#and some kevin turvey

[martymckeaton]

happy birthday, rik mayall :”)

i dont know if i can actually accurately put into words just how profoundly this man has impacted and improved my life, and i think that’s probably a shared sentiment among rik fans :”) above it all, i just really want to say thank you, rik, and that i miss you very much <3 

(dedicating this to some of the incredibly lovely people i’ve become friends with because of him: @slimylayne , @neil-neil-orange-peel, @ensign-ancic, and really just all of my lovely rik mutuals <3) 

((alas didnt manage to draw alan or richard dangerous, but i did my best with the amount of time i had :(( ))

#really celebrated rik day today gjkshg watched a bunch of the young ones clips #and some kevin turvey #and topped it all off by listening to the last hurrah #rik mayall #the young ones #bbc bottom #blackadder #kevin turvey #drop dead fred #rick tyo #rick pratt #richie richard #lord flashheart #the comic strip presents #colin grigson #got really emotional making this im ngl #like i got teary-eyed and had to delete the caption so many times #i really miss him sm #also thank you ren i had a Wonderful time watching guest house paradiso with you last night #my art

[rikandadefest]

#RikAndAdeFest Countdown! ⏳

Blummin' flip, scumbags! We're now just 10 weeks away from the start of the #RikAndAdeFest2024! Can you believe it? To get everyone in the mood, each week we'll be boosting some of the bloody brilliant fanfic and fanart made for past fests.

To kick things off, we'll be giving some love to:

✨Gen Works✨

Fandom isn't all about shipping, and neither is our fest! Why not check out the following?

In 2021, @the-tardis-in-221b-baker-street sent all four young ones for a spin in the TARDIS:

In 2022, @lostinthemayall took on the aftermath of More Bad News, with an unexpected friendship blooming between two band members:

Also in 2022, @addersblack gave Richie a pleasant birthday, courtesy of Eddie:

In 2023, @deaditeyes and @the-tardis-in-221b-baker-street conjured up group meals between various Rik and Ade characters, while @viviangreeneart and 20thcenturycoyote gave us Kevin Turvey dozing with a butterfly:

Also in 2023, @postpunkpontypandyphantomthief sent Vyvyan on a(nother) sadistic mission to torture Rick:

We'll be boosting fic and art from a different angle next Saturday! Check back then!

#rik mayall #adrian edmondson #fanfic #fanart #the young ones #tyo #bbc bottom #the comic strip presents #bad news band #kevin turvey #calling all scumbags

[porterdavis]

Great but tragic spectacle

So now we have an addition to the short list of things I have told my children to pay close attention to -- the spectacle of a major political party imploding. And short of some West Wing-style denouement I can't see any way out of it. The Never-Kevins are basking in their power and Fox interviews while the rest of the GQP mutters under their breath and tries to present a united front. One branch of the government of the once-greatest country on earth has been hijacked by nihilists, fascists, crackpots, whatever you want to call them, and cannot lead, indeed cannot function.

Truth be told the current Republican party couldn't organize a one-car funeral procession. Having that displayed so baldly is a boon for the Democrats. President Biden can take a victory lap for Having Gotten Stuff Done (bridges, gun control, economic stimulus...it's a long list) while the GQP can't pick a leader. Unfortunately there's a price to be paid for not having a functioning government and hopefully Xi or Kim Jong-un won't choose now to demonstrate it.

For the curious -- the other items on the list I gave my children was the financial crash of 2008-9 where the world went topsy-turvey and the market would pay you to take delivery of gasoline; and the pandemic when the streets and lanes of the world emptied of human life and the natural world began to reassert itself with plants and animals re-taking their habitats.

There's plenty of weird shit that happens daily but these three things strike me as transcendent.

Good luck everybody. We may never see this again.

#gqp #circular firing squad

[neil-neil-orange-peel]

I would love to know about “Spotface’s Cousin”!

Heyyyy! Thank you for the opportunity to ramble. 😂

Spotface's Cousin

This WIP came about as a direct result of the Christmas Carol parody fic I spent much of 2020 writing, A Bastard's Carol. When I look back on it, ABC isn't the best written thing (and, frankly, it'd be a big shock for the world if it was 😂), but it was something that helped me through the first lockdowns and I'm still low-key proud of how long it is. Another reason I love it is because it really fired up my creativity and lit the sparks that eventually became a few of the WIPs on my list.

Spotface's Cousin is about Kevin Turvey and Drop Dead Fred. In ABC, Rick and Kevin are cousins and Rick is an old charge of Fred's. I had Fred call Rick Spotface as a nickname, in the same way he calls Lizzie Snotface. I tried to drop hints throughout ABC that Kevin is Not Okay™ and the fic ends with a distressed Kevin coming face to face with our favourite imaginary friend in the share house's bathroom. I guess this makes makes Spotface's Cousin a sequel to ABC? Actually, technically, ABC has two sequels thanks to the alternate futures based on choices thing, but this is the "happy" sequel.

I believe I mentioned in an ask a while ago my headcanon about the ordering of Kevin Turvey Investigates and The Man Behind The Green Door being reversed? Well, this fic is why! 😂 Basically, Fred is with Kevin for the events of both, irritating him on his quest to help him. Kevin is very lonely and understimulated and his mental health is sorta spiralling. Fred isn't meant to be a fix-all solution, just a nudge in the right direction. And some comfort. Y'know, like he is for Lizzie.

