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All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American

Discussion of episodes currently airing in Un-American locations (anything that's aired in Australia is fair game), as well as anything else the Un-Americans feel like talking about or we feel like asking them. Please use the show discussion threads for any current-season discussion.

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John H - Feb 28, 2003 4:59:00 am PST #2359 of 9843

Parkinson interviews Ricky Gervais and Michael Palin this Saturday night.

There's a review in the Herald which says that Gervais is disturbingly like Brent in real life. Talk about must-see.

And yes, the new Denton show is called "Enough Rope". What do you want to know about it? Colleagues were discussing it in the pub this evening...


Jim - Feb 28, 2003 5:12:02 am PST #2360 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!

There's a review in the Herald which says that Gervais is disturbingly like Brent in real life.

It's true, actually.

Fiona - Jesus! Two tapes (and secret Other Place Goss email) insent right now - they've been in my desk for a month.....


John H - Feb 28, 2003 5:19:47 am PST #2361 of 9843

It's true, actually.

OK double-must-see-TV.

I watched the whole of the first season of the Office over two days, because I got lent a preview copy on video.

I have to say that some of it was so unbearable that I watched from behind a cushion, some was so unbearable that I watched from the hallway, and some was so unbearable that I just couldn't bear it and had to fast-forward -- specifically, the episode where he sang and played guitar.


Angus G - Feb 28, 2003 5:41:45 am PST #2362 of 9843
Roguish Laird

Now I'm burning with curiosity as to what Angus is burning with curiosity about, though I too have a guess....

I imagine your guess was correct, Fiona. It's not as though gossip-worthy things happen over there all that often...

Thanks for the e-mail Jim.

On a more Aussie note, looking forward to the new Denton series. But could that Micallef thing be any lamer? I've always been undecided about whether he's actually talented or not.


Jim - Feb 28, 2003 6:26:49 am PST #2363 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!

The second series is even more painful.

The Comic Relief episode is the most brutal half hour I've seen under the title "sitcom".


moonlit - Feb 28, 2003 6:31:23 am PST #2364 of 9843
"When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey." Martin Firrell

John H, if you're still around, what sort of format is the new Denton? Comparable to any of his previous stuff?


John H - Feb 28, 2003 2:03:33 pm PST #2365 of 9843

The second series is even more painful.

Oh god. And what happens to Tim and Dawn? No, don't tell me.

what sort of format is the new Denton?

I don't know much about it, I'll let you know on Monday, it'll come up in a meeting.


erikaj - Feb 28, 2003 2:24:12 pm PST #2366 of 9843
Always Anti-fascist!

Hey, nosy lurking American here. The biggest problem I have in speaking to UKians is when we have the same word but it means something else...like(simple example, of course) pudding. US pudding=very soft, yogurt or ice cream consistency...specific word for specific dessert. Not in UK. Don't spend time with a lot of Brits, Scots, or whoever, in real life Zoe, but I read a lot. Of course the danger of that is finding something in a book, saying it, and hearing: "Yes, that was popular in Agatha Christie in 1937. Grandmum was very fond of it."I have the UnAmericans to keep me modern.


John H - Feb 28, 2003 2:28:17 pm PST #2367 of 9843

When I was a kid, every so often someone from the Marvel Comics universe would come to England, or meet an English character, and they would all without exception have an annoying cockney accent, if not actually use rhyming slang.

I got the impression that the USA's impressions of the UK were formed from the experiences of GIs stationed in central London for two weeks in 1942.


erikaj - Feb 28, 2003 2:33:45 pm PST #2368 of 9843
Always Anti-fascist!

Exactly the thing I would want to avoid, John(Well, the idea, anyway.) Cause, until recently, the stuff we saw of "yours" would be only modern on occasion...PBS not known for the hip and happening, but even they have changed their attitude lately, with cable.