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pagerbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 04:25 PM
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Poll question: Favorite Britcom
Edited on Thu Feb-19-04 04:33 PM by pagerbear
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 04:27 PM
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1. 10 Downing Street on any given day
But really, Are You Being Served?

Are you free, Mr. Lucas?
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UnAmericanJoe Donating Member (385 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 04:27 PM
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2. If a Britcom
Edited on Thu Feb-19-04 04:30 PM by UnAmericanJoe
is a British sit-com then by GOD how could you not have listed Fawlty Towers?
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corporatewhore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 04:27 PM
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3. black adder!!!!!!
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BlackVelvetElvis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 04:31 PM
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9. Do you have a particular favorite series?
I'm partial to the third. That's the one where Hugh Laurie plays the stupid prince regent and Black Adder is his butler.
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 05:05 PM
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17. I prefer Blackadder II myself
Mostly for the codpiece. ;-)
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BlackVelvetElvis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 05:24 PM
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21. Got it
Blackadder II is a close second with me. Very close. The first Blackadder I ever saw was the one where the young woman disguises herself as a boy and become Adder's houseboy. That one got me hooked.
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 05:33 PM
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23. I love the last ep of Blackadder II...
where Blackadder and Melchett are being held hostage and tortured. The game of charades with the torturer (who doesn't speak any English) to figure out what he plans on doing to them is hilarious.
:-)
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Tummler Donating Member (836 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 04:28 PM
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4. Other
The Office
I'm Alan Partridge
The League of Gentlemen

etc.
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pagerbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 04:29 PM
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6. OMG!
I saw The League of Gentlemen whilst visiting friends in England last summer and found it hysterical!
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Mistress Quickly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 04:28 PM
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5. Keeping Up Appearances
I do not know what it is about that show - I LOVE IT.

I am anal about being able to watch it on Sat nights at 9 pm.

SO laughs about me and the show, but he also enjoys it (just not a fanatic like me). There are only a couple of shows I really watch, this is one.



Oh yeah, and Rob is a dingbat.:)
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Coventina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 04:30 PM
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7. CHEF!
I love, love, LOVE that show!!!!
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ieoeja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 04:30 PM
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8. I had an absolutely fablous reply.

But I forgot it.
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chiburb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 04:34 PM
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10. LOL!
I called you on my cell phone and it didn't go through. Must've been a Fawlty Tower.
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 04:35 PM
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11. uhhhhhhhhhh.. where are 'the young ones'?
:shrug:
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zonmoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 04:36 PM
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12. tossup
between red dwarf and are you being served.
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Brotherjohn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 04:50 PM
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13. Vicar of Dibley right now... last year it was Keeping Up Appearances.
Really depends on which one I'm watching at the time.

Vicar of Dibley is the best eccentric small town on TV since Northern Exposure.

I don't blame you for not putting older ones in the poll (Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, Young Ones). There are just too many good ones that are more current.
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BlackVelvetElvis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 05:04 PM
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16. Vicar is a great show
I loved the one where the BBC came to film "songs of praise". Alice screwed up her Bible reading.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 04:55 PM
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14. Yes, Minister/Yes, Prime Minister.
Classic political satire.
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Love Bug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 05:03 PM
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15. Red Dwarf!
Followed by Black Adder Goes Forth.
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Whitacre D_WI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 05:18 PM
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18. Coronation Street.
Bloody hilarious!
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 05:18 PM
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19. Repeats of Keeping Up Appearances are nearly as good
as the first time. Hyacinth, Richard and the rest are a pure delight.

My favorite characters are the never-seen son Sheridan" and his "special Tarquin.
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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 05:21 PM
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20. Where the feck is Father Ted?
End of Line.
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 05:55 PM
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27. These sitcoms are pretty mediocre. Father Ted could kick their arses.
As could Black Books, The Young Ones, Vic and Bob, The League of Gentlemen and The Office.
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 05:58 PM
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31. Can't believe I forgot The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin.
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 05:28 PM
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22. Waiting for God
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Braden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 05:44 PM
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24. another vote for the office
"I have some bad news. There will definately be some layoffs, some of you will lose your jobs. The Good news is I have been promoted.

I see you are still focusing on the bad news part"

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CBHagman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 05:45 PM
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25. As Time Goes By
With honorable mentions for Last of the Summer Wine, The Vicar of Dibley, and Waiting for God.
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 05:52 PM
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26. 'Black Books'
Great show
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 05:57 PM
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30. We must've posted at the same time. Great show.
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 05:56 PM
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28. Incidentally. WHERE THE FECK IS FAWLTY TOWERS?
Bit of a glaring omission, doncha think?
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SiobhanClancy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 07:28 PM
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32. Exactly...
I had to read that list 3 times...could not believe the best one of all wasn't on there:(
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LastKnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 05:56 PM
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29. Red Dwarf nt
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IronLionZion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 07:30 PM
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33. Monty Python's flying circus and Coupling
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 07:37 PM
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34. AbFab and Blackadder not included???? This poll is a crime!
Two of the greatest programs ever, regardless of the country they originiated in!
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democracy eh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 07:54 PM
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37. Absolutely Fabulous!
killer


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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 07:49 PM
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35. The Thin Blue Line
The OTHER Rowan Atkinson comedy.
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cosmicdot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 07:54 PM
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36. I would love to see 'To the Manor Born' again
why can't the BBC roll out its archives in great numbers

Brabinger, get the Rolls ready



Audrey fforbes-Hamilton (Penelope Keith) is looking forward to taking sole charge of the Grantleigh Manor estate after the death of her husband.

Unfortunately, the Manor has to be sold to cover outstanding debts.

The new owner is Richard De Vere (Peter Bowles), the Managing Director of a major supermarket chain.

Audrey makes sure she's on hand to keep an eye on him by buying The Old Lodge on the edge of the Manor grounds.
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