TV and movies lately

[telophase]

"I'm sorry. I ate all your bees."

myrialux and I have been watching Black Books lately. I'd seen a couple of episodes a few years back and Netflix keeps recommending it to me, so I threw it on my queue. I sold myrialux on it by saying "There's this misanthropic bookstore owner--" and he cut me off, saying "You had me at 'misanthropic.'"

It's a Britcom, and there's a lot of stupid sitcom humor in it, but it tends to veer into surrealism at the slightest provocation*, and it's provided the above quote, which myrialux and I have taken to quoting to each other at unexpected moments. (It has almost, but not entirely, replaced the previous quote "...too many bees" from the You Suck at Craigslist blog. There's just something about bees.)

We also rocketed through the first season of MI-5 on Netflix streaming video.

And last night we went out with friends to see Despicable Me, which we both thoroughly enjoyed. :)



* I don't really want to explain what leads Manny, the bookstore's clerk, to end up concealed inside a piano playing the strings with spoons.

Comments

[fridgepunk]

Shows in which the plot of an episode revolves around a female character masturbating to the shipping forcast are inherently win.

[wyrdness.livejournal.com]

I used to walk past the shop that's used as the outside shot to Black Books every single day on my way to university. Every time I watched the show I'd sit there going "I'm sure I've been past there..." until eventually I googled it.

I'm not sure if it actually is a bookshop in the real world though, it certainly had very old book editions on display in the window but the door was always shut on the way past (a rather imposing solid black house door) and no sign of any lights on. Before I knew it was Black Books (or had even seen the show) I always wanted to go in there and see what it was like. :D

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

One artist's salute to "Black Books" (http://jollyjack.deviantart.com/gallery/#/dw8126)

[rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com]

It is actually one of my boyfriend's real life ambitions to, at some point, somehow, existentially become Bernard Black.

[estara.livejournal.com]

Okay, so where's the "COVERED IN BEEEEEEEES!" quote by Eddie Izzard then?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGFRnhHI4mE

[kungfufighting.livejournal.com]

"Half ten? I've never been awake at half ten! What happens?"

Black Books is FANTASTIC. Always good to see someone else enjoying it. :)

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

My only regret about Black Books is that there isn't enough of it.

I enjoyed Despicable Me, especially the bit where Gru suffers through the children's book with the holes for fingers. Oh yes.