#oh an olly reeders there

[anteroom-of-death]

Series 8 of doctor who is legit the most funny shit ever. Like, Clara is treating both a time lord and a solider like you treat the side piece. Missy is out here trying to plan the most elaborate "get your man back scheme" that verges into "planning a threesome". That Time Lord is acting like a jealous 17 year old who's listened to too Much Carrie Underwood and caught her bf making out with a teacher. And Danny just wants to date the pretty English teacher...

Polyamory would have made shit worse and better.

#personal #doctor who #series 8 #danny pink #gomez!master #clara oswald #12th doctor #its a love story #no it aint but you get my drift #yea #join me in my spiral #lol #oh an olly reeders there #the fuck #we cannot escape fetus boy

[crow-in-snow]

THE THICK OF IT

Malcolm Tucker - the self proclaimed indespensable centre of British government

#the thick of it #ollie reeder #peter capaldi #malcolm tucker #oh look he called himself 'doctor' in 2007 #doctor know #no less #also ollie being 'Andy Pandy' hehe

[idknotgonnapost]

so much to talk about here the tags will be plentiful

#i just know that ollie has looked at all of malcolm’s old campaign shit #like every newspaper interview he’s done all the posters he probably had to make back then #and the retort just yes i heard that fuck you #it’s so tame for him but also idk it’s different than normal in a way i can’t explain #but neither of them are being harsh idk how to explain this interaction but i love it #oh and the hands in pockets #malcolm tucker #ollie reeder #ttoi

[nortism]

doctor who liveblog pt 41

s8 ep4 listen

- clara leaves him alone for five minutes and he’s losing his mind with a chalkboard

- i don’t like soldier boy

- oh they’ve gone into soldier boy’s timeline

- uh oh mysterious blanket creature

- clara i love you so much

- using a time machine to fix a bad date, what a legend

- uh oh clara, at least you tried baby girl

- is that the doctor

- DANNY IS THE SPACEMAN?!

- omg are they related

- OHHH WE’RE IN THE DOCTOR’S PAST

- i loved that epsiode, it was cool as hell

s8 ep5 time heist

- i love a good heist so i have high expectations

- save me clara in a suit save me

- i know she’s not wasting that outfit on a man, it should have been ME

- well this is very mysterious

- TIME TRAVEL HEIST

- uh oh

- SAIBRA!!! and the other guy

- i’m very intrigued by this private vault

- ohh clones

- DO NOT GET EATEN BY THE TELLER

- oh ofc he’s the architect

- oh it’s another teller

- oh jealous doctor

s8 ep6 the caretaker

- i love clara and twelve’s dynamic, i think they match each other really well

- now i know he did not just show up at her school

- helppp is he just here to prove a point??

- well now i need to watch an episode of the doctor living amongst otters

- oh bro was incinerated

- this is making me desperate for a jane austen episode

- the doctor is a real hater my lord

- episodes of the doctor pretending to be just a Normal Guy will always be funny to me

- clara girl, the play thing is never gonna work

- space dad 😭😭

- oh shit she loves him peepaw

- jealous doctor

- dudes never heard of platonic love? like i also don’t believe she doesn’t love him but cmon

- ohhh shit danny vs the doctor

- ok quite cool from danny boy

- damned with faint praise

- imagine going to heaven and you’re greeted by ollie reeder from the thick of it

- MISSY

#nortism liveblogs doctor who #doctor who #dw #new who #doctor who liveblog #doctor who s8 #doctor who series 8 #12th doctor #twelfth doctor #clara oswin oswald #clara oswald #danny pink #listen #time heist #the caretaker

[afieldinengland]

'[re: the 'trying to be me will fucking kill you' scene] i love the lighting there, it all becomes very diabolic.' 'there's a fantastic kind of sense that ollie is slightly standing up to malcolm, only to get sort of squashed quite quickly.' 'does he believe that he can take over, on any level?' 'yes, i think he's got an inflated enough ego.' 'oh, dear.' 'when he goes around the corner– is it after this, or towards the end of the episode? and he just thinks, [breathes out], you know, polishing his nails.' 'but deep down, i mean, he can't believe it. there's never going to be another malcolm tucker. he's a one-off.' 'well, you say that, but i mean it could be ollie, i mean he's always– he has always said he's not an evil person, chris has said that fundamentally ollie's just a bit misguided. but we've seen toby wright, ollie's cousin in in the loop, he's pretty evil.' 'that's true. i could imagine that ollie reeder could become much more, much more malcolm than we've seen.'

