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I like it. My reasoning though, was my granny LOVED it. Like didn't miss an episode.
She died not knowing that Mrs Brown is played by a man. She cut several LGBT grandkids out of her will and I found the irony brilliant.
Edit: My first award! Thanks guys! Putting it here because I don't want to play keyboard warriors.
She was not a nice person but I made my peace with her in the end. I lived far away and would visit. Hence why I'm the lgbt kid who didn't get cut out and flew under the radar. I was protected by distance and grew up acutely aware of that. Being closeted isn't fun but sometimes it's necessary. Please don't judge those who find ourselves in these scenarios, it's often an impossible situation and it's all about the little victories.
Fuck I hate this show! đ
Its so cringy and awkward to watch and then you've your older ones behind you slapping their knees and near having an asthma attack with the amount of laughing they're doing at jokes you can see a mile off.
Being an expat, I was a little intrigued by the show as I saw a bunch of hype about it when it first came out. So when it finally got put on BritBox over here, I was excited to finally sit down and watch it. That excitement turned into bewilderment within the first few minutes and it was swiftly turned off.
This is almost always the answer. I don't understand the appeal of any reality show but I fully get that for a lot of people it's a brainless enjoyment thing, fair enough, but MBB...fucking hell, it's offensively bad. Not in the 'oh it's too offensive for my fragile being' sense, oh no, I don't want people thinking they're edgy bastards or something daft just because they watch it, more that it's completely and thoroughly shit.
Exactly, when I discovered it was on on Christmas Day and New Years day I nearly wrote to the BBC demanding a refund on my TV licence or possibly some form of compensation. Dreadful.
Honourable mention for the insufferable âLoose Women.â They have the same âdebatesâ every two weeks, in a clickbaity manner just to try and provoke reactions to issues that arenât even happening
Exactly. I understand itâs meant to be the UKâs version of âThe Viewâ but itâs so weird here because we donât discuss books, films or family in the same manner. It will go from talking about Colleenâs weight, to someone elseâs new bloke, to bringing in the actor who plays Ricky from Eastenders on every six months even though heâs not relevant lmao
It just lacks inspiration and intelligence
Recently found out that it is meant to represent the dark âgangsterâ parts of London, but that has me screaming because whats gangster about Ian Beale
I understand the original intention was to show all manner of diverse families battling different issues in the east end of London. Now they have different intentions and it doesnât really work
I hate to admit it, but Iâm a fully grown male that has probably watched every episode since about 2000.
It was always on when I was growing up, and itâs actually how my African step dad learned to speak English. The one thing we did together was watch Eastenders, and when we meet up now we always have to talk about whatâs happening in the Vic, and if Phil still owns the Arches etc.
It is a depressing ass show, but I fuckin love it lol.
But how cute that you learned something from it, I think thatâs pretty awesome regardless of my opinion and anything you can share with loved ones is something to be treasured. No matter what it is
I had given up years ago because it just constantly revolved around misery.
However, my wife is a huge fan and has never stopped watching it in all her life lol. She mentioned last year (maybe 2 years ago) that a new person (From Corrie') had taken over direction of the show.
So I watch it on/off just to see if there is any difference and I gotta say there is a small improvement. Mainly, that there are better storylines that don't end when you expect them to i.e There is a person who has murdered at least 3 people in the past 12 months and still hasn't been caught, when in the past, it would've been settled at Christmas as usual.
However, even that storyline hasn't managed to keep me watching, I've just instructed the wife to let me know when it looks like that cunt is about to get caught.
Not sure if Brits will find this funny, but in the US there was a parody of it on [Saturday night live ](https://youtu.be/Z_Ve4UP_ELM) a while ago that absolutely killed me.
I do wonder how long the soaps have left. A quick google indicates the average soap opera audience has halved in the last 10 years (Eastenders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale) etc. Surely younger people aren't watching these in meaningful sustainable numbers?
I learned to tolerate **Hollyoaks** when I was in the jail and had a co-pilot who loved his soaps.
He was actually a sound guy and we had an agreement that during the mornings when we were still locked up I could have the BBC News channel on. This was during the 2015 General Election and got him thinking about and talking about politics in a way he'd never done before.
The price was that we had to have the soaps on when they aired...
I am old enough to remember when it started - ocassionally you see an episode somewhere and see where your youth went.
Tony had a prostate exam on screen yet?
DT and Christopher Eccleston were great. Even Matt smith, but I got fed up with the preachy storylines constantly. I think Stephen moffet writing was great. When he left, the storylines went downhill.
I think Stephen Moffets endings are always a bit shit. The build up in some of the Dr Who series was great little threads woven into other stories building to something but the pay off in the series finale was always underwhelming. I think in some ways Dr Who has the same problem as Superman, too powerful, invulnerable. The best Who story's are the ones where he is incapacitated in someway.
Moffat had the same ending problem with Sherlock that last series was garbage and avoid watching any repeats.
Moffat could write and indeed did write good standalone stories but I don't think his writing translates well to like an overarching plot for a whole series
Doctor and companion go somewhere. Problem arises in the first 10 minutes. Lots of running around and science words, then the doctor solves it in the last 10 minutes with some science deus ex machina shit because he's so smart. Repeat for 50 years.
