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Peep Show
2003 · TV series · 25 min episodes · 9 seasons
Created by Sam Bain, Andrew O'Connor, Jesse Armstrong
Two dysfunctional flatmates reveal all their inner thoughts - whether dark, stupid or embarrassing. Or, occasionally, all three...
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She’s also in Peep Show, which to this day is my favourite British television series.
It’s such a good piece of dark comedy.
If you haven't watched Peep Show, you absolutely must watch Peep Show.
While most would focus on Withnail and Danny's more on-the-nose moments, it's really Uncle Monty who steals every scene he features in.
In my opinion he is simply one of the most beautifully realised characters in all of comedy, his pompous and lugubrious Oxbridge eccentricities representing the last vestiges of a more genteel era that Withnail had just missed out on being a beneficiary of (Free to those who can afford it, very expensive to those who can't).
I can't dispute that, in his impeccable introduction his most quotable moments (and delivery) arise, with the vainglorious delivery of his Hamlet monologue one of the most succinct and hilarious summations of a character in Cinema:
'It is the most shattering experience of a young man's life when one morning he awakes and quite reasonably says to himself, "I will never play the Dane."'
Ditto the magnificent upper-class eccentricity of his agrarian/sexual aspirations:
"I think the carrot infinitely more fascinating than the geranium. The carrot has mystery. Flowers are essentially tarts. Prostitutes for the bees. There is a certain je ne sais quoi - oh, so very special - about a firm, young carrot...Excuse me..."
However it is in his more maudlin moments where his dialogue - and the writing - truly shines, mourning the fin de siècle in his own way, with macabre little monologues hinting at his deep reserves of loss and despair.
'Oh my boys, my boys, we are at the end of an age! We live in a land of weather forecasts and breakfasts that set in, shat on by Tories, shovelled up by Labour, and here we are, we three; perhaps the last island of beauty... in the world'
My favourite however, has to be the little appendix to his anecdotes of Oxford and his 'sensitive crimes' in a punt with his poetry-reciting lover:
"I sometimes wonder where Norman is now. Probably wintering with his mother in Guildford. A cat, rain, Vim under the sink, and both bars on. But old now, old. There can be no true beauty without decay."
Sheer brilliance, with its fingerprints all over British Comedy almost 40 years on - with particular reference to the likes of Armando Ianucci, Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, David Mitchell/Robert Webb, and Richard Ayoade, covering movies like 'Submarine' and TV like 'Peep Show' and 'Spaced' most notably.
You can't forget Peep Show. One of the longest-running British comedies, with 54 episodes.
I was feeling lonely and hopeless then I read your post, saw the cure was “ecstatic dance” and lol’d, loudly. I was reminded of the episode of peep show (the great British sitcom) where the lads try out ecstatic dance. I will have to rewatch that today. I thank you for the smile and for one of the most unique loneliness cures I’ve ever read, and I’ve read many. For me the super market has been the easiest way to encounter other humans, but maybe I’ll try ecstatic dance.
I recommend watching the series when Jeremy becomes a life coach in peep show.
You need to format filenames in specific ways for Jellyfin?
I think the only "reformatting" that I usually have to do is that Tv Shows need to be in folders that follow a certain logical structure:
`Peep Show/Season 1/episode1.*`
I think as long as the episodes inside the season can be ordered they can have whatever name. I don't think I've ever renamed a single episode and I've never had any problems with jellyfin putting them in the right spot.
In general, jellyfin does an amazing job at getting the appropriate metadata for movies and tv shows. It's only anime where things might get a bit iffy, though I have an extension to support anime metadata.
Is this what you're referring to? I've never really been too bothered by it, as this would basically be the way I would structure my Tv Shows anyway. As for movies, you don't really have to do anything at all i just chuck them into the movies folder and that's it.
Yes but at least that episode of Peep Show was clearly marked and advertised as censored, right? They didn't try to pass it off as unaltered, right?
I have had 4 different shows have content cut from them that I noticed this year, for a variety of woke factors.
- Peep Show (Jeremy & Nancy "taboo" breaking episode)
- 30 Rock (Jenna & Tracy "role reversal" episode)
- Community (Chang D&D)
- Always Sunny
In these instances, the character that is doing the "deplorable" act is the villian or idiot. It's not like these shows are promoting those views, they're actually doing the opposite.
It's so bizarre.
He's such an idiot
https://screenrant.com/original-office-show-ricky-gervais-cancel-culture/
> "Now [The Office] would suffer because people would take things literally...This was a show about everything — it was about difference, it was about sex, race, all the things that people fear to even be discussed or talked about now, in case they say the wrong thing and they are cancelled...I think if this was put out now, some people have lost their sense of irony and context."
