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14-04-2019, 02:26 PM | #51 | |||
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14-04-2019, 02:29 PM | #52 | |||
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I agree, it's definetly overrated, it's hard work to get through the box set, and it doesn't make me eager to re-watch it, as others do.
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14-04-2019, 02:29 PM | #53 | |||
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I've not experienced those times and I can still find it funny.
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14-04-2019, 02:31 PM | #54 | ||
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I enjoyed Harry H Corbett in Carry On Screaming.
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14-04-2019, 02:37 PM | #55 | |||
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Before he got type cast in Steptoe he was a revered actor, he was known as the British Marlon Brando. But Steptoe was so popular, that it took over his career. He probably should have gone on to be an Hollywood superstar.
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14-04-2019, 03:06 PM | #56 | |||
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Jessica Meuse was robbed.
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I've only seen a couple of episodes of the programme and it did make me laugh quite a lot tbf.
My favourite UK Sitcom is The IT Crowd.
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14-04-2019, 03:18 PM | #57 | |||
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This was the full top twenty list to the poll in the OP
1 Fawlty Towers 2 Father Ted 3 I'm Alan Partridge 4 Blackadder 5 Dad's Army 6 Only Fools and Horses 7 Porridge 8 Royle Family 9 Absolutely Fabulous 10 Dinnerladies 11 The Thick of it 12 The Office 13 Peep Show 14 Vicar of Dibley 15 Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin 16 The Young Ones 17 Gavin and Stacey 18 The Good Life 19 The Detectorists 20 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? |
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14-04-2019, 03:26 PM | #58 | |||
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I think old Alf should do a countdown thread of his top 50.
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14-04-2019, 03:32 PM | #59 | |||
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Fawlty towers was a piece of sheer genius in it's time. I remember waiting for each new episode with excitement. No other sitcom has done that for me
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14-04-2019, 03:33 PM | #60 | |||
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Pretty hard to argue with the result.
I'm surprised Only Fools didn't finish top five, though, that strikes me as "the most beloved" sitcom or whatever. And Father Ted continues to be overrated I see...
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14-04-2019, 03:45 PM | #61 | |||
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good list except the atrocious
9 Absolutely Fabulous Is someone having a laugh or what? |
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14-04-2019, 03:49 PM | #62 | ||
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14-04-2019, 03:50 PM | #63 | ||
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Keeping up Appearances is massively underrated.
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14-04-2019, 04:27 PM | #64 | ||
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To be fair I think at this point Fawlty Towers works OK as a "period comedy"; you could consider it a comedy deliberately set in the mid 20th century.
Father Ted I think is timeless because part of the joke is them being "out of touch" on their little island... Like you can imagine that it's set in 2019 and the rest of the world has broadband and smartphones but they're still sat round a CRT TV using their land line, and driving a 30 year old car. It actually makes it funnier . |
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14-04-2019, 04:33 PM | #65 | |||
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To be fair some seaside towns are a bit "time frozen", and there's not really any situations in Fawlty Towers where modern technology would change the plot. Basil's a bit of a fuddyduddy who probably wouldn't bother with a mobile phone, especially as it would give Sybil more means to hassel him!
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14-04-2019, 04:36 PM | #66 | |||
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For me The Office, RF and AP and Phoenix Nights would be at the top but I loved The Good Life, Rising Damp, Fall and Rise of RP as I watched and laughed with me old dad.
So you have your own ones and you have ones you watched with your Dad as he loved them and you kind of knew what was going on |
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14-04-2019, 04:47 PM | #67 | ||
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14-04-2019, 04:54 PM | #68 | |||
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Why So Serious?
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14-04-2019, 04:55 PM | #69 | |||
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I agree with KUA being pretty much the same week in week out. There's a few amazing episodes like the boat one but there's a lot of repetition.
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14-04-2019, 04:56 PM | #70 | |||
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Alf, how do you feel about Alf Garnett and crew not being on the list?
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14-04-2019, 05:53 PM | #71 | |||
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14-04-2019, 05:53 PM | #72 | |||
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14-04-2019, 06:12 PM | #73 | |||
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A list of top twenty British sitcoms without Yes Minister. I'd prefer it to about half of that list.
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14-04-2019, 06:22 PM | #74 | |||
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Steptoe and Son, Allo Allo and One Foot in the Grave are the biggest omissions for me on that list. |
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14-04-2019, 06:26 PM | #75 | |||
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