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Peep Show - Season 8

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  • #32
    MrJoeSoap
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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    .... seriously?

    my flatmate is asleep in the next room and I was dying trying to laugh as quietly as I could for just about the entire 25 minutes

    --edit

    actually I am kinda sleep deprived. that might have something to do with it

    It was excellent, it always is. But by it's own fantastic standards I don't think it was in the higher percentile of episodes.


  • #33
    Technocentral
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    Not the best episode ever but it always picks up as the series progresses, the idea of looking for a funeral home thats your type had me in stitches.


  • #34
    Skid
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    Great to see Mark's true nemesis Geoff back in Peep Show - and raising Mark's baby - should be some good battles ahead.


  • #35
    johnny_ultimate
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    I thought the whole Gerrard death thing was going to faked as part of his 'long game to win Dobbie' in some twisted sort of way. Genuinely surprised it wasn't :pac:

    I particularly enjoyed the curry confrontation.


  • #36
    jefreywithonef
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    I enjoyed that. Wasn't a 10/10 episode or anything but it was pretty solid. The Gerrard 8 cake bit was brilliant.


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  • #37
    MrJoeSoap
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    jefreywithonef wrote: »
    The Gerrard 8 cake bit was brilliant.

    He loved the Reds. The... Red team...


  • #38
    Easy Rod
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    Three-O Walcott is genius and had me cracking up. I feel that could be one of those lines that will stick in my memory for a while!


  • #39
    seligehgit
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    Really enjoyed it,curry confrontation brill,yeah Walcott line classic!


  • #40
    Mocha Joe
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    Opening scene from Hans was amazing. "You get to work with toilets which is funny and showers which are.....sexy."


  • #41
    pickarooney
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    I'm so happy this is back. The slow build-ups to the big laughs are just perfectly executed on Peep Show.


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  • #42
    Volvagia
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    I really enjoyed the episode.

    The curry confrontation was great and I was in stitches for Johnson's eulogy although I didn't think Mark's speech was quite as funny.

    I would have like to see a bit more of Jeremy actually talking to the therapist after his initial insane rant.

    Mark's inner monologue during the interview was amazing, after the guy says "Think outside the box"... "I'll just let that sit there for a moment".

    One thing I'm not sure of, when Gerrard said to mark he was playing the long game, did he know he was going to die? The will, the voicemail and everything makes it seem like he actually planned to screw Mark over from beyond the grave, as if the only way to win was in death, like Obi Wan.


  • #43
    Lovely Bloke
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    Maybe he's not really dead at all


  • #44
    MakeEmLaugh
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    You won't find a bigger fan of Series 1-5 of Peep Show than me.

    That said, I think it's been off the boil since Series 6. The great thing about UK sitcoms is that they usually know when to quit: I'm Alan Patridge, The Office, Blackadder etc.

    Peep Show seems to be aping US sitcoms of late, churning out endless, increasingly less plausible episodes. The glorious thing about Peep Show is that it was always credible. The dynamics of Mark and Jeremy's relationship made sense. This is less and less the case these days.

    Though I admired the blackly comedic element of having Gerard actually die, the rest was rather sub-standard. Jeremy's rant at the therapist in the penultimate scene had a very weak punchline.

    Funniest line of the whole episode was, after Mark's fellow interviewee said "I think we should all try and think outside the box on this one", Mark's thoughts went "Just leave that to hang like the bad fart it is".

    Also, Johnson's eulogy was great. :D


  • #45
    briany
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    I thought it was as good an episode as there's ever been. Very funny all the way throughout. Mark's character seems to have taken a turn for the worse, though. I don't mean poorly written, just less moral but not so much in the usual way borne out of cowardess. Intimidating a sickly Gerrard, being very inconsiderate at his funeral with the silent gloating and insincere, rushed eulogy and Liverpool cake, force feeding Jeremy 'til he volunteers a confession of skipping therapy etc. Maybe it was just the day that was in it and he'll be back to his old self next ep. but I was enjoying the darker turn his character has taken. Now if he can only get one over on Geoff...


  • #46
    [Deleted User]
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    MakeEmLaugh wrote: »
    The glorious thing about Peep Show is that it was always credible. The dynamics of Mark and Jeremy's relationship made sense. This is less and less the case these days.

    You mean like when they were hanging out with 2 girls and Jez started eating their dead dog's charred leg on a boat?


