The unaired US pilot for the IT Crowd: [link]
These are the same people who are doing Community now.
I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a bed of bones.
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Comedy 1: A Little Song, a Little Dance, a Little Seltzer Down Your Pants
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Tom Scola - Jul 05, 2012 8:24:30 am PDT #5709 of 8624
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Polter-Cow - Jul 05, 2012 8:38:02 am PDT #5710 of 8624
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I watched the first ten minutes or so last month after watching the original and was astounded at how strangely unfunny it was, especially given how closely they were adhering to the original, even down to the costuming and set. Or perhaps because. The whole "Use the exact script as the British series" never works.
§ ita § - Jul 11, 2012 2:01:55 pm PDT #5711 of 8624
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Dan Harmon, being Harmonesque: [link]
I wish him luck getting to the grumpy showrunner niche. I'm assuming he wants to be lucrative enough to be indulged in his...ways.
And part of me is convinced he means "fewer ideas", but hey--he's the professional, so I'ma let him finish. I'm sure there's an argument to be made.
The whole "Use the exact script as the British series" never works.
Other than Coupling, where has this been done?
Tom Scola - Jul 11, 2012 2:04:13 pm PDT #5712 of 8624
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Other than Coupling, where has this been done?
Sophia Brooks - Jul 11, 2012 2:07:51 pm PDT #5713 of 8624
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Queer as Folk and Skins
Dana - Jul 11, 2012 2:32:07 pm PDT #5714 of 8624
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
They also tried Fawlty Towers, though I don't know if it was the same script.
And Red Dwarf.
§ ita § - Jul 11, 2012 2:40:47 pm PDT #5715 of 8624
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, yeah, Tom--if PC is saying the IT Crowd wasn't going to succeed because that never works, how can the IT Crowd be an example of it not working?
Queer as Folk was successful in both incarnations, so it's not a good example of it not working. Although I'd had no idea that they were identical scripts. I thought they were just the same plots to start off with.
Skins was only the same for one episode, right?
§ ita § - Jul 11, 2012 2:42:27 pm PDT #5716 of 8624
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
WAIT, there was an American Red Dwarf? On the list of things that are really bad ideas...well, Fawlty Towers is also a pretty weird idea. I mean, that show struck me as a paean to how stupid one particular stripe of British guy could be.
Dana - Jul 11, 2012 2:44:59 pm PDT #5717 of 8624
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Never aired.
Which, thank god, because can you think of two more British series than Fawlty Towers and Red Dwarf?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 11, 2012 3:04:30 pm PDT #5718 of 8624
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Last of the Summer Wine?