The Young Ones will make appearances, as well as another character I'm keeping a secret for now. This could be really sad, but I want it to be optimistic. There will be wholesomeness, there will be soft moments, the likes of which would make canon screech in horror. 😂

Here's a snippet of dialogue:

“And I’ve tried to stay in the house, and I’ve tried to stay out of the house, and I’ve even tried to stay on top of the house – only once, right, during a storm... a bolt of lightning hit me – but it just… it just doesn’t make any difference! Wherever I go I’m still stuck in here and I can’t get out of here because here is me and I don’t exist, like, in anyone else’s head, just my own, so I-I can’t get out and… bogey crap…”

Thanks for the ask! ❤️

#asks #wat-the-cur #wips #fanfic #kevin turvey #spotface's cousin

[wat-the-cur]

Top 5 comic strip episodes? And top 5 Rik characters? I love hearing your answers to things its always super interesting.

Aw, thanks, buddy! I’m so flattered that you enjoy my answers, I so frequently feel that I have little to say! Okay, let me see...

Top 5 The Comic Strip Presents... Episodes:

(Please bear in mind that I have not seen all of the episodes, so these are my favourites at the moment)

5. Consuela (Or, The New Mrs. Saunders): I don’t know what it is about this one that makes me laugh so much. In some respects it’s genuinely creepy to watch, but it’s also so exaggeratedly ridiculous, and everyone involved is playing it absolutely straight. Anything that satirises the customs and manners of the English upper crust just kills me, and the fact that all the characters are still being stiffly polite in the face of something horrifying gets me every time.

4. Summer School - An underrated episode, in my opinion. I just love the concept of students challenging themselves to take part in a historical re-enactment, and all going about it in different, quite terrible ways. None of them have a clue, and I love it.

3. The Comic Strip - I’m counting it as an episode, okay! I like how this one gives you a taste of what seeing The Comic Strip on stage was like, but it also keeps up the idea of them all being the characters they portray on that stage. Also, I love the atmosphere. You feel grimy after watching this episode.

2. The Beat Generation - Maybe my enjoyment of the mockery of beatniks/angry young men on Hancock’s Half Hour set me up to love this episode. This one came second just because the characters are so irritating, but there are some genuinely endearing performances here, too. Kix and Jeremy spring to mind. It’s also great that the episode genuinely feels like a sixties piece. It’s a great example of The Comic Strip paying close attention to authenticity, as well as comedy.

Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door - You probably knew this was coming. This was the first episode I ever saw, and it’s still the one that makes me laugh the most. Rik n’ Ade at their finest and grossest, and Nicolas Parsons being an absolute sport throughout. Also, Peter Cook? As a coldblooded killer? That’s all I want.

My Top 5 Rik Mayall Characters:

5. Alan B’stard - A fairly new favourite! Alan is a whole different sort of repulsive to Rik’s more well known characters, and I genuinely love how creepy and unsettling he can be. It’s brilliant that Rik’s beauty was actually acknowledged in the case of Alan, but he never let it get in the way of his performance.

4. Kevin Turvey - I almost forgot about Kevin while I was compiling this list, I am so sorry! Without doubt, Rik’s sweetest and most likeable comedy character. He’s a character who makes you reflect more kindly on your own quirks and curiosities.

3. Richard Richard - Probably the character that has made me laugh the most, with one rival. He is also the Rik character my family and I quote most often.

2. Richard Dangerous/Dreamytime Escort (I regard them as the same character - Don’t ask me why, but this guy is here, because he is the character I have the most headcanons for. I have a bizarre attachment to this little jackal man.

Rick Pratt - There is nothing I could say about Rick that hasn’t already been said, but he has my heart. He is absolutely horrible, in ways that remind me of myself, unfortunately. With that said, he still manages to be quite endearing in his innocence. I think I favour him mist, because I began to watch “The Young Ones” when work was starting to grind me down a bit, and he gave me something to look forward to at the end of the day.

#asks #rik mayall #the comic strip #the comic strip presents #the young ones #tyo #bottom bbc #kevin turvey #the new statesman #the dangerous brothers

[scotianostra]

Happy 68th birthday to comedian /actor Gregor Fisher.

Fisher was born in Menstrie, Clackmannanshire December 22nd 1953, after his mother passed away he was brought up in Edinburgh, Langholm then finally Neilston where he attended nearby, Barrhead High School. He attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, at which he did not complete his studies as he was offered a job at Dundee Rep that paid him £35 a week.

Gregor’s first break came when he was cast alongside the late great Rikki Fulton on the hilarious Scotch & Wry, beforehand he had picked up bi parts in the TV series, Rob Roy, Take the High Road and some TV plays, after Scotch & Wry he was in two series of a sitcom called Foxy Lady, with Diane Keen in 1982, which I for the life of me cannot remember, but then again I was watching slightly more off the wall stuff like The Young Ones and Comic Strip back then, which brings me to his next role, although uncredited he was in a show with Young Ones star the late Rik Mayall called Kevin Turvey: The Man Behind the Green Door, much more my cup of tea, Gregor was now in with the alternative comedy crowd which I loved, this saw him feature in the BBC Scotland sketch show, Naked Video, it was there we first met the comedy creation Rab C Nesbitt, along with other characters, The Baldy Man and Highlander Angus of the OHBC, “Outer Hebrides Broadcasting Corporation”.