#the director of communications is dead long live the director of communications #the thick of it #commentaries

[tellthemeerkatsitsfine]

I would like to apologize for having previously said Andy Zaltzman has chemistry with no one in the world besides John Oliver and a bit with Mark Steel. Just listened to Bugle episode 4204, a live episode with Chris Addison and Alice Fraser, and God, I forgot how good Andy Zaltzman and Chris Addison are together. You know when that scene from The Thick of It when Ollie Reeder is trying to explain to Hugh Abbott what kind of sizzling banter he has to have with the prime minister’s wife in order to fix their “lack of click” and get into her good graces, and Chris Addison makes a sizzling sound while doing some hand gesture that’s meant to indicate sizzling chemistry? That’s what Chris Addison achieves with Andy Zaltzman. High-quality click, effortless sizzling, by which I mainly mean both being able to very quickly jump on anything the other says, and it’s great. So entertaining.

This has me wanting to listen to The Department again, even though I’ve just embarked on a new Bugle journey that’s going to take a while. I might slot some Department episodes in as I go. I talk a lot (arguably too often) about how good the Oliver/Zaltzman double act was, but this episode has reminded me that the Oliver/Zaltzman/Addison dream team was pretty excellent too. And they did make a great radio show; some old comedy things I’ll admit I like for their nostalgic value or because they’re worthwhile bits of comedy history or interesting origin stories or just adorable younger versions of comedians, but The Department was a genuinely good radio show, on its own merits.

This also inspired a renewed search for 7 Day Sunday, this BBC radio thing from 2010-2015. It seems like a standard topical “BBC radio comedians be comedic about new of the week”-type thing, but the first two seasons were hosted by Chris Addison with Andy Zaltzman as a regular guest, so I’d love to hear it. Later seasons were hosted by Al Murray, whom I don’t like as much but they still had Andy Zaltzman as a regular guest, with Rebecca Front for a while too so that’s fun. Oh and Sarah Millican was involved. This is what I have figured out from their Wikipedia page and their entry in the British Comedy Guide, which seems to be the only places where that show exists, all my usual sources for actually downloading radio shows come up with nothing on it. So if anyone happens to have episodes of a radio show from 2010 called 7 Day Sunday, please let me know, I want to hear Chris Addison and Andy Zaltzman be comedic at each other more.

[oceanmonsters]

Succession x The Thick of It: 1x01 // 3x01 

#jesse armstrong cinematic universe or smth #oh the parallels... #also i swear the yellow text is literally the exact same colour on both sides it's just the background making them look different #the thick of it #succession #successionedit #ttoiedit #olly reeder #greg hirsch #succttoi #my gifs #tvgifs #usersunny

[innitmarvellous]

#the thick of it #ttoi #ollie reeder #nicola murray #glenn cullen #terri coverley #my gifs #i have so much to say about this #first off this scene is so wonderfully awkward i love it #and dunno but 'are you an ollie or an oliver' - 'i'm whichever you prefer' is just cracking me up A LOT #also the way ollie says 'i'm the ideas man' right after that scene...lol #oh and the ken thing...nicola should've called them stan & ollie lmao

[mariacallous]

Top 5 Sondheim songs, Top 5 TTOI scenes, Top 5 Marina songs, Top 5 New Labour pols/spin doctors/or otherwise associated NL folk.

In no particular order (because it’s top 5)

Top 5 Sondheim songs: -You Could Drive A Person Crazy -I’m Still Here -The Ladies Who Lunch -Could I Leave You? -Rose’s Turn

Top 5 TTOI Scenes: Nicola Murray: Come off it! We're not in a prison drama, are we? Malcolm Tucker : We are in a prison drama. This is the fucking Shawshank Redemption, right? But with more tunneling through shit and no fucking redemption.

