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Discussion => Off topic => Topic started by: Limetless on July 04, 2012, 06:41 am
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Why does like 95%+ of your sitcoms revolve around the family? It's fuckin boring and most of them are really cheesy and cliche.
Also stop using canned laughter, it just annoys us Brits.
If you don't stop doing this, can you please stop selling your shows to the British networks please. It would be very much appreciated.
That is all. :)
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Also can you stop taking British formats, copying them and then doing so really badly.
Examples -
The Office
Peep Show
Other shit I can't think of yet.
America doesn't have the same sense of humour as Britain so trying to nick our shit wont work. The American version of The Office DOESN'T WORK. The American version of Peep Show IS SHIT.
Please cease all this now before we will sue you for doing a shit job.
That is all.
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not today, nerd! deal with it.
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not today, nerd! deal with it.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhnUgAaea4M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhnUgAaea4M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhnUgAaea4M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhnUgAaea4M
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yay murka
Obligatory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=j2zlPNGuPbw
Sorry Lim, but us American's have been ripping off British ideas since our genesis. DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY, FUCK YEAH!
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Personally I'm a fan of Cheers, Seinfeld, Frasier, Wings, Scrubs, That 70's Show, Malcolm in the Middle, Friends, Two and a Half Men, Everybody Loves Raymond, Full House, M*A*S*H, Taxi, Arrested Development, Diff'rent Strokes, Mork and Mindy, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Jeffersons, Becker......gosh the list just goes on an on. ::)
A good sitcom is weeds best friend, I could literally chill all day long doing nothing but smoking and watching these shows and I'd be set for life. ;D
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Personally I'm a fan of Cheers, Seinfeld, Frasier, Wings, Scrubs, That 70's Show, Malcolm in the Middle, Friends, Two and a Half Men, Everybody Loves Raymond, Full House, M*A*S*H, Taxi, Arrested Development, Diff'rent Strokes, Mork and Mindy, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Jeffersons, Becker......gosh the list just goes on an on. ::)
A good sitcom is weeds best friend, I could literally chill all day long doing nothing but smoking and watching these shows and I'd be set for life. ;D
Cheers, Frasier, That 70s show, Malcolm in the Middle and Everybody Loves Raymond are cool. The rest either annoy me or I never seen them.
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Personally I'm a fan of Cheers, Seinfeld, Frasier, Wings, Scrubs, That 70's Show, Malcolm in the Middle, Friends, Two and a Half Men, Everybody Loves Raymond, Full House, M*A*S*H, Taxi, Arrested Development, Diff'rent Strokes, Mork and Mindy, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Jeffersons, Becker......gosh the list just goes on an on. ::)
A good sitcom is weeds best friend, I could literally chill all day long doing nothing but smoking and watching these shows and I'd be set for life. ;D
Cheers, Frasier, That 70s show, Malcolm in the Middle and Everybody Loves Raymond are cool. The rest either annoy me or I never seen them.
I agree with you about The Office though, as much as I enjoy the American spin-off, Ricky Gervais is so much better. ;D
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Personally I'm a fan of Cheers, Seinfeld, Frasier, Wings, Scrubs, That 70's Show, Malcolm in the Middle, Friends, Two and a Half Men, Everybody Loves Raymond, Full House, M*A*S*H, Taxi, Arrested Development, Diff'rent Strokes, Mork and Mindy, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Jeffersons, Becker......gosh the list just goes on an on. ::)
A good sitcom is weeds best friend, I could literally chill all day long doing nothing but smoking and watching these shows and I'd be set for life. ;D
Cheers, Frasier, That 70s show, Malcolm in the Middle and Everybody Loves Raymond are cool. The rest either annoy me or I never seen them.
I agree with you about The Office though, as much as I enjoy the American spin-off, Ricky Gervais is so much better. ;D
Yeah it doesn't even come close to the original The Office. It completely misses the point of his character.
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I like the American office. Dwight>Garreth any day of the week.
I have to give you guys some serious props for The IT Crowd though. Well done.
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I like the American office. Dwight>Garreth any day of the week.
I have to give you guys some serious props for The IT Crowd though. Well done.
Get out. GET. THE. FUCK. OUT. NOW. YOU. SLAG.
