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Double Happiness posted:Is "Mrs. Brown's Boys" actually worth watching despite it looking like complete garbage? Everyone at work is raving about it. I've also got to mention I've finally gotten around to watching In The Loop and it is loving hysterical, is there anything in this vein to be recommended by other UK Goons?
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Flipswitch posted:We've been watching a few episodes at work and found it funny, but then again we were pissed off our heads so that may have influenced it. You get pissed at work?! Sign me up!
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Jul 14, 2012 22:43
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Mrs Browns Boys including out-takes within the finished product really throws me for a loop. It's a traditional poo poo sit-com (except with added swearing), but every so often the insufferable main actor mocks the side-parts for cocking up their lines? What??! Anyway, it's poo poo, gently caress it. fake e: Flipswitch, would you think I were taking the piss if I recommended The Thick of It?
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Jul 14, 2012 22:54
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Double Happiness posted:You get pissed at work?! Sign me up! Mr. Squishy posted:fake e: Flipswitch, would you think I were taking the piss if I recommended The Thick of It? 
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Jul 14, 2012 23:01
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Flipswitch posted:I've also got to mention I've finally gotten around to watching In The Loop and it is loving hysterical, is there anything in this vein to be recommended by other UK Goons? Veep is pretty watchable in (essentially exactly) the same vein.
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Jul 15, 2012 00:01
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Mr. Squishy posted:Mrs Browns Boys including out-takes within the finished product really throws me for a loop. It's a traditional poo poo sit-com (except with added swearing), but every so often the insufferable main actor mocks the side-parts for cocking up their lines? What??! Anyway, it's poo poo, gently caress it. I think Mrs Brown's boys is one of the funniest things that's been on TV for ages and isn't a panel show. It's had me crying with laughter numerous times. It isn't as original as The Office was, it isn't as witty or satirical as The Thick of It, and it certainly isn't as clever as either of those shows, but gently caress me it's funny. The actors (half of whom are married or related to one another) really enjoy making it and that comes across in every episode. If you instantly dislike it without giving it a go because you're a comedy snob (as I did), you're missing out. edit: re: Peep Show recommended by GimpChimp below; also adding recommendation for that show, having just watched the last four series which I'd not seen when they were first aired. All 7 series are available on youtube or 4oD in the UK. stickyfngrdboy fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Jul 15, 2012 |
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Jul 15, 2012 00:16
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Flipswitch posted:We've been watching a few episodes at work and found it funny, but then again we were pissed off our heads so that may have influenced it. Apart from Veep there is also The Thick Of It which is in even more the same vein, having not only the same writers and director but even some characters. In The Loop is a spinoff of The Thick Of It, basically, and Veep is the broad US adaptation. Apart from that I think Peep Show shares a pair of the writers, and the general dark biting humour of people perpetually out of their depth, just in a regular social setting rather than a political one.
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Jul 15, 2012 00:19
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stickyfngrdboy posted:I think Mrs Brown's boys is one of the funniest things that's been on TV for ages and isn't a panel show. It's had me crying with laughter numerous times. It isn't as original as The Office was, it isn't as witty or satirical as The Thick of It, and it certainly isn't as clever as either of those shows, but gently caress me it's funny. The actors (half of whom are married or related to one another) really enjoy making it and that comes across in every episode. It is on a creative par with a cat turd.
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Thanks for the recommendation guys, I'll check those out as big name shows tend to pass under my radar as I'm not a huge TV watcher to begin with, but this is the stuff I live for. RE: Mrs Brown's Boys, generally it's a bit so-so, but some of the scenes are pretty funny, one of my favourites being in the first two episodes when one of the filming cameras crashes through the set window.
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Rapey Joe Stalin posted:It is on a creative par with a cat turd. I agree, but it's also fun.
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Jul 15, 2012 00:32
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There's a genuine level of creativity that's going on in Mrs. Brown's Boys that people who write it off so quickly are missing. It's not like the guy who writes it has no idea multi-camera sitcoms are outdated and unfashionable. It's not some postmodern take on it with genius levels of subtlety (the point is that's exactly what it's not, in fact). But there is comedy snob outrage to it, because people can't understand the reason people enjoy it. It is not drawn from the same philosophy as shite like Coming of Age. This isn't a "it is funny, you just don't get it" argument. I don't even like it that much. It's a "it's part of a cultural tradition you're not versed in" argument. Things like cabaret or musical theatre are the same, there's a palette to develop with it. The topsy-turvy thing is that this makes it completely inaccessible to a lot of people who like high-brow comedy. It's a "folk sitcom". Hoops fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Jul 15, 2012 |
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Jul 15, 2012 00:44
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It's a week-old bag of kittens, floating down the canal and into your living room.
