Ha. Well, the two most egregious instances of this are: 1.The episode Paris is entirely centred around Martin’s (Benedict’s character) investigating the all-too-expected theft of a bottle of 25 year-old Talisker whisky. Arthur (John Finnemore’s character) at one point declares Martin to be Miss Marple. In this first instance Martin hotly denies being said detective. When Arthur later declares that Douglas (Roger Allam’s character) is instead Miss Marple, Martin’s response is to insist that no, he is Miss Marple! The episode also features this exchange: MARTIN: I know! But the thing is, we’ve taken away all the things that can possibly have happened, so I suppose the only thing that’s left, even though it seems really weird, must be the thing that did happen, in fact. DOUGLAS: Snappily put. 2.Benedict missed a taping due to having laryngitis and the beginning of the episode (by all rights he should have missed out on two but they finagled a bit) in which Martin is played by someone else begins with the revelation that their trip to Newcastle has been prompted by a pilot being taken ill and therefore leaving some crew members stranded. Arthur then observes that MJN has only two pilots, and asks what they would do if one of them went sick. Carolyn (Stephanie Cole’s character) declares that they wouldn’t dare! Arthur pushes, but what if they did? Carolyn answers that she’s sure they’d think of something – and in walks ‘Martin’. Arthur tells him he’s looking really well and asks Douglas if he agrees. Douglas doesn’t think he looks especially well, but just the same as always. :-) There is also an instance where they’re play a game wherein the goal is to find books which sound more interesting when you knock off the final letter of the title eg. Three Men in a Boa and Far from the Madding Crow (My own contribution is Jurassic Par). Martin isn’t terribly good at this game and one of his contributions is to take the ‘s’ off the end and offer up The Hound of the Baskerville, but this is in one of the earlier episodes and I’m not sure if this was on purpose or just a coincidence.
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Date: 2013-01-28 04:49 pm (UTC)1.The episode Paris is entirely centred around Martin’s (Benedict’s character) investigating the all-too-expected theft of a bottle of 25 year-old Talisker whisky. Arthur (John Finnemore’s character) at one point declares Martin to be Miss Marple. In this first instance Martin hotly denies being said detective. When Arthur later declares that Douglas (Roger Allam’s character) is instead Miss Marple, Martin’s response is to insist that no, he is Miss Marple! The episode also features this exchange: MARTIN: I know! But the thing is, we’ve taken away all the things that can possibly have happened, so I suppose the only thing that’s left, even though it seems really weird, must be the thing that did happen, in fact. DOUGLAS: Snappily put.
2.Benedict missed a taping due to having laryngitis and the beginning of the episode (by all rights he should have missed out on two but they finagled a bit) in which Martin is played by someone else begins with the revelation that their trip to Newcastle has been prompted by a pilot being taken ill and therefore leaving some crew members stranded. Arthur then observes that MJN has only two pilots, and asks what they would do if one of them went sick. Carolyn (Stephanie Cole’s character) declares that they wouldn’t dare! Arthur pushes, but what if they did? Carolyn answers that she’s sure they’d think of something – and in walks ‘Martin’. Arthur tells him he’s looking really well and asks Douglas if he agrees. Douglas doesn’t think he looks especially well, but just the same as always. :-)
There is also an instance where they’re play a game wherein the goal is to find books which sound more interesting when you knock off the final letter of the title eg. Three Men in a Boa and Far from the Madding Crow (My own contribution is Jurassic Par). Martin isn’t terribly good at this game and one of his contributions is to take the ‘s’ off the end and offer up The Hound of the Baskerville, but this is in one of the earlier episodes and I’m not sure if this was on purpose or just a coincidence.