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> I can?t be the only person to send a text message to the person it?s about, rather than the person to whom it was intended?

That’s how I got together with my husband! I sent a text saying ‘I think he fancies me’ to him directly rather than a friend!!

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Demon Headmaster was much better in book form methinks but I did enjoy the TV show. I used to love Knightmare (remember that one boys and girls?) and Maid Marian and her Merry Men (which I’m ashamed to say, even though I watched Red Dwarf as a kid too, I didn’t recognise Danny JJ in the dreads!) Woof! indeed was fab.

I remember watching The Simpsons back in ’91/’92 when it only used to be shown on a Sunday evening on Sky One at 6pm, two episodes. I couldn’t fall asleep that night as me any my little brothers kept singing ‘Do the Bartman!’

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> It was all covered on the rd.co.uk news front page.

Someone chuck me a hangbag oooooooooooh, stat! ^__^

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> I bet you?re gutted because you?ll be in NZ. ? er, not! ;-)

I’m afraid not – I’m visting my brother for a couple of weeks who lives out there nowadays. *squee* First time on that side of the world

>?.you?re not lying about everything -except the 9 inches!! :P

Boom boom!

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I’ll be in New Zealand so I’LL MISS IT! NOOO! WAAAH! etc

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Second

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Blue!

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Sounds a lot like him to me. I thought it was when I first saw it broadcast last year…

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> Surely you mean those rather fetching dark grey braces?

Indeed, for the first three years of my Red Dwarf watching, the outside of the ship was as Ocean Grey as the inside….

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Happy Birthday RD, you old git.

I first watched Red Dwarf in 1991 – there were some repeats of series 3 or 4 on (it was definitely a bunk scene with Rimmer in those awful green braces!) and I remember being 6 years old and watching it on an old, tiny black and white TV my grandad had passed on to me.

Seb – loving the avatar. Who drew you that?

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> Well having been watching it genuinely for as long as I can remember, every line of those 3 series is now hardwired into my brain, so whenever anyone mentions Emmerdale Farm that?s always the first thing that comes to mind.

Ditto. I love that show

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> Kryten?s got no nose.

Indeed – I think it mentions it in one of the guidebooks that they’d finished filming for the day and he’d started pulling off the mask when they told them they had to film this. They just dabbed it with a bit of red make up to look like a ‘red nose’ and probably hoped nobody would notice.

> How does he smell?

Oh, I’m sorry. Awful! Boom boom!

I was so excited to see Gordon the Gopher and Ed the Duck. Mind you, I was 8 years old when this came out….

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> Don?t be ^__^, be benevolent:

http://www.justgiving.com/running-actors

Just have been! Now I reclaim my ^__^ face and return to the point of muchos curry-eating, drink-consuming and Red Dwarf epicness….

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It certainly would be good fun. Perhaps we could do a series 1-6 one which would be 18 hours. And curry *nods*

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> I did a marathon once, it took so long it became a snickers

Boom boom!

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> That?s no way to talk about Cappsy!

Never! I love Cappsy

Although maybe he should change his doppelganger profile pic on FB once more…

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YES! SO many happy years in the early 90s were spent playing Sonic 1, 2, 3 and Sonic & Knuckles with my little brother. Very glad they’re going back to the popular stuff and ditching the crappy characters. I mean, Big the Cat for fucks sake? Srsly?

I echo Cappsy’s comments though, his running is very odd looking…

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> Also a major switcheroo in tone considering the comedy a the start of that scene. Correcting a piece of insulting graffiti. Heh.

That did make me laugh – strange how it can shift in mere minutes from making you laugh to making you uncomfortable. But Tovey is such a good actor the whole shift from panicked to angry and violent was done really well – you really feel something is of the Wrong.

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Ooh got my Sky magazine today and looks like Mr Barrie is on the front cover – presumably in line with his new series on Nat Geo.

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His official site also has him commenting on the new series:

“From what I hear we are still on target to make some new episodes of Red Dwarf in 2010.”

“there is talk of as many as six new episodes in 2010. If they happen, collectively they will probably go down as series 9.”

Oh my gosh, so nobody can agree on series numbering – why does this plight all of our favourite shows?! I’m going to stop there before various G&T members fall into boredom-induced comas.

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Another good episode – it’s really building and building. Anyone know how many episodes we have? 6 or 8?

