Still Game
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| Name: | Still Game |
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| Date(s): | 2002-2007; 2016-2019 |
| Medium: | Television |
| Country of Origin: | Scotland |
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Still Game is a Scottish sitcom set in the fictional Glasgow suburb of Craiglang, where best friends, widowers and pensioners Jack Jarvis and Victor McDade live out their winter years as ‘typical’ working class retirees. Originally a spin-off from another series, Chewin’ the Fat, Still Game proved far more successful than its predecessor and will release its ninth and final season in 2019.
Fandom
Still Game is relatively unknown outside of the UK, or even Scotland, however it remains one of Scotland's best known fandoms due to the length of time it has been on the air. The combination of comedic and serious elements, mixed in with the working class cast that much of the country can relate to, us considered a winning combination. While the show does exaggerate many prominent Scottish stereotypes (the cheapskate, the grafter, the ‘gabshite’ etc), these are generally well received due to the fact that a typical working class Scot knows at least one of each.
Characters
Shipping
Common ships include Jack/Victor, built on the fact that they’ve canonically known each other for sixty years and grown very close, and several incidental issues where clever camera angles have suggested lewd activities between them both.
Winston and Isa are often shipped together despite the love/hate aspect between them because despite it all, there is a strong chemistry between the two. Tam and his wife Francis are shipped as a canonical couple.
Common Tropes
Subtitle errors - due to a lot of the characters speaking with thick Glaswegian accents, and often in Scots as well, Still Game understandably comes with subtitles. However there are times where even they are incorrect, making for unintentionally hilarious results.
Jack and Victor are retired Kingsman - there is a fanfic series on AO3 that features the headcanon that Jack and Victor were once members of Kingsman, and considers the series from this angle instead of the original.
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