Tipping the Velvet/YMMV


 * Hollywood Homely: Plain Nan passes as a rent boy for a few years on the street. Rachel Stirling, who plays her in the TV adaptation is never anything but a gorgeous young woman in boy drag.
 * Narm: Oh god, SO MUCH NARM. Not in the book, but in the TV adaptation. There's nothing wrong with the acting, but the BBC for some reason got very overexcited and tried to fill what was essentially a period drama with special effects. This includes slowmo, fastmo, PEOPLE RANDOMLY TURNING NEGATIVE WHEN KISSING EACH OTHER...
 * Not to mention Nan's big "NOOOOOOOOOO" when she walks in to find
 * The opening credits with the SLOWMO OYSTERS FALLING FROM THE SKYYYYYYY
 * The "there's a rose..in my heart...for youuuuuuu." Didn't happen quite like this in the book. The moment was so filled with narm (slowmo spinning rose!) that when French and Saunders parodied it they barely had to change anything.