Hattie (not the Dwarfish one)
Just to make some kind of fangirly hattrick, I just *had* to make a post about Hattie. I've been looking foward to it for nearly a year - being a huge fan of Carry Ons and all involved with them, a biopic about OOOOOOOH MATRON Hattie Jacques is right up my street. Plus, these BBC4 biopics have all been really good, especially the one about Tony Hancock. Putting Mr Bathurst in the cast is the gorgeous icing on an already yummy cake. When I first heard about that, I guessed he might be playing Hattie's husband due to a vague resemblance and indeed that was the case - him playing John Le Mesurier, best known as Wilson, the really posh dazed one from Dad's Army.
It exceeded my high expectations, and I demand BAFTAs all round. Ruth Jones was sweet, Aidan Turner showed me what all those fangirls are on about ('fraid I haven't really bothered with Being Human). But Bobbeh2 stole the show, as Twitter seems to testify, by being all lovely and heartbreaking.
So here's a few choice moments. Excuse quality, it seems the 1960s were FUCKING DARK.
Naturally, it begins with Bobbeh2 happily chilling, not realising that the kitchen is close to burning down. It seems he's as useful as a skutter when it comes to helping ("...they sit there and watch it burn...").
Oh, and look at that. 90 minutes of Bobbeh2 being mostly respectable and nice. Except that Bobbeh3 won't approve of the fact that he's permanently got a cigarette and and glass of booze welded to his hand. It's like he *has* to rebel somehow.
I loved this scene, mainly on the basis that he does a Sid James impression, laugh and everything. And the faces he pulls throughout.
DRESSING GOWN MOMENT. GOD THESE SCENES ARE TOO DARK.
Aw, in a repectable cardie, doing his work.
.... see what I mean? Don't play any kind of drinking game with this, your liver will cave in before the halfway mark.
.... HAT MOMENT. Looking all.... Mad Men.
The following scene explores the problem of there being two people with the same name living in the same place. At no point is there a number system:
And then a vampire moves in as the new lodger. He's hungry, Bobbeh2. Watch out.
And then UH OH. "Terribly sorry..." He kept his hat on. But cue lots of Bobbeh2 being angsty from hereon:
CONFRONTATIONAL MOMENT. John2 wants to know where John1's (see, it works. Kind of) balls are. "Well, they're not in my brain..."
When you can remove the fag and glass from his hands for long enough, Bobbeh2 will play the piano. Switch t'light on.
That's not a new couture hat, that's him getting a carrot (sorry 'car-rot'. It's never explained what that game's all about) on the bonce.
Check out the bling! Meanwhile, he sneaks into the bedroom to check up on Bobbeh1 the kids.
DARK SO YOU CAN'T SEE THE TEAAAAAAAAARS.
Bless.
Aw, this next scene.
He comes in all smiley, cardie making its reappearance, as he's invited to help with reading lines. And then it's decided he's not needed. So he skulks off back to the attic. For a drink. Again.
The two Johns. This next one makes me giggle.
John2 grabs John1 to then get all up in his grill.
Not that he's bothered, he's got an interview out.
Afterwards, Hattie (who I've managed to somehow omit out of most of these caps, I do apologise) comes up saying, 'John...' and she gets a sarky 'Who, me?'
It's alright though, because Hattie's decided to keep her loverboy and pimp her husband out instead. She's writing down dating tips for him. Srsly.
Haha, I *love* that feather boa.
See, it's okay because John1 ends up with Joan. Who, as the Hancock biopic tell me, became Joan Le Mesurier. And cheats on him with Tony Hancock OMG THE POOR MAN WHY DOES THE SAME SMEG HAPPEN TO THE SAME GUY TWICE.
And there you go. It's still on the iPlayer as it's repeated tonight on BBC4. It's also out now on DVD. I think you've gathered I very much reccommend it. There's more caps in my gallery, btw. I was *trying* to be very selective and I'm just not.
It exceeded my high expectations, and I demand BAFTAs all round. Ruth Jones was sweet, Aidan Turner showed me what all those fangirls are on about ('fraid I haven't really bothered with Being Human). But Bobbeh2 stole the show, as Twitter seems to testify, by being all lovely and heartbreaking.
So here's a few choice moments. Excuse quality, it seems the 1960s were FUCKING DARK.
Naturally, it begins with Bobbeh2 happily chilling, not realising that the kitchen is close to burning down. It seems he's as useful as a skutter when it comes to helping ("...they sit there and watch it burn...").
Oh, and look at that. 90 minutes of Bobbeh2 being mostly respectable and nice. Except that Bobbeh3 won't approve of the fact that he's permanently got a cigarette and and glass of booze welded to his hand. It's like he *has* to rebel somehow.
I loved this scene, mainly on the basis that he does a Sid James impression, laugh and everything. And the faces he pulls throughout.
DRESSING GOWN MOMENT. GOD THESE SCENES ARE TOO DARK.
Aw, in a repectable cardie, doing his work.
.... see what I mean? Don't play any kind of drinking game with this, your liver will cave in before the halfway mark.
.... HAT MOMENT. Looking all.... Mad Men.
The following scene explores the problem of there being two people with the same name living in the same place. At no point is there a number system:
And then a vampire moves in as the new lodger. He's hungry, Bobbeh2. Watch out.
And then UH OH. "Terribly sorry..." He kept his hat on. But cue lots of Bobbeh2 being angsty from hereon:
CONFRONTATIONAL MOMENT. John2 wants to know where John1's (see, it works. Kind of) balls are. "Well, they're not in my brain..."
When you can remove the fag and glass from his hands for long enough, Bobbeh2 will play the piano. Switch t'light on.
That's not a new couture hat, that's him getting a carrot (sorry 'car-rot'. It's never explained what that game's all about) on the bonce.
Check out the bling! Meanwhile, he sneaks into the bedroom to check up on Bobbeh1 the kids.
DARK SO YOU CAN'T SEE THE TEAAAAAAAAARS.
Bless.
Aw, this next scene.
He comes in all smiley, cardie making its reappearance, as he's invited to help with reading lines. And then it's decided he's not needed. So he skulks off back to the attic. For a drink. Again.
The two Johns. This next one makes me giggle.
John2 grabs John1 to then get all up in his grill.
Not that he's bothered, he's got an interview out.
Afterwards, Hattie (who I've managed to somehow omit out of most of these caps, I do apologise) comes up saying, 'John...' and she gets a sarky 'Who, me?'
It's alright though, because Hattie's decided to keep her loverboy and pimp her husband out instead. She's writing down dating tips for him. Srsly.
Haha, I *love* that feather boa.
See, it's okay because John1 ends up with Joan. Who, as the Hancock biopic tell me, became Joan Le Mesurier. And cheats on him with Tony Hancock OMG THE POOR MAN WHY DOES THE SAME SMEG HAPPEN TO THE SAME GUY TWICE.
And there you go. It's still on the iPlayer as it's repeated tonight on BBC4. It's also out now on DVD. I think you've gathered I very much reccommend it. There's more caps in my gallery, btw. I was *trying* to be very selective and I'm just not.