Slime
Tour Winner
Mrs Brown's Boys.
TOTP from the 80's onwards.
SPOTY.
The News.
TOTP from the 80's onwards.
SPOTY.
The News.
Acclaimed TV shows you just don't 'get'
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Kellfire
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Fawlty Towers.
Pin-seeker
Well-known member
Phoenix nights
Mrs Browns boys
Red dwarf
Mrs Browns boys
Red dwarf
HampshireHog
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South Park
Maybe because I didn’t watch them when they came out: the Sopranos, Lost, X files
Maybe because I didn’t watch them when they came out: the Sopranos, Lost, X files
ScienceBoy
Money List Winner
All of them, generally (bar some Sci-Fi exceptions) I dont get at all.
Cant stand the telly, only have one as a screen for netflix and the odd daytime TV show the wife watches (unless the BBC actually show sport... and even then its on iPlayer most of the time).
Cant stand the telly, only have one as a screen for netflix and the odd daytime TV show the wife watches (unless the BBC actually show sport... and even then its on iPlayer most of the time).
davemc1
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Bodyguard. Surprised no one should mentioned it, unless I missed it.
bobmac
Major Champion
It would be quicker to say what I do watch.
Salvage hunters
HIGNFY
As time goes by
WILTY
and...........
Nope, thats about it.
You tube is far more interesting
Salvage hunters
HIGNFY
As time goes by
WILTY
and...........
Nope, thats about it.
You tube is far more interesting
PhilTheFragger
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Huh?
Conclusive and undeniable proof you are on a different planet from the rest of us 😂
Kellfire
Blackballed
It’s dreadful.
Wolf
Well-known member
For that comment I think the MODS should instigate some sort of infraction for blasphemy.
Fawlty Towers is British comedy gold from a time where being PC was not needed and its was just always funny.
rudebhoy
Q-School Graduate
how does Mrs Browns Boys qualify as "acclaimed"? - the critics absolutely hate it, rightly so
Critical reception[edit]
Although the show has had high viewership, it has received poor reviews from critics and has been dubbed the "worst comedy ever made".[26][27]
"The whole thing is entirely predicated on viewers finding a man dressed as a foul-mouthed elderly woman intrinsically funny", noted Bernice Harrison, TV reviewer with The Irish Times. "If you do, you're away in a hack, and the viewing figures are astronomical, but if you don't, and you think that died out with Les Dawson and Dick Emery, then it's a long half-hour."[28] The Irish Independent said that Mrs Brown's Boys was the type of TV programme "that makes you vaguely embarrassed to be Irish".[29] Noted Irish writer Graham Linehan has said he did not want his sitcom The Walshes to be compared with Mrs. Brown's Boys.[30]
Outside Ireland, it has received similarly poor reviews. The Daily Telegraph's Sam Richards noted that the show's comedy has a "rudimentary nature", consisting of "an old-fashioned blend of silly voices and slapstick, played out in front of a live studio audience who collapse into giggles at the mere mention of the word "willy".[31] Bruce Dessau in The Guardian described it as a "predictable, vulgar vehicle for Irish comedian Brendan O'Carroll", and in comparing it with other sitcoms said "No amount of 'fecks' are going to make Mrs Brown's Boys a classic like Father Ted".[32] Grace Dent of The Independent remarked: "Once seen, it is rarely forgotten. To love Mrs Brown, one must be thrilled by a man in a hairnet and dinner lady tabard saying the F-word roughly once every ten minutes, egged on by a loyal studio audience so whipped to hysteria by him that one can hear pants being soiled and spleens exploding with mirth."[33] Paul English of the Daily Record blasted the show as "lazy, end-of-pier trash rooted in the 1970s... One half-hour of this actually made me angry. Angry that the BBC seem to be abandoning quality in the pursuit of lowest common denominator ratings."[34] Metro called it "jaw-droppingly past its sell-by date" and "not even remotely funny", saying that the BBC should "hang its head in shame" for showing "this RTÉ drivel".[35]
Critical reception[edit]
Although the show has had high viewership, it has received poor reviews from critics and has been dubbed the "worst comedy ever made".[26][27]
"The whole thing is entirely predicated on viewers finding a man dressed as a foul-mouthed elderly woman intrinsically funny", noted Bernice Harrison, TV reviewer with The Irish Times. "If you do, you're away in a hack, and the viewing figures are astronomical, but if you don't, and you think that died out with Les Dawson and Dick Emery, then it's a long half-hour."[28] The Irish Independent said that Mrs Brown's Boys was the type of TV programme "that makes you vaguely embarrassed to be Irish".[29] Noted Irish writer Graham Linehan has said he did not want his sitcom The Walshes to be compared with Mrs. Brown's Boys.[30]
Outside Ireland, it has received similarly poor reviews. The Daily Telegraph's Sam Richards noted that the show's comedy has a "rudimentary nature", consisting of "an old-fashioned blend of silly voices and slapstick, played out in front of a live studio audience who collapse into giggles at the mere mention of the word "willy".[31] Bruce Dessau in The Guardian described it as a "predictable, vulgar vehicle for Irish comedian Brendan O'Carroll", and in comparing it with other sitcoms said "No amount of 'fecks' are going to make Mrs Brown's Boys a classic like Father Ted".[32] Grace Dent of The Independent remarked: "Once seen, it is rarely forgotten. To love Mrs Brown, one must be thrilled by a man in a hairnet and dinner lady tabard saying the F-word roughly once every ten minutes, egged on by a loyal studio audience so whipped to hysteria by him that one can hear pants being soiled and spleens exploding with mirth."[33] Paul English of the Daily Record blasted the show as "lazy, end-of-pier trash rooted in the 1970s... One half-hour of this actually made me angry. Angry that the BBC seem to be abandoning quality in the pursuit of lowest common denominator ratings."[34] Metro called it "jaw-droppingly past its sell-by date" and "not even remotely funny", saying that the BBC should "hang its head in shame" for showing "this RTÉ drivel".[35]
Kellfire
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I’m all for things not being PC, but I’m also for things being funny and I don’t find it funny at all.
PhilTheFragger
Provider of Entertainment for the Golfing Gods 🙄
Tis a funny ( or unfunny) world we live in ðŸ‘
bobmac
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Slime
Tour Winner
More laughs per minute than anything I have ever, or will ever, see.
I'm chuckling just thinking about it.
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https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/metr...-9-million-viewers-hell-watching-7190302/amp/
When looking at the viewing figures a lot of people seem to enjoy it - it’s also won multiple awards including Baftas. So whilst the critics may not like it there are millions that - my FiL who is Irish loves it , my mother who is Irish loves it as does the wife who is Irish. But that’s the thing with “comedy†- it will never be funny to everyone
It’s more than likely down to a generation thing - i suspect many younger generations watch the old sitcoms and they just wouldn’t find it funny in any way
There isn’t many programs that will be funny across the whole generations
Pathetic Shark
Tour Rookie
Echo the thought about soaps but not sure if they fall into the category of "acclaimed"
I would throw Friends in there. Tried to watch it but thought it was absolute pants.
I would throw Friends in there. Tried to watch it but thought it was absolute pants.
Slime
Tour Winner
Me too, then I watched 2 or 3 episodes and got to know the characters and the dynamic between them.
Then it changed and I began to appreciate the whole thing.
Now I absolutely love it and watch it whenever it's on ............................. which is very often, thankfully.
Pathetic Shark
Tour Rookie
So basically you have a cheeky one about Jennifer Aniston then? 
Slime
Tour Winner
So basically you have a cheeky one about Jennifer Aniston then?
Don't most blokes?