Glenn Cullen: Well, that's Hugh gone, then. Terri Coverley: It's so sad, isn't it - Hugh? Ollie Reeder: You don't give a shit! Terri Coverley: ...No, perhaps I don't.

Peter Mannion: Why does the useless one keep staring at me? Phil Smiith: Because she's a mentalist and she loves you. You ever crash your car in the mountains, she'll be the one waiting to drag you out. (both chuckle) You've seen Misery? Peter Mannion: I'm in the fucking BBC, aren't I?

Julius Nicholson: You've done some pretty awful things to me in my time, but this takes the bloody biscuit. And you've pissed on that biscuit and I've got to eat it. Well, here's the news, Malcolm, I will not eat the pissy biscuit! Malcolm: Sam, no pissy biscuits.

(Malcolm Tucker and Cal Richards are giving pre-election pep talks to their respective parties) Malcolm Tucker: I know what people say to you, right? They say: 'We hate you. I hate you, I hate you, I hate you.' Everybody hates you. So fucking what? Some people, they just fucking love to hate. Some people, they'd fucking walk around the fucking Garden of Eden fucking moaning about the lack of fucking mobile reception. These are the kind of fucks who watched Mandela – fucking Nelson Mandela – walk to freedom, and said 'Is Diagnosis: Murder not on the other side?' So we fucking forget about them. Cal Richards: This government has run this country into the ground. This used to be a green and pleasant land, now it's the colour of the fucking BBC Weather map. It looks like anaemic dogshit. Malcolm Tucker: JB, Cal Richards, and their hordes of fucking robots, they're coming over the hill, towards us! And all you have got to do is this: bend down, pick up any fucking weapon you can, and twat the fuckery out of them – Cal Richards: This government is maimed, but it can't be shamed. It will. Be. FUCKED! Malcolm Tucker: Let's get out there, and let's fucking kill them, LET'S SET FIRE TO TEARS! Let's go! (all applaud and cheer) Come on! Let's go, yes! Cal Richards: OK, let's get going.

Top 5 Marina songs: -Numb -Primadonna -How To Be A Heartbreaker -Sex Yeah -Karma

Top 5 New Labour peeps (oh fuck me we’re getting nostalgic for NuLab): Alastair Campbell (obvi) Gordon Brown Mo Mowlam (probably one of the top favorites in this group tbh) Jack Straw David Miliband (the hotter of the 2 brothers and that is that on that)

#arathesane

[swithe-ist]

it’s really horrible, I know but I swear sometimes when John blinks I just hear Ollie Reeder’s voice in my head: 

“oh my god... he’s got a nervous blink!”

then Malcolm’s “that’s a mega-blink. it’s not just a blink.”

and I wonder if Paul’s doing it on purpose

#holby city #john gaskell #paul mcgann

[idknotgonnapost]

literally giggling into my pillow blushing thinking about ollie reeder in scenes where his sole purpose is to annoy those around him

#he chooses to be the problem #he’s so cute and funny #when he does impressions #oh i am making an ollier reeder impression comp rn #ollie reeder #the thick of it #ttoi

[idknotgonnapost]

you guys gotta understand that they did NOT stick together like malcolm thought they would also i kinda like the end of this but yeah sorry this is so embarrassing whatever

#let’s get rid of everyone else and then we can rule together #life is finally interesting again #oh um ermm hi so uhhh no ☝️🤓 #i posted this yesterday but got embarrassed so if u saw it then pretend u didn’t and walk away #the thick of it #ollie reeder #malcolm tucker #ttoi #olicolm #<- i effing hate that name #i think it’s cus like i don’t think they’d ever be in a relationship where they would need a ship tag #sorry for saying ship :(

[nortism]

doctor who liveblog pt 43

s8 ep10 in the forest of the night

- i deleted my draft again!!! but my thoughts were: that forest was very sunny and that child acting was god awful but i did start to like danny

s8 ep11 dark water

- DANNY FUCKING DIED????!

