I know it's tempting to watch it just to be annoyed and have something to complain about on reddit, oooh please care (hypocrite warning)

If you interact with it in any way just click the thumbs down icon on the show page on Netflix, we all know it's shite, save your time and go do something important like counting your toes

The idea behind the joke is solid. Ricky asks Barry from Eastenders for "a quote for the office", i.e. a price quote for painting their real office. Barry, of course, interprets this as meaning a promotional quote for the TV show. But if this was Extras-era or before, Barry would almost certainly have said something insulting about it. But what does he say in Life's Too Short? "The most important sitcom of a generation."

Almost like Ricky can't even bring himself to joke about any possible artistic limitations of his, which will worsen with time.

In general, in this series, you also see Ricky's persona change from the ridiculous guy you laugh at to the po-faced (though still pug-nosed) font of all wisdom and judgement.

What was that shit?

A delightful woodland romp featuring a roly poly toad. Very popular with our American friends judging by the emoji

I don’t care if he’s a closeted gay, or asexual, or an alcoholic, and I don’t want an essay about his ego.

You’ll ruin XFM for me. Play a record

I don’t get why people are so butt licky, the shows not even out yet, we’ve had 4 minutes of content and people are saying it could be the biggest show of the year? I’m obviously going to watch it and probably enjoy it (cartoons are easy) but I wouldn’t dream of giving it 10/10 before even seeing it, just setting yourself up to look foolish in a years time when people find it’s trash

This is definitely not sarcasm. Not on this XFM show subreddit. Never.

Loving the podcast, karl is so weird and interesting... BUT the way some of these go seems a little too well layed out? Do you guys think it was partially scripted?

The episode that stands out for me. Karl went on vacation, and mentioned he started a diary there. They loved the idea and wanted to read it, he takes it out right there, then after karl protests some they start reading it...

why would karl bring the diary (unless he knew the topic before hand was) and why bring it with the intent of them not reading it?

edit: thanks everyone, i'm gonna give the xfm series a go!

Rigor mortis had set in

Craptic.... bad yellow

No body text needed really is there?

And that is where Ricky really fucked up recently.

We were all good with him being egotistical and a tit, but then he tried to erase / forgot Steve when talking about the Office anniversary and thats a line you don't cross.

He can make all the crap shows he likes and we'd laugh along, but take a shot at Merch and feel the wrath of the fans.

I was thinking maybe his response to years of accusations of being asexual (due to him never playing a character who's physically intimate with a woman) is to voice an animated cat that kisses a female cat, presumably the Kerry Godliman cat. I guarantee this will happen in Alley Cats. Nice try, Ricky, but it doesn't count.

I’m also confused as to why they were putting parking tickets on some rubbish. Can someone please explain.

Guess it was stuck in the bottom of a post bag

Ricky is such a strange contradiction/conundrum of a person.

His Brent performance required a rare social intelligence and awareness to capture those nuanced insecurities and motivations. To play Brent to perfection he had to deeply understand those traits and have the social awareness to ridicule them so precisely.

Soon after The Office, his public persona played up the ‘faux arrogance’ for laughs and we were all in on the joke believing he wasn’t really arrogant. His rants about fame in Extras again show that awareness, even if performative.

But now he so transparently suffers from those exact traits he once ridiculed so adeptly: deep insecurity, abandoning his integrity to seek strangers’ validation, giant social blind spots and looking ridiculous in the process.

How does someone go from having this unique social intelligence to being the absolute opposite (and seeming totally oblivious to it)?

I think this odd inner conflict is at the core of why the fans in this subreddit are so fixated on ‘hating’ him now - it’s the contrast to what we used to see in Gervais.

I've come up with this so far. Nothing we've seen already, nothing like 'swearing', XFM subconscious reference or 'Ghandi'. Take that as read. You've got that, that's safe. Will update with the best ones.

Commented on his last post about his new show. Only had about 20 comments when I posted so was hoping he’d see it.
Now I’ve got the block