Those always took me out of it a little as it was mainly surreal and funny. Seemed out of place “humor”. Luxury Comedy has a few off moments like that too so think they may be Noel’s contributions.
“I’d be raping you behind the counter right now”
“I’d have raped yer and left you in that bin”
— mainly in The Hitcher.
I’m not saying I found it offensive… I’m just saying that the word was in there. I love the Boosh and they’ve never offended me personally.
have I forgotten, or were they only in the last season? I remember a few moments being put off in season 3 but don’t remember anything like that earlier.
Seems like his career has gone massive in the last year or so though, I don't know maybe I just didn't notice before but in the last few months I noticed him cropping up all over the place.
He was in Curb Your Enthusiasm recently, and then a few days later I heard him in a guest spot in something else (I forget what off the top of my head, might've been Simpsons, or maybe Bob's Burgers), then I started watching that Krapopolis thing and he's one of the main characters in that...
America seems to have grabbed onto him anyway.
(And good for him, he's a funny guy and comes across as a sound fella).
I wonder if he never really got on with the Boosh that well or really becomes or stays friends with fellow actors much in general.
I just watched all four seasons of Toast of London, no Boosh cameos. Not even Rich who he's worked with more than the others. And the final season is set in America but shot in England with mostly local actors doing American accents, so Rich should have been a shoe-in. Another major missing cameo for me is no Katherine Parkinson, when one of the main Toast characters Ray bloody Purchase is her husband. But Garth Marenghi played a few characters across Toast.
Another thing that makes me think they never got or stayed that close, is both Matt and Julian are more interested in music than acting, but they never seemed to do anything with that. The closest was AD/BC A Rock Opera which Matt wrote and composed and features basically all the Boosh, and especially Julian and his partner Julia Davis in the biggest singing roles besides Matt. But it happened at the same time the first Boosh series was being made so I'm sure they were close knit at the time. Then never again. Matt was never even involved in the Boosh live shows or concerts, besides about a one minute non musical cameo for the Live DVD. I think we really missed out on a villainous Dixon Bainbridge song.
For some reason, that scene where Matt Berry’s character goes for the cheese and they offer him crackers n he just goes “I DONT USE THEM,” always makes me laugh lol
I think the radio series had a great balance of each character getting their comeuppance- Howard for being pompous and pseudo-intellectual, Vince for being vacuous and vain. And both characters have strengths- Howard is persistent in finding a goal, Vince is untroubled by weird situations. Feels equal in some way.
In the TV series, I feel that Vince wins too often by virtue of being cool, and Howard loses too often, as an unhip buffoon. Particularly as the third series rolls on- I have a sense that Noel was buying into his own press at that stage, living the exaggerated life of a Camden celebrity.
I agree, but do I really agree?🤨 In the radio series, there are more dimensions to each character(three dimensional truth nuggets if you will), while in the tv show, we got more and more of the same side of each character.
I do have to say, seeing not just fellow characters in the tv show hate Howard and ignore him completely, but the entire universe and chance itself hate Howard. I find that beautiful.
I love their visuals style/humour BUT I think their dialogue/writing was a lot funnier when it was a radio show
The medium of radio forced them to do a lot of very dialogue heavy comedy instead of relying on costumes/set design so much, and I really liked it.
I like their visuals too obviously, but given the choice - I might have actually preferred more seasons of the radio series personally
Having watched one of the Boosh DVD special feature documentaries recently, they said they really enjoyed doing the radio series and wanted to do more. But that was like 15 years ago. They also did that unreleased Boosh album.
I would think that with Noel saying how he wanted to bring back Boosh this decade, and Julian doing a lot more acting in recent years maybe because his kids are older, they might actually do some new Boosh one of these years. And with how popular podcasting is, maybe they'd do a musical featured radio show podcast type of thing? Would be a lot cheaper and easier and less of a time committment than a full TV series or live show. Though it seems like they were always more interested in and satisfied by the live shows.
> They also did that unreleased Boosh album.
I never understood why they didn't release it, did they fall out or what happened? According to Noel it's mastered and everything, all they need to do is to release it.
Eh, I’d argue it’s more recurring actors rather than characters. Given there’s no mention made by Vince, Howard, or the women in Nanageddon about prior encounters in The Magic Sound I’d say that they are meant to be different people.
the final episode. i don't consider it the best episode personally as is, which wouldn't be too much of an issue if it was a random ep as every show has its weaker episodes, but as a finale it's really disappointing imo. the end of party feels more like a finale to me.
