Tonight on Five...

[panik]

Begins a show called The Mentalist, directed by David Nutter.

::still giggling like a loon::

::And thinking about Alan Partridge::

Comments

[runriggers.livejournal.com]

It's a good show!

It's a good show!

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

With a daft name!

One has to assume 'mentalist' doesn't mean over there what it means over here? *g*

Re: It's a good show!

[runriggers.livejournal.com]

He watches people and figures things out by the way they act, react, etc. He used to have a ' magic' show - fake psychic show

But yes, someone being ' mental' means the same thing here as there I'd say.

Re: It's a good show!

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

'You're a mentalist' is what kids would shout at someone being a mental. Watch the clip for an example.

[vamysteryfan.livejournal.com]

Love the pairing.

Here a mentalist is like a psychic. I take it that is not the case for you?

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

'You're a mentalist!' = you are a person not of sound mind. The clip I linked tells it better. the extended version even more so. :o)

[vamysteryfan.livejournal.com]

I'll have to watch the clips when I'm not at work :(

::whispers::

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Kay!

[luicat.livejournal.com]

I work with a couple of 'Nutters', brother and sister - makes it really difficult if you're saying that someone's a ...!
:oD

Nutter? Or a

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Mentalist? *G*

They keep trailing it and every time I want to do Alan Partridge; 'you're a mentalist!!!' ::chortle::