Unintentional hilarity

[trinityvixen]

Watching Neverwhere, the BBC version from ten years ago, I have been so fortunate as to have a couple of high moments of amusement at the expense of limited budgets and editors with no sense of entendre.

Amusement the first: the Great Beast of London? Is a steer, a shaggy longhorn. Quake in the sight and fury of Bessie!

Amusement the second: Upon his return to the upworld, one of Richard's (the hero) coworkers notices his broken finger. "I suppose you got it stuck in a door." The fact that this is played entirely straight despite the fact that the heroine/love interest is named Door is made all the more gut-bustingly hilarious by the fact that, after the coworker leaves, Richard snaps out of his fugue upon hearing the word "door" to say that, yes, as a fact, he broke his finger when it got stuck in a Door.

Perhaps that last is only especially funny because I just watched Teeth.

Comments

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Aw, I love Neverwhere! And the actress who plays Door is adorable; she's also Henriette in the Tennant Casanova.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It was plenty ridiculous, but not overly terrible. The story itself isn't really all that good to begin with, so I can't fault it for starting at a loss and then being saddled with having been a fantasy production in the 1990s. (THE "SPECIAL EFFECTS" LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THEM.)

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

Did you not like Krupp and Vandemar? And the Marquis?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Actually, they were amazing. All three, though the evil dudes were just that much better. I enjoyed them loads and loads. But Richard was way whinier than even I remember him being and Door was almost like a nonexistent character.