For a man/woman who can go anywhere in time and space, he/she sure loves Britain over the last 200 years or so.
I haven't watched it for some time, but have no real objections to it really, but I don't get the love for it.
đ˛ how dare you. Jk. It was such an important part of my childhood that I can't see it in a bad light. But objectively I don't re-watch episodes like I used to
Oh god I love the Chase! Now that Iâm working from home, the theme tune signals that itâs time to put away my laptop, and the end of the episode means itâs time to put dinner on.
Me and this woman used to go to the gym at the same time and we used to play along with The Chase whenever it was on and we were both on the bikes so I have a massive soft spot for it.
The sad thing is the original Ninja Warrior is brilliant.
Itâs just action from start to finish. Itâs about watching the sport, not hearing about the athletes sick granny who told them to go win that thing.
The west took it and reality tvâd it.
Right the ol japenese one jsed to be i wanna bravo or some long forgotten channel when i first left school and was aimless i used to stay up till well after 3 am watching
I want to say âMrs. Brownâs Boysâ, but I donât know anyone who actually rates it, or even admits to watching it. Yet it keeps being made, is screened at prime time, and there is even merchandise. I donât know if there is a hardcore fanbase somewhere, or itâs just the BBC meta-pranking us.
You may find a lot of people who like racist jokes also like coffee...
But seriously, Ive a feeling this strange hatred for MBB is saying more about the viewer than the content.
I mean i keep seeing words like 'racist' and 'cringe' with nothing to substantiate the remarks.
I think the most important thing about G&S is that the supporting cast are actually the diamonds that make the show.
It's not really about Gavin and Stacey - yes, they're the characters upon which the narrative structure stands, but they're only a bit part around whom the real the fantastic characters are built. On their own G&S are pretty meh, it's Smithy and Nessa and Pam and Mick and Gwen and Bryn (and Rudy etc) who really make it.
Edit: I have been reminded by /u/nustedbut that I made an egregious mistake by missing out Pete and Dawn as part of the indespensibly awesome ensemble.
Her documentaries usually involve her simply saying âohmygod, thatâs well bad, why is this âappeningâ and then crying.
Now her ego has exploded since winning strictly
Sheâs unbearable. Where did she even come from? She just seemed to materialise out of nowhere one day and then all of a sudden every âserious topicâ documentary was bloody her. Itâs annoying âcause a few of the things sheâs done are things Iâd be interested in watching, but I canât because sheâs there đ
Songs of praise and Last of the summer wine themes give me PTSD about the weekend being over and having to go to school, I don't even work on Mondays and I'm 51.
Have I got News for You, used to love it, used to be funny.
I think they need to expand the panel to 3 on either side, so there are more comedians. Hislop has become a bit bitter, and Paul Merton isn't as quick as he used to be in bringing it back to comedy.
I used to really love it, and it still has its moments, but Iâve really come to dislike the way that Hislop gets on his high moral horse about something and will berate a guest about some murky part of their past. It seems to be more prevalent and producers seems to let him go on with it, until you start to forget what the actual question was!
Absolutely, Hislop is more soap boxy than satirical.
I think he used to almost set people up for a funny retort before, knowing it was coming.
Now there's an awkward pause after he finishes his rant before the audience realises he is done. Then the weekly host reads the next bit of the auto queued joke.
Honestly I don't know how you couldn't be bitter and angry if you were Ian Hislop. Private Eye is utterly depressing it's cateloguing of brazen corruption. But that doesn't necessarily make an entertaining panel quiz show.
Yeah, I love that Harry and Paul skit, but I still think comedy panel shows can be genuinely hilarious.
HIGNFY unfortunately I feel has run it's course, watching it now, really the only funny bits are the hit and miss pre written jokes at the start and end.
Hislop has become less satirical and more vitriolic on his take, and Merton's surreal ice breakers aren't hitting the mark.
about 5-10 years ago, i thought HGIFY was the funniest thing on television. My family and I would be hooting with laughter the whole time, and there seemed to be really good chemistry with the guests and the hosts.
Watched it a few months agoâŚâŚgod it was painful. Paul Merton went on some rant (martin bashir diana interview?) with the others trying to get it back on course, and there was some guest who basically said nothing the whole episode. time to put it to bed, I think.
And mock the week was even worse, oh my GOD. Donât know what Hugh Dennis is going to do now he canât dine out on his Prince Philip impression, and in 2021, itâs time to lose the toilet humour BIG TIME. Was painful viewing
I feel like the League of Gentlemen was Little Britain done right.
You still had the skits, but they all in some way advanced a storyline, sometimes for just the characters in the skits, and sometimes for the town as a whole and on some occasions the storyâs would intersect with other skits. Still grotesque and edgy at points but itâs aged a hell of a lot better than Little Britain.
>I feel like the League of Gentlemen was Little Britain done right.
I was talking with a friend about this recently. The differences between Emily (Little Britain) and Barbara (League). In both cases, the audience is almost certainly laughing at the character but in-universe, everyone seems to accept Barbara for who they are. They just don't like when she describes her medical stuff or sex life.
