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Shotgunnova
05/18/20 2:32:01 AM
#252:


"They're all playing pass the parcel!"
"Can you blame 'em when you can hear it ticking?"

lmao



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Shotgunnova
05/18/20 6:43:09 AM
#253:


"You can make her listen to reason."
"She's a SOCIOLOGY student, Bernard!!"

lmao

Saying "starkers" instead of "nude" just sounds better.



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Shotgunnova
05/18/20 11:43:49 PM
#254:


"It takes two to quango, minister"

lmao



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Shotgunnova
05/20/20 5:36:19 AM
#255:


Just started season two. That driver is one of the more underrated people in the show.




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Shotgunnova
05/20/20 2:42:37 PM
#256:


"Why don't you fill the vacancies with British undergraduates?"
"...I don't think that's awfully funny, Humphrey."

Humpy getting dressed down by that other secretary was pretty great, and so was Hacker's drunken rambling at the college party.



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Shotgunnova
05/21/20 6:34:15 AM
#257:


First law of political indiscretion: always have a drink before you leak.

Hacker ruining his own anti-surveillance initiative when he finds he's on a hitlist is a great plot.



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Shotgunnova
05/22/20 6:50:34 AM
#258:


Wally: I just call it propanol.
Humphrey: Very wise of you.
Wally: You told me to.
Humphrey: Very wise of me.

Hacker: I am the people's leader! I must follow them!

Humpy trying to describe chemical compounds as "kind of like compound interest" is gold. I rather like how a lot of this show's conversations naturally unfold, instead of being rapid-fire punchlines before moving on.



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threetimes
05/22/20 7:02:22 AM
#259:


Intelligent writing and brilliant acting makes a good combination. Have you heard of The Thick of It? The updated, hilarious, vicious and very sweary version of yes minister. It's brilliant too. Check out the clip called the Lockdown.

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Shotgunnova
05/22/20 7:05:24 AM
#260:


I put TTOI on the list in the last topic, IIRC, but after seeing how good Yes Minister is, I might fast-track it to the top.

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TwoDoorPC
05/22/20 7:11:28 AM
#261:


what's on the list at this stage?

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Shotgunnova
05/22/20 7:46:22 AM
#262:


I believe this is the full list right now. I had to rewrite it once, so I might've forgotten something then.

COMPLETED

Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Blackadder (all)
Red Dwarf
The Vicar of Dibley
The IT Crowd

WATCHING

Yes, Minister

TO-DO LIST

'Allo 'Allo
Are You Being Served?
Babylon
Black Books
Bottom
Dad's Army
Drop the Dead Donkey
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
Green Wing
Keeping Up Appearances
People Just Do Nothing
One Foot in the Grave
Only Fools and Horses
Spaced
Sykes
The New Statesman
The Thick of It
The Thin Blue Line
The Young Ones
Wooster & Jeeves

I should add some shows featuring the dude who played the boss on IT Crowd, though.

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threetimes
05/22/20 8:26:21 AM
#263:


The Day Today and Nathan Barley - Chris Morris series.

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TwoDoorPC
05/22/20 10:10:43 AM
#264:


Shotgunnova posted...
I should add some shows featuring the dude who played the boss on IT Crowd, though.

matt berry? i've seen some of it. it's very hit or miss imo

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Shotgunnova
05/23/20 12:51:16 PM
#265:


Hacker: Why didn't I know about this? Is this true, Humphrey?
Humphrey: Oh, minister, I am only a humble civil servant. I do not move in such exalted circles as cabinet ministers and journalists.
Hacker: But is this rumor true?
Humphrey: --Yes.

Hacker: Elbows: the most important weapon in a politician's armory.
Wife: Other than integrity.
Hacker: INTEGRITY!

Everyone saying Hacker's "done alright" was a good running gag. I like how Hacker grips the flap of his suit any time he gets in speech mode.



TwoDoorPC posted...
matt berry? i've seen some of it. it's very hit or miss imo
Aww, that sucks.

threetimes posted...
The Day Today and Nathan Barley - Chris Morris series.
Yeah, I think I had TDT on the original list. Should put that back on.

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Shotgunnova
05/23/20 8:07:09 PM
#266:


Tomorrow your name will be manure!



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Shotgunnova
05/23/20 8:41:02 PM
#267:


A good speech isn't one where we can tell the minister is telling the truth; it's one in which nobody else can prove he's lying.

Hacker: Is it the truth?
Humphrey: The truth and nothing but the truth.
Hacker: The whole truth?
Humphrey: Of course not.



