I live in a world where I’ve embraced artistic/cultural denial, and I’m pretty happy about this. Here are some examples from my world, and any evidence to the contrary will be met with a baffled/exaggerated shrug worthy of Marcel Marceau:
– There are three Indiana Jones films.
– Morrissey retired with grace and dignity after Every Day is Like Sunday.
– Dangermouse is voiced by David Jason, and David Jason only.
– Frasier ended at series 7. It will never be revived.
I’ve managed to manoeuvre myself into a mental space where these things have, essentially, become true. Whilst I seek out a good therapist, I’m intrigued to know: how are you in artistic/cultural denial?
The 4th Indiana Jones was pretty poor but I loved the latest one, in fact I place it in the top 3.
Frasier certainly deteriorated after Season 7, but I have been re-watching and there are still some amazing episodes in the last few years, some of which I had never seen before.
For me R.E.M. ended when Bill Berry left the band, at least as one that made records. Live they were still pretty good
Agree totally re: R.E.M.
If Morrissey had retired with grace and dignity after Every Day is Like Sunday we wouldn’t have The Last of the International Playboys, which is my favourite Morrissey song. And also Interesting Drug, Quija Board and November Spawned a Monster are necessary. It was after those delights I that stopped paying any attention.
I completely refuse to accept that Coronation Street doesn’t have exactly the same set of characters it had in the 80s.
I am wholeheartedly with you on the Corrie point, Gary. Bet Lynch is still behind the bar, as far as I’m concerned.
Is Coronation Street still in black and white?
Curly is still trying to woo Raquel, Reg is trying to woo Maureen, Victor Pendlebury is still trying to woo Mavis and Hilda still sings warblingly while polishing the tables in the Rovers every morning.
Moose! Great steaming lumps of Thurk!
Somebody open a window! Please…
Delighted.
Grettle me gronkers, you military fooooool…..
Welcome back Moose, now I can start quoting the Young Ones again.
Caption: “Hawkfall goes into his new bedroom”
Gary, you have just reminded me of one of my favourite ever compilations. He could have packed it all in after this. My listening tomorrow sorted..
Ooh I dunno…there are a few decent songs after that, but I’d agree, the pickings are much slimmer.
@Gary
Some of the actors who play those characters are in their 80s if that helps
Pink Floyd call it a day after Wish You Were Here, a final quote from the melody of See Emily Play in the fade out of Shine On You Crazy Diamond providing a last poignant reference to their founder.
I would have liked to hear Animals – buy I can’t deny that this is an elegant and tasteful solution…
Is that right there is a See Emily Play quote there? I’ve genuinely never noticed – will need to listen out for it.
There is towards the end, allegedly as a reaction to Syd’s “very distraughtening”* appearance during the WYWH sessions.
(* F Zappa, 1967)
You do need to listen for it – it’s kinda buried in the fade. You could miss it easily if you didn’t know it was there…
XTC’s ‘Omnibus’ is apparently based on a slowed-down part of See Emily Play. Don’t know ver Floyd well enough, but the XTC track is one of my favourites of theirs.
County boundaries remain as they were when I first appreciated them. Huntingdonshire, Radnorshire and Roxburghshire still exist. That’s why Lancashire still play at Old Trafford and Warwickshire at Edgbaston.
Get thee to Mercia!
Surprised you didn’t bring Middlesex into it.
I’ve heard it’s a bit rough.
New Order released Regret, realised they had no chance of bettering it, shook hands, and packed it in.
They’ve lived a retirement of quiet contemplation, and occasional good-natured pub lunches, for the past 30 years.
This made me lol. Can’t imagine Hooky and Bernard having a good natured pub lunch
After Republic there’s nothing really of any merit.. such a shame. Still hope they could get together for once last good album but it’s not likely
I liked Music Complete when it came out but have rarely revisited it since
Regret is magnificent, but if they’d packed it in straight after that we’d have been deprived of Crystal, which is probably my second favourite New Order tune, and the excellent video for which provided The Killers with the inspiration for their name.
I’ll give you Crystal, but you have to take one of Slow Jam or Rock The Shack on the B-side as well.
Similarly, Krafty and Waiting for the Sirens’ Call are backed by Jetstream and Guilt Is a Useless Emotion.
I think that’s what they call a zero sum gain.
You sir, are a monster.
I remember first hearing Crystal and thinking “My God – this is fantastic – they are back”. Sadly they wern’t
Scooby Doo stopped when the 70s stopped so he never had to put up with that nightmare Scrappy.
