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I think series two started the "I'm not pissed" sketch, which I sometimes found funny. I only think they did 2-3 of those, so it didn't get old. The Ted and Ralph thing actually had a story of sorts, so that was okay, though apparently there's a movie of Ted and Ralph, which I can't imagine.

What I really liked was series one of Big Train. We never got series two over here, though I heard it suffered because of different writers and because the women left the show. I think Amelia Bullmore is funny as hell, so I would miss her presence. I liked her as the MP who didn't understand that the map of the UK and the toy train were to scale.
 
Big Train was great. In fact, almost anything with Simon Pegg in it is great. The Office sketch where 'wanking' is overused is hilarious, as is the Evil Hypnotist.
 
Yeah, the wanking sketch made me laugh so hard I cried. I particularly liked that their productivity numbers went down the week they stopped wanking for charity. And of course the guy standing behind the potted tree wanking throughout the whole sketch. And James's semen stain obscuring the text on the fax . . .

Fuck. I had work to do, and now I'm going to have to dig out series one of Big Train.
 
CaptainWacky said:
Have you seen Spaced, Number_6? It's not a sketch show, but it's British and funny.
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I've never even heard of it. When was it aired?

BBCAmerica sucks some major ass. They show the same crap over and over again--mainly makeover shit and other reality-type programming--and when they do decide to buy a new series, they'll often only buy the rights to air a single season/series, meaning we see the same fucking 6-8 episodes over and over again.

PBS isn't much better. It's too busy shoving leftism down our throats to provide much in the way of quality programming, and it, too, is stuck on the same few British shows, which it shows over and over again. And I get four different PBS stations through the Dish, so I should have at least some variety. But mainly it's Bill Moyers telling me the world's going to end because there are Republicans.

I need to get a region free DVD player and start buying shit off of Amazon.co.uk.

Unfortunately, when I bought mine back in 1999, I bought a Pioneer, and while I can hack it, it doesn't have an onboard PAL to NTSC converter, which will set me back more than a new DVD player will.
 
Spaced consisted of two series penned by Simon Pegg & Jessica Stevenson, who also played the stars of the shows. The first series aired in 1999, the second the following year, I think. Nick Frost is also in it who played 'Ed' alongside Pegg in Shaun of the dead (although he'd put on about 60 pounds by the time he appeared in that movie between the series).

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0296545/


You won't see it on the BBC - it aired on Channel 4 over here, but it is easily available in Series 1&2 boxsets on DVD.
 
^^We saw Shaun of the Dead a few months back on cable. I really liked Simon Pegg in Big Train, and we liked Shaun of the Dead as well.

Perhaps it's time to buy the Philips player down at Target. I think it's between $60-$70, hackable to make it region-free, and with an onboard PAL to NTSC converter.

Of course, that will lead to massive Amazon spending.

Sigh.

Too bad Netflix doesn't stock any region 2 DVDs.
 
Fuck the left foot. We'll put in the right foot. It's the more sensible foot, more in touch with reality.
 
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