What are these rules anyway? Does BushBaby have a list somewhere?
Break the rules? Page 3
Quote: Marc P @ June 29 2009, 12:37 PM BSTWhat are these rules anyway? Does BushBaby have a list somewhere?
Not sure, but I think they're the ones you used to say LoG was a sketch show and not a sitcom. 
Did anyone else's school have rules about eating ice lollies in the street whilst wearing school uniform and only crossing roads at proper crossings?
Quote: Griff @ June 29 2009, 12:38 PM BSTWell, there's three pages of them here, for starters:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/writing/paul_mayhew_archer.shtml
Oh sitcom! I don't know anything about that.
Quote: Marc P @ June 29 2009, 12:46 PM BSTOh sitcom! I don't know anything about that.
Who does around here?
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ June 29 2009, 12:29 PM BSTReminds me of the time I kept bending a plastic "shatterproof" ruler on my dad's desk. He kept telling me to stop, but I didn't. It snapped and so did he.
I used to do that.
I went through about ten before I realised that shatterproof wasn't f**king idiot teenage boy proof.
Quote: bigfella @ June 29 2009, 12:49 PM BSTI used to do that.
I went through about ten before I realised that shatterproof wasn't f**king idiot teenage boy proof.
Did you do the same with pizza? 
This site should be renamed The British Comedy Guide For Dummies.
'If it bends it's funny; if it breaks it's...drama.'
Simple.
Quote: don rushmore @ June 29 2009, 2:19 PM BSTThis site should be renamed The British Comedy Guide For Dummies.
What?! I just got used to the 'S' changing to a 'C', now you're going to add another couple of letters on? I don't have time for this, I'm a busy, sexy man!
Quote: David Bussell @ June 29 2009, 2:23 PM BSTI'm a busy, sexy man!
You are sexy. Matthew Stott is a very lucky man.
Quote: don rushmore @ June 29 2009, 2:27 PM BSTYou are sexy. Matthew Stott is a very lucky man.
You have no idea...
No really, you don't.
Quote: don rushmore @ June 29 2009, 2:19 PM BSTThis site should be renamed The British Comedy Guide For Dummies.
'If it bends it's funny; if it breaks it's...drama.'
Simple.
Some things broken can be funny.
Tell me this rule doesn't apply to baby's spines? Because I'm in a heck of a lot of trouble otherwise!
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ June 29 2009, 12:34 PM BSTWell actually I don't think it did break them totally, but bent them. It was a flatshare sitcom, four main differing characters thrown together, there was a situation and it returned to the starting status quo at the end of each episode.
Did it? I seem to remember an episode that started off with the plot of Rik waking up next to a lady (Jennifer Saunders I think), and thinking he's lost his virginity. The episode ends with the cast travelling back in time to medievel England where the house is besieged by marauding peasants. Someone asks "What're we going to do?" to which Vyvian shrugs and says something like "Who gives a shit?" just as the credits roll. Not sure where the status quo is there.
Quote: Lee Henman @ June 29 2009, 5:15 PM BSTNot sure where the status quo is there.
They were rocking all over the world.
Quote: Lee Henman @ June 29 2009, 5:15 PM BSTThe episode ends with the cast travelling back in time to medievel England where the house is besieged by marauding peasants.
I think that was the episode where one of the medieval types asks the other conversationally "so what's new?" and the other replies "microchip technology". It's been a long time since that punchline could be made.