Quote: chipolata @ May 29 2009, 9:41 AM BSTin-your-face BSGer's
Sounds awful.
Everybody loves the programme ... you hate it? Page 12
Are there any subtle BSGers?
Quote: sootyj @ May 29 2009, 9:50 AM BSTAre there any subtle BSGers?
Mark, the guy who founded it?
He's not sublte, he's just cool a hepcat of sitcom.
Family guy is a load of shit.
I prefer Family Guy to The Simpsons.
Aw, a Howard avatar!
Quote: zooo @ May 29 2009, 4:12 PM BSTI prefer Family Guy to The Simpsons.
Early Simpsons, say 3rd season to 8th or 9th, was untouchable. Late period Simpsons isn't even as good as Stressed Eric.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ May 28 2009, 11:55 AM BSTOne of THE most iconic moments in sitcom history is cringeworthy?! E Gads!
That moment was just a self-conscious reprise of Ministry of Funny Walks and Cleese breaks the fourth wall when he says "I'll do the funny walk." If I remember right, you can even hear the audience recognise the reference and anticipate it. That's the cringeworthy part. As it stands, it's Cleese giving a nod to all the MPFC fans when the shrieking Hitler diatribe was enough. 
As to the rest, put me down for Family Guy. And Friends.
Quote: Lee Henman @ May 28 2009, 10:29 AM BSTold-fashioned cheesey theatrical farce
What's wrong with farce? And to think I liked you. PAH!
Quote: Leevil @ May 28 2009, 10:49 AM BSTIs this a piece of your brain?
Quote: SlagA @ May 29 2009, 5:17 PM BSTThat moment was just a self-conscious reprise of Ministry of Funny Walks and Cleese breaks the fourth wall when he says "I'll do the funny walk."
I don't think I actually agree, from what I understand he absolutely hated that sketch, didn't want to do it, and was annoyed that he kept having to do it in their live shows!
He was goose stepping, the walk of choice for fascists.
Quote: Lee Henman @ May 28 2009, 12:37 PM BSTWhat is it you don't like about The Beatles if you don't mind me asking?
The music.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ May 28 2009, 4:47 PM BSTThe gayer quote.
Quote: SlagA @ May 29 2009, 5:17 PM BSTThat moment was just a self-conscious reprise of Ministry of Funny Walks and Cleese breaks the fourth wall when he says "I'll do the funny walk." If I remember right, you can even hear the audience recognise the reference and anticipate it. That's the cringeworthy part. As it stands, it's Cleese giving a nod to all the MPFC fans when the shrieking Hitler diatribe was enough.
I disagree with every point you make in this paragraph. Thinking back to it, it strikes me as exactly in character as the kind of thing Basil would do when concussed and not holding back in that oh-so-typically-British fashion.