[pressgang] One Easy Lesson and Deadline

[Laura Nunn]

Over the last seven days, Eldest girl (9) and I watched One Easy Lesson and
Deadline.

Our thoughts:

*One Easy Lesson*

This was the first PG episode I ever watched, and only then by accident as
my mum had recorded ITV instead of CBBC while I was out!

This was also the first episode that really "grabbed" my daughter. The plot
was easier to follow, and she thought it was funny. She has a real soft
spot for Colin, which is worrying as I was more of a Kenny girl.

She absolutely loved the Pings and kept spotting them throughout the
episode.

As a grown up I keep realising how pretty Spike is. And also how genuinely
dreadful some of the acting is *cough* Sarah *cough*.


*Deadline*

Another winner for my daughter. She thought Colin was hilarious again
(though not sure she completely understood the idea of a print run /
deadline / why they couldn't photoshop Tommy Anderson).

A really unpleasant line about Sarah who will do the article "once we've
sewn her wrists up". Not a budgie's chance in a microwave that would make
it in today!

The main story about Sullivan's sewage was funny mainly because every
single one of the jokes around it would have been funny if they'd used the
word "shit". But because they used "sewage", it fell flat. "Mr Sullivan I
hear you're full of sewage" etc. etc. ad infinitum. As a 9 year old, I
wouldn't have been able to make the leap to complete the idiom - not sure
even as a 14 ish year old I'd have got there. This feels like dialogue
written for an older audience and then babied down.

We enjoyed spotting a Ping in a pot plant.

A recycling of the joke about Tommy Anderson being the one who... (implied
scandal), which was done about Spike at the school dance 3 episodes ago.

The end credits with Sarah arranging for Gary Morris to get beaten up was
very well done. Another winner!
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