When your dream job turns into a nightmare | Mandy - BBC

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Mandy - a hapless, jobless heroine whose daft adventures mostly end in disaster. She's got big dreams, but can she actually be bothered? Created by and starring Diane Morgan.
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[@Indianny]

It’s amazing/sad how true this is. I’m a baker and every time someone comes to the bakery they always talk about how good it smells and how lucky we are to work in such a place. But after 15 years, I get to work and that smell of fresh baked brioche and caraway rye that I can smell coming up the street before I even get inside ….that smell just reminds me of hard work, 10 hr days on my feet, shoveling 20lb pans in and out of a 400° oven. The bread never ends.

[@mikezooper]

Crumbs!

[@geekyourlikeslulu]

what does 'coming up the street' mean

[@EhCloserLook]

Bread… bread never ends. 😔

[@vincentmarro3663]

Same when I worked for Krispy Kreme

[@cosmicorder2]

Yeah, it's probably why I won't work in a place I love to visit. I would get sick of what I loved and come to associate the place with stress and sensory overload.

[@lucasblanchard47]

“Turn and enter” 😂

[@Walperion_Music]

Genious!

[@lindaclairesartori]

Really the funniest bit. The rest was Lucy and Ethyl from 1955. And the falling was not funny.

[@andrewdigby5114]

abandon hope, all ye who enter here!

[@ThomasCorfield-r4n]

@@lindaclairesartori Consider rewatching while paying closer attention. 😉

[@chetgoodenough8749]

I was confused then I wasn't

[@PlantMusicLife]

Best falling routine in comedy I've ever seen! She just kept going!

[@kevincarlson668]

Yep,Mandy gave even the almighty Patsy Stone.Joanna Lumley on the Marrakesh baggage carousel on Ab Fab,I mean,a run for her money.

[@kevincarlson668]

@@TwisterTornado I'll try and check out the first,thanks.

[@davebeat]

You'll love the falling scene in Hot Rod then.

[@BluesAdam]

And the biscuits keep falling...

[@ChosenStudios1]

Peter Griffin begs to differ😂

[@chriswinwood6501]

Sinking into the chair. 😂 God bless Mandy, she is the funniest thing for years.

[@ChubbyChecker182]

Best sitcom since around 2012 ish

[@Silversky1113]

I love the trail of biscuits she is leaving behind as she runs/falls. I love Diane Morgan so much.

[@metaphonictweeter1992]

The way the biscuits just kept coming 😂😂😂😂

[@gogogogogirl]

This woman has singlehandedly revived slapstick!

[@biegebythesea6775]

yep physical comedy is brilliant.

[@Agent7155]

Any others now?

[@foxopossum]

Yes!! 😂😂😂

[@OdiesMama]

And I NEVER like slapstick! 😂

[@jimmymeridian5174]

really? her pratfalls aren't very good

[@silentblackhole]

The woman is AMAZING in all of her roles! Brilliant!

[@pazuzu126]

The guy shakes his head at the end like, "It happens every time..."

[@AncientAnt3y]

2:01 😂😂😂😂 “Is taken out and shot” “Fair enough.”

[@ravenblackwing7888]

That had me dying 😂

[@mz8583]

He didn't tell her that she only needs to taste them, not eat a whole biscuit😊

[@kimsherlock8969]

😂😅

[@Chentzilla]

He did.

[@atlasfeynman1039]

He said 3 biscuits per day, not 35,000 per day. She went mad with power.

[@Grognakk380]

​@@atlasfeynman1039 he said every 300th, and they make 75000 a day. If that is all in one 8hr shift then she needs to taste 250 buscuits a day, if its a 24hr factory with 3 testers doing 8 hrs each then its about 83 buscuits a day. Either way, you definitely need to pace yourself with small nibbles.

[@atlasfeynman1039]

@@Grognakk380 Thank you, accounting department. And how many biscuits have you been allotted today? None? Right then.

[@tysona23]

I nearly choked myself laughing when she fell down the stairs 😂

[@ThomasCorfield-r4n]

Yes! Love that slapstick. Like Stath Let's Flats.

[@chriswinwood6501]

It’s up there with the blowpipe and the tree, the banana factory, the hair in the extractor fan… she’s a genius

[@tuicastro4431]

It reminded me of Homer Simpson falling off the cliff! D'OH!!! 😂

[@argus5597]

I remember one time she explained a story of why she broke up with someone its because they fell down the stairs exactly like that 😆

[@dnlmachine4287]

@@tuicastro4431 Poor guy fell down that cliff twice. Respect. Stay gold.