And no worries on The IT Crowd, just spreading the love.
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I love Top Gear UK and James, Richard, and Jeremy. Top Gear USA is dog shit and can never compare to the perfection that is Top Gear UK
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I love Top Gear UK and James, Richard, and Jeremy. Top Gear USA is dog shit and can never compare to the perfection that is Top Gear UK
Welcome to the fold young one, you have wisdom beyond your years.....
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I love Top Gear UK and James, Richard, and Jeremy. Top Gear USA is dog shit and can never compare to the perfection that is Top Gear UK
You've just earned yourself a gold star mate! ;D
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Also can you stop taking British formats, copying them and then doing so really badly.
Examples -
The Office
Peep Show
Other shit I can't think of yet.
America doesn't have the same sense of humour as Britain so trying to nick our shit wont work. The American version of The Office DOESN'T WORK. The American version of Peep Show IS SHIT.
Please cease all this now before we will sue you for doing a shit job.
That is all.
hahahahaha THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Big up Lim!!!! It is cringe worthy watching the US Office. Ricky Gervais is a badman. Top Gear is the dogs bollocks too!!
Basically, the stuff I LOVE from the US....Boardwalk Empire, The Soprano's, The Wire, Breaking Bad and HBO is the best channel yeah?
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Also can you stop taking British formats, copying them and then doing so really badly.
Examples -
The Office
Peep Show
Other shit I can't think of yet.
America doesn't have the same sense of humour as Britain so trying to nick our shit wont work. The American version of The Office DOESN'T WORK. The American version of Peep Show IS SHIT.
Please cease all this now before we will sue you for doing a shit job.
That is all.
hahahahaha THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Big up Lim!!!! It is cringe worthy watching the US Office. Ricky Gervais is a badman. Top Gear is the dogs bollocks too!!
Basically, the stuff I LOVE from the US....Boardwalk Empire, The Soprano's, The Wire, Breaking Bad and HBO is the best channel yeah?
Yeah that's the shit the U.S does well, HBO and crap wars in the Middle East. Stick to that shit...leave it at that.
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Shameless is another one stolen, only to be made worse by the yanks.
Boardwalk Empire, The Soprano's, The Wire, Breaking Bad and HBO is the best channel yeah? YEAH!
Don't forget Game of thrones! HBO is bauss...... Chhhhhhhh Ohhhhhhhh
Every see Top Gear Australia? Cancelled after 2 episodes.... bahaha
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Shameless is another one stolen, only to be made worse by the yanks.
Boardwalk Empire, The Soprano's, The Wire, Breaking Bad and HBO is the best channel yeah? YEAH!
Don't forget Game of thrones! HBO is bauss...... Chhhhhhhh Ohhhhhhhh
Every see Top Gear Australia? Cancelled after 2 episodes.... bahaha
Oh yeah they Naused up shameless as well, completely missed the point of that show. Ridiculously shite.
Never seen Game of Thrones, is it any good?
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There's an American version of Peep Show?
But that's impossible! You can't recreate Peep Show. It's fundamentally british and appeals to our culture and mindset. You recreate that, you remove the essence of peep show.
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Man... How could you not of seen Game Of Thrones, I showed it to my old man and he watched both seasons in 2 days haha. It's awesome, the books even better.
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There's an American version of Peep Show?
But that's impossible! You can't recreate Peep Show. It's fundamentally british and appeals to our culture and mindset. You recreate that, you remove the essence of peep show.
Yeah man, they completely Americanize it and it just sucks-balls-wholesale.
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You brits aren't alone, how much of a loser must you be to steal TV shows from Australia?
We only make, like, 3 or 4 of our own shows in a 10 year period, and the yanks steals the funniest ones!
C.I.P: Wilfred and Kath n Kim
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it just annoys us Brits.
THOUGHT YOU WERE ENGLISH?!!?!!!111
And I like both American and British series
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Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't England part of Great Britain? Thereby making anyone from GB... uh, somewhat, well... British? Be them Scot, English or Welsh?
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Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't England part of Great Britain? Thereby making anyone from GB... uh, somewhat, well... British? Be them Scot, English or Welsh?
