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This has seen some activity recently and it's been fun to go over this again! They were three great nights and a real highlight of my early years living in London.

One thing I distinctly remember (that has been compounded by hindsight but nevertheless...) was that it appeared like John was having an absolute ball and really enjoying his time on stage and the company of the others.

Now I'm no great fan of John, with his comments over the last few years, his Brexit stance etc but these performances were pre-all that madness. You have to remember that this was also pre-Terry J's dementia diagnosis (or at least his diagnosis being made public), and although it's now horribly obvious in hindsight, we didn't know at the time of the live shows in 2014. So John appearing cruel now for laughing didn't come across that way at the time. If anything it just seemed like he was super happy and joyously laughing at the various antics. Again I say this as somebody who isn't his greatest fan but it was actually lovely how much he seemed to be enjoying being a part of it all again given his legendary cynicism at times.

I’ve been asked by a couple of people to list the lines that were different in each show I saw, I’m not sure I can remember all of the differences and some sketches like the Dead Parrot sketch went so differently every night that it would make this post a very long one to list just some of the changes but anyway below are some of the ad-libs and corpsing moments for those who asked:

*I should also say that I think they may have been filming for the DVD on Saturday so this is a possible SPOILER ALERT* *Equally most of you saw Sunday’s performance but if you’ve recorded it or you’re going to watch the repeat tonight then yep, SPOILERS below*

Tuesday 15th

Eric introduced Terry Gilliam before the Penis song thus, “Ladies and Gentleman, will you please give a big round of applause for Terry Gilliam, *audience applaud*, who sadly couldn’t be here tonight”

Michael said that he had always wanted to be a “loan adjustor” before he received a postcard from Canada

Eric corpsed during ‘Science Today’ and tried to cover it up with coughing at which point John as Ann Elk said, “You see it’s fun to cough!”

Michael, when asked whether he had any “Armenian string cheese”, said, “I’m wearing it”, causing John to lose it

Saturday 19th

John corpsed at the very beginning of the Llama opener

Terry J very slightly stuffed his lines during the Four Yorkshiremen sketch, seemingly forgetting them, but saved it just about!

Eric introduced Terry Gilliam with the line, “Ladies and Gentleman, please welcome Terry Gilliam, *audience applaud*, next year’s Eurovision Song Contest entry for England”

Michael announced that he had always wanted to be a “Sperm donor” before he received a postcard from Canada

Terry J completely forgot his line “I didn’t mean what’s on the TV I meant what’s the program?” during the 'What’s on TV’ sketch, and at first everyone thought it was a long pause for comic effect but John obviously saw the terror/confusion in Terry’s eyes and just burst out laughing for about two minutes before finally whispering the line to him

John added a number of extra lines to the 'He is an Ex-Parrot’ speech making Michael corpse, causing John to announce before he even got to the end of the speech that “this isn’t funny you know!”

Sunday 20th

John once again corpsed at the start of the Llama’s opener

Eric didn’t have a special line for Terry :(

Michael announced that he had always wanted to be a “Systems Analyst” before receiving a postcard from Canada

John nicked the cue card off Terry J during the 'Whizzo Chocolate’ sketch and corpsed at Terry G’s antics

Eric’s moustache partly came off before he finally just ripped it off completely during 'Nudge, Nudge’ (I’ve heard it fell off on a couple of other nights too but at least not on the nights mentioned above)

John mentioned “Dr Chapman” during 'Dead Parrot’

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winnix as told by dick winters* (screenshots from the video i'm working on)

*mostly; this includes letters from the nixons, the text in the second image is from the bob bible

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Beavers have the lifestyle that most adults dream of.

beavers have the lifestyle that most children dream of. dig and travel through underwater canals. dam a river and flood the local woodlands. stomp mud into dam to seal. swim to flooded trees and destroy them. live in a secret hideout with a underwater entrance. full ownership over an engineering project

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Stolen glances

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Wow, ok but this does make the final WAY easier for us Winnix-ers haha

But also vote for Dick! Dick is all we want! Dick is all we need!

semifinals:

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Listen, it's just so fitting that in year 1 of these polls that the finals are all about Winnix, both in these character polls and the pairing poll. Like, let the others win in years to come but Year 1 really just has to be the daddiest of them all...I mean they're the OG, the ones who started it all.

Big dog Winnix. They will forever be king of the gays. Nobody does it like them!

semifinals:

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Should've been born earlier, Nix. - What, and give up all this?

Dick Winters & Lewis Nixon in BAND OF BROTHERS (2001) ↳ Part One: Currahee

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Letter to Dick from Smokey Gordon from Gordon's File at USAHEC regarding New Orleans reunion and Lewis Nixon

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In this week's episode of 'Stuff that will probably get me sued'...

I'm still not convinced that something didn't go down between Damian and Ron because, guys, their CHEMISTRY...

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I've never noticed this before but Dick's eyes flick up to focus on Nix's big browns in the last gif....

I know he was just staring off into the middle distance but I also know, deep down in my soul, that he was bewitched by Nix's lips before catching himself cos let's be honest, this guy has previous...

Well, I guess now is as good a time as any. - What's that, a piece of paper? I don't want to see another piece of paper. General Taylor's flown back to Washington— he's left General McAuliffe in charge of the division. Colonel Sink is in Rheims to see Marlene Dietrich. […] Strayer will be in London for at least another week for Lieutenant Colonel Dobie's wedding.

Lewis Nixon & Dick Winters in BAND OF BROTHERS (2001) ↳ Part Five: Crossroads

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turning left or turning right

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Tag yourself

I'm a Glorious Velvet Ant

this from the guy who wrote the sting pain index, a scale he constructed after letting himself be stung by insects

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I would love to know how much of this was 'acting choice' or was it in the script because there is zero mention of any proximity during this incident in the original source material!

Literally put hands all over him

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We've gathered here today in celebration of men with pretty brown eyes

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when i watch other people my age, i see that they have this kind of effortless way about them that i don’t think i’ll ever have. the way they talk to each other and the way they go out and pursue what interests them without having to think twice about it. the way they know how to conduct themselves, the way it all comes so naturally to them, like breathing or swimming or riding a bike. it’s like they all have something ingrained in them that i just don’t have, and it’s so embarrassing and it’s fucking killing me. i wish i knew how to be okay.

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i said what i said

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I love this moment so much because it also shows Dick 'Mr. Perfect/Captain America' Winters is human after all. Just prior to this moment he's supervising the retreat under fire of his company. In control, eyes fixed on the horizon, monitoring, ready to act and leading from the front...and then all of a sudden Nix gets hit.

And Dick dives towards him, presumably ready to give emergency first aid etc but we quickly see that he's flailing, falling, he's stuttering his words out. He's understandably shocked, his movements nervous, mouth hanging open, panting in fear and disbelief. Nix is quick to move off to safety as the adrenaline kicks in but Dick is slow to follow him, left to scurry after him.

You can't help but feel if it were any other trooper he would have been calm, reassuring, quick to assess, and moving the trooper to behind cover as soon as possible...but not with Nix. In that moment Dick's in freefall, grasping for something to hang on to. So he hangs on to Nix, and hangs on for dear life.

"quit looking at me like that" moment but with a hyper focus on dick's hand behind nixon's neck, his other hand gripping nixon's arm, and his eyes looking over nixon to make extra sure he's ok