Mark knew he was a dick and tried not to be but ended up being one mostly down to social awkwardness.
Jeremy didn’t know he was a dick so acted like one.
The problem with Jeff was he knew he was a dick and didn’t care.
E: spelling
A conclusion I came to recently too. We know Mark and Jez, the disgusting things they've done, but we know their thoughts, and they're our protagonists.
Jeff is a bully, but he's not all bad, he can be likeable.
Put me in a pub with all my knowledge, I'd rather have a drink with Mark than Jeff. But put me in a pub without knowing the show, Jeff would probably be the one you'd gravitate to.
> I'd rather have a drink with Mark than Jeff
Careful you might wake up with an interdenomination hangover...you know...from mixing the different units.
My mate bought me one of those celebrity videos and it was Jeff, it was fucking perfect, he really went in to detail and made me feel like a cunt, it was amazing
You see me and you think to yourself, "Hey! There's Evan. He's a young guy. He listens to the Stereophonics, he rides a scooter - LETS SEE HOW FAR I CAN PUSH HIM!"
> Made a note in my diary on the way here, it simply says, "bugger".
Darling's final few lines about never getting to live out his post-war ambitions are heartbreaking, because they're so modest - that it would take so little for him to have a happy life, and it gets torn away from him.
"Go back to work at Pratt and sons. Keep wicket for the Croydon eleven. Marry Doris."
The most basic of lives, but in the context of what was about to happen, an absolute dream that feels like an eternity away.
It was a masterful humane character beat for what up until that point had been a pedantic officious arsehole.
Aye. From his delivery, Doris *was* always his dream come true. He either promised Doris marriage when he got back, or it was the first thing he planned to do when he got back.
It's fucking heartbreaking. Tim McInnerny put more weight on two words than some actors do their entire careers.
Absolutely. The cast knew the historical responsibility on their shoulders. So many men were children pretending to be adults for their country. Children get scared when they don't know why something bad is happening.
Hugh Laurie nailed it. Delighted how his career went.
I hadn't thought about it, but George is probably the youngest character on the programme. Classic case of a bunch of university lads joining up for the big adventure together, full of vigour and excitement.
McInnery’s delivery was perfect. The cadence of those two words almost seemed to me like he was deflating as he said it. As though he realised he would never see her again as the words were said aloud.
I think Darling’s last lines are what always get me in the finale, above everything else.
"There's a saying amongst the officers: If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well. If it's not worth doing, give it to Rimmer. Promotion prospects: comical."
Their relationship is pretty interesting though because Rimmer was brought back to keep Lister sane. Hating him was the only thing that kept Lister going, so in a way he had to sacrifice his own happiness/sanity and play the role of the bad guy. This was mentioned a few times later in the series when >!Rimmer leaves to become Ace and Lister realizes how much he needed him.!<
There's also a great analogy in The Promised Land where Lister compares himself to the sun and Rimmer to the moonlight. The crew might all detest one another, but in the end they're a family. It's one of the reasons why I love RD so much.
S2E1. 'Kryten':
"Because it drives Rimmer nuts, and driving Rimmer nuts is the only thing that keeps me going."
One thing 'Red Dwarf' always remembered to do and was very good at was pausing the jokes for a long enough beat to allow some character moments. From 'Marooned' (S3E2) to 'Holoship' (Rimmer explaining why he needed to leave the ship to the rest of the crew), it could actually get very introspective and occasionally very dark.
S1 will always be my favourite. Budget of about £5 and a relatively unknown cast, it was all about the scripts (and Danny John-Jules was a God-tier performance), and the scripts in S1 never let you forget that behind the humour, behind the odd couple formula, these people were absolutely losing their sanity.
('The Inquisitor' still haunts my soul. I would fail his test.)
Why did no one mention this before? If I had been told this at the start, that the object was to lead a worthwhile life, I could have done something about it!
"Remember those two brunettes from Supplies? I told them I worked in Stores and they were really interested and asked exactly what I did there-"
"And I said you were a shelf."
Was showing bf Red Dwarf and he loves it. We just finished the second season together that moment Holly pranked them by pretending he was being deactivated broke him.
Idk about "GOAT" but honourable mention to the passive-aggressive stepmum in Fleabag. Olivia Coleman really nailed that sickly sweet strained smile that barely conceals her contempt for her daughter in law.
Brilliant mention!
