Steve Pemberton on the Inside No. 9 bus episode, and his episode ranking - from RHLSTP 487

[@shaunlodwig]

no.9 is a perfect show with some of the best actors, i just hope after series 9 they continue writing and acting together! 2 of the best writers and actors ever.

[@КурочкаКрашена]

I find it very hit and miss, there are sublime highs like the 12 Days of Christine, Bernie Clifton's Dressing Room, To Have and To Hold to name a few, but then there are some real duds like Wuthering Heist, Misdirection, Silent Orchestra. I find the earlier episodes generally have a higher hit rate.

[@Picnicl]

@@КурочкаКрашена I agree that it's hit and miss but not with a few of your choices. To Have And To Hold was predictable and Misdirection was great.

[@spongebobsquaretits]

Steve is a brilliant actor, he was fantastic in Happy Valley

[@frasierfreak92]

⁠@@КурочкаКрашенаWuthering Heist and Misdirection aren’t duds.

[@bzrklarz4295]

@@КурочкаКрашенаpersonally, wuthering Heist is pretty good considering it’s basically supposed to mock heist movies

[@jimofthenorth8090]

I only found out about Inside No.9 a few weeks ago and have been catching up and I've got to say that they're absolutely marvellous. From the absurb to funny to genuinly emotional, they hit you everywhere.

[@GedUK]

Absurb, funny, emotional, and creepy as f

[@petergilbert7106]

They are exceedingly absurb.

[@echidna8159]

Soft, strong and thoroughly absurbent.

[@DantemincedOniOns]

Absurd

[@robertgould1345]

We forgive you for coming to it late.

[@soulfoodie1]

Thank you for posting! Steve was on great form

[@EmptyGlass99]

There are definitely some episodes I prefer over others but at least they're trying different things and not just churning out formulaic fodder, and the performances of Pemberton and Shearsmith are always worth watching. Bernie Clifton's Dressing Room or The Bill are my favourites, for what it's worth.

[@Shmiguelly]

I feel bad saying my favourite episode is the first ever one because it's like saying nothing has ever been able to follow but I really think Sardines is a perfect half hour.

[@danniantagonist]

Nah, there are plenty of great ones, but I'd certainly say that's one of the best IMO 😊

[@soulfoodie1]

It's an absolutely cracking episode and still a brilliant way to introduce people to the series

[@Rpencole4]

Agreed!

[@theghostrainbow1864]

I agree, but part of it is that I watched it having no clue what I was getting myself into.

[@tobyb1018]

Really? I was disappointed by it, only watched the next episode as I knew it was different stories every week.. I wonder if there are any episodes that are no-one’s favourite, I guess there must be? I don’t think I can pick a favourite overall, probably just a fave for each series, that’s an easier task 😂

[@billramsay7351]

12 Days of Christine is one of the best episodes of tv ever.

[@paulmichael8796]

Don't say that in front of Reece

[@canoebadour]

It’s much better than all the other episodes. Definitely the best one.

[@VonBlade]

The best one by miles. Not that the rest are rubbish (some are), but Christine is transcendent.

[@WOOOPdoctorFROGhere]

It's a heartbreaking episode, doesn't quite have the campy feel of many of the other Inside Number 9 episodes, felt more like a standalone 'special'. It's the best they've done, it's near perfect and how they fit it all into half an hour is genius

[@merrymermaid]

diddle diddle dumpling touched me the most and is my favourite

[@shaunlodwig]

the amount of my favourite people you have interviewed is amazing we must have similar taste.

[@simonlawrencesings]

The greatest Inside No9 hands down is Bernie Clifton's Dressing Room.

[@aIewishus]

dude I didn't think anyone else thought this but hard agree

[@FatNorthernBigot]

This was an unexpected gem. Two guys who understand each other's sense of humour, having a good, old laugh. I've never been to Prett, but perhaps that's only for the sorthern ponce.

[@ctcurry1777]

Absolutely fantastic show. 👍😎

[@andrewhubbard4044]

Steve Pemberton is in my opinion is the best comedy actor on TV absolutely love him in League Of Gentlemen and especially Benidorm

[@SirGingerOfKnight]

3x3 was the first no.9 episode I've ever watched (I gave-in to the hype, partly around Lee Mack being a great quiz host!), and I managed to ruse my partner by watching it for the first time together!

[@doygazgar]

Steve and reece are absolutely geniuses and everything they have ever written and acted in has been absolutely incredible 😊 SUCH AMAZING TALENT 👏

[@Neil_TheShiningMile]

My Top 10, though not in any order as I would struggle to rank these, are: - Twelve Days of Christine - Bernie Clifton’s Dressing Room - Lip Service - A Random Act of Kindness - Tom & Gerri - Cold Comfort - The Last Weekend - The Bones of St Nicholas - Misdirection - A Quiet Night In

[@bmo14lax]

"What happens cuuunt?" Lmaoo

[@circle2867]

i beg steve and reece do a tier list of every episode

[@Kate-xd9bq]

I'm 99.99999% sure Steve is joking about being asked to do CoC (also assuming it's Taskmaster they're talking about not House of Games) but can you imagine. I really hope he gets to go all the way, so excited for Steve on TM!

