The IT Crowd
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Because 'Murica.
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what the one-boxing hell happened to my post?
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Argh, your post has too many capitalized names for me to parse (especially those damned actor names)
IT Crowd was/is/will-be a great funny show, though.
America can remake/demake/unmake it all it wants, doesn't really matter. (Though if it creates something funny and meaningfully different from the source, I'd watch it)
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So this is another attempt to bring it to the US? There was one earlier, with Richard Ayoade (aka Moss) and Joel McHale starring (and guest appearances from Matt Berry too I think), which never got past the pilot
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I don't think America can make a comedy about IT. They may as well make it a show about Wizards, since that's how American TV views computers.
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Soldier: Those lights are blinking out of sequence. Murdock: Make them blink in sequence.
Buck Murdock: Oh, cut the bleeding heart crap, will ya? We've all got our switches, lights, and knobs to deal with, Striker. I mean, down here there are literally hundreds and thousands of blinking, beeping, and flashing lights, blinking and beeping and flashing - they're *flashing* and they're *beeping*. I can't stand it anymore! They're *blinking* and *beeping* and *flashing*! Why doesn't somebody pull the plug!
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I'm still trying to think of an American comedy that is actually funny. There are some great films but very little in the way of TV strikes me as comedic.
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The League
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Archer
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Simpsons
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Family Guy
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Boondocks
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Drunk History
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Futurama
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Louie
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South Park
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Most of these things are occasionally funny. I have watched entire episodes of several of the above shows and not laughed once.
And I will giggle at stupid shit.
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America doesn't do comedy, only buddy cop dramas.
From what I understand, family guy et all are buddy cop dramas as well, made to look like comedies to prevent viewers from switching to British television.
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But seriously, "It's always sunny in philadelphia" is good, if you like cartoonish main characters devoid of sympathy in your comedies. Which you should.
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@created_just_to_disl said:
America doesn't do comedy, only buddy cop dramas.
From what I understand, family guy et all are buddy cop dramas as well, made to look like comedies to prevent viewers from switching to British television.Pretty much, yes.
British humo[spoiler]u[/spoiler]r?
I laughed through most of The Exorcist, ffs.
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Does that include Archer?
If not, go watch it.Or read a book, what do I care.(yes, that was an Archer reference)
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I stopped really watching Archer with the 5th season. The first 3 were great, but the 4th didn't really make me laugh much and the 5th just felt utterly uninteresting and eh.
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There were some good moments in Archer Vice still [spoiler]Pam's addiction to cocaine, and eventually making her thin[/spoiler] [spoiler]And the whole Lana being pregnant thing and the bombshell at the very end of the season[/spoiler]. But they'll be back to ISIS whenever Season 6 starts.
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Big Bang Theory.
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back to ISIS whenever Season 6 starts.
I saw something yesterday somewhere that said they're dropping the name. The only reference in the show to the change will be a background shot of the logo being hauled off.
Obviously that's just Internet Rumo[spoiler]u[/spoiler]r.
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I thought I had seen the exact opposite (video of the show's creators, no less). But doing a quick search brings up a lot of news articles corroborating what you've said.
So, if they're going to change the name, what will it be? International Secret Intelligence League?
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Nope, I understand that it's "They now work for the CIA"
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Nope, I understand that it's "They now work for the CIA"
First of all, woosh?
International Secret Intelligence League?
ISIL.Second, the discussion at the end of Season 5 was contracting CIA work out to ISIS, so they don't exactly work for the CIA
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American TV is renowned for killing good comedy either by cutting it short: Police Squad definitely was excellent and was killed off because it was too funny; or by running it to death: Simpsons and Futurama were good, very good, but they should have ended years ago: they're now just the wacky adventures of... If Fawlty Towers had been American they would be churning out series 38 to this day and it would be embarrassingly bad (or it would have been deemed too funny and never aired). Archer looks to be going the same way.
Southpark is the only exception to that imo.