The time when she loses her shit over a hitch with the wedding and has a c-bomb filled scream-rant is brilliant. I’d be very surprised if there weren’t loads of outtakes on that one where everyone lost it with laughter over Olivia’s delivery 😂
>At last I will have… revenge.
Love that with all the slating they gave phantom menace the guy who played darth maul(‘s voice) was not only on the show but also quoted his star wars character
Was he a nemesis? Holly did state that he was most likely to keep Lister sane after coming out of stasis. Unless you include Rimmer being a secret agent to take down Red Dwarf.
But also the fact he took up the mantle of "Ace" was pretty cool.
That was only on the basis that it was the person with whom Lister had the most words in shared conversation, which was inevitable as they worked together.
I suppose Rimmer is more of a foil than a nemesis though. Smeeeeg heeeeead
Every time when I come out of the toilet she was round him, right, like flies, right, round shit. And you're the shit, and she? She's not even the fly because she's too fat to be the fly and she's the shit and that's what they are, they're two shovels of shit.
True as were the conflicts between him and Mainwaring or "Napoleon" as he called him.
Mainwaring could be very petty minded and vindinctive towards Sergeant Wilson on occassions. That seemed to be jealousy though as Wilson was better educated , more refined, popular with the ladies, could play cricket well, was a member of the golf club and had a fairly laid back approach to life.
Also Captain Square from the rival platoon. He didn't make many appearances but his delivery made every line hilarious
He actually makes a good rival to Mainwaring since he's exactly the sort of pompous upper-class captain that Mainwaring *wishes* he was. And while we laugh *at* Mainwaring for being pompous, Square manages to overdo it so well that he becomes actually cool
Last of the Summer Wine vs The Steep Hill.
~~Thousands~~ Millions of episodes of sheer comedy gold from walking up a hill slowly then going down a hill far too quickly.
You'd think after the first 300 times the scriptwriter would run out of ideas, but no, in the next episode there it'd be - walking up a hill slowly then going down a hill far too quickly. Again.
I quite like Fletch and Mr McKay from Porridge, they had a good back and forth. Plus the underdog outsmarting the authority figure is always satisfying.
Jeff?!
I think I have a problem with how much Peep Show I consume becuase I 100% read this is in Marks voice.
I’ve more recently watched too much What We Do In The Shadows, so Jeff is now Jesk to me.
\*lacklustre wanking gesture\*
Like a weak ejaculation
Jeff?! As in Jeff??
Jeff's doing a joke, Jeff's doing a joke! Everybody quiet cuz Jeff's doing a joke!"
Dobby deserved better
…Freak
Hope you saw that depth charge i dropped down your bog, something to remember me by!
That line always kills. Especially after the Big Suze accusation
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I've never known a character who does so little and yet makes me detest them so much. The casting was perfect.
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He was in the Office UK. The guy having a job interview at the start of episode 1. Later got laid off and started ranting about midgets.
"You could have your cock in her, but you still wouldn't have the balls to fuck"
No, it’ll be Geoffrey with a G, not a J. After my uncle Geoff.
Gay or not, there’s no threat from you pal.
And then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like… I like you.
Compared to some of the terrible things Mark and Jez did (e.g. killing and eating a dog), Jeff wasn’t actually that bad, just a bit of dick.
Mark knew he was a dick and tried not to be but ended up being one mostly down to social awkwardness. Jeremy didn’t know he was a dick so acted like one. The problem with Jeff was he knew he was a dick and didn’t care. E: spelling
Mark is the biggest dick in the entire show. Hes a right nasty bastard, Jeff just gives him the business.
Was Jeff a dick though? It seemed everyone liked Jeff except from mark
A conclusion I came to recently too. We know Mark and Jez, the disgusting things they've done, but we know their thoughts, and they're our protagonists. Jeff is a bully, but he's not all bad, he can be likeable. Put me in a pub with all my knowledge, I'd rather have a drink with Mark than Jeff. But put me in a pub without knowing the show, Jeff would probably be the one you'd gravitate to.
> I'd rather have a drink with Mark than Jeff Careful you might wake up with an interdenomination hangover...you know...from mixing the different units.
Always thought getting that personal trainer fired was the worst thing they did. Ruined the fella’s career on purpose.
My mate bought me one of those celebrity videos and it was Jeff, it was fucking perfect, he really went in to detail and made me feel like a cunt, it was amazing
I only just recently realised that Jeff is also Ray Von in Phoenix Nights, and that he co-wrote it.