Anywho, poor George! Trying to control the wolf and look where it’s got him! I wonder how he’s going to diffuse the uncontrollable angry bursts he’s experiencing. The way he beat that manager down was pretty gruesome – found it a bit difficult to watch.

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*SPOILERS!*

Sorry but got to say – who else saw the ‘twist’ on Lucy/Professor Jaggat’s character? I have to admit, I only spotted it during episode three. Kiran (Fluffy Wok) was musing aloud about her dubious interest and knowledge on vampires. When the end reveal came he leapt up, pointing in accusation and shouting “I FUCKING knew it!”

Did make me giggle.

Although the characterisation has had a shaky start to resettle back to series 1 levels, I must say I’m loving the more epic feel to series 2 and its stories overall.

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> It?s Cappsy?s turn to do the washing up.

Ian got the jaffa cakes and Seb opened the window. It’s Cappsy’s turn to do something.

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Bloody hell, standards have really slipped on here if Cappsy’s letting just about anybody sign up to this forum…

…by the way, what are we having for dinner tonight?

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> ?I know that look. I?ve given that look. Usually to someone else giving that look to someone taller.?

I did LOL at that one. And:

George: “You love him like a brother”? He’s “sweet”? What are you trying to do, kill the man? The only man you should ever say that to, is in fact your own brother.

Yes indeed, a very good episode. This series has such a grander, more epic feel to things. And poor Nina, looks like she’s fallen into the wrong hands. And Annie! NO!

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> told him I was a big Spaced fan and I was glad he was doing so well. He looked rather bemused at first but smiled and said thanks for liking his stuff from the beginning as t?were

> Also, Big Train and his memorable appearance in I?m Alan Partridge all came before Spaced. Quite randomly, considering I thought very highly of Pegg, I only watched Spaced for the first time about a year ago.

His words, not mine. We were perhaps referring to the programmes where he was the main focus or co-writing in the earlier days, not every single entry on his IMDB page. Can’t stand those programmes anyways, although I did like The Day Today.

> I?ve been a fan of Simon Pegg since I saw him in his school nativity play in 1976. He nailed the part of the Inn Keeper.

He was robbed for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar that year.

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> Out of interest, was this before Run Fatboy Run was released?

Gahh…I can’t remember. I was working with those bosses from April 2007 – July 2008 so it would have been somewhere in between there I guess.

> I may love everything Simon Pegg has done (except for the Big Nothing which I can?t bring myself to watch for fear of it being terrible)

You MUST see the Big Nothing – it’s a fantastic film. A real thriller and keeps you guessing right up until the last 30 seconds of the film.

> Oh yeah, and I?m actually very jealous that you met him in a pub!

^__^ T’was great.

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> Simon Pegg and Nick Frost were giving a talk about Hot Fuzz and at the end Nick was handing out t-shirts and my mum ran up to him waving in his face and saying ?hellooooo? and he waved back in her face and went ?helloooooo?. I suffered from chronic fan meltdown and tried to say something to Simon Pegg but all I could do was shake his hand and tremble ?thank?you?. Since then I?ve lost a remarkable amount of respect for myself, I didn?t know I was such a weedy twat in front of celebrities I like.

I go rather eccentric in front of celebrities.

The time I met Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, I was drinking in a pub near Oxford Street on a random weekday lunchtime with my two bosses and we were literally the only three people in the pub. I went up to the bar to order drinks and a guy walked in and stood at the bar next to me – Simon Pegg. I totally squee-d, shook his hand and introduced myself and told him I was a big Spaced fan and I was glad he was doing so well. He looked rather bemused at first but smiled and said thanks for liking his stuff from the beginning as t’were. I went back to my table and he ordered a couple of drinks. Just as I was wondering ‘why two drinks?’ in walks Nick Frost! I raise my drink to him and he smiles and waves back and the pair settle into their drinks.

‘Do you know them?’ my boss asks.

GAH! Stooopid people annoy me. ^__^

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Oh and don’t forget Spaced! ^__^

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> Flight of the Conchords

Second.

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I’m loving that idea. I shall snuggle up with it on the sofa being most inappropriate.

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Dunno – I’ve seen things typed backwards so youtube doesn’t pick it up, but that’s the first flipped vid I’ve seen…

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I LOVE the opening to ‘Bart Sells His Soul’…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ9J1RfoYjQ

Homer: Hey Marge, remember when we used to make love to this hymn?

No matter how many times I see that opening, I always laugh. Especially the bit with the candles at the end.

