Peep Show changed television. It also changed me
about “Quote Brain” – a phenomenon that she describes as “having a mind filled with movie snippets that you hear suddenly in response to stimuli”. Mine is more one-track: I haveI was only nine when the first episode aired, but by the time I was in my mid-teens – when double-bill re-runs were being shown on Channel 4 –began to filter into my attention. I bought the box set and the rest is, you might say, “Jenkins on Churchill”.
The show ran for 13 years until 2016, covering so much British culture and everyday life that there is a line for almost every occasion. Give me basically any situation and the face of Mark, Jez, Super Hans, Johnson or Sophie will eventually, involuntarily, come to mind. I travelled to Berlin last year with some friends and said, unthinkingly, as we were walking the sun-dappled streets: “lovely Europe”.
Other lines that run through my head often, some more in-context than others, are as follows: drinking wine ; at a party ; when someone attractive gets on the train ; being hungover ; eating Crunchy Nut ; eating toast ; using a public toilet ; after a minor inconvenience ; watching football ; when someone gets pregnant ; ordering a curry .
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