None of the obituaries are mentioning one of his first film roles - Violent Playground. Imagine if Blackboard Jungle had been set in pre-Beatles Liverpool and had starred James Dean.

It’s like the X-Files, played through Nigel Tufnell’s amp, but with the FX budget of Pertwee-era Doctor Who.  Also, terrifying.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/that-1980s-sports-blog/2014/jan/16/remembering-rocky-balboa-defied-critics-defeat-ivan-drago

It also inspired a fantastic “sports” piece in the Guardian in 2014, where most people below the line got the joke and ran with it.

Where is Rocky IV? Look, I know it’s not objectively remotely as good as Rocky, but taken on its own merits, it’s the US perspective on the Cold War in just 90 minutes, and an extremely important 80s cultural artefact.

Woah that’s a low bar.  To be any worse he’d have to be the world’s best limbo dancer.

It’s a common word in Liverpool, but given how Irish the City of Liverpool is, that doesn’t negate your point.

I am very, very late to this discussion having just signed up to a Disney Plus offer in the UK (where it used to be on the BBC).  But I just had to say that when they first went to see Richie Suck, he was giving off extreme “Black Jerry Seinfeld” vibes.  So when he switched to observational comedy on stage, I lost it.

Matt Berry’s Graham Nash is fascinating.  Most impressionists are focused on finding the distinctive elements of their target’s voice, but it felt like Berry was having to focus more on extinguishing the distinctive elements of his own voice.

Being male with a predominantly female family, I can’t get my head around why the females in my family were so Team Logan.  He’s a knob.

Probably a very niche one for Brits of a certain age, but Robert Lindsay as Michael Murray in GBH is a great example.

He was only a minor villain at the start but I liked Andy’s arc in Parks & Recreation.

It’s not the full episode, and is basically a dance routine to an existing track, so maybe doesn’t qualify, but in terms of the later examples, it was probably quite influential.

Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? was excellent but I don’t get why it qualifies for this list, but the vast majority of TV adaptations do not.

I though the earlier scenes’ CGI backdrops were terrible but once they got on the boat I thought the CGI was fine.

Ha! You just made me look up the scene on YouTube - I’d forgotten the follow up “We were sat in Barney’s car eating packets of mustard. You happy?” And then YouTube decided to follow up with an auto-played clip of a highly philosophical discussion from Derek Jarman’s Wittgenstein.

Came here to say the same.  She brought most of the comedy to the film and she did it really well.

Honourable mention for Moonlighting?

One does not simply cast Sean Bean.

John Landis will not be happy.