I know what you mean, but the first few post-Scrappy direct to video films Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998) to Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster (2004) and the series Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010-2013) is really good.
Sadly they’ve been churning them out year after year since.
In the pre-Scrappy era we had all the things we love about Scoob and the gang.
The later versions are all sassy, knowing and fourth-wall-y. “Hey! Isn’t this meant to be the scene where someone calls us meddling kids?” Things like that.
Also, classic ‘Doo was fizzing with sexual tension, whereas in the 21st century versions they are jumping one another..
I have to respectfully disagree. They were too young and unmarried so sex was definitely off the agenda. The only jumping going on was when Shaggy and Scooby were frightened by something. Shaggy would go “Zoinks!” and one would jump into the other’s arms (this was interchangeable) adopting a foetal position, sucking his thumb in fear. They’d both quake.
Scooby Doo – what happens when an American decides to televise Enid Blyton. And did Timmy the Dog have a nephew who joined them? I think not!
The Beatles finished in 1970. Although the surviving members worked up a few demos, these were released under the name of John Lennon.
The James Bond series came to an end in 1985 when Roger Moore was replaced by Timothy Dalton (there was a brief uplift when Daniel Craig took the role, but trading on past glories and all that …)
The Sweeney was the 4 series and 2 film in the 70s. It is NOT the Nick Love helmed Ray Winstone and Plan B “thing”.
Minder is only Minder when it is with Arfur & Terry
The Stereophonics ran out of steam about halfway through their second album
In my world, Bond ended after the first Timmy Dalton film. Bond is a Cold War agent: he doesn’t exist outside of this dynamic, and any other interpretation/reinterpretation is flim-flam. Daniel Craig is a good actor, but he’s not Bond.
I’m completely aware that I’m projecting my spurious opinions as universal truths, but that’s rather the point of this thread. I’ll probably even deny any well-worded rebuttal of the nonsense I’m spouting.
There’s the truth – Casino Royale (the first DC film) seemed to be heading back to Bond of old. Quantam Of Solace was a good film, but Daniel Craig’s character was more “someone pretending to be James Bond”
Good performance, but he kept getting Bond wrong.
All Bond movies are flawed. All of them. They are all too long, all have too much reliance on special effects rather than narrative and there is also loads and loads of casual sexism and racism..
I’m struggling to imagine a Bond film without loads of casual sexism and racism…
Probably all of them after Quantum Of Solace. I think Bond’s overtures to Gemma Arterton in that film were the last example.
I would have said all of them from Dr No onwards – it kind of comes with the territory, doesn’t it?
I meant the ones after Quantum Of Solace are WITHOUT casual racism or sexism.
Except Craig’s Casino Royale, which is the only Bond movie that works outside of the series as a great thrilller. Imagine the lead character but he’s called something random, like, I dunno, Jason Bourne.
I actually love that slightly self-referential bit in Never Say Never Again when “Q” (Algie) says to Connery, “Good to have you back Bond, I’m looking forward to a bit more gratuitous sex and violence” (or words to that effect).
Tom and Jerry cartoons are only such if produced by Fred Quimby.
Genesis are only such if Steve Hackett is present.
Big Train and Alexei Sayles’ ‘Stuff’ should both have stopped after one series.
I like this game!
Star Wars (like Indiana Jones) is a trilogy.
There are no Lord of the Rings films.
Irvine Welsh stopped writing after his two great novels, Trainspotting and The Acid House.
Led Zeppelin resisted the urge to release one last album. They retired gracefully after Presence and didn’t tour or record together ever again.
Johnny Cash had a brief run of great singles in the 50s and early 60s, then played a couple of prisons and disappeared for 25 or so years and released NOTHING until an amazing run of comeback albums in the 90s.
The name Pink Floyd was graciously retired in a unanimous decision by the band after The Final Cut.
Sean Connery disappeared after Bond, came back in the 80s and 90s to play a handful of iconic roles, just a handful (The Untouchables, Highlander, Time Bandits, The Rock, etc) and retired gracefully after Finding Forrester.
Bruce Willis hasn’t made a film since the 90s either.
The Fawlty Towers comeback rumour is an Internet hoax.
Sherlock stopped after the second TV series and just left everyone wondering how they would have resolved the rooftop jump cliffhanger. But no one really minds actually because we all know it would be impossible to tie it up in a satisfying way, so better to end on a high and leave everyone wanting more.
