[pressgang] Episode 5: A Night In

[Dipskit Comedy]

Hi Vince/all

I never really liked the dinner eating competition Lynda has with Spike. It seems too unreasonable even for her. I guess she’s dealing with realising she was dumped though,

The end credits dialogue where Julie tells how she saw a giant rabbit is one of my faves. Also one of my fave Colin episodes, although a pair of scissors would’ve solved the broken zip problem at the start. 😉

It’s one of the few episodes with only a handful of characters, and set in one room. Shows how talented they are, carrying the whole episode and working off each other so well.

Claire

> On 19 Feb 2022, at 12:02, Vince Deehan <vince.deehan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> PRESS GANG 
> Series 1
> Episode 5 - A Night On
> Watched Monday 17/02/2022
> 
> The episode starts with Lynda handing out yellow chits (love that word ‘chits’), which means she wants people to work a late duty from 5:30pm till 10pm on a Saturday night. It’s something she only asks them to do once a month, but on a Saturday night!! Are you being serious, Lynda? These are teenagers. Most of them would have better things to do. Though Sarah seems keen to spend her Saturday evening catching up on homework. I personally spent most of my Saturday evenings as a teenager sitting at home, but that’s another story.
> 
> Lynda is on very cutting form and even refers to Spike as “it’s.”  
> 
> I love the scene where Spike tells a funny story about his Uncle, Crazy Eddie and his lawnmower. The story builds and builds but ends without a punchline. The reaction from Tiddler is priceless. Great acting from Joanna Dukes.
> 
> The anger between Lynda and Spike gets really heated. So much so, he looks like he is almost about to hit her. Instead he thankfully just throws some paper at her.
> 
> Paul Reynolds is on brilliant form. He’s totally on edge, as Lynda says. I didn’t realise until he pulled it off, that his rabbit costume nose is made from a ping!
> 
> I laughed at the part where Spike jumps on to the table. I wonder if Dexter Fletcher could do this now, given that he’s 56 years old. I am 51 and I know I certainly couldn’t do it. Not sure I ever could!
> 
> It’s interesting to hear Spike talk about his Mum and Dad. Though the line he says about his Dad thinking “that apologising is what your wife does if you hit her enough”, is really shocking and no way would that line be used in a children’s drama today. 
> 
> I love the scene where Spike cooks a meal in the Junior Gazette offices. It looks really tasty. I love it when Lynda says “Get on with your eating!” The way that a lump of meat flies into Kenny’s face is hilarious. 
> 
> I wonder what it was like to film that meal scene. They may have been sick to their stomachs having to eat all that food, over multiple takes. Hopefully it was still warm and they didn’t mind too much.
> 
> This was a really enjoyable episode and I look forward to the next one.
> 
> Thanks for reading.
> 
> Vince
> 
> https://youtu.be/eG0tBn6klYQ
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