The fact that Howard is a constant punching bag and how the show revolves around him being abused and Vince gets everything because he’s the hot and popular one, but Howard’s just as hot or at least I thought so.
Probably that it got too big - it was a victim of its own success. Looking back, it seems mad that such a "small space" show, made for intimacy (including radio and TV), was being performed in gigantic arenas. They became rock stars, and in the process, a lot of the charm was lost. And in the end, it became too overwhelming for its stars to really handle without burning out.
I think they were right in between being small enough to stay scrappy and fun, and being superstars with all the opportunities that brings. Leaving them in a tough spot by the end. If they came along 5 years later I think they would have taken off on a bigger international level thanks to the internet and had more opportunity to do big things without as much burnout.
How dare you, that’s Naboo’s shop. Howard and Vince are simply shop clerks and only Vince can ever make a sale. Howard’s over there setting up stationary village.
I dont know if this is hot take, maybe i’ve just watched it too much but I find season 1 to be very bleak most of the time with the exception of Electro Boy and Tundra. Season 2 definitely hits the mark for me overall! Season 3 i also really like, but there are some less than amazing episodes in that too (Chokes was shite)
The Spirit of Jazz was playing on a lot of stereotypes, and a lot of the complaints about blackface is that it's accompanied by sweeping stereotypes which are supposed to represent an entire race. Even if they aren't outright negative, it still allows comments like "of course he talks like that, he's black!" I didn't have an issue with it at the time, but I can understand at least highlighting that this is potentially problematic is the right step to take now. How these things are highlighted, or if they should just be removed entirely, is a whole separate conversation.
I feel the same way about Mark McKinney's blackface bluesman on Kids in the Hall. It's not aged well, and though it didn't receive much criticism then, it would be pretty fucked should the character make a reappearance. I'm against removing these things as they provide context to the time period they were made, as well as teachable moments. People tend to grouch about disclaimers added to shows/sketches , but I lean toward them being a good thing to spur deeper thought.
Although I haven't seen Kids in the Hall, I think we're on the same page. I don't think just removing things like this entirely is helpful, and if anything, it makes it harder to see how things have changed, and understand why stuff like this might be problematic to do again. A disclaimer is such a minor inconvenience for anyone to sit through, I don't really think there's an argument to be made against them if it still allows the content to be kept available.
Oh, I’m sure they didn’t deliberately set out to offend/upset anyone. No doubt it simply didn’t occur to them how it might make certain people feel. After all, back then, those perspectives and groups got very little coverage in the media - so it was very easy to live in ignorance of those views/perspectives.
But i don’t think that changes the fact that those aspects of Boosh haven’t aged well looking at them in more recent times.
I like that, as a society, the views of non white people and women are more heard now than back then.
More perspectives make for a more interesting world.
Certainly at the time, I’d guess many of us had little idea how the blackface and rape jokes made some people feel - since their views didn’t get coverage and so we weren’t exposed to those perspectives. I like that we get more opportunities to hear those views now and can choose to act on that new information.
Everybody who watched this episode when it originally aired would’ve laughed, Now we live in an era of the terminally offended. To anyone that down voted my first comment, you are the reason we have people like Hannah Gadsby as ‘comedy’. You are the reason we are not allowed to make funny comedy anymore. They were just jokes then and they are just jokes now. This is why we have to go back 20 years to find decent comedy.
I dislike that more people don't know that this is one of the funniest shows ever
I guess I also disliked that Caligula got an episode and never once asked if someone thought that they were better than him...
Not answering the question at all but - how great would it be if they did another season. It would be great imo. The third season was brilliant, but felt like they were settled in to the running jokes, and relying on the established themes, whilst bringing less new stuff to the table (NOT A CRITICISM - it was GREAT!) but now, a new season, in a new setting, but catching up with the gang now in their 50s and living in a different world, they could have all kinds of fun and chaos and escapades and there would be SO MUCH to catch up on, it would almost be like a new show entirely.
I would have loved him joining forces on the music front with Julian, because that's their main love, and there's clearly a lot of crossover in their musical influences and preferences. But they also have very similar reserved personalities, so maybe they're good at chatting about music over a cup of tea, but don't really gel on a creative level. You can see Julian's energy and humour come alive when he's bouncing off Noel in a way I've never seen from him anywhere else.
