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Somehow, a couple of threads have gone of topic and discussions about British TV occured. So now I'm making a thread about it.

My top three British TV shows are:

1. The IT Crowd. The first time I saw it, I didn't expect it to become one of my favorite shows ever.
2. Keeping Up Appearances
3. Mr. Bean
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1. Dr. Who
2. Sherlock
3. The IT Crowd
4. Spaced
5. Torchwood
6. The Office
7. That Mitchell And Webb Look
8. Garth Marenghi's Dark Place
9. Snuff Box
10. Man To Man With Dean Learner
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The Office is amazing, also watch Spaced if you haven't already

And of course Dr. Who
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Anyone been watching Top Gear these last few weeks?
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Cymro2011 wrote:
Anyone been watching Top Gear these last few weeks?


This sums up my thoughts on Top Gear:


Link


It's really worth 15 minutes of your time, I promise.
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I thoroughly recommend the TV adaptations of Poirot.
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lethalnezzle wrote:
This sums up my thoughts on Top Gear:


Link


It's really worth 15 minutes of your time, I promise.


Jesus-fucking-christ, that was genuinely disgusting. Did Clarkson and Hammond rape his wife or something? Fuck that was pitiful.
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Cymro2011 wrote:
Jesus-fucking-christ, that was genuinely disgusting. Did Clarkson and Hammond rape his wife or something? Fuck that was pitiful.


To copy a YouTube comment:

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Not really, he does't really think that, and what he was doing here, as everyone there in that room now understands, is he was using an exaggerated form of the the rhetoric and implied values of Top Gear to satirise the rhetoric and implied values of Top Gear, and it was a shame for him to have to break character and explain that but unfortunately even that clear, explicit explanation was too subtle for some.


Seriously, it's satire. An extremely clever satire of and aimed at people who air, or are compliant with, completely abhorrent views. Good to see it went over your head.

EDIT: It's just a joke. Like they do on Top Gear. Like the time Clarkson made an John Merrick impression and called an oddly shaped car "The Elephant Car", or the time called the Ferrari F430 the "Special Needs 430" because it was slower than he was expecting, or when he said the people at Hyundai had "probably eaten spaniel for lunch", or the time Richard Hammond called Mexicans "lazy, feckless and flatulent" and his pal Clarkson joined in by saying that they don't have an Olympic Team because "because anyone who can run, jump or swim is already across the border", or when Clarkson said the only use of for the Welsh language was so that "a bunch of hotheads can get all nationalistic", or the time he called Gordon Brown a "one-eyed Scottish idiot", or the time he said all public sector strikers should be "executed in front of their families", or when he implied on Twitter that the height impaired weren't human ("Short people. When you've finished using a car, put the fucking seat back, so humans can use it afterwards"), or the time he mimicked lorry drivers by saying "Change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder", or the time he said the Jaguar XKR-S "gets its tail out more readily than George Michael". Or what about that time Clarkson suggested they should invent a quintessentially German car, and Hammond piped up by saying that the spoons "should be replaced with little sausages", to which Clarkson replied, "no, we should give it indicators that do this" before making a Nazi salute? Or the time Clarkson said of the Renault V6 that "in typical French fashion, it just gives up a bit"?

All Stewart Lee was doing was satirising the extremely offensive rhetoric and values and Top Gear. What he did is not disgusting; Top Gear is disgusting. To finish, I'll reiterate: it's just a joke, like they do on Top Gear.


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SPAAAAAACEEEEEEEED.

That show is sick.
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LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE OR GET THE FUCK OUT

Also the american office is leagues better then the British one (my plan is to run Ricky Gervais over with a 2A5 Leopard tank)
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