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AIBU?

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

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minouminou · 28/10/2012 08:06

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.

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BrittaPerry · 28/10/2012 09:58

I had this on my tivo, and didn't open the thread until I had watched it. Obviously.

'I haven't worked closely or for long with Malcolm Tucker'. Knob!

I actually think Malcolm is the only one who actually does love his party, weirdly. He had power, but, like he said, no glory or actual life.

Poor Malcolm :-(

minouminou · 28/10/2012 16:17

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.....

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Ullena · 28/10/2012 16:26

I really do need to replace our television...

ImperialBlether · 28/10/2012 16:28

I love Malcolm Tucker.

I thought series 3 was by far the best, though episode 6 of this series (with the committee) was brilliant.

The moment when MT realised he was going to be sacked in series 3 was incredible - his face when he said, "Oh no...." and it was so threatening. Do you all remember, "I will return!" from that episode?

minouminou · 28/10/2012 17:27

We need to hassle Ianucci to do an hour special.

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Smophette · 28/10/2012 17:44

What about Mannion's face when Stewart was sacked? That was hilarious!

wildfig · 28/10/2012 17:59

Didn't Malcolm have a wife in the earlier series? She left him for an editor (?) or a political reporter whom he phoned late at night to drop some twisty-turny bombshell or other, and he couldn't resist sticking the knife in. I have a feeling he wore a wedding ring in the first series, which then disappeared, too.

BalloonSlayer · 28/10/2012 18:00

What was the Mooncup joke please?

DH detests swearing so can't watch The Thick Of It with him, so I won't be able to see it till, um, SHIT! It's half term! when am I going to get the chance?

Oh bollocks

FiercePanda · 28/10/2012 18:03

Stewart's final speech was sublime.

?I?ve spent ten years detoxifying this party. It?s been a bit like renovating an old, old house, yeah? You can take out a sexist beam here, a callous window there, replace the odd homophobic roof tile. But after a while you realise that this renovation is doomed. Because the foundations are built on what I can only describe as a solid bed of cunts.?

And Malcolm's almost brought a tear to my eye;

?Oh, how quickly they grow up. You fucking think you know me? You know Jackie fucking Chan about me. You know fuck all about me! I am totally beyond the realms of your fucking tousle-haired, fucking dim-witted compre-fucking-hension. I don?t just take this fucking job home, you know. I take this job home, it fucking ties me to the bed, and it fucking fucks me from arsehole to breakfast. Then, it wakes me up in the morning with a cup full of piss slammed in my face, slaps me about the chops, to make sure I?m awake enough so it can kick me in the fucking bollocks. This job has taken me in every hole in my fucking body. Malcolm is gone, you can?t know Malcolm, because Malcolm is not here! Malcolm fucking left the building fucking years ago! This is a fucking husk. I am a fucking host for this fucking job. Do you want this job? Yes, you do fucking want this job. Then, you?re going to have to fucking swallow this whole fucking life and let it grow inside you like a parasite. Getting bigger and bigger and bigger until it fucking eats your insides alive and it stares out of your eyes and tells you what to do.?

Oh Malcolm...

MrsReiver · 28/10/2012 18:09

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.

FiercePanda · 28/10/2012 18:09

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 · 28/10/2012 18:10

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

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

Notquite · 28/10/2012 18:12

FiercePanda Are you Armando Ianucci??

minouminou · 28/10/2012 18:14

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......

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NigellaTufnel · 28/10/2012 18:16

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 · 28/10/2012 18:18

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

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piprabbit · 28/10/2012 18:20

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?

FiercePanda · 28/10/2012 18:20

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

MrsReiver · 28/10/2012 18:22

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.

Fluffycloudland77 · 28/10/2012 19:28

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

I think he must have kids.

Marzipanface · 28/10/2012 19:38

piprabbit
I think you are onto something!

mummytime · 28/10/2012 19:39

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

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minouminou · 28/10/2012 21:05

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

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TalkinPeace2 · 28/10/2012 21:16

Malcolm drinking Fanta on an Allotment

OH for that parallel reality

MavisGrind · 28/10/2012 21:16

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.

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