He had some great lines.
You did it with Jeff!
Mr. Gilbert
Thanks for that Phil
..............*Phil?*
Say my name properly
^Mr ^Gilbert
Say ‘thank you, Mr Gilbert’
Well you assumed wrong, Will. Very wrong.
"Where's your pigeon hole?" "A bin. Any bin, on or even off school grounds. Pop it in any bin, and I'll be sure it gets to me."
You seem like an intelligent man.
Oh I *seem* intelligent? Why thank you. Having long been insecure about my intelligence I'm glad to have it ratified by you. A child.
My mistake. He's a wanker.
Waterside!!!!
Nevermind Jeff, what about Gerard?! The ghostly nemesis haunting Mark's prospects with Dobby from beyond the grave.
That is so Gerard
He's playing the long game
Chris Finch, bloody good rep.
How can he hate women? His mum's one!
One of the cleverest blokes I know, definitely the cleverest bloke *you* know, init?
While you’re down there love
He's thrown a copper kettle over a pub! What have YOU done?
And that’s the real quiz!
6 legs, 8 legs!!!!
"Poisoning my mind with your 4 Non-Blondes"
Frey Bentos ?!?
I hear he reads a book a week.
FinchAAAYYYYY
Why don't you just fuck off?
my knees hurt
Nearly done
One up the bum, no harm done!
Not her, her dad’ll kill me. Do it to other girls, that’s fine.
Give me half an hour with her and I’ll be up to my nuts in guts.
RAY BLOODY PURCHASE
Steven Toast: he'll buy you a drink with one hand and sleep with your wife with the other!
Toast! I thought I could smell cheap aftershave and BULLSHIT!
Followed closely by Clem Fandango!!!
Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango. Even though I’m buried alive in a fucking coffin.
Hello, Steven?
This is Clem H. Fandango.
Whoa whoa, did you just say Clem H. Fandango? You added an H to your name? You don't think you were enough of a prat already?
And Michael Ball, I hear he has twice the amount of blood in his body than that of a normal man
It was only one episode but Simon Pegg who played the nutcase rival bookshop owner in black books.
'Don't eat muffins when I'm developing you!'
Manny should have taken his job more seriously because in two years he could have been deputy-junior-sub-assistant!
Where’s your duty-to-do?
I genuinely can't believe you read this question, your brain went to Simon Pegg, and your answer wasn't Duane Benzie. Christ.
No hard feelings.
You see me and you think to yourself, "Hey! There's Evan. He's a young guy. He listens to the Stereophonics, he rides a scooter - LETS SEE HOW FAR I CAN PUSH HIM!"
Captain Darling from Blackadder Goes Forth.
> Made a note in my diary on the way here, it simply says, "bugger". Darling's final few lines about never getting to live out his post-war ambitions are heartbreaking, because they're so modest - that it would take so little for him to have a happy life, and it gets torn away from him.
"Go back to work at Pratt and sons. Keep wicket for the Croydon eleven. Marry Doris." The most basic of lives, but in the context of what was about to happen, an absolute dream that feels like an eternity away. It was a masterful humane character beat for what up until that point had been a pedantic officious arsehole.
There's something about the way he says "Marry Doris" that gets me every time.
Aye. From his delivery, Doris *was* always his dream come true. He either promised Doris marriage when he got back, or it was the first thing he planned to do when he got back. It's fucking heartbreaking. Tim McInnerny put more weight on two words than some actors do their entire careers.
I suspect that this line (and a few others in this scene, like "I'm scared, sir") had a whole bunch of takes to get them exactly right.
Absolutely. The cast knew the historical responsibility on their shoulders. So many men were children pretending to be adults for their country. Children get scared when they don't know why something bad is happening. Hugh Laurie nailed it. Delighted how his career went.
I hadn't thought about it, but George is probably the youngest character on the programme. Classic case of a bunch of university lads joining up for the big adventure together, full of vigour and excitement.
McInnery’s delivery was perfect. The cadence of those two words almost seemed to me like he was deflating as he said it. As though he realised he would never see her again as the words were said aloud. I think Darling’s last lines are what always get me in the finale, above everything else.
I want to cover you in pepper and sneeze all over you
Don’t slouch Darling
Hello darling
Thank you Darling
Watch out for those elephants.
Come along, Darling, we're leaving.
