I expect a lot of downvotes for this, but Jeff isn’t as bad as he’s made out to be.

Sure he’s not a great person but in fact none of the characters are good people, I mean, even Mr Rashid gave the lads food poisoning.

Jeff is a normal bloke, he cares for Sophie and always tries to have a laugh, but because we see him through the scope of Mark he will always be a bully or love rival.

My theory is that some fans of the show either relate to Mark and Jez too much or forget that they are watching the show with the bias of seeing it from Mark/Jeremy’s POV.

Justice for Jeff!

I’ve been thinking about this bit a lot but only just got round to watching the clip. It’s so cringe, and it seems to me now that Mark says “Nice” to appease both parties.

I feel like 50% of what makes Peep Show great is the juxtaposition between the inner-commentary of Mark and Jez versus the reality of what's actually going on around them. I've always wanted to know what the other characters are saying that often gets drowned out by the inner monologue. So is there any way to view the original clips without the commentary?

As a treat

i just finished my 4th rewatch of the show, and am seriously considering getting something from it tattooed, but i don't know what to get! i love a lot of jez's lines, but im also seriously tempted by "the secret ingredient is crime", but if anyone has any suggestions of peep show related things to get, id love to hear it

I call these three shows pure comedy shows because they are solely focused on comedy. Every dialogue sets up a joke is part of a joke or is the punch of a joke. All dramatic scenes are played for laughs. I don't get invested in the drama I'm always waiting for the joke. Other shows like The Office (UK & US) with all the comedy also tend to have high stakes dramatic scenes -David Brent's layoff scenes was sad af- but when I'm looking for a comedy show to relax with I want a pure comedy show so I don't get entangled with the emotional roller coaster drama scenes bring.

Let me know what y'all think and if you can recommend shows that are like this.

She had a great introduction and would have maybe worked as a one episode or one series charcter but the way her story dragged on and she became more and more awful. Like she wasted both main characters time and her own and became unbearable to the audience by the end. I really wish the series had gone in a different direction after the wedding instead the series restarted marks storyline from series 1 but with someone less funny and just worse than Sophie. Like let's be honest who at the end of the series could still say they liked dobby?

As the title suggests.. what the hell is so "bad" about Mark?

Mark seems intelligent, sensible and hand-eye-coordinated enough to learn to drive an automatic vehicle without too much trouble. Why the hell does he insist on trying to learn manual (stalling it during the lesson, over-revving with Jez and Soph as passengers) and then immediately give up? Is it like a self-defeating-from-the-outset kind of thing?

Or was his quote about mansplaining some longform meta-referential parody from the upcoming show?

It's down there with nether zone (couple of great dialogue lines but overall boring). There are some funny bits but the big girl is annoyingly horrible and has no redeeming qualities, the other girl is just a bit daft IIRC, and I absolutely hate the plot. I normally like that I don't have to suspend my disbelief too much to enjoy the show, and the way that Mark and Jez wander into chaos by failing to act properly - for example, Mark just goes along with his non-proposal to Sophie because he's too much of a pussy to do anything about it - rather than making the completely bizarre and inexplicable decision to eat a dog. It's just too much, and when I'm watching it I can't stop thinking that I would definitely be able to escape that situation, or at least handle it better. It surprises me to see this as one of the highest rated episodes on IMDB, as I always thought it was a low point (in terms of episode quality) before Wedding, one of my favourite episodes.

By the way, it's not because I'm one of those people that gets upset when dogs die in films - that's cats for me.

The final season was quite poor imo but they’ve had eight years to write another, so could have come up with a better send off in that time.