Del Boy and Rodney never went to Miami that time.
I’m enjoying seeing the words “graciously” and “unanimous” in the same sentence as “Pink Floyd”.
Arf! Yes, indeed!
Black Sabbath ended when Ozzy left (and Ian Gillan never joined the band)
Bernie Rhodes stopped being a control freak, and The Clash naturally mutated into Big Audio Dynamite
Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas had lunch with Dave Freeman and John Antrobus, and all agreed that Carry On Columbus was a daft idea
Can’t agree with the first point.
We would never have had ‘Heaven and Hell’ one of the top 10 metal albums ever.
What’s Beyond Thunderdome? Never heard of it. There were two Mad Max movies back in the day, then a third one with Tom Hardy about thirty years later, capping off a fabulous trilogy.
In my reality: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome was a stand-alone cult classic, beloved by the same audience that enjoyed Lynch’s Dune, Flash Gordon, and the original – and only – Blade Runner (the voiceover version, of course). 😀
Yeah, I like Blade Runner, that film that ends with Harrison Ford and Sean Young driving off into the countryside in an electric car.
(Genuinely! I’m not trying to be funny. I never got the criticism of that original ending, I think it’s quite poignant – as he explains in the voiceover, he doesn’t know how much time they have left together but they plan to make the most of it)
Asimov kept the Foundation trilogy as exactly that.
Increasingly I come to believe Iain M Banks wrote the only good things Banks wrote.
The Wire is just four perfect series
The Who called it a day after Who Are You
The Crow Road? Really? You’d deny that?
I would. Generally his writing got worse over time (sorry, IMHO) but he was able to sustain a better level in his M Banks work. Dead Air and Garbedale finished me off, and generally I regard his fiction now as a slightly immature use of his talent which appealed greatly to the teenage reader in me. The SF I feel is conversely fantastically mature.
Perhaps slightly perversely, I go the other way re: Mr Banks.
I have immense affection for his writing & think The Crow Road is his best ( or at least most enjoyable, piece) .
Due to this affection, I read all of his fiction & it’s true his last stuff wasn’t top drawer, but then I also struggled with the later Culture stuff as well.
I have a notion (untested & probably invalid) that SF heads accord his M stuff the elevation they do partly because that’s what SF heads do, because it’s, well, SF.
Conversely, his fiction which is often much ‘lighter’, playful & conversational can be dismissed just because that’s what is is, maybe in the way comedy movies are not given serious consideration for awards because they are not ‘serious’. I’ve re- read Player Of Games, Use Of Weapons & Consider Phlebas from the M work & may well do so again, but I’m not sure I’d read much else. Not long ago I re read ‘Whit’ & loved it, so may dip back into the other fiction when I need a palate cleanser. This obviously isn’t any kind of hill to die on, but I do think his non SF deserves a little love & isn’t just ‘fluff’.
Smiley emoticon.
Two words about the Crow Road: Morse code.
Ooh isn’t he BOLD!
oooo get you.
… .–. . .-.. .-.. .. -. –. / .. / .-.. — …- . / -.– — ..- / …- .. .- / .–. — … – / … . -..- / -.-. .-.. . -. -.-. …. .. -. –.
I will also add Bank’s excellent whisky travelog, in whcih he got paid to visit distilleries, drink whisky, and rant about Tony Blair. It’s a great piece of writing: Raw Sprit.
Two thumbs up from me for Raw Spirit – a great rambling narrative between the distilleries of Scotland that gir me into whisky in a way that tedious, worthy tomes on the subject never could. Completely yarntastic, even if I had to create my own index on the conveniently blank last two pages of the book.
Now, I got a bit bored of him banging on about whatever flash car he was driving at the time.
Have you guys ever read Spirit of Adventure by Tom Morton? Written years before the very similar Iain Banks book – wonder where Mr Banks and his publisher got the idea? And no flash cars – he does the whole trip on a motorbike.
Ooooh, flash motorbikes. Now you’re talking.
Does an MZ ETZ250 count as flash?. I’m not an expert…
Maybe The Who can push on for another couple of years.
That way Franc Roddam and Phil Daniels both get a career
The Wire is a tough one. The fifth season was definitely weaker, and a bit of a lap of honour, tying it all up nicely. But then they’d probably earned it by that stage.
I certainly had a fantastic time watching it with mates, so for that reason alone I’d be inclined to let it stand.
