Episode Discussion: S09E08 "Inequality"
Welcome, my really ugly babies, to this week's Episode Discussion Thread!
Series I, Episode 8 "Inequality"
Hopefully you all dragged yourself away from this week's showing of Lick the Leper to enjoy our arse-over-tip pre-scored episode!
My random thoughts:
- I did enjoy Henning Wehn's debut on the panel, although he did not engage terribly much. I spent most of the episode trying to figure out his accent. Is it just my flattened American voice recognition or does he sound English at times through his natural German tones?
- Alan aspired to be a mime. Makers of animated Alan icons know intimately well his fondness for mimed actions, especially his "happy puppy."
- With Wehn, Anderson and Toksvig, our panel this week was very inclined toward the calmer, more stoic wit, with only Alan to provide moments of demented brilliance.
- Stephen mentions his school beatings again, and reuses a funny gag from A Bit of Fry and Laurie, shown in the episode portrait above, but I personally find it awfully hard to reconcile the hellion he apparently was in his youth with the sedate, bashful and mannered Fry we all know so well.
- Even though it's pretty un-PC, I thought Wehn's rant about overly-proud-of-the-war British was funny, almost like a German take on a classic David Mitchell blast.
XL Update:
- Stephen tells the anecdote of the frugal government minister who apparently keeps a single bee for honey, again. I wonder if the producers know we often these days get these repeated stories, simply because years go by and the performers forgot they told them in this context. The earliest repeats were Rich Hall's story of the inventor of the Phillips-head screw, and the unsavory tale of the anatomy professor and his inattentive class, which Alan told Stephen early on, and then some series later Stephen used as one of his closing bits. The producers might recognize the duplicates and thus put them in the XL portions, but surely there was something we hadn't heard before that might have been better to include.
Discuss away!
Series I, Episode 8 "Inequality"
Hopefully you all dragged yourself away from this week's showing of Lick the Leper to enjoy our arse-over-tip pre-scored episode!
My random thoughts:
- I did enjoy Henning Wehn's debut on the panel, although he did not engage terribly much. I spent most of the episode trying to figure out his accent. Is it just my flattened American voice recognition or does he sound English at times through his natural German tones?
- Alan aspired to be a mime. Makers of animated Alan icons know intimately well his fondness for mimed actions, especially his "happy puppy."
- With Wehn, Anderson and Toksvig, our panel this week was very inclined toward the calmer, more stoic wit, with only Alan to provide moments of demented brilliance.
- Stephen mentions his school beatings again, and reuses a funny gag from A Bit of Fry and Laurie, shown in the episode portrait above, but I personally find it awfully hard to reconcile the hellion he apparently was in his youth with the sedate, bashful and mannered Fry we all know so well.
- Even though it's pretty un-PC, I thought Wehn's rant about overly-proud-of-the-war British was funny, almost like a German take on a classic David Mitchell blast.
XL Update:
- Stephen tells the anecdote of the frugal government minister who apparently keeps a single bee for honey, again. I wonder if the producers know we often these days get these repeated stories, simply because years go by and the performers forgot they told them in this context. The earliest repeats were Rich Hall's story of the inventor of the Phillips-head screw, and the unsavory tale of the anatomy professor and his inattentive class, which Alan told Stephen early on, and then some series later Stephen used as one of his closing bits. The producers might recognize the duplicates and thus put them in the XL portions, but surely there was something we hadn't heard before that might have been better to include.
Discuss away!