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Paperhouse posted:Friends is being axed from C4 and E4 sometime this year, not sure exactly when though.
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 09:49 |
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If you've never actually watched Friends it's a lot better then it's popularity would suggest, and worth watching, especially as you get through about 1 series a week on E4, so you can watch the whole thing in two months.
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 10:21 |
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everyone has watched Friends though
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 10:31 |
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Brown Moses posted:If you've never actually watched Friends it's a lot better then it's popularity would suggest, and worth watching, especially as you get through about 1 series a week on E4, so you can watch the whole thing in two months. I'll have to agree to disagree with you there, chief. e: It looks like from the 11th ITV are layering their crap with a +1 channel, so now you have no excuse for missing umm.. loose Women? Kyle? Trickjaw fucked around with this message at 10:37 on Jan 4, 2011 |
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How can 6 people, 3 of which are unemployed, afford giant apartments right next to Central Park? When they reveal in the finale that they've all been meth dealers the whole time it wasn't that big a shock.
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 10:34 |
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How I Met Your Mother is like Friends, but unfunny and full of unlikable characters. I expected that to be quoted as: quote:How I Met Your Mother is like Friends, unfunny and full of unlikable characters.
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 10:35 |
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Ratjaculation posted:How can 6 people, 3 of which are unemployed, afford giant apartments right next to Central Park? People always bring this up but it's not that ridiculous.
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 10:38 |
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I really hated what I saw of HIMYM before deciding to watch the first episode just out of boredom and I grew to quite like it. It's not especially good but it does have its moments and it's light and easy
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 10:40 |
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I didn't like HIMYM at all at first, but then I started leaving it on in the background and got used to the characters and now I quite like it. I think that's how it is with most sitcoms, though; you need to get to know the characters before it can really click for you, you can't just watch them like other shows. The same thing happened for me with The Big Bang Theory.
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 10:42 |
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I quite like HIMYM, it actually does skew the standard formula and go away from being a standard sitcom at a lot of times. It had a bit of a shaky start but there are some great comedic moments (Usually from Neil Patrick Harris). Oddly enough the premise of the show is what makes for its annoying moments.
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 12:25 |
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I don't know why, but that Butlins advert with the big green monster makes me want to cry. Not as much as staying at Butlins would make me cry, though.
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 13:11 |
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Daimo posted:"OMG liek the Earth will go bang, fire and brimstone will fall if the planets line up, in 2012!!!11" I did enjoy Brian and Dara cracking up though as they went through the hubble-quality pictures of galaxies captured by 'John from Surrey' and other surely-famous astronomers.
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 13:12 |
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Akuma posted:Ross is a respected professor, Chandler seems to be really well paid (before he goes into advertising) but his and Joey's apartment is hardly massive (it's a bit poo poo, really), the big apartment belongs to Monica's grandmother or aunt or something who's had it for a long time. Phoebe is the poorest but lives further away anyway. Ah, I see. I don't mind Friends at all, but never saw episodes that explained that. I have the same problem with Him & Her that they are both unemployed and live in a bigger flat than me
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Ratjaculation posted:Ah, I see. I don't mind Friends at all, but never saw episodes that explained that. Very first episode, they explain that the big flat belonged to a now dead aunt or someone and that it's rent controlled.
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 15:35 |
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I think it also comes up later that it's being illegally sub let by Monica.
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 15:40 |
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Ratjaculation posted:Ah, I see. I don't mind Friends at all, but never saw episodes that explained that. I have the same problem with Him & Her that they are both unemployed and live in a bigger flat than me If anything, what's unbelievably is some of the preogresssions. For example, Rachel becoming some kind of super fashion executive in just 5 years or so of being some retarded ditzy chick who couldn't do much more than pour coffee (and not very well IIRC). All of the other characters stayed within their grooves, but that was just retarded. There's also the amount of free time they seem to have on the show. I assume that every episode was at the weekend because they'd just be sitting at that same loving coffe house every day or lounging about their apartments every day, it seemed quite weird how little we actually saw them at work over the course of the entire show. That's one of the reasons HIMYM is good, it pays attention to all of these little details and even make call backs to them. We only ever really see the group together at the bar they're in at night after their day and (in the case of the recent episode) when one of the characters is off doing something plot centric during the day, he happens to be in his work attire that we've seen him wear in the few times we've had scenes of him at work. HIMYM is compared to friends (particularly so by E4) because it's vaguely similar in that it's a a sitcom about a group of friends living in new york. But every sitcom is usually about a group of X living in X, so that's about the extent to which the similarities end. HIMYM is so much better than friends it's shocking.