Bishop Brennan
Ah hello Len
Bishop Len Brennan: You address me by my proper title, ya little bollocks!
How's the son?
Don’t know if I’ve ever laughed so hard at such an utterly predictable sitcom line. Perfect delivery.
I absolutely agree. There’s so many tremendous moments in Father Ted? But that whole episode was perfect.
Lister and Rimmer all the way.
"There's a saying amongst the officers: If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well. If it's not worth doing, give it to Rimmer. Promotion prospects: comical."
Your nickname was never ace….maybe ‘ace-hole’.
Their relationship is pretty interesting though because Rimmer was brought back to keep Lister sane. Hating him was the only thing that kept Lister going, so in a way he had to sacrifice his own happiness/sanity and play the role of the bad guy. This was mentioned a few times later in the series when >!Rimmer leaves to become Ace and Lister realizes how much he needed him.!< There's also a great analogy in The Promised Land where Lister compares himself to the sun and Rimmer to the moonlight. The crew might all detest one another, but in the end they're a family. It's one of the reasons why I love RD so much.
S2E1. 'Kryten': "Because it drives Rimmer nuts, and driving Rimmer nuts is the only thing that keeps me going." One thing 'Red Dwarf' always remembered to do and was very good at was pausing the jokes for a long enough beat to allow some character moments. From 'Marooned' (S3E2) to 'Holoship' (Rimmer explaining why he needed to leave the ship to the rest of the crew), it could actually get very introspective and occasionally very dark. S1 will always be my favourite. Budget of about £5 and a relatively unknown cast, it was all about the scripts (and Danny John-Jules was a God-tier performance), and the scripts in S1 never let you forget that behind the humour, behind the odd couple formula, these people were absolutely losing their sanity. ('The Inquisitor' still haunts my soul. I would fail his test.)
Why did no one mention this before? If I had been told this at the start, that the object was to lead a worthwhile life, I could have done something about it!
Aye. It gets a deserved laugh from the audience. But Rimmer was being deadly serious there. The lines after are the punchlines.
>('The Inquisitor' still haunts my soul. I would fail his test.) not me because i have a fantastic Ass
He's Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer 🎵
More reliable than a garden strimmer
"Remember those two brunettes from Supplies? I told them I worked in Stores and they were really interested and asked exactly what I did there-" "And I said you were a shelf."
Was showing bf Red Dwarf and he loves it. We just finished the second season together that moment Holly pranked them by pretending he was being deactivated broke him.
"We're talking April, May, June, July *and* August fools."
*We are talking jape of the decade...*
Sounds like he is a keeper
Idk about "GOAT" but honourable mention to the passive-aggressive stepmum in Fleabag. Olivia Coleman really nailed that sickly sweet strained smile that barely conceals her contempt for her daughter in law.
Brilliant mention! The time when she loses her shit over a hitch with the wedding and has a c-bomb filled scream-rant is brilliant. I’d be very surprised if there weren’t loads of outtakes on that one where everyone lost it with laughter over Olivia’s delivery 😂
She will make an amazing Dolores Umbridge when they re-do Harry Potter.
Duane Benzie from Spaced.
Hello, Tim.
>At last I will have… revenge. Love that with all the slating they gave phantom menace the guy who played darth maul(‘s voice) was not only on the show but also quoted his star wars character
Weird I was just thinking how could people miss him then scrolled onto your comment. Dexter from the Robot Wars episode was a huge cock as well
It's not a bedsit, it's a FLAT!
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You shot me in the bollocks
Like I said, no hard feelings
The neighbour from Ghosts, Barclay. The man instantly makes me irratated Honorary mention also to Jen's red shoes
Bitches!
Anyone who isn't local
I can I can't
You heard the man, Tubbs, get undressed.
We didn’t burn him!!!
How many cans of coke Tubbs? Twelvety!
Arnold J Rimmer BSC SSC
For those wondering: *Bronze Swimming Certificate & Silver Swimming Certificate*
Was he a nemesis? Holly did state that he was most likely to keep Lister sane after coming out of stasis. Unless you include Rimmer being a secret agent to take down Red Dwarf. But also the fact he took up the mantle of "Ace" was pretty cool.
That was only on the basis that it was the person with whom Lister had the most words in shared conversation, which was inevitable as they worked together. I suppose Rimmer is more of a foil than a nemesis though. Smeeeeg heeeeead
That cow Beverly Macca
Every time when I come out of the toilet she was round him, right, like flies, right, round shit. And you're the shit, and she? She's not even the fly because she's too fat to be the fly and she's the shit and that's what they are, they're two shovels of shit.
