View Full Version : Which Britcom do you hate?


Will
09-24-2001, 03:18 PM
Which is the one you really do not like AT ALL?

japfles
09-25-2001, 03:45 PM
So, so many contenders!
My all-time hate is 'Birds Of A Feather'.

JethroSimpson
10-26-2001, 04:59 PM
I don't like-

Bears Of A Feather
Bread
Allo Allo
Last Of The Summer Wine

japfles
10-27-2001, 08:47 AM
BEARS of a feather, Jethro???
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/eek4.gif

JethroSimpson
10-27-2001, 12:46 PM
Originally posted by japfles:
BEARS of a feather, Jethro???
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/eek4.gif

OH SORRY!

I meant Birds Of A Feather!

Fresh Prince
03-17-2002, 07:37 PM
Red Dwarf
It's so phoney.. I can't see how ppl like it. O well.

Sitcomwriter
05-25-2002, 09:38 PM
Originally posted by Fresh Prince
Red Dwarf
It's so phoney.. I can't see how ppl like it. O well.

It's funny...cheap looking but funny!

For me it's A Fine Romance and Yes,Minister

My FAVORITES are Are you being served?,Barbara and Red Dwarf!

80sTrivia
05-25-2002, 11:45 PM
I really disliked "Waiting For God", about those elderly people living in a convalescent home. Didn't find it funny at all. I'm not very fond of "As Time Goes By", even though I like Dame Judy Dench a great deal.

mook42
06-08-2002, 10:44 PM
"Keeping Up Appearances". I don't find "Mrs. Boo-kay" funny, just annoying. I wish someone would just slap her silly.

80sTrivia
06-09-2002, 09:43 AM
Originally posted by mook42
"Keeping Up Appearances". I don't find "Mrs. Boo-kay" funny, just annoying. I wish someone would just slap her silly.

I wish someone would slap her silly too, but I love the show!!! I'd like to see Richard get ghetto on her, just once! :lol:

Domino
06-13-2002, 09:13 AM
In response to SITCOMWRITER
Barabra is one of the worst unfunny programmes of all time up their with most of the american crap like FAMILY TIES and other ones i have made sure i cant remember.
I beleive you only said that to provoke a response. I was actually picked off the street to view the pilot episode of barbra and mark it out of 20 for various categories. Me and my friend both gave it 0/20 for everything, it didnt even have any fit birds to wa...tch at that other crap programmes have so u dont mind how bad the jokes are (BABES IN THE WOOD being the prime example).

Red Dwarf, Fawlty Towers, Bottom, Young Ones, Father Ted, all of the are sheer utter class.

Be on the look out for my spoof program of Late Night Poker i have just filmed called EARLY AFTERNOON POKER, onyl watch if you are a poker fan as you will not get most of the jokes.

JT
06-23-2002, 07:41 PM
You obviosly don't know where you're at, buddy boy. This place is 99.9% deciated to AMERICAN sitcoms. So if you are gonna come here to rag about american sitcoms, don't come here at all because you are not gonna be liked. And another thing, all american sitcoms (except for the 90s crap sitcomwriter likes) are way superior to British sitcoms. "Are You Being Served?" ran for 13 years, but only had 69 episodes. I wonder how many episodes the longest running Britcom had. "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," America's longest running sitcom, had over 400 episodes. Shewt, one show that lasted 8 years had 275 episodes....

japfles
06-24-2002, 08:06 AM
Oh dear, not another Yanks vs Limeys debate. There really is no merit in this at all.

Look, BOTH the US and Britain have produced their fair share of crap over the years.

JT, a sweeping statement like "ALL american sitcoms are way superior to British sitcoms" is a bit jingoistic isn't it? :rolleyes:

Yes, this forum IS 99.9% dedicated to American sitcoms but this IS the Britcom section, if you hadn't noticed.

JT
06-24-2002, 01:01 PM
Yur right. Americans have had major crap (FRIENDS) and Britian has major crap (COUPLING).

JethroSimpson
06-24-2002, 01:10 PM
Did you see that they want to turn Coupling into an American sitcom to replace Friends? That can never work.