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Haha no cos I haven’t met her, but I’m FB friends with her other half who is an actor and fantastic photographer, and takes beautifully stunning shots of her, including their recent holiday together to Egypt to see her family.

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steven87gill x 9 duplicate posts = EPIC FAIL

I like maths. ^__^

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I concur with the regeneration comments above

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> So Carrie, you know Alisha? Awesome. I would (if she took the chavvy earrings out).

I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting her (may have had a court-case against me already if I had!) – she’s the long-term girlfriend of a guy I’ve known for many years nows. She’s certainly no chav though from the pics on her facebook. In fact, she looks so different on Misfits cos of her chavvy look I had to text her boyfriend and ask ‘is that your missus?’ hehe.

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> So I noticed there was no mention of this.
http://www.e4.com/misfits/

Hmmm deja vu…

We have been talking about Misfits elsewhere on the forum but not under it’s own thread. I mentioned before that my friend’s partner (Antonia) plays Alisha and we all agree she’s hot as.

*le sigh* ^__^

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> This is true, actually. I think the problem wasn?t that it wasn?t credible for the character – like most things, I tend to think anyone is capable of almost anything given the right, horrible circumstances – it?s that we hadn?t been witness to that journey. So we?re coming in at the end of the story, which is a shame because I think it needed more delicate staggering to feel ?right?.

Good point. I think those that haven’t watched series 1 may not have ‘got’ their tempestuous relationship either – after all, George had to do a lot of fighting to get her in the first place. She was no pushover. But yeah, I think it needed a bit more of their ‘not getting on’ etc before he started snogging vampires, hehe.

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> Not sure George would be so easily lured into cheating – as the character I most closely identified with

I catch your drift – I thought it was down to the fact that George’s sexual/violent instincts are particularly bad before during and after his transformation? But I know what you mean, it did feel strange. Presumably in the month that had elapsed in between the two series, their relationship had deteriorated somewhat.

> I watched the pilot but nothing of the first series. Would it be terribly dim of me to start watching series 2 now (Jo and Ian have seen 1 already) or do I need the first series?

>It?s worth catching up on – and they?ve certainly started the new series with a stronger interest in continuing story – but you should be okay. Everything you need to know, which isn?t a great deal, is restated.

I agree, the first series was recapped rather well at the beginning of the episode I thought. But indeed, series 1 is very good and definitely worth a watch – especially for each of the character’s ‘origins’ episode.

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Nice job, Seb ^__^

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> Oh Andrew, you and your damned ?industry speak?. How DARE you attempt to use relevant words that you know the meaning of.

*shakes fist* BARROWMAN!

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> It?s on 10 January BBC3.

Thanks Chris ^__^

> Oh, and another Brit genre show that?s well worth checking out: Misfits.

My friend’s partner is in it – she plays Alisha. She’s rather hot in my honest opinion. Egyptian descent.

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Being Human is a fantastic show – I love the way it swings between comedy and black drama. Just as something is making you laugh, something really dark can leap in, and vice versa.

Does anyone know the release date for series 2? The ads I’m seeing keep saying ‘Coming soon’.

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> Hang on – why isn?t Ian being snide? I?m confused!

Hmm. Gosh. I wonder why… ^__^

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> It?s almost like they were trying to imply that Tennant was a bit special.

EPIC EMO REGENERATION!!!

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Erm…I may have missed a point somewhere but how come Tom Baker’s Doctor died after falling from an electricity pylon but David Tennant’s Doctor can fall FROM A BURNING SPACESHIP CRASHING THROUGH A ROOF AND FALL TO A MARBLE FLOOR and that doesn’t kill him? Well ‘ard.

I did enjoy it, I didn’t blub once and yes, I think the obsession to tie up loose ends that weren’t really loose was a little self-indulgent but did make me smile.

But his last words brought a lump to my throat. And when Wilf knocked four times on the glass I got chills.

All in all, a fab finale methinks…

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Congratulations! What a fab Christmas prezzie for you!

Hmmmm….I reckon ‘Logan Wolverine the Fett’ for a boy…

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> The show became remarkably popular in Japan as a direct result of the remastered versions
> Ahhh? research.

Is the use of italics to highlight the point or a stylistic visualisation of your smug grin as you pat yourself on the back for being right ?

*EDIT: Ultimate irony? My italics tags won’t work. Mwaha.

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and sharing the same toothbrush

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