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posted 14-05-2008 08:39
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One slightly disappointing aspect of the second episode was the Barney character. He was so obviously originally written as Sophie's brother from S4 but, as the actor who plays him is now an aspiring indie star (he's the singer in Joe Lean & the Jing Jang Jong) and is presumably unavailable, they created a new, near-identical character. Still very funny though. How many other comedies could reference Ian McEwan and get away with it?
Yeah, I thought that. There was no explanation as to why Sophie's dad would be ferrying his nephew around everywhere.
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posted 14-05-2008 09:38
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As disappointments go that's a fairly minor one, I think.
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posted 14-05-2008 10:36
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Yeah if it's major disappointments you're after, can I present Exhibit A - That Mitchell and Webb Look.
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posted 14-05-2008 11:07
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Indeed. Series one: patchy but likeable. Series two: bafflingly awful.
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posted 14-05-2008 12:10
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Horse - can I say how much you made the missus and I chuckle with your RT write-up of the F-Word last night? We've been taking the piss out of that dramatic recipe shtick of his for ages. Nail! Hammer! Head!... Done!
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posted 14-05-2008 12:16
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Ha, yes of course you can! Thank you.
He kept doing it as well, didn't he? "Baste! . . . Roll! . . . Rest!"
I don't know about you but in our house we always say "Done . . . you cunt!" when he's finished. You can tell that's what he wants to say.
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posted 14-05-2008 12:22
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Ha!
No, I confess to being a tad cruder than that. So he's making love to his wife, well, you get the picture:
take wife! foreplay for 5 minutes! open legs! inert cock! Thrust! Ejaculate... done!
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posted 14-05-2008 12:27
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Inert. Heh.
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posted 14-05-2008 12:57
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Ha. I'm gonna erm, leave it in there...
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posted 17-05-2008 11:41
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Anyone see last night's PS? I thought it was well written, as usual, but just not that funny. Ramping up the cringe factor seems to scale down the laugh factor to me.
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posted 19-05-2008 09:15
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Aaahhh. Just watched it. Pain pain pain. And the bit with the £20 note and the internal monologue about 'Queenie' was brilliant.
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posted 19-05-2008 09:21
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Anyone see last night's PS? I thought it was well written, as usual, but just not that funny. Ramping up the cringe factor seems to scale down the laugh factor to me. It was a bit too on the nose, wasn't it? Comedy Of Embarrassment 101.
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posted 23-05-2008 12:13
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Well duh. See also The Office.
Doesn't make it any less watchable, in fact the reverse. It's very well written. It doesn't have to be laugh out loud. The pay-off of cheap one-liner gags can sink the writing in many a promising comedy. Yes I'm talking to you Lee Mack, Harry Enfield, Adrian Edmun... no, not Adrian Edmunson. His series has no redeeming features at all.
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posted 23-05-2008 13:25
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Adrian Edmondson hasn't done anything good since the last series of "Bottom".
(and I appreciate that there may be a large number of people who want to replace "since" with "including").
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posted 25-05-2008 07:48
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I didn't enjoy Friday's much.
Tessa Wyatt, who played Jeremy's mum, actually looked a lot more like she ought to have been Sophie's (i.e. Olivia Colman's) mum. Weird bit of casting, that.
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