Local Histories: Pauline, Ross and Mickey (The League of Gentlemen)

[@reubenrules5429]

The comfort level of watching the same shows over and over is strong.

[@WeeLin]

Definitely. Dark and weird as it is, rewatching the League has a special level of comfort for me. Always has.

[@Monkeypole]

Yip, Peep Show, Inside Number 9 and LOG are my absolute go to comfort watches!

[@WeeLin]

@@Monkeypole Mine too (obviously with Inside No 9, which makes up about half my channel at this point). And I've binge-re-watched Peep Show more times than is probably healthy.

[@sinajakelic]

tis’ all bout rediscovering details

[@fredericktoringibsonpurcel3440]

​@@WeeLin My sense of is messed up! So I can watch it any time and find it funny the Human is absolutely horrifying but I couldn't help but laugh Horror and Humour is like bread and butter it's just goes hand in hand

[@jrobertheath]

Pauline is one of my favorite characters! She's so egregious.

[@WeeLin]

She is (not that she knows what it means!)

[@sinajakelic]

Would you say she is an egregious person?

[@jrobertheath]

Um... YES!

[@WeeLin]

@@jrobertheath You'll eat those words - EGREGIOUS! EGREGIOUS!

[@jrobertheath]

@@WeeLin Stop it, Pauline!

[@TheBeird]

I was unemployed for a long time. Got put on a lot of soul crushing restart courses, and met a lot of Paulines. All patronising and cared for nothing other than getting thru the day so they could go home, though luckily I was never embroiled in any psycho-sexual drama. Might have made the courses more interesting tho 🤔

[@WeeLin]

That sounds horrible, and I'm sorry you had to go through that. I've never had to do a restart, but the experience of going to a job centre and signing on was pretty miserable in itself. I've met Paulines in other places though, especially through work, and I can definitely relate to series 1 Ross (maybe not series 3!)

[@luckyystrikerr]

The thing I love most about the restart sketches is how invested all three of them are. You can tell how close to home they hit for Reece, and Steve commits more to Pauline than almost any other character he plays. Love this series, keep it up! Hoping to see Iris and Judee pop up in a Local Histories video someday, they’re some of my favorites.

[@WeeLin]

Steve has said that Pauline was one of his favourite characters, and when you hear him in the commentaries you can really tell how invested he is. The fact they'd come up with a whole story behind a semi-audible throwaway line ("there was someone once...") just shows how much the gents care about these characters. Oh, Iris and Judee's bios get quite dark when you start looking at their family history, and not just the fact that they're related! I'd love to look at those two. Thanks for the suggestion!

[@KatieSteedArt1]

​@@WeeLinI love the commentary's and according to that Iris became Judees mum at 14 (gym slip mums) and Judee was placed into care. It makes so so so much sense considering how disfunctional her own kids are.

[@MedievalFolkDance]

Pauline & Bernice is a match made in the deepest fires of hell. Absolutely ship that!

[@publover273]

I am a huge fan of the League of Gentlemen. These are extremely well reseached, and entertaining videos. More please.

[@WeeLin]

Thank you! I have a few characters in mind for future vids, but they take a long time to make. Not that I mind rewatching the League all over again from start to finish!

[@leejones8582]

Piss off Ross one of my favourite Pauline lines.

[@WeeLin]

Best line ever!

[@IfIHadMyTimeAgain]

I do think that Geoff is canonically Mickey’s uncle because his friend expects him to know Mickey and Pauline, even though they’ve never interacted in the show

[@WeeLin]

I wondered about that the last time I watched the scene. The way Mike talks made me think that Mickey and Pauline might have been important to Geoff, which makes sense if he's Mickey's uncle. True, this means he hasn't paid his nephew a visit in years and didn't have his address, but then they might not have a very close relationship (I mean, he did almost hit Pauline with a van!). Mind you, Royston Vasey is the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else, so that might be an explanation. But I think it's more interesting if they are related!

[@anxiousclown8918]

I'm so glad you've started this series - I've really been enjoying it!! Do you think you'll get around to doing an episode on Ollie Plimsolls and Legz Akimbo? Ollie was always one of my favourites 😂 Can't wait for the episode on the Denton family!

