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US remake of UK hit sitcom Coupling starts tonight
by ignored_one 14 Replies latest social entertainment
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Eyebrow2
yes...and it SUCKED!!!
I had watched a few episodes of the series from England and found that one pretty damn funny..but the american version just blows...first of all...the first episode seemed verbatim from the first episode of the brit one....maybe it was the actors....it was just really, really bad acting..maybe the brit version is all bad acting too, and I cannot tell because of the accents hahah
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Eyebrow2
Spongebob is absolutely worshipped in my home! my youngest, not quite 2, wants to watch her "spunbub dd" every morning when she gets up....(dd means dvd for those with out youngun's out there)
I had a Spongebob collection at my cubicle at worked...I was even known to throw my talking Spongebob arcross cubicles and assualt coworkers with it....in a friendly way of course.
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Abaddon
Well, British TV tends to reflect real life more.
People say ?uck in real life, or at least they do in England; people say ?uck on TV.
People in British TV programs only very rarely live in an apartment or loft that would take seven times their salary to afford.
British humnour also uses modes that are a little unfamiliar to some Americans; it's not as though Americans don't know what irony and sarcasm are, it's just they aren't national sports in America (unlike Britain), and therefore most people aren't that good at them.
I am also sure that some Americans find scatalogical sex-based humour amusing, but the people in America who DON'T like such things have a sufficiently powerful lobby group to stop it appearing on network TV.
Me and my girlfriend love watching American celebritites being interviewed on English TV. They are so often shocked and out of their depth it's hilarious. They get teased about something by the interviewer, and they are non-plussed, as celebrities get a far easier ride in the USA than here and they're simply not used to it. Shania Twain (sp?) was a great example of this. Then there's the ones who cope well (Jim Carey for example), nd the ones who have 'got it' to some extent, and say things like 'hey, I just love the fact I can say ?uck on TV'.
What this does mean is that any British TV program dealing in mature themes has most ofl its funny bits taken out when it's prepared for American TV.
I mean, imagine Ab Fab on US network TV; no jokes about sex or drugs, no Patsy reeling around off her tits; it wouldn't be funny.
Coupling, is indeed, a British Friends; people with real ordinary believable jobs living in normal flats and houses doing in a stylised humourous way what all the people of that age group do. Friends is more like a commercial, Coupling more like a documentary. "You could live like this" to "Hey, isn;t it funny we live like this".
So an American version of a British version of an American program with all the bits that made it far funnier than Friend (to the British) take out is like making... another Friends.
SURELY ONE FRIENDS IS ENOUGH FOR THIS UNIVERSE?!!
OH! The humanity!
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RAYZORBLADE
I am not into television, let alone UK versions of US shows; US versions of UK shows.
Why the fixation on US programming?
Chilly Beach/South Park (Terrance & Philip), rock!
Otherwise, it's