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Mind the pedestrian, Richard!
[Humour] Comedy's that have aged well and those that haven't
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I think nostalgia can cover a multitude of shortcomings, though.
Different genre, I love Inspector Morse because it was on when I was visiting Oxford for work, and I love a crime thrilla, and the characters are great, and it takes me back to an exciting time in my life..... but...
Morse's chauvenism did grate when I watched the series all the way through again, the last time (my dear). Perhaps I'll never bother with it again. Sad, but so it goes.
I was about to write that I don't remember anything ever actually happening in Butterflies, but then I realised that as I was about 6 when I last saw any of it I probably wasn't best placed to judge.
Peacehaven Wild Kids
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I still watch and enjoy: Only Fools, Fawlty Towers, Porridge, Father Ted and Gavin And Stacey.
I used to but don’t now watch: The Young Ones, Two Pints, The Office or Brush Strokes (although I do still listen to Dexy’s Midnight Runners)
I used to but don’t now watch: The Young Ones, Two Pints, The Office or Brush Strokes (although I do still listen to Dexy’s Midnight Runners)
Weststander
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Along with George & Mildred, A Fine Romance. I thought Just Good Friends was shite.
From a time with one TV in the house, you had to watch what your parents chose.
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
Richard Briers and Paul Eddington are dead.
- Oct 17, 2008
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I’m not put off by such things, such as the example you’ve given there. That’s the character, in the setting, in the period. Morse is meant to be a grumpy bastard, he’s the same in the books.
It seems pretty arbitrary what people are deciding has/hasn’t aged well, and perhaps it’s them and their worldview which has changed rather than the programme.
I never could stand Little Britain, which I found malicious and offensive at the time. Yet people are now deciding it “hasn’t aged well”.
All the examples I’ve given of oldies, and I’ll added Reginald Perrin and Yes, Minister to those, are shows which document the time without going out of their way to be offensive and spiteful like, say, Curry and Chips.
Weststander
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Have you ever watched the Jeremy Brett Sherlock’s again?
Agree!
I watched an episode of the Likely Lads last week and it certainly hasn’t aged well! I’m not sure the suggestion that dating a “coloured” nurse would lead to picking sugar cane would go down well today 
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The only one I ever watch - Brett was THE Sherlock Holmes for me!
Zef jr loved it when he was younger ( still does I think) he was born nearly 30 years after it was first sired . . . If you have a brain and vague knowledge of modern history, say, at a level your dog would understand, you would get the generational difference. And should find it amusing. most of the funniest bits are timeless. ITV is there for a reason I guess.The Good Life is brilliant and anybody ("down with the kids" or otherwise) who thinks otherwise can f*** right off.
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Father Ted yes
Young Ones No
More yeses:
Bottom
Brass Eye
The Day Today
Dave Allen (the grey haired version)
Jam
Reggie Perrin (all series)
More Nos
Filthy Rich and Catflap (poor writing, daughter)
Are you being Served
Steptoe
On the buses
I've watched that relatively recently (for the first time in my case). It's probably fair to say that there aren't too many time-specific contemporary references in it.
All I said was Morse's chauvinism grates (my dear). Grumpy, I embrace.
Open all hours was old when it was first aired . . . . How can have possibly aged either way? Ronnie Barker was a timeless comedy genius.
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Weststander
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Long before my time (honest) there were Basil Rathbone movies. Also brilliant, without the all pervasive opioid darkness.