Yeah I thought the same thing, apparently them English don't want to be associated with Leprechauns and Nessy
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I like the American office. Dwight>Garreth any day of the week.
I have to give you guys some serious props for The IT Crowd though. Well done.
I love the IT Crowd. The 'fire' scene in episode 2 is one of the funniest scenes ever made in a sitcom.
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Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't England part of Great Britain? Thereby making anyone from GB... uh, somewhat, well... British? Be them Scot, English or Welsh?
Yeah I thought the same thing, apparently them English don't want to be associated with Leprechauns and Nessy
Riiiight... They prefer to believe in real, rational things right?
Westminster system of govt springs to mind...
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This is just misinformation because 'murika is the best at every thing and that's just a straight up fact.
Edit: Always Sunny in Philidelphia best show ever made.
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I find these shitcoms more depressing than Jeremy Kyle, my sister watches them endlessly. All the jokes feel like they have been generated by some comedy algorithm.
Red Dwarf for example, absolute gold here in the UK. Checkout the American pilot episode on youtube and you will get arthritis in your neck from shaking your head in disgust, its that that awful.
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They're also in the process of making an American version of The Inbetweeners. Look up the pictures of the cast, it's cringe worthy to say the least.
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They're also in the process of making an American version of The Inbetweeners. Look up the pictures of the cast, it's cringe worthy to say the least.
That sounds horrific and upsetting.
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Yeah but you Brits don't have South Park, Futurama, Boondocks, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Louie, Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, The Wire...
I don't watch any US sitcoms -- they're all garbage. Seriously, watch a video of one of these terrible sitcoms without the laugh track and you won't laugh once the whole time.
I like foreign (read: Original) versions of many shows anyways: UK Top Gear, the original The Office, the original Wilfred, Iron Chef Japan...
Man... How could you not of seen Game Of Thrones, I showed it to my old man and he watched both seasons in 2 days haha. It's awesome, the books even better.
Any time you wanna nerd out and have a full on 'A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones' discussion... you let me know. I'm like a fucking historian of that universe I know so much. NEED WINDS OF WINTER ALREADY :'(
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Shameless is another one stolen, only to be made worse by the yanks.
Boardwalk Empire, The Soprano's, The Wire, Breaking Bad and HBO is the best channel yeah? YEAH!
Don't forget Game of thrones! HBO is bauss...... Chhhhhhhh Ohhhhhhhh
Every see Top Gear Australia? Cancelled after 2 episodes.... bahaha
Oh yeah they Naused up shameless as well, completely missed the point of that show. Ridiculously shite.
Never seen Game of Thrones, is it any good?
Okay wait what the fuck. Now you've crossed the line. Shameless is goddamn incredible. William H. Macy is amazing and Fiona's tits alone make the show worth watching
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I agree, the American sitcoms suck!
The worst was America's attempt to remake Red Dwarf. We screwed that one up royally.
So, to the Brits, Keep making the great shows like Dr. Who! Cant wait for the new season, too bad I have to download it to watch it.
I cant leave the Canadians out of it, Red Green and "This hour has 22 min" are GREAT as well.
Any suggestions on other great British shows I should download and watch? I do love them.
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How do brits feel about How I Met Your Mother? That's the only one I bother watching.
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Any suggestions on other great British shows I should download and watch? I do love them.
My faves:
Red Dward, (but you're on to that one)
The Inbetweeners
The IT Crowd
Father Ted
The Mighty Boosh
The Smell of Reeves & Mortimer (not a sitcom but its great, just extremely bizarre)
Shooting Stars (comedy panel gameshow featuring Reeves and Mortimer)
QI (great comedy panel gameshow)
Have I got News for you (Political panel gameshow, Paul Merton is so fucking witty)
The Office
Fresh Meat
Peep Show (some good drug based fun in this one)
Alan Partridge (excellent)
Bottom
Black Adder
Fawlty Towers
Hope you enjoy some of them :)
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;D Thanks to this thread just been watching some long forgotten Reeves & Mortimer intro songs on youtube, I'm wiping the tears from my eyes. Great if you want to gauge how demented we British really are :P
Dont slip on loose Muesli http://youtu.be/x4f3rTPcB0M (amazing song, if you only watch one make it this one ;) )
Like a badger with an afro throwing sparklers at the pope http://youtu.be/t38EE4cufl0
Cottage Cheese Song http://youtu.be/vMaEUv5n9wU
Trapped in my flat http://youtu.be/JkBPDffnI_Q
I'm julie.... i'm Carol http://youtu.be/W-b0Eb5x6Yk
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Fawlty Towers
Best. Show. Ever.
