This is very true but I imagine all that talk is a reference to the fact that Bond just celebrated 50 years on screen. I agree that the script was all over the place but I still enjoyed the film and don't really give a shite about minor script problems. I had fun with it and that is what counts for me.

I haven't read the books but my sister has and she said the ending of the fourth book was awful as nothing happened. I have heard reviewers say they like new ending because it deviates from the book

I don't think that was an actual hint that Bond is bisexual, I think he was just proving to the bad guy that he is unflappable. Silva was trying to see if he could freak out the straight man but Bond doesn't care and played along. That's how I saw it anyway. He was keeping cool 'under pressure'

And there were two females in Skyfall, you (and I) may not have found them attractive but others do (like the director, clearly). Also, Bond did sleep with Sévérine and that bird on the island he washed up on. So, considering he sleeps with two women in the film and no dudes, I think it's safe to say he's straight

Also, I'd say pretty much everybody is useless in Skyfall. Bond basically does lose at the end.......

Pfffft, Yeti's don't count, these are actual snowmen, made completely of the cold white stuff

I was thinking that too, they had killer Santas before and a killer Christmas tree but unless they did so in older Who, I don't think they've done snowmen yet.

Is it over.....?

April? Awww, I want to be disappointed now!

(and no, I had never heard of it until now )

Cannon and Ball
If Little and Large were a step in the direction of ‘working class’ comedy, then Cannon and Ball were a giant leap. Working together on the club circuit, Tommy Cannon (Thomas Derbyshire) and Bobby Ball (Robert Harper) got their break in the TV variety show The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club before getting their own ITV show in 1979. Their set up was simple, Tommy was the straight man while the moustache sporting Bobby was the aggressive, petulant, little scrapper. Each and every week, the boys would enact sketches and routines that mostly involved either Tommy trying to break away from Bobby or Bobby finding new ways to wind Tommy up-

Much like Little and Large, it is difficult now to just understand why Cannon and Ball were so popular in the UK. The reason is probably the same one why they lost their popularity, they were deemed as being ‘safe’. Their humour was family friendly and often immature and extremely suitable for Saturday evening television. The only difference between C&B and the other acts mentioned in this thread before them is the sheer aggressiveness of a lot of their material. Seen by many as a reaction to the social climate of the time, Tommy and Bobby’s working class shtick was, for some, a remedy against the all-singing, all-dancing smart-arses that came before them The fact that they were on ITV rather than the BBC seemed to reflect this. Bobby Ball’s main character trait was that he was like a child, prone to tantrums and outbursts while trying so hard to be liked. He would often get irate and jokingly threaten audience members and they loved it. Sometimes their sketches involved cartoon violence as evidenced in this rather poorly written sketch guest starring Rik Mayall who, by this point, was known for having comedy violence in his shows-

By the mid-80s people had grown tired of the duos routine, not least of all LWT, the ITV company that produced their show. In 1986, their show was basically transformed into a sitcom with the pair living together in a flat but it didn’t really work. This wasn’t helped by the fact that behind the scenes, the pair were just as adept at getting on each others nerves as their on screen counterparts. They persevered , though, an even turned down a contract to move to the BBC. When their show was finally given the axe, they moved onto hosting game shows such as Cannon and Ball’s Casino which was a flop and the pair admit today that the shows was a ‘monkey on their backs’. ‘Casino’ was also the show that ended their run on Saturday evenings. They next attempted to break into the world of sitcom, making a series of pilots and then making a series of the most well received. The ‘winner’ was a shows called Plaza Patrol, in which the duo played Mall cops. Despite the show actually being popular and receiving high mid-week ratings it only lasted one series of six episodes. Another clip from their sketch show that has no link to what I was just saying? Why, sure-

Cannon and Ball still work today both apart and together. Despite their previous spat, the duo are now friends again and are both born again Christians. In 2005, they appeared as contestants in I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here where they were using one liners that they used in their show in the 80s ('I'm a sex object- I want sex and they object...'). They still tour though and still have a fanbase as their shows are often sold out which is just a reminder that although their type of comedy may not be for everyone, there is still a place for it. Besides, I am not ashamed to admit that I have a soft spot for them and that puppet sketch above made me chuckle

For the next entry, we are finally going to move away from family friendly Saturday evening entertainment and focus on more adult orientated prime time television…..

We don't have yellow cabs in Scotland......

Also, you will only see that building in the film, you won't get the Scottish statues and shit