Rather than thinking about the stuff that I wished hadn’t happened, in my World of Denial, I think about the things that should have happened…For example:
The studio bosses recanted on their decision to axe Firefly, and Josh Whedon’s wonderful series continued for several more seasons…
Back to denying things that have happened. I didn’t just watch Liberace and the Young Folk sing Feelin’ Groovy. It never happened. That clip does not exist!
Blackadder started at series 2.
Though the Spanish Infanta episode was good.
but that means we wouldn’t have had a great cameo performance from Peter Cook in the first episode we also wouldn’t have had Brian Blessed bellowing ‘EDNA’ …. it would be a shame to miss those out
The line and delivery of ‘Oh dear, Richard the Third’ when Baldrick finds the identity of the corpse is fantastic.
Also the German queen, who is so uninterested in Blackadder, she hardly listens when he is talking to her. Sometimes it seems she doesn’t even knows her is her son.
Oh that kind of thing goes on in folk song all the time.
Tuning out during yet another hurdy gurdy solo, while the court jester slips in the back entrance?
Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy never set foot in the Tardis.
The Rolling Stones packed it in after Tattoo You
and the Kinks after Village Green Preservation Society.
Kurt Cobain never met Courtney Love and John & Yoko never came into each other’s orbit.
Out of Time bombed and R.E.M. stayed my wee band.
Someone persuade Paul Simon that Botox was a bad idea.
Kinks – a world without:
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)
Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One
Muswell Hillbillies
Everybody’s in Show-Biz
No …
And Come Dancing!
And Supersonic Rocket Ship. Which should have been number one. Strange hill to die on, but there ya go.
Mike Myers never made the Love Guru or the Cat in the Hat. The first in particular was so appalling that it has tainted my enjoyment of subsequent reviewings of the Wayne’s World and Austin Powers films. It’s probably the reason I haven’t watched So I Married an Axe Murderer in years.
On a similar note, Bill Forsyth called it a day after the very underappreciated Housekeeping or Breaking In. Don’t bother googling in search of any subsequent movies… They never happened.
Robert de Niro retires after Casino.
Great to hear from you, Moose!
Hope all is well.
Thank you, I am well. Feel groovier than Liberace, and that’s saying something.
So you heard they’d ploughed the cemetery he’s buried in, too. Savages!
Wire retired for good after the first three albums.
Netflix is still worth subscribing to as something great is bound to show up again.
Facebook is still as fun as it used to be, right? ( replace with ‘X’ according to taste)
It probably helps that I missed them first time round (just that bit too young at the time), but the Mute era Wire is my favoruite Wire.
I caught them first time around – and the first three are definitely my favourites. But they produced so much good stuff after that – I’d hate to be limited to just the first three…
Spinal Tap since the film. I am sure it would be funny if they did another reunion but they were meant to be washed-up has beens 40 years ago.
Thumbs up
The Stranglers went their own ways after Cornwell left.
GUN packed it in after Swagger
Post-Cornwell Stranglers had their moments. “Mercury Rising” in particular is a teriffic song.
I’m sitting here waiting for the final season of Game of Thrones, should be a good one. Time will tell.
Martin Amis lay down his pen after the early novels and the Money, London Fields, The Information run.
And Elvis Costello left us just his first five glorious albums culminating in Imperial Bedroom.
6
7
1977. My Aim Is True. …
1978. This Year’s Model. …
1979. Armed Forces. …
1980. Get Happy!! …
1981. Trust. …
1981. Almost Blue. …
1982. Imperial Bedroom. …
Question mark for Trust.
Things do get patch after that, but I’d miss King Of America, Spike, Mighty Like A Rose (possibly?), and Brutal Youth
Blood & Chocolate is my fave. I’ll get me coat…
I think you’ll find it’s an exclamation mark.
Great googly-moogly, it’s @Moose-the-Mooche!
How’s it hanging, man?
Fair to middling. If not light to variable.
@moose-the-mooche
My joy at your return is infinite and then some. I have missed you more than I missed myself. Welcome back!
Thank you Gary. Did you miss me when I was away? Did you hang my picture on your wall?
I hanged your avatar on my washing line, until the neighbours complained.
It doesn’t look so good when it’s dried out.
Missed your young godlike presence
Edit: French?
*spits*
They are Swiss!!
I return from the field and you greet me with steaming Frenchmen. Could be worse.
Huzzah.
Well, as I live and breathe !
No Moose, Trust was where fallibility became evident.
I was japingly referring to the fact that it is mysteriously labelled Trust! on its front cover.
