So far I'm reassured I'm not the only person who thought Friends was rubbish. I spent most of my 20's thinking I was abnormal in some way as ALL my friends obsessed about it and repeated lines/scenes. Every time I watched one (by being in the same house sometimes) I would feel like an outsider!!
Nope, fella you were right, all those sheep were bleeting up the wrong tree.
There was no comedy in the whole series's life, unless the prospect of a monumental bore like Ross hanging on to a very pretty but grasping vacuous bimbo like Rachel for more than a 2nd date can be considered humorous. Apart from that it relied totally on pointing, sneering and flashbacks to Courtney Cox in a woefully unconvincing fatsuit. There was more creativity and humour in the test card - one for the teenagers there Put the final nail in Helen Baxendale's career for sure.
So enjoying a TV programme that so many other people enjoy now means that they're (myself included) 'sheep'? I guess because we all like to watch football we're all sheep as well. Each to their own.
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How can this even be put out on air, total & utter fickin shite
I don't know how many episodes you've watched. We've caught three or four. Of those, one was very funny and one was just about alright. So I suspect the quality is variable with the gems being the exceptions.
Some excellent shit here. One you all appear to have missed:-
That's my boy
Amazingly they managed five series of this rubbish.
Most ITV comedies of the 70s and 80s would comfortably fit into this list, with a few notable exceptions; I have a soft spot for On The Buses, Man About The House, George And Mildred, Please Sir and the best of the lot Rising Damp.
Miranda - absolute dog shit. Glad it's over. Hopefully you can extradite yourself from mainstream entertainment, get a job in a souvenir shop or something
The one Jasper Carrott did a few year's back with an Indian family. Think the girl was in a wheelchair or something. It was typical BBC going out their way to be PC. Guff
In Betweeners - watched an episode, didn't get it all
Holding the baby with Nick Hancock - you've probably never heard of it, says it all
Little Britain - more of a sketch show I know but I was brought up on Harry Enfield and chums and The Fast Show. Walliams and Lucas weren't fit to polish their boots. It's a shame because Come Fly with Me is very funny
Friends - yes I know that's 6 but 10 years of Lisa Kudrow going 'smelly cat', Matt le Blanc going 'how you doing' and Schwimmer going 'huh' doesn't warrant channel 4 to play it day in, day out. Utter drivel
My Best
Partridge - a cut above
Office
One Foot in the Grave - the episode when the streetlight crashes through the bedroom window is probably one of the best comedy scenes I've watched
I loved Monty Python in it's day, and it lasted well into the eigties, but it is hugely dated to the point of being simply unfunny and painfull now (I feel like a heretic for writing that). I caught last summer's live show on TV here at christmas, and did'nt manage the thinnest of smiles. I have a Golden memory of a few from the late seventies, of which Rising Damp would probably be the King, but life moves on. So I'll stick down. Mrs Brown's boys Miranda Birds of a feather last of the summer wine (why do we British insist on comedy without laughter?)
Worst: Keeping Up Appearances (One poor joke repeated ad nauseam) Birds of a Feather (Grim. Badly acted. Boring) How I Met Your Mother (Lame as fuck. Cheesy) Green Green Grass (What the fuck) That Jack Whitehall one about a teacher (Embarrassing. Pitiful)
There are possibly worse, but this was all I could think of off the top of my head. There are, no doubt, some sitcoms that I've subconsciously wiped from my memory, possibly in the name of sanity.
@cabbles I beg you to give inbetweeners another go. The TV episodes are brilliant mate.
I'll try mate. It then also becomes a question of hype. Other people must get it when they don't like something, and everybody else is on the bandwagon.....
I stumbled on something called Count Arthur Strong. WTF? Had to watch it all the way through to see if it was actually meant to be comedy. Apparently it is.
I stumbled on something called Count Arthur Strong. WTF? Had to watch it all the way through to see if it was actually meant to be comedy. Apparently it is.
That's an odd one because the tv series was appalling, but the original radio ones were brilliant. It just didn't translate.
I'll try mate. It then also becomes a question of hype. Other people must get it when they don't like something, and everybody else is on the bandwagon.....
Exactly. I feel like this in reverse with Mrs Browns Boys. I think its terrific. Everybody else hates it.
Not sure if people genuinely think of friends when they think of a comedy they don't like or they are just saying it cause most people are..never seen such dislike for friends.