[@WeeLin]

Thanks! There's a fair chance of a Legz Akimbo video in the future, as they were always some of the funniest sketches to me (I did a fair bit of youth theatre when I was younger, and Ollie Plimsolls reminded me a lot of the guy who ran our local group!) I've actually been taking note of all their play titles/"issues" I can find to see if I can come up with the full list!

[@RubberDuckieIsBae]

Local histories for local historians

[@WeeLin]

We're all local, somewhere!

[@NobleCloverVA]

Imagine the shock on the restart officer when she learns that she slagged off an upcoming comedian after reading about him in the papers. 😂

[@WeeLin]

I wonder if she made a face like Pauline when she found out?

[@NobleCloverVA]

@@WeeLin Most likely. 😂

[@haysleigh1190]

‘Don’t ever piss Reece off or he’ll write an iconic character about you’ is a lesson we can all take from this KZbin series

[@WeeLin]

@@haysleigh1190 "And then Steve will play them, thus making them weirdly compelling and sympathetic."

[@haysleigh1190]

@@WeeLin it doesn’t sound so bad when you put it like that!

[@miarose5156]

Never clicked on something as quick in my life!!!!

[@lummy15th]

Same

[@WeeLin]

Aww, cheers! Hope it didn't disappoint.

[@miarose5156]

@@WeeLin it certainly didn’t disappoint it actually informed me on a few things that I wasn’t aware of from the books/live shows!

[@WeeLin]

@@miarose5156 Good to know! It's actually hard to find concrete info on the live shows pre-2000s, since they did so many of them with almost no recordings. The books are fantastic - I know a lot of successful shows do tie-in merch, but the League's stuff is a real labour of love and filled with fun bits and pieces. I can't wait to get my copies of the Inside No 9 script books, as I know they'll be just as good! The League books are definitely worth picking up if you can find them.

[@islascott5578]

@@WeeLin The books are something I'm def. missing. Is it the 'scripts and that' book and another one called 'a local book for local people' or are there more?. I'm a bit put off by the scripts book just because of how massive it is, from what I've been told. I made room for the Inside No.9 books though...hmmmm... btw have you seen the twitter preview of the (first?) script book? see:- twitter.com/Hodder_Studio/status/1322519778431537152

[@mattjames7386]

I loved the whole Pauline/Ross battle of wits. It truly had you invested and really made you question whose side you were really on as it developed

[@WeeLin]

Absolutely! I've had the misfortune of knowing a few Paulines, so I was "Team Ross" all the way until series 3. Then I was team... very confused!

[@rikkihill22]

Fantastically detailed and funny video. You really deserve a lot more subscribers.

[@islascott5578]

her attention to detail is great.

[@WeeLin]

Thanks! Honestly, I'm just blown away by the subscribers I have already. If you imagine that many people in the same room listening to you speak, then it's one hell of a crowd!

[@IfIHadMyTimeAgain]

A thing I’d like to point out about the live again special is how impressive it is that Reece managed to leave the stage and get replaced by a double without anyone seeing it and quickly changing into an entirely new outfit

[@WeeLin]

But of course, he was under that brolly The Whole Time! Reece is apparently really into magic tricks, which is how we got the League character Dean Tavalouris and the Misdirection episode of Inside No 9. I'd imagine he was quite proud of that bit in the live show.

[@harrymontana1737]

@@WeeLin where do you find all this out???

[@WeeLin]

@@harrymontana1737 I use all kinds of sources for these - deleted scenes, DVD extras, creator commentaries, the books ("A Local Book for Local People" and "The League of Gentlemen: Scripts and that") and any interviews, clippings or flyers I can find uploaded to the internet. Since I started planning the series, I've taken note of any interesting comments I've heard the gents make about the show, along with the source. I also watch back through every episode, special and live show and while making notes about the characters I plan to do a video on. It takes bloody ages, but truthfully I'm just happy to watch them over and over again!

[@harrymontana1737]

@@WeeLin are you single lol? I absolutely love LOG run a bath order a takeaway and watch it from start to finish it is amazing

[@djames2356]

For me with the education thing I kinda think both are right, she doesn't inherently say she doesn't have qualifications, she just left school early and didn't go to college. I'm kinda going off memory and a little imagination but I always felt when watching it that she never left the job centre, I just imagined she went after leaving school to sign on and achieved the various diplomas through job centre training courses before eventually getting a job there because she basically knew it all in the end anyway. Part of the irony of her position to me was she has no concept of jobs out in the real world, I know she's an exaggerated character but it did feel like she lived in a fantasy framed around job centre expectations but ultimately just keeping her jobseekers in the same perpetual limbo she was never got past.

