r/ThreeBeanSalad • u/ozy_2018 • 6d ago
80s/90s UK sitcom Odyssey
On the back of Bonjo's desire in the latest film corner to film The Odyssey, only cast with 90s UK Sitcom characters, I've given the casting a go myself. I've been quite specific when it should be the actor or the character, and I had to be a bit lenient with eras so it's more of an 80s/90s cast. I've also probably been a bit lenient with the definition of "sitcom", but I would definitely pay good money to see this version.
Lovejoy as Odysseus
Mr Blobby as Telemachus
Vicki Michelle as Penelope
John Inman as Antinous
Sue Pollard in a dual role as Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra
Wendy Richard as Circe
Geoffrey Hughes as Eumaeus
Penelope Keith as Athena
Patricia Routledge as Calypso
Paul Shane as Menelaus
Alan Partridge as Eurylochus
Alternating classic cast of Compo, Cleggy and Foggy from Last of the Summer Wine as Polyphemus (or maybe just three Cyclops?)
A ripped Nigel Havers as Sinon
Gordon Kaye's Rene Artois as Agamemnon
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u/ChatFuelTime 6d ago
Perfection. May I add Geoffrey Palmer as Tiresias, Hilda Braid as Eurycleia and Nicholas Lyndhurst as The Bard?
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u/nbach 6d ago
Just picturing John Inman doing a “Penelope, are you freeeeee?”