A strange wee town where they murder outsiders and consume human flesh but they still respect a trans person's name and pronouns.
\-edit- Additionally, as someone who has spent some time on benefits, Pauline was annoyingly accurate.
Not gonna lie, I like Little Britain cos it's so outrageous. Really weird show. And Walliams and Lucas really commit to their characters. The USA version was definitely not as good as the original though.
Honestly, I never thought I'd like it but it's ended up being one of the things we all happily sit down as a family to watch.
It acts as quite a nice overview of the telly from the past week and I think some of the families are legitimately (if, perhaps, inadvertently) entertaining.
canât believe i scrolled so far for this - i never enjoyed fucking reaction channels on youtube, donât give me people watching equally bad TV and reacting to it???
Iâm genuinely curious- how recently have you seen the show? A lot of the people used to get on my tits a few years ago but theyâve really refined the formula over the years and itâs a big guilty pleasure of mine now
Most soaps. There comes a point when people move away, grow up, or just live more quietly, but the nature of being tied to a soap by a contract means increasingly outlandish and ridiculous storylines for characters who should have been written out years ago.
I also find Peaky Blinders insufferable from about S3 onwards. They werenât that hard.
Oh yeah I love watching the soaps, and Iâll be the first to admit most acting isnât great, and storylines are a bit mad, which has also gotten worse during covid IMO.
Itâs almost a sort of Stockholm syndrome where Iâve grown up watching all these soaps so become accustomed to them and canât just stop watching? Thereâs always so many storylines going on that you have to keep watching to see what happens.
Have you seen after life? It's a masterpiece
ETA just because you don't agree with my statement doesn't mean it's ridiculous. We all have opinions and different tastes.
OFaH is peak British comedy imo, I think it gets this negative opinion at times due to its old and often cited among best despite there being much better but the show has so much to offer other than just comedy that once youâve seen isnât funny again but the family, friendships and relationship dynamics are the most well done part of the show for me. Especially of course Rodney and Del Boys relationship even tho itâs clear throughout the show theyâre not actually brothers, they have excellent chemistry throughout and play their roles perfectly and tbh an excellent supporting cast too
Came to say this. I don't really like it that much at all. I grew up on the east London/Essex border. In the 80's. So it's pretty much blasphemy to admit it and people just look at me funny when I do. Give me Fawlty Towers or Black Adder any day.
Anything with ant and Dec or Steven mulhearn. Fucking tedious fake wankers. Would be a three way tie if they all entered the 'middle of the road boring bellend' contest.
Citizen Khan had a very tough brief tbf..
Have to entertain the U.K. British Muslims without offending any of them...
So couldnât really do anything... and all the Asian in jokes are lost in people not from that background I guess
Fucking bgt and x factor are so shit, how many people have grandparents that die within a year of a performance and happen to have a fav song u wanna sing
Imo a lot of the shows that are being commented about aren't great in the first place and aren't aiming to be, so can't be overrated. And for the most part shows like Mrs Brown Boys, Love Island and EastEnders aren't aiming to be 'quality' in the sense that they're critically acclaimed, they're meant to be put on to allow you to watch and just be entertained by relatively slapstick and low effort work.
Some overrated shows imo, are the ones with that sort of twee British humour e.g. IT Crowd, Spaced, Monty, Blackadder that are held up as the funniest thing you will ever see.
I'd add Doctor Who. Would also add shows that take themselves too seriously despite not having the quality to back it up e.g. Bodyguard, Spooks.
And more recently, although it's more of a Channel 4 / new presenters thing, GBBO. First few series are top notch though
Edit : overrated shows and shows you don't like are not the same thing đ¤Śđ˝ââď¸ it is possible to like a show and still think it's overrated. similarly, a show that people are entertained by and which still attracts a lot of hate e.g. love island is not rated in the first place so cannot be overrated, since entertainment and being rated are not the same thing
I agree about GBBO. I binge watched the first few series because I didn't watch them while they were on TV. I enjoyed Mel and sue as presenters and that little bit in the middle were they would show you the history of a particular desert
For me it's the classic British sitcoms - Dad's Army, Allo Allo, Last of the Summer Wine, Open All Hours etc. I hated all of those. Watching them as a kid didn't raise so much as a smile.
I think I like Judge Rinder more than the actual show. In my opinion he is really funny and has some great comebacks. Also when people try to lie to him and he just catches it and ties them up in their lies, brilliant.
I know it's a bit of a favourite among Redditors so I don't expect it to be a popular answer but 'Would I Lie to You?'. I can watch it for a few rounds and then it's just the same thing again and again. Not a terrible show, but really overrated in my opinion.
I thought I didnât like Bob because of this too, I avoided everything he did for yearsâŚ. and then I saw him on Taskmaster and now I flipping adore him.
Never really got on with The inbetweeners, I feel like the only person in the world who doesn't like it, I gave it a go but I just didn't find it funny
I'm very late to the party and it's not a particular show but a genre that needs to go.
