Quote: Jowan Mounsey @ August 17 2012, 8:25 AM BSTSo unoriginal, so cleeshay (maybe spelt wrong) and just so uninspired. The plot of episode one was just terrible
But it's a comedy - all that matters is if it's funny.
(I think you're looking for the word 'clichéd'.)
I don't much care for Jack Whitehall, but I loved this.
It was very funny and the main character was engaging. That's good enough for me.
I enjoyed it enough that I'll watch another, the Chinese girl translation thing seems to be lifted from American Dad.
Quote: Gavin @ August 18 2012, 11:20 AM BSTI enjoyed it enough that I'll watch another, the Chinese girl translation thing seems to be lifted from American Dad.
Exactly
People watch American Dad?
Quote: zooo @ August 18 2012, 9:13 PM BSTPeople watch American Dad?
Yeh the ones that thought Family guy stopped being funny 5 years ago
Quote: zooo @ August 18 2012, 9:13 PM BSTPeople watch American Dad?
It's great - especially the alien.
We are taking about the cartoon and not the shit American film.
Quote: Gavin @ August 18 2012, 9:52 PM BSTYeh the ones that thought Family guy stopped being funny 5 years ago
I wouldn't say that though.
Quote: zooo @ August 16 2012, 1:36 PM BSTWe had a 23 year old teacher when I was 12. He didn't seem any different to me in age from the 40 year olds.
Kids are so stupid...
I didn't notice when I was 12, I think up until that age you perceive adults as all the same. When I was 17 I had a few younger teachers around 22 or 23, they were all fairly mature but by then definitely aware that they are close to your age.
Only able to see a preview of this but I liked what I saw.
Quote: Aaron @ August 17 2012, 10:49 AM BSTBut it's a comedy - all that matters is if it's funny.
(I think you're looking for the word 'clichéd'.)
You are right about the word I'm looking for. But no a comedy HAS to be more then funny, for me anyway. It needs characters that I want to see and that resinate (my spelling is awful) and I need situations that intrest me, and if I don't care or get the characters and am not intrested in story then its rarely funny.
Resonate. 
I see what you're saying - but then your closing point kind of comes round to my point: those are all factors that add up, for you, to make it funny. Funny is still the ultimate end goal.
I'm sure, if you think long enough about all of those failing qualities you listed in your original post, you'll be able to think of a comedy you enjoy that exhibits one or more of them, and yet you still find it funny. Practically nothing is truly original, and equally everything has elements of cliché to it; that's what makes individual characters and situations in comedy recognisable and identifiable. Ditto plots - some of the most celebrated episodes of all time actually have pretty mundane plots when you boil them down. It's how the funny is built up from them. Or something.
But yeah, you didn't like Bad Education. No harm in that.
Teachers was hilarious and far better than this sub-standard pap.
People here seem to be very angry about this show...
Hilarious second episode, so many great lines and visual gags.
WTF!
Just seen episode 2.
For me the only saving grace was Jack Whitehall shows great promise as a comic actor.
What is it supposed to be?
Obviously it is trying to be surreal...or is it?
Maybe it's portraying real school life as the writers see it?
The characters are too formed to pass as surreal but the situations are so completely ridiculous and far fetched to be anything like reality.
This confusion is what spoils it for me as it fails on both counts.
Obviously just my opinion.
I wanted to like this but there was nothing in it to make me have any wish to watch it again.
Shame.
Definitely better this week.
