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Everyone always drones on about how the 3 Season, 3 Episodes per season British versions are superior, but they're actually lovely as gently caress. For all the talk of how North Americans value quantity over quality, the quality of British shows ranges from worse than to average compared to their American counterparts. The Office Veep (UK: The Thick of It) Literally Anything Else I would love for someone to make an American version of Teachers, because that would be wayyyy better too
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Well they haven't remade Black Books yet so....really, how great could they be?
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Dec 20, 2014 12:48
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i tried to watch the american Shameless since everyone says it's better and william h macy is always great, but it just felt too weird watching the same scenes with mostly the same dialogue coming from different people.
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Dec 20, 2014 12:51
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veep is nowhere near as good as the thick of it even though the same british guy wrote it, i'm so sorry
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Dec 20, 2014 12:53
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Matoi Ryuko posted:Well they haven't remade Black Books yet so....really, how great could they be? Um I didn't say this yet b/c I don't want to sound like I'm copying you or smth but Black Books was great............
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Dec 20, 2014 12:54
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American inbetweeners was a travesty and im assuming you have justifiably scrubbed it from your brain op
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Dec 20, 2014 12:59
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Counterpoint: American Red Dwarf and Inbetweeners are loving horrible
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Dec 20, 2014 12:59
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I heard the American Coupling was awful but I never watched it and UK Coupling was pretty bad anyways no one speaks kindly of US Top Gear either
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Dec 20, 2014 13:04
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Crewmine posted:veep is nowhere near as good as the thick of it even though the same british guy wrote it, i'm so sorry No american approximation of Malcolm Tucker can be as good as scottish Malcolm Tucker.
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Dec 20, 2014 13:07
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*watches american low winter sun* Lmao ok op
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Dec 20, 2014 13:07
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Professor Shark posted:Everyone always drones on about how the 3 Season, 3 Episodes per season British versions are superior, but they're actually lovely as gently caress. For all the talk of how North Americans value quantity over quality, the quality of British shows ranges from worse than to average compared to their American counterparts. buzz off, troll
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Dec 20, 2014 13:09
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XMNN posted:American inbetweeners was a travesty and im assuming you have justifiably scrubbed it from your brain op Maybe, but how are you going to improve on hilarious statutory rape? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyxYHixLRQg
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Dec 20, 2014 13:09
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Professor Shark posted:Everyone always drones on about how the 3 Season, 3 Episodes per season British versions are superior, but they're actually lovely as gently caress. For all the talk of how North Americans value quantity over quality, the quality of British shows ranges from worse than to average compared to their American counterparts. Counterpoint: American Red Dwarf, a show so bad it got one pilot and flopped.
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Dec 20, 2014 13:10
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Inbetweeners OP Check mate.
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Dec 20, 2014 13:12
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KiteAuraan posted:Counterpoint: American Red Dwarf, a show so bad it got one pilot and flopped. American teachers apparently got 6 episodes which Im guessing means it sucked contrary to the ops prediction
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Dec 20, 2014 13:17
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I watched the first season of Episodes (fast forwarding through the last couple because they became boring as poo poo) and found the smug British reactions to American audiences to be pretty hilarious and accurate: they take a popular show from England, take the parts that make it good, cut the parts that make it bad, cast someone who comes with a built-in audience, and make it into a successful show for North America (and therefore the world) while the Brits  about dumbing down and integrity and abloo-bloo
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Dec 20, 2014 13:19
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Shasta Orange Soda posted:i tried to watch the american Shameless since everyone says it's better and william h macy is always great, but it just felt too weird watching the same scenes with mostly the same dialogue coming from different people. Somewhere mid-second season maybe sooner they depart and become an etirely different show. Very worth the watch. The OP's pretty much retarded but Shameless is one of the shows that the American version improved on.
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Dec 20, 2014 13:24
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wskkg7rXMkA This, if anything, makes Macy Shameless worthwhile.