Of course it was Rab C that was the stand out of all the characters and a spin off show followed, over the years we have seen 10 series featuring Gregor and Elaine C Smith as the couple, and the shows have had some classic moments.

Of course it isn’t only Rab that we know Gregor from, amongst his film roles are 1984 and Love Actually, and on the small screen a connection to Neil Munro, from an earlier post today, as the title role in the reboot of The Tales of Para Handy and the aforementioned Baldy man who we seen in 13 episodes of his own show. He also appeared in two separate tv adaptations of RLS’s Kidnapped playing two different roles.

Gregor published an autobiography, The Boy From Nowhere, in 2015.

Gregor was last on our screens in the sitcom  The Cockfields, he took  over the role of Ray, following the death of Bobby Ball in October 2020., I must say I’ve never heard of it, the show aired on UKGold. IMDb has him pencilled in for The Inn at The End of the World, a drama about five people who respond to an advert to escape Christmas and all its enforced jollity in London and retreat to an Inn off the West coast of Scotland.

The well loved Scottish actor currently lives in France with his wife, actress Vicki Burton

#Scotland #scottish #actor #comedian #happy birhtday

[colourshot-draws]

A collection of some more silly doodles as I feel like only drawing fun stuff right now.  1: They both look gnc af but Ade’s character most of all. 2 and 3: Kevin Turvey can talk about fucking whatever and everyone is like “go on king, we love you” 4: A little au doodle :]

#the young ones #tyo #kevin turvey #hardwicke house #rick pratt #fanart #colourshot's art

[race-week]

Kevin Magnussen and Sergio Pérez Parallels

Kevin Magnussen and Sergio Pérez both had really promising junior careers and both their F1 careers looked exciting and their careers have quite a few parallels but eventually their careers have gone very different ways with one ending up a race winner with multiple podiums and a seat in a top team whilst on the other ended up in a back marker team before being kicked out the sport.

So, what happened and why did their careers go such different ways?

I have a lot to say on this topic so this will cover their Junior Careers up to the end of their career with McLaren, and there will be another instalment of their careers ARD (after Ron Dennis)

 Junior Careers

Sergio

They both had moderately successful junior careers, 

Sergio competed in the 2007 British Formula 3 Championship in the National Class (which used older chassis) he won the championship by a comfortable margin. Taking two-thirds of the race wins and a similar amount of pole positions and finished all but two races on the podium. 

For 2008, he graduated to the premier International Class of the championship, after leading the championship early in the season, he eventually finished fourth in the drivers' standings, behind Alguersuari, Turvey and Hartley.

Sergio contested his first year of GP2 in 2009 after coming 7th in the 2008-09 GP2 Asia Series finishing 12th in the standings behind Hulkenberg, Grosjean, Maldonado and di Grassi. However, when he would compete again in GP2 the following year he won five races and finished second in the standings behind Pastor Maldonado.

 Kevin

Some of Kevin’s best years being the 2009 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup, where he was on the podium 12 times (one being a win) out of 14 races, he finished the Northern European cup second to Antonio Felix da Costa. 

He then came 3rd in the 2010 German Formula 3 Championship with 3 wins as the highest placed rookie. He then came 2nd in the British Formula 3 Championship with 7 victories. 

However, he did not win a championship until his second year in Formula Renault 3.5 for the 2013 season claiming five victories, eight other podium places and eight pole positions. He finished the season as champion, 60 points clear of runner-up McLaren junior Stoffel Vandoorne.

 F1 Rookie Season

Looking at their first seasons in F1 Sergio for Sauber and Kevin for McLaren

Sergio was partnered with Kamui Kobayashi for the 2011 season and they finished 16th and 12th respectively with Kamui getting 30 points to Sergio’s 14. 

Whilst Kevin in 2014 got 55 points (including a 2nd place in Australia) resulting in him being 11th compared to Jenson Button’s 126 points and 8th in the drivers. Kevin did show a lot of potential at tracks that he visited in junior categories with seventh place finishes in Austria and Great Britain and a fifth-place finish in Russia where it was new to everyone. However, the rest of his points finishes throughout 2014 many of them were ninth or tenth place finishes, the car was not great but with Jenson getting a 6th place on average it did not look promising for the young driver.

 Joining McLaren 

In September of 2012, Lewis Hamilton's decision to leave McLaren for Mercedes in 2013 was announced, and Pérez was subsequently confirmed as Hamilton's replacement. This also ended Pérez' association with Ferrari, as he was released from its driver academy. However earlier in the year a move to Ferrari had been speculated after his incredible drive at Malaysia, where he had come second but had nearly overtaken Fernando Alonso in said Ferrari.

Kevin Magnussen was fast tracked to Formula 1 as McLaren looked for its next superstar (i.e., someone to fill the shoes of Lewis Hamilton). He had his first experience of the McLaren Formula One car at the Abu Dhabi Young Driver test in 2012 and set the quickest time of 1:42.651 which was the best of the three-day test and had impressed McLaren's sporting director.

