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Impossible

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« Reply #720 on: 10-20-2004 09:00 »

The first episode of the new series of Little Britain - wasn't as funny as the first series, but I enjoyed it nevertheless. They got rid of the Scottish mad man (who I loved, just for the "Yeeeeeeeeeees!" catchphrase)...but here's some of the new characters.


Bubbles - lives at the health spa and gets away with not paying for it.


Harvey - Harvey is a well-heeled young man with the classic car, the cravat, the family home in the country, and he's introducing his new fiancée to his posh parents.


Judy and Maggie - the W.I ladies. It did actually remind me of some of the middle-class ladies in my village  :laff:

Emily Howard has a new "lady" friend this time around, called Florence. I found them hilarious  :laff: The Vicky Pollard sketch was also funny, because it's just so true!  :D

Why do British people find men in drag so funny?
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« Reply #721 on: 10-20-2004 09:47 »

Thanks for that! Little Britain is the only thing worth getting BBC 3 for.
I preferred the lenny hendry version of Vicky Pollard though, a rip-off, but a good one.

The best british comedy ever has to be trigger happy tv, buy the dvd's and laugh constantly for three hours! The american version was pretty good too.

Ok, british comedies I don't like...
Any piece of crud on ITV that calls itself a comedy, like 'barbara' or 'hardware', they are as boring as their names, also 'bognor or bust' is nowhere near as good as 'have I got news for you'.
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« Reply #722 on: 10-20-2004 13:57 »

I downloaded the new episode of Little Britain and watched it. oh my god it’s more funnier and ruder then ever! I have never laughed and scream so hard on some of the scene that were really funny.

 
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Originally posted by Impossible:
The first episode of the new series of Little Britain - wasn't as funny as the first series, but I enjoyed it nevertheless. They got rid of the Scottish mad man (who I loved, just for the "Yeeeeeeeeeees!" catchphrase)...but here's some of the new characters.


Bubbles - lives at the health spa and gets away with not paying for it.

Bubble might be my new fave character. Oh my god that scene makes me cringed but it was so funny. I’m surprise that they showed it at around 9pm?

 
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Harvey - Harvey is a well-heeled young man with the classic car, the cravat, the family home in the country, and he's introducing his new fiancée to his posh parents.

Hehe that scene was really funny. I couldn’t stop laughing till the scene has finished

 
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Judy and Maggie - the W.I ladies. It did actually remind me of some of the middle-class ladies in my village   :laff:

Ewww the scenes were horrible. Next time they not I am not going to eat any food

nice to see Vicky Pollard, Lou and Andy, Sebastian and Daffyd again

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« Reply #723 on: 10-20-2004 17:13 »
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Judy and Maggie were pretty crap really. but the rest was good.
Impossible

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« Reply #724 on: 10-21-2004 14:23 »

Turns out that the new episode of Little Britain got record ratings for a show on a digital channel - I think it was 1.6 million viewers  :)
Dark Prince

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« Reply #725 on: 10-21-2004 16:09 »

 
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Originally posted by Zmithy:
Thanks for that! Little Britain is the only thing worth getting BBC 3 for.


  Little Britain is good, but I prefer the Mighty Boosh.  Though I know some of you guys don't like it.
Juliet

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« Reply #726 on: 10-21-2004 17:18 »

Guys just to let you know that there is a Little Britainthread
Juliet

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« Reply #727 on: 10-25-2004 17:57 »

 
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Originally posted by Melllvar:
Seeing as I just got the "Look Around You" DVD, I chanced by the LAY BBC Website, and read that it may be coming back for another series.

Clicky

If no-one's heard of this, it's a spot-on parody of the 70's/80's Science For Schools programmes, and written by/starring Peter (Duane Benzie) Serafinowicz, and Robert Popper.

Yeah watched the DVD at you house and I thought the program was really funny. Yeah I am going to watch the second series when it comes out.

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Impossible

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« Reply #728 on: 10-26-2004 07:05 »

Does anyone else watch the brilliant animated series that is Monkeydust? Very disturbing...
Dark Prince

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« Reply #729 on: 10-28-2004 20:18 »
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Originally posted by Impossible:
Does anyone else watch the brilliant animated series that is Monkeydust? Very disturbing...