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Jul 15, 2012 00:52
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I feel you have not given my argument a lot of consideration.
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Jul 15, 2012 00:57
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Hoops posted:I feel you have not given my argument a lot of consideration. And yet he's not wrong, for once.
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Jul 15, 2012 01:09
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Flatscan posted:And yet he's not wrong, for once.
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Jul 15, 2012 01:16
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I agree with Hoops and Mrs Browns Boys is loving awesome. Its in this odd place where it looks like a completely unprofessional production but it feels like everything clicks into place perfectly. You can tell that they had a lot of fun making it and that just adds to the charm of the show.
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Jul 15, 2012 01:24
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It's good that the Beeb is catering to such folks, I suppose. They pay their license fee too. But I'd hoped that we, as a people, had overcame the need for a Mrs Browns Boys. I dream of a day when we've abolished BBC 1, and the only comedies shown are by Armando Iannucci, with the occasional Hugo Blick about an unhappy middle-class couple. Some more In The Loop suggestions: Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister, which are the model for ITL's warts and all look at government inaction. Bit dated now but some of the writing's immortal; The Day Today & Brass Eye, both absurdest fake news shows with an eye on the manic nature of the news media, which is a key part in ITL. And I think that I'm Alan Partridge shares a lot of ideas about what's actually funny with ITL. Less high-stakes though, and basically apolitical though. fake e: BBC4 has a 3-part series on the world as viewed through three colours: gold, blue and white. It's getting a lot of ad-time, but the idea doesn't seem well-founded. I think it's part art criticism, part history and part material sciences?
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Jul 15, 2012 01:36
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In the name of science, I watched the episode of Mrs Brown's Boys currently on iPlayer. If anything, it reminded me most of Children's TV sitcoms, only with swearing and "adult themes".
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Jul 15, 2012 02:04
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Mr. Squishy posted:It's good that the Beeb is catering to such folks, I suppose. Wow, I could smell the smug all the way down here.
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Jul 15, 2012 02:14
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One channel, one audience, one program.
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Mrs Brown's Boys is an extremely well done multi-camera sitcom - it's not When the Whistle Blows. Obviously if you don't like that sort of show you won't enjoy it, but if you can't tell why somebody would like it and not, say, My Family or that godawful superhero show with the talking baby, you must not be able to see past your own negative reaction and aren't in any position to be snobby about tv. I can't stand Big Bang Theory, but I can see that it's better than Two Broke Girls.Mr. Squishy posted:fake e: BBC4 has a 3-part series on the world as viewed through three colours: gold, blue and white. It's getting a lot of ad-time, but the idea doesn't seem well-founded. I think it's part art criticism, part history and part material sciences? Haven't watched it yet, but that sounds a bit like those microhistory pop-science books - histories of salt or cod or something. Good idea for the telly actually, as it gets round the usual issue of rehashing the same introductory/overview pieces that take up space in more straightforward docs. Hoops posted:It's not some postmodern take on it with genius levels of subtlety (the point is that's exactly what it's not, in fact). I don't know, a lot of pomo self-referencing and deconstruction is just a gussied up version of the wink to the audience stuff you get in lowbrow theatre/tv. Obviously Brecht's making a serious point and they're having a laugh, but it's kind of funny to see people insisting that they are more sophisticated for watching shows that stick to pedestrian realism. It's like, the accent stuff in 'Allo 'Allo is in a sense cleverer, and certainly way more fun, than just having the dialogue in subtitles - you have to pick up that it's a stand in for the language changing, appreciate the difference between what's being shown and what's "really" happening, the concept of an speaking english with a british person's french accent is conceptually quite tricky, etc.
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Z-Magic posted:Even the idiots running comedy at BBC3 can't keep a great show down So does this mean White Van Man is gone? Mrs. Brown's Boys makes me physically ill.
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That's a bit extreme mate, the Irish are still human beings.Mr. Squishy posted:Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister,
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Mr. Squishy posted:fake e: BBC4 has a 3-part series on the world as viewed through three colours: gold, blue and white. It's getting a lot of ad-time, but the idea doesn't seem well-founded. I think it's part art criticism, part history and part material sciences? I dunno, think the idea is a rather interesting one. Was recently reading "Through The Language Glass" by a bloke called Guy Deutscher, and he was talking about how different languages affect how you see colours, and that pretty much all languages take some time to get around to naming all the colours we see. Black, white and red come first, then later green and yellow are names. A lot of very old languages don't have a word for blue; instead it's simply absorbed into their words for black or green. The Ancient Greeks referred to the sea as "wine-coloured"! So I'm looking forward to watching it.