It was announced that Magnussen would drive for McLaren for the 2014 season, replacing Sergio Pérez. At the Jerez and Bahrain pre-season tests he topped the timesheets, and at the first race in Australia he qualified fourth.

Where things started going wrong

I think that the main reason things started going bad for McLaren is the fact that they did not know what they had in Lewis Hamilton before they lost him, in addition the 2013 McLaren was not a good car. 

Martin Whitmarsh decided it would be a fantastic idea to go for revolution rather than evolution for their 2013 car. For example, McLaren changed the suspension from pushrods to pull rods, which alone requires a total re-design of the car's chassis. Button has commented since that it was extremely pitch-sensitive and far too stiff, and that if you managed that well it 'could' be very quick, as evidenced by races like Spa or Malaysia (which are not very kerby). Brundle said that trackside it had 'the suspension of a skateboard'.

They also didn’t react very well to the 2014 regulation changes and suffered quite badly with aero issues and reliability at points.

Having two experienced drivers’ like Hamilton and Button was good for McLaren however they struggled a lot after Hamilton left, partly due to the influx of inexperienced drivers and partly due to the team’s poor decisions.

Their issues at McLaren

 One of the biggest issues was Pérez was expected to get in that car and drive it like Hamilton he finished the season 11th with 49 points and teammate Jenson Button was 9th with 73. However, this was the team that a year prior their drivers had finished 4/5 with plenty of podiums and wins. However, in my opinion McLaren did not want to own up to the fact that their car was the reason that they were so low, so it was a lot easier just to throw out the new guy for their promising young junior.

Kevin meanwhile was touted to be the next Lewis Hamilton, however he struggled in his rookie season whilst Hamilton had shone and McLaren ended up replacing him with Fernando Alonso and relegating Magnussen to the test and reserve driver role for McLaren. He had talks with Honda-powered team Andretti Autosport to compete in the 2015 IndyCar Series, but McLaren blocked the deal.

So within two seasons McLaren’s car had gone downhill and they had potentially ruined the careers of two promising young drivers Sergio was 23 and Kevin was 22

#f1 essay #Drivers compared #kevin magnussen #sergio perez #f1 #f1blr #Formula 1

[wowheavykath]

do u want to hear my dream??

(of course you do, im telling it anyways)

(its a long story but bear with. it has some fun people)

so i dreamt i was in my old primary school, and oOO look here comes rick (tyo) rUNNING through the halls. we were canonically friends in my dream and i was like “oi, rick?? rick????” and my head of year when i was in year 11 was like “he cant hear you” so i followed him outside, promptly getting lost in a forest?? i finally found the (not VERY local, but not miles away) shopping centre, and saw that a new shop opening had stolen my aunties designs (for what, i dont know) and they were having a sale in an hour. i had to bolt back to the school, and i walked into the classroom. i said to the teacher, “im not dead, but i have to go NOW.” she said i cant leave because there was five minutes of class. i sat by my friend RICHIE FROM IT 2017?? after class i was like “right richie, eddie, beverly, ben, bill and stanley come with me we’ve got a job to sort” then i stopped and said HOLD ON, do you know who could help?? KEVIN TURVEY. he knows the law- he has to, hes an investigative journalist for goodness sake! so i asked a teaching assistant, “hey does kevin turvey go here?? i know its random but i was just wondering” THEN SHE LEAVES THE ROOM AND WALKS IN WITH A *SLIGHTLY* AGED UP KEVIN, ANORAK AND ALL, BUT WITH BOTTOM RIK GREASY HAIR AND HE DOESNT CARE ABOUT INVESTIGATING ANYMORE BC ITS “CHILDISH” . i took him into the other room and literally begged him to help us, and eventually he caved. i gathered all of us up, and went to leave, when my mum stopped me in a very drop-dead-fred-esque “aND WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU’RE GOING??” . she made me take my sister. then i was like “shit none of us have bus money” kevin was like “err i have a tenner but that wont get us on the bus” and i got so wound up with rage i woke up. chucky chased me at one point but that was a seperate dream.

#weird dreams #rick pratt #kevin turvey #it 2017 #drop dead fred #(reference) #bottom mention?? #just an experience overall really bloody hell

[formuladone]

Tags for mobile/app users under the cut. In case the links stop working for some reason try searching by driver/team name, I try to keep everything tagged! There’s also a nav page for desktop users

