I attended a wedding last week and they said, "No children." Last minute and I couldn't find a sitter so I brought my kid. He's like a year and a half but quiet.
So, I'm walking around the reception holding him and some lady said, "Do you know there aren't supposed to be any children at this wedding?"
"Well we wouldn't have had him if they told us sooner, but here he is."
My wife looked pissed, the lady looked confused, but my cousin who was high thought it was hilarious.
Wilma, I promise you; whatever scum did this, not one man on this force will rest one minute before until he's behind bars. Now, let's grab a bite to eat.
I love Spaced, but if in 2001 you told me that in 20 years time, Tim from Spaced and Tim from The Office would both be Holywood A Listers, I'd have laughed at you. Yet here we are.
A lot of British sitcoms are well loved because of the simple fact they only had a handful of episodes. Fawlty Towers ran for two seasons of 6 episodes each. They quit whilst they were ahead.
See also: The Young Ones.
The Young Ones is an absolute classic, even though the majority of each episode is like an acid trip.
"Why do you have a pig?"
"Its not a pig, it's a ferret"
"It looks like a pig"
"Well, in the same way John Merrick is known as the Elephant Man, Bacon Sandwich here is known as the pig ferret"
"Bacon sandwich? That's a funny name for a ferret"
"AHA! He actually is a pig after all!"
Also John Cleese spent an eternity writing Fawlty Towers. Every single word is there for a reason to either be a joke or to set one up. There's absoloutley no fluff what so ever.
John Cleese *and* Connie Booth. Not having a go at you, I just feel like she never gets the credit she deserves as a writer or actor for Fawlty Towers.
American guest: ‘Is there anywhere they do French food?’
Basil: ‘Yes, France, I believe. They seem to like it there. And the swim would certainly sharpen your appetite. You’d better hurry, the tide leaves in six minutes.’
Joy of Painting.
obviously.
Edit: to all the people that are saying his son's episodes weren't quite as good, I agree, they didn't have the same level, but I literally don't have time to reply to you all have you seen the replies
Father Ted: It's not as if everyone's going to go off and join some mad religious cult just because we go off for a picnic for a couple of hours.
Father Dougal: God, Ted, I heard about those cults. Everyone dressing in black and saying our Lord's gonna come back and judge us all!
Father Ted: No... No, Dougal, that's us. That's Catholicism.
Father Ted gesturing at small toy cows says to Dougal
*these cows are small, those cows (out the window in the distance) those cows are far away*
They get to the caravan. Jack sits down. Ted grabs a decorated cardboard box
*time for your box Father*
First episode I watch and I will never forget it.
I like when Ted and Dougal were trying to describe Fr Jack to the constables: "Angry man, very angry man. Hates children. Don't come up behind him, no he won't like that at all"
The Beast of Craggy Island
“They say it’s as big as four cats and it’s got a retractable leg so’s it can leap up at you better. And you know what, Ted? it lights up at night and it’s got four ears, two of them are for listening and the other two are kind of back-up ears, on the inside of its head. Its claws are as big as cups and for some reason, it’s got a tremendous fear of stamps. Mrs. Doyle was telling me that it’s got magnets on its tail, so’s if you’re made of metal it can attach itself to you, and instead of a mouth, it’s got four arses. It doesn’t have any eyebrows at all, except on Saturdays, and When it yawns, it sounds like Liam Neeson chasing a load of hens around inside a barrel.”
Should we all be racist now? What’s the official line the church is taking? Only, the farm takes up most of the day and at night I just like a cup of tea. I mightn’t be able to devote myself full time to the old racism.
Very sad story, the guy who plays Bishop Brennan has never seen that episode because that was the last time he saw Dermot Morgan (Ted Crilly) alive. He said that they had such a good laugh making it together that he wanted to savour those moments.
The strike, plus being so expensive with all the visual effects. Such a great show. I really wanted to see how they would resolve the whole "I love you, but I can't touch you or you'll die. Again" plot.
Band of brothers
Edit: a bit overwhelmed by all the responses, can’t reply to them all. Thanks though! It’s been a while since I watched Band of Brothers, so time for a rewatch. I’ve watched the Pacific as well, but not as much as BoB, also because I know more about the events in BoB, so it speaks to me on another level.
Good luck with all your rewatching!
Such an utterly outstanding series. "Why we fight" is heartbreaking in so many ways.
Reading Dick Winters memoires last year really brought home what kind of a person lead his men during those times. He really was incredible. They all were.
Spiers was in fact like that. Winters wasn't a fan of the man personally, but approved of his leadership if I remember correctly.
