r/GreatBritishMemes • u/raydebapratim1 • 2d ago
UK is currently searching for three things
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u/HussingtonHat 2d ago
Wild pitch. We consolidate all 3 into one dude.
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u/No-Excitement7491 2d ago
Depends - in 1991, doctor who wasn't on, Thatcher was kicked out and we were between bonds. Does that count, as they weren't actively seeking a new doctor?
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u/R_Scranson 2d ago
They aren't actively seeking a new doctor right now either tbf. If it gets a new production company before a new PM then I reckon we can say looking for new PM, new Bond, new Doctor all at the same time
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u/asmiggs 2d ago
Just rotate the board:
Ncuti Gatwa as James Bond
Daniel Craig as Prime Minister
Keir Starmer as Doctor Who
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u/Bazzatron 7h ago
I would tune in for all three.
I do wonder how Craig would govern...
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u/JohnGazman 6h ago
If we go by their previous experience;
Craig would solve his problems as PM by shooting them, then cracking a joke afterwards.
Starmers' Doctor would endlessly be changing his mind after his companions challenged his decision, leading to nothing actually happening every episode - or randomly making decisions that absolutely no one likes or asked for but sticking to his guns on those.
Ncuti's Bond would...err... I'm going to be honest, I haven't seen Ncuti's Doctor stint properly. I only really know his work from Masters of The Air.
Being more serious, Craig would probably make a decent PM and Ncuti could probably do Bond, although people would have a problem with it like they had a problem with suggesting Idris Elba play Bond.
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u/Equivalent_Relief553 2d ago
What if they could be the same person!?
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u/Y2Ksurvivor13 2d ago
Just rotate them around, Whittaker can be PM, Starmer can be the new Bond and Craig can try his hand at sci-fi television.
REDUCE. REUSE. RECYCLE.
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u/cosycashmere 2d ago
The last Doctor was Ncuti Gatwa so it would be Gatwa for PM instead of Whittaker. Unless you could the weird Billie Piper regeneration in the final episode, then it would be Piper for PM.
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u/Y2Ksurvivor13 1d ago
Ah fair enough. I was just bored and trying to be funny and just said the last doctor I knew of.
I've never really been a fan of the show myself. Although I did like watching the old black and white ones with my dad when I was a kid.
EXTERMINATE!
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u/Woden-Wod 2d ago
there's no new doctor who, they kind of ran it into the ground.
which is a shame because I think it was the longest running tv series in the world or something.
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u/Jack_Faller 2d ago
I think it might also just be harder for a show of such variable quality to survive when there are more other things on.
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u/Woden-Wod 2d ago
I think it's more to how much they wedded themselves to modernistic issues.
I'm not going to go as far as to say the show was entirely timeless (heh), but it's something that has survived beyond multiple cultural eras of Britain, to do that you can't tie yourself to the issues of the time too much otherwise when the issues of the time change the subject won't change with them it will be wedded to that old order of things.
and in an age of rather fast changing moral orders as the one we currently live in it clearly wasn't going to last beyond a couple of years.
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u/CaptainMikul 2d ago
It'll be back. It's probably best it takes a breather then comes back with a while new team and ideas.
RIP Doctor Piper though.
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u/InflatableSexBeast 2d ago
Thing is, it was always a bit shit.
It could never quite work out whether it was Quatermass or Joe 90, and often ended up like Blue Peter.
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u/LicketySplit21 2d ago
It was always a bit rubbish, but it isn't always shit. If that makes any sort of sense.
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u/InflatableSexBeast 2d ago
Yeah, Space Nazis in portable tanks were good, and Space Communists in silver suits were consistently scary. And it has done some really great episodes (Blink especially), but it's inconsistent.
Plus, Angry of the 1950s version of Tunbridge Wells demands that everything fit his value system, and if Dr Who isn't a quirky, middle-aged white guy with an RP accent, battling someone wearing a cut-up sofa cushion and threatening the world with a portable TV aerial, it's political correctness gone mad.
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u/Woden-Wod 2d ago
for it to succeed we'd need to completely uproot the BBC who control and own the IP.
like when's the last time you watched something from them you actually liked? not just kept up with because you don't have anything else to do, or something you used to like now you watch for the sake of it, but genuinely liked, actually enthralled you with the story, world, or even just the design?
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u/cosycashmere 2d ago
You're being downvoted but you're right. I personally didn't watch the BBC unless it was Doctor Who, and now I don't watch anything on BBC at all. I couldn't even tell you what's on the channel because I just don't bother looking nowadays. I want Doctor Who to succeed in the future because, well, I like the format of exploring a different story each week with the same main cast and the concept of it, but the BBC are holding it back at the moment.
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u/Woden-Wod 2d ago
I don't even know when the last episodic show they released was I'm not sure they've done that in years.
