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Ganesh
20:13 / 12.10.04
Yeah, it's a bit like Footballers' Wives in that regard. Of course, Dr Secretan, as an anaesthetist, would only 'work' around 0.002% of the time anyway.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
18:22 / 14.10.04
I think I may have to start creepy-stalkin' Stephen Mangan though. What a cutie, and seriously talented of course, but the cutie bit is why I have to record the show so I can watch his bits over and over... The curly black hair, the jaw, the playground approach to sex, the Swiss arrogance that gets submerged in the utter emotional inadequacy.

As the characters become more firmly established the sitcom aspect is taking off and the weirdness is just the dodgy red flock in a curry house at 1 a.m.
 
 
Warewullf
12:12 / 16.10.04
I've watched this and loved it. Drags a bit in places but that's forgiveable. Very, very funny.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
07:42 / 18.10.04
"It's a little bit funny,
This feeling inside..."
 
 
Whisky Priestess
08:24 / 18.10.04
All about Alan's desperate loneliness and rather too literal take on Christian love ...

I've been meaning to ask this for aaages ... where are the shit tits in this show? Are we talking birds, breasts or idiots (as in "acting like a tit")? Cos as far as I can remember, the female nipple count so far has been zero. Not that I'm complaining. I'm just confused.
 
 
Ganesh
08:58 / 18.10.04
First episode, Alan pushed Joanne to comment on his penis. She described it as "below average". He countered by telling her she had "shit tits".
 
 
Whisky Priestess
22:04 / 26.10.04
Ahaaaa!

To my eternal shame, I missed the first episode. Still, means I can pester everyone to get me the first series DVD for Christmas.
 
 
h1ppychick
08:47 / 23.09.05
Since Tamsin Greig is just about to start a new sitcom on (I think) the Beeb next week, does this mean that Green Wing is dead in the water and that a series 2 hasn't been commissioned? Or is it just taking a long time to get to air?
 
 
Jack Vincennes
10:27 / 23.09.05
According to this -which I found by googling 'green wing', so it might not be reliable at all -a second series is being filmed (hurrah!) and there will be a DVD of series one by the end of the year. I'm just going to believe all that is true, because I want it to be, so very much.
 
 
Sniv
12:11 / 23.09.05
This thread has just reminded me how bloody funnythis show was. Anyone whosays otherwise is lacking in the humour department and must find shite like My Family funny instead.

Two words: Spunk locket.

Three words: really long arms.

I'm soooo looking forward to the next series.
 
 
couch
20:46 / 26.10.05
Joy of joys. A new series is filming.

A friend was an extra. He's no idea when it'll be shown but as a spoiler he told me "The bloke from thingy was a doctor and locked the woman that used to be in that comedy thing in a cupboard".

Hope thats not too much of a spoiler...
 
 
Blake Head
12:19 / 21.03.06
New series ready “soon”. Think they are showing some of the first series first, opening episode was on last night. What I particularly liked watching it again was the way they captured real life conversational rhythms/patterns (which most sitcoms miss I think) and then surrealised (?) them into some deliciously cruel other paradigm. Anyway, hurrah, surely not too long to wait now…
 
 
couch
08:37 / 03.04.06
So, what did people think of the first episode? It seemed to be trying a little to hard for the 'wackyness' that was far more natural last series.

Still good to have it back again. Any one know how many eps there are in this series?
 
 
Jack Vincennes
18:43 / 03.04.06
Yes, I didn't enjoy it as much as I remembered enjoying the last series, but I watched the repeat so might just have been too tired for the walking slowly / walking fast effects. I also seemed to have missed loads, specifically why Mac was in a coma and why Guy Secretan slept with his mum. Assuming these are references to backstory and not just funny jokes in their own right which I don't understand because I am getting old.

Still, it was worth it for Mac as all of Take That. Brilliant.
 
 
Spaniel
18:55 / 03.04.06
They are refs to backstory.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
19:08 / 06.04.06
"Wake up or the kitten gets it."

I enjoyed it. For reasons that currently escape me I didn't make it to the end of series one But I enjoyed the Take That and Sparks dream sequences.
 
 
Blake Head
10:29 / 09.04.06
I'm still really enjoying it. Not sure how long a show can go when it relies on a constant raising of the stakes, but it’s still the most rabidly anti-pc fun around as far as I can see. And it feels strangely... genuine. Like the characters have had their inhibitions removed and are operating on pure ego, so the seeds of their actions feel really familiar though you sort of have to enlarge them a few hundred times to get what you have on screen. And (as has surely been said before) it's just so vicious...