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Shotgunnova
05/24/20 2:20:48 PM
#268:


Time to start season three! This one's about equal opportunities.

Hacker: That's the last interview I give for a school magazine. She asked some very difficult questions.
Wife: Not difficult, just innocent. She was assuming there was some moral basis to your activities.
Hacker: Well there is.
Wife: Oh, Jim, don't be silly.

Hacker: I have made a policy decision. I am going to do something about the number of women in the Civil Service.
Humphrey: Oh, surely there aren't all that many.

Humphrey: Minister, it takes time to do things "now".
Hacker: The three articles of Civil Service faith:
  • It takes longer to do things quickly.
  • It's more expensive to do them cheaply, and
  • It's more democratic to do them in secret.


That look Humpy gives as he's sitting down is golden.



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Shotgunnova
05/24/20 9:04:23 PM
#269:


Humpy telling Hacker that the French could be the greatest nuclear threat was great. It also lead to that funny convo later where Hacker caught himself about to tell it to that councilor. (It might not read that well nowadays, so I won't post that one, lmao).

Humphrey: We can always try to persuade them to withdraw the programs voluntarily, once they realize the transmission is not in the public interest.
Hacker: Well, it's not in my interest...and I represent the public, so it's not in the public interest!
Humphrey: ... ... ...That's a novel argument. We haven't tried that on them before.



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Shotgunnova
05/24/20 9:26:45 PM
#270:


Humphrey: If local authorities don't send us the statistics that we ask for, then government figures will be a nonsense.
Hacker: Why?
Humphrey: They'll be incomplete!
Hacker: But government figures are a nonsense anyway.
Bernard: I think Sir Humphrey wants to ensure they're a complete nonsense.

Hacker: Let me make one thing perfectly clear: Humphrey is not god.
Bernard: Will you tell him or shall I?

The scene of Hacker and Humpy standing in the elevator with the lady and her beef Wellingtons (?) almost felt like a punchline with no setup. Dunno why it was so funny to me.



Humpy being the one who, thirty years prior, messed up that 40,000,000-pound lease, was a great twist. Seeing him grilled and Bernard/Hacker both relishing him squirming...wunderbar.



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Shotgunnova
05/25/20 3:36:38 PM
#272:


Humphrey: The treasury isn't very happy about valuations written on the backs of menus.

The third season is definitely the best one so far, lmao. Makes me eager to see how "Yes Prime Minister" goes.




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Shotgunnova
05/25/20 4:17:22 PM
#273:


Hacker: If I succeed, Humphrey, this could be my Falkland Islands.
Humphrey: And you could be General Galtieri.

Humphrey: The ship of state, Bernard, is the only ship that leaks from the top.



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Shotgunnova
05/25/20 7:42:12 PM
#274:


Hacker: Are you suggesting I should lie, Humphrey?
Humphrey: Oh, not you, minister, no.
Hacker: Then who should lie?
Humphrey: Sleeping dogs, minister.

Hacker: You must always follow your conscience, but you must also know where you're going. So you can't follow your conscience...'cause it may not be going the same way that you are.



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Shotgunnova
05/25/20 8:16:18 PM
#275:


Hacker: Nothing wrong with subsidizing sports. Sport is educational!
Humphrey: We have sex education too. Should we subsidize sex?
Bernard: Oh could we?



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Shotgunnova
05/25/20 8:57:10 PM
#276:


Humphrey: If you walked into a nuclear missile showroom, you would buy Trident! It's lovely, it's elegant, it's beautiful -- it's quite simply the best, and Britain should have the best. In the world of the nuclear missile, it is the Saville Row suit, the Rolls-Royce Corniche, the Chateau Lafite 1945. It is the nuclear missile Harrods would sell you. What more can I say?
Hacker: Only that it costs fifteen billion pounds and we don't need it.
Humphrey: Well you can say that about anything at Harrods!



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Shotgunnova
05/26/20 4:54:17 PM
#277:


Humphrey: Bernard, what is the purpose of our defense policy?
Bernard: To defend Britain.
Humphrey: No, no. It's to make people believe Britain is defended.
Bernard: The Russians?
Humphrey: Not the Russians, the British!

Hacker: How was that, Godfrey?
Godfrey: Excellent, Prime Minister. Just one thing... Will you be wearing those glasses?
Hacker: Oh, well...what do you think?
Godfrey: Well, it's up to you, of course. With them, you look authoritative and commanding; with them off, you look honest and open. Which do you want?
Hacker: Well, really, I'd like to look authoritative and honest.
Godfrey: Hmm, it's one or the other, really.
Hacker: What about starting with them off and putting them on when I talk?
Godfrey: That just looks indecisive.
Hacker: Oh, I see.
Bernard: What about a monocle?