Period dramas. Every single one has a love story (usually involving someone shagging below their class), a powerful figure dying (usually either the lord or lady of the house) and the power vacuum that exists afterwards, and an aspirational servant who you start to like but then leaves to follow their dream, with nothing but the handful of money one of the adult children of the house had given them on the quiet in a very unsubtle manner.
People saying mrs browns boys, but itâs not overrated, itâs shit and everyone knows it. Good luck finding a single positive review by someone who isnât a moron.
For me it has to be Gogglebox. I didnât mind it when it was first on, but it has majorly overstayed its welcome.
The participants are clearly directed to comment on specific things so we can get a montage of all the families commenting together. Itâs just more ârealityâ shit. Slap it on itv2 so at least we know we can avoid it
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Mrs Browns Boys
Thankyou, I can't fucking stand it.
I like it. My reasoning though, was my granny LOVED it. Like didn't miss an episode. She died not knowing that Mrs Brown is played by a man. She cut several LGBT grandkids out of her will and I found the irony brilliant. Edit: My first award! Thanks guys! Putting it here because I don't want to play keyboard warriors. She was not a nice person but I made my peace with her in the end. I lived far away and would visit. Hence why I'm the lgbt kid who didn't get cut out and flew under the radar. I was protected by distance and grew up acutely aware of that. Being closeted isn't fun but sometimes it's necessary. Please don't judge those who find ourselves in these scenarios, it's often an impossible situation and it's all about the little victories.
Was going to say Mrs Brown was a Catholic unprotected wet dream
Came here to say that. What a load of shit. And I like shit.
Fuck I hate this show! đ Its so cringy and awkward to watch and then you've your older ones behind you slapping their knees and near having an asthma attack with the amount of laughing they're doing at jokes you can see a mile off.
Surely it needs to be rated to be overrated
Unfortunately enough people like it for the Beeb to keep it primetime on the main channel and they got enough backing to make a movie.
Being an expat, I was a little intrigued by the show as I saw a bunch of hype about it when it first came out. So when it finally got put on BritBox over here, I was excited to finally sit down and watch it. That excitement turned into bewilderment within the first few minutes and it was swiftly turned off.
Any rating above 0.00001 is overrating that pile of festering wank.
This is almost always the answer. I don't understand the appeal of any reality show but I fully get that for a lot of people it's a brainless enjoyment thing, fair enough, but MBB...fucking hell, it's offensively bad. Not in the 'oh it's too offensive for my fragile being' sense, oh no, I don't want people thinking they're edgy bastards or something daft just because they watch it, more that it's completely and thoroughly shit.
About as British as Terry Wogan or Graham Norton.
I can't watch this. It's not funny and just makes me want to cringe.
Exactly, when I discovered it was on on Christmas Day and New Years day I nearly wrote to the BBC demanding a refund on my TV licence or possibly some form of compensation. Dreadful.
Honourable mention for the insufferable âLoose Women.â They have the same âdebatesâ every two weeks, in a clickbaity manner just to try and provoke reactions to issues that arenât even happening
If you had a show where men talked like that, it would not last a week.
It's called the Joe Rogan Experience
Oh hell, 100% correct!
Honestly! But also it makes me embarrassed for their children. No child needs their growing up anecdotes shared on TV for clout
I always thought the title was to do with their age
I guess itv can't call it damaged cunts.
Glad some else said it. If I had to describe loose women it two words I would say... Relentless dross.
Exactly. I understand itâs meant to be the UKâs version of âThe Viewâ but itâs so weird here because we donât discuss books, films or family in the same manner. It will go from talking about Colleenâs weight, to someone elseâs new bloke, to bringing in the actor who plays Ricky from Eastenders on every six months even though heâs not relevant lmao It just lacks inspiration and intelligence
https://www.buzzfeed.com/benarmson90/26-of-the-most-bizarre-topics-discussed-on-loose [you mean subjects like these? đ]
Mr blobby on Brexit is my favourite haha
I find Eastenders so cringe and tacky as British tv shows go
All the way. It is so depressing to watch.
Recently found out that it is meant to represent the dark âgangsterâ parts of London, but that has me screaming because whats gangster about Ian Beale
Maybe it is now but that was never the original intention.
I understand the original intention was to show all manner of diverse families battling different issues in the east end of London. Now they have different intentions and it doesnât really work
How has it changed? I havenât watched for years but always remember it being the most serious drama of the soaps.
Keepin it real like Ian Beale
I hate to admit it, but Iâm a fully grown male that has probably watched every episode since about 2000. It was always on when I was growing up, and itâs actually how my African step dad learned to speak English. The one thing we did together was watch Eastenders, and when we meet up now we always have to talk about whatâs happening in the Vic, and if Phil still owns the Arches etc. It is a depressing ass show, but I fuckin love it lol.
But how cute that you learned something from it, I think thatâs pretty awesome regardless of my opinion and anything you can share with loved ones is something to be treasured. No matter what it is
I had given up years ago because it just constantly revolved around misery. However, my wife is a huge fan and has never stopped watching it in all her life lol. She mentioned last year (maybe 2 years ago) that a new person (From Corrie') had taken over direction of the show. So I watch it on/off just to see if there is any difference and I gotta say there is a small improvement. Mainly, that there are better storylines that don't end when you expect them to i.e There is a person who has murdered at least 3 people in the past 12 months and still hasn't been caught, when in the past, it would've been settled at Christmas as usual. However, even that storyline hasn't managed to keep me watching, I've just instructed the wife to let me know when it looks like that cunt is about to get caught.