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Current F1 Drivers 

Alexander Albon

Fernando Alonso

Valtteri Bottas

Pierre Gasly

Lewis Hamilton

Nicholas Latifi

Charles Leclerc

Kevin Magnussen

Lando Norris

Esteban Ocon

Sergio Perez

Daniel Ricciardo

Yuki Tsunoda

George Russell

Carlos Sainz Jr

Mick Schumacher

Lance Stroll

Max Verstappen

Sebastian Vettel 

Zhou Guanyu

Mostly current Formula E Drivers

Daniel Abt

Sam Bird

Sebastien Buemi

Jerome d'Ambrosio

Antonio Felix da Costa

Nyck de Vries

Lucas di Grassi

Tom Dillmann

Mitch Evans

Robin Frijns

Maximilian Gunther

Andre Lotterer

Jose Maria Lopez

Felipe Massa

Edoardo Mortara

Gary Paffet

Nelson Piquet Jr

Oliver Rowland

Alexander Sims

Oliver Turvey

Stoffel Vandoorne

Jean Eric Vergne

Pascal Wehrlein 

F1 Teams

Ferrari

Haas

McLaren

Mercedes

Aston Martin F1 Team

Alpine

Red Bull

Alfa Romeo

Alpha Tauri

Williams 

FE Teams

Audi

BMW

Dragon

Jaguar

Mahindra

Mercedes

NIO

Porsche

Techeetah

Venturi

Virgin 

Others

Jack Aitken

Fernando Alonso

Rubens Barrichello

Jenson Button

Tatiana Calderon

Sergio Sette Camara

Jamie Chadwick

Karun Chandhok

Jim Clark

David Coulthard

Anthny Davidson

Nyck de Vries

Paul di Resta

Maro Engel

Marcus Ericsson

Giancarlo Fisichella

Dan Gurney

Esteban Gutiérrez

Mika Hakkinen

Brendon Hartley

Rio Haryanto

Mike Hawthorn

Nick Heidfeld

Phil Hill

Nico Hulkenberg

James Hunt

Jacky Ickx

Narain Karthikeyan

Christian Klien

Robert Kubica

Vitantonio Liuzzi

Alex Lynn

Pastor Maldonado

Artem Markelov

Bruce McLaren

Tiago Monteiro

Jolyon Palmer

Charles Pic

Nico Rosberg

Carlos Sainz Sr

Takuma Sato

Michael Schumacher

Ralf Schumacher

Ayrton Senna

Simona de Silvestro

Sergey Sirotkin

Jackie Stewart

Giedo van der Garde

Wolfgang Von Trips

Mark Webber

Susie Wolff

#mod post #tags

[postpunkpontypandyphantomthief]

Some Rik inspired looks and outfits: a thread

Firstly we have this look taken from the Peoples Poet, Rick Pratt from The Young Ones (1982) 

 as a fellow poet myself, I find his combination of punk badges, mod blazers and a berret to be very groovy and iconic. 

I also have these amazing boots from M&S

I have a few badges 

The dark blue hoodie 

 inspired by: Kevin Turvey(1981)

 I've had this hoodie for a while now but it wasn't until recently that I realized it reminded me of Kevin's anorak.

I once tried to recreate the e-boy look that he had in the PSA Out of My Head (1995)  

 but my laptop camera didn't agree with the idea.

This smashing pink blouse inspired by Alan B'stard from The New Statesman (1987)  

There was also the time one of Face Swap's filters made a picture from last year look like Alan

The floral shirt taken from (the 2000s)  

The floral shirt taken from (the 2000s) (I bought this last year, mainly because it reminded me of floral shirts that he had on in the 2000s)

My leather jacket and band merch inspired by Colin Grigson (Bad News: but without his makeup) 

Colin has two looks, the one without makeup and the one where his hair is long and curly with Kiss esque makeup and face paint, this is taken mostly from pre-makeup Colin. 

The plaid is a general look for me, I like the pattern it also happens to fit with a Calavera hat inspired by: this 1991 picture

This denim shirt inspired by the jackets he had

Some of the pictures of me are from a few years ago, except the photos of the denim shirt and boots which are from this year. 

 Some clothes reminded me of certain characters or looks when I bought them, others like the jacket and hoodie I've had before I got into britcom.

#rik mayall #fashion #style icon #the young ones #rick pratt #the new statesman #alan b'stard #bad news #colin grigson #kevin turvey #out of my head #80s rik #1980s rik #1990s rik #2000s rik #2010s rik #style inspiration #me #my face #kelsey #it's me

[detectiveplease]

[…] I feel Episode 1 is possibly the weakest of the 8 episodes but still highly enjoyable.

From episode 2 is where Lucifer starts to hit its stride, with a good mix of entertainment, suspense, and fun that not many shows can achieve. We get our usual dose of drama but its when Lucifer has fun with itself that it really stands out. The show is willing to take risks and Episode 4 is a brilliant example and helps to build confidence that they can achieve something special with the musical episode, a feat many shows have failed.

But the heart of Lucifer always comes down to the characters and the performances of the cast. Since the move to Netflix and the longer episodes, characters other than Lucifer/Chloe can start to have more development, and similar to season 4, this brings the show to a new level. The cast, on the whole, has not faulted, with stand out performances from Lesley-Ann Brandt (Maze) and Rachael Harris (Linda). Their storylines intertwine and bring out some deeply emotional scenes that may not have been given the chance in the old 42-minute format. They were both given the challenge to bring some much-needed heart to the season, and neither disappointed.

Aimee Garcia always lights up every scene she is in with her bubbly energy, but when called for, can take a more serious side (looking at you episode 8). Similarly, Kevin Alejandro can flip a switch from serious to light-hearted comedy (and owns Episode 4 for his comic timing). D B Woodside's Amenadiel has not as much to work with for the first 8 episodes compared to some but this may be due to a stronger storyline for him in the final 8 episodes of the season[…]. However, when D B is on the screen (especially Episode 5) he puts in a strong performance […].