[@Herring1967]

He's talking about House of Games

[@Kate-xd9bq]

@@Herring1967 Ah, makes sense! Still, I do believe in Steve to do well :) Congrats on the CoC win (both of them, I'm guessing!)

[@simonlawrencesings]

My Top 10 1 Bernie Clifton's dressing room 2 Diddle Diddle Dumpling 3 Tom and Gerri 4 The Riddle Of The Sphinx 5 A Quiet Night In 6 The Last Night Of The Proms 7 The Bill 8 Zanzibar 9 Lip Service

[@pugwall316]

3x3 and Krampus are my favourite episodes. So good!

[@RosieHarp]

Is there any limit to this man's talent? He was even incredible on 'Catchphrase' 😆

[@danm3882]

I’d love to know what Steve ranked at the bottom of his list 🤔

[@tomhammond3495]

Same here. I really want to see the whole list.

[@felinetherapy4782]

Love Steve. A true master of his craft.

[@EXCELLENTpoo]

I bet you're loving this interview at Cook'd and Bomb'd...

[@1506Jimbob]

12 days of Christine is one of the best episodes of tv ever!!! Incredible.

[@RosieHarp]

The best, closely followed by 'Once Removed'

[@kp6007]

THE best!!

[@steve10]

I actually enjoyed the quiz 😂😂 The bit at the end wasn't needed as I just enjoyed the quiz with Lee Mack , there were some real laugh out loud lines from him, I thought it was very clever to write a quiz. I did like the emphasis in the family's stiff upper lip , all the while hiding the fact none of them really liked each other and that it slowly chipped away at them , I liked the Daughter giving an answer that essentially revealed she did listen to music despite the mother strictly not letting her listen to modern music. Not sure how people could get confused it was a real quiz tbh , I did wonder if BBC had put the wrong episode on but not that it wasn't part of the series.

[@lukess.s]

I don't think it was implied that she was listening to music without her mum's permition - she was telepathically finding the answers over and over.

[@steve10]

@@lukess.s ahhh right I see 👍

[@robertgould1345]

Great episode. Though I'd have preferred more talk about food and Ed Gamble's memories of food.

[@kerryh7463]

3x3 was a great episode. I thought Lee Mack was really convincing as the host. 12 days of Christine is arguably the best episode- it genuinely troubled me and I couldn't get it out of my head. There aren't many episodes I don't like to be honest. They are all either decent or brilliant

[@31secondsorthereabouts86]

From these minds, we laughed and laughed and laughed. But every good thing must come to an end. Series 9, here we go.

[@dangiermusic]

The '3x3' episode DID fool some people! I definitely didn't know for those first few minutes. I just put BBC2 on at the normal starting time and wondered why the heck it wasn't on. It seemed plausible enough... Though it was the title that made me twig pretty quickly. Also, the mother and daughter are too obviously actors. The whole thing was brilliant, in how the moment you realise what they've done is so joyous, I was laughing out loud at the sheer ballsy-ness of it all! 😄

[@tobyb1018]

I don’t know how it fooled anyone, it was on the IN9 time slot, it was called 3x3, you could tell the contestants were acting/actors, and they already did a fake “live” episode a couple years previous… the whole time I was watching it I knew it was IN9 and was just waiting for some weird shit to happen, and it did..

[@pureboxofscartcables]

It was a good episode, as they all are. I rarely spot the hare but sometimes I guess the ending although I try not to. I have to say though, the photos of the bus episode promised soooooo much. Getting Robin Askwith in there was genius!

[@bondfool]

As of June 2024, Death Be Not Proud, the Psychoville episode, is the median IN9 episode on IMDb.

[@Alex-cw3rz]

Great vid

[@MScantlin]

Is there any way of watching the whole episodes again?

[@Herring1967]

Yup. Join Acast plus at £5 a month. Link in description. Loads of benefits

[@MScantlin]

@@Herring1967 Thank you sir 🙏

[@VicketyVick]

How come there's no Reece episode? (Of RHLSTP)

[@Herring1967]

There is - here it is shows.acast.com/rhlstp/episodes/rhlstp-406-reece-shearsmith And one of them together shows.acast.com/rhlstp/episodes/retrorhlstp28-stevepembertonandreeceshearsmith

[@VicketyVick]

@@Herring1967 thanks 😊

[@VicketyVick]

@@Herring1967 I have just subscribed to the Plussers Plus Plus membership with the promise of access to the video's.. I can find no video's! What am I doing wrong?? 😩

[@kp6007]

12 Days of Christine is THE best episode of TV I have ever seen. 30’mins of genius!! And when she delivers that line at the end…. 😮😭😭😭

[@doygazgar]

I always wonder how killers prepare/rehearse before picking up the phone lol

[@yvehooson9262]

I am only just realising this was an episode of Number 9. I started watching (can't stand quiz shows) and just assumed it had been taken off, so switched off and went and did something else... never even made it to an exploding head!

