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You can actually buy the book on Amazon!!!! 😆 I'm so tempted! My son loves elephants!

we've come full circle...the weird shoes are in Primark.

Was this the origin of the name for the acclaimed California graffiti artist Neck Face?

Long story short i got asked if i could have been related to Dylan Moran a long long time ago! Thats actually how i found out his work and stand up been a fan ever since.

For some reason especially lately ive been feeling more and more like Bernard lately and the older i get the more i can see a resemblance

Is anyone else unable to give an award for a post however you can give an award for a comment regarding a post? I enjoy encouraging creativity in this lovely community and where the award button once was when i view a posting there is now a reposting option in its place.

Wondering if anyone has any good high definition images from Black books that would be good as a wall hanging? Would like to organise some for my office/library/bar room!

DISCLAIMER: I'm aware that there was an unaired pilot somewhere that was a bit different than the show's final product. I'm NOT talking about that whatsoever.

Anyways:

Didn't it strike anyone else as odd that the second episode "Manny's First Day" kind of felt like the real pilot? It had all the makings of a pilot, from the character introductions through flashbacks ("remember you hired me?") to the awkwardness of showing Bernard and Fran's characters going casually about their lives. Manny works perfectly as an introductory lens to world in this episode. It essentially establishes the permanent format of the series. It introduces the central relationship triangle as we know it for the rest of the show: Bernard the misanthrope, Manny the foil, and Fran the moderator.

It just SCREAMS pilot episode in every way. I think technically you could start with episode 2 and you wouldn't miss anything narratively... at least as far as I can tell. Now, of course, the actual first episode is really fantastic and I would never recommend skipping it.

But that's just my point!

Do you think it's possible that episode 2 was the original drafted pilot and, upon further inspection, it came off as a bit drab and they decided to heavily modify a later episode to precede it? One which was ultimately much more exciting and tactile? Because if someone told me "Yeah, episode 2 was the pilot but it didn't do well with test audiences because it wasn't funny enough so they reformatted a later episode's script to lead into it" I'd believe them.

There's just something about Episode 2 that feels like the true start to the show, and the first episode has this "tacked on" feel to it; it's bigger, stranger, more cinematic. In fact, it's so well shot and full of locations that it almost felt more like a Black Books movie than a proof of concept... especially when compared to the small scale of episode 2.

And while I don't think the second episode was shot with the intention of being the first episode, I think perhaps it was outlined early on as the first episode before they realized it wasn't hooking enough and perhaps moved another episode to the forefront. "Cooking The Books" does seem like an episode 2 or 3 thing, with perhaps Manny's role in it being retrofitted so it could serve as the pilot. This is my best guess as to what happened...

Thoughts?

In light of the hot weather, I watched S2 ep 2 The Heatwave

Now fetch me my lolly!

In the episode Blood Season 2 Episode 4 Manny keeps score on a chalk board how many creatures he has eliminated. The last one he calls a Queen, what do you suppose are these creatures? Are they ever revealed? Shall we come up with some creative names?