What kind of title for a game show is that? I mean Win, Lose, Or Draw with Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton was quality game show interactive mmo tv (at least according to the back of my box). Togetherness was more than covered in that spinner colored dots game. If you want "amusing", nothing and I mean absolutely nothing + else comes close to some mud splashing MMX spike tv japanese obstacle course blooper tv (you know the one where they're pole-vaulting over red-neck yard art into muddy water?). Just imagine that show if there were still only like 3 main mega cbs nbc abc channels along with those other few uhf, or was it ufh, channels?
Nevertheless, Spectrum is still licensed, somewhere, somehow. Unique identification, differentiation, palpable understanding, wearing nurse's uniforms, yeah, basket-weaving nurse's caring. All on the raod to recovery. /smooches ^^
P.S. /Claim Page #=2="default" when the machines take over.
Now that's the name of a real contemporary game show.
Just so you know, everytime I get a rate-down, I shed a tear on the inside.
Edited, with pride, Oct 15th 2006 at 12:17am PDT by MonxDoT
Rated, with no-post-rreply-whip-cream-ex-planations on ToP? Black-market posts=content=unsuitable=warning. /lick
Edited, Oct 15th 2006 at 1:31am PDT by MonxDoT
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Smoggy the Mighty wrote:
The Office
Is that the English version or the American one?
I thought the English version was the funniest thing to come out of Britain since Monty Pythons. It's just so... perfect.
But the American one wasn't half as amusing. It just doesnt work. David Brent actually seems "normal" when he's got an American accent, and all his co-workers look like brain-dead vegetables. His eccentricity, misplaced enthusiasm, and bullshItness, makes him a normal American "boss", while
his co-workers' understatedness doesnt work in an American environment. It kind of reverses the whole dynamics of the show, and in the end it just looks almost too normal. The subtelty just isn't there. And American Brent is far too normal.
Anyway, we only get the creme-de-la-creme of US sitcoms in the UK, and a lot are still pretty crap.
But the good ones make quite amazing TV: Lost, 24, ofc the Simpsons, South Park, Futurama, Family Guy, all of these are absolutely brilliant.
Will watch out for Heroes when it comes out here.
PS: My girlfriend watches CSI too. It's gay.
RedPhoenixxxxxx wrote:
But the American one wasn't half as amusing. It just doesnt work. David Brent actually seems "normal" when he's got an American accent, and all his co-workers look like brain-dead vegetables. His eccentricity, misplaced enthusiasm, and bullshItness, makes him a normal American "boss", while
his co-workers' understatedness doesnt work in an American environment. It kind of reverses the whole dynamics of the show, and in the end it just looks almost too normal.
his co-workers' understatedness doesnt work in an American environment. It kind of reverses the whole dynamics of the show, and in the end it just looks almost too normal.
I know a couple people who said they didn't like to watch it because it was so spot-on that it made them feel uncomfortable on the behalf of those we're supposed to laugh at. Even though they're just actors.
I haven't seen the Brit version to compare, though.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Jophiel wrote:
On the flip side, most people I know here in the States think it's great and captures the American office environment 'perfectly' (in an exaggerated sense).
Huh. That's intresting, because it's exactly how most British fans of the Office felt.
Though I've never worked in an American office, so maybe that's why it didn't feel right.
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I know a couple people who said they didn't like to watch it because it was so spot-on that it made them feel uncomfortable on the behalf of those we're supposed to laugh at. Even though they're just actors.
Yeah, my girlfriend feels like that. The "cringe" factor. I absolutely love it.
I'll give it a second look, they're show the American version on BBC2 again.
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Is that the English version or the American one?
I thought the English version was the funniest thing to come out of Britain since Monty Pythons. It's just so... perfect.
But the American one wasn't half as amusing. It just doesnt work. David Brent actually seems "normal" when he's got an American accent, and all his co-workers look like brain-dead vegetables. His eccentricity, misplaced enthusiasm, and ************* makes him a normal American "boss", while
his co-workers' understatedness doesnt work in an American environment. It kind of reverses the whole dynamics of the show, and in the end it just looks almost too normal. The subtelty just isn't there. And American Brent is far too normal.
Anyway, we only get the creme-de-la-creme of US sitcoms in the UK, and a lot are still pretty crap.
But the good ones make quite amazing TV: Lost, 24, ofc the Simpsons, South Park, Futurama, Family Guy, all of these are absolutely brilliant.
Will watch out for Heroes when it comes out here.
PS: My girlfriend watches CSI too. It's gay.
I thought the English version was the funniest thing to come out of Britain since Monty Pythons. It's just so... perfect.
But the American one wasn't half as amusing. It just doesnt work. David Brent actually seems "normal" when he's got an American accent, and all his co-workers look like brain-dead vegetables. His eccentricity, misplaced enthusiasm, and ************* makes him a normal American "boss", while
his co-workers' understatedness doesnt work in an American environment. It kind of reverses the whole dynamics of the show, and in the end it just looks almost too normal. The subtelty just isn't there. And American Brent is far too normal.
Anyway, we only get the creme-de-la-creme of US sitcoms in the UK, and a lot are still pretty crap.
But the good ones make quite amazing TV: Lost, 24, ofc the Simpsons, South Park, Futurama, Family Guy, all of these are absolutely brilliant.
Will watch out for Heroes when it comes out here.
PS: My girlfriend watches CSI too. It's gay.
I like both versions - In their current state, they are distinctively different.
In defense of the American version, the first season was really bad - I think it was just too mean-spirited in an unfunny way. They couldn't pull off mean-spirited comedy like the UK version can. Fortunately, the show must have gotten a re-tooling (i.e., new writers or simply a change in direction) for the second season and it was infinitely funnier. In fact, it won the Emmy for best comedy series (Emmy - Television equivalent to Film's Oscar).
'Lo, there do I see, the line of my people, back to the beginning, 'lo do they call to me, they bid me take my place among them, in the halls of Valhalla, where the brave...may live...forever.
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Smoggy the Mighty wrote:
In defense of the American version, the first season was really bad - I think it was just too mean-spirited in an unfunny way. They couldn't pull off mean-spirited comedy like the UK version can. Fortunately, the show must have gotten a re-tooling (i.e., new writers or simply a change in direction) for the second season and it was infinitely funnier. In fact, it won the Emmy for best comedy series (Emmy - Television equivalent to Film's Oscar).
Oh, cool. I only saw the first 2 episodes of the first US series. Maybe that's why.
Have you guys been treated to the Christmas Special yet?
T'was quite a fitting ending.
Yea it is pretty terrible, I don't see how its still on either.
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I haven't seen the Brit version to compare, though.
Here's some clips of the British version, very funny stuff
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OQBNy83YwHI
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pCY8mOrkJKs
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