#The Goes Wrong Show

[zevampirex]

Get iiiin

[comedygifs]

[cornley-amateur-drama-society]

So, I headcanon that Vanessa and Chris grew up in similar environments, both upper middle-class, both have extremely complicated relationships with their parents, both have several anxiety disorders, etc, etc, right?

So imagine this with me: The Cast are just sitting around during a break in rehearsals, and someone brings up childhoods, and everyone goes around talking about something from when they were kids. It's only when Vanessa says something that no one else but Chris agrees with that they realise just how shit Ness and Chis' childhoods were.

[smallbitterman]

“average show has 3 injuries per performance” factoid actually just statistical error. average show has 0 injuries per performance. Cornley Georg, who has 2 actors get knocked unconscious every 10 minutes, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[abcwordsurge]

I love to watch the goes wrong show when I'm having a bad day because no matter what kind of day I'm having, chris bean is having a worse one

[trashpidgeon48]

Imagine you're just a normal person and you decide to take your family to the local theatre to see a show. It's going to be a delightfully fun time for the whole family. But then things just start going wrong, not in the normal way where somebody forgets a line, a sound cue goes off early, or someone forgets when to come in. No. Like the ENTIRE set starts falling apart, one guy can't seem to remember his own lines (he remembers other peoples' lines??? for some reason???), one guy can't enter the stage, one guy keeps cheesing at the audience, and multiple people get knocked out and injured. You're thinking about calling an ambulance or something. But they just keep going. By the time they get to the end you're surprised that they are still alive and actively fear for their safety. You later learn that this is NORMAL??? That they are getting funded because two of their members are nepo babies and they had appeared on the BBC multiple times??? There are people who go and see the shows because of how awful they are??? They are the living embodiment of Murphy's Law??? WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON???

[princessofwhiteshadows]

[hellorhighrollers]

[chrisbeansprmanager]

[quinnigallagherjones]

movie night with buffy [13/?]

⤷ peter pan goes wrong (2016)

i'm terribly sorry ladies and gentlemen, but we seem to have a slight difficulty here, many of you may have noticed, peter pan took a rather nasty unrehearsed fall there

[cadyrocks]

Play of the Week! A new play, performed live, every week, in front of a live studio audience. How wrong could it go?

Okay, I gotta talk about The Goes Wrong Show.

The Goes Wrong Show is something I'm surprised Tumblr hasn't been more up in arms about. This website is, after all, all about committing to the bit. A popular text post by @linecoveredinjellyfish proposed the school of media criticism called "Bitism". And buddy, lemme tell you, The Goes Wrong Show is the patron saint of Bitism. They commit to the bit harder than an alcoholic horse who recently found protestant Jesus.

And it is the funniest goddamn thing I have ever seen.

As is so often the case, writing a review of a very good comedy is hard - it's not easy to talk about it without taking some of the oomph out of the jokes. And, make no mistake, The Goes Wrong Show is an incredibly good comedy. I'll try my best anyways, because I cannot stop recommending it, but if you don't need more convincing, just go watch an episode. It's incredible.

Our framing device is a series of weekly plays put on by an unbelievably incompetent and eclectic drama society, where anything can and probably will fuck up horribly. Terrible acting? A horrific script? Broken props? A set mistakenly built at a 90-degree angle? You name it, they found a way to fuck it up.

But. And this is the key thing. They commit. The script calls for a scene involving pouring tea in a set that's oriented completely wrong? Commit to the bit.

The script demands a period piece family dinner, but something is very wrong with the ceiling fan?

Commit. To. The. Bit.

Major actor in the piece is completely incompetent?

Commit.

To.

The.

Bit.

It's an Airplane!-esque barrage of constant absurd gags, and I don't say that lightly. Each member of the cast is distinctly deranged in their own unique ways, the stage management is woefully incompetent, and the special effects are really just a special kind of fucked.

Really, the only complaint I can make of this show is that there isn't more of it, and frankly that's a good problem to have! If you're the kind of person who's not too busy to read a long Tumblr fandom post, but is too busy to binge a series you can get through in an evening, just give s1e3, "A Trial To Watch", a look - in my humble opinion, it is incredibly hard to top.

[iambecomeahamburger]

[not-mary-sue]

You know what's funny? Dennis actually can learn lines, he just can't learn HIS lines. In Peter Pan, he defaults to Chris's line after losing his assistance. In Christmas Carol, he's delivering Scrooge's lines along with Chris without skipping a beat, but can't remember the line 'no' without it being written in front of him. In The Trial, he knows both the lines Vanessa is supposed to say after him, as well as Robert's. If you gave Dennis a script he would probably be able to recite the whole thing apart from his own characters.

[thesorrowoflizards]

they arent going to appreciate this one enough on twitter

[ju-nebugg]

wonder what goes down in those risk assessment meetings

[stars-irises]

More cornley polytechnic drama society text posts (this time not only Robert) because these are ridiculously fun to make