I love British television shows!

[Deja Q]

I always have to scurry off to the dictionary when they use some word or phrase I've never heard before.

Today I was watching "Red Dwarf" and they used the slang term "dingleberry-breath". I then, unfortunately, looked up what a "dingleberry" is. You don't want to know, it's gross.

Tip of the day: Learning new words is cool unless you're looking up words spoken by characters in British comedies. :evilgrin:

[mddemo]

1. red dwarf

Great show, i know what a dingleberry is, they can be unpleasant and a lot of work to remove, have you figured out what a smeghead is yet. :)

scots by birth, american by choice.

[Don_G]

2. Welcome To DU!

:hi:

[Deja Q]

3. Welcome to DU!

Well, I know what smeg is. :evilgrin: And for some reason that doesn't gross me out at all. Even saw a clip of a convention where a little girl asked what smeg was, and the actors cracked up and had to go off stage! (I think it's on the series II extras DVD disc...)

American by birth, Scots by ancestry. Would probably prefer to be a bona fide Scot right now. :D

[mddemo]

4. thanks guys

Was a bit worried about joining DU, as im not as far to the left as some here. In the UK i would be known as a Liberal Democrat, though ive always voted labour (family thing). once again thanks for the welcome.

[mddemo]

5. british shows

best british comedy you can get over here in my opinion has got to be father ted, dougall reminds me of many of your politicians, most British pols are like father jack.

[scarlet_owl]

7. Welcome!

I love Father Ted, too! I have all the episodes on tape. Feck! Arse! Girls! Drink!

[joeybee12]

6. Absolutely Fabulous, is, well...Fabulous!

I want to be like Patsy when i grow up!

[mddemo]

8. ab fab

joanna lumley (patsy) is top totty with me. In Britain no one calls the show absolutely fabulous any more, its reached icon status, its just Ab Fab now. Red Dwarf is just Dwarf, and Father Ted is just Feck Arse, Girls Drink, :) but if you get a chance get the DVD set of "only fools and horses" perhaps the funnoiest sitcom ever, oh and coupling.

[cosmicdot]

9. only fools and horses

i've never seen an episode ... pray tell when it'll be allowed to be viewed state-side ... what's it, about 3 years old?

I've seen some episodes of "My Hero" ... that's about the newest Britcom I've seen of late ... it's OK ...

personally, I don't find coupling funny ... but, to each their own

"My name is Patsy Stone, and I'm an alcoholic."

[mddemo]

10. coupling

like most British humor, you have to stick with it, very few shows become sensations overnight, the british humour is very different to american, but coupling is well worth staying with, the characters grow, and the jokes all reference earlier episodes.

[mddemo]

11. only fools

This show ran for ever, i watched it growing up, i think it ran from the mid 80's until fairly recently, with the actor david jason now starring as inspector frost in show of the same name.

[cosmicdot]

12. "This show ran for ever"

:wow:

dang

[Jen72]

19. Only Fools and Horses

began in the eighties. It is very funny and so clever.
It stars David Jason (The Darling Buds Of May and Frost) and Nicholas Lindhurst.
It is about two cockney brothers, that live in a Peckham high rise flat.(Peakham in London.) Their ambition in live is to become Millionaires,the mainly sell dodgey goods at markets.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

13. Personally, I love the mysteries on BBC America

and their other dramas.

I'm typing this while watching a drama called the Second Coming, in which an ordinary working class lad from Manchester disappears and reappears claiming that he's the Son of God. Then he performs an apparent miracle. Bizarre but fascinating and unlike anything I've ever seen on U.S. TV.

The current Monday night mystery, Rebus, based on the series of books of the same name, is also excellent. It's a gritty drama about a police detective in Edinburgh, Scotland.

I have also liked Murder in Mind (free-standing stories about murder from the point of view of the murderer), Waking the Dead (about a cold case team), Cracker (about a screwed-up police psychologist, much better than the U.S. remake), and Jonathan Creek (a man whose job is planning stunts for magicians solves seemingly impossible mysteries with the help of the ex-wife that he can never completely disentangle himself from. Lots of clever dialogue in this one, so fans of Lovejoy would enjoy it.)

But I can't stand either Changing Rooms or Ground Force.

[JohnyCanuck]

14. The only English TV show I absolutely can't stand.

Is that one with the stupid woman that puts on airs and tries to act very sophisticated and aristocratic as if she is Her Royal Highness Lady Bouquet instead of middle class Mrs. Bucket as the tradesmen are want to call her. There is something about her that bugs the hell out of me and whenever I see her and her mousy, hen-pecked husband on the tube I get a strong feeling come over me that I'd like to give them both a swift kick in the rear (sort of the same reaction I get when I see Dubya's mug on TV). I don't find the show funny at all, just annoying.

[corarose]

15. I love the Eastenders

British TV is the best!

[Jen72]

18. Me too. Eastenders is the best,

Have you seen a comedy called The Office in the US yet?
It is very good,sharp and very observant.

[corarose]

20. All we get is changing rooms on our BBC Channel

They replay the show so much that you begin to hate it.

I am not kidding you it's changing rooms and that gardening show that has the women that doesn't wear a bra and she has a large chest and it rains sometimes. I didn't notice this until my Dad was watching the show one day and he made a comment that the red haired lady should put a bra on didn't she know that she's on TV.

Our cable is bad.

I use to live in England and we had BBC1, BBC2 & BBC3 and that was it.

[Jen72]

22. That is Charlie Dimmock.

she never wears a bra, she has become a pin up to some people in the UK.

[corarose]

23. I never noticed that she didn't wear a bra

Until my Dad pointed it out and then it hit me. I use to watch that show all of the time but they run it to death over here.

[T_i_B]

16. So you woldn't want me to post this then?

Learning new words is cool unless you're looking up words spoken by characters in British comedies.

So you wouldn't want me to post Roger's Profanisaurus then?

http://www.viz.co.uk/profanisaurus/profanis.htm

P.S. I always thought it was DANGLEberries! But nevermind. :evilgrin:

[Deja Q]

21. I'm glad you did!

:evilgrin: Thanks! I'll be looking at "angel" in a whole new light for now on! :D

[greyl]

17. I 1st heard dingleberry from a 12 yr old redneck in cornfield Westminster

Maryland. Maybe he had cool parents that watched pbs... :)

I favor "Chef".