W1A

[FiF]

Steve Campbell said:

My favourite line so far was in Episode 4 ... from a character I'm growing to love :-). The only 1 who has an ounce of normality :-)

There is NO lunch time news. It's just one big avalanche of s**t with 24hr shovelling.

Some of the meeting dialogue is getting repetitive & I find myself listening in for the little nuggets that are buried in the nonsense.

Still love it.

Neil is good, agreed. "What is it with shows in f***ing tents?"

[droopsnoot]

youngsyr said:

I guess a few people missed the very subtle joke with the "Director of Better"'s head injury - she walked into a glass door with the buzzword "Transparency" written down the side of it!

I imagine it's a bit like "Airplane" in that regard, the first few dozen times you watch it, you spot something else you hadn't noticed the first time. I just don't fancy watching this more than once, unfortunately. Last in the series next week though.

[Scabutz]

FiF said:

Steve Campbell said:

My favourite line so far was in Episode 4 ... from a character I'm growing to love :-). The only 1 who has an ounce of normality :-)

There is NO lunch time news. It's just one big avalanche of s**t with 24hr shovelling.

Some of the meeting dialogue is getting repetitive & I find myself listening in for the little nuggets that are buried in the nonsense.

Still love it.

Neil is good, agreed. "What is it with shows in f***ing tents?"

Yeah he is funny. When the subtitles weren't working and he says to the guy "I don't know I'm not technical but would it help if I put a hammer through some of this stuff.....I am including you in that."

And his meeting catchphrase. "Yes, bks"

[anonymous-user]

I also chuckled at:
"So we're talking about programs nobody watches?"
"No. We're talking about programs made by the BBC"
"Isn't that what I just said?"

[rlw]

Chuckled at the bbcme idea - only to find Doc Marten sponsored by mercedesme.

Spooky.

[marcosgt]

Yes, Mercedes Me has me chuckling when I see it!

Hurrah!

I loved 2012, but W1A, whilst it has some great moments (Ben & Jerry's leaving do, for example) does tend to be the same joke over and over and over again.

I don't know who these things work and you'll know how you want to feel about this, and I'm not being funny, but it's time to put it to bed, I think - Yes, Excellent, Hurrah! No, not that. Exactly!

M.

[stuartmmcfc]

marcosgt said:

Yes, Mercedes Me has me chuckling when I see it!

Hurrah!

I loved 2012, but W1A, whilst it has some great moments (Ben & Jerry's leaving do, for example) does tend to be the same joke over and over and over again.

I'm not being funny, but it's time to put it to bed, I think - Yes, Excellent, Hurrah! No, not that. Exactly!

M.

This is my feeling as well.

[FiF]

I'd agree that this series relied too much on the serial catch phrases, especially so 1-3,but imo the plot arc picked up in episodes 4 onwards to lead to the final ever W1A episode next week.

Onwards and upwards, hurrah!

[Scabutz]

marcosgt said:

Yes, Mercedes Me has me chuckling when I see it!

Hurrah!

I loved 2012, but W1A, whilst it has some great moments (Ben & Jerry's leaving do, for example) does tend to be the same joke over and over and over again.

I don't know who these things work and you'll know how you want to feel about this, and I'm not being funny, but it's time to put it to bed, I think - Yes, Excellent, Hurrah! No, not that. Exactly!

M.

Its very similar in that regard to the Thick of It. fking hilarious in places but towards the end it just petered out and was trotting out the same old jokes. Go out on a high!

[GetCarter]

Scabutz said:

Its very similar in that regard to the Thick of It. fking hilarious in places but towards the end it just petered out and was trotting out the same old jokes. Go out on a high!

I agree that 'Thick of it' was better earlier on, but it was much much much much funnier than W1A has ever been. Don't get me wrong I'm sticking with W1A as it has its moments, but I laugh maybe once per ep... whereas 'Thick' when it was on form had me in tears, some fantastic writing (and improvising).

[parabolica]

Apparently this is the final series of W1A; creator John Morton confirmed it in an article just before this series started.

[Dr Jekyll]

marcosgt said:

I don't know who these things work and you'll know how you want to feel about this, and I'm not being funny, but it's time to put it to bed, I think - Yes, Excellent, Hurrah! No, not that. Exactly!

M.

I think 'de-imagined going forward' is the phrase you're looking for.

[youngsyr]

Dr Jekyll said:

marcosgt said:

I don't know who these things work and you'll know how you want to feel about this, and I'm not being funny, but it's time to put it to bed, I think - Yes, Excellent, Hurrah! No, not that. Exactly!

M.

I think 'de-imagined going forward' is the phrase you're looking for.

Brilliant.

[Dr Jekyll]

youngsyr said:

Dr Jekyll said:

marcosgt said:

I don't know who these things work and you'll know how you want to feel about this, and I'm not being funny, but it's time to put it to bed, I think - Yes, Excellent, Hurrah! No, not that. Exactly!

M.

I think 'de-imagined going forward' is the phrase you're looking for.

Brilliant.

Of course some might prefer 're-imagined as non existent'.


Some of my favourites were in the narration. 'Meanwhile, next morning'.

[FiF]

The Department of Culture, Media and for some reason also Sport.

[Scabutz]

GetCarter said:

Scabutz said:

Its very similar in that regard to the Thick of It. fking hilarious in places but towards the end it just petered out and was trotting out the same old jokes. Go out on a high!

I agree that 'Thick of it' was better earlier on, but it was much much much much funnier than W1A has ever been. Don't get me wrong I'm sticking with W1A as it has its moments, but I laugh maybe once per ep... whereas 'Thick' when it was on form had me in tears, some fantastic writing (and improvising).

Totally agree. The Thick of It is the funniest show I have ever seen. I still quote it at work now.

[Swervin_Mervin]

I hated The Thick Of It. Whenever I tried it, it was basically Iannucci shouting via Peter Capaldi for the duration. A bit like Elton shouting via Mitchell in Upstart Crow - I just found it annoying.

[anonymous-user]

youngsyr said:

Dr Jekyll said:

marcosgt said:

I don't know who these things work and you'll know how you want to feel about this, and I'm not being funny, but it's time to put it to bed, I think - Yes, Excellent, Hurrah! No, not that. Exactly!

M.

I think 'de-imagined going forward' is the phrase you're looking for.

Brilliant.

Yes, no, absolutely.

[droopsnoot]

Interesting that after walking into a glass wall, Anna was taken off in an ambulance at the end of episode four, and there was absolutely no mention of it in the fifth one, where she turned up as if nothing had happened.

[Steve Campbell]

I forgot to mention the actual BBC subtitle mistake about Newcastle football club on the live match was the same week as the W1A subtitle machine going down. Couldn't make that one up !

Here's the "real" version :-)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/10/03/bbc...