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Black Adder was bad ass.

The Young Ones are my fave Brit com with Black Adder Goes Forth a close 2nd. " They had spears and fruit, we had Maxim guns. We made a fruit salad."

Both shows had a young Dr. House.

Last night we watched the original Brit version of Death at a Funeral. Real good.

Best Brit comedy ever!

Gav wrote:Best Brit comedy ever!

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xnNhzgcWTk">YouTube Link</a>

I knew it was Fawlty Towers before I even clicked the link.

Bravo.

I got all my BBC in my formative years from PBS with my maternal grandfather. It's also why the fourth Dr. is who immediately come to mind when someone says Dr. Who.

Ed Zachary wrote:

Gav wrote:Best Brit comedy ever!

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xnNhzgcWTk">YouTube Link</a>

I knew it was Fawlty Towers before I even clicked the link.

Bravo.

I got all my BBC in my formative years from PBS with my maternal grandfather. It's also why the fourth Dr. is who immediately come to mind when someone says Dr. Who.

Yep PBS! We had 3 to 4 tv stations when I lived in Upstate NY, depending on the weather and the PBS station out of Syaracuse came in about the best. 3-2-1 Contact!, McNeal- Leharer at 7pm and Doctor Who at 7:30.

First time I saw Doctor Who it was Tom Baker, I was 6 and was instantly hooked. That's where I developed a love of story over FX in Sci Fi and most other things because face it. Old Doctor Who had FX like a public access station. Star Wars it was not but the stories were so good.

I still watch a shitload of PBS, we have WETA UK here, all Brit shit all the time and it's usually better than BBC America. My eldist is developing an appriciation and affenity for Brit TV and seems interested in Brit History when I do my little mini lectures. Kid loves Robin Hood, the Young Ones, Monty Python and knows very well who Richard the Lionheart was.

I'll hit him with some Black Adder in a couple of years when he can better get it. (Allthogh I did ban Family Guy and American Dad because I would catch him watching it and laughing at some very adult shit.)

Damnit Darf...check out Saxondale and report back, to the forum.

Jezebel Jones wrote:Re: Luther- one of the things I like about the beeb is they don't string a season out into 20 plus episodes or 6 stale seasons.

By the same token, they have Dr Who, they have several crime series and long running comedies that are in the high teens as far as seasons. There's also a couple Scottish ones (commence panty sopping) like Reebus and Taggart that had good long runs. I think it comes down to the writing being flat out better. Even when the show is cheesy like MI5 or slow paced like Misommer Murders, the writing is a notch up form what we get here.

Second factor...it's a little island, the number of brit actors is small and it seems like and ensemble theater co, you see the same people over and over.



Speaking of random foreign things ....Durham County? Jesus that shite is fucked up.

Rose!

cleaner464 wrote:Rose!

Amy is dirtier

Like the fist of an angry GAWD!

cleaner464 wrote:Rose!

The guy who plays DC Hathaway on Inspector Lewis is married to her. Lucky fucker.

Blaidd Drwg wrote:

cleaner464 wrote:Rose!

Amy is dirtier

The best peice of Doctor Who tail since the 2nd Ramona.

DARTH wrote:

cleaner464 wrote:Rose!

The guy who plays DC Hathaway on Inspector Lewis is married to her. Lucky fucker.

My wife calls him Mr. Billy Piper

Blaidd Drwg wrote:

Jezebel Jones wrote:Re: Luther- one of the things I like about the beeb is they don't string a season out into 20 plus episodes or 6 stale seasons.

By the same token, they have Dr Who, they have several crime series and long running comedies that are in the high teens as far as seasons. There's also a couple Scottish ones (commence panty sopping) like Reebus and Taggart that had good long runs. I think it comes down to the writing being flat out better. Even when the show is cheesy like MI5 or slow paced like Misommer Murders, the writing is a notch up form what we get here.

Second factor...it's a little island, the number of brit actors is small and it seems like and ensemble theater co, you see the same people over and over.



Speaking of random foreign things ....Durham County? Jesus that shite is fucked up.

I hadn't heard of that before you mentioned it-- looks good.

No really....it's fucked up. Episode 2 so far and it is like David Lynch rewrote The Killing or some shit...this is one of the characters...


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Gawddamnit Mary O you filthy Greek bastid. Move this shit back the Free Speech Forum and put Dunn in timeout for orchestrating this shit.

Ed Zachary wrote:Gawddamnit Mary O you filthy Greek bastid. Move this shit back the Free Speech Forum and put Dunn in timeout for orchestrating this shit.

FUCK YEAH!

Are you happy now?

Atta boy, Shaf!

Could you now move everything else out of the new forum, and remove Mario's latest attempt to fuck up IGx more than it already is?

Shafpocalypse Now wrote:Are you happy now?

I'm always happy.

Jezebel Jones wrote:Can't remember the name of it at the moment, but their used to be a series shown on PBS about a Brit dentist and his family. The wife (played the quidditch instructor in Harry Potter) was always making these awful meals, daughter was a ditz, and the son was a smart ass.

Re: Luther- one of the things I like about the beeb is they don't string a season out into 20 plus episodes or 6 stale seasons.

Jezzy - My Family http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006xj32



You all need to check out Outnumbered, funny stuff!!

The Comic Strip Presents! Many of the crew from The Young Ones.
Bad News was better than Spinal Tap.

"Jimmy Page compossed Stairway to Heaven when he was 24 years old. I could play it note for note when I was 12.
So that makes me potentially twice as good."