Big Train

[jobotic]

I very much enjoyed the French film in which Mark Heap is in live with a road sign/traffic lights but it's so long ago that I saw it that I've probably got it wrong.

And yeah, the police sketch.

[boki]

FINALLY.

_{Thought I was going to have to do it myself.}

[Catalogue Trousers]

Puerile as fuck, but still makes me laugh.

[markburgle]

I very much enjoyed the French film in which Mark Heap is in live with a road sign/traffic lights but it's so long ago that I saw it that I've probably got it wrong.

He's estranged from his wife, whose new beau is a set of temporary traffic lights. They're all being really civilised and at one point Heap's character asks "what do you do?"

[jobotic]

That's it!

Does he end up on a date with a road sign?

[rack and peanut]

COME ON YOU SPURS!

[gilbertharding]

Fat handed twat.

[checkoutgirl]

Didn't think much of that fucking King Lear.

No you are mistaking me for another I am...Portaccio.

Oh I'm sorry, forgive me.

[superthunderstingcar]

"Portaccio, Portaccio, Portaccio." (with accompanying theatrical gestures)

Also this:

[kalowski]

"I'm committed to cakes."

Even when the sketches didn't hit the performers were so good.

Oh yes! The bit when Eldon says something like "You'd think this surfeit of cooks would benefit the broth but no!"

[checkoutgirl]

That's it!

Does he end up on a date with a road sign?

A garden hose.

[checkoutgirl]

Oh yes! The bit when Eldon says something like "You'd think this surfeit of cooks would benefit the broth but no!"

Yeah. Then..

"You might say..."

*Squints eyes*

"You've...bollocksed it up"

*Nods smilingly*

[kalowski]

Also love the hypnosis sketch, especially "You do know I'm an evil hypnotist?"

[Matthew Dawkins Jub Jub]

"Yeah yeah, I know how this story ends. It ends with me not being married doesn't it?"

That's the one for me.

Ding dong the bells are going to chime...

What I particularly like about it is Kevin Eldon in innocent mode. I think Eldon can do vulnerable and scared amazingly well.

[Gulftastic]

The George Martin kidnap one. Carried along by Kevin Eldon's fantastic impression, obviously.

'Well, the Beatles certainly never took drugs in front of me....'.

[Clatty McCutcheon]

Fluffy puppet... phwoar!

[famethrowa]

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God yes. This one really stuck with me.

[Twilkes]

Ironically, it's the little train sketch:

[The Mollusk]

What I particularly like about it is Kevin Eldon in innocent mode. I think Eldon can do vulnerable and scared amazingly well.

[The Mollusk]

Pegg and Heap playing ping pong in the funeral directors is another favourite.

"Come on lads, finish up now, quick as you can."

[famethrowa]

Love the attempted phone call to the Sarge. "a man who looks like... a load of old ... BOLLOCKS"

[PlanktonSideburns]

God dammit there's not enough Kevin Eldon in the world

[Pink Gregory]

Ironically, it's the little train sketch:

the end of this sketch has been annoying me

You get all the ideas out in the office with the map, you get three or four big misunderstandings and that's all there needs to be.  It's like they thought 'we need a punchline' and then they go to a different, seemingly unrelated place, they recognise little person + oversized cheque is sort of distantly related to the misunderstanding size conceit - and then don't know how to end it.

[BJBMK2]

I recently posted about the S2 sketch with Mark Heap stalking Kevin Eldon as the robot/tin man thing. The length makes it, as it does with most Big Train sketches, but it's the music that fucking kills me, it's just inherently funny.

(Youtube only has the end of the sketch for some reason, which defeats it's impact, as it's scattered in about five parts throughout the episode).

[Huxleys Babkins]

the end of this sketch has been annoying me

You get all the ideas out in the office with the map, you get three or four big misunderstandings and that's all there needs to be.  It's like they thought 'we need a punchline' and then they go to a different, seemingly unrelated place, they recognise little person + oversized cheque is sort of distantly related to the misunderstanding size conceit - and then don't know how to end it.

That's part of the charm of the show. A lot of the sketches are just silly ideas that don't really go anywhere, so they either end with a limp punchline or a non sequitur. If it's a choice between a genuinely hilarious joke ending up getting cut or it just ending with Simon Pegg doing an impression of a chimpanzee or "Join the Army", I'd take the latter.

[Pink Gregory]

That's part of the charm of the show. A lot of the sketches are just silly ideas that don't really go anywhere, so they either end with a limp punchline or a non sequitur. If it's a choice between a genuinely hilarious joke ending up getting cut or it just ending with Simon Pegg doing an impression of a chimpanzee or "Join the Army", I'd take the latter.

Don't get me wrong, I like that approach elsewhere.  It just dented that sketch for me a bit, it doesn't feel enough like a silly throwaway punchline, almost like they though *too much* about that one.

[BJBMK2]

Fucking hell, there's loads of great ones. I'll choose this one now, only to change my mind in a bit.

FUCKITPOST

FUN FACT INCOMING: You can see Paulines whiteboard of job suggestions from TLOG, at the start of that sketch.

[centristmelt]

...The Artist formerly known as Prince

[checkoutgirl]

If you remember one thing I say remember this as I shall not say it again ShjnrmnyeCHAAAAARRRRGGGE!!!!!

[The Mollusk]

Don't get me wrong, I like that approach elsewhere.  It just dented that sketch for me a bit, it doesn't feel enough like a silly throwaway punchline, almost like they though *too much* about that one.

I agree with this and it's always stuck out to me too