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Post by xanady on Jan 2, 2020 10:51:59 GMT
^Anything that cheers people up has got to be a positive thing in this depressing world that we live in.More power to the Mischief team,I say.Have loved everything they have done.
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Post by pianowithsam on Jan 3, 2020 21:04:06 GMT
Love Mischief, but had to turn it off tonight, unfortunately. Didn’t enjoy it at all.
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Post by talkingheads on Jan 3, 2020 21:11:17 GMT
Well I was worried it would get repetitive in a second episode. I was wrong, I'm still loving it! The squeezing into the cupboard and the mirror/shower scene being highlights! It's all the tiny reactions that make it that much funnier. And even more of the cast end up in their pants, though still only the males I notice.
Oddly this seems to be divisive on Twitter. I genuinely can't understand how someone couldn't laugh watching Michief!
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Post by crowblack on Jan 3, 2020 21:22:25 GMT
Just caught a bit of it tonight and thought it was rather jolly - will defo recommend to young relatives because I think they'll love the slapstick.
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Post by Dawnstar on Jan 3, 2020 21:25:44 GMT
I really enjoyed tonight's & thought it was the best of their TV appearances so far.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2020 23:13:47 GMT
I enjoyed this more than last week’s, I think. I actually shouted at the telly when Chris Bean picked up the coat stand, “He’ll never get that through the... oh.”
There are definitely some weak moments but I think the whole thing moves so fast, you don’t dwell on it as there’s another funny along a few moments later.
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Post by olliebean on Jan 3, 2020 23:17:38 GMT
The goings wrong are massively contrived, of course, but I find myself laughing in spite of that. I really dislike the "Goes Wrong" branding, though - feels like it somewhat spoils the joke.
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Post by crowblack on Jan 4, 2020 0:20:19 GMT
I really dislike the "Goes Wrong" branding, though - feels like it somewhat spoils the joke. Well, it does what it says on the tin - I wish they'd drop the 'regional polytechnic so of course it's crap' thing though.
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Post by pianowithsam on Jan 4, 2020 0:52:11 GMT
I really dislike the "Goes Wrong" branding, though - feels like it somewhat spoils the joke. Well, it does what it says on the tin - I wish they'd drop the 'regional polytechnic so of course it's crap' thing though. Why? It works better for the full shows like TPTGW because it hits every cliché going and works brilliantly. For example, Trevor (the lighting guy) being so bored and when he steps in as an actor in the play, completely out of it. It adds to it that it’s supposed to be an amateur dramatics society. There’s no way for the full extent of it to be put across in just half an hour.
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Post by crowblack on Jan 4, 2020 10:18:33 GMT
Because it comes across as 'punching down' humour when a group of students from the London-based 'Oxbridge' of drama schools (one which has just slashed audition fees to increase accessibility for less well off applicants, suggesting the school recognise it was an issue) use that as shorthand for 'crap'. You must remember the social class division between kids who went to uni and those who went to poly (mostly state school), surely? It's like that old-school snobbery about regional 'redbrick universities', or 'The National Theatre of Brent'. I thought NTOB was funny too, but dear god what is it with the English and their snobbery about anywhere Not London, unless it's a mansion in the Cotswolds. Compare and contrast with the USA which, for all its faults does, in its popular culture, respect small town life and regard it as just as valid and meaningful an existence as LA or NY.
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Post by talkingheads on Jan 4, 2020 10:56:00 GMT
Because it comes across as 'punching down' humour when a group of students from the London-based 'Oxbridge' of drama schools (one which has just slashed audition fees to increase accessibility for less well off applicants, suggesting the school recognise it was an issue) use that as shorthand for 'crap'. You must remember the social class division between kids who went to uni and those who went to poly (mostly state school), surely? It's like that old-school snobbery about regional 'redbrick universities', or 'The National Theatre of Brent'. I thought NTOB was funny too, but dear god what is it with the English and their snobbery about anywhere Not London, unless it's a mansion in the Cotswolds. Compare and contrast with the USA which, for all its faults does, in its popular culture, respect small town life and regard it as just as valid and meaningful an existence as LA or NY. Maybe it's just me but I always thought they were being self deprecating, given how posh the characters are, so it adds an extra layer that despite being posh and possibly upper class they still can't get a play right. Anyway, regardless of class, am dram has always been open to mockery. I've seen a lot in my time and the bad outweigh the great by quite a large margin!
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Post by david on Jan 4, 2020 11:20:12 GMT
Thoroughly enjoyed the latest episode. A very funny script with great performances by the cast. A much better episode than the first one. Hopefully the remaining episodes will be just as good as episode 2.
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Post by crowblack on Jan 4, 2020 11:27:31 GMT
I've seen a lot in my time and the bad outweigh the great by quite a large margin! Yes, but I don't think it's fair to mock it - the people who do it, do it because they love it. Maybe some of them, if they'd come from better off backgrounds with a financial safety net to keep them while they waited for their acting career to take off, could have afforded to hone their skills at a drama school. And god knows there are some bloody awful 'actors' cast in leading roles in major movies and TV shows just because they're pretty and well-connected, and some ludicrously pretentious, clunky stuff done by the drama depts of Russell Group universities. I just wish the 'goes wrong' team would drop the regional poly thing: it doesn't add anything. Having "Goes Wrong" in the title is quite enough.
