Hippies, Pegg &c.
Posted Thu Dec 14 17:08:29 GMT 2000 by 'Dona Tonerbaum-Gret'
I think the main problem with Hippies was that the actors were all too young and trendy (I'm 20, by the way) - part of the charm of Father Ted was that they were old, cosy priests with various psychoses. There's nothing funny about young people being overly arrogant or odd, or childish - it's expected.
It also used the same formula as the last series of FT - introducing the stage for a ridiculous set-piece early, and then working towards it - cf: FT's Football Match w/ wheelchair and false arms, and Hippies' sandpaper convention - 'in the future, all sandpaper will be laid out flat in huge rolls.' I almost think the script would have worked a lot better if it was just read out in an Irish accent.
I agree it was disappointing, but it was still better than, say, 'dinnerladies'.
Big Train, though...some of it was great! Chairman Mao singing 'Virginia Plain' on his deathbed? How the hell did they come up with that? Didn't you even like the woman with no perception of scale?
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Posted By 'Cank' on Thu Dec 14 17:11:09 GMT 2000:
I did like 'Passing other people's opinions off as your own doesn't work... face it, you just can't cut it in the real world... Join The Army.'
But I hated Hippies.
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Posted By 'Sam D' on Fri Dec 15 09:38:27 GMT 2000:
I liked much of Hippies. Sorry, but I did.
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Posted By 'Unruly Butler' on Fri Dec 22 12:28:58 GMT 2000:
"Oh now you've gone on fire..."
"The Titz....."
"Where are my cocking puns?"
and the French puppet walking along the street.
Big Train? Uneven but occasionally sublime.
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Posted By 'joe' on Tue Dec 26 21:03:37 GMT 2000:
the nuns in the zoo. i thought this was funny.
I see they've brought out a staring cash-in book - but, oof, it's pricy - about £12 or something in WHsmiths.
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Posted By 'Unruly Butler' on Thu Dec 28 22:06:28 GMT 2000:
The Staring contest isn't Big Train's baby. It was a comic book first.
Graham Linehan is a regular customer in Gosh Comics on Russell Square (London's best funnies shop for a good few years now...), and the geezer in there occasionally points him towards weird indie comics - one of which was the Stare Out championships - self produced, lovingly packaged in cellophane with postcards and stuff.
I assume you can still get it, and it's better value for money than the new book.
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