#The Goes Wrong Show

[trashpidgeon48]

The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society? More like The Cornley Polycule Drama Society am I right?

[chrisbeansprmanager]

they should work it out on the remix

[not-mary-sue]

Even if everything went absolutely perfectly, I really doubt Summer Once Again full plot would have fit into the show's time slot.

[blogthatgoeswrong]

Max x Sandra - Lovers Rock by TV girl I adore these silly straights and I love tv girl so why not mash them together?? Let's see how long this editing streak lasts...

[sit-cons]

The Goes Wrong Show haunts me, because maybe this is a really dumb assumption but in universe, is the audience laughing? I need to know.

[nerdicorntheshipper]

Hate having a blorbo with a normal ass name. I'll see a post and start writing up a 1k word response about how they mischaracterized my boy only to realize that they're talking about a different white man named John. Say what you will about fantasy naming conventions but no one is confused when you talk about blarg the scullcrusher

[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

[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

[princessofwhiteshadows]

[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.

[trashpidgeon48]

I firmly believe that all of the members of the Cornley Drama Society have kissed each other at some point. Like a lot of them have played love interests, there's been showmances, and messy situationships. They are theatre kids, they love the drama.

[chrisbeansprmanager]

[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.

[stars-irises]

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

[lovemewednesdays]

Where be my man-penis?!