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I LOVE British Comedy!

Bobby,

I am a HUGE fan of British comedy. Not that I'm a layabout like Onslow or anything, but I do like to watch "Keeping Up Appearances" on DVD. I have the complete set. I really like "Are You Being Served" as well, but I don't have those yet. Maybe I should cancel cable afterall! It's not like I'm missing anything.

Bryan
 
The British Comedy...

I love them also...have "Absolutely Fabulous" and "Are You Being Served" on DVD...and "Keeping Up Appearances" is on the local public network, so I can see that every Sat. night :)
 
I've never had cable (or satellite) and don't feel a need for it. I have a black-and-white TV, which suits me fine (in fact there's something nice about seeing stuff in B&W). I do have DSL, and I get most of my news online (and the rest from the radio). I have multiple telephone lines and have considered cutting back but can't for business reasons (busy signals lose customers). As for the cellphone, my clients never fail to make astounded noises when I announce that I don't have one and would rather not have one. I did have one in the past, and don't miss it. I don't subscribe to newspapers; trees are an inefficient carrier medium for news compared to electrons over a telephone line.

So, interesting convergence around here so far. Seems like most of us are fairly similar in the profile of our media engagements.
 
Onslow rules--and poor, poor Richard

So much in common among club members. Why it's just uncanny!
"Keeping Up Appearances" makes me howl every Tuesday night on PBS. I still haven't seen them all. Another Britcom: a guy-- he didn't talk, just an occassional mumble; a holiday party with a turket ending up on his head; late for the dentist, shaving& brushing teeth &dressing while DRIVING there; a church service where he kept nodding offto the garbled droning and shouting of the minister. I cried laughing so hard at him. Can't remember the title.

I have a 12 incher and I catch grief all the time: "When are you going to get a REAL TV?"

People say, "You're kidding!!" when they find out I have no cell phone. I hate them; they're little dictators that imprison some of the nicest people I know, and disrupt some of life's finest moments.

I get the New york Times on line and watch the News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS

And after Robert, Jon Stewart of the Daily Show is God.

AND THEN THERE ARE THE WASHING MACHINES. YAY YAY YAY
 
mickeyd said

"I have a 12 incher and I catch grief all the time". Dare I touch this or not. Hmm. (I beat ya to it Toggle)

Daniel, I think the mumbling Brit comedy you are describing is Mr. Beem. He aws hillarious for sure.
 
Mrs. Bucket and Mr. Bean

MickeyD....Our family (and quite a few people on the forum) has roared with laughter at Hyacinth Bucket and her poor Richard for a few years now. We always enjoy her encounters with the Vicar and Elizabeth's brother Emmot. I wish, at some point, that they would have shown her son Sheridan instead of making him the invisible character on the phone that is the perennial student always asking his mum for money.

And now to Mr. Bean.....what can I say....too funny! We have quite a few of the videos. Have you seen the one at the Launderette? OMG - it's hysterical, especially when he switches the fabric softener for coffee!

If this is the only reason to have cable or satellite tv....enjoy; it's worth it! Quite cheeky it is!

Venus :-D

PS We're convinced Mr. Bean is an alien from some unknown planet. ;-)
 
Britcoms:

I haven't met a person yet who hasn't liked Keeping Up Appearances. My favourite episodes were the ones featuring Rose, and how she always pops up at the most inopportune times.

We have the DirecTV "Expanded Basic" service which is $55.28 per month. We recently reviewed our viewing habits and found that on the local stations (including networks) we only watch the local news, 20/20, Primetime, 60 Minutes, and Motorweek and This Old House and that's about it. Most all of our favorite shows are on cable networks.
Of which drive me nuts. You can just about find "Rosanne" on TV somewhere just about every hour of every day. I liked the show, but please. Also, it gets me when several cable channels are running the same movie over and over ad nausem at the same time. We have 130 channels, of which over 80% of the content is stuff we have seen before.
And then there was "Discovery Wings" which had some interesting shows about commerical aviation, but then it turned into the "Military Channel" which reminds me of the parades the former Soviet government had in Red Square on May Day. "See how powerful we are!" is the message.
Speaking of sitcoms, has anyone seen "Mile High" on BBCA? That show seems to make people think that every flight and layover is a party! If people only knew the reality of it all......
 
