Best British Sitcom Ever?

[AngryOfTuebrook]

3 hours ago, Grinch said:

Not without a lot of crying from the usual hypocrites. 

I'm old enough to remember the people you call hypocrites moaning about 'Allo 'Allo, the Young Ones, etc.

[Mudface]

4 hours ago, Grinch said:

I'll start and end with the best one on there.   Fawlty towers. 

 

 

I don't see why not. It'd be different, sure, but then it's a period piece reflecting the attitudes of the time- an episode like The Germans wouldn't really make sense nowadays unless Fawlty was in his 90s with direct experience of the war and its aftermath. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

5 hours ago, Grinch said:

I'll start and end with the best one on there.   Fawlty towers. 

 

 

What bit of Fawlty Towers wouldn't pass muster today?

 

Have you seen any of After Life? It's full of stuff you're apparently not allowed to show today.

[stringvest]

38 minutes ago, Mudface said:

I don't see why not. It'd be different, sure, but then it's a period piece reflecting the attitudes of the time- an episode like The Germans wouldn't really make sense nowadays unless Fawlty was in his 90s with direct experience of the war and its aftermath. 

There was a great piece in the Grauniad this week on life imitating art withFawlty Towers and Brexit.  Better than it sounds - have a butchers

[moof]

Don’t they show fawlty towers almost daily on those shite ukgold type channels?

[aRdja]

I’ve been watching a bit of Fleabag with Mrs vIrDjilina. Enjoying it. A lot of lol moments.

[Mudface]

39 minutes ago, stringvest said:

There was a great piece in the Grauniad this week on life imitating art withFawlty Towers and Brexit.  Better than it sounds - have a butchers

This one?

 

Yes, very good article. Flicking down to the comments, this is a particularly good one-

 

When Fawlty Towers was made, Britain was in its first decade of EEC membership and only 30 years since the end of the Second World War.

The optimism of the time was that the European Experiment would prevent future conflicts and extremism, then quite recent in people’s memory... ...you could argue that that has largely proved true and would continue to do so.

The sceptics at the time we’re muttering about the diminution of commonwealth and our status as a world power, loss of identity and having our world dictated by the Germans and/ or worse still, the French.

Our world power status, punching above our 60 million populated weight, has been maintained with our permanent seat on the UN Security Council, a shared leadership position in the large block that is the EU, our special relationship with the US... even our role as the bastion of the business and administrative language of choice for about a fifth of the world’s population.

This was more successful as a member of the EU... and the EU was more successful with us in it.

It is still staggering to me that all the realized virtue of the EU relationship, 40 years on from Fawlty, is being traded for a bag of what BoJo, Farage, Putin and Trump are selling us as “Magic Beans”.

Fawlty was deliberate comedy. The fatally flawed and ultimately sterile Magic Beans are a tragedy we should never choose.

[cloggypop]

Can't believe there's no Mind Your Language, It Ain't Half Hot Mum or Love Thy Neighbour. 

 

 

[Babb'sBurstNad]

9 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

Sums you up 

I'll take that as a compliment coming from a man who's never seen The Office, and could only list 17 sitcoms in total.

 

*sticks tongue out

[tokyojoe]

There used to be a sitcom called Love Thy Neighbour. Bet they wouldn't dare show that now.

 

 

[cloggypop]

Never heard of the cunt

[Sugar Ape]

I heard a rumour Babs is a fan of Birds of a feather and Goodnight sweetheart. Makes sense now.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

26 minutes ago, Sugar Ape said:

I heard a rumour Babs is a fan of Birds of a feather and Goodnight sweetheart. Makes sense now.

That's bang out of order, I told you that in private.

[The Golden Eel]

Men Behaving Badly hasn't aged well. 

 

And Early Doors is good but there's no no way it's better than The Royle Family. 

[Dr Nowt]

Men Behaving Badly was woeful.

[Vincent Vega]

Am I the only one who prefers The Young Ones to Bottom? Miles better in my opinion.

[VladimirIlyich]

19 hours ago, DimReaper said:

Men Behaving Badly hasn't aged well. 

 

And Early Doors is good but there's no no way it's better than The Royle Family. 

Early Doors was like Fawlty Towers in that it made only a small amount of episodes where all were good quality. The Royle Family made loads but not all were as good as each other. Both were excellent though and I enjoyed the quirkiness of Early Doors more.

[Captain Turdseye]

I rate Early Doors higher than Royle Family. Doesn’t matter how many times you watch Early Doors, it still makes you laugh. With Royle Family, it’s not even half as funny second time around. 

[VladimirIlyich]

I watched the first scene of that Fleabag thing and thought it was utter wank. I immediately took a dislike to that posh tart and couldn't stand her for a second longer. Bring back Dad's Army.

[Numero Veinticinco]

6 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

I watched the first scene of that Fleabag thing and thought it was utter wank. I immediately took a dislike to that posh tart and couldn't stand her for a second longer. Bring back Dad's Army.

Vlad gon’ Vlad. 

[VladimirIlyich]

Maybe she reminded me of a female Michael McIntyre or Jack Whitehall?

[littletedwest]

Just watching the inbetweeners.  Defo not the best sitcom but funny as fuck and very familiar 

[Jairzinho]

2 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

I watched the first scene of that Fleabag thing and thought it was utter wank. I immediately took a dislike to that posh tart and couldn't stand her for a second longer. Bring back Dad's Army.

I agree with this, minus the last sentence.

[Dr Nowt]

2 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Maybe she reminded me of a female Michael McIntyre or Jack Whitehall?

She does have two arms and legs I suppose, so I can see the similarity.

[Chip Butty]

Brass, stands out thats not on the list, however, Soap, Newheart, Fraser, Cheers, Taxi, MASH and Married with Children, to name but a few, are all on my great tv show list, sadly, somewhere in and around  84', the yanks just got better at it. 

 

I hope, Operation Good Guys gets a mention somewhere along the way.