Black Books was great.
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It has its flaws, but I quote The IT crowd almost weekly
A fire? At a Sea Parks ?
Good morning, that’s a nice tnetennba.
I'm disabled.
Leg disabled!
And how did it happen, if you don’t mind me asking?
Acid.
I think that's one of the best episodes in the history of TV.
Sir, the police are here.
They would like to speak to you about some irregularities in the pension fund.
I enjoyed it in the past, but lost all ability to after it became known what a piece of human shit Graham Linehan is.
Pretty much all of the cast have done better things without him which are more worth watching.
The Young Ones!
Absolutely Fabulous is a great sitcom about a teenaged girl dealing with her narcissistic mother's shenanigans. funny AND has some real moments.
Bottom
The four-episode Dirk Gently miniseries.
It was so much better, both as TV and as something in the spirit of Douglas Adams, than that mess of a Netflix series which followed it.
I always felt Garth Marenghi's Darkplace deserves more recognition.
Matthew Holness has continued to do Garth Marenghi stuff. You can actually read some of the novels Garth Marenghi wrote, and they're just as good (by which I mean awful, in excellent ways) as you'd expect them to be. He's even on a book tour right now!
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Time team. That shit was amazing. It went on for like 20+ years and EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. it was fascinating. The closest thing we have now is josh gates' expedition unknown, which is really hit and miss. Recently it's been so picky about things they're likely to hit on that some seasons only have 4-6 episodes. He tries to make the finds to be to big. Time team found all kinds of fantastic things because they were just looking for historical significance, not mountains of treasure. But they always found treasures of some kind. That was a really great, fascinating show.
I'm also a really big fan of top gear.
Now we’re going down to the bottom field where Barry and Lucia believe they’ve found a wall.
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I feel like this about another C4 program of that era - Grand Designs.
Gone on for years now, but it just seeing how these people underestimate what they are getting into and will then just throw extra fuel on the pressure fire "just started renovating this massive listed barn that's 90% falling down and has no actual foundations, time to have a baby! Oh and you're also self employed and going to manage the project yourself and do some of the building yourself you say?"
"To sum it up, how financially crippled are you and how many mortgages do you now have 😂 " .
Kevin McCloud is basically taking the piss out of you for the whole show.
It will be weird when it's not on anymore.
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Red dwarf
Such an epic comedy!
I think Red Dwarf isn't really underrated. It's considered a highly successful cult classic.
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Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe/Newswipe shows.
A lot of people missed those back in the day and they missed them as the origin of the voice of our generation: Philomena Cunk. I really miss her compatriot Barry Shitpeas.
Also Charlie Brooker's police procedural sendup A Touch of Cloth starring John Hannah is similarly criminally underrated.
Just imho Brooker's comedy is way better than his dark scifi of Black Mirror.
Touching, Cloth.
We're going to lose face, Cloth.
I shall find this squad's duty register, and have you cut from the same, Cloth.
"I want that report on my table first thing tomorrow morning, Cloth"
"But sir-"
"On my table, Cloth!"
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The misfits. A show about a group of working class juvenile delinquents who suddenly get random super powers.
Ughhhh my husband and I used to LOVE this show when it was airing.
Went off the rails a bit towards the end though.
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Jam.
Dark and weird sketch comedy from Chris Morris (probably best known for the film Four Lions, and the already-mentioned TV series Brass Eye). Transgressive comedy from the past usually either feels tame or completely unacceptable as social mores drift over time, but this (for the most part) still manages to sit in the sweet spot.
Seems my brain just assumed that Brass Eye had already been mentioned... Double checked the thread, and it somehow hasn't, despite the Paedogeddon episode being one of the most notorious pieces of British TV in history. If you're going to watch just one piece of Morris' TV work, it should be this episode.
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- People Just Do Nothing
- Flowers
- Peep Show
Peep Show! Also spaced. Havent heard of the ones you mentioned I'll have to check them out.
Spaced is the best.
Brian: Do you think I should lose the waistcoat?
Tim: I think you should burn it. Because if you lose it, you might find it again.
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I really liked a sitcom called Detectorists (2014-2017) from and with Mackenzie Crook. Ran for three seasons. Not many people know about this show here in the Netherlands. I hoped it had stayed on for longer.
Great show
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The League of Gentlemen
IT Crowd
Definitely worth mentioning but also definitely not underrated! We still quote it almost daily "Awright, 'arry? D'you see that ludicrous display last night?" 🤣
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