to think the league of gentlemen is bloody sinister

[RagingDull]

and not funny?

dh is sat here laughing his socks off and im staring at the tv with a wrinkled up nose and wondering what the actual fuck......?????

roychubby brown is playing the mayor....
its just scary,

I would do sinister things to reece shearsmith

Have any body gat a battle of orange joooooooce? Oh and Mickey-luv and Pauline...brilliant characters. I guess it's an acquired taste?

DH is a musician and we often finish one of his stories about it with 'it's a shit business'

Pauline and her pens. The jobcentre sketches in series one are pretty close to the way they run in reality.
When they first came out and were on tv I did not understand them.
Then I started dating a man who lived in the sticks who had the first series on dvd - I'd never laughed so much in my life.
The 'special meat' was exactly like people round there asking for beef that was banned due to the bse scares.

I'll never forget the episode in the jobcentre where pauline is confronted by Ben. :)

False I'm weeping, 'Creme Brûlée' "it's a shit business".

In this house forum we like the League of Gentlemen :o

"oh Mickey! What does egregious mean!?"

I adore League of Gentlemen! And Psychoville! Has anyone watched the DVD of the stage show? I nearly died laughing at the Herr Lip sketch!

I hate it as well OP, and find it seriously unfunny, YANBU.

"You lied to me! There is a Swansea!"

I moved from central London to live in a small village about 10 years ago. I got a job in the "Local Shop for Local People" and kept quoting lines from Tubbs. No-one else knew the show. At all. I particularly liked telling people off for touching the precious things of the shop!

I've got nipples like bullets.

(Babs)

It's filmed in Padfield which is actually v nice.

Mandy I would love to do that!

League of Gentlemen is utter genius. :) I started watching it when my Uncle babysat when I was far too young to be allowed to watch it and have and will always love it. :o

Where I used to work I used to have to phone up for supplies, and the woman who dealt with that was called Barbara and sounded exactly like Babs from LoG!

Yes sinister and the funniest tv programme ever.

Saw it live too, less sinister though.

I find it creepy too, but still watch it.

There's so many quotes you can use, we like to pop them into conversations where appropriate.

Our favourite, "In the dark....with an owl....in a HOLE!"

Oh god. Remembering a drunk 20yo me repeating "babs cabs" in gravelly voice to my uni friends when I moved away to uni. They didn't know what the hell I was on about.
"nipples like bullets" oh my.

Hallo dave

DH and I reference this endlessly to each other; bottle of orange juice, Dave, etc. We have to as no-one in our part of Australia seems to have seen it. DD grew up hearing us spout this nonsense and was amazed when she eventually saw the series that was all real.

The phrase "are you local?" comes up a lot here in Melbourne, particularly in chi-chi-farmers' markets selling wierdly-shaped purple carrots and odd hand-knitted garments. You only have to look at some the craft stuff they sell to make you wonder about the long winter evenings in rural Victoria. Gum nut art, that sort of stuff. How we titter.

"I hope you enjoy your time in the lovely town of Royston Vasaay - Real Good Treat!"

I really want to be able write down the thing that Herr Lip used to do after saying 'real good treat', a sort of pinched shrug thing accompanied by a sort of 'humph' noise...

It used to make me cry laughing. Steve Pemberton is a Genius.

DH and I are always asking for I can I can't. That'll confuse DS when he's older.

Its filmed in Hadfield in Glossop. DH does the best Papa Lazarou impression ive ever heard.

I read somewhere that they based him on their old landlord and I absolutely love LoG.

Voodoo Laydeeeeee

YANBU!

That and The Office - I used to sit there thinking 'is it just me?'

It's genius - I like comedy that make you feel uncomfy and squirm a bit - OP try Jam if you want a true squirm fest

YANBU to find it sinister - that's precisely the point

YABVU not to find it funny