r/MitchellAndWebb

This show has so many scenes, references and throwaway quotes that brilliantly encapsulate the weird nuances of human nature, British culture and life in general.

Peep Show captures so many oddly specific little details of life that you’d normally never even notice or think twice about, but once you see them portrayed, you can’t help thinking, ‘haha fuck, that’s bang on’

For example - when Mark meets Sophie’s parents for the first time, and Sophie comes down the stairs with this mental hat, the whole family singing some weird birthday song. Mark and Jez share a look as if to say ‘what the fuck?’

I just think that scene perfectly portrays how every family probably does some mental shit that they’ve never really considered, but to an outsider experiencing it for the first time it’s, well… absolutely fucking mental.

Or when Jez rumbles the ‘velvet spoon routine’ where Mark is silently stirring a cup of tea to avoid clinking the side of the cup and alerting Jeremy. Mark’s reaction when he realised he’s been caught is still one of the funniest parts of the show to me.

Without sounding like a wanker, I don’t know, it just perfectly encapsulates the human nature of someone getting caught red-handed, and the weird relationships we have with the people closest to us, however dysfunctional it/we may be.

I want to hear your most thought-provoking / interesting / controversial thoughts over the parts of Peep Show that seem to get lost in the shuffle or otherwise overlooked, when people talk about this wonderful gem of television.

Who goes to someone's house (who is an ex of the person you're currently dating), gets in the shower with their ex for an hour, comes out in a towel and drinks straight from the carton? He's what my grandpa would call a real piece of shit, I'm glad Jez punched him. Also shouldn't be have turned the other cheek when Jez punched him if he's so enlightened? What a dick

Why should Jez feel obliged to get back with Sarah after she returns like a horrible turd that won’t flush after her summit and a steak at Cafe Rogue with Simon? She left him first.