Gavin and Stacey, gave up after 5 minutes

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Couldn't see what's funny about it, gave up after 5 minutes.
Bit cringey

When Nessa's history of present giving is a packet of Strepsils then a tap makes perfect sense

When Nessa's history of present giving is a packet of Strepsils then a tap makes perfect sense

Not really. And it wasn't funny.

I thought the taps gag when G and S both had hot was funny. I liked the way when Sonia ley she obediently took the tap.

Yes the tap thing was not remotely funny. The single Celebration as a gift was.

I felt it was as though the episode had been written by a super-fan with no new ideas.

Oh dear

Well i enjoyed it. I was at a friend's who would not normally watch it but she put it on and was soon laughing along with me. It had been a shit year and I felt like a laugh, damn it!!!

I'm watching the first episode from series 2 right now and it is one of the best imo. Pam has some fab lines in it and the Italian restaurant part is fab with Dawn and Pete and the guy they were going to have a threesome with 😂

“Nessas pregnant and smithys the father”

Love that episode, it’s so well written.

Every scene is fantastic.

'Someone's spilled some salt in here!' 😂

I don't think you have to know all the ins and outs if this to find it funny

Yes you do. That's the whole point of it. Honestly 🙄

Also, whilst the reference to Budgie being a grandad and Chinese Alan’s kids being the bouncers in Vodka Revolution were funny, I thought, hang on, that means that Chinese’s youngest kid would have had to be 8 at the time of the last series HOW COME THAT WAS NEVER MENTIONED and Budgie, supposedly late 20s maximum (Russell Tovey’s character) would have had at least one kid aged at least 6 or 7 at the same time in order for Budgie to be a grandad!

See wombat I didn’t find that odd - I know plenty of men that had kids young (and with multiple women!) and don’t see why it would be mentioned. Chinese always looked a bit older than the other lads too. The essex lads are supposed to be a bit ‘rough’ aren’t they?

Was more surprised at Nessa being -about 57 😂

Some people seem to think it's a documentary - as has been said, it's a bittersweet comedy drama rather than a quickfire sitcom. To analyse every last detail is to take all the pleasure out of it.

As for the idea that it should be just as funny for anybody watching it for the very first time and also the suggestion that they were lazy for revisiting old in-jokes, whatever would be the point of that? They might as well not bother bringing it back in the first place and just have a brand new comedy. And if they did that, you'd get G&S fans saying "Well, that wasn't a patch on Gavin & Stacey, was it?"

I think you have to realise that you can't just join any kind of programme that's been going for three series and expect to understand every single joke or situation that's alluded to. If you don't realise that, maybe Mrs Brown's Boys would be better for you - although, even there, a first-timer would probably be confused by the very title of the thing when Mrs B also has a daughter.

Smithy and Gavin are early 20s at the start

Not inconceivable both Budgie/Chinese Alan were teenage Dads

Revisiting in jokes isn’t lazy per se. The quality of the writing is in recognising when an in joke is genuinely funny and when a point is being laboured too much. Such as, the individual chocolates from Nessa was hilarious first time round. Giving everyone a tap wasn’t funny and just seemed lazy

Think they are more late 20s Vanya I have 28 in my head?

Well I quite enjoyed it and I'm not a huge G and S fan... gentle comedy. Agree that there was no chemistry though between Horne and Corden.

It is entirely conceivable (boom boom) to be grandparents at 38 still not a documentary but it was meant to be a silly joke.

Smithy and Gavin were around late twenties when it first started.

Gavin and Stacey has very specific long running jokes, so they would go over your head if you've never seen it before. I quite enjoyed it. Time has passed, so they wouldn't all be the same.

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We are allowed not to like it, you know.

So if you go by the years they refer to in the series, gav and smithy are meant to be c. 41 in this series. The lads weren’t all the same age - they weren’t from a year group at school, only Gary and Simon went to school with them.

But sitcoms are notoriously lax on that sort of consistency!

I loved it 😁

I loved first five mins wasnt sure 4then it was great

sonia i feel is trying to change and mould smith and thats where nessa comes in saying youre great as you are-shes a snob and it would never work

i heard sheridan wasnt even asked well according to her twitter thats what she said

sorry meant to say wasnt sure of first five mins

i controversially dont like dawn and pete think they practically absuive well she is but i like the junkie storyline

also nessa being older than what we thought- she was 35 when stacey was 18?!

Nessa’s age is a running joke it’s been very elastic the whole time.

I enjoyed it. I'm glad that they didn't spend half the show explaining the long running jokes for those people who didn't watch the series.