I spent years thinking it was a DJ name "Super Hands" then just when I accept that it is actually "Super Hans" they reveal it is really Simon... ever the enigma
It's cool that a cult show like 'Peep Show' got a 'night' on TV [much like Red Dwarf in February 1998]. Around this time they started putting things like 'deleted scenes' on youtube rather than the DVD.
At least this Peep Show short doesn't have a forced meeting between Mark+Jez and a celebrity in a [probably wooden] cameo [I'm surprised the women collecting for charity wasn't someone famous], something which is very common with these charity shorts. [It baffles me that probably the last time David Jason + Nicholas Lyndhurst will play Del Boy and Rodney in a scripted capacity is them working with David Beckham!]. Though there has been some good charity episodes [A bonus 'I'm Alan Partridge' in 1999, Blackadder the Cavalier years in 1988]
There's a copy of Peep Show and Tell on Box of Broadcasts which you can access if you are a student, it's better quality than the RU-vid one - if you want me to send it over I'm happy to
Elena has disappeared without explanation. We don't know where she's gone, or what happened in regard to Quebec. Gail continues living at Apollo House & is in 1 ep each of s7 & s8. You'd think she'd be furious with Jez, but bizarrely appears to have forgotten about Elena & her affair with him.
@@davidz2562 I don't see any reason to think she's forgotten about it. IIRC she doesn't have any scenes with Jez so it just doesn't get brought up. Admittedly that is a bit of a copout, but still.
@@kumataJDG Gail has scenes with Jez in s6, but not 7 or 8. She has conversations with Mark in s6, 7 & 8, so you think she'd have brought up her grudge against Jez when expressing her dislike of Mark. Elena's whereabouts are a bigger issue, yet no-one mentions where she has gone or why.
Well given Peep show uses a licensed song, I guess they'd have had to pay Harvey Danger money to use it which a charity won't do [and contacting them would be time consuming]. The Daniel Pemberton music possibly wasn't used as many channel 4 shows are made by independent companies [Objective Media in Peep Show's case] but I agree it's odd [it's not like when movies are made of sitcoms by a new production company so they can't use the theme].
I hate the term "laugh track". It has to be the most widespread myth in TV that "laugh tracks" are really a thing. It's real audience laughter 90% of the time. Comedians like performing to live audiences because they get feedback on whether it's funny, and it gives them energy. This is why it's always been popular to record comedy shows before a live audience. But everyone just assumes it was added in later and goes "Aha, a LAUGH TRACK! Why are they TELLING me when to laugh? Leave it out!" which was never the point. And removing audience laughter in the edit would be impossible.
@@ericg1100 Completely incorrect. It's almost always NOT canned. it's filmed in front of a live audience. Hence the pauses to wait for the laughter to die.
@@mat5473 i worked in film and tv, two shows with a ‘live audience’ neither had a live audience, they were canned, the only real laughter youd sometimes hear mixed in is enthusiastic directors or producers during a take. Its all smoke and mirrors
You have to change your channel name my dude, I was trying to recommend you to fellow Peep Show lovers in my family over Xmas, but its so generic people don't listen
I've seen Zahra described several times as pseudo-intellectual, but I see no evidence that she is. She doesn't pretend to be intellectual or say anything about qualifications or other achievements. She merely likes films & novels, but they include Amelie & Wuthering Heights, which are mainstream. She doesn't claim to be a devotee of Jacques Derrida.
She watches Amelie in French despite not speaking the language or the showing having subtitles, I don't know why anyone would do that unless they think it makes them more 'intellectual'
We don't know how much of a fling Jez & Zahra have. By the end of s7 e3, A Beautiful Mind, he's got nowhere with her, yet at the beginning of s7 e4, Nether Zone, Mark meets Jez at Zahra's after Jez has stayed overnight with her.
Such a boring pairing after Big Size left they didn't know what to do with Jez romantic wise Elena,Zara,The bad love of Dobby and Joe and that his annoying girlfriend.
