[TV] UKCC23 - R16 Match ONE - Fawlty Towers vs The Royle Family

[Mellotron]

Round of 16 - Match ONE
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Flowery Twats - 1975-1979, 12 episodes

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An absolute colossus of a show. John Cleese heads up one of the most tightly written sitcoms of all time. Needs no further introduction.

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The Royle Family - 1998-2012, 25 episodes

An incredibly warm, earthy sitcom with tonnes of pathos. A brave decision at the time to write a sitcom basically about 4-6 very normal people sitting around doing nothing of an evening, but the tight dialogue and strong performances carried it through - in turn, TRF gave birth to the now reality TV juggernaut Gogglebox.

Made it through the group with relative comfort, but I suspect this might be the end of the line for the Royles.

This Match will run for 7 days, to allow plenty of time for voting.

VOTE NOW!
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UK Comedy Cup 2023 - Group Stage Round Up
UK Comedy Cup 2023 - R16 Match ONE - Fawlty Towers vs The Royle Family
UK Comedy Cup 2023 - R16 Match TWO - Father Ted vs The Detectorists
UK Comedy Cup 2023 - R16 Match THREE - The Inbetweeners vs Only Fools & Horses
UK Comedy Cup 2023 - R16 Match FOUR - Blackadder vs Porridge
UK Comedy Cup 2023 - R16 Match FIVE - Not The Nine O'Clock News vs Red Dwarf
UK Comedy Cup 2023 - R16 Match SIX - I'm Alan Partridge vs The Thick Of It

 

[Hugo Rune]

The Royle Family are going to get battered like Manuel in this one!

 

[Bod]

UK Comedy Cup 2023 - Group Stage Round Up

Round of 16 - Match ONE
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The Royle Family - 1998-2012, 25 episodes

An incredibly warm, earthy sitcom with tonnes of pathos. A brave decision at the time to write a sitcom basically about 4-6 very normal people sitting around doing nothing of an evening, but the tight dialogue and strong performances carried it through - in turn, TRF gave birth to the now reality TV juggernaut Gogglebox.

Made it through the group with relative comfort, but I suspect this might be the end of the line for the Royles.

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VS
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Fawlty Towers - 1975-1979, 12 episodes

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An absolute colossus of a show. John Cleese heads up one of the most tightly written sitcoms of all time. Needs no further introduction.

Each Group will run for 7 days, to allow plenty of time for voting.

VOTE NOW!​

Not the most balanced intro

 

[Mellotron]

Not the most balanced intro

I thought I was pretty darn complimentary of both?! For reference, I voted for The Royle Family, but I'm not going to pretend Fawlty Towers isn't seen the way I've described it.

Equally, if the BBC was previewing Brazil vs Sweden, it wouldn't pretend both are equal standard teams

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Ooh, let me see, the funniest comedy of all time versus something not funny at all

 

[jakarta]

"What did you expect to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across..."

 

[Mellotron]

Forty Titties is looking to possibly rest Manuel & Basil for the second half at this rate...

 

[HHGull]

"What did you expect to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across..."

You can see the sea, it’s over there between the land and the sky

 

[LamieRobertson]

Fawlty Towers for the cup

 

[Questions]

I’m voting For Flowery Twats because the Royle family wasn’t that funny was it ?

 

[Guinness Boy]

I’m voting For Flowery Twats because the Royle family wasn’t that funny was it ?

This.

 

[JJ McClure]

Have you ever seen my wife make toast?

 

[Questions]

There are so many series in the original list I haven’t watched or got.
The I.T. Crowd has been recommended a couple of times to me but I couldn’t get on board.
I still think Count Arthur Strong is one of the top shows of all time but so few people have even heard of it that I speak to. Maybe it’s because it’s from a radio 4 background. I’m watching it for a 3rd or 4th time atm on Prime.

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

Fawlty Towers is brilliant but it's The Royle Family for me comfortably, I loved that show.

I also appreciate being 41 and it originally coming out when I was 16 -18 has a big bearing on that!

 

[Mellotron]

Have you ever seen my wife make toast?

You should hear the noise when she eats a boiled egg!

 

[Tubby Mondays]

Tough one!

On the one hand royal family was fantastic but they probably did 2/3 or too many specials that tainted it a touch.

On the other hand fawlty did the perfect amount of episodes but Cleese is a complete piece of work.

 

[Mellotron]

Tough one!

On the one hand royal family was fantastic but they probably did 2/3 or too many specials that tainted it a touch.

On the other hand fawlty did the perfect amount of episodes but Cleese is a complete piece of work.

The writing standards really did drop towards the end with those specials, don't know if the writing team changed?

The original 3 series in 98-00 was absolutely superb.

The specials (apart from 2006 - Nana's farewell episode - which was decent and had a genuine emotional punch) in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012 slowly got worse, to the point where it was almost unrecognisable as the same show towards the end.

 

[Tubby Mondays]

The writing standards really did drop towards the end with those specials, don't know if the writing team changed?

The original 3 series in 98-00 was absolutely superb.

The specials (apart from 2006 - Nana's farewell episode - which was decent and had a genuine emotional punch) in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012 slowly got worse, to the point where it was almost unrecognisable as the same show towards the end.

Should’ve stopped the death one yes.

 

[MJsGhost]

NSC demographics will skew the pitch on this one. I was born in '78, so wasn't even alive when most of it was aired and in my opinion, it hasn't aged well at all.
Not for me, Clive, but it'll probably win the cup.

 

[jcdenton08]

NSC demographics will skew the pitch on this one. I was born in '78, so wasn't even alive when most of it was aired and in my opinion, it hasn't aged well at all.
Not for me, Clive, but it'll probably win the cup.

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Yeah. Bloody democracy, it’s an outrage!