Can't we all just get along?!? MD vs SNES - The Bear and Badger

Brooks

Only sitcom anyone should be watching right now is Bob's Burgers because it's ace.

Blue Swirl

Brooks wrote:

Only sitcom anyone should be watching right now is Bob's Burgers because it's ace.

QFT. Bob's Burgers is possibly the best thing on TV right now.

mistercrayon

Does anyone remember the British version of married with children? It had Russ Abbott I think and seemed more middle class.

From what I've seen I like bobs burgers, also its the guy from archer, who's ace!

optimark_prime

mistercrayon wrote:

Does anyone remember the British version of married with children? It had Russ Abbott I think and seemed more middle class.

From what I've seen I like bobs burgers, also its the guy from archer, who's ace!

It was called Married For Life iirc.

One episode was scenario and word for word identical, but they somehow managed to make it not funny.

mistercrayon

Yeah I only recognised it was the same thing when after a while i saw an episode of the American one and it was strangely familliar...

dynamiteReady

Brooks wrote:

Only sitcom anyone should be watching right now is Bob's Burgers because it's ace.

Yeah... I've been meaning to get round to that.

retroking1981

optimark_prime wrote:

mistercrayon wrote:

Does anyone remember the British version of married with children? It had Russ Abbott I think and seemed more middle class.

From what I've seen I like bobs burgers, also its the guy from archer, who's ace!

It was called Married For Life iirc.

One episode was scenario and word for word identical, but they somehow managed to make it not funny.

I remember hearing about that, its a shame MWC never caught on over here. It was before the pre Friends craze when the amount of US shows on UK TV seemed to explode.

Oh well, here's to Al

Yossarian

Never got the MwC love. Roseanne was about a million times funnier.

Smang

Archer.

optimark_prime

retroking1981 wrote:

optimark_prime wrote:

mistercrayon wrote:

Does anyone remember the British version of married with children? It had Russ Abbott I think and seemed more middle class.

From what I've seen I like bobs burgers, also its the guy from archer, who's ace!

It was called Married For Life iirc.

One episode was scenario and word for word identical, but they somehow managed to make it not funny.

I remember hearing about that, its a shame MWC never caught on over here. It was before the pre Friends craze when the amount of US shows on UK TV seemed to explode.

Oh well, here's to Al

WooooaaahhhBundy!

When itv had the rights, Westcountry (or TSW as it was back then) used to show it so infrequently, it never stood a chance. They'd show it for a few weeks, at about 11pm, then drop it with no warning. Perhaps for months, then it'd suddenly reappear.

Sky had the show for a while, they showed all 11 seasons in order, but they scheduled it at 7pm and edited out all the slightly risqué stuff, ie most of the really funny dialogue. Peggy's family are from Wanker County, hardly going to be able to mention that at 7pm. There were a couple of episodes they didn't show at all (including the one where Al has a circumcision)

I ended up just buying the DVD box sets, from Holland and France, because although the packaging isn't in English, the soundtrack is.

retroking1981

I watched them all on Sky one back then and even recorded them on good old VHS, own them on region 1 DVD now.

I know it's not the best show but it's honestly one of my all time favourites. Classic stuff and one of the USA's longest running sitcoms. Shame it never got a proper send off, I remember hearing Ed O'Neill was actually very upset about that.

[Deleted User]

Seconded re: Bob's Burgers. I know a guy who looks exactly the same as him too.

optimark_prime

retroking1981 wrote:

I watched them all on Sky one back then and even recorded them on good old VHS, own them on region 1 DVD now.

I know it's not the best show but it's honestly one of my all time favourites. Classic stuff and one of the USA's longest running sitcoms. Shame it never got a proper send off, I remember hearing Ed O'Neill was actually very upset about that.

I had them all taped to VHS too!

It did seem to end abruptly, but to be honest the latter seasons aren't particularly good.

Thankfully Ed O'Neill is in Modern Familly, which is also excellent.

MattyJ

And still reading the same paper.

optimark_prime

Yes. Haha, that was bizarre.

Blue Swirl

Modern Family gets the Swirl Seal of Approval™.

Yossarian

I'm trademarking Swirl of Approval.

Blue Swirl

Roujin

Smang wrote:

Archer.

YES!

But in particular:

Escape

Curb's the only live-man Americomedy I've ever cared for. It featured the same awful characters, but Larry's misfortunes were universal during the show's best.

(Lead Balloon's burden of middle-classness called for much greater emphasis on universality.)

Otherwise, their output clunks through scripted gears with all foul grace of a fat streaker over assault-course tyres.

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