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Dec 20, 2014 13:26
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brick cow posted:Somewhere mid-second season maybe sooner they depart and become an etirely different show. Very worth the watch. The OP's pretty much retarded but Shameless is one of the shows that the American version improved on. Nah man, I'm like super right
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Dec 20, 2014 13:33
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Professor Shark posted:Maybe, but how are you going to improve on hilarious statutory rape? are you saying you watched that, with the bit with the pervy driving test examiner right at the beginning, and then spent the rest of the episode fuming about how ~problematic~ it was? hahahahahaaaahaahaaahha
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Dec 20, 2014 13:37
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brick cow posted:Somewhere mid-second season maybe sooner they depart and become an etirely different show. Very worth the watch. The OP's pretty much retarded but Shameless is one of the shows that the American version improved on. nice, i'll have to give the show a second chance, then. thanks
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Dec 20, 2014 13:38
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Hammerite posted:are you saying you watched that, with the bit with the pervy driving test examiner right at the beginning, and then spent the rest of the episode fuming about how ~problematic~ it was? hahahahahaaaahaahaaahha lol i stopped watching that poo poo 6 minutes in
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Dec 20, 2014 13:38
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They should do an american Father Ted It'd be about a group of prosperity doctrine preachers that run a mega church to fleece poor people. There could be an episode where they run a pray the gay away camp and hilariously 'correct' their victims by raping them.
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Dec 20, 2014 13:44
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XMNN posted:American inbetweeners was a travesty and im assuming you have justifiably scrubbed it from your brain op The original Inbetweeners was absolutely terrible.
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Dec 20, 2014 13:58
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How the gently caress could you think that Veep is better than ttoi You're a dumb gently caress
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Dec 20, 2014 14:02
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the biggest difference when the US remakes a brit show is always that americans can't stand to have anyone who isn't good looking on TV. when a script calls for an ugly character they just dress an attractive person in unflattering clothes I like how willing brit shows are to have actors you wouldn't want to gently caress in them
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Dec 20, 2014 14:04
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Peep Show is better than any American show though.
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Dec 20, 2014 14:16
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The Dennis System posted:The original Inbetweeners was absolutely terrible.
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Dec 20, 2014 14:27
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For a comedy forum, people seem to have an awful taste in comedy
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Dec 20, 2014 14:28
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Whorelord posted:For a comedy forum, people seem to have an awful taste in comedy More like the whinging forum, innit? - British Comedy
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Dec 20, 2014 14:44
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The Dennis System posted:The original Inbetweeners was absolutely terrible. I don't say stuff like this often, especially around Christmas, but please kill yourself. You are a retard.
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Dec 20, 2014 14:45
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Professor Shark posted:More like the whinging forum, innit? - British Comedy bazinga! - american comedy
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Dec 20, 2014 14:47
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the office american version was only enjoyable by actual retards, ditto american life on Mars
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Dec 20, 2014 14:49
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counterpoint: the American office doesn't have ricky gervais' fat smug face in it i think this one at least supports the ops flawed hypothesis
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Dec 20, 2014 14:54
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Quote-Unquote posted:Counterpoint: American Red Dwarf and Inbetweeners are loving horrible Yeah, they stayed too faithful to the British versions.
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Dec 20, 2014 14:59
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Torka posted:the biggest difference when the US remakes a brit show is always that americans can't stand to have anyone who isn't good looking on TV. when a script calls for an ugly character they just dress an attractive person in unflattering clothes LOL. They're stuck with british actors. They don't have a choice
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Dec 20, 2014 15:01
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The Thick of It is so much better than Veep, sorry OP. At least some of the time you're right (The Office, Steptoe and Son, etc.), but that time, nope.
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Dec 20, 2014 15:03
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Bridgeport Gracepoint David Tennant is the same character with the same lines in both shows.
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Dec 20, 2014 15:34
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HP Hovercraft posted:Peep Show is better than any There was a pilot made of a US version with Leonard off of out of the big bang theory as the Mark character who may still have been called Mark.It was terrible which you may find surprising or unsurprising depending on what you would expect of such a thing.
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Matoi Ryuko posted:Well they haven't remade Black Books yet so....really, how great could they be? Black Books was fantastic, we'd totally ruin it in an American re-make. I'd hate to see who'd they replace Bernard with. The UK Office was really boring though. brick cow posted:Bridgeport Yeah they just took away his Scottish accent and made him do a lovely fake American one. Lucinda fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Dec 20, 2014 |
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