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My faves:
Red Dward, (but you're on to that one)
The Inbetweeners
The IT Crowd
Father Ted
The Mighty Boosh
The Smell of Reeves & Mortimer (not a sitcom but its great, just extremely bizarre)
Shooting Stars (comedy panel gameshow featuring Reeves and Mortimer)
QI (great comedy panel gameshow)
Have I got News for you (Political panel gameshow, Paul Merton is so fucking witty)
The Office
Fresh Meat
Peep Show (some good drug based fun in this one)
Alan Partridge (excellent)
Bottom
Black Adder
Fawlty Towers
Hope you enjoy some of them :)
I have seen all the Fawlty Towers, Black Adder, and Father Ted. They are all GREAT! I also loved "Are you being Served"
Ill look into and download some of the others. Thanks for the list ;D
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Only one not mentioned (that I'm aware of) that was destroyed being Americanized was Skins. Attractive young people taking drugs? That was a fun guilty pleasure.
Only great thing I got out of it, more so than the difference between the office because I know much more of drug culture; was it became very clear how Americans, directors, television studios affect the perception and style of a show. As in example, in the UK version of Skins a bunch of attractive teens in fucked up situations use drugs and bond and support each other and other than the shit life throws at them turn out okay. In the American version a bunch of average teens in middle class lives are exposed to drugs and it fucks them up in a downward spiral.
I am an American, and I am sick of our bullshit.
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you guys will never be able to touch breaking bad, but a lot of your shows that i watch on netflix are hilarious. i like that show "misfits"
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I don't like series to be honest, i like documentaries and real police investigations so my TV is almost all of the time on discovery channel. Canada french TV stations must stop to copy American shows too.. this is not better when traduced in french..
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you guys will never be able to touch breaking bad, but a lot of your shows that i watch on netflix are hilarious. i like that show "misfits"
Breaking Bad is my favourite TV show EVER!!! Fucking love that shit!! Yeah the first series of 'Misfits' was the best with that Irish geezer!! funny as fuck!! UK Shameless is boss too!!! The US one is wank. Basically, the US makes great gangster/drug trafficking TV, British make great satirical comedy. We should both just stick to what we're good at and not be so cheap as to blatantly tax each others shows n style as it just don't work!!!!
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does anyone know where I can download lily hammer with english subs?
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Idk, I will say that the American version of The Office was pretty funny for the first couple of seasons, I remember smoking and not being able to stop laughing.
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I dunno, if The Wire hasn't been mentioned yet it's a fine quality show. It's rather telling, but a great show was produced around the premise of a terrible system. life's funny eh?
Sadly a large portion of the American populace has been convinced that being pointedly stupid is a socially desirable attribute. British comedy doesn't seem to work for this as (imho) it seems to enjoy pushing outside of the box, also Brit comedy enjoys things like subtlety and isn't afraid of a slow build up in the direction of one great joke, rather than American style of bombarding viewers with a rapid multitude of luke-warm comedy.
But borrowing is good so we can keep sifting through the bull. :D
-Cheers
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You know, now that I think about it, you have no right to complain. Considering your people are responsible for unleashing Russel Brand upon the world.
That makes us more than even.
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Shameless is another one stolen, only to be made worse by the yanks.
Boardwalk Empire, The Soprano's, The Wire, Breaking Bad and HBO is the best channel yeah? YEAH!
Don't forget Game of thrones! HBO is bauss...... Chhhhhhhh Ohhhhhhhh
Every see Top Gear Australia? Cancelled after 2 episodes.... bahaha
Oh yeah they Naused up shameless as well, completely missed the point of that show. Ridiculously shite.
Never seen Game of Thrones, is it any good?
Man, gunna rag on our shitty sitcoms and just skip the BEST ONE EVAH? Get your download on.