Horrible Histories & Good Omens

[elisi]

Um, spoilers for episode 3 of Good Omens?

So, we were watching Horrible Histories tonight, and Caligula came up...

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And now all I can see in my head is Crowley in a corner, shaking his head, saying "FML, I can't deal with this. I need to get plastered."

(For those of you unfamiliar with Horrible Histories - you're welcome. THIS is how I always picture Caligula.)

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[beer_good_foamy]

Heee! Loved these. Though I still can't think of Caligula as anyone but Malcolm McDowell. The 1979 film is nigh-unwatchable, but the commentary track is glorious; McDowell is so very very very very bitter that his career went straight into the toilet after that.

Choice quotes:
[John Gielgud appears] "What's a KNIGHT OF THE REALM doing in a PORNO?"

"But why is the army NAKED?!?"

"I said 'Excuse me?' and she whipped me with a bullwhip. I said 'Cut! Remove her from the set!'"

"Yes, it's a hardcore blowjob scene. The idea is that they were spying on us and got carried away. As spies do."

...Come to think of it, maybe there's a fic here: Crowley being hired as a history expert on that film and deciding to make sure nobody ever takes Caligula seriously again...

[jerusha]

Tyson and I fell in love with Horrible Histories while we were in Sydney. So fun!

[owlboy]

>>And now all I can see in my head is Crowley in a corner, shaking his head, saying "FML, I can't deal with this. I need to get plastered."

lmao, have you read the script? That's basically what happened

[elisi]

Heee! Loved these.
They struck me as the perfect tone for Good Omens...

Though I still can't think of Caligula as anyone but Malcolm McDowell. The 1979 film is nigh-unwatchable, but the commentary track is glorious; McDowell is so very very very very bitter that his career went straight into the toilet after that.
I am not familiar, but may have to look it up now! And the quotes seem to fit with most of the Crowley-trying-to-tempt-Caligula fics, where he is a very sad & depressed sex demon. (Hence me dragging out Horrible Histories as a more PC side.)

...Come to think of it, maybe there's a fic here: Crowley being hired as a history expert on that film and deciding to make sure nobody ever takes Caligula seriously again...
Mmmm, I wonder if that has been written yet. If not - do it! :D

[elisi]

Out children grew up with them, and they know entire songs/scenes off by heart. :D

[elisi]

I have!

I was more thinking of the specific actor/delivery, because I love it so. (And also I much prefer this silliness to all the 'poor Crowley is a depressed sex demon and Caligula keeps thinking of more depraved acts.)