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Monty Python...

Only Fools and Horses by far!

Are You Being Served, Fawlty Towers, Keeping Up Appearances.

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Quote from: Avign0n254 on March 23, 2019, 01:14:56 AMAre You Being Served, Fawlty Towers, Keeping Up Appearances.

Hi AvignOn254!

Welcome to Susan's Place and thanks for participating in the discussions.

Are You Being Served and Fawlty Towers are two I enjoy. I have never seen Keeping Up Appearances.
Are You Being Served's star Molly Sugden shares my family name so people ask if we are related. Nope, we are not. Its just a very common name in West Yorkshire. Fawlty Towers is a favorite of my parents and for Christmas one year they sent me a season on DVD. I adore John Cleese (big Monty Python Fan here.)

I think British humor is one of those things that you get it and enjoy it or don't and don't.

Quote from: Lori Dee on October 09, 2024, 03:50:43 PMI think British humor is one of those things that you get it and enjoy it or don't and don't.

That's very true. It's the same for American humour, though. Either you like it or you don't.

I don't like "cringy" humour, which a lot of shows go for these days. Feeling awkward and laughing aren't the same thing, lol. Stuff like "The Office". It's like biting wool, or nails on a chalkboard for me. I don't get the appeal.

As far as British comedy goes... "Blackadder", "Red Dwarf" (seasons 1-3 only, seasons 4+ don't exist unless you want to hate yourself) and "The Brittas Empire" are a few good shows. I never got Monty Python at all. That's probably heresy as a Brit but I always just thought it was goofy and silly rather than funny. "Only Fools and Horses" was pretty funny, in the earlier seasons. I kind of think shows are of their time. Which is why trying to remake them later on rarely works. And they go on way longer than they should.

Quote from: Sephirah on October 12, 2024, 03:13:38 PMI never got Monty Python at all. That's probably heresy as a Brit but I always just thought it was goofy and silly rather than funny.

Absolutely true, but that is part of the appeal.

My favorite is Monty Python and The Holy Grail. I don't like the animation stuff they put in, but the telling of the story is amusing. I have studied Grail mysteries quite a bit, so I know the various versions of the same story. So, when King Arthur shows up, too poor to own a horse and has his squire clapping coconuts for the sound of hooves... yes, ROFL.

Goofy and silly, yes. A spoof on the story itself. 

Quote from: Lori Dee on October 12, 2024, 03:41:12 PMAbsolutely true, but that is part of the appeal.

My favorite is Monty Python and The Holy Grail. I don't like the animation stuff they put in, but the telling of the story is amusing. I have studied Grail mysteries quite a bit, so I know the various versions of the same story. So, when King Arthur shows up, too poor to own a horse and has his squire clapping coconuts for the sound of hooves... yes, ROFL.

Goofy and silly, yes. A spoof on the story itself. 

As long as you enjoy it! I grew up with a grandad who was massively into British radio comedy which gave birth to Monty Python. Stuff like "Round the Horne", "The Goon Show", "The Goodies". It was very much 60s and 70s humour. I probably got overdosed on it, lol. Very slapstick and in your face. The movies are a bit different to the TV show, though. "Monty Python's Flying Circus". It's very... goofy. You probably wouldn't see them as the same thing. Kind of like the Life of Brian one. They do a good job of spoofing these things when they have something to focus on. A story. It's silly in the best ways.

PS, I am also a massive fan of Arthurian lore. It's like the British Lord of the Rings. Even if only like 20% of it is true, it's still fascinating and evocative.

Quote from: Avign0n254 on March 23, 2019, 01:14:56 AMAre You Being Served, Fawlty Towers, Keeping Up Appearances.

I wonder if anyone noticed that Avign0n254 posted that response in 2019? and has not posted ever again?.. LOL.. I guess taking 5 years to be welcomed took it's toll.. .hahaha...

anyway - only fools has to be legend.. and then I kinda liked the Likely lads and Porridge - it is politically incorrect now but 'mind your language' entertained my uneducated 10yr old brain and I did like Robins nest - but I think more for the story than the comedy - along those lines, Butterflies by Carla Lane - loved the theme tune too.. and I have a soft spot for citizen smith -
Weird ones I would want to watch again, Dear John and Dead Ernest.. I remember liking them at the time and never seen them again?
And then I absolutely loved (and had a crush on the lead actor) Shelly.. again, an awesome theme tune..