- omg she actually threw all the keys

- no she didn’t

- this is such a crazy line

- still funny to me that ollie reeder the thick of it is working in heaven

- oh dead people aquarium

- MISSYYYY!!!

- finally they r letting the doctor and the master kiss, david tennant and john simm rolling in their metaphorical graves

- oh she’s a robot?

- oh fuck did he kill that kid

- he’s so funny

- oh she’s so cunty

- oh great cybermen

- ohhh i’m so hyped for the next episode

s8 ep12 death in heaven

- i love that clara will take any opportunity to pretend to be the doctor

- hello unit

- they’re in st paul’s?!

- what are they drugging the doctor for

- oh shit cyberman danny

- now why would they make him the president? he’s not even human

- NO CLARA

- omg danny the cyberman to the rescue?!

- do all the masters have to sing

- killing people is bad but i can’t help but love missy

- hi danny

- SHE GAVE CLARA THE NUMBER

- CLARA DONT DO IT

- yesss the tardis!!

- aww poor clara

- oh yes the mary poppins entrance! ICONIC

- he is an idiot with a box , im glad we’re acknowledging that

- let’s go danny boy, sorry i spent most of your run hating you

- oh shit clara

- pls don’t kill her, she served so much cunt

- hello is she fr dead?

- hello kate

- oh he’s sending back the kid

- oh shit gallifrey

- not gallifrey?

- she does do that, the lying

- no clara tell him about danny!!

- clara what are you doing girl

- YOU SILLY LIARS!! STAY TOGETHER, YOU LOVE EACH OTHER

- i hate them i hate them i hate them

- ffs

- ohh there’s more?!

- SANTA?!

- they got a guy called nick frost to play santa?! oh this is too good

#nortism liveblogs doctor who #doctor who #dw #new who #doctor who s8 #doctor who series 8 #12th doctor #twelfth doctor #clara oswin oswald #clara oswald #missy #the master #in the forest of the night #dark water #death in heaven

[afieldinengland]

hey good luck with the sleep sorting. you're also invited to not be poisoned even a little bit by enticing treats at the ttoi to political history cult conversion meeting. by the way. lots of love from ulrike masterbaiting's politics anon

oh, hello, friend, it’s an honour to hear from you— i’m as enthralled by the way you write as i am by your kindly extended offer of your surely nonpoisonous hors d’oeuvres. i will be there with some equally benign whiskey that will almost certainly not kill any of us as we discuss ollie reeder / make blood pacts / start coughing quite worryingly onto the carpet midway through either of these things

#answered #thrilled to get to hear from you myself friend— thank you #britpol anon

[innitmarvellous]

Hello! For the three names and a number game: no. 5, with Ollie Reeder, Julius Nicholson and Jamie Macdonald. ☺️

Oh, no. 5 again :D Hmm, I think this time it would look like this:

Go on a six hour road trip with: Ollie (he drives)

Sit next to on a six hour plane flight: Julius

Sit across from on a six hour train journey: Jamie

Being alone in a car with Ollie for six hours is also a nice thought, so that's a given this time, haha. (Does he even have a driving licence? I hope so :D) I'm not sure about Julius and Jamie. But I think Jamie would keep other annoying people from sitting down next to us, which would be great! (I just wouldn't want to ride in the passenger seat with Jamie, as he would be a pretty aggressive driver in my imagination. xD)

Thanks for the ask! :)

#the thick of it #ask game

[innitmarvellous]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: The Thick of It (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Nicola Murray & Ollie Reeder Characters: Nicola Murray, Ollie Reeder, Malcolm Tucker Additional Tags: i'm not sure whether writing this was actually a dumb idea lol Summary:

Nicola Murray was running along the corridor of the building, checking the names on the door plates and swearing under her breath as she went on. "Damn it, damn it, damn everything! Where is his fucking flat? 'Carter'..., wrong, 'Williams'..., no..., 'Reeder'..., oh, that's the right one!" And so she pushed the bell button next to the door.

And that's the beginning of a really romantic love story between a politician and her advisor...or is it?

#the thick of it #fanfiction #yes i'm still at it