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A thread for all those oddities which you thought were really good, but never made the big time.

Sitcoms that only turn up in the holidays on T4 at 8am, films that grow dusty in Blockbusters. Something that if your flicking through ITV 1-3,000,001 might just be worth stopping for.

To kick off, "Idiotopia" from the guys who brought you Beavis and Butthead.

A clever idea, funny, bit rough in places and you can see where it ran out of money. But the idea that natural selection will leave us a a future ruled by idiots is a winner.

Quote: sootyj @ August 21 2008, 9:11 AM BST

A thread for all those oddities which you thought were really good, but never made the big time.

Sitcoms that only turn up in the holidays on T4 at 8am, films that grow dusty in Blockbusters. Something that if your flicking through ITV 1-3,000,001 might just be worth stopping for.

To kick off, "Idiotopia" from the guys who brought you Beavis and Butthead.

A clever idea, funny, bit rough in places and you can see where it ran out of money. But the idea that natural selection will leave us a a future ruled by idiots is a winner.

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"Idiocracy", surely. Yours is like a really stupid tin of fruit.

And yeah, I really enjoyed the movie. Tune into XBox live for ten seconds and you can hear it happening already.

"Fag!"
"You're a fag!"
"No, you're a fag!"

My pick would have to be the Nick Cage movie, "Vampire's Kiss". The perfect double bill with American Psycho.

What happened to all the great sootyj threads like 'what's your favourite supermarket?' or 'Who's got the best skin blemish?' these new ones are sensible and boring without the sooty madness.

Why does every one think the supermarket one was so nutty?

Lazarus and Dingwall... one of my favorite sitcoms of all time.. with Stephen Frost and Mark Arden

Oh. My. God. I loved that! It was a bit like Police Squad, wasn't it? But even better.

No one ever remembers it; a very underrated, excellent show.

Quote: Griff @ August 21 2008, 10:17 AM BST

I used to love Barbary Coast with William Shatner and Doug McClure. It finished in 1976 and isn't available on video or DVD, as I am probably the only person in the world who would buy it.

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McClure and Shatner in vaguely pirate themed adventures, I am so, so very jealous of you right now.

Quote: JuliaC @ August 21 2008, 10:12 AM BST

Oh. My. God. I loved that! It was a bit like Police Squad, wasn't it? But even better.

No one ever remembers it; a very underrated, excellent show.

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Excellent I have found someone else who watched it *HUG*

I didn't imagine it...

Quote: Simon Stratton @ August 21 2008, 9:20 AM BST

What happened to all the great sootyj threads like 'what's your favourite supermarket?'

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Aldi.

Talking of William Shatner, anybody seen Incubus? The horror film he made entirely in Esperanto.

Quote: chipolata @ August 21 2008, 2:34 PM BST

Talking of William Shatner, anybody seen Incubus? The horror film he made entirely in Esperanto.

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I heard about that but I don't know anyone who's ever seen it, including me.

Does Nightingales qualify? Pure twilight zone - a guy once posted on a forum like this that it made him want to jack it all in and become a night-time security guard in an office block. Know exactly what he meant...

And what a cast.

Boomtown. Fantastically innovative American crime drama that sadly got cancelled after one and a bit seasons. And talking of great cancelled shows, Jericho, the post appocalypse show was also great.

Quote: David Bussell @ August 21 2008, 2:36 PM BST

I heard about that but I don't know anyone who's ever seen it, including me.

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I've seen largish chunks he's very, young, intense and sexual.

Like an esperanto Deniro

Shatner was a very beautiful young man.