http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51311 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Tue, 21 May 2013 01:09:01 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51311#post-148246 Sun, 11 Nov 2012 16:15:37 +0000 nickb 148246@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I am too old. Was it for children? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51311#post-147934 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:50:00 +0000 Yikes 147934@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Soap and Taxi for me out of the American ones back then.</p> <p>Still laugh when I think of the scene where Rev Jim sits his driving test with Bobby helping and he gets the question about what to do when you see a red light ... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51311#post-147924 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:47:29 +0000 Gerontius 147924@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Agreed, SOAP was a bit special...it paved the way for all the others.<br /> Still holds up well.<br /> A Brit comedy that doesn't get too many mentions is COUPLING<br /> Yes, I hear what you're saying but I thought it was good. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51311#post-147756 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:54:50 +0000 Lucy4 147756@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I don't think you should be comparing Cheers with Soap. Cheers, after all was only a very good sitcom. Soap was on a stand alone level on its own. In my best Cliffy voice I'd put it up there with the 70s version of I Claudius for laffs.<br /> Talking about Cliffy, who remembers him being shot while paddling across the Rhine in A Bridge Too Far? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51311#post-147748 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:27:00 +0000 Paddy Berzinski 147748@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Cheers was great. Just a personal view, but I prefer the older stuff from the States, like Soap, Happy Days, Cosby, and Married With Children. Friends just leaves me cold, although I like the theme tune. My all time favourites are the reruns they had a few years ago of the Beverly Hillbillies, Bilko, and the Addams Family. Sometimes the Simpsons is very good too. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51311#post-147747 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:17:59 +0000 sigmund 147747@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>According to my missus, I <strong>am</strong> Frasier... and Niles... but not Eddie. Small mercies. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51311#post-147704 Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:18:16 +0000 The All New Jeni B 147704@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I really enjoyed Frasier, possibly because I know brothers who are frighteningly like Frasier and Niles. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51311#post-147701 Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:12:17 +0000 Sinnick 147701@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I rather like Frasier, too, though perhaps it's not to everyone's taste. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51311#post-147685 Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:29:11 +0000 Tripod 147685@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yes... I like the 'ensemble' cast of Cheers. If it was made this side of the pond it would be a desperate collection of unrelated gags, trying too hard to be funny. The best US comedy looks effortless (even though it obviously isn't). I'm a big fan of Seinfeld too: my boxed sets get me through many a winter's evening... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51311#post-147678 Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:52:01 +0000 Lucy4 147678@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>If you've not noticed they're re-running Cheers on ITV4. And don't forget, it was filmed before a live studio audience. I'm British and I'd like to say a British sitcom was better than this but I can't. Everything pales in comparison to Cheers, nearly always written by one guy per episode, in those days, not by committee. Friends was amusing, Cheers was funny. </p>