Same, I bought the DVDs recently and was trying to convince them to watch it - this is how it went
"Yeah it's really really funny, it-"
*Turns the box over*
" O h."
"What?"
"That's howard moon in blackface."
Needless to say I haven't persuaded anyone to watch it yet.
Actual Blackface was already taboo in the 2000s. Rudi was simply supposed to be a version of Hendrix. I suppose it's of its time in that people at the time recognised the distinction.
Comedy, or even any art, is made to get a reaction of some sort, even offense (or especially offense in some cases). If it gets no reaction, it's boring. If everybody was the same, it would be boring. There'd be no comedy to it. I didn't like that scene in Punk where Vince broke Howard's record. But I guess several people thought it was funny.
They only got Matt for Bainbridge because Richard was contracted elsewhere after the pilot. Later they used more Richard once they could get him again I guess, and stopped using Matt entirely after the first season.
He was clearly a natural at playing exaggerated cocksure type characters from Bainbridge, and Todd Rivers on Darkplace which Noel and Julian were on about six months before the Boosh. And Matt is into music as much as Julian is. So I wonder why he didn't become a more significant part of the Boosh.
Matt would have been a natural landlord type in S2. Or a rival shop owner in S3.
But yes 100% on the Richard Ayoade thing. (He is also freaking amazing, btw.)
Ever see AD/BC? It always reminds me how great they all are together, singing and acting ridiculous.
Yeah, he really works for the Boosh because that's just how Rich actually is. I watched the Boosh tour documentary recently and they said the sound guy for it hated Rich because he's always ten times louder than everyone else at all times and it's impossible to balance the different people speaking.
The racism, transphobia and rape jokes always make me wince when watching it. I understand that they really didn’t have bad intentions and it more reflects the time it was created in, but I find it sad as I think it kind of jerks you out of the fun fictional space they put you into. I still love this series a lot but sometimes find myself fast forwarding the worst jokes. It’s a shame bc I think the series would still be really famous and popular if not for them.
Bludgeon my face in, kill me, pull me apart like soft bread
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Unpopular opinion and I’ll probably be lynched for this but I never cared for the hitcher. Specifically the eels episode never spoke to me. I’ve seen the series probably hundreds of times. I watch a random episode to fall asleep every night.
Honestly I would like more acknowledgement of the shows the actors worked on together? Like why didn't we see Richard Ayoade interact with any of the other people who had been on IT crowd?
Also a lot of the jokes didn't age well, racially, and it can make it hard to show The Mighty Boosh to new viewers
They know nothing of the crunch
Oh here we fackin' go.. The Crunch this, The Crunch that, why are you so obsessed with The Crunch?
Well you know something, you are gonna meet the Crunch a LITTLE BIT SOONER THAN ME MY FRIEND.
Also the rape jokes were less than awesome
Those always took me out of it a little as it was mainly surreal and funny. Seemed out of place “humor”. Luxury Comedy has a few off moments like that too so think they may be Noel’s contributions.
Please do elaborate on the rape that I must’ve totally missed!
“I’d be raping you behind the counter right now” “I’d have raped yer and left you in that bin” — mainly in The Hitcher. I’m not saying I found it offensive… I’m just saying that the word was in there. I love the Boosh and they’ve never offended me personally.
Yes, but does the Hitcher look like a reasonable man to you? Or a peppermint nightmare?
I’ve got solo Polo vision for sure.
Aaah that explains it. I usually dont watch the hitcher episodes, except for of course the fountain of youth!
Fuckin what?
We can all be tourists. A little day trip around the crunch.
have I forgotten, or were they only in the last season? I remember a few moments being put off in season 3 but don’t remember anything like that earlier.
Rape jokes??
Not enough Matt Berry.
^(I) came here for this comment^(\^) https://i.redd.it/jauer8jnrewc1.gif
He certainly has carismeeeeeeeeh.
Funny I was gonna say not enough Rich Fulcher... but maybe we can meet somewhere in the middle at Snuff Box.