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Post by freckles on Jan 4, 2020 12:10:07 GMT
I've seen a lot in my time and the bad outweigh the great by quite a large margin! Yes, but I don't think it's fair to mock it - the people who do it, do it because they love it. Maybe some of them, if they'd come from better off backgrounds with a financial safety net to keep them while they waited for their acting career to take off, could have afforded to hone their skills at a drama school. And god knows there are some bloody awful 'actors' cast in leading roles in major movies and TV shows just because they're pretty and well-connected, and some ludicrously pretentious, clunky stuff done by the drama depts of Russell Group universities. I just wish the 'goes wrong' team would drop the regional poly thing: it doesn't add anything. Having "Goes Wrong" in the title is quite enough. I think these TV shows are finally hitting the mark, last night’s was very funny. I think any humour directed at amdram is affectionate, and hardly original in any case. I’ve been involved in local theatre and, strive for professionalism as we may have, can identify with and see the humour in situations like woefully inadequate set and props, and miscasting because of the inevitable limitations of a small society. Maybe it’s become more sophisticated since my day, but I don’t find anything inappropriate or offensive.
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Post by alece10 on Jan 4, 2020 12:15:59 GMT
I found it very funny and extremely clever, although I did wince everytime the poor French woman kept getting hit. The Christmas one did make me laugh more though.
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Post by Dawnstar on Jan 4, 2020 12:48:02 GMT
I think the TV ones are simply transmitted from Cornley, and they haven't mentioned the Polytechnic at all, unless I missed it? You're right. They seem to have quietly dropped the Polytechnic part of the name for this series. Though I would hazard a guess that it's more likely to be because the cast are a bit mature by now to look like they're still at university rather than because people are taking offence at any implications of the word Polytechnic.
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Post by crowblack on Jan 4, 2020 12:51:50 GMT
Though I would hazard a guess that it's more likely to be because the cast are a bit mature by now to look like they're still at university rather than because people are taking offence at any implications of the word Polytechnic. Yes, I saw it listed (Radio Times?) as "the Cornley Polytechnic drama society are back..." but yeah, I think the actors are too old now to be plausibly students.
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Post by anita on Jan 4, 2020 13:42:50 GMT
My husband & I didn't laugh once. Not going to watch any more.
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Post by ptwest on Jan 4, 2020 17:20:03 GMT
Thought this was much funnier than the Christmas one.
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Post by danielwhit on Jan 5, 2020 23:52:40 GMT
Thought this was the best of their TV outings so far. Yes there are some predictable moments, and the problem with TV is sometimes the camera framing can give away what is going to happen, however overall it was a broad success.
Dennis playing the clueless fax machine was great fun, I'm just surprised there wasn't a nuclear "red button" joke anywhere given the deliberately bad chronology.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jan 7, 2020 11:32:08 GMT
Well I thought the Christmas episode was dire honestly (only funny bits were Henry Lewis’ grumpy failed actor, and the stickup a chimney bit) even though I loved their past Christmas TV specials. But the “pilot” (not pilot) episode was great. There were parts that could perhaps have been developed more but a strong story and consistent gags. Hugely enjoyed it.
On a personal note if they want to actually handcuff Henry Shields and not just promise to do so that would be OK with me.
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Post by Dr Tom on Jan 7, 2020 20:37:23 GMT
I just don't get these and it's really weird as I normally enjoy farce. They just seem so telegraphed and the spoken lines always end up matching perfectly the visually unplanned stuff.
I did see half of TPTGW with the original cast, in the days when it was still discounted. Part of me regrets not lasting the course, but I just didn't laugh and on that date couldn't cope with malfunctioning guns. It's still the only show I've not come back for the second half for.
I've watched all the TV stuff. I did find a few funny moments in the Christmas episode, but the Pilot was just the same jokes we've seen a thousand times. There wasn't even enough of Dave Hearn smiling wildly to save it.
I'm sure there's something I've missed. I can appreciate the work that goes into these and I'm impressed by how much success Mischief have had around the world. So what have I missed?
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Post by xanady on Jan 10, 2020 20:53:00 GMT
Spoiler alert...
Tonight’s episode features a running joke about the set being designed incorrectly in terms of scale and reminds me of the famous Stonehenge scene from ‘This Is Spinal Tap’.... what a riot that film was!
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Post by pianowithsam on Jan 10, 2020 21:08:55 GMT
Wasn't laughing out loud with tonight's episode, but thought it was very well written and extremely clever.
Miles better than last week's.
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Post by pianowithsam on Jan 10, 2020 21:09:06 GMT
Wasn't laughing out loud with tonight's episode, but thought it was very well written and extremely clever.
Miles better than last week's.
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Post by Dawnstar on Jan 10, 2020 21:23:14 GMT
I loved this week's sets, especially the Judge's chamber that was like a dolls' house!
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Post by alece10 on Jan 10, 2020 21:28:31 GMT
That was really funny and very clever. Loved the physical comedy. The best so far for me.
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Post by pianowithsam on Jan 10, 2020 21:28:45 GMT
I loved this week's sets, especially the Judge's chamber that was like a dolls' house! Definitely some Bank Robbery inspiration for the set here.
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Post by david on Jan 10, 2020 21:39:55 GMT
A really funny episode this week. Loved the sets. I’d like to see this one performed on stage.
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Post by Dawnstar on Jan 10, 2020 22:04:10 GMT
Definitely some Bank Robbery inspiration for the set here. There were a few similarities with not only TCAABR (also Henry S pouring water over himself like Caprice does in Act 2) but also TPTGW (Jonathan's failure to exit when he should have, Dave miming blood spurting), PPGW (conversations getting the wrong way round following prompting) & Groan Ups (prosecution/prostitution). But I suppose there's only so many things that can Go Wrong & most of the audience probably don't remember the shows in the minute detail that I do!
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