[@shaunsmith6703]

I never thought the funniest thing I'd ever see would be someone eating biscuits. But here we are, Mandy Carter eating biscuits is comedy perfection!

[@scotttowers1759]

The funniest thing you've ever seen? That's sad

[@shaunsmith6703]

@@scotttowers1759 Thank you so much for sharing your vauable opinion.

[@Deano-Dron81]

@@scotttowers1759Looking at the stuff you watch is peak funny! 😅😂

[@OU8124T]

And that's the way the cookie crumbles.

[@monkeymanbob]

Biscuit.

[@tinos0330]

Oh my goodness hahaha

[@zazuzazz5419]

🍪 💔 😂

[@samuelk4685]

"Quality control at the local biscuit factory" "YOU'RE KIDDING!" 😂😂 Love Mandy haha😂

[@stephgreen3070]

Oh my gawd that was brilliant! I laughed until *I* almost vomited! The biscuits falling out her uniform the whole way down and her giant hair underneath the hairnet. So many good bits!

[@Loctorak]

I'm almost disappointed to find something so simple so funny, but the bit where she slips on her puke and goes "s**t!" killed me 😂 Diane just never disappoints. ❤

[@RamblinRick_]

American here. When it comes to physical comedy, Diane Morgan is this generation's Lucille Ball. Whether as Mandy or Philomena, she's a BBC National Treasure.

[@anthonyscully2998]

That clip reminded me of Lucille Ball. My mother would have liked it

[@mplsmark222]

I’ve often thought the same thing. I can’t ever remember her characters referencing American Comedians, but she definitely is not a fan of Chaplin.

[@LTPottenger]

I do love her falls, though I feel bad for her back safety.

[@mplsmark222]

@@LTPottenger I doubt that is actually Diane falling down the stairs, they have people to do that for them.

[@AncientAnt3y]

“I feel like my whole life’s been leading up to this.” 😂

[@jasonali4122]

Rupert Murdoch is excellent. What a talent.

[@DerekNewtonKeswick]

😂 Good one.

[@gerardbyrnes5780]

Nice one!

[@gregbors8364]

He’s a real wizzawozza, he is

[@karonfrench1012]

Absolutely hilarious! I’ve got tears running down my face. Some of her best work 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@StStStS]

Best episode since the tarantula-killing in the banana processing plant 😂. -‘One to stun! Two to kill! Three to be sure!’

[@ToutCQJM]

The fall out the window was the cherry on top.

[@chaos.corner]

It's health and safety gone mad.

[@corym8358]

She's incredible. I could watch her all day. 😂

[@Marie16240]

That biscuit conveyor scene reminded me of the iconic “who loves lucy” on the chocolate factory 😂

[@Brandis13]

Came here just now to make the same comment, you beat me to it 🙂

[@soccerchamp0511]

Honestly, great metaphor. I've had several "dream" jobs in my life and all of them but one turned into nightmares, not because of the work itself, but because of horrendous management.

[@oldsguy354]

Amazingly enough, when you make your hobby a career, it becomes work.

[@gerardbyrnes5780]

I was a was in the print industry most of my life. I've often said "I love my work, I hate my job" for that very reason.

[@AtheistOrphan]

I once really confused an American by saying “I could really murder a choccy digestive right now.” The poor guy didn’t understand at all.

[@palashbhaumik42069]

If you instead said "choccy digestive WITH CHEESE", the American would've definitely understood

[@cosmicorder2]

I can only thank British television for helping me understand what those are.

[@DeathnoteBB]

I always think it means a laxative

[@CBlargh]

@@DeathnoteBBRight. Chocolate Pepto.

[@elvenkind6072]

Is that British for "I'd like a chocolate cookie about now!" ?

[@TheFrankiemonkey]

This is a hilarious sitcom! Love Diane Morgan!

[@dnlmachine4287]

Im fighting back tears of LOL and joy and memories. Chris Farley in Black Sheep fell down a mountain "Thank you little roots". Andy Samberg fell down the mountain in Hot Rod after going to his Happy Place and Punchdancing. Homer Simpson, no clarification needed. John Belushi Blues Brothers fell down the stairs while stuck in a school desk after being lashed with a yardstick by the Nun. Mandy is now one of the few, the proud, the fallen. Stay gold.

[@Chentzilla]

If anyone's interested but too lazy to count, Mandy's job entailed tasting 250 biscuits per day, which is, given an 8-hour work day, slightly more than 1 biscuit per 2 minutes. Also, the board where Mandy has to put her marks is 12x16 = 192 cells, so there's not enough place for her to mark all the daily batches, even if she fills it all, including the cells with the words BISCUIT COUNTER. Maybe she can manage that if she wipes her marks before or after her lunch break. Certainly not if she puts just 7 marks max in each row as she did.

