To want to wrap poor Malcolm Tucker in a big blanket and protect him from the world <spoiler alert>

[minouminou]

I don't usually get involved with TV, but The Thick of It has always gripped me.

It was heart-rending to see MT broken and defeated last night, pouring his ashen heart out to Snakey Ollie. When he was talking about having no real friends, no children (gulp) and no memoirs, you got a small glimpse of a normal man who has given up everything for a thankless job that has turned him into nothing but, as he said, a host.

Made me want to collect him out of the cab at the end and take him home for some food.

I know when Ollie dropped him and carried on going he was only doing what MT would have done, but I hope he does end up pissing himself on his BIL's sofa.

[FiercePanda]

Peter Capaldi is incredibly sexy. I would climb him like a tree.

[KnitFastDieWarm]

You're not alone...trust me

[MainlyMaynie]

I think in the early series he was v closely modelled on AC, who does have kids, but later he became fully his own character.

'Solid bed of cunts' was hilarious.

[BalloonSlayer]

wildfig a bit like this pic of Gordon Brown (with AC in foreground too!). Apologies for the DM link but at least I don't have to explain what was happening,

[Smophette]

Do you know what made me sad? The comparison of his office at Opposition headquarters to the magnificent one he used to have at Downing Street.

[BadgersBottom]

Phew!

Good post wildfig

[Smophette]

definitely not alone! He's a silver fox!

[BadgersBottom]

I may be alone in this - perfectly prepared to accept that if so - but I find Peter Capaldi strangely attractive...............

[wildfig]

The very obviously positioned children's paintings in his old office were a genius bit of set-dressing - they really captured that cynical 'hey, I'm in this magnificent wood-panelled office of power but I'm still a regular family guy' persona some New Labour types liked to promote, while remaining in shot for some of the most vitriolic verbal savagings ever broadcast.

[MavisGrind]

As someone up -thread said, I think that Malcolm was the only one to really love his party and his realisation that it was, to paraphrase Stewart, "built on a bed of cunts" was his tragedy.

I'll miss TTOI, truly British comedy at its best.

[TalkinPeace2]

Malcolm drinking Fanta on an Allotment

OH for that parallel reality

[minouminou]

Awwwww.....I also hoped (if he didn't have a wife and kids) that he would run off into the sunset with Sam.

[mummytime]

I though the painting were either his niece/nephews or Sam's, his secretary's kids.

[Marzipanface]

piprabbit
I think you are onto something!

[Fluffycloudland77]

In the earlier series he had kids paintings on his office door and a really nice london house.

I think he must have kids.

[MrsReiver]

He doesn't have kids of his own but he definitely has a neice, "The leader of the nutters is a nutter, Jesus, my niece is funnier than that and she makes jokes about poo."

My DH is so distraught I'm cross stitching Tucker's law for his birthday.

[FiercePanda]

Bwahahaha, NotQuite! I wish. No, I'm just a woman who fired up google and c&p'd the quotes into here.

[piprabbit]

I've obviously watched too much "Thick of It" and "Twenty Twelve" this year.
In no way am I confusing these programs with reality.
I am, however, starting to believe that reality is being written by Armando Ianucci and John Morton.

How else do you explain the contents of all the current affairs programming?

[minouminou]

I know Nigella, that's what I hoped, but he said he had no children last night. That was the worst bit.

[NigellaTufnel]

Didn't Malcolm have children's pictures in his office in the first two series? I always thought that it was a little clue that he did, in fact, have a normal life.

[minouminou]

Oh no..... That image.

I can't bear it. Even though Mannion's face went SOME way to soothe the pain.....

There's a big red Ikea Polarvide fleece blanket here for you anytime, Malcolm......

[Notquite]

FiercePanda Are you Armando Ianucci??

[MrsReiver]

Ps, I'd managed not to cry until Chris Addison tweeted this. Bastard.

twitter.com/mrchrisaddison/status/262297761750331393/photo/1

[FiercePanda]

HERE BE SPOILERS




BalloonSlayer There was a scrum of journalists trying to get to Malcolm as he was going into a police station to be arrested, and as he was pushing past Malcolm glares at one of them and growls "...fucking human mooncup." It was perfect, but not as perfect as his final line. sniff

[MrsReiver]

There has to be an hour-long special in the future....just so we can see Ollie looking haggard and shell-shocked, and Malcolm relaxing with a Fanta on his allotment.....

And Glenn munching on a yoghurt? I was so cross with him when he walked away from the police station.