What does that mean for Tom and Lauren? Well as always, they know how to keep the chemistry burning on-screen and it always feels fresh and new on the topsy-turvey rollercoaster of Deckerstar. The leads both stand up to the challenge and give some great individual performances and some much-needed interaction with other cast members. Fans will not be disappointed with their storylines and will be left wanting more. Fans will be desperate for its return after episode 8. It is fair to say that Season 5 would be a test for Tom Ellis to showcase his acting talents for one particular storyline and he meets the expectations both physically and mentally for the said role. […]

The episodes themselves give us a nice mix of serious and light-hearted entertainment to keep us interested but things really start to hit its momentum at the end of episode 6. These final 3 episodes each have a cliffhanger that will make you want to watch the next episode immediately […]

One thing is for sure though, Season 5 is shaping up to be the strongest yet, and this is down to the risks in storytelling, genre-bending episodes, and strong performances from the cast. "God" knows what will happen next...

Mini-Episode Review

Episode 1 - Really Sad Devil Guy

Investigations from above and below with everyone investigating the murder of a known criminal. Some fun elements and a twist ending. Possibly the weakest episode in the season but still enjoyable to watch.

😈😈😈 / 5

Episode 2 - Lucifer, Lucifer, Lucifer

Lucifer returns but something seems different but will Chloe notice? Great episode with the cast clearly having fun with their characters and is the perfect mix of drama and fun. A personal favorite episode of mine now.

😈😈😈😈😈😈 / 5 (yes I gave it 6)

Episode 3 - ¡Diablo!

Lucifer goes all meta while investigating a murder on the set of a TV show inspired by the devil himself. Another fun episode where the cast who are settled into their roles can have fun and the show can have a joke at itself.

😈😈😈😈 / 5 

Episode 4 - It Never Ends Well For The Chicken

The highly anticipated "noir" episode which is Lucifer telling a story to his favorite mini-human. The cast are brilliant with Trixie/Lucifer relationship providing some of the best scenes. However, it is Kevin Alejandro who steals the episode every second he appears.

😈😈😈😈 / 5

Episode 5 - Detective Amenadiel

Partnerships are changed up this episode giving fans some Lucifer/Dan time that is greatly needed and really enjoyable to watch. Lesley-Ann Brandt and Rachael Harris put in one of the best performances to date and really show their acting prowess.

😈😈😈😈 / 5

Episode 6 - BlueBallz

It's girls' night and the guys are left at home. We get to see another side of Lucifer when he becomes a little green monster instead. Personally, I found the episode a bit slow but the ending will have everyone talking for numerous reasons.

😈😈😈 / 5

Episode 7 - Our Mojo

Things are starting to get serious with a serial killer on the loose and an interesting development with Lucifer gift causes problems for our duo. This leads to an interesting dynamic for Chloe and Lucifer that leads into the next episode.

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Episode 8 - Spoiler Alert

Things step up a notch in this mid-season finale, strong performances from all including stellar work from Aimee Garcia in a scene that will blow your mind. Amazing stunt work and choreography add to an exciting finale.

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#lucifer #lucifer s5 #lucifer season 5 #lucifer on netflix #spoilers #review #spoiler tv #links in replies #mystuff

[itsblosseybitch]

@frankenbolt asked and I'm delivering! This is in reference to my Rik Mayall-Lise Mayer-Barbara Robbin theory that I talked about a bit in the tags under the picture of Mayall and Meyer. The theory being that Barbara Robbin (the future Mrs. Mayall) was not a secret affair, or even an affair at all. I think that Rik was a polyamorist either at this point in his life, or for his entire life.

Now before I get any further, let me say this: I don't know any of the parties involved personally, and this is all pure conjecture based on some circumstantial evidence and my observations of human behavior.

With THAT out of the way:

The official story is that Rik was having a four or five-year secret affair with Barbara after they met on the set of A Kick Up The Eighties, while he was still in a relationship with Lise Mayer, who was a writer on The Young Ones along with Ben Elton. He was playing his breakout character, Kevin Turvey, and she was a makeup artist. In 1985, Rik called up Barb while shopping with Lise and Ben, when Barb told him she was pregnant. Rik hauled ass and booked a train to Glasgow without telling Lise what happened, while he and Barb then flew to Barbados to get married, where they remain married until his untimely death in 2014. Lise herself, at the time, was pregnant and ended up having a miscarriage.

I don't doubt that's the basic version of how Rik and Barb got married, but a couple of details to me don't pass the smell test. For instance, that Rik and Barb had a secret relationship for four or five years. Again, I didn't know Rik, but I do know a lot of men, and men, as a rule, are horrible at keeping secrets, especially if it concerns their sex lives. I have a hard time believing that Rik, the Showoff Pan Global Phenomenon we all know and love, didn't talk about who he was bonking to at least one of his friends. You couldn't tell me that someone like Ade Edmondson didn't at least have an inkling.

In turn, I highly doubt that Lise didn't at least have an inkling about Rik sleeping around unless she's completely daft (which she doesn't seem to be in the slightest). I mean, if my information is correct, they were already living together for several years as this affair was going on. If Rik was actually keeping a secret, the bloke would have had to pull some MI5-level, James Bond shit to pull that off.

