The Thick of It (therefore very sweary)

rick_chasey

Bloody hell do I like the thick of it.

Some choice lines from this series.

Malcolm Tucker: What's that film that you love?
Ollie Reeder: What film?
Malcolm: The one about the f*cking hairdresser, the space hairdresser and the cowboy. The guy, he's got a tin foil pal and a pedal bin. His father's a robot and he's f*cking f*cked his sister. Lego! They're all made of f*cking lego.
Ollie: Star Wars?
Malcolm: That's the one.

"You're Aslan. No one shaves your mane."

"I've got my c0ck out, it's covered in breadcrumbs and the f*cking pigeons are circling."

"I just wanted one solid sh!t to go in one direction, not madras f*cking everywhere."

[Tory boy to the lib dems]"You're basically a couple of homeless guys we invited to Christmas dinner. Don't b!tch if we don't let you carve the turkey."

notsoblue

I love it. Its just so close to what is probably the truth its barely still satire...

EKE_38BPM

A brilliant programme. I must watch the film one day.

Cunts.

PBo

that line about nicola peeing into the tent, but she's so useless it'd blow back in her own face was utter, utter, utter genius!!!

PBo

that line about nicola peeing into the tent, but she's so useless it'd blow back in her own face was utter, utter, utter genius!!!

Origamist

Malcolm Tucker: Everybody hates f*cking cyclists, even f*cking cyclists hate f*cking cyclists!

M-A-S

The line "What is this tinker tailor soldier c***?" has kept me chuckling since i heard it!

I heard Armando Iannucci in an interview once say that some of the stuff they heard about that really happened they couldn't use as people wouldn't believe it.

rjsterry

There's now some sort of weird feedback loop where MP's are citing The Thick Of It in parliamentary debates.

TheStone

There's an hour long special this weekend. Apparently very good.

graeme_s-2

Seems they filmed the enquiry special as if it were a real enquiry (sort of) with no rehearsals for the cast:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/enter ... 26628.html

Looking forwards to this.

graeme_s-2

Origamist wrote:

Malcolm Tucker: Everybody hates f*cking cyclists, even f*cking cyclists hate f*cking cyclists!

That was the episode where they were trying to find a celeb to promote a government initiative. They rattled through a list of people, discounting them for various reasons. One of the people they discounted was Lewis Hamilton. A couple of days later the government launched an initiative fronted by Lewis Hamilton!

I just loved the idea that some poor bastard was sat at home watching The Thick of It when that came up and realised they were about to launch an initiative backed by someone that even a satire felt was an unsuitable candidate. Must have been a total "Oh fsck!" moment.

webberhyde

Best thing on TV easily, been a massive fan for a long long time.

Seeing Malcolm fulfilling his promise of being "self-raising Lazarus", has been very pleasing indeed. The goolding Inquiry tomorrow looks incredible.

evil_breakfast

Thought last night episode was class and extremely well written.
Just loved the way how all the characters were taken out of their comfort zone, and their reactions to this realisation.

rick_chasey

Yeah.

Last night was good. Wasn't the thick of it though, really.

Was just a political drama. Well written and well acted for sure. But not especially funny nor fast paced.

Also, not sweary enough .

Ber Nard

Rick Chasey wrote:

Yeah.

Last night was good. Wasn't the thick of it though, really.

Was just a political drama. Well written and well acted for sure. But not especially funny nor fast paced.

Also, not sweary enough .

Agreed. Kinda made me realise I only like The Thick Of It for the swearing/ranting.

Rob

rjsterry

Quite enjoyed some of the mangled explanations with horribly mixed metaphors

Terri's "Shepherdess" speech for example.

SimonAH

Or "Sheep in shepherdess' clothing" proper LOL

Gazzaputt

I thought Saturday to be one of the best ever. So well acted and seemed to be very true to life.

Loved when the Baroness had to attend to a 'personal' matter due to a leak to the press.

Malcolm proved he doesn't need the swearing to cut people down but it helps!

EKE_38BPM

I don't think it was very funny, but it was very good.
All of the back stabbing has turned 360 degrees and now what was underground is now going to force people down the tubes.

I'm trying to mix my metaphors, but I'm not as good at it as Armando Iannucci.

notsoblue

I think it really illustrated just how complicit everyone is in the current political environment. I don't think it will change until this is accepted as being the root cause.

rjsterry

notsoblue wrote:

I think it really illustrated just how complicit everyone is in the current political environment. I don't think it will change until this is accepted as being the root cause.

So you agree with Malcolm's closing statement?

notsoblue

rjsterry wrote:

notsoblue wrote:

I think it really illustrated just how complicit everyone is in the current political environment. I don't think it will change until this is accepted as being the root cause.

So you agree with Malcolm's closing statement?

Trying to think back to what he said now, will watch it again to double check. But basically, yeah, I think Tucker is a political pragmatist. The character clearly knows exactly how ugly the practices behind our media and political establishments are and knows perfectly how to use and manipulate them for his party's gain. The people he works for know this too, but don't want to get their hands dirty.

I think he illustrates the endemic lack of idealism in politics, and how people get entirely lost in all their contortions to play the political game. Its no wonder people are disillusioned by politicians when they spend so much time trying to appear to have ideals that they forget to actually have them. Or indeed, having them at all can make you unsuitable for political office.

Managing the perception of a policy has become more important than the policy itself.

rjsterry

Tonight's finale was something else! The perfect way to end it. Too many quotable lines to choose from, and I won't spoil it for anyone who's waiting for iPlayer.

SimonAH

Twas excellent!

rick_chasey

Meh - was a little disappointed.

Wasn't as funny, nor did it feel particularly cutting. Just a bit sad.

Felt a bit like the office christmas special but without the ending. Like Brent, Tucker just becomes a sad bully when not in a position of authority anymore.

I'm sure it was the point, but I didn't feel any particular resolution, which most of the other series had.

evil_breakfast

Rick Chasey wrote:

Meh - was a little disappointed.

Wasn't as funny, nor did it feel particularly cutting. Just a bit sad.

Felt a bit like the office christmas special but without the ending. Like Brent, Tucker just becomes a sad bully when not in a position of authority anymore.

I'm sure it was the point, but I didn't feel any particular resolution, which most of the other series had.

+1.
Not that I was expecting a 'big' finale, but 'twas more of a whimper than a bang (to paraphrase Eliot)
Although Murray's Mirror interview segment was amusing in a schadenfreude kinda way.