Troopers! I have just received new orders. Our superiors say the war is
cancelled, and we can all go home. Bison is getting paid off for his
crimes, and our friends will have died here… will have died for
nothing. But… we can all go home. Meanwhile, ideas like peace, freedom
and justice - they get packed up. But… we…

Nick Cave - Let Love In
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Manic Street Preachers - Holy Bible
Blur - Parklife
Portishead - Dummy

Liquid TV changed everything for me, seriously. It was like a transmission from another planet and it forced me to rethink the whole way I looked at animation.

As someone who regularly masturbated during the 90s I can confirm this.

The One Foot In The Grave final.

"fourth, final, and arguably best season"

She needs a better agent, seriously.

S1 is actually my favorite.

And this is apparently AFTER the "war" has ended.

That is the most likely theory, certainly no-one really used the term until around that time.

I've always been a little disappointed about Fry's portrayal of Wellington. The real Duke was renowned for his iciness and quiet control; he was certainly no bellowing barracks bully. But from a comedic point of view it works wonderfully.

I've been thinking of compiling a vid of all the Larry & Johnny scenes. Some of them are golden. The one you mention (and they also have a go at Donald Sinden in the same ep) is perfect with its soft focus, the music, and Olivier being stuck in his Marathon Man character.

Dem if it isn't! Dem!

Ever seen The Tall Guy? It's an amusing Jeff Goldblum flick from 1989, where he plays an American actor in London forced to be the sidekick of a repellant standup, played by Atkinson. The latter delivers a really nasty, obnoxious performance that stunned me at the time (and his more hostile and slanderous critics…

Fifteen years of living in France teaches a man to hate!

Love the way the actors are shown as a couple of bitchy old dears. Shades of Dicky Attenborough, Gielgud and the rest.

Chris Barrie's real triumph was as a voice actor and impressionist. His work on Spitting Image was amazing.

Whoops I remembered that wrong. Yes Boswell was quite a man, the jolly little Scot! I read his memoirs a long time ago, I vividly recall the story about "Christabelle" and his bout with the clap!

I figured it was a knowing wink to Lord Sutch and the Official Monster Raving Loony Party.

They embiggen the whole episode.