The Thick of It - total glorious genius

[nigelslaterfan]

Anyone agree? I love Malcolm so much, it's just too good to be true.

• 'Ollie? You sent Ollie? HE'S A FUCKING KNITTED SCARF THAT MAN!

• "Am I going to have to start putting big crosses and ticks on every fucker, so you can know when to open your gob and when to shut it? Oh no, that might be too complicated, you might think, Oh! X marks the spot, I must tell this wee chap all about the PM's catastrophic erectile dysfunction!"

• Responding to Robin's worries that Jamie is a 'bit scary' - 'Oh relax, he has never hit anyone. Or at least, anyone he has hit has never had the balls to take it to a superior'

• 'Where's Glummy Mummy?'

• Tucker: 'Have you got that, twatweasel?'

• Ollie: 'Yes...thank you. [under breath] Malcolm Tucker is an Investor in People.'

• Tucker: 'Yes, I heard that - fuck you!'

• 'Hey Julius! Pick the chicken salad. If I'm lucky you'll get salmonella!'

• Minister: 'What is it with you? One minute, you love it, the next minute you think it's shit. There are a lot of shades of grey you know!'

• Jamie: 'Oh I know that, I'm looking at fuckin' fifteen of them right now.'

• 'We propose that you, Julius Nicholson, being of sound mind although admittedly with a body that looks like an enormous sex toy, did knowingly do us up the shitter by leaking that immigration data to the Mail!'

The only thing worth watching on telly at the moment.

"You're a fucking omnishambles!"
Love, love, love it!!

'Shitehead Revisited'

Ha ha.

"Fuck the I's and fist the T's."

I thought last week's was dull and tired. All about setting up the rants. But tonight's was good. Fourth sector. Extraordinary people as Pathfinder People.

V reminiscent of a lot of the real idiotspeak in govt relations with the third sector.

I loved it tonight, it was almost genuinely moving.
I loved the manic Tory pr guy and his whiteboard!
Extraordinary Ordinary people.
And Terri's make up and outfit.
love it.

I think it's definitely the best thing on television at the minute. It makes me cry every week. I just love Malcolm.

"a face like dot cotton licking piss off a nettle"

sorry peggyguggenheim, we think alike! it was worth saying twice though

This week was brilliant I thought, much less one dimensional than usual. Don't get me wrong, I love their single dimension, but the characterisation this week, particularly of Nicola and Mannion, allowed me to develop some real sympathy for them and their situation. And it was so good to see how the writers dealt with the Opposition - bodes really well for TTOI under a Tory administration, I thought.

Can anyone find me the script for Malcolm crushing that little Tory researcher? Even by his standards, that was an inspired bollocking.

I love Peter Mannion because he's so obviously an old-school Thatcherite Tory who has been battered by spin doctors into resembling a new softy Cameronian conservative. See especially the special where Stuart makes him wear a Paul Smith suit and won't let him wear a tie or tuck his shirt in.

Jamie: 'It's Peter...Onion, isn't it? Remind me, were you the forced abortion or the lovechild? Or the one that tried to asphyxiate himself with the kiwi?'
Mannion: 'Just the lovechild, I was the quiet one.'

That 'Spinners and Losers' special was the best TTOI ever. In fact it's almost spoiled it for me.

I loved that bit about the shirt. 'I've always tucked my shirt in. It's part of getting dressed.'

Oh Roger Allam...

His voice

Oh ROGER ALLAM, that's his name. Couldn't remember. He should be in it all the time IMO.

Yes, and in the end Stuart says 'God no, you were right, tuck it in. You look like you've been startled by a fire alarm.'

But yes, his voice is properly sexy despite Olly taking the piss out of it.

Peter Man-Yum, as Robyn calls him. Me too, as it turns out.

Are we a weird little underground group, do you think? Or are there more of us?

Just caught up on the DoSAC one from last night. Best quotes: "The chavs and the chav nots.." and "You, you're like the guy who fucked the monkey that gave us AIDS!"

I want to ruffle Malcolm's hair.

Oh. Oh.

Indiana Murray and the Bum Dildo of vengeance.

I want to marry the writers and have their babies.

'Knowledge is porridge' - so completely stupid, but every time I think of it, it makes me laugh.

As you can tell from my name, I agree with you all. It's the best thing on tv by far.

Am watching it on iplayer for the shameful 3rd time.

I have subtitles on, for you gizmo

If this gets into the press I would know that it came from you.
'Clever'
And I would rain down upon you so hard that you'd have to be reassembled by fucking aircrash investigators.
'..'
Do not fucking interupt me son, ever. Now get this into the noggin, right?
You breathe a word of this, to anyone, you mincing fucking CUNT and I will tear your fucking skin off. I will wear it to your mother's birthday party and I will rub your fucking nuts up and down her leg whilst whistling bohemian fucking rhapsody. Right?
'Yeah'
Now. Get out of my fucking sight.

And you have the best name on mumsnet.

This is for you all

Fuckety-bye!