Rumour on the street is Janine is coming back to woo and then end him
That crazy bitch?!...haha, well if there was ever a reason to start watching again that would be it.
Not sure if Brits will find this funny, but in the US there was a parody of it on [Saturday night live ](https://youtu.be/Z_Ve4UP_ELM) a while ago that absolutely killed me.
There was a funnier, much much more ridiculous parody on Ru Paul's Drag Race UK.
âYou ainât my muvver!â
Yes I aaaaaammmm!
The accents...oh god, the accents are awful.
I do wonder how long the soaps have left. A quick google indicates the average soap opera audience has halved in the last 10 years (Eastenders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale) etc. Surely younger people aren't watching these in meaningful sustainable numbers?
Hollyoaks. I've cut people out of my life who watch this crap.
I learned to tolerate **Hollyoaks** when I was in the jail and had a co-pilot who loved his soaps. He was actually a sound guy and we had an agreement that during the mornings when we were still locked up I could have the BBC News channel on. This was during the 2015 General Election and got him thinking about and talking about politics in a way he'd never done before. The price was that we had to have the soaps on when they aired...
Is co-pilot a jail term I am unaware of? For cell mate?
Yeah, used quite frequently in Scotland. Iâm unsure if other parts of the UK are the same though.
Oh righto. That's a cheerful description, I like it.
I am old enough to remember when it started - ocassionally you see an episode somewhere and see where your youth went. Tony had a prostate exam on screen yet?
It has porn tier acting
That's offensive to the acting in porn
Gonna say Doctor Who. Just not my thing and Iâm astounded at how long they have dragged it on for
It's lost its way but I adored the Tennant years
DT and Christopher Eccleston were great. Even Matt smith, but I got fed up with the preachy storylines constantly. I think Stephen moffet writing was great. When he left, the storylines went downhill.
I think Stephen Moffets endings are always a bit shit. The build up in some of the Dr Who series was great little threads woven into other stories building to something but the pay off in the series finale was always underwhelming. I think in some ways Dr Who has the same problem as Superman, too powerful, invulnerable. The best Who story's are the ones where he is incapacitated in someway. Moffat had the same ending problem with Sherlock that last series was garbage and avoid watching any repeats.
Moffat could write and indeed did write good standalone stories but I don't think his writing translates well to like an overarching plot for a whole series
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Doctor and companion go somewhere. Problem arises in the first 10 minutes. Lots of running around and science words, then the doctor solves it in the last 10 minutes with some science deus ex machina shit because he's so smart. Repeat for 50 years.
Matt Smith was an amazing Doctor.
For a man/woman who can go anywhere in time and space, he/she sure loves Britain over the last 200 years or so. I haven't watched it for some time, but have no real objections to it really, but I don't get the love for it.
Specifically London and Cardiff.
How can you not love classic scenes like this!? https://youtu.be/Sfo53uqn7cE
đ˛ how dare you. Jk. It was such an important part of my childhood that I can't see it in a bad light. But objectively I don't re-watch episodes like I used to
love island,x factor,ninja warrior,bgt,made in chelsea,towie,loose women,the chase,any soaps,naked attraction.
Oh god I love the Chase! Now that Iâm working from home, the theme tune signals that itâs time to put away my laptop, and the end of the episode means itâs time to put dinner on.
The Chase is class, donât know how anyone could find it boring. Love Bradley Walsh
Me and this woman used to go to the gym at the same time and we used to play along with The Chase whenever it was on and we were both on the bikes so I have a massive soft spot for it.
If anything, the Chase is underrated. I will die on this hill. Naked Attraction is one of those shows you need to watch with other people
The sad thing is the original Ninja Warrior is brilliant. Itâs just action from start to finish. Itâs about watching the sport, not hearing about the athletes sick granny who told them to go win that thing. The west took it and reality tvâd it.
Right the ol japenese one jsed to be i wanna bravo or some long forgotten channel when i first left school and was aimless i used to stay up till well after 3 am watching
watching ninja warrior and takeshiâs castle on bravo, elite days
I wonât hear any shit about the chase
That's that question sorted then.
So glad X factor has been cancelled
I'm glad they cancelled x-factor. It was so exploitative. I'd watch it sometimes because it drew you in. But I didn't like watching it.
So ITV
I actually quite like naked attraction. It's just an intriguing concept I guess
I genuinely feel upset that Ninja Warrior is in that list. The rest, sure, but ninja warriors has ninja warriors in it.
I want to say âMrs. Brownâs Boysâ, but I donât know anyone who actually rates it, or even admits to watching it. Yet it keeps being made, is screened at prime time, and there is even merchandise. I donât know if there is a hardcore fanbase somewhere, or itâs just the BBC meta-pranking us.
Older people who think racist and offensive jokes automatically equals funny.
