Superb episode. Very, very funny.
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Great first episode! You can see that NGO is now in the place it wants to be as a sitcom. As ever, some brilliant laugh out loud moments. Also, the cast were working great together. Sally Bretton was certainly miles better than she was last series and there was more Tim Vine. Just loved it!
Really good episode. I laughed quite a bit. For some reason I didn't find the door lock jokes that funny though.
My mate who saw it with me said where do they get their ideas.
I've honestly got no idea.
Well so far so good! That was very funny - laugh out loud in places especially him trying to describe the.... you know what.... the sherman tank in the bath bit.....
Stan
Quote: hotzappa11 @ January 30 2009, 10:07 PM GMTReally good episode. I laughed quite a bit. For some reason I didn't find the door lock jokes that funny though.
They kept mucking that up as thelock didn't work.
Although some of the content was bordering on the edge of 'family entertainment'
Lee Mack was on that 7 o'clock show thing with Adrian Chiles earlier trying to call it cheeky rather than rude.
It was handled very well though, reminiscent of the old Seinfeld episode (the Challenge ?)
Quote: Lindyloop @ January 30 2009, 10:06 PM GMTSally Bretton was certainly miles better than she was last series
Yes, I thought that too. Flowed much better, she seemed far more comfortable in the role.
Yep very good, at last something to stay in for on a Friday night, I'm too old to keep getting pissed.
Oh Dear, there's always one and I fear that that one is me.
I really want to like this show but just can't seem to. I do like Lee Mack and Tim Vine and I take my hat off to the predigious gag-count and indeed the quality of the writing on a joke for joke basis, but I feel that overall the show just lacks any *natural & believeable* qualities.
It's as if the whole is not a worthy result of the sum of its parts.
Compare and contrast it to any classic like Steptoe, Likely Lads or Dad's Army and it comes in as being nowhere in the same league.
It seems to me that every line is either a feed or a punchline and therefore, IMO, this comes accross as contrived and purely a vehicle for the joke rather than having any real narritive value. The gags are relentless and ultimately for me just too much.
I know that the thrust of tonight's was "Is she / isn't she pregnant?" But the way it was handled just left me a bit nonplussed.The storyline seemed just a plot device rather than a true crisis moment in peoples' lives.
The bit about the wanking in the bath was just juvenile and there was no warmth to the episode whatsoever - again these observations are just IMO. Indeed I think that the whole thing lacks warmth - possibly to do with the sets, how they're lit and the American style inserts between scenes.
It's probably an "age thing" with me but I just can't warm to it. It's a bit like "Let's write an American style show but with a British vibe" and that to me is its downfall.
Mrs B watched it with me and commented on the "unreal look and feel" of it, and finally, and at odds with others' posts, I felt that the female lead (Sally Bretton?) was rather mechanical in her performance and looked like an actress delivering some lines rather than a living breathing character.
Sorry and all that folks and I know Andrew Collins comes on here from time to time but I just can't see what all the fuss is about for this. I think that it's mediocre and OK but fairly unremarkable. But hey, each to his own.
I must run away and hide before the backlash comes and smites me from on-high. I know that NGO is popular round these parts and consequently my views won't be.
I just felt that I wanted to say my say in the interest of balance.
EDIT:
I did though LOL at Tim's pratt fall. Slipping on the balls in the shop was a classy visual gag 
I haven't seen every episode of every series but this was the worst one I've seen.
There's not much to add to Blenkinsop's crit. The wanking schtik was stretched well beyond it's elastic limit and almost all of the jokes were sort of phantom jokes that aren't really logical or funny if you think about them for a moment. "I won't shake your hand' -being an example. If you think about it, this is a really crap line - but it got a big laugh.
The episode ended well. The on-going joke with the policeman door-lock was well executed if a little bizarre.
I like the show but the wank-in-the-bath plot was bit much for me. Still some good gags though.
Quote: Badge @ January 31 2009, 1:40 AM GMTI like the show but the wank-in-the-bath was bit much for me.
You shouldn't watch TV in the bath, it's dangerous you dirty badgestard.
Thats fair enough guys (Blenkinsop, Godot Taxis). You can't please all the people all the time as they say.
At least it has jokes though, proper jokes, not just embarrassed silences or whatever.
One of the reasons I like the show is because it has a fair amount of physical gags in it, which always get me, probably because I love the Marx Brothers.
Also, I really like Sally Bretton and find her completely believeable in the role and also very funny. Takes all sorts I guess.
First time I had watched this show and I have to say I really enjoyed it. Funny, lots of gags.
Yes the whole thing was completly unbeliveable, but isn't that what it's all about?
A thumbs up from the bigfella!