However, that there's only one Graham Linehan and one Armando Iannucci (and one Chris Morris and one Steve Coogan and one Stewart Lee etc.) is nobody's fault, not even the Americans'. We can fight for their right to have good comedy. It's symbolic of our struggle against oppression.
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NBC also was the network that previously took a stab at an U.S. version of The IT Crowd.
And it was fucking horrible, with everybody being utterly miscast, and Ayoade looking totally out of place.
Big Bang Theory.
It's so unfunny it physically hurts. And it goes downhill with each and every episode.
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what the one-boxing hell happened to my post?
Dunno, but preview when editing looks a bit better than what is there:
Preview:
Reality:
Worth filing a bug about it?
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Worth filing a bug about it?
EXPECTED: Post doesn't look like a Geocities page with no styling.
ACTUAL: See above
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Well to be fair, there is a Stylish sheet running on top of Discourse there - I find the following a little wasteful on space and tedious on threads with lots of unread posts with one post per scroll.
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I wasn't talking about the text going all the way from edge to edge (although it is horrible) but the way that it has the inline images stuck wherever with no regard for any formatting.
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not even remotely funny
I wonder if there is something out there that we could all agree either is or isn't funny?
I also enjoy New Girl and Brooklyn 99. I love watching Tim Allen's Last Man Standing, as pretty much everything he says is me, my father or my father in law.
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It's so unfunny it physically hurts. And it goes downhill with each and every episode.
This describes my Seinfeld experience, and yet millions loved the show.
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Christ! I thought it was bad on 1080p!
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I wonder if there is something out there that we could all agree either is or isn't funny?
I also enjoy New Girl and Brooklyn 99. I love watching Tim Allen's Last Man Standing, as pretty much everything he says is me, my father or my father in law.
New Girl is ehhh, I don't really pay attention when my wife watches it.
Anything with Andy Samberg is inherently not funny, his movie was the only one that I've ever walked out on.
As for a single show that everyone likes? My contender would be Last Week Tonight, I just wish it was more widely available.
Filed under: does it count if it's a Brit on American TV?
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Anything with Andy Samberg is inherently not funny, his movie was the only one that I've ever walked out on.
My wife and I both crack up at it. I honestly couldn't name a movie he was in. That show was really the first time he entered my consciousness.
As for a single show that everyone likes? My contender would be Last Week Tonight, I just wish it was more widely available.
I think this is the first positive comment I've heard about that show.
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My wife and I both crack up at it. I honestly couldn't name a movie he was in. That show was really the first time he entered my consciousness.
As for a single show that everyone likes? My contender would be Last Week Tonight, I just wish it was more widely available.
I think this is the first positive comment I've heard about that show.
He was in Hot Rod. Don't bother even looking it up.
Yup, you're a contrarian.
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chubertdev:
Anything with Andy Samberg is inherently not funny, his movie was the only one that I've ever walked out on.My wife and I both crack up at it. I honestly couldn't name a movie he was in. That show was really the first time he entered my consciousness.
Huh. I'd never heard of him, so I looked him up. The only thing I've ever seen that he's been in are CGI.
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He was on SNL, in Hot Rod, then Brooklyn 99.
He's also in Lonely Island, you've probably heard their songs (they came from SNL).
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Lonely Island, you've probably heard their songs
especially if you have seen the lego movie, where their music is a key plot point
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He's also in Lonely Island
I know, that's on wikipedia. I'd have to look up those songs to know. I don't watch SNL because it's not really funny.
Bizarrely, I didn't walk out of Freddie Got Fingered. Here's a hint: if the guy selling tickets asks you "why would you want to go see that?" see something else. In all the many, many movies I've seen in theaters, that's the only time that ever happened to me.
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I'm still trying to think of an American comedy that is actually funny. There are some great films but very little in the way of TV strikes me as comedic.
Fucking troll.
That one episode of The Newlywed Game where the guy answers "in the butt" is funnier than the combined comedy output of all European TV to-date.
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