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Subject: [OM] Britcoms, was Re: Re: #233
From: Earl Dunbar <edunbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:14:58 -0400
I still crack up when I see Fawlty Towers episodes.  "Don't mind him; 
he's useless.  He's from Barcelona."

"We're out of waldorfs, actually."

Hysterical!

Earl

Winsor Crosby wrote:

>Surely it is not a great leap from the very British burlesque to the  
>broad comedy of Hyacinth and crew. As Time Goes by is the one I  
>really look forward to. Although I think I have seen most of the  
>episodes.
>
>Have to admit my favorite show is Spooks, renamed MI-5 here because  
>of the racial connotation. My goodness, it is well done. Much better  
>than anything from Hollywood or New York, movies or television. I  
>missed a lot of episodes on the A&E cable channel and discovered it  
>late, but I am catching up with the DVDs from Netflix. Writing  
>Matthew McFadyen out as Tom Quinn was a big loss, but still a great  
>show.
>
>
>
>Winsor
>Long Beach, California, USA
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>On Jul 26, 2005, at 4:31 PM, Jon Mitchell wrote:
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>>Surely not.  Of all the great British TV programmes, that was probably
>>the last I would ever expect to be exported to your side of the
>>Atlantic.
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