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Post by Pierre Trudeau on Sept 16, 2009 23:12:08 GMT -5
I second the love for Spaced. I really love that show! I'm so sad it was only two series/seasons long.
And of course all of the classics. I grew up without cable most of the time so PBS was always showing Are You Being Served, etc etc.
I highly recommend Spaced though, especially because most of us are huge geeks and this speaks very, very well to your inner geek. It's a show made by geeks for geeks, hence why I'm geeking out about it!
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Post by KyrieEleison on Sept 24, 2009 23:24:57 GMT -5
Top Gear is the best car show in world history. In which Jeremy Clarkson is chased by baddies in a Corvette. He's driving a Ford Fiesta. Note to self: Buy a Ford Fiesta. (Not available in the States yet, but apparently the 2010 model will be.) Great little car with the approval of the Top Gear guys, it'll outrun baddies in a Corvette without completely demolishing a mall, and it can land on a beach with the Royal Marines (happened right after this mall bit). The cupholders are even the perfect size for a grenade! I adore Top Gear. I also love Monty Python, and what AbFab and Blackadder I've seen, though those episodes are harder to find... Mr. Bean is all right, but I wish there was more dialogue.
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Post by Pierre Trudeau on Oct 24, 2009 0:49:41 GMT -5
^--- Ford Fiesta... oh just realized it's Fiesta and not Festiva, which were in the states for a while. Tiny little car it was, and my dad actually almost died in a 1990 Ford Festiva when he was hit head on by a pickup truck. It didn't scare me from small cars though. I own a Honda Fit and love it.
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Post by KyrieEleison on Oct 24, 2009 1:17:52 GMT -5
Funny you should mention the Fit. I was watching an episode of TG where the guys' moms tested three small cars, one of which was the Honda Jazz, which is the European name of the Fit. (Europe definitely got the better name on that model.) The Jazz won hands down, so your car has the Top Gear stamp of approval. (Well, sort of. The moms loved it, the guys thought the Renault was better. And nobody liked the Peugeot with the automatic sliding doors.)
I once spent a week on a missions trip in junior high, and one of my team's traveling cars (we drove all over the west side doing community improvements and vacation Bible schools) was a Ford Festiva. We loved having that car, even making it our team's rallying cry: "Ford Festiva, baby!" (It was 1998, and I was 13. Hush.)
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Post by Broadsword on Oct 31, 2009 11:02:40 GMT -5
Reading through this it pretty interesting and some shows I've forgotten all about or never heard of. Great stuff, anyway my favorate UK shows are: Fawlty Towers Mr. Bean(though not the movies) Monty Pythons Flying Circus Red Dwarf The Saint The Avengers The Two Ronnies
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Post by Trumpy's Magic Snout on Oct 31, 2009 21:47:43 GMT -5
The Thick Of It, funniest, sweariest political comedy you could hope to see!
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Post by KyrieEleison on Nov 22, 2009 19:58:36 GMT -5
Resurrecting this topic to say I can't believe that nobody has mentioned QI. Fell into it a few months ago, and now it's easily one of my top five favorite shows. It doesn't air in America, but it is possible to subsist on YouTube clips, at least until the networks get a clue and bring it over (the QI website has an official petition to bring it to our shores).
Educational and hilarious. Can't beat that with a stick.
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