OMG, how can you not like it? I absolutely love it. <3
I do admit that Tracey's and Ruby's characters were a bit annoying, but I am a huuuge French and Saunders fan and I think it was good.
Me and some of my friends are all the characters:
Me - Jennifer Marsh
Katy - Candice Valentine
Laura - Shelly Du Pont
Beki - Amanda Ripley
And just for the record I don't like The Young Ones that much. I would rather watch this. <3
Don't like it 'cos it's not funny. 
And please do use capitals and punctuation and whatnot in future. It makes things infinitely more readable. Thanks - and welcome to the site! 
It might not be funny but it is a great programme and I enjoyed watching it.
French and Saunders are comic geniuses and they were only really just starting to write stuff when this was made.
And thatnkyou for welcoming me lol. 
I really enjoyed this when it was first on, though as the series moved on when Tracey Ullman left. It did lose a bit of spark.
I seem to remember quite liking it at the time. But I was only about 12. It doesn't seem from memory to be the sort of thing that dates well but for £2 I'd have a punt on the DVD.
Here you go then, just £2.99 at HMV: [h=600729]
Might take a punt on that. Everything else I enjoyed when I was twelve is now immoral or illegal.
I don't think it's that bad - I can think of plenty of other sitcoms with predictable gags and a repetitve, obvious style that I groan at a lot more.
French and Saunders don't write jokes and gags, usually. Their humour comes from characterisation, observation, relationships and situations - as it should. Comedy is, after all, a form of drama.
They were in their formative years in television-comedy - and it is not perfect - but there are plenty of funny moments driven by the tensions between characters.
Ullman, Wax, French and Saunders have all gone on to create more developed works and proven themselves to be comic geniuses.
Incidentally - I created a thread for fans of the show before realising this one existed.
Quote: ToddB @ May 10 2011, 1:29 PM BSTI don't think it's that bad - I can think of plenty of other sitcoms with predictable gags and a repetitve, obvious style that I groan at a lot more.
I didn't find it to have a particularly "repetitve, obvious style", nor "predictable gags". It just wasn't funny, to the point I was angered.
Girls On Top was pretty bad. Used to go out on ITV (when there was just one of them) at 8.30pm, as far as I can recall.
I was gonna buy this soon as I recall it being quite good when I was a nipper.
Not sure now after reading this thread...
Thanks!
Quote: lofthouse @ May 10 2011, 6:34 PM BSTI was gonna buy this soon as I recall it being quite good when I was a nipper.
Not sure now after reading this thread...
Thanks!
It was probably quite funny if you were under 10.
Quote: Aaron @ May 10 2011, 2:10 PM BSTI didn't find it to have a particularly "repetitve, obvious style", nor "predictable gags". It just wasn't funny, to the point I was angered.
The reason that I find it funny is BECAUSE it didn't have these things. Just good comic actresses wringing the most out of amusingly outlandish situations.
P.S. Fell free to delete my other thread on this, Aaron. I didn't see this one and won't be offended in the slightest - enjoy the moment!
Quote: lofthouse @ May 10 2011, 6:34 PM BSTI was gonna buy this soon as I recall it being quite good when I was a nipper.
Not sure now after reading this thread...
Thanks!
Go ahead - buy it. It's not a bad show - despite it not being to the taste of the folks on here. All the young comediennes involved show great potential here - potential that they have certainly lived up to!
Quote: Chappers @ May 10 2011, 10:17 PM BSTIt was probably quite funny if you were under 10.
You can call this immature? Coming after the comedies of the seventies? If anything, the comedies of the 'alternative' generation were more mature in their subject matter and treatment of it.
Quote: Aaron @ June 21 2008, 5:47 PM BSTIs this the least funny British sitcom ever?
No - I can think of plenty of better candidates - probably among the ones you like!
Ok so now I'm even more confused.
Edited by Aaron.
OK - I loved The Young Ones and I was looking forward to this, expecting it to be a female version up to that standard. It wasn't. One good thing it did do though to my mind - and I know I'm in the minority - was introduce me to Ruby Wax who was in effect the equivalent of Vyvyan.
Tracey Ullman didn't really fit in although I was a big fan of hers too.