I see they're doing a bit of continuity with the "grand design" in the first ep. An interesting formula compared to their "problem of the week" stuff in earlier seasons.

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Shotgunnova
05/27/20 1:47:15 AM
#278:


Hacker: He's got to learn to come to heel. He's got to learn to cooperate.
Bernard: What do you mean "cooperate"?
Hacker: I mean obey my commands!

Making that smoker's cough dude a Minister of Health was pretty funny.



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Shotgunnova
05/27/20 2:00:31 PM
#279:


Hacker: It could make some sense if everything were to be transferred to the Treasury, if you think you could do part of Humphrey's job.
Frank: Oh...yes, that could make a lot of sense.
Hacker: But if, as you say, he's not overstretched--
Frank: Ah, when I say not overstretched, I was of course talking in the sense of total cumulative loading taken globally, rather than certain irrespective individual and essentially anomalous responsibilities. But logically speaking, consonant or harmonious with the broad spectrum of intermeshing and inseparable functions could be said to place an excessive and supererogatory burden on the office, when considered in relation to the comparitively exiguous advantages of their overall centralization.
Hacker: You could do part of Humphrey's job!



Hacker: Bernard, why did you allow Sir Humphrey in when I explicitly told you not to?
Bernard: Because he's bigger than me!

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Shotgunnova
05/27/20 3:17:08 PM
#280:


Hacker: Darling, being an MP is a vast, subsidized ego trip. It's a job for which you need no qualifications, there are no compulsory hours of work, no performance standards. You get a warm room and subsidized meals for a bunch of self-opinionated windbags and busybodies, and suddenly you find people taking them seriously because they've got the letters 'MP' after their name. How can they be underpaid when there are about 200 applicants for every vacancy? You could fill every seat twenty times over, even if they had to pay to do the job.
Annie: But you were a back-bench MP only five years ago.
Hacker: I was the exception.

Humphrey: You're speaking in riddles, Bernard.
Bernard: Oh, thank you.
Humphrey: THAT WAS NOT A COMPLIMENT, BERNARD!



I also like how they keep alluding to Humphrey's stall tactics speech from the first season ("In the fullness of time...") even now. Humpy's strategies are already known by now.

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Shotgunnova
05/28/20 7:45:06 PM
#281:


Humphrey: Well, if you insist on an even-handed approach, the Foreign Office might agree to your abstaining on the matter of Israel, so long as you authorize our man there to make a powerful speech attacking Zionism.
Hacker: Surely we should use the debate to promote peace and harmony? Goodwill?
Humphrey: Well, it would be most unusual...

Hacker: We should always fight for the weak against the strong!
Humphrey: Well then, why don't we send troops to Afghanistan to fight the Russians?
Hacker: ...The Russians are too strong.

Episodes where Hacker gets the better of Humphrey and his conniving ways are always pretty good.



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Shotgunnova
05/28/20 8:23:08 PM
#282:


Humphrey: Bishops tend to have long lives. Apparently the Lord isn't all that keen for them to join Him.

Dean: It's such an awful country. They cut peoples' hands off and women get stoned when they commit adultery.
Humphrey: Unlike Britain, where they commit adultery when they get stoned.

Hacker: I don't want Canon Stanford. What am I to do?
Humphrey: Well, you could turn both candidates down, but that would be exceptional and not advised.
Hacker: Even though one of them wants to get god out of the Church and the other wants to get the Queen out?
Humphrey: But the Queen is inseparable from the Church of England.
Hacker: I see... What about god?
Humphrey: I think He's what's called an optional extra.

I definitely got a kick out of:

Priest: Seems he's been waiting for a bishopric for years.
Humphrey: Long time no see.
Priest: Very droll, Humphrey.



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Shotgunnova
05/29/20 1:53:49 AM
#283:


God, this episode where an old case suggests Humphrey might be a spy is comedy gold. The exonerating piece of evidence is a diary entry where the spy calls Humphrey "a prized goof" with "so much wool in his head, it's child's play to pull it over his eyes" -- and Humpy has to agree with it! lmao

Humphrey: I always said Halstead was a hopeless judge of character.
Hacker: So we can't believe this? He was lying?
Humphrey: ... ... Oh no, no no no no, absolutely true. True in the sense that...uh... You see, he wasn't bright enough to understand subtle questioning techniques, the nonconfrontational approach.
Hacker: You lulled him into a true sense of security?

