Compared to A Grand Day Out, which I caught on BBC1 earlier today, it's amazing to see the difference in pace and ambition. That one extracted most of its humour from a small-town Lancashire man and his dog building a spaceship in their basement : subsequent ones have had to move to other forms of funny : visual gags, parody, suchforth. And they do it splendidly.
Compared to A Grand Day Out, which I caught on BBC1 earlier today, it's amazing to see the difference in pace and ambition. That one extracted most of its humour from a small-town Lancashire man and his dog building a spaceship in their basement : subsequent ones have had to move to other forms of funny : visual gags, parody, suchforth. And they do it splendidly.
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setlist 12/11/13
I made my London DJ debut at the Monarch in Camden tonight, at Time-Space Quizualiser event. I think there was some kind of quiz going on in between…
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Doctor Who and the Hipsters: annotations for non-British people and the criminally young
annotations have moved here This entry was originally posted at http://morwen.dreamwidth.org/406713.html. Please comment there using OpenID.
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Doctor Who: The Dalek Invasion of Earth
Me and my new housemate have been watching Doctor Who from The Start, from 1963. Got up to "The Dalek Invasion of Earth", watching episodes and…
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