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Fuck Sienfeld. A more overrated show is tough to imagine.
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Indeed. What we need is a satirical take to knock it off its incredibly high pedestal in American culture. Perhaps we could set our version, like, one year later, stir things up a bit.
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quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: Okay then, Mr Smart-Arse, YOU explain why the British didn't love the Best Comedy Ever from the US?
OK Mrs Smart-Arse - I will try.
I don't think it's a matter of LOVING or LIKING Seinfeld... As I have heard - Seinfeld in Britain was treated badly - given bad timeslots etc. Thus there was no collective 'love' of the show.
In Australia - it initially was treated like that - on Channel 9. Then it was bought/moved to Channel 10. They - who don't buy every show and hold on to it or treat it badly like 9 and Channel 7 - gave it a fantastic Tuesday 8pm timeslot for the next 7 or so years. It became a widespread phenomenon - which everyone was watching and talking about - cause there was pretty much nothing else to watch in comparison and.
That's why Trek didn't get the higher status it deserved here. It was kept by Channel 9 and played at odd hours and varing days usually anywhere after 11pm until 2am on a Tuesday or a Thursday.
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quote:Originally posted by tricky: I think the reason the British didn't like Seinfeld (not that I watched it myself, ther urg to go out and hurt someone was to great afterwards) is that it was half an hour of them complaining and over analising the situation to death. We don't belive you have a right to wine endlessly: You put up, shut up, or do something about it.
*nearly spits out drink - if was drinking one at the time*
WHAT!?! Clearly you aren't familiar with the phrase "Whinging Poms"!?!
HAHAH!
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That's because you have you country/continent to hot. It needs more drizzle.
Re: TP and DooM. Evil Dead I think made less of an impact than DooM overhere, (ED had an 18 certificate, DooM didn't), and he either was thinking of DooM II or double barrel sounds better than single. I would go and see if he's still answering on a forum somwhere, but asking about a off handed quote not even in one of his books might be pushing my sadness to far.
Talking of trek's status, I have various Spanish and French friends and some of them havn't even heard of star trek.
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quote:Originally posted by Sol System: The fact that Friends is a big hit in Britain and Seinfeld is not blows the knees out of any argument for British comedic taste.
(It would be like America going crazy for, I don't know, My Hero or something.)
Friends was a hit because everyone was able to watch it at prime time week in, week out for its entire run. It's now actually shown so often that it's become annoying. But as someone else noted, Seinfeld's barely been seen here. I reckon I'd enjoy it far more than Friends, but I've never seen an episode. I can't remember the last time it was in the shedules.
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It was on a few years ago on BBC2 at stupid o'colock at night.
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That was true for most of the run. I know I was still at uni when it started on BBC2, so that would put it at around 1993. I've no idea when it finished its run though. It was shown as a double-bill with Larry Sanders, which at the time I preferred. Probably still do.
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