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 15:55 |
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Kin posted:HIMYM is compared to friends (particularly so by E4)
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 16:00 |
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I think like most popular sitcoms, you need to view Friends as a product of its time. I know I loved the poo poo out of it when I was 15 and C4 were showing the first couple of seasons.
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 16:19 |
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I don't know, in Friends you see them in work about as much as you do in HIMYM. From the start you'd see Chandler as a bored office drone, then he was unemployed, then he went into advertising. Monica was working at a restaurant, then was unemployed, then started that catering business with Phoebe, then got a head chef job, then was a restaurant critic, and some other stuff I don't remember., Rachel worked her way up in the fashion biz - remember, she started it working as a personal shopper at Bloomingdale's, before going to Ralph Lauren and working her way up, then getting offered a job at Louis Vuitton. Joey was often seen doing lovely plays or bit parts or TV shows. Phoebe was shown doing volunteer work or working as a masseuse a lot. Ross is the only one we didn't see at work much until he became a lecturer. We saw all of that spread over 10 years. Honestly I don't think you're remembering right. When they're at the coffee house or at home it's before or after work, or at the weekend. It's not hard to reconcile, especially since all of them but Ross spent time unemployed.
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Akuma posted:We saw all of that spread over 10 years. Honestly I don't think you're remembering right. When they're at the coffee house or at home it's before or after work, or at the weekend. It's not hard to reconcile, especially since all of them but Ross spent time unemployed. He was put on sabbatical or something though (which he would stress angrily whenever it was implied he was sent home for being crazy)
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 16:46 |
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Friends is alright. I like the episodes where Ross has anger management issues but besides that it's a little, flat. My brother thinks it's one of the best comedies ever and tells me how on watching it again and again you notice new things such as characters rolling there eyes. Then again he hates 'the show with the fat guy and the skinny one where it's told from there point of view', so whichever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLvB_ybcKt0 friends without a laugh track is good though
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 16:49 |
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Old Madeyes posted:Did I just hear Robert Webb voicing an advert for Cushelle toilet roll? :/ Yes, you did. Also, David Mitchell is involved with the new Go Compare stuff.
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 17:16 |
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well, it's not like they haven't done advertising before. They were the PC/Mac guys in the UK.
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 18:21 |
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Fatkraken posted:well, it's not like they haven't done advertising before. They were the PC/Mac guys in the UK. Which had pretty much the opposite effect that Apple intended if you ask me.
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 18:23 |
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Junkenstein posted:Which had pretty much the opposite effect that Apple intended if you ask me. So PCs are boring and stuffy, but really clever and know what they're talking about, while Macs are mouthy and stupid and full of poo poo? I'll be buying a PC then.
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 18:33 |
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Flatscan posted:So PCs are boring and stuffy, but really clever and know what they're talking about, while Macs are mouthy and stupid and full of poo poo? I'll be buying a PC then. Charlie Brooker posted:Unless you have been walking around with your eyes closed, and your head encased in a block of concrete, with a blindfold tied round it, in the dark - unless you have been doing that, you surely can't have failed to notice the current Apple Macintosh campaign starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, which has taken over magazines, newspapers and the internet in a series of brutal coordinated attacks aimed at causing massive loss of resistance. While I don't have anything against shameless promotion per se (after all, within these very brackets I'm promoting my own BBC4 show, which starts tonight at 10pm), there is something infuriating about this particular blitz. In the ads, Webb plays a Mac while Mitchell adopts the mantle of a PC. We know this because they say so right at the start of the ad.
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 18:45 |
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It always annoyed me that the ads would say a Mac can do "fun stuff" like, erm, photos and videos and music (and of course, PCs have followed suit there now) and yet there is no mention of games. Not as annoying as the Mac/PC arguments that occurred before then: "A Mac is way more powerful than a PC!" "Are you comparing like for like valued machines?" "Of course not! The Mac is three times as much!" "What if you compared these two identically priced machines?" "But it's not a Mac!" Mitchell and Webb seem fairly mercurial about advertising, That Mitchell and Webb Book has a bunch of "rejected campaigns" that send up the Apple ads.