[@NOISEDEPT]

""You can shout out as many jobs as you like, Ross!! ... "" So glad I stumbled onto these League of Gentlemen videos you're doing, WeeLin. Just brilliant ... :-D

[@di7770]

Pauline is easily my favourite character and the Job seeker sketches are some of the league's funniest work. Even the ad libs in the live shows are amazing "Dick F###ing Whittington". It's one of the most relatable scenerios, my parents had restart officers just like her, which is why they hate her some much, but that just makes her funnier to me.

[@WeeLin]

Pauline's ad libs are incredible, and I also love those moments where Steve and Reece are cracking each other up on stage. She feels very real, and I think everyone's met a Pauline at some point in their life, whether she was a restart officer, a teacher or a co-worker. I've never done a restart, but I've definitely known a few Paulines!

[@joshuawilliams7734]

Pauline is a great character that moment where she says to Mickey: 'What the frig does egregious mean? Gets me every time

[@-b_i_b_b_y-]

Been looking forward to this episode, and it was so worth it! I've actually watched the Local Shop one three times, I love it- think it's something to do with the combination of old favourite TV and the way you present your videos. I really appreciated the Dementia info and the standing up for bisexuality/pansexuality in the "is Pauline a lesbian" debate. Can't wait for the next one, ILY!

[@WeeLin]

Thanks! I love hearing about my old favourite TV shows too (the League has a special nostalgic place in my heart), and I also find myself listening to KZbin channels that present in more of a documentary-style tone, so I thought that'd be a good approach. I thought the dementia storyline, while it still had its laughs, was still treated with the weight and tragedy the topic deserves. At first, I was a bit upset with the way they killed off Pauline, but when I thought about it, leaving her suffering with dementia would feel equally if not more cruel. And Pauline as bi/pansexual always made sense to me. I wonder if this point was actually discussed during the writing, or if it was just the way Steve played her. Maybe Pauline just naturally gave off that energy!

[@islascott5578]

@@WeeLin (hope you don't mind me butting in) That look on Pauline's face in the screenshot where she'd left the room at the, I assume, care home, clearly forgetting who she was, is quite heartbreaking, even though she can be a vicious what-not. I suppose it's a reminder that even someone like her can end up vulnerable.

[@willorsomething4019]

Oh god yes! Been waiting for this one since Edward and Tubbs!

[@WeeLin]

Had to take it to a poll, but Pauline won it in the end! Next up will be the Dentons.

[@josemaria8177]

I have a teacher in uni who treats her students like Pauline treats the unemployed. She even speaks like her! Whenever I rewatch the show, Pauline gets a little bit too close to home

[@WeeLin]

I know there are Paulines everywhere (I've certainly worked for a few!), but I wouldn't have expected to meet a Pauline at a university. Maybe I was just lucky, as I never had a lecturer or tutor like her. I did find the jobseeker sketches made my own anger and frustrations feel validated and helped me let off a bit of steam. Or maybe I was just a bit of a Ross!

[@josemaria8177]

@@WeeLin There is a huge catharsis in seeing Ross expose Pauline in the first season, even more so that I've had to deal directly with one. Apart from that, The League has helped me and some of my classmates to deal with her. You can't be intimidated if you're constantly laughing on the inside

[@WeeLin]

@@josemaria8177 That's so very true! Sorry you had to deal with a Pauline, but I'm glad the League were there to help. They've definitely helped me during some tough times, even just by giving me something nostalgic and funny to watch. But the second you realise someone who's making life miserable reminds you of a League character, it takes away some of their power.

[@ZakJordan98]

@@WeeLin My primary school teachers were all like Pauline, destroyed my self confidence for years. They berated me like how Pauline berates Dole Scum, my headteacher was even the spitting image of her

[@nathanjones5457]

I love how Pauline and Ross start off as villain and victim and have done a 180 by the end.

[@avakelly7008]

Yes, yes I did just spend a week watching league just so I could understand these videos....

[@WeeLin]

I'm flattered! And I hope you enjoyed them.