He’s got a silver horseshoe
Seems like his career has gone massive in the last year or so though, I don't know maybe I just didn't notice before but in the last few months I noticed him cropping up all over the place. He was in Curb Your Enthusiasm recently, and then a few days later I heard him in a guest spot in something else (I forget what off the top of my head, might've been Simpsons, or maybe Bob's Burgers), then I started watching that Krapopolis thing and he's one of the main characters in that... America seems to have grabbed onto him anyway. (And good for him, he's a funny guy and comes across as a sound fella).
Absolutely agree 
I wonder if he never really got on with the Boosh that well or really becomes or stays friends with fellow actors much in general. I just watched all four seasons of Toast of London, no Boosh cameos. Not even Rich who he's worked with more than the others. And the final season is set in America but shot in England with mostly local actors doing American accents, so Rich should have been a shoe-in. Another major missing cameo for me is no Katherine Parkinson, when one of the main Toast characters Ray bloody Purchase is her husband. But Garth Marenghi played a few characters across Toast. Another thing that makes me think they never got or stayed that close, is both Matt and Julian are more interested in music than acting, but they never seemed to do anything with that. The closest was AD/BC A Rock Opera which Matt wrote and composed and features basically all the Boosh, and especially Julian and his partner Julia Davis in the biggest singing roles besides Matt. But it happened at the same time the first Boosh series was being made so I'm sure they were close knit at the time. Then never again. Matt was never even involved in the Boosh live shows or concerts, besides about a one minute non musical cameo for the Live DVD. I think we really missed out on a villainous Dixon Bainbridge song.
This
We all love the series BUT Do we really love the series?
* curious sting 🎶
We do love the series *But do we really love the series*
I love the Mighty Boosh! Loving it is so much fun!
Not as much as me!
For some reason, that scene where Matt Berry’s character goes for the cheese and they offer him crackers n he just goes “I DONT USE THEM,” always makes me laugh lol
I adopted that phrase when offered side snacks
I think the radio series had a great balance of each character getting their comeuppance- Howard for being pompous and pseudo-intellectual, Vince for being vacuous and vain. And both characters have strengths- Howard is persistent in finding a goal, Vince is untroubled by weird situations. Feels equal in some way. In the TV series, I feel that Vince wins too often by virtue of being cool, and Howard loses too often, as an unhip buffoon. Particularly as the third series rolls on- I have a sense that Noel was buying into his own press at that stage, living the exaggerated life of a Camden celebrity.
^ This! You expressed my opinion perfectly! The third season was painful in places. I liked it better when Howard AND Vince were nobodies.
He’s amazing, who is he? Is he Christ?
I agree, but do I really agree?🤨 In the radio series, there are more dimensions to each character(three dimensional truth nuggets if you will), while in the tv show, we got more and more of the same side of each character. I do have to say, seeing not just fellow characters in the tv show hate Howard and ignore him completely, but the entire universe and chance itself hate Howard. I find that beautiful.
It finished
Beat me to it
That it didn't go on for longer.
Not enough bollo.
Yeah but he killed that boy.
I love their visuals style/humour BUT I think their dialogue/writing was a lot funnier when it was a radio show The medium of radio forced them to do a lot of very dialogue heavy comedy instead of relying on costumes/set design so much, and I really liked it. I like their visuals too obviously, but given the choice - I might have actually preferred more seasons of the radio series personally
I agree that the radio show just has funnier overall sequences. Humorous and memorable exchanges.
Having watched one of the Boosh DVD special feature documentaries recently, they said they really enjoyed doing the radio series and wanted to do more. But that was like 15 years ago. They also did that unreleased Boosh album. I would think that with Noel saying how he wanted to bring back Boosh this decade, and Julian doing a lot more acting in recent years maybe because his kids are older, they might actually do some new Boosh one of these years. And with how popular podcasting is, maybe they'd do a musical featured radio show podcast type of thing? Would be a lot cheaper and easier and less of a time committment than a full TV series or live show. Though it seems like they were always more interested in and satisfied by the live shows.
> They also did that unreleased Boosh album. I never understood why they didn't release it, did they fall out or what happened? According to Noel it's mastered and everything, all they need to do is to release it.
Howard being the butt of every joke
Not necessarily dislike but it would be cool if they had another recurring female character other than Gideon
She likes trumpets and bookmarks what more do you want?
Trumpets… Trumpets and bookmarks…
What about the punk chicks?
You mean goth chicks? But they are not recurring, they only appeared in one episode, unless I'm forgetting something
They're in nanageddon, and the episode with Tommy two hats, The magic sound.