I’ve never made my mind up about that album, I can’t put my finger on why it’s unsatisfactory after the remorseless brilliance of the first four albums.
Wotcher, cock!
Thank Christ for the comma.
Careful with those pronouns Eugene.
Great idea for a thread.
In my reality, the cult/niche German and Scandinavian bands that I like sell millions of albums and are household names, regularly appearing on UK TV and in the media and being recognised for their musical talent by adoring crowds. They are also able to mount massive world tours rather than simply playing club gigs in Germany, Austria, etc., which are too difficult (expensive) for me to access.
Only Fools and Horses ended with Del Boy, Rodders and Albert walking into the sunset after making millions at that auction.
Kate Bush regularly releases super deluxe multi-disc box sets of each of her albums, including surround sound versions, her videos, and a concert from each of her many highly successful world tours.
There are only two Terminator movies, two Alien/s movies and one Die Hard movie.
The Stone Roses certainly did not release an appalling song named One For All about 20 years after their original split. And I certainly didn’t hear this appalling song with its lyrics: ‘ All for one, one for all/If we all join hands, we’ll make a wall’.
The Timeless Child storyline in Doctor Who in 2020 is merely fan fiction by previous show runner Chris Chibnall and is not official show canon (those who know, know).
When African bands were shown a synth and a drum machine they said “ nah we’re fine with what we have”.
Nick Cave said to Warren Ellis stick with the Dirty 3 I’m getting Blixa and Barry back.
Nick Cave – oh, yes! I’m off to listen to Tupelo and wallow in my/your denial!
👍
A bit late to the party, Mrs KFD and I finally saw the first two Die Hard movies this summer. We enjoyed them both a lot.
Your comment on The Timeless Child is quite fascinating. @guy incognito.
I fear I will disappear into a black whole if I try to investigate it.
https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Timeless_Child
These days, being a Whovian is a full time job!
the Roses also nicked the riff for that godawful track from The Falls ‘Squid Lord’ but managed to ruin it,
The Fall
Stone Roses
The Stone Roses split up after that Glasgow gig in July 1990. John Squire moved to a yellow house in Arles and Ian Brown became Frank Sidebottom’s road manager, culminating in Frank’s triumphant sold-out week at the Albert Hall in 2010.
Apart from curating the Sidebottom Prom a few years ago he hasn’t been heard from since.
Mani joined Primal Scream and stayed with them forever. Reni went fishing.
Hard to argue with Terminator, but Die Hard 2 and 3 are great. The first half of 4 isn’t bad either. The fifth one is the irredeemable dud.
Prog is fashionable…
The National split up after Trouble Will Find Me, leaving behind a great body of work unspoiled by what follows (note – I am still making my mind up on the 2023 releases)
Stanley Kubrick’s last film was Full Metal Jacket
The Coen Brothers stopped after Oh Brother Where Art Thou
Ridley Scott packed it in after Blade Runner
Well I love Eyes Wide Shut AND Inside Llewyn Davis, so there.
Re Ridley: if he stopped at Blade Runner, we wouldn’t have the director’s-cut version of Kingdom of Heaven, which (1) is beautiful and (2) has one of the best soundtracks of all time.
I really enjoyed The Last Duel (2021). I don’t think anyone else saw it though.
I saw it too! Glad there were at least two of us. Maybe not top-tier Ridders, but quite enjoyable and as lavish as you might expect.
The Last Duel was pretty good I thought, unlike Napolean which is dull.
Oof. That is depriving us of an awful lot of Ridley Scott movies.
He’s certainly a hit and miss director, but I wouldn’t want to be without Legend, Black Rain, Thelma & Louise, GI Jane (I know, I know), Black Hawk Down, the director’s cut of Kingdom Of Heaven, Prometheus, The Martin (cmon, who doesn’t love The Martian – it’s a crowd pleaser), The Last Duel or Napoleon.
You can also count me in for Eyes Wide Shut. An underrated Christmas movie and a fabulous advertisement for the glorious non-chemistry of its leads.
While it’s certainly a turkey, I wouldn’t go so far as to describe EWS as a Christmas movie
It really depends on how sexy you want your Christmas to be.
Oh it’s totally a Christmas movie! I was going to spoil it there by taking about the ending, but I won’t in case people haven’t seen it.
There are days when I believe Eyes Wide Shut is actually Kubrick’s best film. Are we allowed to still say things are “underrated” or is that a contentious term? I definitely prefer it to A Clockwork Orange and Barry Lyndon. Only Dr Strangelove and 2001 would give me cause to really hesitate.