[@avakelly7008]

@@WeeLin I really enjoy your longer content and I'm glad I've found league through your channel, thank you!

[@JustinRichards]

Thank you for the delicate manner in which you handled the dementia reference.

[@WeeLin]

That's good to hear, thanks. I thought it was a really tragic turn for the character and the gents weren't playing it for laughs (which I could imagine other sketch comedies might have done). I always try to be careful when it comes to discussing mental health, even in comedy shows.

[@JustinRichards]

@@WeeLin it’s uncomfortable to be presented with such a heart wrenching subject from what essentially is a dark comedy. Especially when it bleeds in to irreverence. Ricky Gervais does it well. One moment you’re chuckling along at the shows silliness, the next, you’re being knocked for six by tragedy. A great comedy can do that I guess. Play with all of your emotions.

[@lynndoran3418]

How has channel existed for over a year and I had no idea?!? It's like it's made for me!! Pauline and Mrs Livingston would be an Interesting one. The argument the have where they reference the dead husband and the make believe holiday was incredible!! Me and my sister still say "and just a Philips lady shave to keep you warm at night" and it makes us laugh every time 🖤🖤

[@WeeLin]

See, that's the kind of reaction I live for! Whenever I find a video I like on a topic I love, then realise there's an entire channel's worth of videos just waiting for me, I'm over the moon. Always make the things you want to see! I'd love to do a video on Iris and Mrs Levinson - I just loved the drama between them, and there's some seriously dark backstories going on too. I haven't done a League video for a while, but I'll consider that after the new series of Inside No 9 is finished - that's keeping me really busy at the moment. Thanks for the suggestion!

[@watermelonineasterhay]

absolutely love the in depthness, well done!

[@WeeLin]

Thank you - I take great pride on the in-depthness of my videos!

[@harrymontana1737]

I find it absolutely astounding how 4 men can create something so dark but amazing!! All the characters and the storyline go together so well it really is a art. Psychoville is a masterpiece aswell though I believe at the end it did fall off.

[@WeeLin]

There's just no other writing/acting group quite like the gents. I also love seeing how they've branched out as individuals, but they obviously still have a lot of love for their old shows and characters. I look forward to anything they ever do throughout the rest of their careers.

[@harrymontana1737]

@@WeeLin love Psychoville love inside no9

[@harrymontana1737]

@@WeeLin Benidorm with Steve pemberton is Amazing. The cottage with Reece shearsmith is one of the best horrors I have ever seen seriousss

[@WeeLin]

@@harrymontana1737 Oh wow, someone else has actually seen The Cottage! I saw it back at a screening in Glasgow (think it was part of the GFT's Fright Fest event) and the cast were there for a Q&A. I met Andy Serkis, nice fella! I'll need to revisit the film, because I've always said it was underrated.

[@harrymontana1737]

@@WeeLin one of my favourite movies ever!!!!!

[@1990NMiller]

Can't believe I missed this being uploaded. Brilliant stuff as always, Lin.

[@WeeLin]

Thanks! Quite a few people have said they missed the upload, which is a shame. Probably because I don't post often enough for KZbin's liking.

[@1990NMiller]

@@WeeLin I was nearly late to work watching this morning haha. The power of Pauline's Pens it too great

[@WeeLin]

@@1990NMiller Sorry you were nearly late for work - don't tell Pauline!

[@lummy15th]

Rev Bernice, Legz Akimbo Or Geoff,.Mike and Brian After The Dentons Please. Great Video

[@WeeLin]

All fine suggestions! I do have a soft spot for the Legz Akimbo crew, but I'd be happy doing any of these (the fact that Jeremy once played Bernice kind of blew my mind!)

[@islascott5578]

@@WeeLin Speaking of Jeremy, I got confused by someone on Instagram saying Jeremy played Maureen. I could only think of David Sowerbutts mum in Psychoville, who was very much played by Reece but it turns out Maureen was Les McQueen's lover. I clearly have a lot still to learn! I've been introduced to Les' 'Simple Man' performance too, which mentions Maureen (kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIeaZJKcfN17ebc)

[@WeeLin]

@@islascott5578 Maybe they just really like that name! I love Les McQueen - Mark is really great at playing those lonely, sad sack type of characters. One day, I might do a video on him and the rest of Creme Brulee.