[@rosella1919]

Are you a bean counter by any chance? 😂

[@Chentzilla]

@@rosella1919 Are you hiring?

[@ryanueda3329]

Based on how she's entering her marks, it seems like the appropriate assumption is that the biscuit factory operates continuously in three, eight-hour shifts. At a rate of 75,000 biscuits per day, with every 300th biscuit needing to be tested, each tester-shift would be responsible for testing 83.3 biscuits. It looks like she started entering her marks on row five of the 16x12 grid. If she makes seven marks per row for the remaining twelve rows, she'd have marks for 84 tested biscuits. Or would have done if she hadn't fled the factory and fallen out the window.

[@Chentzilla]

@@ryanueda3329 Continuous operation, why didn't I think of that?

[@jc918a-32]

Well, no cookies for you!

[@mz8583]

This actor is magnificent too!

[@majorpentatonic2310]

Cunk on Biscuits 😂

[@ulisesbenjaminalonsorojas352]

It's so hilarious her facial expressions 🤣.

[@karljoseph1151]

which part?

[@ulisesbenjaminalonsorojas352]

@@karljoseph1151 When she starts tasting the biscuits.

[@MM-ud1xf]

Her mate Paul would be so jealous.

[@thesmithselvis]

I started proper side splitting laughter as she tripped going down the stairs. It just got funnier and funnier as she fell from each flight of stairs. Absolutely genius physical comedy.

[@shacalah1101]

Her music choices in all these are great 😂

[@femmyemmanuel]

Gotta love her dedication to that fall😂😂

[@ArchyP]

Lmao the fake body falling head first 😂😂

[@wentoneisendon6502]

They're clearly using a bloke in bits of it as well 🤣🤣🤣

[@ArchyP]

@@wentoneisendon6502 🤣🤣

[@maazkalim]

Timestamp it all!

[@whocares_bear]

2:23 The British Lucille Ball

[@profpartout6609]

exactly

[@silverkitty2503]

indeed

[@anfernyl]

This was definitely an homage and a fantastic one ❤

[@TallSilentGuy]

Lucille Spencer.

[@domokoskelen3975]

The way she just silently falls without flailing her arms is epic

[@marestellarum7894]

That's the funniest for me, that she doesn't scream 🤣🤣🤣

[@mysmirandam.6618]

Now she's set for life sueing workman's comp 😂

[@aquathelynx962]

the minute and a half of her falling down the stairs my god 😂

[@stephenbardy6570]

I love Diane Morgan! How have I never seen ANY clip of this show till NOW?!

[@KhmerTarotReading]

2:12 hmmm what did the “shot people “ go sir? recycle for new biscuits?😂

[@goldexperience6072]

"You will reek of bourbons"😂

[@chris777-o8g]

I just love Mandy ❤

[@drknowofficial]

This sequence was, hands down, the funniest thing I've seen in my entire life! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@chriswinwood6501]

Have you seen her guarding a historic tree? Or having a cigarette break in a fried chicken shop? This is up there with her best.

[@jamesbrowne2072]

I just love Diane Morgan! 😂

[@biegebythesea6775]

i like the manager - he was a staple of british comedy in the 90s.

[@deeya]

You gotta admire her passion for biscuits. Even after all that, she didn't wanna be thought of as slacking and risk getting fired.

[@jasondanielfair2193]

first time i've ever laughed at a falling down the stairs bit--hilarious

[@HonchHeado]

He did tell ya Mandy lol

[@ganbramor]

Her at the window had me dying.

[@larrybrander9116]

This is how I felt about my dream job...I can totally relate.

[@eka2894]

The ending caught me off guard, but it's brilliantly timed as the video i watched right before this was the snippet of WILTY where Diane Morgan dumped a boyfriend bc of how he fell down the stairs 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤

[@katherinewelling6026]

I think I might’ve wet myself laughing!!!! 😂😂😂

[@luckybear4996]

THE Wy the fall out the window was so graceful T_T

[@gialicious1091]

This made me die laughing. Omg.

[@brandontylerburt]

Diane Morgan is the absolute best. It's slapstick physical comedy and it's brilliant.

[@rezamurshed]

That's the way the cookie crumbles! 😂

[@MihaiRazvanOfficial]

Omg I laugh so hard at the end😆🤣🤣🤣

[@JaceHarnage]

"You just hood it! Makes you look efficient!" 😂😂😂

[@AtheistOrphan]

Hood it?

[@Sushila..]

