British Comedy

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*pulls knife out of back*

I will watch some more then. 

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I expected OFAH to win, although Dad's Army and Blackadder were my favourites. I made sure to check what they said about Red Dwarf in the run up to the final ten on the night but instead of spendning five minutes extolling its virtues, they spent all the time explaining who the characters were. Poo.

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Originally posted by User_names_suck:
I dont Like Fawlty Towers It annoys me. I wish I knew more about yes minister but it was before my time.

Same here, however thankfully it was a present for my dad on DVD, now we've got Yes Minister on DVD and i'm hoping to get the Yes Prime Minister DVDs soon. I voted for it, but knew it wouldn't beat OFAH and Fawlty Towers.

Although i don't hate Vicar Of Dibley, it doesn't deserve to be in the top 10 and be above shows such as Red Dwarf.

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The vicar of Dibley got to the top cos of Johnny Depp. 

Only fools + horses sucks.

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I think the total monopoly of the BBC Shows in the top ten is what grates most.

Oh, and for the argument against The Good Life, I'd always leave it to Vyvyan from The Young Ones to make my argument for me:

NO!! No! We're not watching the bloody Good Life!! Bloody bloody bloody!! I hate it!! It's so bloody nice! Felicity 'Treacle' Kendall and Richard 'Sugar-Flavored-Snot' Briars!! What do they do now?! Chocolate bloody Button ads, that's what!! They're just a couple of reactionary stereotypes, confirming the myth that everyone in Britain is a lovable, middle-class eccentric - and I - HATE - THEM!!

Now there's a sitcom which should've placed higher.

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I agree with everything melllvar just said.

If only good shows were on more often. Curse you BBC! :shakes fist:

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Well the show for a start was rigged to have only BBC sitcoms.
Black books didn't gone on enough really.
OFAH proably does deserve to win on the grounds of going on so long, without obviously getting really stale I mean the fact is it wasn't so sitcomish so it doesn't run out of wacky situations to put the characters into.

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I'm Outraged, Blackadder, Young Ones and Monty Python were outranked by a crappy 1970's cockney comedy. I hate you, BBC.

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Originally posted by Melllvar:
I think the total monopoly of the BBC Shows in the top ten is what grates most.

Yeah! It was a bit obvious wasn't it.
Why the Office wasn't on the poll I don't know. (unless I missed some)

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The Office was there, but somewhere in the 20s I think.

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The Office was no.25 

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Then the show was as bad as the people who voted on it (maybe I should've voted, might have made a difference..*cough*).

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Black Books is on tonight!

:dances:

That has now become on of my favourite shows!  But I MUST get my stupid lazy father to record it. I'm out when its on 

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Originally posted by aslate:
 
Although i don't hate Vicar Of Dibley, it doesn't deserve to be in the top 10 and be above shows such as Red Dwarf.

I agree, I'm sure it was helped by being on BBC1, I think all the top ones have been shown on BBC1 at some time, meaning more people are likely to have seen them than the shows only on BBC2 or Channel Four, off the top of my head I can't think of any sitcoms that were on ITV I'm sure they must have had a few just nothing that memorable.

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ITV don't really do sitcoms though do they?

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They do "Hardware" at the moment. Unless of course you meant "good sitcoms"?

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Did anyone see Black Books?

I missed half of it  But the part I saw was funny 

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I saw it. Manny covered in cards was just the best! Brilliant! 

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I also caught only the last half of it. What I saw was great stuff though.

I also loved the Father Ted episode afterwards, as it was one I haven't seen before. With Father Damien and his whistle-thieving ways 

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I've seen the trailer for the latest episodes of Black Books and I've read about them on the net. They look really funny. 

Manny: Lets paaaaaaaaaaaar-
Bernard: DON'T YOU DARE USE THE WORD PARTY AS A VERB IN MY SHOP!

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Black Books was good last night  Manny's "book coat" was brilliant!

Father Ted was good too. I lovd Dougal's quote "Ah, I love egg Mrs Doyle! Infact sometimes I think I'll eat so much that I'll turn into an egg!" 

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Doh!

Missed it again.

Either way, does anyone know what the Father Ted episode was called where at the end scene he is waving through his window looking like Hitler?
Its my fav episode!

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Originally posted by catindisguise:
Manny: Lets paaaaaaaaaaaar-
Bernard: DON'T YOU DARE USE THE WORD PARTY AS A VERB IN MY SHOP!

Yeah, it was great yesterday, that line had me cracking up.

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Originally posted by nerdlingus:
Doh!

Missed it again.

Either way, does anyone know what the Father Ted episode was called where at the end scene he is waving through his window looking like Hitler?
Its my fav episode!

I think it's called 'Are you right there father Ted?', Series 3.

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Just saw this week's Black Books and I have to admit it was a big disappointment. The whole traveller-guy plot was annoying and didn't have any particularly good jokes to go with it: rather it had Bill and Tamsin overacting at every possible opportunity, which isn't particularly funny. The whole cat plot and Bernard (with his special biscuit and his "No wages for 7 years" form) saved it from being totally worthless. Still, not good... 

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Yeah, the first time I catch it this series and I was wondering what the hell all the hubbub was about.
But killing cats with a rifle is always fun! 

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Damn, missed Black Books last night! Ah well, looks like I didn't miss much.

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I must get hold of the first/second series DVDs at some point, because I remember the show being greater than it has been so far this series. 

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You can get the Season 1 DVD from Barnes & Noble for $12. It has excellent commentaries for every episode and a 6.5-minute blooper reel.

"The place is filthy. You've got molluscs on the pipes!"
"What of it?"
"It's just that traditionally, they live in the sea."

My favourite is the episode where Manny ingests the Little Book of Calm and starts radiating. He's got a white robe, long hair, a beard and a white glow, then the religious doorknockers arrive.

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Damn, missed Black Books last night. These holidays really mess up my tracking of time. From what is said here though doesn't look like I missed out on much.

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Missed BB last night. Mouse on Venus I know that at least in my local Virgin Megastores they have on offer on series 1 and 2.

Incidentlly it appears 'The Day Today' and series 1 and 2 of Big Train are to be released on DVD.

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Did anyone catch Father Ted last night? He and Doogle entered the Eurovision Song Contest.
 It came a close second to Teds Window Hitler.

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My Lovely Horse? 

"Take this sugar cube babe, you know you want it."

That's a great one.

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"Just play the f*cking note!"

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Coilette, it's Dougal, not some new internet search engine!! 

I'd also like to point out that Father Ted is really more Irish than British comedy.

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My lovely horse
running through the field
where are you going
with your fetlocks blowing in the wind.
brilliantly sung by Neil Hannon of the Divine Comedy by the way.

I have the season 2 DVD's and have season 3 on VHS
My favourite has to be chirpy burpy cheep sheep.

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Oh, that was Divine Comedy singing that was it? Wow, good job. (btw FazeShift, I already knew they did the theme tune, thanks  )

Dougal - "Ted, have you seen my record collection?"
Ted - *picks up record* "It's here Dougal. And by the way, you have to have more than one record for it to be a record collection. What you have is a record."
 
Classic stuff.   

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Divine Comedy also did the theme music.

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In the many years I've watched Father Ted I don't think I've ever learnt how to spell Dougal.... I have now.
 

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That reminds me actually - back in school I used to have arguments with this other guy about what Father Jack said in the episode with the three bishops visiting. As you all know, Father Jack's line is "That would be an ecumenical matter", but this other guy insisted that it was "economical matter". And I never did get the chance to prove him wrong to his face. The git.

Anyways, who didn't love that anecdote?