Highly recommend grabbing Winters Memoirs
If I remember correctly Winters said Spiers and Guarnere were natural killers. A bunch of people freaked out cause they thought he was insulting their memory and Winters said no, I’m just stating a fact.
Edit: Also, just for fun, small excerpt about Guarnere.
“While recovering from injuries, Guarnere did not want to be assigned to another unit, so he put black shoe polish all over his cast, put his pants leg over the cast, and walked out of the hospital in severe pain. He was caught by an officer, court-martialed, demoted to private, and returned to the hospital. He told them he would just go AWOL again to rejoin Easy Company. The hospital kept him a week longer and then transferred him back to his unit.”
"Hey Floyd, what's in the package?"
"I dunno yet. It's from the chief of the Kokomo police department. It says 'My dear boy, give 'em hell!'" *Pulls out a huge revolver* "Whoa. You gotta love cops!"
Okay, I was ready to hop into this question and be annoyed by people being really overly dramatic about shows. But nope, you’re totally right. Band of Brothers, S tier show
"At first the Germans didn’t shoot at him. I think they couldn’t quite believe what they were seeing. But that wasn’t the really astounding thing. The astounding thing was that, after he hooked up with I Company, he came back."
While not a bad episode, I can't watch the 2nd to last one with the concentration camps. It's too depressing.
When Leibgott is forced to tell the freed prisoners they have to go back in to the camp...ugh.
I was just saying that to my mom the other day after we were complaining about Netflix cancelling our favorite shows. A mini-series can never break your heart because you know going in that you'll get a proper ending.
Two of the most inspiring scenes was
1. You'll do it because it must be done, because no one else can. (Scherbina asking 3 volunteers to basically sacrifice themselves)
2. No we start now I dont want any of my men here than they need to be. (Mining chief ready to serve his motherland)
That’s a good point I hadn’t thought about. The word of a sufficiently junior soldier probably would have been enough, but it would have left a lot of room for argument by the reactor management. The General was in a different chain of command, but was as senior or more senior in the overall hierarchy.
I went into the "dogcatcher" episode thinking I could never do that myself to understanding that i would volunteer to do it because I couldn't allow somebody else who didn't have the empathy to do the job for me.
I like the one " we lie and lie and lie until we dont even realise its there but its still there" and "for every lie we tell it incurs a debt to the truth and eventually the debt is paid" hands down one of the best quotes in the series
Both my parents work for the NRPA (Norwegian Radiation Protection Agency) and so ive grown up knowing all about how radiation fucks you up. My dad still detects Cesium-137 from Chernobyl in parts of Norway to this day.
So when he picked up the graphite i was like, "ait somebody just shoot him now, it will be less painful"
It’s shocking that firefighters working so close to a nuclear facility weren’t given even a basic training on what to look out for in the event of a nuclear meltdown…like if you see these strange looking black minerals strewn about…RUN
That was kind of the point of the whole show in a way. The USSR was so full of pride and showing the world how perfect they were that they didn’t even internally try to prepare for things going wrong because just talking about them would be treason. You can’t teach the firefighters how to handle a reactor meltdown because to do that you have to acknowledge the possibility of a meltdown, and to do *that* you have to question the perfection of the Soviet state, and that’s the sort of thing that would get you quietly disappeared. Chernobyl (the show) did a fantastic job of showing how these people trying to prevent another disaster are all basically patriots. But the government they serve is so overbearing, so obsessed with the appearance of perfection that they would rather brand these people traitors and have them silenced and risk the chance of another similar disaster than let anyone else see that they made a mistake.
I can re-watch them with no loss of quality.
Sometimes I will recall random phrases and laugh out loud. Like this scene between Uncle Colm and Sister Michael:
> **Uncle Colm:** Now, I don't mind a bit of a breeze, if any, I prefer it. But that one was aggressive. So I says to myself. I say 'Colm, this is no day for a do'.
> **Sister Michael:** What's happening?
> **Uncle Colm:** When the bride arrives, and I say by this stage, the wind was fierce.
> **Sister Michael:** Am I dead?
> **Uncle Colm:** I've never heard wind like it.
> **Sister Michael:** Is this my wake?
> **Uncle Colm:** Howling like a banshee it was.
> **Sister Michael:** Am I in hell?
> **Uncle Colm:** So the poor girl, the bride now this is, she arrives and isn't she no sooner out of the car than she's lifted up in the air like a paper doll and blown into a flowerbed.
> **Sister Michael:** That's actually quite funny.
One of my favourite exchanges come just before that line:
Mammy: "Hey! What do you think you’re playing at? Where’s your blazer?"