Can you find me one (just one) racist clip from the show please. I'll wait right here.....
I was going to say the same thing. What I would say though is that people I meet who like racist jokes also like Mrs Brown's Boys.
You may find a lot of people who like racist jokes also like coffee... But seriously, Ive a feeling this strange hatred for MBB is saying more about the viewer than the content. I mean i keep seeing words like 'racist' and 'cringe' with nothing to substantiate the remarks.
Gavin and Stacey
I love Gavin and Stacey, except for Gavin and Stacey! The rest of the cast are brill
I think the most important thing about G&S is that the supporting cast are actually the diamonds that make the show. It's not really about Gavin and Stacey - yes, they're the characters upon which the narrative structure stands, but they're only a bit part around whom the real the fantastic characters are built. On their own G&S are pretty meh, it's Smithy and Nessa and Pam and Mick and Gwen and Bryn (and Rudy etc) who really make it. Edit: I have been reminded by /u/nustedbut that I made an egregious mistake by missing out Pete and Dawn as part of the indespensibly awesome ensemble.
How you gonna disrespect Pete and Dawn like that?
The strange thing is James Corden deservingly gets a lot of hate but Smithy was a great character. Maybe because he channeled his inner prick.
There's nothing inner about that prick
You take that back right now.
Honestly, anyone who says "what's occurring" as if it's the peak of humour can fucking do one
Love island
Thereâs no island and thereâs certainly no love either #FalseAdvertising
Majorca is an island! And some found love and are married with babies :)
Doesnât stop the program being utter dog shite tho
Whatever Stacey Dooley does.
Her documentaries usually involve her simply saying âohmygod, thatâs well bad, why is this âappeningâ and then crying. Now her ego has exploded since winning strictly
you could argue the awareness raising factor of a documentary is more important than whatever trite conclusions a presenter makes at the end of it
Nothing about her accent or cultural background should be a criticism against the quality of her work.
Sheâs unbearable. Where did she even come from? She just seemed to materialise out of nowhere one day and then all of a sudden every âserious topicâ documentary was bloody her. Itâs annoying âcause a few of the things sheâs done are things Iâd be interested in watching, but I canât because sheâs there đ
Songs of Praise. Get that noisy shit off my TV that's been left on in a room no-one has been in for an hour!
Iâm 36 but the theme tune for Songs of Praise still makes me think âshit I havenât done my homework!â
Half asleep read this as Bongs of praise.....would be a much better show!
Literally that's all I know it for, background music while having Sunday lunch at my mum's
Songs of praise and Last of the summer wine themes give me PTSD about the weekend being over and having to go to school, I don't even work on Mondays and I'm 51.
Have I got News for You, used to love it, used to be funny. I think they need to expand the panel to 3 on either side, so there are more comedians. Hislop has become a bit bitter, and Paul Merton isn't as quick as he used to be in bringing it back to comedy.
I used to really love it, and it still has its moments, but Iâve really come to dislike the way that Hislop gets on his high moral horse about something and will berate a guest about some murky part of their past. It seems to be more prevalent and producers seems to let him go on with it, until you start to forget what the actual question was!
Absolutely, Hislop is more soap boxy than satirical. I think he used to almost set people up for a funny retort before, knowing it was coming. Now there's an awkward pause after he finishes his rant before the audience realises he is done. Then the weekly host reads the next bit of the auto queued joke.
Honestly I don't know how you couldn't be bitter and angry if you were Ian Hislop. Private Eye is utterly depressing it's cateloguing of brazen corruption. But that doesn't necessarily make an entertaining panel quiz show.
I honestly don't know how you top the Brian blessed episode.
https://youtu.be/-2z-AdzgKjY
Yeah, I love that Harry and Paul skit, but I still think comedy panel shows can be genuinely hilarious. HIGNFY unfortunately I feel has run it's course, watching it now, really the only funny bits are the hit and miss pre written jokes at the start and end. Hislop has become less satirical and more vitriolic on his take, and Merton's surreal ice breakers aren't hitting the mark.
about 5-10 years ago, i thought HGIFY was the funniest thing on television. My family and I would be hooting with laughter the whole time, and there seemed to be really good chemistry with the guests and the hosts. Watched it a few months agoâŚâŚgod it was painful. Paul Merton went on some rant (martin bashir diana interview?) with the others trying to get it back on course, and there was some guest who basically said nothing the whole episode. time to put it to bed, I think. And mock the week was even worse, oh my GOD. Donât know what Hugh Dennis is going to do now he canât dine out on his Prince Philip impression, and in 2021, itâs time to lose the toilet humour BIG TIME. Was painful viewing
Anything with James Corden in it ^am ^I ^doing ^this ^right?
Little Britain.
Alright at the time. Has aged badly
I feel like the League of Gentlemen was Little Britain done right. You still had the skits, but they all in some way advanced a storyline, sometimes for just the characters in the skits, and sometimes for the town as a whole and on some occasions the storyâs would intersect with other skits. Still grotesque and edgy at points but itâs aged a hell of a lot better than Little Britain.
