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Re: My observations thus far...

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jerryvonkramerSep 19, 2014
 

 
Thoughts on season 7:

To me this felt like it was the time when everything was clicking and firing on all cylinders. The complete lack of "outside guests" helps to make the show feel really comfortable and established now. Everyone knows each other, and that means they can actually take more liberties and be more ruthless than they would if guests were on. Even Andre Melley seems to show more of her personality during this run.

- Kenneth has calmed down a bit from the excesses of his season 6 antics and picks his shots a bit more carefully. But he ramps up on some of his "we shouldn't have women on this show!" stuff and especially his "you great nit" abusive lines to Peter. He also demonstrates several more ridiculous accents, including an absurd Scottish one he busts out a few times. On one occasion I had the show on in the car and had to pull over because it was making me laugh so much.

- Aimi MacDonald was finally less annoying to me on these shows partly because Nicholas stopped patronising her so much and / or sucking up to her. He's more strict with his rulings even when she pouts and this makes Aimi altogether funnier I think -- we're getting to see what she's like now when she doesn't get her own way.

- The shows when it is all four men are just off-the-charts during this season. The banter is just flying around. The wit is sharp. Clement goes for the juggler with his attacks on Nick on a few occasions. Peter often delivers the killer one-liners. Then you get the extended back-and-forth duels of attrition between Clement and Derek. And the duels of showman one-man-ship between Derek and Kenneth with their array of silly slow or fast voices.

- Sheila has now really cemented herself as a regular and the shows where she's the 4th player are almost as good as those when it's Derek.

- Clement seems to win every single week during this season

*Special note*

In a review of a previous season I noted that Clement would seem to studiously avoid mentioning his grandfather, well, in one episode here he does talk about him, if only briefly on a challenge.

It's the show from 13th February. Here's the transcript from Dean's site:

NP: I had to deliberate in my mind, because I have to listen for so many things all at once. But er 13 seconds on Albert Einstein with you now Derek starting now.

DN: He also wrote a pot-boiler with a man called Mister Freud. It wasn't a very good book so...

BUZZ

NP: Clement Freud has challenged.

CF: Deviation.

NP: Why?

CF: It couldn't have been a Mister Freud. It could have been my grandfather who was Professor Freud, but not Mister.

SH: Oh was it when he was made a Professor? He was Mister before that.

CF: No, no, he was a Doctor...

DN: He was born a Professor, you see!

NP: When he wrote the book, he was not at that time Mister. I think he was...

DN: You can still call somebody Mister if they're Professor!

NP: Oh we can't deliberate on such a difficult situation. So we have to give the benefit of the doubt to Clement Freud and...

DN: How often do you talk about his grandfather as Professor Freud? Have you ever heard him called Professor Freud?

NP: No you usually refer to him as his Christian name.

SH: He's Freud!

DN: Freud!

SH: Freud!

NP: Sigmund Freud or Freud, yes. Ten seconds, with you Clement starting now.

 
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