[@islascott5578]

​@@WeeLin Yeah, he really is. There's a tragic/sorrowful side to that character, though I believe the characters ending was more optimistic.

[@WeeLin]

@@islascott5578 I did enjoy his ending in the Anniversary Specials. Glad to see him getting a break for once.

[@tinybutmightycookie2518]

Oh my, this is a TREAT 😃! Thank you so much for doing this! The time, the research... wow just many many thanks 🙏☺️ You’re wonderful! 🥛🍪 xxx

[@orderd29]

Absolutely brilliant! What a fantastic YT video.

[@WeeLin]

Thanks! They are fantastic characters to talk about.

[@1979samson]

I'm a huge fan of "Inside no9" and "Phsycoville", but came across The League of Gentlemen only recently only to realized just how much they were ripped off by "Little Britain" creators.

[@ChristopherHaleFilms]

Love your channel x

[@WeeLin]

Thanks!

[@artemiszeus9735]

I often thought Pauline and Ross were oddly similar in a number of respects. Both had bullying tendencies. No wonder they ended up in a strange Stockholm Syndrome relationship with each other. I was once a flipchart queen in a training team. (Half -rhyme inadvertant). I can tell you that it was a tough gig, by turns rewarding at times and soul destroying at others. I went from a shy young woman to having steely nerves within the several years that I did it. We at least had more of a dialogue with delegates and flexibility with how we presented things and wrote/edited the course. I am not sure that would have been the case on a Restart/Surestart course. A civil servant who had never spoken publicly in his/her life before probably wrote the course. It certainly wasn't "Pauline" who would have been under the cosh to deliver it as written and for startlingly shite money. I would imagine it would have been fucking depressing for her too. I am wondering if Reece's officer of yore knows the character is based on her....More to the point is Ross based on younger Reece? Did you need a slap, Reece? Lol!

[@hetaera3418]

I should just like to say that I deeply enjoy your videos. They're lovingly crafted, well scripted and built with a skill the BBC would be proud of. But there just three character histories, nes pas? Such a pity; please make more. Mostly however, I'd like to say well done and thank you.

[@WeeLin]

That's so kind of you to say, thank you! I've been rewatching some League over the past week while taking a few notes - I'll see about doing some deep dive research once the current series of Inside No 9 wraps up. Thanks again!

[@brendowned]

Steve had no business being that hot as Pauline

[@brendowned]

Two weeks later jumping in to reinforce this statement

[@gavindajyajya]

Mickey spelt Pauline's name right on the card, but I wish he'd spelt it phonetically like 'Porleeen' or 'Paul-Ian' or something. You've got to love them though.

[@WeeLin]

Mickey must have put a lot of work into getting the spelling right for her. That's true love, right there!

[@stephenbutterfield8255]

Happy halloween! Have a spook on me

[@WeeLin]

Consider me spooked! Happy Hallowe'en to you too.

[@nickcolby1391]

The one series I revisit yearly ❤

[@samuelgethin9693]

I'm sad I didn't get the notification but I turned it to all straight away once I found this vid!

[@WeeLin]

I'm sorry you didn't get the notification - I know KZbin gets a bit forgetful with those, especially for channels like mine that aren't uploading all the time (because these videos take a while to make). Hopefully they'll notify you when the next one is ready!

[@jackaylward-williams9064]

I’m glad that I’m not the only one who clocked the joke about a man who’s dressed as a woman who’s dressed as a man.

[@WeeLin]

Honestly, I find it very easy to forget that Pauline is a man in a costume. Steve just makes her character so damn believable.

[@jackaylward-williams9064]

@@WeeLin Me too, in fact I genuinely didn’t realise that it was him playing Tubbs at first, I thought that she really was played by a woman. It was the same with Shearsmith as Maureen from Psychoville (and Inside No. 9 of course.)

[@WeeLin]

@@jackaylward-williams9064 I think I heard someone else saying recently that they thought Maureen was an actual old lady and not Reece! I definitely forget it's Reece when I'm watching him play characters like Stella and Mrs Levinson too. Part of it's the acting, part of it's the detail with the hair, make-up and costumes. The League went for lifelike characters, rather than "bloke in wig + dress = funny".

[@jackaylward-williams9064]

@@WeeLin Aside from Barbara of course.