  • #47
    Penn
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    MakeEmLaugh wrote: »
    The glorious thing about Peep Show is that it was always credible. The dynamics of Mark and Jeremy's relationship made sense. This is less and less the case these days.

    I think I read an interview with Mitchell & Webb where they said that the two guys still living together wouldn't have been plausible if not for the recession, which meant Mark lost his job. So them still living together means their relationship hasn't needed to change as they're still in the same situation. They should have moved out by now, but couldn't due to the recession.

    So at least that's one good thing to come out of the recession.


  • #48
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    You mean like when they were hanging out with 2 girls and Jez started eating their dead dog's charred leg on a boat?

    YOU ATE MUMMY??!!!!!!!


  • #49
    [Deleted User]
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    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    YOU ATE MUMMY??!!!!!!!

    I really think you should try some Mark.


  • #50
    Mocha Joe
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    It's just a hairy turkey!

    Mummy is probably just the turkey's name. It could easily be.



    Best scene ever.


  • #51
    MakeEmLaugh
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    You mean like when they were hanging out with 2 girls and Jez started eating their dead dog's charred leg on a boat?

    I meant more the dynamics of Mark and Jeremy's relationship, rather than the antics in which they were involved. I certainly found it plausible that Mark would tolerate Jeremy - a "work-shy freeloader", as he referred to him in Series 1 - because of Jeremy's perceived superiority on the social ladder.

    Likewise, Jeremy maintains his relationship with Mark not only for financial reasons but because he is aware that the slick socialite persona which he projects is ultimately a facade. He is crippled by his relationships with the opposite sex, constantly convincing himself that he 'loves' woman such as Toni, Nancy and so on. And he is completely enamoured with Jeff in the penultimate episode of Series 2, whom he sees as a someone without the baggage Jeremy cannot shed.

    I know longer find their relationship plausible, recession or not.


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  • #52
    Ciaran_B
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    Hi, I'm Robert Grayson

    You could see that line coming as soon as Mark started practicing. And it was still hilarious.

    Great start to the new season. Theo Walcott will forever be Three-O Walcott to me now.


  • #53
    adamski8
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    Just re watched season 7 again. It great, especially the xmas episode! Totally disagree with the poster talking about its faded. Using alan partridge as an example! Thats still going atm and hasnt been funny for a decade


  • #54
    Mocha Joe
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    adamski8 wrote: »
    Just re watched season 7 again. It great, especially the xmas episode! Totally disagree with the poster talking about its faded. Using alan partridge as an example! Thats still going atm and hasnt been funny for a decade

    Mid morning matters was the best Alan Partridge ever. I thought season 7 of Peep Show was very strong. Xmas and new years episodes were great. ALso loved the new episode.


  • #55
    MrJoeSoap
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    Mocha Joe wrote: »
    Mid morning matters was the best Alan Partridge ever. I thought season 7 of Peep Show was very strong. Xmas and new years episodes were great. ALso loved the new episode.

    I thought the Places of My Life episode of Partridge this year was excellent also, and the book was fantastic.

    Anyway, back on topic!


  • #56
    briany
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    Mocha Joe wrote: »
    Mid morning matters was the best Alan Partridge ever. I thought season 7 of Peep Show was very strong. Xmas and new years episodes were great. ALso loved the new episode.

    I think Coogan did the right thing in bringing him back for the specials and webisodes rather than another series. It was just the right amount of Partridge. Another full series would have really struggled to live up to the huge expectation that would undoubtedly have been upon it.


  • #57
    seligehgit
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    Bit disappointed that we did not see Jeremy doing what he does best,chasing the ladies!Is he undergoing sex addiction therapy as part of the package?? :)


  • #58
    MrJoeSoap
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    Very surprised to see the previous episode ranked in the top five ever on IMDB. Looking forward to tonight's one though, all the same.


  • #59
    MrJoeSoap
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    seligehgit wrote: »
    Bit disappointed that we did not see Jeremy doing what he does best,chasing the ladies!Is he undergoing sex addiction therapy as part of the package?? :)

    :)


  • #60
    Superbus
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    Oh, so Mark's now completely oblivious? That's... fine...


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  • #61
    MrJoeSoap
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    Another middle-of-the-road episode. 7/10 at best. Too much dialogue and too little actually happening.


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