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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme The Complete First Series [1999]
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On the DVD: presented in standard 14:9 format with stereo soundtrack, this disk simply gives you the first series of Gimme Gimme Gimme exactly as it appeared on television. So the picture and sound quality are fine. Just select your favourite episode from the index and laugh away. The lack of extras is disappointing. There must be some great outtakes, which would have added a bit of value; so would biographies of the stars and writer Jonathan Harvey, who has become one of the UK's best young playwrights. --Piers Ford
RRP: £19.99
Our Price: £14.99 (subject to change)
Editorial
Amazon.co.uk Review
When Gimme Gimme Gimme first hit the television screen in 1998, it immediately divided the critics. Plenty loathed it, but it soon acquired cult comedy status in the BBC2 post-watershed tradition. Since then it has gone mainstream on BBC1 but as the first series shows, its appeal lies in a surreal anarchy. Linda (Kathy Burke, brilliant) and Tom (James Dreyfus, who went on to star with Bette Midler in her ill-fated sitcom) live in a world of self-delusion. They are the ultimate misfits; a grotesque ladette who thinks she is "gorgeous" and worships Liam Gallagher and a neurotic gay actor who can't land a decent part for toffee but cherishes a secret passion for Simon Shephard, the smooth star of popular television dramas such as Peak Practice. They trade non-PC insults like most people make small talk (Linda: "There's no such thing as gay. It's just laziness."), yet are totally reliant on each other. It's vulgar, coarse, often outrageous and certainly not for the faint-hearted. But in most parts it is extremely funny. And if the self-regarding cuteness of so many US comedy imports turns your stomach, you'll love it. This is Will and Grace, on cocaine, in a parallel universe.
Funny, funny, funny!
Review date: 2006-09-28 Rating: 8 out of 10
Gimme Gimme Gimme is a hilarious sitcom about two flatmates. Linda LaHughes is a foul-mouthed, smoking, unintelligent thirty-something woman of loose morals, and Tom Farrell is an unemployed gay actor who believes he is the greatest talent alive. The other main characters are are ex-prostitute landlady Beryl, annoyingly perfect Suze and her husband Jez, who the two are forever fighting over.
From the '15' certificate, you may guess that there is a lot of vulgarity in the show. This is indeed where most...ok, nearly all of the humour comes from. There is plenty of swearing, gay insults, sexual references, double entendres and jokes about social minorities. If you cut all that out, it probably would not be funny! There are many memorable lines from Linda, which I love to quote!
If you want "intelligent" humour, this isn't for you. If you laugh at swearing and rude jokes, it is!
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Reviews
Tom and Linda Get It On
Review date: 2006-05-12 Rating: 8 out of 10
Crass, rude and in bad taste - my partner and I love it. An excellent start to a trio of series (with some of the best lines coming later in the series). We watch it over and over again and still laugh like drains - it drops one star as series 2 outshines even this one.
"Dirty" is the order of the day!
Review date: 2003-10-11 Rating: 10 out of 10
Well, where to begin?! If you have a dirty mind and a slightly off-key sense of humour, then Gimme Gimme Gimme is DEFINITELY the programme for you! Linda "S**g me up a back alley after 15 Babychams" LaHughes and Tom "I'm a good girl I am" Farrell are a couple of lonely, desperate and unquestiontionally depraved flatmates who, not happy with their lot in life, strive to get hold of anything in trousers and get one over on each other. There are some truly cracking and sickening lines and some top acting from all the cast. Episode 5 (Saturday Night Diva) also features a wicked performance in cameo from Mel and Sue as hotel receptionists who offer a good explanation as to why receptionists are always smiling!!! This is so worth owning that you'll wonder how it wasn't in your collection before. Enjoy...
BERYL: "Is he a ventriloquist?"
LINDA: " Well I wouldn't mind him sticking his hand up me skirt and making me lips move!"
Beautiful!!!!!
Gimme Some More!
Review date: 2003-10-07 Rating: 10 out of 10
The first series of Gimme Gimme Gimme is extremely good, and very funny. Burke and Dreyfuss play the parts to perfection and the result is a cornucopia of fantastic jokes and real belly-laughs.
'Who's That Boy?' is a marvellous introduction and very good at establishing the characters. 'The Big Break' sees Tom in with a chance at getting a part in a CRIMEWATCH reconstruction, and is also very funny. 'Legs and Co.' is hilarious, and that's all I'm saying. 'Do They Take Sugar?' is another classic episode featuring a pre-EastEnders Elaine Lordan. 'Saturday Night Diva' is satisfactorily funny. But the best episode of the first series is the last one - 'I Do, I Do, I Do'. It features some hysterical moments and Burke and Dreyfuss are flawless in their timing.
All in all, although this isn't the best series of the show (save that for Series 2), it's absolutely brilliant and one of the funniest and most vibrant Britcoms in years.
Needs 10 stars!
Review date: 2003-07-29 Rating: 10 out of 10
What a great selection of comedy. The best out of all the series. This is mainly due to being full of great ideas and gags. I don't think you'll laugh at anything as much as this.
Dreyfus has a way of making himself sound camp, wether he is gay or not is different, but this is great, and I would recommend it to anyone who wants a good laugh.
If you don't laugh, go get a sense of humour or jump off a cliff, cos we don't want you here.
Product Details/Specifications
Director(s):
Recording label: Vision Video Ltd.
Manufacturer: Vision Video Ltd.
EAN: 0044007830420
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2001-10-01
Universal product code (UPC): 044007830420
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 175 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1999-01-08
Language: English (Original Language)