Black Books

Post by **Ylva Kresh** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 3:06 pm

Have you seen this??? Everybody in this show is absolutely perfect! I have only seen the first season but that one was amazing...

Post by **Revan** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 3:08 pm

I have not seen this...

Post by **Revan** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 3:09 pm

So it goes without saying I cannot comment on it...

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:34 pm

Well, at first I didn't really like the show - I never used to like Bill Bailey - but as it went on I liked it more and more. The second series (at least I think it was the second series) was great.

Post by **dANdeLION** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:55 pm

I have not seen it. What network is it on?

Post by **danlo** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:59 pm

I thinks it's a European thing we wouldn't understand...

Post by **dANdeLION** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 7:39 pm

..I bet that's ironic somehow, but I don't undestand irony, so I wouldn't know.

Post by **Ylva Kresh** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 8:46 pm

It is a lovely (well... not so lovely perhaps) story about a alcoholic book-shop owner who hate to sell books and his customers.

Post by **Nav** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 4:37 pm

Yeah, Black Books is the best sitcom since spaced, IMO. I loved the episdode in the second series where Manny succumbs to 'Dave's Syndrome'. Actually, a friend of mine has an unpaid job on the set of the third series, which is being filmed as we speak.

Post by **Loredoctor** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 12:25 am

Yeah I watched it occasionally. It was very funny. Esp the episode where they get drunk.

Post by **Ylva Kresh** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 2:15 pm

Ur-Vile wrote:

It was very funny. Esp the episode where they get drunk

But... surely they get drunk in almost every episode?

Post by **Nav** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 3:39 pm

Fran's shrinking flat was funny too.

Post by **Loredoctor** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 1:44 am

Ylva Kresh wrote:Ur-Vile wrote:
It was very funny. Esp the episode where they get drunk
But... surely they get drunk in almost every episode?

HAHAHA! Yes, good point, Ylva de Kresh.

Post by **Theo** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 6:24 pm

IMO, the funniest bit on the DVD of the first series (highly recommended, btw) is not the episodes but the outtakes. We get to see, for instance, Bernard attempting a long line of different Irish-folk-sounding songs while the little boy he's singing to does a heroic job of keeping a straight face (and the kid's deadpan - Bernard breaks down before he does), and this little dialogue:

(The actual line is
Bernard: "Now, listen! Maybe all those other boys who work in bookstores can do what they want, but this is my roof you're living under! You'll abide by my rules...)

Bernard: "Now, listen! Maybe all those other boys who work in bookstores can do what they want, but this is my roof..." (forgets the line, freezes for a moment, wagging his finger at the ceiling) "...and I like it!"

And of course, Manny's closing, apparently improvised, little song:

Who will buy my books today?
All the authors on display
Some of Dickens' and some of Shaw's
Peter Benchley - he wrote Jaws

Who will buy my books today?
Who's in the books? I hear you say
Leopold Bloom and Joseph K
and Bridget Jones [failed attempt at guitar lick]

Who will buy my books today?
Why read books? I hear you say
It's educational and it's fun
and you get sucked into a whole different world

Who will buy my books today?
Maybe something in (???) trade
Something by obscure women
or something that's not necessarily pop-driven

Who will buy my books today?
Now I'll send you on your way
Before you go, there's just one thing:
(spoken) We're completely sold out of The Lord of the Rings!

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Sat Feb 28, 2004 1:25 pm

New series, Thursdays, 10:30pm, Channel 4. Starts Thursday 11th March.

Post by **Nav** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 4:47 pm

My informant tells me that in one episode, Manny and Bernard try to write a children's book, with hilarious consequences.

Post by **Vain** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 10:34 am

It's an absolute scream as far as I'm concerned

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