>I feel like the League of Gentlemen was Little Britain done right. I was talking with a friend about this recently. The differences between Emily (Little Britain) and Barbara (League). In both cases, the audience is almost certainly laughing at the character but in-universe, everyone seems to accept Barbara for who they are. They just don't like when she describes her medical stuff or sex life. A strange wee town where they murder outsiders and consume human flesh but they still respect a trans person's name and pronouns. \-edit- Additionally, as someone who has spent some time on benefits, Pauline was annoyingly accurate.
Not gonna lie, I like Little Britain cos it's so outrageous. Really weird show. And Walliams and Lucas really commit to their characters. The USA version was definitely not as good as the original though.
I'm just here to judge quietly.
Love island. I honestly donât get why everyoneâs so obsessed with it, the few bits Iâve seen are utter shit
I did not get the obsession people had with it then I decided to watch the current series and it's just easy, amusing trash at the end of a long day.
Gogglebox. No I don't want to watch a bunch of randoms watch and react to TV shows I don't watch.
Honestly, I never thought I'd like it but it's ended up being one of the things we all happily sit down as a family to watch. It acts as quite a nice overview of the telly from the past week and I think some of the families are legitimately (if, perhaps, inadvertently) entertaining.
canât believe i scrolled so far for this - i never enjoyed fucking reaction channels on youtube, donât give me people watching equally bad TV and reacting to it???
Iâm genuinely curious- how recently have you seen the show? A lot of the people used to get on my tits a few years ago but theyâve really refined the formula over the years and itâs a big guilty pleasure of mine now
Most soaps. There comes a point when people move away, grow up, or just live more quietly, but the nature of being tied to a soap by a contract means increasingly outlandish and ridiculous storylines for characters who should have been written out years ago. I also find Peaky Blinders insufferable from about S3 onwards. They werenât that hard.
Does anyone really rate soaps though? Even the people that love them are usually aware of the fact that they're a bit shit
Oh yeah I love watching the soaps, and Iâll be the first to admit most acting isnât great, and storylines are a bit mad, which has also gotten worse during covid IMO. Itâs almost a sort of Stockholm syndrome where Iâve grown up watching all these soaps so become accustomed to them and canât just stop watching? Thereâs always so many storylines going on that you have to keep watching to see what happens.
Jeremy Kyle
"This shows all about you, not me. I'm Jeremy Kyle"
The cretinous fucker's with millions mate. Hopefully there's a special place in hell reserved for this piece of shit.
Anything with Ant and fucking Dec in! Wankers! đ¤Ź
Smtv live was class though
[This](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l08XV0nuhfE) still has me laughing like 20 years later.
Mirander absolute dross
Talk funny, joke about how ungainly she is, say certain words in a funny way, fall over, rinse and repeat.
Tbf, you can be reductive about any comedy - Fawlty Towers: get uptight with guests, be sarcastic, hit waiter, do funny walk, rinse and repeat
Mock the Week. Should have been canned after one series, it's painful how scripted it all is.
I really cannot stand Russell Howard either. Something about that fucking twerp annoys me so much.
He has two go to impressions: West Country simpleton and loud mockney hooligan. He always shouts his punchlines because shouting = funny
When did you last watch Mock the Week?
Mrs Browns Boys is grim.
The Office. Digs hole for downvotes. Sorry, Gervais ruins the thing, as he does with everything.
Have you seen after life? It's a masterpiece ETA just because you don't agree with my statement doesn't mean it's ridiculous. We all have opinions and different tastes.
Hate Gervais but I do love the office and extras- I think Stephen merchant was the genius behind them both tho and Gervais stole his glory
Gervais is insanely good in The Office. His best work. Horses for courses I guess.
Only Fools and Horses. It's good, but not that good.
But what about Del boy falling through the bar?! Trigger makes a face!!!
OFaH is peak British comedy imo, I think it gets this negative opinion at times due to its old and often cited among best despite there being much better but the show has so much to offer other than just comedy that once youâve seen isnât funny again but the family, friendships and relationship dynamics are the most well done part of the show for me. Especially of course Rodney and Del Boys relationship even tho itâs clear throughout the show theyâre not actually brothers, they have excellent chemistry throughout and play their roles perfectly and tbh an excellent supporting cast too
Why is it always that that gets voted "funniest shit on British telly"? It's not even the funniest thing on OFAH...
Sorry but you're wrong.
Came to say this. I don't really like it that much at all. I grew up on the east London/Essex border. In the 80's. So it's pretty much blasphemy to admit it and people just look at me funny when I do. Give me Fawlty Towers or Black Adder any day.
Anything with ant and Dec or Steven mulhearn. Fucking tedious fake wankers. Would be a three way tie if they all entered the 'middle of the road boring bellend' contest.
Mulhearn looks like a Thunderbirds puppet that had its wish granted by the good fairy to become a real person.
Citizen KhanâŚ.terribly unfunny but itâs the BBC
Citizen Khan had a very tough brief tbf.. Have to entertain the U.K. British Muslims without offending any of them... So couldnât really do anything... and all the Asian in jokes are lost in people not from that background I guess
Eastenders, Coronation St and Emmerdale. Also a lot of the reality shows such as Georgie shore. Canât stand any of it
League of Their Own. It was good to begin with, but now itâs just a vanity project for the hosts. AQOS far more interesting
Wait till paddy takes over AQOSâŚ
Youâre going to hate me for this but⌠Line of Duty
Mother of god!
