She's talking to KJ, who used to be a woman. I think.
I thought The Bang Bus was actually quite amusing. But repetitive. As it would be.
I always wondered why porn stars all have Brazilians.
*cough* not that I've seen any porn flicks, really.
*ahem*
I thought the first season of Friends was funny. Didn't watch it after that. I prefer history programmes. They aren't usually very funny.
I never understood 'The Young Ones'. It's very culturally bound; one had to live in Thatcherite England to understand it, I think. Which I didn't. I -did- live in Reaganite America, however, which is kinda sorta the same....
For american sit-coms, ones I'm fond of would be:
Cheers
Rhoda
Taxi
Barney Miller (before cable it was the one good thing on late enough to watch when the baby wouldn't sleep)
Very early Roseanne
and
Soap, because it was so ground breaking at the time. Especially once they stopped playing Jodie as the camp stereotype.
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Best Brit sit-com ? Fawlty Towers with Dad's Army a close second. Thirty years on and both shows still make me laugh. Interesting that Only Fools & Horses hasn't had a mention...
Best US sitcom (and I think it falls into the category): Sarge Bilko, with the late, great Phil Silvers.
Bob, I mentioned OFAH earlier.
dad's army? I just never caught that bus I'm afraid.
The Young ones was my life for about two years at school. Every episode watched millions of times. The playground would be alive with Neils and Adrians and Ricks (not too many mikes and very few bolowskis apart from Billy Boliwski when talking to a cactus, "'ello pussycat, it's your uncle Billy, what you doin' in a bucket?" and "are we ready clocks?")
I remember being thrown out of German for reading the Young Ones Book and having to be dragged out of the class by the teacher because I simply couldn't stand up for laughing. The joke? Well there's a picture of the Venus de Milo and it's titled 'Penis de Milo' (side splitting stuff already I know) after I'd read the book about fifty times I suddenly noticed (during German) that the statue had a penis for a foot.
that was me.. gone!
I spent the entire period curled up in a ball in tears of laughter in the corridor awaiting detention.
Wot! No Ab Fab?
No fifteen stories high? (Sean Lock.) Very surreal.
The league of gentlemen.
Farty Towels.
Little Britain.
Phoenix Nights.
Friends.
Frasier.
Ted and Ralph. (The fast show)
And The Fast Show.
Why? Because. They. Were. Funny.
Actually, Ab Fab has caused some of my most laugh out loud moments.
Especially, when Patsy ate turkey for the first time at Christmas, and when they went hunting and she said the immortal line,
'two strands of hair whipped up into a bouffant' when talking about ageing aristos which for some reason tickled me silly.
Frasier was one of my favourite sitcoms of all time.
Yes - Fifteen Stories was excellent.
Little Britain and The Fast Show - sketch shows rather than sit coms, I'd have thought...although the dividing line is becoming increasingly blurred...
Sorry to be a cut and paste bore, but..
From 15 Storeys High (Vince is a swimming instructor, recently promoted from lifeguard)
Vince: Why do you wanna learn to swim?
Model: Well, I do a lot of glamour modelling and when we do shoots around the pool, I look very nervous. So the editor of Razzle said, "Either learn to swim or it's back to Reader's Wives."
Vince: I thought I recognised you. You've got the kitchen with the Zanussi dishwasher.
Model: Yeah!
Vince: And the blue-checked curtains.
Model: Mmm.
Vince: Your spice rack there, it's not level is it? A lot of cupboard space. I was quite impressed by that.
Model: Cos normally blokes look at the erm… (points at her chest)
Vince: No, no, no. I get most of my decorating ideas from Reader's Wives. My bedroom is done out like, you know Julie from Devon? And I'm thinking of doing the bathroom like Wanda from Edmonton. You know with the sort of jade emulsion. Not sure about the crab stencilling or the chains on the wall really.
Model: I'll let you into a secret. It's not my kitchen.
Vince: Oh, right. I suppose it's a set isn't it?
Model: No, it's my mums kitchen.
Model: Oh, right. That explains it then you know, cos it's quite old fashioned, the tea cosy and of course those big knickers on the radiator. They were big and I thought, they can't be yours, they must be…
Model: Can we get on with the lesson?
Couplings was bloody awful! The UK's answer to Friends, with the dialogue delivered in slow-motion. Should have been strangled at the synopsis stage...
Losing weight is a dodgy issue - perhaps an interesting one to discuss on another thread. However, I'm sick to death of overweight people or people with 'weight issues' being bitter towards the rest of the world. Those of us who are thin and healthy work hard and make choices to be like that. If you are overweight you are overweight for a reason. And it's a reason that you either need to accept and be comfortable in your own skin or deal with and do something about it. Either way it's NOT acceptable to just lash out at the world of 'thin people' like they did something wrong. There is also NOTHING wrong with thin/slender/healthy people being proud of that fact. It's simple basic truth that eating well and exercising is much better for you than being unfit and eating a poor diet. In this case there are right and wrong answers. Pizza = bad. Fruit = good. Make your choices and live with them, thin people do this too you know.
Teachers, series 1 & 2 was wonderful. Dark, comedic, sexy, off-the-wall with the underlying truth that we never grow up.
Never really got into Bottom, if you'll excuse my phrasing. There is one wonderful epiosde where Rik and Eddie are stuck up a Ferris Wheel, though.
!. Fawlty Towers - for the Major
2. Dad's Army - 'We're DOOMED I tell ye'
3. Last Of The Summer Wine - for Thora Hird's driving
4. Porridge - Fulton McKay, priceless!
5. Open All Hours - for the till.
6. As Time Goes By - Geoffrey Palmers expressions are unique
7. Till Death Us Do Part - Dandy Nicholls
8. The Good Life - The best looking bum on TV.
9. Rhoda - token American prog
10. ABCtales Gen Diss Forum - a million reasons, none of them from the colonies.
Fergal, you're in company with me, the twat in Brighton would have me banned merely because he doesn't like me. As if HIS opinion is worth a toss!
Teachers was good in the beginning and then went crap when Andrew Lincoln left. I could hardly believe it was the same programme.
It was a prime case of producers getting the wrong idea of why people loved it.
Who you talking to critters? There's noone on here lashing out at the world of thin people.
LOTSW was a kind of idyllic daydream for old men, which I aspire to...eventually!
Perhaps I should have mentioned it on Ralph's Guilty Pleasures thread.
Speaking of which, may I make a request that all new threads have unique titles? Using old ones fucks up my archive!
LOTSW was funny when I was a kid and it was a good idea. the last 90 years or so though have really gone downhill
(probably in a makeshift go kart made from a tin bath and ending up in a manure heap)
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