douglas in joburg proclaiming to be a 'happily married man' when he's literally getting a divorce.... all of cabin pressure is about Performance... being the person you think you should be (martin and theresa) or the person you want people to think you are (carolyn and douglas and herc) and it isolates them all until they let it go. meanwhile arthur, 'i'm very often just completely happy' arthur, 'i can't lie' arthur... his performance as Australian Son in zurich saves the day....
rly like gus brown as martin davenport (especially his noise when crieff yells HOW TALL ARE YOU MARTIN) but I really feel they missed a fun little meta joke by not casting tom goodman-hill as paramount martin didn’t they
The irreparable brain damage that Cabin Pressure has inflicted on all of us!
Don't pretend you can hear words like "Otters", "Saussages", "Lemon", "Control", "Talisker", "Toblerone", "Get dressed" or "Hey Chief" without neurons lighting your brain up like a Christmas brolly Tree.
Like. I don't even know where Bristol is but I do know they have a lovely suspension bridge.
cabin pressure is so wonderful because you just have to accept at some point that everyone at their core is just an absolute fucking loser. except for carolyn knapp shappey.
dragging myself out of my oh-god-i'm-in-an-intergenerational-mentor-mentee-dynamic haze to draw the OG oh-god-i'm-in-an-intergenerational-mentor-mentee-dynamic character.
anyway here's a linda fairbairn page i've been working on for a month
not to harp on about John Finnemore's writing but I want some appreciation for him writing gay people as completely ordinary, where the sketch wouldn't change if they were heterosexual (the train manager/driver, the bassoonist who hides his job from his husband), while others speak deeply about homophobia and acceptance (Gally and Susannah, the entirety of the double act Rebel Alliance) and others, most importantly, are funny (Patsy Straightwoman having a wife, who is also called Patsy Straightwoman).
Big fan of cabin pressure, a bigger fan than probably I let on! It’s an amazing radio show which is free to listen to on YouTube and internet archive. If there are any cabin pressure fans left in 2024 we should kiss immediately