@@leejones8582 Dobby worsening & becoming more prominent was the writers' worst decision. Jez falling in love with her after knowing her for years with no attraction towards her makes no sense.
@@leejones8582 Agreed. It's a fairly stock sitcom plot for someone to pretend to be something there not to attract a woman yet there is a reason there usually single episode plots as they are a bit 'one joke' affairs. I think Zahra would have been tollerable if it was a one episode thing but as usual with these later series it's stretched out so thin. Somone once said the character might have worked better as a love interest for Mark which I would be a bit more interesting [given he'd get annoyed at how thin her intellectual front was] but I still think that would be best for a single episode.
Why did the writers think it was a good idea to write out most of the entertaining characters & make already overused Dobby more prominent? Many characters should have been in PS for longer; she's the only one who's in it for too long. She's the only character other than Mark & Jez who is in all eps of s8. Her changing drastically when in her 30s makes no sense, nor does Jez falling in love with her after knowing her for years & having no attraction towards her. Mark & Dobby's relationship is already moribund & stretching it out makes no sense.
Why is 'chance would be a fine thing' commonly quoted by PS fans? It's not specific to PS & had already been a common expression for many years before PS began.
Have you ever thought that they should have continued with Peep Show? It slumped a little in the later seasons but I still think S9 was overall strong. I appreciate that there is a time to end things, as painful as sometimes it can be, but I felt it was premature with Peep Show. Imagine if Steve Coogan ended Alan Partridge after the first two series of I'm Alan Partridge? We'd have missed Mid Morning Matters, Scissored Isle, Anglian Lives, the podcasts, two audiobooks, Alpha Papa, This Time with Alan Partridge, etc. I remember them saying that it started to become sad, two middle-aged men sharing a flat, rather than two late-twenties postgrads, but isn't Peep Show always inherently sad? And in that respect, doesn't it reflect life? It seems like a weak reason to call it quits imo. I know people are always anxious to move on. I know Jesse Armstrong has done Succession, and Mitchell and Webb have done Back (with Simon Blackwell), so I understand it. But none of it will ever be as good as Peep Show imo. It's a shame to totally rule it out, to draw a line under it. Sometimes I wonder what shit Mark and Jeremy are up to right now.
Its the same as pop stars hating their most popular songs. People don't like being pinned down as one specific thing for a long time. 9 series is a very long time. Understandable but obvs new seasons would have been insane
With Alan Partridge, Steve Coogan has said the Gibbon's Bros taking over the writing got him back into the character and the beauty of Alan is that he can change formats and stay fresh. While M+W have made the tongue in cheek suggestion they might do a comeback as old men, I think Peep Show's issue is the 'groundhog day' nature of it which is hilarious [Mark and Jez are stuck together] but means they can't alter the format [like Only fools did when Raquel and Cassandra joined] to try new things [each love triangle/relationships is doomed to failure which got tired later on]. Hence Back gives Mitchell and Webb new, older characters and situations even if it's no Peep Show [though I think it's on par with the later series]. I don't think they've completely ruled out a xmas special and I'm hoping they'll at least do a documentary for the 20th anniversary in 2023.
@@jamesatkinsonja Rik Mayall & Ade Edmondson said they'd return to Bottom in old age, which was prevented when RM died suddenly aged 56. I think PS could work with them middle-aged, because Jez would remain immature & Mark wouldn't change much. It's believable that Jez & Mark would still be living in the same flat in the 2020s.
@@davidz2562 I recently discovered Bottom was going to be revived in 2013, titled Hooligan's Island [after one of the stage shows] but was cancelled as Ade Edmondson didn't want to do it, basically as he'd moved on by then. If Sam and Jesse could come up with a way to bring it back in a new way [compared to the somewhat tired series 8+9] and find a way to do the characters as older people [Unfortunately Robert Webb has aged a lot in the intervening time with his health issues] it might be interesting [I still think Mark+ Jez probably would still be room mates as neither can hold down a relationship for long].