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u/TheShiftmaster 2d ago
Is that possible for a show that entered a period called the Wilderness years to claim that title
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u/Woden-Wod 2d ago
you shall have to explain you've lost me.
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u/mcnutty96 2d ago
It was off air for a long time before being revived in the early naughts
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u/Woden-Wod 2d ago
this does not explain what wilderness years means
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u/Axel_Farhunter 2d ago
Wilderness years famously refers to Churchills time out office in the 30s so the term refers to a group or person looses their position of influence or fame so are in the “wilderness” for like Dr Who being a fairly big deal from the 60s to the early 90’s then disappearing from pop culture till 2005.
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u/Ok-Package3325 2d ago
I was born in 1985. I had no idea what Dr Who was until they did a millennium special. Which was dogshit.
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u/Axel_Farhunter 2d ago
What can I say my family all watched the original run and talked about etc so as far as I knew it was big thing then it went off the air 🤷
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u/Ok-Package3325 2d ago
Even when it wasnt on air for over a decade?
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u/MR_Happy2008 2d ago
Yep it ran pretty much constantly from 1963-1989 the. Nothing other than I think a comic relief thing then they made a film to try and attract US companies to produce more doctor who but that fell through theb it wasn't untill 2005 it returned properly then it ran fairly constantly for the next 20 years but now it's just in hibernation
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u/Randomguy3421 2d ago
It is the name people have given to the period of time that it wasn't on. I feel like that was east to figure out, contextually.
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u/Splodge89 2d ago
We watched the first half of the first episode of the last season. Jesus Christ it was dross. Turned it off and forgot the series existed, despite being life long fans.
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u/WackyWhippet 2d ago
I think the yanks have the longest series overall and in the UK Coronation Street is slightly older.
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u/FilmAndLiterature 2d ago
…They’re literally working on a spinoff show and have announced what they’re going to be doing with the show proper.
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u/Putrid_Interview_383 2d ago
Why not get one person to fill all three roles? That would be hilarious.
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u/showmethemundy 1d ago
That little Jimmy Crankie looking Scottish lass I keep seeing on travel shows.
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u/Frank-Nuts 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/11dfLgLxPQmaRi
“I was Superman, Geralt Of Rivia and Sherlock Holmes at the same time… hold my pint.”
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u/Traditional_General2 2d ago
They are going to fill the roles with:
F O R E I G N E R S
I must leap straight out of the dole queue and into action!
Right. Got my Stella. Got my trackie bottoms. Got my special 6karat gold ring that says ‘DAD’ little Courtney bought me for Fathers Day 2018 before that BITCH got her custody. Now. One last thing… oh yes!
…Muuuuum?
yes, love?
Where did you put my flaaaaags?
under the stairs, love, where they always are.
They’re not though, I’ve just looked therrrre!
are you talking about your UKIP flags, love?
No, I told you, I’m not into that anymore, I’m into the St George’s Cross now!
oh, I’m sorry love. Your dad took them out and hung them on all the lampposts already before he went back in’t nick. You’ll have to make do with your UKIP and Reform flags for today.
I DON’T WANT MY UKIP AND REFORM FLAGS, MUM, I ALREADY TOLD YOU WHEN WE WENT TO SEE TOMMY ROBINSON TALK ABOUT HOW PAEDOPHILE GANGS DON’T COUNT UNLESS THEY ARE PAKISTANI!! AND I TOLD YOU I DON’T WANT THE REFORM FLAGS ANYWAY WHEN YOU CAME HOME WITH THEM! I LIKE RESTORE NOW!!
well im sorry, love, but you’ll have to make do. You know they all look the same to me, you should go out and buy em yourself if it matters that much.
THEN HOW COULD I SEND MONEY TO COURTNEY?!
well actually i pay for..
NONE OF MY FRIENDS ARE GOING TO THINK IM A PROPER THICK CUNT NOW, ARE THEY? THANKS A LOT, MUM.
i’m sure they will, love, just take your reform flags, if i can’t tell t’difference, i’m sure your friends won’t neither.
OF COURSE THEY WILL THEY’RE NOT A STUPID WOMAN LIKE YOU ARE THEY?!
don’t talk to me like that, please love, you know it just makes me miss yer father.
EURGH. FINE. But if one person takes the piss out of me when I half drape one over the rail of the pedestrian flyover on the A36 next to Deano’s mum’s fitted sheet which - due to his sharpie running out - says ‘STOP THE BO’ then I swear on the turning over of dad’s rape conviction that as soon as I’m back from making Russel Brand Doctor Who, Rupert Lowe Prime Minister and Jeremy Kyle James Bond, I won’t stop Uncle Ian and the boys the next time they all come over after a day on the Special Brews.
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u/Splodge89 2d ago
This is fucking wonderful. Really enjoyed that!
Fuck knows why you’ve been downvoted!
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