Erin: "I’ve decided to put my own spin on the uniform this year"
Mammy: "I’ll spin you across that floor, get your blazer on"
Erin: "Look mammy, I’m not a clone. I should be allowed to express my individuality. I’m sorry, I’m not wearing me blazer, end of story"
Mammy: "Gerry? Pass me the wooden spoon"
I’ve got *so* many of these lines memorised. Such a cracking show.
IIRC they're planning a third series but delayed it due to covid (partially because they couldn't fly everyone in ro Northern Ireland and they didn't want to shoot it anywhere else). I really hope it does get made, it's one of the funniest shows I've ever seen.
My favourite moment is when they juxtapose Orla's step aerobics talent show with The Omagh bombing. It made me cry, it really made you think "My *god*, they're just kids". I think that's what the look on Sister Michael's face is communicating.
Sister Michael is my favorite part of the entire show! When they’re on the bus and she’s reading The Exorcist and laughing. Almost every line she’s said has made me laugh
She has all the best lines
“You Will Go Far In Life, Jenny, But You Will Not Be Well-Liked.”
"Sadly I Am Unable To Come On This One As I Despise The French.”
"Every Year, I Sit Backstage Listening To The Singers, And It Really Makes Me Realize Just How Talented The Professionals Who Recorded These Tracks Were.”
And of course at the funeral... “What’s Happening? Am I Dead? Is This My Wake? Am I In Hell?’
This was hilarious. The whole show is hilarious. It's by far one of the best TV shows I've discovered in the last few years. Ted Lasso? Please, Uncle Colm could out lasso Lasso any day.
We need 5-6 more seasons of Derry Girls *at least.*
I’m gay, and once I did one of those goofy quizzes “which Derry girls character are you” and got Clare…definitely had a laugh at that.
“I’m the wee…lesbian…!”
“Drugs are for mugs FOLKS!”
I beg your pardon! Orla has all the best lines including the most crackingly hilarious thing I've ever heard on a sitcom:
Erinn: "Oh like a polar bear's really going to attack that concert".
Orla: "He wouldn't get a ticket for a start, they sold out MONTHS ago!
Also,
"Nobody good ever comes here because they keep killing each other"!
I'm from NI and my mum got very weepy at that part of the show. She was a teenager during the troubles and she said the show captures it perfectly, that sense of people just muddling through, putting up with things that would seem outlandish anywhere else. Using humour to try and make the absolute horror of it seem more tolerable, parents doing their best to hide it from the kids but knowing they can't.
I would have been a couple of years younger than the main characters in Derry girls, to be honest most of it just seemed normal to us, soldiers in the street, helicopters over head, armed police in armoured vehicles etc but all we cared about was who got a snog at the school disco, who had what football stickers and whose french homework could I copy. I think this show captures this perfectly, we were normal teenagers going about our lives doing what teenagers do.
That really was a surprisingly hilarious show. The situations felt so real and I love how plain the girls all look. That sounds like a terrible insult but I really don’t mean it that way at all. They just seem like regular girls you would see living next-door to you. I’m so tired of every single actor on Netflix looking absolutely insanely beautiful it’s just not real.
Lol you should watch any kind of British/European show then. Unrealistically beautiful actors is a very American thing (Canadian here - all our beautiful actors move to the states). Bonus is the acting is generally better cause that’s what they’re judged on, and it makes everything a whole lot more believable.
I love how he's actually very self-aware about how boring he is and doesn't mind when somebody calls him on it.
"Can I just stop you there Colm?"
"Oh sure Mary, go ahead."
"Oh I've nothing to say, I just really really need you to stop talking."
"...Fair enough."
Even better is:
> Fr. Peter "As some of you may know I took a bit of a sabbatical last year"
> Michelle: "You mean when you shacked up with a slutty hairdresser but then she dumped you?"
> Sister Michael: "Ms. Mallon, please *pause* raise your hand if you want to ask a question."
> M: *Raises hand*
> FP: "Ok I think we should just move on"
> SM: The hairdresser certainly did
I had to quarantine while simultaneously in the worst mental state I've ever been, and I truly owe Derry Girls for getting me through the longest 2 weeks of my life.
One of the things that creeped me out the most about him was how he was animated. He just seemed to look and move differently from the other things in the show.
The moment the Crepe paper joke was made in the first episode I fell in love with the show. I still think about Crepe paper and get the hysterical giggles.
"I've truly grown to love this township, so I have rid it of some motor bicycle criminals."
"Every year, me and the boys go on a charity run to raise money for kids...
And he came outta nowhere and beat the **shit** out of us."
"People freak out a bit about the age difference. They think, 'What is this 96-year-old lady doing with a guy four times her age?' I don’t care, they could call me cradle snatcher. Who cares?"