Love SK, but EWS was just too cold and detached for me.
After all the prep he carried out, it’s a pity he never got to shoot his take on Napoleon
In my world I go to the corner shop and buy a Marathon and some Opal Fruits
… and Robinson’s marmalade still has that nice picture of ❌*REDACTED*❌
I always thought it was a shaggy dog story, but that whole ‘… being annoyed and slighted about not having that particular cartoon character on a jar of marmalade’ is really a thing.
Herbie never went bananas or was fully loaded. Ended up in a breakers yard in Nowhere Virginia.
At least he got to go to Monte Carlo before being stripped for parts
Congratulations to @hamlet for enabling the return of @moose-the-mooche!
I have left countless over-ripe, juicy and bulbous innuendoes dangling in the sunshine but haven’t succeeded. Welcome back!
Thank you. It’s good to be enabled.
What a groovy thing to wake up to! (Make of that what you will…) Do you play Wordle by any chance? Lots of bogey fun coming up.
Bogey fun? Dig, pick, roll and flick – the best things in life are free. And disgusting.
Moose is back. Let’s hope the rest of the world returns to normal too. Great to see you Moosey. Fair made my day…
Hi Dave. As for the rest of the world, don’t look now but the Dutch have just elected Swiss Toni.
I think I read that they’d elected Gene Wilder. Which surprised me on account of him not being a politician. Or Dutch. Or alive.
Hi Moose. 👋
Noswaith dda PS.
Firstly – Glory be, he’s back back BACK! Great to see the warm hand Moose has received on his re-entry…
Now, to business:
– Prince never got into the clutches of the JW.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer ended with her poetic death in Season 5, notwithstanding some fantastic subsequent episodes.
Alex Ferguson had no interest in owning a racehorse.
The 1974 Dutch national football team was focused solely on beating rather than humiliating West Germany.
Tom Courtenay got on that London train with Julie Christie.
Prince got into the old Johnnie Walker did he, poor lad? Red label, Black label, it can happen to the best of us….
Sounds Of The Seventies on Radio 2?
Sorry, your references are too hip and cool for me.
Oh Moose, how I have missed thee!
But I meant Joe Wicks, of course. 🤔
@black-type
That Dutch one is a great call. What’s Dutch for schadenfreude?
Geert Wilders?
The new right wing guy looks worryingly l8e Jimmy Page
They were rock n roll weren’t they, the ‘74 Dutch team. The Magpie to the German’s Blue Peter.
The Ferguson one is big, isn’t it? The Rock of Gibraltar farrago increasingly looks like a real turning point in the history of the club.
Yep. I love the man and what he created at United, but that one act of hubris/stubbornness has led indirectly to the shitshow that the club is in now. Having said that, the Coolmore guys aren’t without blame, as their actions were petty and vindictive.
The Moose doth returnethed
(sweepstake on the time before the Twin Peaks reference anyone?)
Too late – see the D O N O V A N thread.
WELCOME BACK, @Moose the Mooche!
Yikes! Have we missed you!
”O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” He chortled in his joy.”
Here’s a mashup which I feel captures the atmosphere of joyous mayhem here in Bagarmossen at the news of your return.
Thank you sir. I don’t like the ‘Knot but I’ve always found P!nk is rather agreeable. She’s coming up, y’know.
Three comedy denials
detectorists ends before that last Xmas special.
The Fall & Rise Of Reginald Perrin ends after the second series.
All comedians/ comedy actors of the 20th century were actually well balanced, affable people with no ego or amorality issues.
I’m with you on the Detectorists. The finale of the third series was just perfect: the auction, the Witness barn-building homage, the Dirt Sharks being welcomed into the group, the silent wedding proposal… It wrapped up everything and finished with a moment of real, satisfying joy.
For me, this is up there with Blackadder Goes Forth as one of the best final episodes ever. There was no need at all for any more.
Agreed. Also re Reginald Perrin ending with series 2.
Detectorists is a tough call. I go hot and cold on that last christmas special, but I’ve watched it three or four times now and I think I’ve decided I like it though, however much it does genuinely spoil the perfect ending of series three.
Word magazine was cover to cover fabulous, right to the bitter end.
(What?)
MODS!!!!!
We have a heretic in our midst.
This is essentially the sentiment that gave us Brexit.
Well I am certainly in denial about Brexit.