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Black Books

Started by madhair60, May 15, 2020, 11:55:25 AM

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magval


Blue Jam

"...so tomorrow I want to see you in plain pastels and, if you'd be so kind, a pair of shoes."

Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth

"It wasn't Belly Savallas that upset them."
"You didn't do Cobumbo, did you?"
"No... I didn't have any cigars."

Noodle Lizard

"I woke up with ... a bit of a hangover"

Flashback to Bernard opening his eyes and instantly screaming in terror

Hand Solo

I'd not seen all of a series of Black Books in chronological order before, but I noticed a number of jokes and plotlines seemed to turn up again in The IT Crowd, I was trying to keep a mental note of them but due to imbibing a load of vodka have forgotten. The only ones I remember now was the guy with the dodgy accounts walking out of the window (I assumed it was going to be a comic mid-conversational suicide like Morris but instead he goes down the fire escape before the police arrive) and the woman one going on a date with an obviously gay guy and having to explain it to him.

Jerzy Bondov

The IT Crowd is just 'what if Black Books was shite'

Bernard spying on Manny:

"He's bending down now... Ah look he's getting up again! I knew he'd do that.
Now he's going up on that little ladder. Up he goes with that little wiggle of his. The wiggle of Judas. The Judas boogie."

The Judas boogie gets the biggest audience laugh but I love "I knew he'd do that".

billyandthecloneasaurus

I rewatched a couple of episodes recently and was surprised by how little I enjoyed it.  I don't remember it being so...sitcommy.  I think I've watched too many mockumentary type things, and tbh even something as preposterous as always sunny feels a lot more real.  I thought it had aged quite badly.  Felt a bit too, I dunno, like a transparent vehicle for Dylan Moran, and I never really enjoyed Fran as a character.  I don't think there's much chemistry between Moran and Greig either.

samadriel

You're wrong, and you're a grotesquely ugly freak.

Quote from: billyandthecloneasaurus on May 17, 2020, 12:18:04 PM
I rewatched a couple of episodes recently and was surprised by how little I enjoyed it.  I don't remember it being so...sitcommy.  I think I've watched too many mockumentary type things, and tbh even something as preposterous as always sunny feels a lot more real. 

I sort of know what you mean. The central performances are all great, but lots of the one-off bookshop customers are shite, like proper "you're getting my dander up you grotty little man" level shite. Bad sitcom overacting which really jars with the rest of the cast.

Alberon

Dylan Moran has probably grown into the character and would probably be better suited to it now he's in his late forties. Yes, the show started as a vehicle for him, but I don't have a problem with that.

The show itself has aged in the twenty years since it was made in a way Father Ted has not but I still think it's as funny now as back then.

spaghetamine

I'm too pissed to articulate myself properly but I love Black Books and find it infinitely re-watchable. Tamsin Greig and Dylan Moran both look sexy as fuck in it as well so that definitely helps.

Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth

I watched a few episodes last night and they were as funny as ever (although the Pegg episode was the only one not from the first series).

I was mildly shocked to realise that Bill Bailey was younger in the first series than I now am.

Dewt

"He had a little man, in his hair!"
"Well the little man in my hair is getting very, very angry."

Cuellar

I really like the Linehan trope of a character being wheeled into shot so they move unnervingly smoothly: Kevin Eldon in this, and the priest with the boring voice in the Christmas special of Father Ted.

Dewt


Poirots BigGarlickyCorpse

"Well, I have to admit, after years of drinking and smoking, you do look at yourself and think. You know, from that first cigarette in the morning to the last glass of cornershop piss at three a.m., you do sometimes look at yourself and think...

...This is fantastic. I'm in heaven."

Lisa Jesusandmarychain

Quote from: spaghetamine on May 17, 2020, 03:13:01 PM
I'm too pissed to articulate myself properly but I love Black Books and find it infinitely re-watchable. Tamsin Greig and Dylan Moran both look sexy as fuck in it as well so that definitely helps.

Just imagine how upset Bill Bailey's going to be if he reads that post ( you're not wrong though, The Young Tamsin Grieg was hawt).


DiClassomo

Quote from: checkoutgirl on May 15, 2020, 10:10:44 PM
The bit where the actor Kevin Eldon runs his white glove through thin air and picks up a load of dust.

The bit where Bernard somehow makes some soup into a tower.

Bursting with high-grade visual gags, face-acting and prop work. Table stuck to the mug, Bernard's suit, the Big&Beardy mag, orb lighter, biting the teacup, bathtime Manny, on and on.. So many silly expressions that are still etched in my mind. The whole thing looked gorgeous really, nice warm earthy tones.
First comedy I got properly obsessed with back in the day

Cold Meat Platter

Quote from: Cuellar on May 17, 2020, 05:30:29 PM
I really like the Linehan trope of a character being wheeled into shot so they move unnervingly smoothly: Kevin Eldon in this, and the priest with the boring voice in the Christmas special of Father Ted.

I bet he nicked it from the nun in the Blues Brothers.

Ornlu

Quote from: Cuellar on May 17, 2020, 05:30:29 PM
I really like the Linehan trope of a character being wheeled into shot so they move unnervingly smoothly: Kevin Eldon in this, and the priest with the boring voice in the Christmas special of Father Ted.

It's Mrs Doyle's friend in the latter isn't it? In the supermarket

Inspector Norse

I haven't watched it in years but I remember it holding up really well on rewatches due to the sheer hit-rate of great lines and scenes (Subbuteo hair, Frankenstein, childrens' book writing session, porno vid etc).

"Hey! There's Evan! He's a young guy: he listens to the Stereophonics, he rides a scooter. Let's see how far I can push him!"

Old Nehamkin

Quote from: Ornlu on May 17, 2020, 11:18:39 PM
It's Mrs Doyle's friend in the latter isn't it? In the supermarket

They did that gag at least twice in Father Ted but the priest with the incredibly boring voice was - I think - the first instance.

DrGreggles

Quote from: Cold Meat Platter on May 17, 2020, 08:29:42 PM
I bet he nicked it from the nun in the Blues Brothers.

Ah yes, that's probably where I first saw it.

I'm sure there was a bit in Alexei Sayle's Stuff where someone was wheeled onto set, but I think that done with a slow squeaky trolley.
Probably on one of Spike Milligan's Q shows too.

magval

Lucy Davis' drunk acting in the Lifecry/children's book episode is probably the worst I've ever seen though.

Alberon

Quote from: DrGreggles on May 18, 2020, 09:25:27 AM
Ah yes, that's probably where I first saw it.

I'm sure there was a bit in Alexei Sayle's Stuff where someone was wheeled onto set, but I think that done with a slow squeaky trolley.

That was Angus Deaton playing the BBC Chairman. And here it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNfF9WfrX9k

I'd forgotten the people pushing the trolley were in shot as well.

alan nagsworth

"I feel like I've been beaten up underwater. I can feel bits of my brain falling away like a wet cake."

Clownbaby

I do not remember a single moment or line from this show apart from Peter Serafinowicz going "Fraaan" so I think I'm gonna have to watch it again. Looking through this thread is like looking through the thread of a show I've never seen. Maybe it'll make an impression the second time round

Blue Jam

Quote from: magval on May 18, 2020, 09:54:29 AM
Lucy Davis' drunk acting in the Lifecry/children's book episode is probably the worst I've ever seen though.

No-one's going to look good doing drunk actor next to Olivia Colman, to be fair.

Jerzy Bondov

Oh you know, still beavering away at Radio Four hehehehe