How many people loved that Durrells in Corfu joke as much as I did? I feel like probably none!
Have you been watching the show? (I know Durrell's story from reading him.)
This here's a recipe for unpleasantness.
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DavidS - May 18, 2019 5:58:45 pm PDT #8213 of 8624
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
billytea - May 19, 2019 11:17:41 am PDT #8214 of 8624
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
My Family and Other Animals was a formative influence on me when I was a kid! (Go on, act surprised.) I just read it to Ryan this year, and we all watched ' The Durrells thereafter.
All of which to say that I'm rather startled that B99 would be referencing it.
dcp - May 19, 2019 1:21:48 pm PDT #8215 of 8624
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Me too.
What was the "Durrells in Corfu" joke?
Jesse - May 20, 2019 4:44:47 am PDT #8216 of 8624
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Have you been watching the show?
Yes! And keep meaning to read any of their books, but haven't yet. I assume Larry's books are actually insufferable?
dcp, the joke was that Capt Holt was using a Durrells in Corfu reaction gif in the group chat.
-t - May 20, 2019 4:57:41 am PDT #8217 of 8624
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The group chat that is not back.
msbelle - May 20, 2019 8:01:59 am PDT #8218 of 8624
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I do not know "Durrells in Corfu" and keep thinking it is a reference to that Star Trek ep where the aliens speak in metaphor or something gibberish and is forever being quoted.
-t - May 20, 2019 8:08:53 am PDT #8219 of 8624
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That's kind of perfect
Steph L. - May 20, 2019 8:13:40 am PDT #8220 of 8624
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
it is a reference to that Star Trek ep where the aliens speak in metaphor or something gibberish and is forever being quoted.
I never watched Star Trek (any of the variations), and yet people quote that episode so much that I know it, and I know vaguely what the quote is supposed to convey. (Just like I know way too much about Doctor Who for someone who has only watched 2 episodes out of the entire 2 billion episodes and 500 Doctors. If people post about something enough on FB, I will pick it up by osmosis.)
Although I have no idea what Durrells in Corfu is.
msbelle - May 20, 2019 8:21:25 am PDT #8221 of 8624
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Exactly Steph. I never watched Star Trek and can never remember what the phrases from that ep were meant to convey, but I've seen them so much it has just seeped into my brain.
There is a lot of fandom stuff like that for me.
Jesse - May 20, 2019 8:40:45 am PDT #8222 of 8624
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I do not know "Durrells in Corfu" and keep thinking it is a reference to that Star Trek ep where the aliens speak in metaphor or something gibberish and is forever being quoted.
Ha! I wish it were that.
I'm glad you all are confirming that no one gets this joke -- Durrells in Corfu is a PBS show about a British family who move to Corfu in the 1930s and have gentle adventures. Two of the actual Durrells are authors (Lawrence and Gerald), including the one whose memoir is the basis for the show.