Or after this week's events can I absolutely binge watch The Thick Of It??

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It just seems a brilliant way to end an awful, politically unstable week, especially as the Toxic Twosome marched out today.... visions of Malcolm are swirling...

Yy to Stewart too. His and peters relationship was hilarious. Those two at the top of the slide at the away day
I'm very invested in this! I've been quite evangelical about encouraging people to watch it this week.

my best moment

Only if you're prepared to be amazed at how much Armando Ianucci was channeling the future when he wrote Nicola Murray. She reminds me of TM so much when she gets to be PM in the last series it's frightening!

Oh god, when Nicola Murray is there in episode 1, series 3, just so happy to be promoted and Malcolm Tucker puts her in her place...

Did you hear about Alistair Campbell watching it (after being told it was based on him) and saying, "I'm not like that!" and his wife saying, "Yes, you fucking are!"

YANBU what a great idea.

Did my one see Question Time last night? Armani Lanucci was in the panel, along side Alistair Campbell. DH and I were imaging the scenario in the green room😂.

Nicola trying to walk! fantastic

I love it and also veep which Armando also did but tbh both are too close to the bone for me at the minute. Life is imitating art.

Excuse typos! I can't stop laughing at these quotes!

I love the thick of it and binge watched it before the election

I keep telling my dad to watch it and i was telling him about a particular scene as something i had just seen on the tv reminded me of it

My dad was saying about the advisers 'resigning' and i thought of

Also, drafted you a letter of resignation. Gives you the chance to say that you're jumping before you're pushed, although obviously we're gonna be briefing that you WERE pushed, sorry.

yes and 'I will not eat your pissy biscuit'

The one where they are electing a new party leader (spinners and losers?) is a perfect hour of television. From the world weary journalists repeatedly changing the headlines, to the greedy joy on Ben Swain's face when Malcolm suggests he could be in the running. You can just imagine it's exactly like that in real life.

My favourite moment is when Malcolm Tucker realises he's being fired - he just says, "Oh no..." and it's such a fantastic moment of realisation it makes me shudder. You know he will wreak revenge!

there's a brilliant bit where Malcom say 'get all these out of here (water bottles) it looks like fucking Doctor Who in here' (or similar) which always makes me laugh

"I don't need to keep my head down because, unlike yourself, I don't give blow jobs to truckers."

www.etsy.com/uk/market/malcolm_tucker

Look at this!

So many perfectly observed characters - it's hard to know who was tops. Apart from Malcolm, of course, because nobody can top him. Some of the minor characters were pure joy - Lord Nicholson of Arnage for one. Glen Cullen - just perfect. Steve - oh God - what was him name? The one who took over DOSAC? He was brilliant.
If I was a billionaire I'd pay Armando anything he asked to write another series.

Oh how I would love to say, "come the fuck in or fuck the fuck off," at work.

I've also longed to answer the phone with, "what fresh hell is this?"

ARE YOU A FUCKING HORSE?

Love Jamie

I did love the fucker

Such a pity that MT became Dr Who. There's no way we can have another TOI now.

I have been known to say 'difficult difficult, lemon difficult' from time to time too.

"Terri, if I want your advice I'll give you the special signal. Which is me being sectioned under the Mental Health Act"😂

YADDDDDNBU.

Imperial that is one of my faves, I just did a weird asthmatic laugh/howl.

Phyllis I say "its on, like fat pat's thong" in my head quite often, I'm a bit worried I'll say it out loud one of these days...

I love when they argue about non-political stuff, like in the episode where Nicola goes to the cenotaph Ben swain keeps calling someone (possibly Nicola?) a baby horse and several times Malcolm has to go "it's not a fucking baby horse, it's a fucking foal". It just tickles me that he has to be right and gets cross about trivial stuff too.