An older article I read from the late 80s mentions that journalists had been trying to get to the truth of the story in vain, which confirms my suspicion that the official story is at least somewhat bollocks. In that same article, Lise's father, who was Rik's tutor, was interviewed for this article and didn't say anything disparaging about him, which I think is odd. I mean, if I found out my daughter's longtime boyfriend cheated on her and dumped her prego bottom to marry his mistress, I probably wouldn't be going on about what a great performer he was Even Back Then. Sure, Rik was handsome and charming as all hell and could probably get away with murder, but still.

Now for Rik being a polyamorist: the only reason I have that theory is because of a quote he said in an interview about how he hates when celebrities brag about loving fidelity and stating that Barb was his mistress for five years before marrying her and that he was an anarcho-surrealist.

I recognize that I could be waaaay off and that's it's 0% my business anyways, but yeah my 2 euros.

#rik mayall #lise mayer #barbara robbin #barbara mayall #ade edmondson #ben elton

[oblivioustoast]

i was going thru some old writing, and found this Kevin Turvey bit I wrote when I was feeling hella depressed a few years ago. i’ve posted it before, i think, but it’s probably gotten lost in the annals of tumblr after all this time. So here it is again cuz i still just love kevin turvey so much

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Yeah, I went through that same sort of thing meself for a while – I know what you mean. It’s like, you know – when you’ve got a skeleton, right? With all the bones and vertebrae, like. I suppose everybody’s got a skeleton…except…maybe jellyfish…and worms. And some bugs. But then they’ve got that exoskeleton, don’t they? Anyway, that’s not important. Imagine you’ve got a skeleton, right? With all the muscles and organs that go with it – tendons like, the ones that make your arms and legs go back and forth. Like that, see? So you’ve got all your organs and things, right, liver and lungs and all that. Now imagine – well I suppose you’d need skin too. That holds it all in. Or you could – you could hold it in with cling film or something maybe. If you wrap it ‘round really tight, that could work. You’d have to cut a hole for poo probably. Otherwise you’d have to unwrap the whole bloody thing every time you wanted to go to the toilet. And you’d go through a lot of rolls, wrapping and unwrapping all the time. Nah, no, skin’s probably better. Anyway, so you’ve got your skeleton, and your organs, and your skin, right? And – probably clothes too. You’re probably going to have clothes on, unless you’re in the bath or something. Probably wouldn’t have your clothes off for much else. Unless – unless you’re in the bath, right? And someone knocks on the door like, really urgent – knock knock knock! Really loud, so you have to jump out of the bath right away without grabbing your clothes, so you run to the door – wherever that is, downstairs maybe, or if you live in a flat with one floor or something – wherever you keep your door, you run to it and open the door. And whoever was knocking says, “Oi! Where are your clothes, mate??” And you say, “I left them in the bath because you were knocking so urgent like!” “Well go get ‘em out of the bath – I’m not gonna have a conversation with some naked person!” “All right, all right! Keep your – keep your shirt on, pal!” Ha ha… But I don’t think there’d be a lot of other reasons to go around without your clothes. Unless they caught on fire all of a sudden, and you had to rip them all off…or…or you were mugged and they wanted your clothes as well as your money and things…But where was I? …Right! So imagine you’ve got all that – skeleton, organs, skin and clothes and everything. Imagine – well imagine you’re you basically. A person. Imagine you’re you – and, you know in cartoons when they shoot a cannon through somebody or something and it leaves a great big hole in the middle of them? But, like, a clean hole, right? Because they can’t make it realistic with Bugs Bunny bleeding all over the place with his intestines hanging out or it would scare the kiddies, you know? So they just draw a circle and he keeps walking around. Pretend you’re Bugs Bunny, right? Wait, no, I mean – pretend you’ve got that big cannon ball hole in you, right? Like Bugs Bunny. But it’s not really there, right? It’s in your head. I mean, you don’t have a hole in your head – it’s in the middle, stomach bit – but it’s in your mind, you see? You only think you’ve got a giant hole in your middle, and nobody can see it – but it’s there? In your middle bit and in your mind, right. Anyway… I had that for a while. It was terrible, really awful. And I tried everything. Well not everything. I don’t get up early enough to do everything. But I wrote some poetry, right? Here, I’ll read some of it. Ahem. “Why, oh why do I feel like cry- ing. I wish I had a pie, apple pie Or blueberry pie Pumpkin pie Lemon meringue pie Pecan pie…”

Basically it just turned into a list of pies in the end. And that’s when I realized I hadn’t eaten in two days! Yeah! Completely forgot to go to the shops, hadn’t eaten a thing! So I think that’s why I felt so poorly, you know, because my stomach was trying to digest itself. Maybe you haven’t eaten in a while – have you eaten recently?

#Rik Mayall #Kevin Turvey #long post #sorry if mobile kinda fucks up the formatting

[neil-neil-orange-peel]

IT'S THE MAN BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR WEEK! THE DATES AND DAYS MATCH WITH 2021 WHOOO!!! 🎉

#some good news for 2021 🎉 #kevin turvey #the man behind the green door #rik mayall #this won't happen again until 2027

[junker-town]

Dodgers and Rays fans on why their team will win the World Series

Our writers predict the World Series winner and the MVP.