[@islascott5578]

Great video - I learnt some things I didn't know. Cheers!. By the way, is it just me that feels Ross appears like a janitor, with that cream jacket (maybe it's just me?). By the way, you didn't mention this but I heard in the DVD commentary that The Big Issue threatened to sue the show if they showed their magazine when its referred to in the scene where one of them has to pretend to sell the magazine.

[@WeeLin]

I learned quite a few things myself while I was making this. I remember that they had to avoid showing the magazine cover in full for some reason, but then again it's always strange to me what TV shows can and can't do with brands (they can't show the cover of The Big Issue, but it's fine when Pauline says it's "like Bunty, but written by tramps"). I never thought of Ross looking like a janitor, but I guess that's better than being called Dole Scum! Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed the video.

[@islascott5578]

@@WeeLin That's true. Bunty is a pretty old reference - I think my mum maybe used to read that lol she won't thank me for saying that but oh well. Your welcome. Oh and I told my friend (who encouraged me to watch LoG/IN9 etc.) you've done another video - he said 'That girl is good at doing those' so there you go! :) I look forward to the next one on The Dentons too!.

[@jartism]

Pauline's sexuality seemingly being retconned and her getting with mickey in series 3 at first felt out of left field and rubbed me the wrong way, as someone who is bisexual and thus is very much aware of the idea of "erasure" by cishet people and lgbtq community alike. I had just naturally assumed the early 2000s sitcom had come from a perspective on lesbians of "haven't found the right man yet". I still don't know how I feel about it but this video helped me understand the setup and context behind that turn a bit more

[@WeeLin]

I know exactly what you mean! It did feel like a weird turn, even for a show as weird as this one. I'm not sure if she was intentionally written as a bisexual character (there weren't all that many around in those days from what I remember), but looking back I couldn't find any instance of Pauline identifying as a lesbian, though she's openly attracted to women and isn't offended by the term. Plus marrying Mickey wouldn't automatically make her straight, because that's not how it works! I just assumed Pauline was bi, which made sense to me, but maybe that's not how other people saw it - as you mentioned, bi-erasure was a very real thing and unfortunately still is. Plus there was that awful "lesbians just need the right man" narrative, which is just shockingly ignorant, and I do hope the gents were never going for that. Thankfully, nothing I found in the commentaries, interviews or other materials seemed to indicate this. Still, it's okay to have mixed feelings on media from two decades ago, even if it's something you enjoy.

[@KatieSteedArt1]

Honestly S4 is so so bittersweet to me - Bloody Geoff!

[@luelladoughty4190]

15:21 where does this come from?? Is it from a book, if so what’s the book called?? p.s I love these vids sm!!

[@WeeLin]

Thanks! I think that page is from their "Live Again" tour book - they used to sell copies on their merch website, but they don't seem to have them anymore. Might be worth looking on ebay? There's a lot of good stuff in it, so definitely worth grabbing a copy if you can find one!

[@luelladoughty4190]

@@WeeLin thank you so much for letting me know :)))

[@f4ttyr3d89]

Now pass out my pens Paulines pens love it😂

[@WeeLin]

I want them pens back! (I actually have a special "Pauline's Pen" with a picture of Pauline on it).

[@lynne523]

I love all the little jokes that one might miss....Burger Me . Genius x

[@WeeLin]

That's why I keep re-watching the League - I'm always finding little jokes I've missed or forgotten about!

[@nxgan1088]

Last watched League of Gentlemen a few months after it disappeared off netflix but watched it constantly as a comfort watch for about 2 or 3 years before that - only just got the joke of the fast food place being called "Burger Me"

[@PhilipCrozet888]

Brilliant!

[@WeeLin]

Thanks!

[@paulflint6254]

League of gentlemen is legendary, I'm ordering the special stuff

[@WeeLin]

Putting in an order with Hilary Briss?

[@EnchantedEssays]

Fantastic video! Don't know if you'll see this comment, but pretty please make more of these now that series 8 of IN9 is finished! I've finished watching everything in TLoG and now I'm out of content!

[@mrneutral8423]

Just discovered your videos, right up my (local) street. Consider me subscribed.

[@oddjob5589]

a #HalloWeeLin video? woohoo!

[@WeeLin]

And that's what I'm going to call the 31st of October every year from now on! Cheers for that.

[@Coaster_Cray_Cray]

Can you do Papa Lazarou and the pandemonium carnival after the Dentons?