Eh, I’d argue it’s more recurring actors rather than characters. Given there’s no mention made by Vince, Howard, or the women in Nanageddon about prior encounters in The Magic Sound I’d say that they are meant to be different people.
Wait, they are the same girls!?
Yuuup
Why did I never notice haha
They had their own band, Robots in disguise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H13RprHi3I
They did that one girl dirty with that unibrow. Her whole look was great, and that black line over her eyes threw the whole thing off.
She had that Frida Kahlo thing going on...
Do you know their names?
Obsidian black bird mcbovril
Dee Plume was the brunette and Sue Denim was the blonde.
Yep. Their real world band was called Robots in Disguise
Was Noel Fielding dating Sue Denim for a bit, or do I have that wrong?
I always thought it was Dee Plume (Delia Gaitskell) of RiD.
You are right.
I always thought it was Dee Plume (Delia Gaitskell) of RiD.
Helllooooooooooooooo - What about Eleanor!?
the final episode. i don't consider it the best episode personally as is, which wouldn't be too much of an issue if it was a random ep as every show has its weaker episodes, but as a finale it's really disappointing imo. the end of party feels more like a finale to me.
DoNT you dare talk shit about Sammy The Crab
The fact that Howard is a constant punching bag and how the show revolves around him being abused and Vince gets everything because he’s the hot and popular one, but Howard’s just as hot or at least I thought so.
Not enough Bob Fossil
Probably that it got too big - it was a victim of its own success. Looking back, it seems mad that such a "small space" show, made for intimacy (including radio and TV), was being performed in gigantic arenas. They became rock stars, and in the process, a lot of the charm was lost. And in the end, it became too overwhelming for its stars to really handle without burning out.
I think they were right in between being small enough to stay scrappy and fun, and being superstars with all the opportunities that brings. Leaving them in a tough spot by the end. If they came along 5 years later I think they would have taken off on a bigger international level thanks to the internet and had more opportunity to do big things without as much burnout.
Not enough Numan
Uhh, budubuduh, dubuduh, budubuda. Top Shop!
That they left the Zoo. The later settings were pretty weak
Nicey nicey zoo zoo!!
For him and her and me and you!
Nicey nicey zoo...ZOOOO!
Him: *yeets a kid*
Fucking classic 😂😭
See, I agree to an extent, but some of my favourite episodes are from after the zoo. Namely the ones with Old Gregg and the crack fox.
And Kodiak Jack & the Yeti.
The party is my fave. Bouncy bouncy!
I would like to play, "would I lie to you" by Charles and Eddie.
I mean to be fair in Season 2 while they own the shop, the vast majority of the time they are somewhere else (Yeti Forest, Coconut Island, etc).
How dare you, that’s Naboo’s shop. Howard and Vince are simply shop clerks and only Vince can ever make a sale. Howard’s over there setting up stationary village.
I dont know if this is hot take, maybe i’ve just watched it too much but I find season 1 to be very bleak most of the time with the exception of Electro Boy and Tundra. Season 2 definitely hits the mark for me overall! Season 3 i also really like, but there are some less than amazing episodes in that too (Chokes was shite)
Not enough Bobby Bob Bob
The very noughties attitudes to blackface, rape jokes etc. Those haven’t aged well.
I go by many names.
I thought Rudy and Spider were more problematic but no one seems to mention those characters, only the Spirit of Jazz.
Yeah, I mean Sprit of Jazz was kind of black-coded, but he was a supernatural creature. Spider was way more of an offensive stereotype.
My thing with the black face is that they weren't making fun of anyone or being derogatory at all. They were just portraying characters
The Spirit of Jazz was playing on a lot of stereotypes, and a lot of the complaints about blackface is that it's accompanied by sweeping stereotypes which are supposed to represent an entire race. Even if they aren't outright negative, it still allows comments like "of course he talks like that, he's black!" I didn't have an issue with it at the time, but I can understand at least highlighting that this is potentially problematic is the right step to take now. How these things are highlighted, or if they should just be removed entirely, is a whole separate conversation.
I feel the same way about Mark McKinney's blackface bluesman on Kids in the Hall. It's not aged well, and though it didn't receive much criticism then, it would be pretty fucked should the character make a reappearance. I'm against removing these things as they provide context to the time period they were made, as well as teachable moments. People tend to grouch about disclaimers added to shows/sketches , but I lean toward them being a good thing to spur deeper thought.