Humpy tricking Hacker into spending 310,000 pounds on rescuing the dog from a minefield to prevent him from making defense cuts was gold.



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Neoconkers
05/29/20 3:20:40 PM
#284:


Shotgunnova posted...
Humphrey: The ship of state, Bernard, is the only ship that leaks from the top.

One of my favourite scenes there. Just the way he says "Oh look! A park!"

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Shotgunnova
05/29/20 3:28:55 PM
#285:


Every episode of this show has been a winner, honestly. Was trying to figure out what my three favorite episodes up to this point have been, but it's been hard. "The Key" and "The Skeleton in the Cupboard" are definitely up there.

And I was going to say "time to start the final season," but then I remembered there are some newer (?) Yes Minister episodes with a different cast. Anyone know if those up to the same standards? If they're not, I might just move onto The Thick of It next.

Note to self: also watch YM's Christmas special

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threetimes
05/29/20 8:31:19 PM
#286:


Idk about other episodes. All I can say is that the original cast cannot be replaced: they are perfect.

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Shotgunnova
05/29/20 8:37:58 PM
#287:


Yeah, it's hard to imagine anyone taking Jim, Humphrey, or Bernard's place, but I thought I'd ask anyway.

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Shotgunnova
05/30/20 1:17:34 AM
#288:


Humphrey: Bernard, when you move on from here, where do you plan to go?
Bernard: Well, I...I...I don't know.
Humphrey: Well, how would you like to be Deputy Secretary in charge of Defense Procurement?
Bernard: Oh, gosh--
Humphrey: In Sunderland, or Berwick-'on-Tweed, or Lossiemouth.
Bernard: Is that a place?
Humphrey: Lossiemouth? What'd you think it was?
Bernard: A dog food.

Arnold: Are you suggesting I give confidential information to the press?
Humphrey: Of course not, Arnold -- this is confidential disinformation.
Arnold: Ahh. That's different, then.

Perhaps the best one was:

Hacker: It's envy, you know. Dudley is consumed with envy.
Bernard: It's one of the seven Dudley sins.




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Shotgunnova
05/30/20 9:37:08 PM
#289:


Bernard: I want a clear conscience.
Humphrey: A clear conscience...
Bernard: Yes.
Humphrey: When did you acquire this taste for luxuries?

Hacker: What about you, Bernard? You seem to be good at getting things into the papers.
Bernard: Well, what about a royal event?
Hacker: Such as?
Bernard: Well, an engagement, a divorce...a pregnancy?
Hacker: ... ... ...You can arrange that?



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Shotgunnova
05/30/20 10:16:39 PM
#290:


Another great dog-themed episode, even though it's never seen.

Hacker: Don't we ever get our own way with the French?
Humphrey: Well, sometimes.
Hacker: When was the last time?
Humphrey: Battle of Waterloo, 1815.

Hacker: Dignified grief goes down very well with the voters, especially when it's shared by the world's statesmen. A wonderful thing, death. So uncontroversial.

Hacker: Excellency, you must ask the President to not bring that bitch with him!

Bernard: (on phone) No, we can't have alphabetic seating in the abbey -- you'd have Iraq and Iran next to each other. Plus, Israel and Jordan are always sitting in the same pew. We could be in danger of starting World War III. I know Ireland begins with an 'I,' but no, Ireland doesn't make it any better. Ireland doesn't make anything any better.

Humphrey: Oh, Prime Minister, are you prepared to give permission for the French president's car to be stopped and searched? Are you prepared to violate diplomatic immunity and search the diplomatic bag?
Hacker: Even they wouldn't put a puppy in a bag.
Bernard: It'd be a doggie bag.
Hacker: Suppose we searched the bag and found it. That would put the cat among the pigeons.
Bernard: It'd let the dog out of the bag.



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Shotgunnova
05/31/20 3:24:40 AM
#291:


Desmond: If you're incompetent, you have to be honest, and if you're crooked, you have to be clever. You see, if you're honest, when you make a pig's breakfast of things, the chaps rally round and help you out.
Humphrey: And if you're crooked?
Desmond: Well, if you're making good profits for them, perhaps they won't ask questions. They're not stupid. Well...not that stupid.
Humphrey: So the ideal is a firm which is honest and clever.
Desmond: Yes... Let me know if you ever come across one, won't you?