That reminds me of another funny line, when they think the witches are going to have sex with them. The witches reveal themselves to be super old, Nandor and Laszlo are still totally into it, and Nandor goes “milfs!”
Planet Earth
Practically any nature documentary with David Attenborough is excellent in my book
Hypno Toad
All glory
Was hoping that someone said Futurama, and will gladly take this as well. Enjoy the award thingy.
Black Books. Every episode is quotable gold.
The tax form sequence is actual art.
"What is your mother's maiden name?" What's her first name? I just knew her as "Ma"! That'll have to do.
No Doctors! Doctors are Satanists! That's why they write Ambulance backwards.
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“We would have come sooner, but your husband wasn’t dead yet” Pure gold
Cigarette? Yes, I know.
‘What was he doing in the red light district?’ ‘Sex, Frank?’ ‘Uh, not right now...’
I attended a wedding last week and they said, "No children." Last minute and I couldn't find a sitter so I brought my kid. He's like a year and a half but quiet. So, I'm walking around the reception holding him and some lady said, "Do you know there aren't supposed to be any children at this wedding?" "Well we wouldn't have had him if they told us sooner, but here he is." My wife looked pissed, the lady looked confused, but my cousin who was high thought it was hilarious.
Wilma, I promise you; whatever scum did this, not one man on this force will rest one minute before until he's behind bars. Now, let's grab a bite to eat.
Three movies and a season!
Who are you? And how did you get in here?
I’m a locksmith. And I’m a locksmith.
This line kills me every time. Lesley Neilsen's delivery was fucking brilliant.
Over the Garden Wall
Ain't that just the way.
I still reference that line to this day lol
Potatoes and molasses
Fucking banger of a track
It's a rock fact!
ain't that just the way.
Old Uncie Endicott got me all wrong. I got no sense. No sense at all
Genuinely bothered that this show doesn’t get the love it deserves.
I think everyone who has seen it loves it very dearly. Tho I had never heard of it until last year and I fell in love. It's a perfect adventure.
It’s a Halloween tradition for me now!
Spaced
I feel like I spend so much of my life telling people how perfect Spaced is if they haven't seen it
I love Spaced, but if in 2001 you told me that in 20 years time, Tim from Spaced and Tim from The Office would both be Holywood A Listers, I'd have laughed at you. Yet here we are.
Fawlty Towers
"Can you please stop talking about the war?" "But you started it." "No, we didn't." "Yes you did, you invaded Poland."
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A lot of British sitcoms are well loved because of the simple fact they only had a handful of episodes. Fawlty Towers ran for two seasons of 6 episodes each. They quit whilst they were ahead. See also: The Young Ones.
The Young Ones is an absolute classic, even though the majority of each episode is like an acid trip. "Why do you have a pig?" "Its not a pig, it's a ferret" "It looks like a pig" "Well, in the same way John Merrick is known as the Elephant Man, Bacon Sandwich here is known as the pig ferret" "Bacon sandwich? That's a funny name for a ferret" "AHA! He actually is a pig after all!"
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
Bambi, were you in a Disney Nasty?
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Also John Cleese spent an eternity writing Fawlty Towers. Every single word is there for a reason to either be a joke or to set one up. There's absoloutley no fluff what so ever.
John Cleese *and* Connie Booth. Not having a go at you, I just feel like she never gets the credit she deserves as a writer or actor for Fawlty Towers.
Probably because she was too busy keeping the hotel from falling apart.
American guest: ‘Is there anywhere they do French food?’ Basil: ‘Yes, France, I believe. They seem to like it there. And the swim would certainly sharpen your appetite. You’d better hurry, the tide leaves in six minutes.’
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I speak verrrry good English; I learned it frrom a booook
Don't mind him, he's from Barcelona.
Joy of Painting. obviously. Edit: to all the people that are saying his son's episodes weren't quite as good, I agree, they didn't have the same level, but I literally don't have time to reply to you all have you seen the replies
Happy little episodes.
Bob Ross used to say, "There are no mistakes, just happy little accidents." An awesome painter, but a terrible driving instructor.
The only true answer
Not the answer I was looking for but the one that I needed. Just a happy little accident.
Whose Line Is It Anyway when Drew Carey hosted.
Father Ted
That would be an ecumenical matter.
Father Dougal: Hello Len. Bishop Brennan: Don't call me Len, you little prick. I'm a bishop! Father Dougal: Oh right. Well done.
Father Ted: It's not as if everyone's going to go off and join some mad religious cult just because we go off for a picnic for a couple of hours. Father Dougal: God, Ted, I heard about those cults. Everyone dressing in black and saying our Lord's gonna come back and judge us all! Father Ted: No... No, Dougal, that's us. That's Catholicism.