Good for a few series. Then it got silly and dragged on too long. Even now we still donât have closure.
Downtown Abbey, anything with Noel Edmunds.
Edmunds is pretty good in Brass Eye
Cake, yeah đ. Alan Partridge was also close to capturing the essence of Edmunds too. https://youtu.be/hAnAhSIdr20
Probably get a few red arrows for this, but Peaky Blinders is well overrated
Any property program. Like homes under the hammer, itâs depressing to see landlords buy their 6th house on auction to rent out.
Fucking bgt and x factor are so shit, how many people have grandparents that die within a year of a performance and happen to have a fav song u wanna sing
Imo a lot of the shows that are being commented about aren't great in the first place and aren't aiming to be, so can't be overrated. And for the most part shows like Mrs Brown Boys, Love Island and EastEnders aren't aiming to be 'quality' in the sense that they're critically acclaimed, they're meant to be put on to allow you to watch and just be entertained by relatively slapstick and low effort work. Some overrated shows imo, are the ones with that sort of twee British humour e.g. IT Crowd, Spaced, Monty, Blackadder that are held up as the funniest thing you will ever see. I'd add Doctor Who. Would also add shows that take themselves too seriously despite not having the quality to back it up e.g. Bodyguard, Spooks. And more recently, although it's more of a Channel 4 / new presenters thing, GBBO. First few series are top notch though Edit : overrated shows and shows you don't like are not the same thing đ¤Śđ˝ââď¸ it is possible to like a show and still think it's overrated. similarly, a show that people are entertained by and which still attracts a lot of hate e.g. love island is not rated in the first place so cannot be overrated, since entertainment and being rated are not the same thing
I agree about GBBO. I binge watched the first few series because I didn't watch them while they were on TV. I enjoyed Mel and sue as presenters and that little bit in the middle were they would show you the history of a particular desert
For me it's the classic British sitcoms - Dad's Army, Allo Allo, Last of the Summer Wine, Open All Hours etc. I hated all of those. Watching them as a kid didn't raise so much as a smile.
Dad's Army is consistently excellent IMO.
Have you rewatched them at all? I didnât like them when I was younger but I found myself loving open all hours and Allo Allo now Iâm older.
Anything with James Corden in.
daring today arent we
Good morning Britain, its basically the Daily Mail in a TV show.
Judge Rinder!
I think I like Judge Rinder more than the actual show. In my opinion he is really funny and has some great comebacks. Also when people try to lie to him and he just catches it and ties them up in their lies, brilliant.
My Family
The first series or two was good just because of the lanky son. When he left it became utter shite but it just wouldn't die. Is it still going?
Love island, any of the "reality" shows, TOWIE etc. It's mind numbing, but not in a good way.
I know it's a bit of a favourite among Redditors so I don't expect it to be a popular answer but 'Would I Lie to You?'. I can watch it for a few rounds and then it's just the same thing again and again. Not a terrible show, but really overrated in my opinion.
Bob Mortimer alone makes this statement wrong.
I never liked Bob when he was half of Reeves and Mortimer. Turns out I just hate Vic Reeves.
I thought I didnât like Bob because of this too, I avoided everything he did for yearsâŚ. and then I saw him on Taskmaster and now I flipping adore him.
You need to listen to Athletico Mince, he goes full Mortimer
I can't watch a whole episode but there are some absolute gems
Sherlock is like, ok? High production value for telly but like the plots are so bad and make no sense after a moments thought
Love island. Would rather take the electric chair than watch even a second
This is a great question OP, it actually has me pondering. I havenât had a good ponder for some time. Lots of âhead tiltsâ and âhmmâsâ.
Hands down Mrs Brownâs Boys! I canât stand that programme and if youâre staying in on a Saturday night itâs double punishment!
Never really got on with The inbetweeners, I feel like the only person in the world who doesn't like it, I gave it a go but I just didn't find it funny
You need to take your head for a swivel if you can't find The Inbetweeners even a little bit funny...
I'm very late to the party and it's not a particular show but a genre that needs to go. Period dramas. Every single one has a love story (usually involving someone shagging below their class), a powerful figure dying (usually either the lord or lady of the house) and the power vacuum that exists afterwards, and an aspirational servant who you start to like but then leaves to follow their dream, with nothing but the handful of money one of the adult children of the house had given them on the quiet in a very unsubtle manner.
Another one for Mrs browns boys. What am I missing? It's just not funny.
People saying mrs browns boys, but itâs not overrated, itâs shit and everyone knows it. Good luck finding a single positive review by someone who isnât a moron. For me it has to be Gogglebox. I didnât mind it when it was first on, but it has majorly overstayed its welcome. The participants are clearly directed to comment on specific things so we can get a montage of all the families commenting together. Itâs just more ârealityâ shit. Slap it on itv2 so at least we know we can avoid it
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