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Blackadder (MK Shrimper) vs Fawlty Towers (statski77)
Blackadder (MK Shrimper) vs Fawlty Towers (statski77)
Tatical voting eh Crickson? A bit worried that the fans "favourite" will get a walloping against the might of Bladder?
Thing is I like about Fawlty Towers is the series was kept short and sweet, Cleese resisted the temptation to just keep rolling out series after series. Some comedies just kept churning stuff out time and time again and subsequintly the later stuff was a bit pants.
COME ON FT, AND DONT MENTION THE WAR!!
4-8? Shrimperzone?
Come on now, the story line of Fawlty Towers was identical in every episode! Basil trying to hide something from Sybil, Polly admirably failing to help him, stereotype Manuel getting abused, "Meester Fawlty, meester Fawlty!" :zzzzz:
Blackadder blended history and brilliant comedy. Who can forget the final episode of Blackadder goes Forth where they went over the top and were cut down by german machine gun bullets, and the picture faded to a field of poppies. Even as I type that, I get shivers down my spine.
Ok, ok the first series was not as good, but it must of had something to spawn 3 series of genius and a few specials for charidee.
I wondered what that "something" must have been myself when my girlfriend made me sit through a few episodes of it the other night after she opened her birthday box set. We skipped to Series 2 by the 3rd episode for fear of going deaf, blind and brain dead...