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Sadken · Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 341

After much deliberation, I would have to rank mine as follows:

1. Seinfeld - I have seen every episode a hundred times and they never get boring. The characters and their history and development are fantastic. The running jokes are excellent. It is, in my opinion, the greatest show ever

2. Alan Partridge (All the different shows) - What can you say about Alan Partridge? I wonder if he translates well to a foreign audience or if it takes a lifetime of Madeley/Ross King/Elton Wellsby/Barry Davies watching to really grasp the humour behind the whole thing. On a personal level, he reminds me so much of my dad that it truly frightens me. We're not that close.

3.Brass Eye - The twisted brain wrongs of a one-off man mental. I basically love anything to do with Chris Morris and struggle to think of anyone who does what he does even half as well as he does. I worshipped this bloke when I was in my teens and, coming back to BE and the Day Today it is all just as funny now as it was then. Add onto that the Paedophile special which was long overdue and had the fantastic effect of being slated by the very people it was lampooning. I recall one article in the Daily Star calling Morris a sicko for even mentioning paedophilia. Across the page was an innuendo heavy article and a picture of Charlotte Church in a figure hugging dress.

Special mentions to Fist of Fun (and TMWRNJ), The Office, Father Ted, Reggie Perrin and the Young Ones.

Boy Wonder · Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 453 Location: Clacton on sea

In no particular order

1. Steptoe and Son.......comedic masterpieces every episode....funny and tragic in equal measure.The best elements of comedy combined.
written a generation or two ago but still superb

2.Fawlty Towers...12 progs of sheer brilliance...timeless farce..tightly written and perfectly performed. Memorable..critically acclaimed and rightly so!

3.Stella Street......achingly funny....and very original.....great performance and scripts that have been written in comedy Heaven.

Notable mentions for......Reggie Perrin....Open All Hours...the first 5 years of Only Fools And Horses......and Up the Elephant and round the corner.....last one only joking....which never happened in the prog itself!!

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Again in no particular order.
1) Blackadder(series 1)
2) Yes primeminister
3) Red Dwarf

ilunga · Joined: 17 Oct 2003 Posts: 842 Location: China

Sticking to the ones I grew up with and not repeats....

1. Seinfeld
2. The Office
3. Bottom

Aramas · Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 9:24 pm Post subject:

In no particular order:
Blackadder
Yes Minister
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

stillnosheep · Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 2068 Location: eslcafe

The Fast Show
Brass Eye
Spitting Image (the early series)

(with honourable mentions to Steptoe and Son and The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin)

waxwing · Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 719 Location: China

Since this is a completely British thread, why the title 'shows'?

ilunga: you 'grew up' with the Office? Shocked

..20?

JosephP · Joined: 13 May 2003 Posts: 445

1. Laugh In
2. Flip Wilson
3. Whose Line is it Anyway

Ki · Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posts: 475

Some good shows have been mentioned. Others I haven't heard of. I can certainly agree with:
Bottom
The Young Ones
the earlier episodes of Only fools and horses
Blackadder
Yes Minister
Yes Prime minister
Faulty Towers
Seinfeld

and here's some of my own;
Trigger Happy TV (way better than Jackass)
The Goodies
Futurama (better than the Simpsons)
Daria
Dr Katz.

Ki.

cimarch · Joined: 12 Jun 2003 Posts: 358 Location: Dalian

1. Blackadder (series 3&4)
2. Fawlty Towers
3. Red Dwarf

Honourable Mentions:
Family Guy (Stewie's the best evil genius ever)
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Bottom
Whose Line is it Anyway?
Have I got News for you
Friends
Beavis & Butthead
The Simpsons
Futurama (why did it get cancelled?)
Billy Connolly's World Tour
The Young Ones
Seinfeld
Southpark
Mortimer & Wise
Trigger Happy TV
Father Ted
The Fast Show

GambateBingBangBOOM · Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 2021 Location: Japan

No particular order:

1. Seinfeld
2. That 70's Show (at least up to the year before last- haven't seen it since leaving North America so it could well suck now- or be cancelled)
3. Family Guy

James_T_Kirk · Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 357 Location: Ten Forward

Ludwig · Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 6:26 am Post subject:

I suppose the US presidential elections are too infrequent to count?

1. Fawlty Towers.

2. Blackadder (goes forth)

3. Only Fools and Horses.

Ludwig · Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 6:27 am Post subject:

Now, 'Brasseye', that really was quite close to the bone! "But it didn't mean anything; it was only rape".

Very dry.

kev7161 · Joined: 06 Feb 2004 Posts: 5880 Location: Suzhou, China

1. South Park (not to mention: South Park, The Movie)
2. The Simpsons
3. Friends (really, sometimes it just made me laugh outloud)

I am currently watching last season's That 70's Show. It's cute, but time to go to the 80's I think. It is still on this season in the states, I believe.

I've watched The Office a couple of times (Saturday nights on STAR TV) and it has "smiling" moments here and there, but it's definitely a British thing. Everybody Loves Raymond is an enjoyable half hour and I remember, as a child, laughing a lot at The Carol Burnett Show. Futurama succumbed to low ratings. I think FOX was hoping for Simpsons-sized ratings (and merchandising) but it kept being pre-empted by long running football games. I would love it if they started showing The Family Guy on my satellite here.