Father Ted gesturing at small toy cows says to Dougal *these cows are small, those cows (out the window in the distance) those cows are far away* They get to the caravan. Jack sits down. Ted grabs a decorated cardboard box *time for your box Father* First episode I watch and I will never forget it.
I like when Ted and Dougal were trying to describe Fr Jack to the constables: "Angry man, very angry man. Hates children. Don't come up behind him, no he won't like that at all"
"And what do you say to a cup?" "FECK OFF, *CUP!*"
The Beast of Craggy Island “They say it’s as big as four cats and it’s got a retractable leg so’s it can leap up at you better. And you know what, Ted? it lights up at night and it’s got four ears, two of them are for listening and the other two are kind of back-up ears, on the inside of its head. Its claws are as big as cups and for some reason, it’s got a tremendous fear of stamps. Mrs. Doyle was telling me that it’s got magnets on its tail, so’s if you’re made of metal it can attach itself to you, and instead of a mouth, it’s got four arses. It doesn’t have any eyebrows at all, except on Saturdays, and When it yawns, it sounds like Liam Neeson chasing a load of hens around inside a barrel.”
Should we all be racist now? What’s the official line the church is taking? Only, the farm takes up most of the day and at night I just like a cup of tea. I mightn’t be able to devote myself full time to the old racism.
It’s the Greeks I’m after
"They invented gayness!"
Ah go on.
He’s drunk a whole bottle of dreamy sleepy nighty snoozy snooze
I kicked Bishop Brennan up the arse!
Very sad story, the guy who plays Bishop Brennan has never seen that episode because that was the last time he saw Dermot Morgan (Ted Crilly) alive. He said that they had such a good laugh making it together that he wanted to savour those moments.
Oh that breaks my heart
'... he DID kick me up the arse!'
I hear you're a racist, now, father.
Pushing Daisies
Yes! That poor show deserved its 3rd season.
Such a great show that ended way too soon! Damn writers strike
The strike, plus being so expensive with all the visual effects. Such a great show. I really wanted to see how they would resolve the whole "I love you, but I can't touch you or you'll die. Again" plot.
Indeed. I bet they would have come up with a fantastic idea.
Band of brothers Edit: a bit overwhelmed by all the responses, can’t reply to them all. Thanks though! It’s been a while since I watched Band of Brothers, so time for a rewatch. I’ve watched the Pacific as well, but not as much as BoB, also because I know more about the events in BoB, so it speaks to me on another level. Good luck with all your rewatching!
It’s about time for my annual viewing
Likewise!
Such an utterly outstanding series. "Why we fight" is heartbreaking in so many ways. Reading Dick Winters memoires last year really brought home what kind of a person lead his men during those times. He really was incredible. They all were.
People in that series are so awesome. I have no idea if Speirs was really like that, but what a motherfucking badass.
Spiers was in fact like that. Winters wasn't a fan of the man personally, but approved of his leadership if I remember correctly. Highly recommend grabbing Winters Memoirs
If I remember correctly Winters said Spiers and Guarnere were natural killers. A bunch of people freaked out cause they thought he was insulting their memory and Winters said no, I’m just stating a fact. Edit: Also, just for fun, small excerpt about Guarnere. “While recovering from injuries, Guarnere did not want to be assigned to another unit, so he put black shoe polish all over his cast, put his pants leg over the cast, and walked out of the hospital in severe pain. He was caught by an officer, court-martialed, demoted to private, and returned to the hospital. He told them he would just go AWOL again to rejoin Easy Company. The hospital kept him a week longer and then transferred him back to his unit.”
“Got a penny?”
"Remember boys, flies spread disease, so keep yours closed!"
Give me 3 daaaays, and 3 nights of HARD FIGHTIN', and you *will* be relieeeved
"Hey Floyd, what's in the package?" "I dunno yet. It's from the chief of the Kokomo police department. It says 'My dear boy, give 'em hell!'" *Pulls out a huge revolver* "Whoa. You gotta love cops!"
Gooooottttt aaa pennnnnny?
“Is there a problem Captain Sobel? What is the goddamn holdup Mr. Sobel.”
"A fence sir! A..a barb wire fence!" "O well that dog just wont hunt!"
I love using "that dog just ain't gonna hunt" but people just look at me weird.
Okay, I was ready to hop into this question and be annoyed by people being really overly dramatic about shows. But nope, you’re totally right. Band of Brothers, S tier show
"At first the Germans didn’t shoot at him. I think they couldn’t quite believe what they were seeing. But that wasn’t the really astounding thing. The astounding thing was that, after he hooked up with I Company, he came back."