The only thing I can think of that has me cringing lately is on 8 out of 10 cats countdown, when that guy just starts singing. He can say the odd funny thing but I find it so hard to watch when he goes off on one.
Not sure if people genuinely think of friends when they think of a comedy they don't like or they are just saying it cause most people are..never seen such dislike for friends.
The only thing I can think of that has me cringing lately is on 8 out of 10 cats countdown, when that guy just starts singing. He can say the odd funny thing but I find it so hard to watch when he goes off on one.
I'm genuinely saying it, not only because it's one of the least funny programmes on tv, but because it is seemingly always being repeated. The trouble with friends as a sitcom is that it's all situation and no comedy. I understand why it appeals to people who have been in that situation or who think it would be fun to be in that situation, but I watch comedies to have a laugh and that's the one thing that Friends consistently fails to deliver.
Not sure if people genuinely think of friends when they think of a comedy they don't like or they are just saying it cause most people are..never seen such dislike for friends.
The only thing I can think of that has me cringing lately is on 8 out of 10 cats countdown, when that guy just starts singing. He can say the odd funny thing but I find it so hard to watch when he goes off on one.
I'm genuinely saying it, not only because it's one of the least funny programmes on tv, but because it is seemingly always being repeated. The trouble with friends as a sitcom is that it's all situation and no comedy. I understand why it appeals to people who have been in that situation or who think it would be fun to be in that situation, but I watch comedies to have a laugh and that's the one thing that Friends consistently fails to deliver.
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I guess because we all like to watch football we're all sheep as well.
Each to their own.
Miranda
Cardinal Burns
Bo’ Selecta!
Bad Education
That's my boy
Truly awful.
Newsnight, on the other hand - hilarious!
Most ITV comedies of the 70s and 80s would comfortably fit into this list, with a few notable exceptions; I have a soft spot for On The Buses, Man About The House, George And Mildred, Please Sir and the best of the lot Rising Damp.
My Family.
Birds of a Feather.
Anything with Lee Evans.
Benidorm.
Mrs Brown's Boys,
Monty Python's Boring Public School Boy Circus,
Last of the Summer Wine,
First of the Summer Wine
Miranda - absolute dog shit. Glad it's over. Hopefully you can extradite yourself from mainstream entertainment, get a job in a souvenir shop or something
The one Jasper Carrott did a few year's back with an Indian family. Think the girl was in a wheelchair or something. It was typical BBC going out their way to be PC. Guff
In Betweeners - watched an episode, didn't get it all
Holding the baby with Nick Hancock - you've probably never heard of it, says it all
Little Britain - more of a sketch show I know but I was brought up on Harry Enfield and chums and The Fast Show. Walliams and Lucas weren't fit to polish their boots. It's a shame because Come Fly with Me is very funny
Friends - yes I know that's 6 but 10 years of Lisa Kudrow going 'smelly cat', Matt le Blanc going 'how you doing' and Schwimmer going 'huh' doesn't warrant channel 4 to play it day in, day out. Utter drivel
My Best
Partridge - a cut above
Office
One Foot in the Grave - the episode when the streetlight crashes through the bedroom window is probably one of the best comedy scenes I've watched
Only Fools - the benchmark
Harry Enfield & Chums/Fast Show
I have a Golden memory of a few from the late seventies, of which Rising Damp would probably be the King, but life moves on. So I'll stick down.
Mrs Brown's boys
Miranda
Birds of a feather
last of the summer wine (why do we British insist on comedy without laughter?)
Celebrity Juice
Mrs Browns Boys
My Family
Miranda
Worst:
Keeping Up Appearances (One poor joke repeated ad nauseam)
Birds of a Feather (Grim. Badly acted. Boring)
How I Met Your Mother (Lame as fuck. Cheesy)
Green Green Grass (What the fuck)
That Jack Whitehall one about a teacher (Embarrassing. Pitiful)
There are possibly worse, but this was all I could think of off the top of my head. There are, no doubt, some sitcoms that I've subconsciously wiped from my memory, possibly in the name of sanity.
I'll try mate. It then also becomes a question of hype. Other people must get it when they don't like something, and everybody else is on the bandwagon.....
Exactly. I feel like this in reverse with Mrs Browns Boys. I think its terrific. Everybody else hates it.
Miranda
The Catherine Tate Show
Little Britain
Never the Twain
The only thing I can think of that has me cringing lately is on 8 out of 10 cats countdown, when that guy just starts singing. He can say the odd funny thing but I find it so hard to watch when he goes off on one.