# ? Oct 2, 2010 16:57 |
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The same background music is being used for the adverts for QI and Rude Tube. Something is not right in the world of TV.
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# ? Oct 2, 2010 21:59 |