The Crystal Cube - Pilot (Full Episode) (Fry and Laurie)
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- The Crystal Cube was a sort of precursor to A Bit of Fry and Laurie.
In addition to Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, it stars Emma Thompson, Robbie Coltrane and Paul Shearer.
3:32 Emma Thomson's expression is as hilarious as the kiss!
Thanks for posting this!
Aw, the generation loss on this tape is tragic. That's how it goes.
Of course this WAS on BBC2.
This is all kinds of beautiful.
This was like a raw, unburnished, slightly naive early version of Fry and Laurie. They hadn't quite perfected their craft at this point
Brilliant ! Well ahead of the times ! 🧡🤣💙
What was wrong with the British populace in 1983 that this received nothing but bad reviews and, therefore not made into a series? BTW, Emma Thompson was very attractive in this one.
Two words: Mary Whitehouse.
Hugh Laurie began working on his American accent very early I see. In many ways the humour is well ahead of its time, but it's also a bit too clever for its own good. I can see why the BBC did not go for it. For me, I like it for Emma Thompson, who was an amazing actor even way back then.
you're right. this is the kind of comedy that was breaking down rigid barriers on tv. in the 80s the tv companies' mindset was still mired in the Two Ronnies and Morcombe & Wise format. It was like Monty Python never existed. But Fry & Laurie, Comic Strip Presents, Not the Nine O'Clock News. These shows were radically transforming the landscape of comedy on tv. Channel 4 were perhaps the visionary for comedy. Comic Strip Presents was so off the wall, stuff like that had never been seen before. I remember watch Five go Mad in Dorset, and it was like a veil lifted on what comedy could actually do, other than destroy your soul on a saturday night. bill hicks, chris rock, ben elton were just a few of a whole slew of new comedians that were basically digging the grave for that old mentality. unfortunately, today, that mentality seems to have gripped the tv & satellite companies by the balls, and is incrementally squeezing them, like they manage to squeeze the life out of comedy.
Thanks....pretty rare...
Enjoyed the first sketch - nice parody of Sci-fi such as Logan's Run, Dr. Who, The Tomorrow People etc,. The rest was too long and meandering, though Emma Thompson's Janet Street-Porter style TV presenter character was well performed. Fry and Laurie got it right with their later series with sketches that had more of a point or a punchline, recurring characters, short person-in-the street character bits to have a break between longer sketches and to transition things together Monty Python style.
Having just watched this for the first time, I have to say that Look Around You may have been inspired by this. Even the linking music and the end piece sounds almost the same as LAY. Weird coincidence
Reminds me a lot of Logan's Run
To this day I pronounce "bible" this way and nobody ever knows what I'm talking about. One person thought I was talking about the Nickelodeon show "Sam And Cat." I guess one of the two girls likes some kind of snack food called "bibble" or something like that. I looked it up and it's not a real thing. And I also found a... Blue thing from a CGI Barbie movie when I googled "bibble." But nobody has ever correctly identified it
I'm sure Look Around You s2 uses the same music!
Some mugging and silly voices from Coltrane, Laurie and Thompson, who all had a long way to go. Fry is nearer the finished article, but all the youthful stars are blown away by the veteran John Savident who is superb as the bishop.
As entertaining as it is to count pixels, I'd rather watch this in a non-potato quality.
it was filmed in 1983 lol what do you expect
Gareth is Arthur Bostrom aka Crabtree from 'Allo 'Allo
ahhh the bishop at 27:12
Does he mean the Holly Bibble?
The Bibble.
There's quite a bit of "THX-1138" plus "Logan's Run" in this clip... I wonder if George Lucas got some of his inspiration for THX from this...
that would be difficult since THX came out 12 years earlier :D
0:11 Blake's 7.
"Bishop" is soo cringey. (shiver)
1:00 Don't you mean The Bible?
Sorry but this is random, bizarre, weird, obscure, and simply not very funny. Too obscure by half.
+Israel Did 9/11 Thanks for sharing your fascinating point of view.
Did you mean "sorry" as in "sorry that I sound condescending when I state my personal opinion as fact"?
DarthEditous
I think it was more, "I'm sorry, but this went totally over my head." How ironic!
(His opinion has its own priceless value, but the choice of words....)
Random, indeed. Obscure, as this is even more relevant today?
Nearly impossible to get anything this finely woven now.
Sucks to be you then, I can tell you you're a Gamma.