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 18:54 |
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Despite being a big Apple nerd, I'm not a fan of either countries Mac vs PC ads. The iPhone/iPod/iPad ones (after the first awful iPad one anyway) are far better, simply showing the product off. That's all you need to do with OSX, but they keep forcing this stupid, playground-esque battle on people. Anyway, with all the Friends talk about I feel my public duty to pimp my thread for 'Episodes', which is written by David Crane of Friends and stars Matt Le Blanc. It's a BBC/Showtime collaboration, so it also has the awesome Tamsin Grier as well as her co-star from Green Wing, and the recent Dirk Gently - Stephen Mangan. It's also really, really good and it starts next Monday on BBC 2/HD.
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 19:44 |
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Paperhouse posted:Friends is being axed from C4 and E4 sometime this year, not sure exactly when though. It will probably just be replaced with something comparable like How I Met Your Mother Thank the good Lord. Although I don't want it replaced with How I Met Your Mother.
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Royality posted:I did enjoy Brian and Dara cracking up though as they went through the hubble-quality pictures of galaxies captured by 'John from Surrey' and other surely-famous astronomers. It was also entirely predictable that the quality of photos by this existing band of elite amateurs would swamp anything taken by more casual astronomers. I was surprised they didn't include a few more token beginner photos by the less experienced.
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 20:09 |
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Some of them looked like deep IR & hydrogen filter false colours. If you're an amateur who can get that, you're not really an amateur anymore.
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Zorba the Greek posted:Thank the good Lord. Although I don't want it replaced with How I Met Your Mother. I will give Frasier a pass here because while it still isnt 'lol' funny its very clever and well put together. While im on the topic of slagging off our American cousins sitcoms what the gently caress is with 'Everyone likes Raymond'? Thats been top rated for years in thats and I swear to god when im visiting my parents they always have this on a dinner time. I do not raise a smile at it ever. Id like to gently caress Rays wife thats the best I can say about it.
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 21:10 |
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I've never really understood it's popularity, either, since it's loving depressing. I've never seen the very end of it but I can only assume Ray and his wife get divorced because their relationship consists of unhappiness and lies and disappointment.
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 21:24 |
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Or multiple homicide from any of the characters.
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 21:28 |
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Everybody Loves Raymond was one of those shows that Channel 4 used to show in the mornings, just before I had to leave for school. This sort of built up a Pavlovian aversion to the show - although when I saw it later it was still as awful and unfunny as before. When I got to sixth form, though, going in late and watching Frasier at 8:30 in bed was the way to go
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Akuma posted:I've never really understood it's popularity, either, since it's loving depressing. I've never seen the very end of it but I can only assume Ray and his wife get divorced because their relationship consists of unhappiness and lies and disappointment. The end is actually rather sweet. I've seen every Raymond episode like 3 times as it was always on before school, and it is pretty poor, but the ending is nice. Ray has to have a routine operation, and the family are all joking about it, but then the doctor comes out and says Ray won't wake from the anaesthetic. 30 seconds later he comes out of it just fine, but the reactions of the family when they think there's a problem are really moving. Robert panics and tries to go see his brother, Deborah starts breaking down, and Frank shows emotion too. The very final scene is the entire family enjoying a normal meal together without arguing, and it fades to black. One of the better sitcom endings, even though the show is normally poo poo. Not as bad as According To Jim which they're now showing in Raymond's timeslot.
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# ? Jan 4, 2011 22:09 |
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Man, I don't get all the Micheal Macintyre hate that's going on here. He seems to really love what he is doing and I think it gives him a great energy. Why can't we all just team up and hate on the comedy black hole that is James Corden? \/\/ Is it because everyone goes around quoting his comedy and his general overexposure? He does say some genuinely funny stuff, plus you can't hate that laugh! \/\/ King Crab fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Jan 4, 2011 |
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King Crab posted:Man, I don't get all the Micheal Macintyre hate that's going on here. He seems to really love what he is doing and I think it gives him a great energy. James Corden may be an unfunny, boring, unwatchable disgusting fat piece of poo poo but he is less irritating and funnier and a better person compared to McIntyre.
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King Crab posted:Man, I don't get all the Micheal Macintyre hate that's going on here. He seems to really love what he is doing and I think it gives him a great energy. I think it is that his humour is so simple, and his voice so annoying. He tells jokes about noticing things that everyone notices. It's dull, and shallow. Also there is a perceptioon that he seems to have essentially popped straight into the limelight as a product more of his management than his talent. Or perhaps I am being pretentious because I'm reading Stewart Lee's book. Whatever the reason for the dislike, I think we can all agree that people who talk about their mandrawers are pricks.
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Anyone watching David Walliams' Awfully Good? (It's poo poo, he's not funny)
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