It's an underrated joke, but Robert's exasperated "where's the table?!" while Vanessa and Dennis are just casually sitting there pretending there's a table actually kills me every time
"THREE PAGES EARLY!" As a professional actor who has had to sit through a few catastrophic dress rehearsals, I find Vanessa's pain in this episode hilariously on point.
@@sinsoftheswamp8346 Yes I am :) I have been working professionally for about 5 years and currently in grad school for my MFA. I work with regional theatres over the summer.
my favourite bit of setup is when after Dennis says "Don't say coughs this time" Robert throws his rehearsal diary at him, thus setting up the joke of Dennis reading the wrong section.
@@kayjayt8607 Roger is the role - the character in the Cornley universe playing that role and giving the cast grief as director is Robert, and the real world actor playing the character of Robert is Henry Lewis.
"How many mistakes was that, Robert?" If I made a drinking game for every mistake (using WATER for the sake of my poor liver), I'd drown myself in the sixth Great Lake.
It was revealed in the "Goes wrong along" pandemic watch alongs that Jonathan Sayer's (Dennis) loves wordplay and especially double entendre and innuendo, so I know he had a lot of fun in this episode. "Though I am gone, I am always hard" gets me every time.
I like that Robert is so obsessed with this production going perfect, he thinks the first run had 28 mistakes, when in actuality, he only had at least 11. If he had actually gone ahead with the play as usual, it might have been a little unpolished, but not terrible.
Are they all genuine moves? - I've tried to follow it but the angle of view makes it difficult. Charlie Russel's word-perfrect rendition of Psalm 23 also deserves a mention.
I know in “The Play that Goes Wrong” they do speak to the audience about how they obviously have mistakes, but I like how they actually address it to the audience in this episode. In season 3, they should do an episode where they say they do things wrong on purpose because they’ve been told how the fans enjoys it so much and get great laughs out of it. With that, when they do wrong things on purposes, they’ll realize they’re not being as funny and the audience isn’t enjoying it. Or there should be an episode where they are finally doing things right but they notice how the audience isn’t enjoying it and they have to change it up. One of the things they could improve on is Dennis getting the lines right.
Lmaoooo has anyone else noticed that in the episode, after Chris's country accent slips and disappears as the manure boy when he has to say his lines about having a bowel condition and 'small manhood', it comes back the most strongly when he's mockingly telling Robert that it appears someone's beaten him to his supper?
OMG, Um, right. What's next? Oh, yes, now it's Spring." I about fell out of my chair laughing when the flowers exploded from the tub and he yells "JESUS!" with a jump scare . . ."So that's spring." It's so sudden that I think it really startled him just a bit like a cobra leaping out.
I was counting the mistakes the first time I watched this but I gave up a little bit into the episode because I didn't want to focus on just that and miss anything
At first this one didn’t do it for me but the more it went on the more I laughed. Plus I tried watching this on a road trip and errors kept happening with my service so it made it funnier
Robert is a lot worst than Chris as the director of this play in "Summer Once Again" as he keeps repeating the opening scene three times all because he wants the whole scene to be perfect that he made a lot more mistakes and then rush the rest of the scene to the end which everyone including Chris to be annoyed with Robert for his behaviour.
