jem
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Post by jem on Nov 28, 2006 14:33:18 GMT
I take exception at Still Game! Yes there are always a duff episode or two per series but for actual laughs you can't beat it.
Some times you don't want intellectual you want pretend pensioners arsing about.
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Post by QuincyMD on Nov 28, 2006 14:56:40 GMT
Still Game - comedy for morons who think saying "Shite" at the end of every line is comedy genius. Lame Ducks- ho ho he's trying to go round the world on a giant inflatable ball. L for Lester - Comedy God Brian Murphy in dreadful Driving Instructor sitcom. Relative Strangers - why Spin off's should never happen. Not with a Bang - Judith Hann destroys the world, hi-larious! A Small Problem - Mike from the Young Ones as a midget terrorist, was even worse than it sounds but did have a very catchy theme tune. Rumble - a wrestling sitcom with the neighbour from Birds of a Feather and Brian Glover, Glover died rather than make a second series. High Street Blues - telly legend Ron Pember in a series about small shopkeepers struggling to survive against the might of a supermarket, the pun in the title was the funniest thing about the show. Bottle Boys - They made 12 episodes of this and then picked the six best to show as the first series, nobody noticed. "Bottle boys, bottle boys, up with the lark. Who cares if it's raining or if it's dark" i have no recollection of any of them! did you just make them up?! Sadly not.
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Post by jetsetwilly on Nov 28, 2006 18:20:42 GMT
Not with a Bang - Judith Hann destroys the world, hi-larious! I have to say any sitcom featuring Judith Hann sounds like it's worth half an hour of my time.
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Post by coxy1979 on Jan 2, 2007 15:43:34 GMT
I loved May to December - didn't Hilary (said bimbo receptionist) turn up as a doctor in Casualty years later.
As for shit ones, well I despised Bottom with a passion. Can I also nominate that Jasper Carrot/Nina Wadia one. All About Me was it?
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Post by somethingbiblical on Jan 2, 2007 23:12:26 GMT
Still Game is amazing! The best episode ever is the last one in the first series, when Isa gets the dildo out over Richard Whiteley, I'm cracking up just thinking about it. Hogmanay episode was shite (hoho) though, and WTF anyway, you can't call it Hogmanay if there's no Chewin' The Fat, and Still Game just ain't Chewin' The Fat.
Yeah it was All About Me, that was a truly awful show. My Family is pretty shitty too, it was alright in the first series for a bit but Robert Lindsay bores me to bits.
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Post by LoveMusic on Jan 4, 2007 14:24:02 GMT
I really liked All About Me, it was 30 mins of entertaining nothingness.
I do like My Family though, only because i have a mini-crush on Robert Lindsay
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Post by David Hunter on Jan 5, 2007 13:52:17 GMT
I love Still Game!
Isa is a comedy legend.
It's a bit ropey at times, but what comedy isn't. Oh and Winston lived next door to me for year with his wee dog.
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Jan 5, 2007 14:09:11 GMT
On the subject of regional comedies, what about High Hopes for the Welsh viewers?
I've only seen a couple. They made us laugh but they were undoubtedly a tad shitty. Mrs Heppelwhite is wonderful.
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puppydogstail
Jane Asher
She never cooks, she keeps a filthy house and she talks profanely!
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Post by puppydogstail on Jan 9, 2007 1:01:05 GMT
The Peter Principle was all about a Bank Manager promoted beyond his ability. It was shit from start to finish. I'm agrieved that this pile of arse actually takes up a few of my memory cells.
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Post by frap on Jan 9, 2007 16:46:26 GMT
I randomly chanced on some dreadful old medical sitcom called Surgical Spirit on one of the freeview channels the other day. Really, truly awful. It wasn't even raising a titter from the studio audience.
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Post by Sparkle on Jan 9, 2007 18:45:51 GMT
Surgical Spirit was amazing! Duncan Preston! Nichola McAuliffe! Women can work in hospitals too!