[@drxym]

Mary Beard has let herself go

[@doygazgar]

Both of them have to be in it to make it work ..ive never watched quiz show episode and i never will because steve and reece are not in it so whats the point?

[@Herring1967]

Surely you'll have to watch it to find out if there's any point? They still wrote it.

[@doygazgar]

@@Herring1967 naaaa don't work like that for me I'm afraid? They HAVE to be in it for me lol

[@Herring1967]

@@doygazgar how do you know if you haven't seen it?

[@steveunwin830]

I'm just the same. I can't bear to watch episodes without 5 vowels in the title. It's just the way I'm made, I guess.

[@MrMichaelLoyd]

"They've asked me to do champion of champions" - Did he just give away that he wins Taskmaster 😂

[@dangiermusic]

They were talking about Richard Osman's House of Games, not Taskmaster. 😎

[@biegebythesea6775]

where's steve's wedding ring?

[@RosieHarp]

nosey 😆

[@gerrygadfly9444]

Alison is his partner, not his wife.

[@rhiburgess5616]

He’s not married and lots of people don’t wear rings regardless of their attachment status.

[@biegebythesea6775]

fkn hell what happened to richard herring?

[@RosieHarp]

He turned into Rick Wakeman but not as nice

[@Herring1967]

testicular cancer

[@Herring1967]

@@RosieHarp Rick Wakeman must be really nice then

[@RosieHarp]

@@Herring1967 He's a gem 👍☺️

[@Pobafett]

@@Herring1967what really? Oh bollocks.

[@Grotesque_madness]

Well they did one on a train recently , close enough

[@mitzloo1933]

I hated Wuthering Heist, but loved The Harrowing. Guess these are controversial opinions! Who knew?

[@stevemorganexperience7833]

It’s difficult to watch interviews as I haven’t watched all of them and I watch them out of order

[@Herring1967]

No need to watch them in order. But if you want to start from the beginning you might want to go for the audio podcast!

[@saturatedwithsound]

i turned off the heist episode. only one i’ve not been able to finish.

[@WOOOPdoctorFROGhere]

yeah wasn't the strongest episode. I find the ones that involve action or are criminality themed don't quite work as the ones that focus more on emotion and death

[@tomhammond3495]

I'm the opposite. I absolutely loved that episode. Although i tend to prefer the more comedic episodes generally. My favourite episode of season 6.

[@Neil_TheShiningMile]

I struggled with this one too. However, I watched it again a year or so later and enjoyed it more this time. It’s far from the strongest story though.

[@tomhammond3495]

My top, median and bottom episodes are... Top - Zanzibar Median - Love Is A Stranger Bottom - The Steakout

[@lukess.s]

This is crazy

[@greenaum]

Completely wrong about The Twilight Zone, there were way, way, way more stories than those. Somebody turning out to be a ghost or an alien rarely happened, almost never. The Devil was in a few but usually pretty honest and straightforward about who he was. You should totally watch the old 1950s / 60s Twilight Zones btw, masterworks of imagination, all sorts of ideas you'd never have thought of in your whole life otherwise. The 1980s ones were pretty good too.

[@kittytrill]

Last Night of the Proms was my least favourite. I know it was the one that was hit by COVID closure though.

[@mrbenoit5018]

Rich’s bottom touched people

[@stevecox7075]

I agree with Richard about the Comedia del Arte episode. The worst one.

[@andrew12348]

Yeah, that one really did seem like a vanity project.

[@Squant]

That's what I love about the series, they have the creative freedom to do things that some people just won't get. Wuthering Heist was one of them, but when you get it, you get it.

[@shawbag11]

Best 12 days middle the silent one worse for rme its between. and the winner is. to have and to hold. that referee and empty orchestra. they all feel kinda pointless the twists arnt very good and i just didnt enjoy them. and i hate football so that episode is probs the worst of all of em for me just based on that.

[@tobyb1018]

Why do people love 12 days so much? It’s middle ranking for me at the most

[@kernowarty]

Richard you absolute girl!! Get your flippin' hair cut!!

[@markwatkins8309]

They obviously wanted to fool people with 3x3 yet "mock" the Daily Mail headline for going that way towards the stunt!

[@WreckageandDisaster]

12 days of Christine isnt that good. Not as good as their others and people need to fucking move on from it

[@claymor8241]

Do I detect a hint of plagiarism? I watched a short drama in the 70s or 80s based on the real and then current quiz show Mr and Mrs, featuring the show’s actual presenter. So it looked real. But two contestants were found to be using telepathy to pass answers between them, causing the audience, made up of non-telepathic proles, to start booing and slow hand clapping- with their six fingered hands.

[@SUPER_WOLFMOON]

Inside #8 Bus. Breaks down, have to get a relief bus #9. The new bus driver is suspicious. He seems a bit iffy. Slowly, he/she isn't what they seem. End scene bus off the cliff. Have fun with that you c-words.

[@Alan-wd7wv]

Adrian Edmondson driving the bus.

[@Qaust1]

3x3 was awful worst episode they have ever made :(

[@tobyb1018]

Nah you were just too dumb to appreciate it