I've had job interviews like that. They make you question not only this job, but all your decisions in life and the meaning of humanity as a whole.💀

[@muhdabdulrahim]

You didd'nt have to taste everything lady! 😂

[@MrEquusQuagga]

Was that real or fake?

[@francescahw69]

I adore Mandy she is my spirit Animal

[@mikejose4186]

Turn and Enter. 😂😂😂😂

[@Lonerangerja]

Didn't even realise until you wrote it 😂😂😂

[@KlingonGamerYT]

as a Chef I was surprised my son got a job in a Bakers vienna bakery in Jersey I warned him its hard work... he lasted 4 weeks... I was impressed lol and now he listens to me as a wise man that iam not really but it was a happier ending for me

[@SN-sz7kw]

“Fair enough.” 😂

[@angelateter-ci5bl]

😂🤣😂 (Should probably give Lucille Ball credit though)

[@roslanabdulrahim5879]

Hillarious Mandy! Loves to hear her deep accent

[@mylarkeeMan]

I so hope we can see this in the states!

[@rickdeckard4434]

I worked for years in a candy shop, when people asked if I didn't grow tired of all that candy I simply answered no, I've just learned to pick out the good ones you never get tired of.

[@Yusuf-n4y2y]

0:14 that's probably the first time I am seeing a clock with no brandname or a silly logo in it. It looks beautiful that way.

[@torpedohippo8493]

What

[@Koolumi]

taste and eat are two different accions tho hehehe xD i love her!

[@arfriedman4577]

This actress is great.

[@andypanda4756]

I am in love with Mandy Carter.

[@TallSilentGuy]

I like the notion that she's still considering taking home the broken biscuits even after tasting them all day long.

[@britaeirikr8609]

Every second of this is perfect! ❤

[@pidge5193]

Why am I just now noticing the way Mandy sinks into that chair, Morgan's physical comedy is great

[@smilingbandit4975]

British humor really is something special 😄

[@jasonali4122]

Like the Michael Crawford actor, Frank Spencer, she does all of her own stunts.

[@nikzane]

Ha! Diane Morgan is *totally* the female Frank Spencer! Great spot! 😂

[@mhick3333]

I love lucy comes to mind

[@zazuzazz5419]

She, our Mandy is a bonafide pedigree hybrid offspring of Lucy and Laurel and Hardy!! 🤩 😂

[@tombeetroot_A.S.P.]

3:48 I like how the boss is looking at this like it is normal by now.

[@deeliciousplum]

That took a turn which I was not at all expecting. Intense! 🍪

[@3j-gems]

Nailed it. All my worst fears, falling down those stairs cringe 😬 and another dream job down the drain.😅 dark comedy that punches the gut!🎉

[@PiglipsMaximus]

Okay the constant falling down the stairs is like a family guy joke hahaha

[@kampiestarz]

What makes me enjoy this is I got my dream job at Disney World, then one day my attraction was closed and the next 7 years was a nightmare. I also fell many times but only twice down stairs.

[@gauravkumar3146]

Turn and Enter 😂😂😂

[@justDIY]

I don't know why the algorithm recommended this to me, but I was mildly entertained by it.

[@Rickard...]

The funniest thing I've seen this year

[@chriswinwood6501]

It’s such a great series. It’s like a slapstick cartoon. I couldn’t love it more.

[@MartinHarbison]

I'm pee laughing 😂😂

[@MPfrance]

I LOVE her!!

[@richardduerr9983]

An American voice here of 58 years old, that is probably one of the funniest things I have ever seen in my entire life!!!

[@eggzacly]

love how it’s obviously the same flight of stairs over and over again

[@emmajones7742]

She is so funny, all the episodes are hilarious.😊😊

[@roachtoasties]

It looks like Mandy was initially trying to eat an entire biscuit each time to impress the boss. If each biscuit is 200 calories, 75,000 divided by every 300th biscuit is 250 biscuits, or 50,000 calories per day. If she was able to keep up the pace, she would be the size of an elephant within a week. :/

[@yucol5661]

Her stomach would stop digesting far before that. Due to exploding you know. Those are pretty big biscuits. 250 can only be compressed so much. Specially since you’d need water.

[@krashd]

It wasn't to impress the boss, it was because she enjoys biscuits and never realised you can quickly become sick of them.

[@ClaLu]

Death by biscuit 😂

[@nenaddimitrijevic9176]

When your dream job turns into a nightmare it would be e.g. when you start eating your own product you make for others, nothing can churn out if the eagerness eats it before it is made.

[@astrea79]

This sounds like every conversation I've had with an elder coworker

[@cattyelse2372]

bit ageist

[@DeathnoteBB]

@@cattyelse2372How…???

[@biegebythesea6775]

horrible comment