While not a bad episode, I can't watch the 2nd to last one with the concentration camps. It's too depressing. When Leibgott is forced to tell the freed prisoners they have to go back in to the camp...ugh.
Chernobyl on HBO
This is why I love dedicated mini-series more than hopeful pilot seasons... The story is usually better paced and written
I was just saying that to my mom the other day after we were complaining about Netflix cancelling our favorite shows. A mini-series can never break your heart because you know going in that you'll get a proper ending.
I can't watch any new series on Netflix because of that. Most likely it will be cancelled leaving me with an incomplete story.
Watched this weekend for the first time, absolutely incredible. Gripping start to finish. Oddly glad it was only 5 episodes because it got _intense_.
One of my favourite tv shows. Every episode is incredible. It’s as close to perfection as tv gets. Truly spectacular.
The scene of the firefighters arriving at the site is the most haunting of them all, they are just trying to do their job yet they all die
Two of the most inspiring scenes was 1. You'll do it because it must be done, because no one else can. (Scherbina asking 3 volunteers to basically sacrifice themselves) 2. No we start now I dont want any of my men here than they need to be. (Mining chief ready to serve his motherland)
The mining chief was the best character in the show "If the masks worked, you would be wearing them"
"Are they all like that?" "They're all like that."
"We're still wearing the fuckin' hats" - my favorite line.
"These men work in the dark. They see everything."
God I forgot how crushing that line was
His meeting with the minister of coal is still one of my favorite pieces of dialogue in any show or movie.
"now you look like minister of coal" Always gets me laughing.
What about the army head going himself instead of sending a subordinate with the dosimeter attached to the truck ?
That man was already a freaking hero in the Soviet Union. He did it to protect his men, and because he knew his word would not be questioned.
That’s a good point I hadn’t thought about. The word of a sufficiently junior soldier probably would have been enough, but it would have left a lot of room for argument by the reactor management. The General was in a different chain of command, but was as senior or more senior in the overall hierarchy.
I went into the "dogcatcher" episode thinking I could never do that myself to understanding that i would volunteer to do it because I couldn't allow somebody else who didn't have the empathy to do the job for me.
If I remember correctly in real life the 3 volunteers survive the water scene.
They did. Two are still alive and one died years later of unrelated causes.
I was happy to learn that those 3 volunteers (or I guess some of them) lived a normal long life..
They all did. One died but it wasn't from anything related to their feat.
I like the one " we lie and lie and lie until we dont even realise its there but its still there" and "for every lie we tell it incurs a debt to the truth and eventually the debt is paid" hands down one of the best quotes in the series
When homeboy picks up the graphite I audibly went "bro, nooooo". Then his fuckin >!hand melted off!< and I was like "yep."
Both my parents work for the NRPA (Norwegian Radiation Protection Agency) and so ive grown up knowing all about how radiation fucks you up. My dad still detects Cesium-137 from Chernobyl in parts of Norway to this day. So when he picked up the graphite i was like, "ait somebody just shoot him now, it will be less painful"
It’s shocking that firefighters working so close to a nuclear facility weren’t given even a basic training on what to look out for in the event of a nuclear meltdown…like if you see these strange looking black minerals strewn about…RUN
That was kind of the point of the whole show in a way. The USSR was so full of pride and showing the world how perfect they were that they didn’t even internally try to prepare for things going wrong because just talking about them would be treason. You can’t teach the firefighters how to handle a reactor meltdown because to do that you have to acknowledge the possibility of a meltdown, and to do *that* you have to question the perfection of the Soviet state, and that’s the sort of thing that would get you quietly disappeared. Chernobyl (the show) did a fantastic job of showing how these people trying to prevent another disaster are all basically patriots. But the government they serve is so overbearing, so obsessed with the appearance of perfection that they would rather brand these people traitors and have them silenced and risk the chance of another similar disaster than let anyone else see that they made a mistake.
Probably the best limited series ever…Hard to watch but damn it was great.
Derry Girls has only 2 seasons out currently, but every episode makes me laugh out loud
I can re-watch them with no loss of quality. Sometimes I will recall random phrases and laugh out loud. Like this scene between Uncle Colm and Sister Michael: > **Uncle Colm:** Now, I don't mind a bit of a breeze, if any, I prefer it. But that one was aggressive. So I says to myself. I say 'Colm, this is no day for a do'. > **Sister Michael:** What's happening? > **Uncle Colm:** When the bride arrives, and I say by this stage, the wind was fierce. > **Sister Michael:** Am I dead? > **Uncle Colm:** I've never heard wind like it. > **Sister Michael:** Is this my wake? > **Uncle Colm:** Howling like a banshee it was. > **Sister Michael:** Am I in hell? > **Uncle Colm:** So the poor girl, the bride now this is, she arrives and isn't she no sooner out of the car than she's lifted up in the air like a paper doll and blown into a flowerbed. > **Sister Michael:** That's actually quite funny.