Plus the barren-wombed-bitch-goddess-from-hell office manager being tit-raped with a banana by her assistant in the last one had me rolling about on the floor laughing and I’m fairly sure it’s a tv first.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
19:52 / 11.04.06
Dr Statham on speakerphone. I brayed like a donkey in Camden on Palm Sunday.
 
 
Jack Vincennes
20:32 / 11.04.06
You didn't just have an orgasm, Alan.
 
 
The Strobe
21:05 / 11.04.06
You dicksplat.
 
 
adamswish
13:38 / 12.04.06
Loving the new series, although hearing people refer to it as sketch show with ongoing story (varios interviews with cast, etc) has dented the enjoyment somewhat but I can't think why.

Still bought the collected first series on DVD and am currently enjoying watching it again and again (Second viewing as I type).
 
 
Blake Head
01:06 / 16.04.06
Are the extras any good then adamswish ? I’m considering investing.

Having just read the PC thread, just for fun on a Saturday night like, my use of “rabidly anti-pc fun” above seems a bit misleading, so, rather than ask for a mod edit after the fact… I think that I was using pc, incorrectly, as a synonym for socially acceptable behaviour, and in particular I was thinking about Guy Secretan arbitrarily pushing another character into a wall, or somesuch, because he was in a bad mood. What I was probably looking for was really misanthropic rather than “anti-pc”, and strangely I’m attempting to use pc here in a positive way at that, by positioning it not as a humourless social mechanism but as a short-hand for normative social codes that only cruel, twisted and negatively-minded anaesthetists dare to break. So “anti-pc fun” isn’t really me championing the right wing usage of pc as a pejorative term, so much as thinking Green Wing is funny because it’s consistently inventive in exhibiting quite mad but definitely not acceptable social behaviour, and having characters who display what might be considered politically incorrect attitudes and taking the piss out of them as the vicious grotesques that they are. At least that’s what I think I meant. Not that anyone might care probably.

Oh bollocks to the whole thing.

“half-Swiss is better than mad Scotch anyday…”
 
 
■
13:53 / 16.04.06
Shit tits and now a rubbish vagina. Can these insults be bettered? Mark Heap, top stuff. He also got a great chance to use his juggling skills this week, you may have noticed.
 
 
adamswish
12:46 / 18.04.06
Are the extras any good then

Yes and no Blake. Each of the three disks has a complilation of deleted scences on each. There are commentaries on four of the nine episodes (eps 1, 2, 5 & 9, not listened to them yet, but know eps 9 is writers and directors, not sure if the cast do any). There's also a little (10 minute) behind the scences thing on the third disk.
 
 
Spaniel
20:05 / 21.04.06
In complete contrast to Sav, I think Green Wing might be one of my favourite comedy shows evar.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
12:10 / 22.04.06
[Trivfact: Jack Davenport is married to Sue White/Michelle Gomez. Explains why he always seems to smug.]
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
20:28 / 23.04.06
Ahhh, I made it until about ten minutes into episode three before reaching the point where I just got intensely bored with the show and stopped watching. I didn't make it to the end of the first series either. I can't put my finger on what it is that fecks me off about this show. I think it's possibly the rom-com aspect of it, the trying to have an underlying storyline while not allowing the characters to grow at all. After a while it just seems so smug and empty.
 
 
Brigade du jour
16:31 / 20.05.06
Am I the only person who almost cried watching the episode last night? Ok, I'm a sucker for when comedy suddenly and rather unexpectedly turns into drama, but still ... why Mac? He's the best character in it.

I just answered my own question, didn't I?
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
20:52 / 21.05.06
He rode off on his motorbike like Mark Fowler in 'Enders.

I have to say though, I do think Caroline and Secre-TAN have more chemistry. It's wrong, because he's so wrong, but that's what it makes it so RIGHT.
 
 
Spaniel
20:53 / 21.05.06
STRONG TRUTH
 
 
adamswish
22:14 / 22.05.06
I would of cried if I wasn't still trying to get my head around where that lion cub had come from...*


*I eventually got it
 
 
Brigade du jour
11:12 / 23.05.06
And they shall say of him ... he was much fancied, and he propagated big cats.
 
 
Ganesh
16:54 / 23.05.06
why Mac? He's the best character in it/

You reckon? I can't really see his motivation for pissing lovely Dr Tod around so much.
 
 
Brigade du jour
17:58 / 23.05.06
I always read it that they were toying with each other, but yes it has been pretty much one-way traffic from Mac on that score this second series. Plus, he was in a coma for a whole episode - maybe it left him unable to read, shall we say, romantic situations properly?

Hmm, I suppose 'best character' isn't the phrase I was looking for ... most attractive (even in spite of my better judgement)?
 
 
h1ppychick
20:27 / 04.01.07
Last ever episode in progress on C4. Not sure what to make of it so far.
 
  

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