The 2020 MLB season has been unlike any other in the history of the sport, but it will end with the two best teams in the league playing in the World Series. The Los Angeles Dodgers won 43 games, the most in baseball, before dispatching of the Milwaukee Brewers, San Diego Padres, and Atlanta Braves in the postseason. The Tampa Bay Rays won 40 games, the second most in baseball during the regular season, before knocking out the Toronto Blue Jays, New York Yankees, and Houston Astros to reach the World Series.

The Rays and Dodgers are polar opposites in terms of how they’ve gone about team-building. The Dodgers have used one of baseball’s biggest budgets to supplement their homegrown core with high-priced acquisitions such as Mookie Betts. The Rays built their roster through trades, draft picks, and internal development on one of baseball’s smallest budgets. The Dodgers enter the World Series with a prorated payroll of $107.9 million, while the Rays payroll is only $28.2 million.

With the 2020 World Series set to get underway, we asked representatives from our team communities True Blue LA and DRays Bay to state the case for why their team will win the series end the season as champions.

Why the Rays will win the 2020 World Series

From Jim Turvey of DRays Bay:

The Rays are fresh off a pair of series in which the big boppers faced were almost entirely right-handed, and they were legitimately terrifying (Giancarlo Stanton, Aaron Judge, Luke Voit, Carlos Correa, George Springer, and Jose Altuve all say hello). As such, their Three Horseman of the Pen (no, not four, TBS), consisting of Nick Anderson, Diego Castillo, and Peter Fairbanks have been relied on night-after-night to shut down those big righty bats so far this postseason. Against L.A. the Rays are going to face a different challenge. In Corey Seager, Cody Bellinger, and Max Muncy, the Dodgers have a trio of intimidating and toasty (most notably Seager) lefty bats. The Rays pen is stacked with righties, but a little light on lefties. How the Rays pitching staff fares against those opposite handed bats will decide this series.

As such, don’t be surprised to see Kevin Cash (who will be the real MVP in the hearts of many Rays fans) turn soft-tossing, softer-contact-inducing southpaw Ryan Yarbrough throughout the series to put out so many fires you’d think he was Celeste Ng’s mortal enemy. Dave Roberts has been using the alternating R-L combination throughout most of his lineups this postseason, but should his standard five-man stretch starting with Seager in the two-hole and ending with Bellinger up sixth be due up at a key moment early in the Series, don’t be surprised if Yarbs got the nod, and then again in those situations throughout the series as demanded in those spots. (There’s also the potential for the Rays to start Yarbrough in Game 4, but given his versatility, and the fact that the Rays could roll out a potential bullpen game instead, personally I like this fireman role for Yarbrough instead.)

Ultimately, the Rays and Dodgers are two of the deepest teams in baseball, and that’s a very big part of why they are the two teams left standing at this point in the No Days Off 2020 Postseason. While it would make sense to expect a name like Randy Arozarena or Charlie Morton (who, if the Rays win in 7, will almost certainly get the MVP) to take center stage, it seems highly likely that in this World Series, of all of them, it will be a depth piece, utilized in the most modern and Rays-y fashion, who will be honored when Tampa Bay (hopefully...) lifts the Commissioner’s Trophy in a week.

Follow Jim Turvery on Twitter here.

Why the Dodgers will win the 2020 World Series

From Eric Stephen of True Blue LA:

The Dodgers offense is as deep as it has ever been, such that they aren’t reliant on any one hitter. Cody Bellinger was the National League MVP in 2019, but spent much of this season in and out of slumps after tinkering with his swing. He bats sixth, and is hitting again, evident by his pennant-winning home run on Sunday. Max Muncy was one of the best hitters in baseball in his first two years in Los Angeles — no fooling, his 146 wRC+ ranked eighth in the majors in 2018-19 — but this year has struggled, to the tune of .192/.331/.389. Still, he bats fourth every night, the Dodgers are comfortable with his patience even if he’s not hitting (he has 15 walks in 12 postseason games, hitting .211/.434/.447).

Muncy’s approach is not unique in a packed lineup that spends its time grinding opposing pitchers down to the nub. This postseason the Dodgers are averaging seeing 19 pitches per inning on offense. Rays pitchers in their three rounds so far are averaging 16.6 pitches per frame. The Dodgers preach winning each count, and passing the baton if they have to. Those five extra pitches every two innings might not seem like a lot, but it could make the difference over a long series, with the Dodgers ready to pounce at any sign of fatigue.

The depth is there on the pitching side, too. The Dodgers don’t absolutely have to win every Clayton Kershaw start to survive like past teams did. Julio Urias has been fantastic all postseason, and the Dodgers will get contributions in some form from Dustin May and Tony Gonsolin, even if both were shaky last week. The two off days built into the series should help a Dodgers bullpen that is effective — though not as good nor as deep as the Rays’ pen — after a looooooong week against Atlanta.

Oh yeah, and Walker Buehler is the best pitcher in the series. He’s not starting until Game 3, but that lines him up for Game 7, if the Dodgers don’t win it before then.

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World Series predictions from SB Nation

We asked writers from around the SB Nation network to give us their predictions for the World Series winner and MVP.

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