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Irisi posted:I dunno, think the idea is a rather interesting one. Was recently reading "Through The Language Glass" by a bloke called Guy Deutscher, and he was talking about how different languages affect how you see colours, and that pretty much all languages take some time to get around to naming all the colours we see. Black, white and red come first, then later green and yellow are names. A lot of very old languages don't have a word for blue; instead it's simply absorbed into their words for black or green. The Ancient Greeks referred to the sea as "wine-coloured"! BBC Horizon has covered this topic a few times... the episode "Do You See What I See?" talks about that aspect specifically, and there's also one called "Colourful Notions" that's interesting.
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Jul 15, 2012 17:29
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The sheer volume of Olympic adverts is starting to get to me. I'm fed up of hearing a load of sappy bollocks about ~DREAMS~
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Ein Bear posted:The sheer volume of Olympic adverts is starting to get to me. I'm fed up of hearing a load of sappy bollocks about ~DREAMS~ This is the time when I'm glad I don't have a TV and just watch things on iplayer and 4oD, especially thanks to adblock. I can't imagine how annoying the Olympics adverts are.
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Ein Bear posted:The sheer volume of Olympic adverts is starting to get to me. I'm fed up of hearing a load of sappy bollocks about ~DREAMS~ I find the MacDonalds one particularly nauseating, as it's been like two weeks since they were airing their Euro 2012 one. gently caress you, MacDonalds, you're not the voice of the nation.
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I could understand this kind of marketing for the Euros, but what Olympic exclusive sport does anyone give a poo poo about at any other time of the year?
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Jul 15, 2012 22:27
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stickyfngrdboy posted:Wow, I could smell the smug all the way down here. Surely you've noticed by now that this has to be the most smug thread on this board?
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Jul 15, 2012 22:34
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The Inbetweeners is now available for streaming on Netflix. Everyone should go watch it now. Awesome stuff.
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Double Happiness posted:Surely you've noticed by now that this has to be the most smug thread on this board? I suspected as much. I don't read much of TVIV, though, so I have little to compare it to! WescottF1 posted:The Inbetweeners is now available for streaming on Netflix. Everyone should go watch it now. Awesome stuff. I don't know if Wescott means the film or the series, but do as Wescott says immediately if you haven't seen either.
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Jul 16, 2012 00:48
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Every person I know who likes The Inbetweeners is a knobhead. It's the comedy equivalent of being a Chelsea fan.
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Handsome Dead posted:Every person I know who likes The Inbetweeners is a knobhead. It's the comedy equivalent of being a Chelsea fan. Yes, that's the best way to look at it. <this set of knobheads> like <this program> therefore <this programme> is only liked by <knobheads>. Good work, mate.
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Handsome Dead posted:I could understand this kind of marketing for the Euros, but what Olympic exclusive sport does anyone give a poo poo about at any other time of the year? What does that matter? The Olympics are a huge event and McDonalds have spent a huge amount of money to be an official sponsor. Nothing wrong with them doing ads for it. edit: also, what's an "Olympic exclusive sport?" Mickolution fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Jul 16, 2012 |
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Handsome Dead posted:Every person I know who likes The Inbetweeners is a knobhead. It's the comedy equivalent of being a Chelsea fan. For me, if you replace "the inbetweeners" with "Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle" then i agree.
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Jul 16, 2012 01:02
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I'm surprised you know enough people who watched Comedy Vehicle to make that connection! I've liked Stew for years so have enjoyed the show a lot, and everyone I know who likes it (not that many) is thoroughly lovely. Inbetweeners is enjoyable enough but possibly overhyped in an era where there's not usually much in competition comedy wise. A few episodes of Peep Show every 18 months, maybe some Thick of It and not a lot else. The movie was more enjoyable than I expected though, except that Simon is absolutely insufferable the whole time and Neil is made to be a bit of a dick. Will is actually tolerable for the first time, so I guess that was the tradeoff.
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Handsome Dead posted:Every person I know who likes The Mighty Boosh is a knobhead. Fixed for me... Actually I'd say the people I know who like "The Boosh" are generally mentally unbalanced people who have a large capacity for being knobheads.
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As someone who heartily enjoys all three of those shows I guess I'll see myself out the knobhead door
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