JT
06-24-2002, 08:28 PM
I heard.......that's just awful isn't it?

hec
07-14-2002, 12:55 AM
The longest running British comedy was/is "Last of the Summer Wine", which began in 1972 and is STILL on the air!!!

sarageme
07-20-2002, 11:27 PM
Hope I don't get in trouble for this one but I cannot stand watching Absolutley Fabulous Never liked the show

Moonlight Lady
09-12-2002, 03:03 PM
Originally posted by 80sTrivia
I wish someone would slap her silly too, but I love the show!!! I'd like to see Richard get ghetto on her, just once! :lol:

Me neither, She reminds me of a woman I work with.

I also don't care for the Vicar of Dibley.

Sitcomwriter
07-21-2003, 02:31 AM
Originally posted by Sitcomwriter

My FAVORITES are Are you being served?,Barbara and Red Dwarf!

Make that AYBS?,Barbara and Coupling.I like Red Dwarf but I like Coupling more.

cp32
07-28-2003, 12:36 AM
Absolutley Fabulous , positively sucks. Thin Blue line with Rowan Atkinson was a good show . Black Adder was even better. You cant go wrong with monty pythons flying circus. The Dame Edna show is funny too.

Chalkie
08-21-2003, 12:54 PM
I'll have to agree with some of the earlier posts that 'Keeping Up Appearances' is a truly annoying show. I really hate the main character, Hyacinth. Although some people have said that you're supposed to. That's the joke. However, it just seems a bit more logical to me that if you're going to have a sitcom your main character should be somewhat likeable. And she just isn't....at least to me anyhow.

LuMaria
08-26-2003, 01:17 PM
I dislike Waiting for God. I absolutely abhor the main character, Diana, which makes it impossible for me to like the show. I also can't watch 'Allo 'Allo.

stephy
11-23-2003, 05:38 PM
Britcoms either suck badly or are fantastic. the worst ones are the ones not on the following list
Father Ted (This ones my fave 'cause i am origionally from ireland)
The young ones
Faulty towers
Ab Fab
Bottom
Red dwarf

I am Him
11-25-2003, 05:59 PM
Originally posted by LuMaria
I dislike Waiting for God. I absolutely abhor the main character, Diana, which makes it impossible for me to like the show. I hate that show as well.

japfles
12-13-2003, 05:49 PM
I have a new contender for the worst ever....All About Me, currently showing in the UK on BBC1.

How the hell this got the green light, god only knows.

hughpuppies
03-19-2004, 06:32 AM
Ones I don't like are

Waiting for God
Father Ted
One Foot in the Grave(no offense to anyone who may like it)

Mikado
07-09-2005, 03:37 PM
Most of them, but in particular, Mr Bean, Youre being Served and especially, the awful insult to working class people, " Keeping up appearances "

alienkattuk
07-17-2005, 12:39 PM
Did you see that they want to turn Coupling into an American sitcom to replace Friends? That can never work.

Thank God!

I like the British version better.

dignan
08-05-2005, 07:14 PM
I don't like-

Bears Of A Feather
Bread
Allo Allo
Last Of The Summer Wine
I know you posted this a while ago but i could not agree more

Mickey
08-09-2005, 06:08 AM
Anything with David Jason in it!

pkripper001
01-16-2015, 02:05 AM
Ab Fabulous.
Reminds me of most of the USA made shows from the last 15 years.
Of all the Britcoms viewed by me,this is the only one that is hated by me.

UMFaninMD
01-19-2015, 02:58 PM
I tried to watch AbFab when it ran on Comedy Central and I could not get into it. Waiting For God was also unfunny and annoying. Although most comedies set in nursing homes probably would not be that great anyway. Vicious, surprisingly, wasn't that good either despite having Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen as the stars. I guess it was the writing---all the characters insulted each other nonstop even though the two leads were supposed to be a happy couple and the other characters their friends. The most likable one was Ash, the young boarder.

Race's Girl
02-06-2015, 08:11 AM
The Inbetweeners, it's not really for me

LarkRiser
02-28-2015, 01:07 PM
I'm a huge fan of Julia Sawalha in other stuff, so I decided to check out an Absolutely Fabulous episode a few years back. It was terrible! I had never seen so many annoying characters together in one place. I tapped out after about ten-fifteen minutes.

I don't get the appeal of Mr. Bean either, and I've never been able to get into Last of the Summer Wine, Black Adder or Fawlty Towers. After You've Gone is a recent one I thought was total rubbish.

Edit: Almost forgot Vicious. I gave up on that one even quicker than Ab Fab.