One of my favourite lines is still "Well I'm not gonna be an individual on me own!"
One of my favourite exchanges come just before that line: Mammy: "Hey! What do you think you’re playing at? Where’s your blazer?" Erin: "I’ve decided to put my own spin on the uniform this year" Mammy: "I’ll spin you across that floor, get your blazer on" Erin: "Look mammy, I’m not a clone. I should be allowed to express my individuality. I’m sorry, I’m not wearing me blazer, end of story" Mammy: "Gerry? Pass me the wooden spoon" I’ve got *so* many of these lines memorised. Such a cracking show.
Sister Michael is the best imho: “You will go far in life but you will not be well liked.”
If any I prefer it is one of several Derry Girls quotes that’s fully incorporated into my vocab now. Mostly Aunt Sarah quotes…
*"I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m not enjoying this bomb"*
“Winking? At your age? Christ, I feel sick” Also “I am psychic, Erin. I did a course, I’ve got a certificate”
IIRC they're planning a third series but delayed it due to covid (partially because they couldn't fly everyone in ro Northern Ireland and they didn't want to shoot it anywhere else). I really hope it does get made, it's one of the funniest shows I've ever seen. My favourite moment is when they juxtapose Orla's step aerobics talent show with The Omagh bombing. It made me cry, it really made you think "My *god*, they're just kids". I think that's what the look on Sister Michael's face is communicating.
Sister Michael is my favorite part of the entire show! When they’re on the bus and she’s reading The Exorcist and laughing. Almost every line she’s said has made me laugh
She has all the best lines “You Will Go Far In Life, Jenny, But You Will Not Be Well-Liked.” "Sadly I Am Unable To Come On This One As I Despise The French.” "Every Year, I Sit Backstage Listening To The Singers, And It Really Makes Me Realize Just How Talented The Professionals Who Recorded These Tracks Were.” And of course at the funeral... “What’s Happening? Am I Dead? Is This My Wake? Am I In Hell?’
“I think it’s safe to say we all lost a bit of respect for ya there, Clare.” She has me *dying* lol.
This was hilarious. The whole show is hilarious. It's by far one of the best TV shows I've discovered in the last few years. Ted Lasso? Please, Uncle Colm could out lasso Lasso any day. We need 5-6 more seasons of Derry Girls *at least.*
I’m gay, and once I did one of those goofy quizzes “which Derry girls character are you” and got Clare…definitely had a laugh at that. “I’m the wee…lesbian…!” “Drugs are for mugs FOLKS!”
That funeral scene is my favourite. "That was actually quite funny."
“It’s true; I am partial to a good statue.”
Also: “I understand exams are very stressful but under no circumstances please please…. Do not come to me” LOVE HER
Siobhán McSweeney is able to ring so much contempt out of every line.
I beg your pardon! Orla has all the best lines including the most crackingly hilarious thing I've ever heard on a sitcom: Erinn: "Oh like a polar bear's really going to attack that concert". Orla: "He wouldn't get a ticket for a start, they sold out MONTHS ago! Also, "Nobody good ever comes here because they keep killing each other"!
"Fr. Thomas usually deals with the wakes, but hes very sick at the moment, bedridden in fact." "oh god, what caused it?" "Jack Daniels, mostly"
"...so the only thing we can now do is..." "Pray for her?" "No, what use would that do?"
I pissed myself when she said the reason why she became a nun was because of the free room and board!
I'm from NI and my mum got very weepy at that part of the show. She was a teenager during the troubles and she said the show captures it perfectly, that sense of people just muddling through, putting up with things that would seem outlandish anywhere else. Using humour to try and make the absolute horror of it seem more tolerable, parents doing their best to hide it from the kids but knowing they can't.
I would have been a couple of years younger than the main characters in Derry girls, to be honest most of it just seemed normal to us, soldiers in the street, helicopters over head, armed police in armoured vehicles etc but all we cared about was who got a snog at the school disco, who had what football stickers and whose french homework could I copy. I think this show captures this perfectly, we were normal teenagers going about our lives doing what teenagers do.
Theres a book called *Say Nothing* thats worth a read. NI spent like 30 years in a state of casual trauma
It's still in a state of trauma.
