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'm going to stop your road, Tubbs. Once and for all!

I really liked it but I can see why it wouldn't suit everyone. I thought the job centre scenes were viciously accurate.

'Ello Dave...

Bloody love it. I'll have to try find my old DVD now...

A lot of in-jokes, too.

Northerners might appreciate the play on words over Bab's Cabs (Bab being slang for shit)
Southerners from some areas will have instantly seen another meaning for Local Shop (if someone is "local", it means they're "not all there", although I don't think the writers realised it at the time).

Oo yeah - baby's yellow baba, my dad used to say, or BYB!

I think it's very hit and miss - some episodes are good but then you can watch two and three in a row that are totally off the boil.

YABU.

There is a Swansea and lines and lines and lines.

Didn't know that about Babs Cabs.

And the parodies - e.g. the fight between Pauline and Ross is a parody of the fight between the Mrs. Baylock and Robert Thorn in the Omen.

It's really cleverly thought out. Mind you, with the writers, you'd expect it: just look at the way Sherlock references the Sherlock Holmes books.

Dammit! False you got there first with 'lines and lines and lines'. Bet all the rest of it's been quoted too. Never mind.

I was having my hair cut the other day and explaining why LOG is funny, referencing the bits where Benjamin is trapped with Harvey and Val and escapes only to be raped by the son of an incestuous liaison between Tubbs and Edward.

My hairdresser looked at me like I was a deviant only worth humouring because she wanted a tip.

Is this on tv at the mo? On Dave ;) ?
Or do I need to hunt out my dvds.
I love you Pauleeeeene!
Cathy Carter-Smith

Anyone appreciate a RL Royston Vasey/Hadfield update?
Metternicks aka "Briss" butchers where it was filmed still offer us 'special meat...
The pub on the corner "The Masons" is about to be demolished and the land used as a new Tesco.
The take away shop "Burger Me" is still a tanning studio.
Pauline's Job Centre (on my road) is now a flats conversion.
Babs is still waiting for the final op.

I adore LoG! Hysterical and bottom-clenchingly sick.
LUIGI!!!!

When Chinnery pulls the cow's guts out of its arse.

'I haven't got my arm up her bum. I know it looks like it.'

And Madame Palm and her five lovely daughters.

This raining afternoon was just made for "are you an egregious person Pauline?"

Unhombre- what about the greedy slits?

I think that was based at the pub in Hadfield railway station. That's still there.

Egregious, egregious, egregious!

I was inspired by that to look the word up. LoG is very educational about lots of things.

"My father knows about these things, Mr. Chinnery: that's it's anus!"

What does Pauline call the jobseekers?

Not dolescum. It's worse than that.

It's a favourite in our house too.
Our dc has the nickname Dave, which may have taken our appreciation a bit far, as dc is a girl.

I love the League of Gentlemen. The first time I saw it, I knew it was going to have a special place in my heart...it reminds me of my home town so much! I have had that landlord, seen that band, been to that jobseekers course!

Plus I love horror too, especially Hammer, so sometimes it feels like there are little references in there that are written just for me. Very clever, very dark and sadly the sort of comedy that will probably be drowned out by Michael McIntyre carbon copies in future years.

I remember not really getting the charity shop scenes, you know the ladies obsessed with plastic bags and jigsaw puzzles. Thought it was a bit poor, not quite the usual LOG standard. Then I went into one local charity shop and was fixed to the spot as I watched 2 elderly female volunteers doing obscene things with a broom handle whilst shrieking wildly. Suddenly I understood it all too well. These same ladies were also obsessed with folding plastic bags.

DH's agent (when he used to do work as an extra - sorry 'background artiste') was the 'body' of Babs.