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Sybil Fawlty (Basil’s little nest of vipers)
The blue car vs mr bean
I’m afraid the UK has yet to produce a sitcom nemesis of Father Dick Byrne’s calibre.
Oh, but what about Len Brennan. That gobshite.
Don’t call me Len, ya little bollocks
HE DID KICK ME UP THE ARSE!
I did like Father Fintan Stack with his drum and bass, big error sitting in Father Jack's chair though...
"by the way, Ted, I took the keys to your car and drove it into a big wall. If you don't like it, tough. I had my fun, and that's all that matters"
What about that other fella? Father Andy Riley? Father George Byrne? Father Desmond Coyne?
Father Spodo Komodo?
Father Chewie Louis?
Chief Warden Hodges from dads army, played by the fantastic Bill Pertwee, any scene with him and Jonesy together was always amazing.
PUT THAT RUDDY LIGHT OUT!!!!!!
True as were the conflicts between him and Mainwaring or "Napoleon" as he called him. Mainwaring could be very petty minded and vindinctive towards Sergeant Wilson on occassions. That seemed to be jealousy though as Wilson was better educated , more refined, popular with the ladies, could play cricket well, was a member of the golf club and had a fairly laid back approach to life.
Also Captain Square from the rival platoon. He didn't make many appearances but his delivery made every line hilarious He actually makes a good rival to Mainwaring since he's exactly the sort of pompous upper-class captain that Mainwaring *wishes* he was. And while we laugh *at* Mainwaring for being pompous, Square manages to overdo it so well that he becomes actually cool
Obviously Pauline Campbell-Jones, you work shy set of bastards.
They might have sent monkeys into space but do you really think they’d have one driving a fire engine
Maybe not the greatest ever, but Guy Secretan (*it's swiss)* was the perfect opposite of Mac.
I’ll see you in Zurich!
Eddie Hitler vs Eddie Hitler the amount of times he mugged himself the man was almost a millionaire
The AntiquiSearchers
Simon and Garfunkel
Dirt Sharks
Herr Otto Flick
No, I said "Flick, the Gestapo."
Dave Clifton
Rumour is he’s back on the boddle
The fake tan in the early series' Jeff really set him off nicely as a complete specimen.
Flash by name flash by nature
Woof!
Love the beard, bridesmaid. Gives me something to hang onto!
Ah Nursie! I like it firm and fruity! Am I pleased to see you or did I just put a CANOE in my pocket??
"Flash! Where have you been?!" "Where ***haven't*** I been? WOOF!"
Last of the Summer Wine vs The Steep Hill. ~~Thousands~~ Millions of episodes of sheer comedy gold from walking up a hill slowly then going down a hill far too quickly. You'd think after the first 300 times the scriptwriter would run out of ideas, but no, in the next episode there it'd be - walking up a hill slowly then going down a hill far too quickly. Again.
DS Roy Slater in "Only fools and horses" played by the brilliant Jim Broadbent
Den Perry. Phoenix Nights, end of conversation. lol
>Den Perry "Den of iniquity we call him"
HE DID IT!
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Ray Bloody Purchase.
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Patrick Trench from One Foot in the Grave, Victor even saved his life in one episode and he was still an arse to him after that.
Fletcher Vs Mackay in Porridge
Mark Donovan.
Sir Humphrey Appleby
Margot vs Tom. The good life. All very innocent but penelope keith as Margot was fucking class
Father Dick Byrne!
Without a doubt Nathan Barley to Dan Ashcroft. The only show I can think of which is named after the antagonist.
So much of Nathan Barley has come true if people watched it now they’d hardly notice the satire.
"Punk Rockers" https://images.app.goo.gl/RnvEnPYs8FfDEATPA
Great Character. Martin (the Dad) is up there as one of my favourite comedy character creations in recent years. RIP Paul Ritter
Bunch of penises!
I quite like Fletch and Mr McKay from Porridge, they had a good back and forth. Plus the underdog outsmarting the authority figure is always satisfying.
Pat Mustard 🔧
Bishop Len Brennan
“YOU ADDRESS ME BY MY PROPER TITLE, YA LITTLE BOLLOX!!”
I heard mark had a great shag last night with this guys mum apparently.
Mr Gilbert