Quote from: SoupSarah on October 12, 2024, 04:30:42 PMI wonder if anyone noticed that Avign0n254 posted that response in 2019? and has not posted ever again?.. LOL.. I guess taking 5 years to be welcomed took it's toll.. .hahaha...

anyway - only fools has to be legend.. and then I kinda liked the Likely lads and Porridge - it is politically incorrect now but 'mind your language' entertained my uneducated 10yr old brain and I did like Robins nest - but I think more for the story than the comedy - along those lines, Butterflies by Carla Lane - loved the theme tune too.. and I have a soft spot for citizen smith -
Weird ones I would want to watch again, Dear John and Dead Ernest.. I remember liking them at the time and never seen them again?
And then I absolutely loved (and had a crush on the lead actor) Shelly.. again, an awesome theme tune..

Porridge is cool. I think Ronnie Barker was having a lot of fun with that show.

The original Likely Lads was like the 60s version of "Men Behaving Badly". They had to have got inspiration from that show. "Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads", though, was why you shouldn't try to remake a show after its time.

Quote from: Sephirah on October 12, 2024, 03:50:30 PMI am also a massive fan of Arthurian lore. It's like the British Lord of the Rings. Even if only like 20% of it is true, it's still fascinating and evocative.

Have you read the book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail by Henry Lincoln, Michael Baigent, and Richard Leigh? It is a documentary of research they were doing which has many twists and turns.

The Da Vinci Code novel by Dan Brown was based upon their research. They sued Brown but they lost the case because their book was a documentary and Dan Brown's was fiction. Of course, then they had to go full hog and make a movie too. Neither the book or the movie covers the details of their research, just a brief outline of the story.

Quote from: Lori Dee on October 12, 2024, 05:01:22 PMHave you read the book, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail by Henry Lincoln, Michael Baigent, and Richard Leigh? It is a documentary of research they were doing which has many twists and turns.

The Da Vinci Code novel by Dan Brown was based upon their research. They sued Brown but they lost the case because their book was a documentary and Dan Brown's was fiction. Of course, then they had to go full hog and make a movie too. Neither the book or the movie covers the details of their research, just a brief outline of the story.

I have not, but I will make an effort to now, thank you. I read part of the Da Vinci Code, but never finished it, and got like 20 minutes into the movie before it all got too hollywood for me. I am not someone who, ordinarily, goes in for these centuries old riddles written for Tom Hanks to find. I don't think people had that level of foresight.

The story is definitely not Hollyweird.

The were doing some research which led them to A. Researching A led them to B, and so on. They kept adding notes until someone decided they needed to assemble it all into a book... which later became published.

Quote from: Lori Dee on October 12, 2024, 05:20:46 PMThe story is definitely not Hollyweird.

The were doing some research which led them to A. Researching A led them to B, and so on. They kept adding notes until someone decided they needed to assemble it all into a book... which later became published.

As someone fundamentally non-religious, I tend to come at this stuff from like a massively skeptical point of view. The blood of Jesus and all that. But I know that back then this was a massively different belief system. And who knows.

Quote from: Sephirah on October 12, 2024, 06:35:50 PMAs someone fundamentally non-religious, I tend to come at this stuff from like a massively skeptical point of view. The blood of Jesus and all that. But I know that back then this was a massively different belief system. And who knows.

I get that but it is not a religious documentary. It could just as easily have been about any other figure of that time. It is not viewed in a religious context, but the religious aspect is examined as an observation of what contemporary people were doing at that time.

Austin Powers

(I am assuming this is British.)

Quote from: ChrissyRyan on October 12, 2024, 06:50:20 PMAustin Powers

(I am assuming this is British.)

No, NO!! That's a Hollywood version of what British was. It's Mike Myers having fun, lmao.

If you want the British version, watch this:

Quote from: ChrissyRyan on October 12, 2024, 06:50:20 PMAustin Powers

(I am assuming this is British.)

Oh gosh, absolutely NO!.. that is about as British as a Superb Owl..