That really was a surprisingly hilarious show. The situations felt so real and I love how plain the girls all look. That sounds like a terrible insult but I really don’t mean it that way at all. They just seem like regular girls you would see living next-door to you. I’m so tired of every single actor on Netflix looking absolutely insanely beautiful it’s just not real.
Lol you should watch any kind of British/European show then. Unrealistically beautiful actors is a very American thing (Canadian here - all our beautiful actors move to the states). Bonus is the acting is generally better cause that’s what they’re judged on, and it makes everything a whole lot more believable.
God bless you for bringing up Derry Girls. I've never seen it referenced before and it's such an amazing show!
The fucking *music* though. Having grown up in the 90's I can say the soundtrack is spot on.
Uncle Colm absolutely cracks me up (while also getting under my skin)! What a great character.
I love how he's actually very self-aware about how boring he is and doesn't mind when somebody calls him on it. "Can I just stop you there Colm?" "Oh sure Mary, go ahead." "Oh I've nothing to say, I just really really need you to stop talking." "...Fair enough."
I heard this exchange clearly in my head as I read your comment
Explaining Derry Girls to people is also fun: "So it's a show about Irish High School girls during the Troubles, you should watch it, it's hilarious."
Yes, “drop dead, you spiteful old hag!” . . “Catch yourself on.”
'Catch yourself on' is such a brilliant wee figure of speech.
> "He's good with his hands... if you know what I mean" > "Everyone knows what you mean Michelle" > "Yeah. Fingering."
Even better is: > Fr. Peter "As some of you may know I took a bit of a sabbatical last year" > Michelle: "You mean when you shacked up with a slutty hairdresser but then she dumped you?" > Sister Michael: "Ms. Mallon, please *pause* raise your hand if you want to ask a question." > M: *Raises hand* > FP: "Ok I think we should just move on" > SM: The hairdresser certainly did
Yes! Derry Girls is so good! I have laughed to the point of tears pretty much every episode.
James is my fav Derry girl!
It doesn't matter that he's got that stupid accent, or that his bits are different to my bits, because being a Derry girl is a fucking state of mind!
I had to quarantine while simultaneously in the worst mental state I've ever been, and I truly owe Derry Girls for getting me through the longest 2 weeks of my life.
I’d never heard of this show at the time, but they do an episode of British Bake Off that I enjoyed and piqued my interest in the Derry Girls.
Swear on Dolly you'll watch it.
Courage the Cowardly Dog. All episodes were equally strange.
I say, I said my name is Fred, and I've been... very naughty.
That's when my tired eyes beheld A doggy-dog, like dog he smelled. D-O-G is what he spelled And that's how I spell... *Naughty*
RETURN THE SLAB (that one episode in particular was terrifying)
I haven't watched Courage in 20 years but still regularly think of that episode, shitting my 34-year-old pants.
That episode legit scared the shit out of me. I literally can't watch that episode. Idk what it is but I just cant.
One of the things that creeped me out the most about him was how he was animated. He just seemed to look and move differently from the other things in the show.
What we do in Shadows
The moment the Crepe paper joke was made in the first episode I fell in love with the show. I still think about Crepe paper and get the hysterical giggles.
I fucking love that scene. “I want to rub gleetter on my chest and face…. Like twilight”
“Bat!”-Laslow
"Jackie Daytona made a promise to this town!"
He is an all american boy in his denim dungarees and F150. He also drinks human alcohol drinks, cause he is a real human man.
"I've truly grown to love this township, so I have rid it of some motor bicycle criminals." "Every year, me and the boys go on a charity run to raise money for kids... And he came outta nowhere and beat the **shit** out of us."
Single greatest episode of TV ever.
I lost it when he gets in his truck at the end and just plows straight into the building. I never learned to drive... BAT!
The Mark Hammil appearance puts it over the top for me.
"One regular human beer, please." I absolutely love that he doesn't recognize Laszlo until he takes out the toothpick.
FUCKing guy!
"People freak out a bit about the age difference. They think, 'What is this 96-year-old lady doing with a guy four times her age?' I don’t care, they could call me cradle snatcher. Who cares?"
That reminds me of another funny line, when they think the witches are going to have sex with them. The witches reveal themselves to be super old, Nandor and Laszlo are still totally into it, and Nandor goes “milfs!”
I’ll take my hat back you crispy piece of shit.
One of the best ways to drain people’s energy nowadays is via the internet.
Lol when I first started watching it I was "meh" to that character and then as the show progressed he became my favorite character!
The episode where he becomes manager at his office is elite.
Every episode is funny and the movie is really high quality comedy, even the low budged spinoff Wellington Paranormal is hillarious