I saw quite a few of them on BBC3 over the summer, but I've missed the ones on BBC2 on mondays at the moment.  Does anyone know if it's the same series being shown?

[edit]  thanks, zapper [/edit]
Juliet

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« Reply #730 on: 10-29-2004 20:21 »

What a way for them to end Green Wing. I thought that was the best episode out oh the lot. Some scenes were funny and shocking.

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« Reply #731 on: 10-30-2004 01:07 »

 
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Originally posted by Dark Prince:
 I saw quite a few of them on BBC3 over the summer, but I've missed the ones on BBC2 on mondays at the moment.  Does anyone know if it's the same series being shown?


it appears to be a compilation of all the series from bbc3.


and the women's institute skits from little britain are about institutional racism and bigotry, NOT about "distasteful" people as one poster mentioned. the skit is highlighting bigotry in those types of organisations.
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« Reply #732 on: 10-30-2004 23:00 »

Juliet: Yes funny, not that shocking though...

"Sheeeeeeeeeep!"
Hopefully they'll repeat them on E4 (what are the odds?  :p )
Juliet

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« Reply #733 on: 10-31-2004 06:17 »
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Originally posted by ~FazeShift~:
Juliet: Yes funny, not that shocking though...

"Sheeeeeeeeeep!"
Hopefully they'll repeat them on E4 (what are the odds?    :p )


Yes they are starting to repeat if from the start on E4 Friday nights

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« Reply #734 on: 10-31-2004 06:29 »
« Last Edit on: 10-31-2004 06:29 »

I watched the first episode on E4 (because I'd missed it the first time around).  Looking forward to the DVD, rumour has it, that because a lot of the 'skits' were improvised, there's a shitload of unbroadcast material they're putting on there.

I enjoyed the ending (a literal cliffhanger), and look forward to another series.  For me, it's been a grower, but I ended up loving it.
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« Reply #735 on: 10-31-2004 10:55 »

Juliet: Bah, happens all the time around these parts... I've gotten used to it.

I saw something that was probably improvised, when that slightly insane counsellor woman (dunno her name) chased after the ambulance, she grabbed the drivers ass after he closed the door.  :laff:
Juliet

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« Reply #736 on: 10-31-2004 14:48 »

That would be Sue White. one of the best characters ever along with Alan (Mark Heap)
Melllvar

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« Reply #737 on: 10-31-2004 19:48 »

You can't choose her!  She hasn't got a fanny!

One of the more quotable lines from the episodes.

Along with:

She's my schmoo!

The bits with Guy in Sue Whites office are obviously improvised, when he's impersonating her.  (It's a piece of piss, this job.)

Also, i'd say that Guy delivered the best line in the whole series, to Sue White:

You know what I like about you?  Fuck all.
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« Reply #738 on: 10-31-2004 19:52 »

I thought she was in Smack The Pony too but imdb says she wasn't.  :hmpf:

Filthy lyin' website!

That was an ok show.
Melllvar

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« Reply #739 on: 10-31-2004 19:53 »

That was Sarah Alexander.

Mmmm.
Juliet

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« Reply #740 on: 11-12-2004 18:55 »

I saw that Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere today and I thought it was really good. I didn’t know that they were the characters from Phoenix Nights because I only saw one episode of Phoenix Nights. That Patrick McGuinness is really good looking.  :love:

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« Reply #741 on: 11-12-2004 19:01 »

Max & Paddy are the doorman from the Phoenix Club.  In the final episode of Phoenix Nights, they head off in a camper van, hence the spin-off series.

I think it's missing Dave Spikey's writing.  Personally.  But it was not bad.
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« Reply #742 on: 11-12-2004 22:55 »

Shitfrogs, missed it.

I'm gonna watch my Pheonix Nights DVD's again.
Melllvar

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« Reply #743 on: 11-14-2004 04:01 »

Do that, nothing beats the episode with the psychic.

Max & Paddy has potential, but Kay needs to make up with Spikey and do another Phoenix Nights.
Impossible

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« Reply #744 on: 11-14-2004 13:49 »

It wasn't anything special. It has some potential though.
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« Reply #745 on: 11-14-2004 14:19 »

ding dang do

i watched it and i found that the irish guy was funny and i liked the scene where they threw him over a wall
Melllvar

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« Reply #746 on: 11-17-2004 01:14 »

A mate let me borrow his copy of Big Train, series 1 & 2.