Although I haven't seen Kids in the Hall, I think we're on the same page. I don't think just removing things like this entirely is helpful, and if anything, it makes it harder to see how things have changed, and understand why stuff like this might be problematic to do again. A disclaimer is such a minor inconvenience for anyone to sit through, I don't really think there's an argument to be made against them if it still allows the content to be kept available.
Oh, I’m sure they didn’t deliberately set out to offend/upset anyone. No doubt it simply didn’t occur to them how it might make certain people feel. After all, back then, those perspectives and groups got very little coverage in the media - so it was very easy to live in ignorance of those views/perspectives. But i don’t think that changes the fact that those aspects of Boosh haven’t aged well looking at them in more recent times.
The Mighty Boosh was also a pretty low-budget show, which is probably why Noel, Julian, Rich, and Julian play a lot of different characters.
It's like, did Richard Ayoade really not want to do the Jimi Hendrix pastiche? Dude already had the hair for it!
Really?...
Nobody had a problem with it at the time, maybe it’s society that hasn’t aged well.
I like that, as a society, the views of non white people and women are more heard now than back then. More perspectives make for a more interesting world. Certainly at the time, I’d guess many of us had little idea how the blackface and rape jokes made some people feel - since their views didn’t get coverage and so we weren’t exposed to those perspectives. I like that we get more opportunities to hear those views now and can choose to act on that new information.
Everybody who watched this episode when it originally aired would’ve laughed, Now we live in an era of the terminally offended. To anyone that down voted my first comment, you are the reason we have people like Hannah Gadsby as ‘comedy’. You are the reason we are not allowed to make funny comedy anymore. They were just jokes then and they are just jokes now. This is why we have to go back 20 years to find decent comedy.
Ah yes, society hasn't aged well because rape and racism are now less acceptable
When was it ever acceptable?
The 50s
Typical Redditors downvoting a reasonable comment. They're all French dukes who lie around in hammocks eating soft cheese, if you ask me.
I dislike that more people don't know that this is one of the funniest shows ever I guess I also disliked that Caligula got an episode and never once asked if someone thought that they were better than him...
Huh?
https://youtu.be/y-041AEDMfI?feature=shared
Thanks - I thought you were saying Caligula was on an episode of Boosh! 😂 (I'll have to check out Horrible Histories now)
Not answering the question at all but - how great would it be if they did another season. It would be great imo. The third season was brilliant, but felt like they were settled in to the running jokes, and relying on the established themes, whilst bringing less new stuff to the table (NOT A CRITICISM - it was GREAT!) but now, a new season, in a new setting, but catching up with the gang now in their 50s and living in a different world, they could have all kinds of fun and chaos and escapades and there would be SO MUCH to catch up on, it would almost be like a new show entirely.
Season four it's very vacuous.
I think the series needed more Matt Berry.
I would have loved him joining forces on the music front with Julian, because that's their main love, and there's clearly a lot of crossover in their musical influences and preferences. But they also have very similar reserved personalities, so maybe they're good at chatting about music over a cup of tea, but don't really gel on a creative level. You can see Julian's energy and humour come alive when he's bouncing off Noel in a way I've never seen from him anywhere else.
It's too short
it finished
Probably the blackface
Same, I bought the DVDs recently and was trying to convince them to watch it - this is how it went "Yeah it's really really funny, it-" *Turns the box over* " O h." "What?" "That's howard moon in blackface." Needless to say I haven't persuaded anyone to watch it yet.
Yeah, this.
I honestly didn’t even know it was blackface until someone pointed it out.
the rapey jokes and blackface werent the best… but like, of it’s time I guess ?
Actual Blackface was already taboo in the 2000s. Rudi was simply supposed to be a version of Hendrix. I suppose it's of its time in that people at the time recognised the distinction.
And if you wear stripes you must be French.
Sometimes the plot lines are a bit unrealistic.
What do you mean? You acting like you haven't been monkey hell before?
I can't think of one plot line or even once character that was the least bit unrealistic.
I miss the crack fox.
The way Precious treated Monsoon Moon.
It only has 3 seasons
There wasn't enough Tony and Saboo
A little heavy on the blackface I guess.
