So you mean you’ve never had a steak pie, peas and chips then? News Posted by John Hoare on 28th December 2005, 00:43 Worst. Line. Evur.
What about the lines on the theory of relativity: Lister: ‘Yeah, what is it, Hol?’ Holly: ‘It’s a theory’…’You only tell your relatives’ Very clever stuff I’m sure you’ll agree. Quite disappointing as BITR is not all that bad. It’s just lines like: Lister: ‘You’ll want to leap out of bed’, Kryten: Well in your case Mr Lister, sir, that’s because your sheets are covered in pointy poppadom shards’ So damn childish and seem more suited to a cartoon for six year olds. Ah, well.
> What’s an iguana? That would have got a massive laugh on VIII. I think it’s just the delivery and the fact that the audience didn’t laugh that made it worse. That audience didn’t laugh at quite a few things.
>That would have got a massive laugh on VIII. As much as I’d like to, I can’t disagree with you on that. Except that…well…it still isn’t a very good joke. The audience laughed at the theory of relativity if I remember correctly. Not to mention Nostrilomo.
To be fair, I’ve been in an audience recording. It’s *very* easy to find yourself getting carried away with the atmosphere and laughing at stuff that you later realise just wasn’t very funny.
The odd thing about that line is I used to *hate* it… but now I find it very amusing. I think it’s because it feels so deliberately contrived. Whether it actually was or not though, I have no idea.
Now a parody of that kind of joke I can appreciate. But I don’t really think it was… It’s certainly one of the few groan-moments in the whole series…there may be one or two more but they’re not coming to me now. Next time I watch it I’ll try to think of it as a parody of that kind of joke…and see if that helps.
It’s possibly less in the writing (I don’t think it was written as a parody), and more in the performing. Perhaps it’s just Danny trying to make the line work!
I started a thread about this on BTLi a while back with the “Follow my coords” joke from Ouroboros. As I said over there, what was Doug thinking when he wrote that?!