I was always a fan of the International Stare-Out Championships, but there's loads of fantastic sketches.  Amelia Bullmore and Julia Davis are criminally underused in Series One, perhaps the main reason they didn't return for S2 (The Florence Nightingale sketch on Ep6 of S1 is brilliant - Amelia Bullmore steals the series with that one.)

Pegg, Heap and Eldon are great too.  I particularly love Simon Pegg's Braveheart (I may have a tiny pony!).

I'm working my way through S2 at the moment.
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« Reply #747 on: 11-19-2004 18:02 »
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I like Max and Paddy a lot. Tonight’s episode was well funnier then the last weeks episode. I laugh my head off when Paddy was gone to appear in a porn movie but didn’t know it was a gay one. Hehe liked the name “Willy Wanker”

I liked Max story on when he fall in love with a girl in his past. Very touching. I feel sorry for that guy.

I watched the full episode of Peep Show for the first time and I thought it was really good.

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« Reply #748 on: 11-21-2004 10:48 »

I like coupling but it's not as good now Jeff's left to go to Lesbos.  Also I like My parents are aliens.  It's a kids show but it's still funny.
Juliet

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« Reply #749 on: 11-26-2004 17:19 »

Max and Paddy is turning out to be a comdey drama. I like it  :)
Zmithy

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« Reply #750 on: 11-26-2004 17:27 »

My parents are aliens is fantastic, I think the writers are trying to see how much they can get away with on childrens tv.
Juliet

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« Reply #751 on: 11-26-2004 17:49 »

it's rubbish
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« Reply #752 on: 11-26-2004 17:55 »
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Dear god is it possible there's something Juliet doesn't like.
I'm liking peep show the most at the moment, but thats not saying that much

 
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Amelia Bullmore and Julia Davis are criminally underused in Series One,
As Graham linehan confesses to like a hundred times on the commentary.
My favourite has to be the "new office manager" sketch
"no way you must be joking that guy is a wanker"

but the most underused must surely be arthur matthews
" I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU, YOU BOLLOCKS, YOU BOLLOCKS AHHGG"
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« Reply #753 on: 11-27-2004 06:05 »
« Last Edit on: 11-27-2004 06:05 by Tweek »

I find Peep Show quite amusing, nice new angle as well. Coupled with Father Ted after and Max&Paddy before I find myself AFK in my games and watching them instead. Also, I have never heard the f word used so much just after 10.

No, Bo'Selecta doesn't count because it's shit.
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« Reply #754 on: 11-27-2004 06:16 »
« Last Edit on: 11-27-2004 06:16 by Tweek »

oh I missed Peep show   :( I going to cath the repeat of it some time.
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« Reply #755 on: 11-27-2004 06:58 »
« Last Edit on: 11-27-2004 06:58 by Tweek »

Speaking of pure crap, know anyone NOT getting that awful series 3 'bo'Selecta DVD?
Juliet

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« Reply #756 on: 11-27-2004 09:12 »

Not me. The other 2 DVD's are ok with me.
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« Reply #757 on: 11-27-2004 10:47 »

I've been browsing around the QI website, i found the clips page! Anyone that's not seen the show, i reccommend this to you as a very funny, intelligent and interesting comedy.

QI Clips
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« Reply #758 on: 11-27-2004 15:40 »

 
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My favourite has to be the "new office manager" sketch
"no way you must be joking that guy is a wanker"

but the most underused must surely be arthur matthews
" I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU, YOU BOLLOCKS, YOU BOLLOCKS AHHGG"

Arthur Matthews only turns up when they need someone who can scream hysterically at one of the characters.

My favourite sketch is the Hot Cakes/Too Many Cooks sketch from series two.
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« Reply #759 on: 11-30-2004 02:14 »

 
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I find Peep Show quite amusing, nice new angle as well. 

I recently got hooked on this show, too. Both the characters remind me so much of people I know. I especially liked the episode where Mark urinated on his boss' desk.
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