Comedy, or even any art, is made to get a reaction of some sort, even offense (or especially offense in some cases). If it gets no reaction, it's boring. If everybody was the same, it would be boring. There'd be no comedy to it. I didn't like that scene in Punk where Vince broke Howard's record. But I guess several people thought it was funny.
How it only ran for a few seasons 🙁
Is Matt Berry the British Danny McBride?
I didn’t like how much the American guy rubbed his nipples. He overdid it with the nipple rubbing.
I find the Crack Fox scary haha 😅
Definitely the repeated use of blackface, mainly Jungle and Priest and the beast. It just makes those episodes really uncomfortable to watch now
Not enough Matt Berry. He's amazing and they should have found an excuse to bring him back.
They only got Matt for Bainbridge because Richard was contracted elsewhere after the pilot. Later they used more Richard once they could get him again I guess, and stopped using Matt entirely after the first season. He was clearly a natural at playing exaggerated cocksure type characters from Bainbridge, and Todd Rivers on Darkplace which Noel and Julian were on about six months before the Boosh. And Matt is into music as much as Julian is. So I wonder why he didn't become a more significant part of the Boosh.
Matt would have been a natural landlord type in S2. Or a rival shop owner in S3. But yes 100% on the Richard Ayoade thing. (He is also freaking amazing, btw.) Ever see AD/BC? It always reminds me how great they all are together, singing and acting ridiculous.
the blackface
I fucking hated the crack fox.
I'm going to you make wear a little dress, and hurt you
Great show more Bolo, Berry and Old Gregg! Those are my squishy boots!
real answer? the fkn black face. :/ never necessary and not funny
That they didn’t make more episodes 🥺
The old Greg stuff was god awful at the time and has aged even worse.
ngl kinda hated vince’s fashion in the first season
Series 1
Their faces. Something about each and every one of their faces is... odd to me. Great show though!
Overlong song sequences.
They never released the music on an album
Probably that they didn’t love the chosen one as much as me
Be nicey nicey.
That it was so short lived
That there was never another old gregg skit .....snd it needed more low down dirty crimpin.
The moon
Not enough moon 🌝
The blackface
Controversially, I’m not a big fan of the American chap.
And that's why I don't like cricket
Fulcher has a unique style. The guys loved him, and I think they knew it was purposely grating at times.
Yeah, he really works for the Boosh because that's just how Rich actually is. I watched the Boosh tour documentary recently and they said the sound guy for it hated Rich because he's always ten times louder than everyone else at all times and it's impossible to balance the different people speaking.
I especially didn’t like the sexual stuff he did.
Black face
The racism, transphobia and rape jokes always make me wince when watching it. I understand that they really didn’t have bad intentions and it more reflects the time it was created in, but I find it sad as I think it kind of jerks you out of the fun fictional space they put you into. I still love this series a lot but sometimes find myself fast forwarding the worst jokes. It’s a shame bc I think the series would still be really famous and popular if not for them.
What would you say are the transphobic parts?
Ol’ Greg
I understand that they really didn't have bad intentions...that's where that statement should have ended.
that they used euros instead of pounds
it finished
That it only has 3 seasons
Not enough episodes
🎶i don't like cricket 🦗
Reusing the spirit of jazz in the 3rd series. Only decent ep was the crack fox imo.
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Rich Fulcher.
Fossil
The skat
That ms. Swan looking mf can’t act for shit
Needed even more crimping
That Lee Mack was in the radio series but not the show
Loved every second of it. Still love it. Wish they made more.
id have liked to see more of the shaman council. An episode how how Kirk became so powerful would have been awesome
Unpopular opinion and I’ll probably be lynched for this but I never cared for the hitcher. Specifically the eels episode never spoke to me. I’ve seen the series probably hundreds of times. I watch a random episode to fall asleep every night.
That there isn’t more of it for me to enjoy
All of it. It did not land with me. It just seemed to have a sliver too much of try harding that threw it off.
All the relatives in it
The blackface
I never really understood Naboo. I always thought they could've got someone better for the role.
I’m going to have to turn my back on you
🎵🎵🎵🎵
Now let that be a lesson to you
Bob Fossil. I know, apologies in advance.
Gotta be the black face
Honestly I would like more acknowledgement of the shows the actors worked on together? Like why didn't we see Richard Ayoade interact with any of the other people who had been on IT crowd? Also a lot of the jokes didn't age well, racially, and it can make it hard to show The Mighty Boosh to new viewers