Quote: Millsy @ April 1 2011, 12:30 PM BSTSpaced was nowhere near as funny as it thought it was, Green Wing was dire, Big Train never really clicked despite a few good ideas and Jam...well I've never watched Jam.
If he's so beloved because of the above then fair play. Not for me though.
That's a lot of wrong for such a short post! 
Quote: Millsy @ April 1 2011, 12:30 PM BSTJam...well I've never watched Jam.
Well, that's a useful opinion...
Quote: Tim Azure @ April 1 2011, 1:33 PM BSTWell, that's a useful opinion...
I wasn't aware I'd claimed it was useful, thanks for pointing out my mistake.
Very good yesterday I thought, the most consistently funny episode so far, it had me laughing from the start, whilst previous eps have sort of built up slowly. Maybe it's just because you know the characters better now; the Dad was terrific this week, with his meat and potatoes, and claims that 'he only kissed her breasts'.
'Should meat squeak?'
Very good!
Another sitcom I haven't got round to watching so I can't slag it off yet. However, what a terrible title, what a truly awful sitcom title, doesn't inspire me to watch it at all. I hope the sitcom itself isn't a tenth as bad, for its sake really. I'm going to be very late starting this sitcom because of the woefully bad title, and it deserves my tardiness. How the bejibbers did that one get through all the tests and stages? I know nuuthing.
Friday Night Dinner: Total rubbish, should be fed to the dog, if he's got the digestion for it.
Well, it's about a family who meet every Friday for dinner, so seems a pretty appropriate title.
I have to say, I'm surprised by the amount of people on here who really dislike this show.
Dislike, doesn't quite cover it. All the fuss the channels make about the quality of script submissions, and this is what they turn out. There's a joke somewhere but I'm sure it's not in FND scripts. I wonder if I'm watching the same show as the people who think FND is comedy? The show is actually closer to what would come out of the dog if it did eat the Popper's script.
*Shrugs*
It makes me laugh, it's fun.
But, it's not great comedy?
Well it's not going in my top ten favourites, no; but I like it.
Yes, there is that, it explains what it is, but I think it risks not enticing people to watch it, a major drawback, especially if it's a watchable sitcom. Maybe they could have thought up something similar but not as dull sounding?
Quote: Matthew Stott @ April 2 2011, 4:09 PM BSTVery good yesterday I thought, the most consistently funny episode so far, it had me laughing from the start, whilst previous eps have sort of built up slowly.
I actually found the opposite: this was noticably, for me, a very dry first 18 or 19 minutes, and a good couple of laughs in the last few.
Some nice gags but the overall weakish structure and characters undercut them.
The two boys' juvenile gags are so utterly tired they actually make negative laughs.
The Mercedes thing and dad talking about his sex life was very funny.
Maybe, I'm drinking from the wrong well, or need to stick frozen fish-fingers in my ears, to 'get' this one.
