First off..Peep Show is back!!!
I thought it was a solid episode turning Mark's world upside down with JLB UK going under. Best line for show had to be thie...
Mark - The depression is here and my new sofa is a white elephant
Jez - It's a creamy elephant
Mark - Please don't call it a creamy elephant. I think I'm going to be sick
Really good episode last night. That has to have one of the best lines I've heard in a sitcom for a long time... "Ergonomic managment keyboard."
It is interesting to see Mark fall from grace in such a fashion. Both a very clever situation as well as a comment on the economic crisis.
Also, welcome to the forum Eh.
It wasn't the funniest episode but it was still very good and I'm looking forward to watching the rest of the series.
In a slightly uncool personal moment for me, I had just bought one of those 'Ergonomic management keyboards'! I'm not sure whether I should send it back now or give in to my Mark-ish-ness.
I watched it a bit squiffy last night and really laughed at the "please don't call it our baby" bit.
Loved the fire extinguisher bit. Some classic penis lines there. 
In perfect Peep Show form, the first half bored me to death only to have me laughing my ass off by the credits. This tells me they are still on form.
Mark without a job is gold. That moment when he called Stephen Strauss a douchebag was hilarious.
I thought it was great, and the crunching gear changes could prove to be really interesting as the series progresses.
It was followed by probably the best ever episode of The IT Crowd and a new (to me) episode of The Inbetweeners, so it really was like Channel 4 Friday Nights of old - I was glued to my seat. Thanks Derren.
Great stuff and easily the funniest sitcom at the moment. They seem to have shrugged off a few cobwebs from the last season.
And they seemed to keep the big twist under wraps, which is impressve.
Just brilliant! I'm so glad it's back. I lost count of the amount of times I LMAO. Repeat viewing made it better as well, because I missed so much from laughing and also you kind of got thrown by the whole shake-up of circumstances first time round.
So, so many excellent lines. I wish I could remember more, but "Men with Ven" is great.
I also loved how proud Jeremy was of Mark for referencing Spinal Tap 
Quote: Adam Blaize @ September 18 2009, 10:51 PM BSTIt didn't feel as though I was watching Mark and Jeremy; I felt like I was watching David Mitchell and Robet Webb;
That's not a fault of the show I don't think though, more the fact that over the years they've appeared more and more on our screens and on the radio in other shows and as themselves. You know them as other things rather than just Mark and Jez.
Quote: Lindyloop @ September 19 2009, 12:14 PM BSTI also loved how proud Jeremy was of Mark for referencing Spinal Tap
I forgot that! I loved the proud look on Jez's face!
Oh and did I mention the Hitler 'tache? The more smudged it became, the funnier it was.
I didn't like it that much, and I'm a massive Peep Show fan. Mark didn't seem like Mark, he seemed more like a poor man's Brent. He was confident, after laughs, obnoxious... Mark, at his funniest, is crippilingly poor in social situations - taking a back seat, agreeing with the higher authority. Like someone else said it felt more like Mitchell and Webb than Corrigan and Osbourne.
The latest episodes now seem to follow the same predictable formula of 'Things go well for Mark and/or Jez but at the end, one of them manages to screw it up for the other'.
Quote: johnny smith @ September 19 2009, 1:38 PM BSTThe latest episodes now seem to follow the same predictable formula of 'Things go well for Mark and/or Jez but at the end, one of them manages to screw it up for the other'.
I don't think that's really what happened here too much, though, was it? Mark went along with the group so as not to lose face, rather than Jez ruining things for him. Mark set himself up for his own fall.
It is one of the central points of the show, though; how they're terrible for each other, but they can't live without each other.
Quote: Sal Paradise @ September 19 2009, 10:03 AM BSTThat moment when he called Stephen Strauss a douchebag was hilarious.
That annoyed me. I've never heard anyone in this country use the insult 'douchebag', and Mark doesn't strike me as the kind of character who'd be immersed enough in American popular culture in order to pick it up. Unless I'm forgetting something from a previous episode.
Quote: Aaron @ September 19 2009, 2:52 PM BSTThat annoyed me. I've never heard anyone in this country use the insult 'douchebag', and Mark doesn't strike me as the kind of character who'd be immersed enough in American popular culture in order to pick it up. Unless I'm forgetting something from a previous episode.
That's something that I didnt notice, but now you've mentioned it does annoy me. I completely agree with you. Mark seemed have changed dramtically. Like I said before his confidence was the main thing that bugged me. He was never anywere near that confident before, not to call Jeff into his office and mock him and certainly not to go on a stage and do a comedy routine. All the things that make Mark great seem to have dissapeared. Like I said before it was more like watching a bad David Brent than a great Mark Corrigan. Last nights show wasnt awful, but compared to the standards Peep Show usually set it was horrificly disapointing.