> “…They’re even more scared now because people don’t take an explanation for an answer, they just say, ‘Well, I don’t want to see it, so let’s ban it.’”
Obviously the Office isn't in the limelight anywhere near as much as it used to be, but I never hear people having a problem with its tone or style of comedy. A few other sitcoms have had scenes removed from streaming platforms / boxsets (Peep Show, Fawlty Towers etc). But the Office I've never really seen mentioned in a similar way. In fact it's still pretty much beloved by everyone and regularly polls amongst the best British sitcoms of all time.
I agree. (Edit: to add to this, I've always thought that the third-last episode of Futurama, 'Murder on the Planet Express', was a return to form and reminiscent of the heyday of the show).
On the subject of tv shows, ‘Peep Show’, the British sitcom, also had a very strong final season and final episode.
The pertinent details are that he eats a person's pet in front of the pets owner! His motivations don't matter! His motivations do not absolve him from his actions. No Seinfeld character comes close to this level of sociopathy and I challenge you to come up with an example where it does.
And just for the record I like peep show, and I think the holiday episode is funny if a bit disturbing.
There’s an episode of Peep Show where one of the two main characters kills a dog and then feeds it to his girlfriend- the owner of the dog. Totally different level of dark. It’s a totally different sense of humor actually.
Being regrettably engaged is a relatable situation, and miraculously being relieved of that engagement thru a freak accident is definitely Seinfeld’s darkest moment but is still fairly innocent. It’s actually one of the reasons season 7 is so unique and funny but I would hardly put it next to Peep Show in terms of darkness.
I think a significant reason for Croydon featuring in jokes is that it's simply a 'funny' name.
Did you know that Peep Show was made in Croydon because the season 1 director wanted the show to have a slightly artsy European feel and thus wanted it to be set in a place with trams?
Movies and TV shows are naturally biased towards social relationships and friendships because it's hard to present a first person point of view. Yet I assume that's where the future of entertainment lies, in first person virtual reality. Peep Show with David Mitchell and Robert Webb is the only exception I can recall but the humour there is fairly dark and nihilistic so it's hardly an endorsement for solitude (besides, they're flatmates). A counterexample from literature I can recall is Robinson Crusoe, who is alone on the island for the first time in his life but not lonely because of a new-found relationship with God.
Two quick thoughts:
1. Monica's completely absent from this episode- she should appear in future ones. Would be nice to get Carla back, as well.
2. Can Charles be British and played by Paterson Joseph, who played Alan Johnson on BBC comedy Peep Show?
Season 9 coming this year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Peep_Show_episodes#Series_9_.282015.29
Looks like an episode of Peep Show.
"The first thing to say is this is definitely not pyramid selling, OK"
Toni - trying to sell Jeremy on a pyramid scheme -- Peep Show, Season 1, Episode 2; "The Interview"
Yes, you should mimic a British accent. Your first impression should be correct choice for you. There are different types of accents and some would be considered too strong to be understood, but you probably won't gravitate to those. I recommend you watch all episodes of Peep Show on Hulu. The characters are English with a few Scots. The shots are mostly close ups so you can really study the mouth movements. The characters are very affected and therefore easy to mimic. You should be able to say "right" just like Jeremy or "turkey fucker" like Johnson from the first go.
There was excellent thought experiment/one-off drama on how a product like this could affect employment and relationships in the future. "The Entire History of You" aired on British TV last year [1]. It was written by one of Peep Show's [2] writers, a sitcom that uses solely point of view shots.
If you have access to 4OD (by being in the UK or otherwise) you can watch the episode online [3].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series)#3._.22The_Entire_History_of_You.22
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peep_Show_(TV_series)
[3] http://www.channel4.com/programmes/black-mirror/episode-guide/series-1/episode-3
+1 for Peep Show.
I have a feeling thought that "See it from their eyes" was their schtick, but that they dropped that when it became apparent that it was a good TV show (e.g. Season 2+'s title sequence doesn't explain the PoV thing)
The TV show "Peep Show", which isn't about surreptitious leering despite the title, uses first person PoV in their series. Some people hate it, others grew used to the PoV.
See reference to the PoV at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peep_Show_(TV_series)#Production
He is right on about the choice of Mitchell and Webb. When I first saw the UK Mac ads I thought: really? Jeremy is the Mac!?! They are making the anti-Mac people's point for them.
Also, relax. The overreaction here is stereotypical. This is an attempt at a humourous rant meant for a general audience. If you know what Terminal.app is you are not in the target audience.
p.s. All the Peep Show episodes are on Youtube - check out a few to see the character most widely associated with Robert Webb: http://www.runciter.net/peep-show-episodes.html. A lot of other great British TV is on Youtube too. They seem to have much less of a problem with uploaded episodes on the net.