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Post by LoveMusic on Jan 9, 2007 23:27:36 GMT
I used to like a sitcom with Liza Tarbuck on friday nights, she worked in an office
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Post by saint on Mar 14, 2007 15:31:29 GMT
Still Game is superb.
Shitcoms I remember are Goodnight Sweatheart, Watching and Last of the Summer Wine
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Post by urbanninja on Mar 14, 2007 16:01:33 GMT
Mad about Alice. Never watched it, but it had Jamie Theakston in it. 'Nuff said.
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Post by Intoxicated In Cockermouth on Jun 25, 2008 15:44:15 GMT
Here is my "worst" list-
Up Pompei Brittas Empire Last Of The Summer Wne 'Allo,'Allo Series 3 Of The League Of Gentlemen Hope & Faith
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Post by jetsetwilly on Jun 25, 2008 18:59:19 GMT
'Allo 'Allo? Seriously?
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emma
Jane Asher
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Post by emma on Jun 25, 2008 19:32:14 GMT
My mum used to watch something in late 1997 where the whole plotline was Sarah Lancashire was pregnant, but she went on holiday and missed the last couple. Any takers?
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Post by LoveMusic on Jun 25, 2008 19:33:03 GMT
Hope & Faith was SO awful
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Post by Ceeb on Jun 25, 2008 19:46:32 GMT
My mum used to watch something in late 1997 where the whole plotline was Sarah Lancashire was pregnant, but she went on holiday and missed the last couple. Any takers? Was it called Blooming Marvellous or something like that? I think my mum was a fan as well EDIT: Imdb confirms - www.imdb.com/title/tt0118271/
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emma
Jane Asher
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Post by emma on Jun 25, 2008 19:49:49 GMT
AH Yes! Good thinking, Batman.
All I can remember about it is Clive Mantle having a panic attack. It probably never got much better than that.
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Mike
Su Pollard
"I want a chandelier. A motorised one."
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Post by Mike on Jun 25, 2008 21:51:47 GMT
Still Game is superb. Shitcoms I remember are Goodnight Sweatheart, Watching and Last of the Summer Wine Agree on Last Of The Summer Wine (they're still making it aren't they? God help us) but I absolutely detest Still Game. It isn't funny. Does anyone else remember Land Of Hope And Gloria? I'm pretty sketchy on the details except that it was on ITV, had that bint from the Three Degrees in it and was utter, utter shite. Also, there was a kids' one called The Charmings, about Snow White and Prince Charming living in the modern world. Typical moment - the wicked stepmother brings round an apple pie, Snow White announces 'I'm not falling for that again' and chucks it in the bin. A laugh an hour (if you were lucky).
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emma
Jane Asher
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Post by emma on Jun 25, 2008 22:34:16 GMT
I'm getting bits of The Charmings returning like some horrible repressed abuse memory...wasn't there something about the wicked with not dying but falling down a big hole or something?
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Post by [james] on Jun 25, 2008 23:46:23 GMT
Oh my Christ, The Charmings! That has been bugging me for about eight years what that was. I have a vaguely memory of watching it when I was little but haven't been able to find out what it was. THANK YOU MIKE.
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Post by Feral on Jun 26, 2008 5:10:33 GMT
Anyone remember Next of Kin, starring the wonderful Penelope Keith? Retired couple get landed with the grandkids after the parents get themselves killed.
I have very little recollection of it, despite the fact that i'm sure I watched pretty much every episode of it when it was on. Well, other than that the grand-daughter was a right mardy bitch. I'm fairly certain it must have been a bit rubbish though. Albeit I have a strong suspicion that I actually quite enjoyed it at the time. Amazingly, it seems to have run for three full series and a Christmas special...
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Post by Intoxicated In Cockermouth on Jun 26, 2008 7:30:03 GMT
How can we forget On The Buses spinoff "Don't Drink The Water". Set in a "hilarious" interpretation of a holiday complex if I remember.
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