well for an australian living in australia its easy to live without Foxtel (cable). But for an englishman living in australia (myself), it is very difficult. Having access to UKTV 24-7 is a must with Keeping Up Appearences on everyday at 4, followed by Coronation Street and then Are You Being Served. I don't think i could walk in from work everyday with out that familiar "The Bouquet residence, lady of the house speaking.......SHERIDAN!" waiting for me as i turn on the box. For too long i went without cable and had to watch australian trash such as Neighbours (muffled cry of anguish) and Home and Away (yawn), the only thing good about those programs is the packages that stroll down the beach :P
Anyway, long story short, can't live without cable, don't care of the cost, when i find i can't afford food i might stop my service, till then, "Are you free Mr Pearson?", "No i'm watching Keeping Up Apearences thankyou very much!"
Happy viewing
Matt
 
I confess that "Keeping Up Appearances" usually sets my teeth on edge. The pomposity of that woman, Hyacinth Bucket, and the emasculated daily humiliation of her long suffering husband, Richard, I find a bit depressing. There are laughs when she is usually shone up as the fool she is, towards the end of each episode. But the jokes about her fine china with hand painted periwinkles, her grueling candlelight dinners, or her princess telephone get a bit stale for me.

I do enjoy the Onslows... do any of them ever work for a living? Or are they professional dole-accepters?

Fawlty Towers was a gem.

My favorite Brit comedy of all time was "The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin". First broadcast in the 70's, its send-up of corporate stupidity, materialistic modern culture, and meaningless lives was way before its time, as well as more than a little existential wandering. "I didn't get to where I am today by biting people in the changing room..." LOL...

Sadly, the series is not available on DVD as yet... and it is rerun only rarely on our local PBS stations... nearly always on one for which I get poor reception.
 
Hyacinth....

While a truely nice lady, my sister's Godmother IS Hyacinth Bucket....no joke. And don't forget about Hyacinth's "Indoor/Outdoor luxury barbeque with finger buffet" or Daddy chasing after the women. :)
 
Rich, I pretty much feel the same way you do about Keeping up Appearances. I enjoyed it for a while, but it's soo stale after a while. Although the actor was a bit too burly, Onslo had promise lol.

One of my favorite ones was To The Manor Born
 
Candlelight SUPPERS!!!

Ah! to gaze upon the reflection in the mirror and see Hyacinth.

Venus I love your logo
And its dual meaning
Either love or
Venus Di Milo.

Imagine a wash happy boy has missed the Launderette episode of Mr Bean,
But not that Hyacinth's son Sheridan is a raging Queen

Uncle Bob, thanks for remembering the title for me
I've got a real treat for you and Designgeek in a few days:
Full disclosure on the Haier 22C which I procured on Marin Luther King Day
after doing volunteer work for the homeless even though we're supposed to keep works of mercy a secret. I took the Haier as a reward. Story in a few days as well as the Haier's exquisite surprizes and performance.

Love to you,Venus; and Bob , in your honor, the first Haier load was a megaBob load

Mikey
 
Yikes!!!

I just paid my cable bill. It's a $109.70. ($64.87 for cable and $44.95 for my cable modem.) I hardly ever watch television these days, so I only have a "package" that includes all of my local channels, the cable news channels, HGTV, Food TV, the History Channel, A&E, and Bravo, etc. The only channel that I watch on an irregular basis is WLIW (the Long Island PBS station -- one of three PBS stations in my area) and that's only because it's the only PBS station that seems to have a schedule that I can figure out. (I love British comedy too. Keep Up Appearances is also one of my favs!)

I keep telling myself that I need to cut back on expenses and that I should drop cable. (My internet service would increase another $5.00, because I would lose the "video customer discount".) Inertia is one of the reasons why I haven't dropped it. Friends who didn't have cable had to get it after 9/11 because they tell me that reception here in the New York area suffered when the towers were destroyed. (Most New York area stations were broadcast from an antenna that was located on top of the North Tower.)My apartment building has a "master antenna" so that would hopefully get around any remaining reception problems. Decisions, decisions, decisions!

Mike
 
Mikey, glad I could be of help. Aww Uncle Bob, you can call me that anytime. And thanks for the honor of the first Haier load being one of my loads (was that what I was feeling eaerier today lol).

What no love for me??
 
Direct TV with DVR

I have Direct TV with the Tivo recorder. The digital recorder is really the only way I can enjoy TV as I can program it very easily to record everything I want, no remembering to put in videotapes, etc. Without the recorder I would not get my money's worth as there is often nothing I want to watch on live when I am at the set. The Direct TV with recorder service is $50.00 or so per month.

There is no Cable service where I live so I could not have cable if I wanted it. There is also no DSL but there is wireless internet service which is what I use.
I could not imagine being without the cell phone. It has really come in handy especially while traveling. I have been in remote areas of New Mexico hours and hours from the nearest town but have been able to get cell phone service...that would be my only way to communicate with someone if we had car trouble, etc.
 

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