[@WeeLin]

You know, I'd been wondering how to do a Papa Lazarou video, because the strange thing is that he's not been features in TLOG that much (he was never in the early sketches or the radio series, and apart from the specials and live shows, he was only ever in two episodes). That, and just about everyone already knows the backstory with Steve and Reece's landlord, so that's not exactly new information. Papa Laz is hilarious to watch, but I didn't think I'd get much material on him. Having said that, I think it'd be a great idea to include the full pandemonium carnival to give it a bit more variety and talk about some other minor characters, so that's definitely an idea. Might not be anytime soon, but I'll add it to the list, cheers!

[@IfIHadMyTimeAgain]

Could we possibly see one of these for Hilary Bliss at some point?

[@WeeLin]

We very possibly could. In which case, I'll be open to all "Special Stuff" related fan theories!

[@IfIHadMyTimeAgain]

@@WeeLin my favourite and by far most disturbing is that the special stuff is his and his cow-wife’s children

[@WeeLin]

@@IfIHadMyTimeAgain The worst part is that this is one of the strongest theories on the Special Stuff. Murder, beastiality, cannibalism - what more could you ask for? But cutting it with sandwich paste, now THAT was a step too far!

[@IfIHadMyTimeAgain]

@@WeeLin the gents really are masters of making us uncomfortable

[@WeeLin]

@@IfIHadMyTimeAgain They really are. I had another horrible thought while researching the Tattsyrups, only the theory didn't quite fit in with the rest of the video. I'd started to wonder about the pig snouts and if the family had been more "involved" with pigs at some point in the past. That got me into thinking of human/animal hybrids, which also got me to Mrs Briss, and wondering just how many of these creations could have ended up in the butcher's window. At that point, I have to wonder if it's my brain that's all wrong, or if the gents have made it this way.

[@ianhitman]

Flicking herself off to Trisha.

[@leejones8582]

I am Guessing the Pauline wedding is a deleted scene.

[@WeeLin]

It's at the end of episode six as part of a montage of all the character stories from that series. The music that plays over it is really lovely too.

[@leejones8582]

@@WeeLin Ah right must have missed that thanks for letting me know.

[@louistracy6964]

Great job!

[@mrneutral8423]

At 12:06 what is that screenshot from? I don't remember it? Deleted scene? P.s your accent is wonderful.

[@Rashy225]

Deleted scene from series 3 episode 1.

[@Rashy225]

49:50 guilty as charged.

[@Horror_N_M3tal]

Pauline is a representation of many restart officers. I and many others had the misfortune of being exposed to.

[@jakethekipper]

Oooooh pathetic!!!

[@WeeLin]

"C'mon Ross, I👏 want to 👏 see you👏 try!"

[@jmorton201]

FYARE NGIN :) Micky Love

[@peterhammond1701]

Thank you so much WeeLin, I love your content. Would you please marry me? I can assure you that I am local.

[@WeeLin]

I'm spoken for, but it's always nice to hear from local people!

[@slumdogjay]

I had to laugh at the narrator explaining what patronising means without any irony.

[@WeeLin]

It's meant as a bit of an in-joke - it's what Ollie Plimsoles says in one of the Legz Akimbo Theatre Company sketches and it was also used in the Inside No 9 episode "Cold Comfort". Because I just can't resist the urge to reference their other work!

[@MrSeanL25]

Am trying to find the clip wire pauline asks micky aboit Mr cabbages. He is a? Then micky says fireman. Then she says no but his friend Mr flames. He is a? The micky says green grocer. Hahahahaha. I can't find it anywhere. I wanted to show my mate. Hahaha. Brilliant

[@rickyred001]

BABYSITTER !!!

[@WeeLin]

I'm more of a bramble picker myself, but let's look at the next stage - getting an interview!

[@Assarkask]

Its local..

[@timconnors5216]

Awww the narrating vids 😩

[@LusciousTwinkle]

This is excruciating!! Why would you dissect such a successful comedy character???? Its like a child pulling apart an insect!!!

[@chorltonville]

Soo funny @VertigoProductions @Weeln. The League of Gentlemen, Salvador Dalí's Melting Clocks. It's Marmite, so clever. Love the actors/comedians, just so talented people. I get 'bashed & bruised' for liking Picasso?