ETHNICITY OR CAKE??? (pros, cambridge spies)

[cimorene]

I watched a couple more old episodes of The Professionals. I guess everyone always writes Doyle into tight jeans because they prefer him in them, because from my sample to date coloured velveteen trousers are beating them hands-down in relative frequency. (Of course we're dealing with sample size = 5 so I guess I've got a pretty gigantic confidence interval...).

I keep eating my own words while watching The Professionals, like so:

time: 0:30 "The funniest thing about this show is definitely the music."
time: 5:00 "You know, the funniest thing about this show is definitely the clothes. OMG, look, it's like a - black woollen motorcycle jacket with pale green velvet pants!"
time: 8:00 "Dude, the MUSIC. The music is the funniest thing about this show."
time: 15:00 "Everything about this show is hilarious."
time: 20:00 "The funniest thing about this show are the tiny little cars!"

etc.

Also, Bodie keeps wearing this thigh-length shiny pale grey leather jacket that's cut and styled like a shirt and it is one of the most hideous things I have ever seen. Then he finally got rid of it (well, changed out of it, anyway) in favour of a brown leather one... with a random, mysterious beige knit inset in the collar. It's almost enough to distract one from the parade of Doyle's velvet pants.

Of course, Doyle's velvet pants have nothing on the canary yellow pair worn by Dominic West in the first episode of Cambridge Spies. I think they emerged on the other side of "wtf" firmly in "omg" territory. Alas, wax_jism has been seized by the desire for cake, which may put a crimp in my intention to watch the second two episodes of the miniseries. She's abdicated to the kitchen for her usual two hours or so of waffling indecisively over her cookbook, I suspect. She doesn't bake very often. I was trying to tell her a highly significant anecdote in that it marked the only time Professor Surprise said something that made me want to cheer and was actually pretty witty:

cim: So Professor Surprise was like, what do you mean by ethnicity? And they were like, uhhhh, like race or something, and she was like, what do you mean by race.
wax: Do you want cake or not?
cim: I mean, in a discipline that has to problematise the concept of ethnicity you can't just ask "What does ethnicity do -"
wax: CAKE.
cim: In a scientific sense, it doesn't necessarily even exist.
wax: ETHNICITY OR CAKE???

So you probably had to be there, but I thought I'd record it for posterity anyway.

Comments

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

The funniest thing about The Professionals is that it got made in the first place.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

That I can explain! The creator's former project was The Avengers. It's hardly surprising people gave him money when he said he had another idea.

I guess given that they're still airing reruns of it in Finland and apparently it's a cult hit, it wasn't money ill-spent.

[flyingcheerio.livejournal.com]

That conversation is so cute. I probably would have jumped at the chance for cake.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Not to worry! She made it anyway. ("I'm just going to make cake with or without you!")

[geeklite.livejournal.com]

The Professionals? The pants, I think. Very traumatic, and also awesome.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

I love how it takes like a quarter of a second to plunge you into the exact time period it was made. And how the credits keep making me fall over laughing even though I've already seen them like four times.

[perhael.livejournal.com]

CAKE!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

I wasn't an enthusiast since I still have the flu.

[perhael.livejournal.com]

Well, you know me. I'm all about the comfort food!

Get well soon, cim ♥

[cimness.livejournal.com]

I was always given special food when I was sick, that was supposed to be, you know, extra easy to digest, so dessert + flu makes the hypochondriac end of my OCD itch and I worry it will make me barf. I know you can understand that too! ♥

[miriam-heddy.livejournal.com]

I love velvet trousers. I've got three pair from Old Navy. Sadly, none of them contain Doyle (not even in the little coin pocket).

[cimness.livejournal.com]

I've had several black pairs over the years, but they always basically drive me insane because of the lint they pick up. That's bad enough with corduroy, but dark velvet - euugh. I suppose I'm too ocd to own three pets and a pair of velvet trousers. :/

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I do hope you've seen The Bullshitters.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

I'm sad to report that I haven't.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Do a search. You'll die sporfling.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Ahahahhaha! Bus-passes?! I can just picture it...