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Wii_Shaker
05/31/20 3:25:57 AM
#292:


I'm still on my Red Dwarf kick and am rewatching the whole show for the 2nd time.

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Shotgunnova
05/31/20 3:29:59 AM
#293:


Not gonna lie: I do miss everyone relentlessly dumping on Rimmer, haha.

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05/31/20 10:31:19 PM
#294:


Agnes: Animals have rights too, y'know. A battery chicken's life isn't worth living. Would you want to spend your life packed in with 600 other squawking, desperate, smelly creatures, unable to breathe fresh air, unable to move, unable to stretch, unable to think?
Humphrey: Certainly not. That's why I never stood for parliament.

You could see the punchline coming and it's still golden. It's nice seeing a woman put Humphrey on the ropes when his old boy network tactics ain't workin'. It's great how they bond by the end, though.




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Shotgunnova
06/01/20 5:59:57 PM
#295:


Hacker: What about when I speak? A hostile audience! Do you think there'll be boos?
Bernard: There's bound to be. We don't have to pay for it.

I rather like episodes where Hacker's conniving pays off. In this one, he threatens to sell the National Theater building and make the London "home" just one of the national branches...unless he gets a good speech from the managing director. Dorothy is pretty Humphrey-esque in her own way, too, so it's good to see her influence. I always wondered if Wiesel would ever come back, but he's been out for almost four seasons now. Guess he wasn't as popular?




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Shotgunnova
06/03/20 1:17:59 AM
#296:


Humphrey: Well, the stool that they gave you was appropriated from the local YTC workshops.
Hacker: What do you mean?
Humphrey: It was nicked. By two of last year's pupils.
Bernard: A pair of nickers.



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Shotgunnova
06/03/20 11:27:39 PM
#297:


Humphrey: We could not know that you would deny it in the House.
Hacker: Well obviously I would if I didn't know and I were asked.
Humphrey: We did not know that you would be asked when you didn't know.
Hacker: I was bound to be asked when I didn't know if I didn't know!
Humphrey: ...What?

Hacker: Well, anyway, why are we bugging Hugh Halifax? Is he talking to the Russians?
Humphrey: No, the French, actually. That's much more serious.
Hacker: Why?
Humphrey: The Russians already know what we're doing.

Humphrey: One can be too self-effacing.
Bernard: I thought we were supposed to be faceless?
Humphrey: They don't show your face on radio.

This was one of the best eps of the season -- Humphrey being indiscreet on his radio interview because he thought the broadcast was over. It's definitely no coincidence that many of Yes Minister's best episodes are Humpy being up a creek without a government-issued paddle, lmao.




Going to watch the one-hour Party Games tomorrow and that'll be it for the older seasons of Yes Minister. I'm gonna miss these blokes, especially since I've heard the newer season doesn't really compare. That's almost a foregone conclusion, though.

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Shotgunnova
06/05/20 6:00:24 AM
#298:


Jeffrey: We don't want to be caught with our trousers down.
Hacker: Like Eric!

lmao

This one-hour special is quite good! It's rather interesting to see how Jim got the PM position...and it was more about everyone else scheming than him doing anything that great.



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Shotgunnova
06/06/20 6:48:24 AM
#299:


Bernard: Might even save your job.
Hacker: My job is perfectly safe. Other people have survived with small majorities. Wilson had a majority of four in 1964 and he lasted six years.
Humphrey: But he did have to fight a secton election pretty soon to get a working majority.
Bernard: And Wilson had hair.



also lol @ this pipeline route



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Shotgunnova
06/07/20 10:51:16 AM
#300:


lmao @ this speech talking about "welcoming" Kumranistan but constantly bringing up imperialist events and massacres

Although this, so far, hasn't been as good as the original series, the actors sure give it their all and it's had some funny moments. It's hard to imagine OG Humphrey doing something as modern as straightening a paper clip to erase a Blackberry's info, lmao.



Bernard: That was the press office, actually. BBC Television's devoting its Sunday morning program to you, Prime Minister.
Hacker: Should I be pleased?
Bernard: I fear not. It'll be called "Government in Crisis".
Hacker: Oh, Christ!

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Neoconkers
06/07/20 2:11:53 PM
#301:


Oh hey, I never knew David Haig was in the sequel series. He was absolutely brilliant in The Thick of It too, one of the most repugnant, truly unhinged performances I can think of

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Shotgunnova
06/07/20 2:16:25 PM
#302:


Hmm, didn't know he was in TTOI. Something to look forward to.

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