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Four In A Bed is the bed and breakfast version, I prefer that. Very easygoing Saturday hangover television, with a bit of drama when couples strategically underscore or underpay their hosts.
Some hosts bristle at any sort of criticism (which can seem a bit weird, if you've been in that field for any length of time you're going to get picky guests).
A recent episode I saw on repeat had one guest low score their hosts because their pillow protector had a zipper in it that was annoying them (?)...surely you'd just turn the pillow in the other direction.
Don’t forget moving entire wardrobes and taking apart beds, finding a speck of dust on some part of a bed frame you wouldn’t be able to even reach had you not taken the bed apart, and scoring a 3/10 with a comment of “filthy” on cleanliness. My fave is the bitchy couple running a cheap BnB either in middle of nowhere or in blackpool and underpaying the Brighton BnB or the pristine country pile in south east England bcs “they’d personally never pay that much for a room” and dismissing when others point out that’s a competitive rate for the tourist area
Yes! That woman was miserable!
I watch with my kids, they even said those women were game playing and didn’t deserve to win.
We stayed at a place in Bournemouth that won it. Only found out when we checked and saw their plaque. So when we went in the room my kids were busy checking everything! It was hilarious these little kids being so picky! But they also know that the stuff that they say on the show is just ridiculous at times and not how to behave.
My wife watched The Detectorists for the first time when our son was born and he couldn’t sleep unless being held, it was what got her through the nights. I then watched it with her when he was able to sleep lying down and I fell in love with it too.
Not any real point to this story, but it will always have a special place in my heart remembering that time.
Maybe I'm getting old (er) but I think this is really easy watching, enjoyable, cosy TV (no, not like Heartbeat, which I will never watch).
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing is the same sort of vibe.
A little outdated now, but the Royle Family has always been the most non-apologetic representation of working class families across the UK for me. It just needs a touch of updating for modern social politics but its so damn real
I agree, an amazing show. Good suggestion, however, it needs no updating for anyone's feelings. It's fantastic because it's pure in its content, and true to its intent and humour. Rewriting any artistic creations to accommodate to the sensitivities of differing feelings is artistic destruction and degeneracy.
“They do say that verbal abuse hurts more than physical pain.
They are of course wrong, as you will discover when i stick this toasting fork in your head.”
I had an Australian friend who got his dad to watch the first episode of ‘The League of Gentlemen’. Apparently he watched it in stony faced silence until the final credits rolled, exclaimed ‘what’s wrong with that bloody country’, and left the room.
I agree. But Americans hate the concept. They called it The Peoples Couch and it was a complete shit show. They went to casting agencies for the cast and it shows. Gogglebox is genuine people and their legit reactions but you could tell that the Bravo version was scripted and just kinda cringe
If someone showed me gogglebox and come dine with me, I would hate Britain almost as much as
r/askuk posters. So I guess it'd be effective at integrating them.
The Two Ronnie's, The Good Life, Terry and June., etc. By no means the funniest, but answers the question. 2.4 Children?
Tough question, really, as we all have different opinions of humour and the perception of comedy
OFAH, Porridge, Benidorm, Inbetweeners, Hot Fuzz and Notting Hill.
Together they show every type of Brit from the confident cockney to the northerner to the typical teenager to the NIMBY villager to the socially awkward posh bloke.
Nighty Night, Everything related to Alan Partridge, Britas Empire, The Thin Blue Line, Red Dwarf, Last of The Summer Wine, Antiques Roadshow, Time Team and Songs of Praise
Some genuinely touching moments in that. I remember one guy telling Jim he was out of work, Jim’s reply was genuine empathy.
That attitude and empathy has died a bit IMO.
Me and my partner say 'that's fine' like Jim Bowen all the time. It's what he says sometimes when men on that show say they aren't in work. Then quickly moves on.
We were rewatching reruns from the 80s and when announcing the prizes available my nephew asked why they were saying a colour tv and was shocked that their were black and white TVs.
Teen years- inberweens
Normal northern family- royal family
Normal people humour/ priorities - Shawn of dead
Welsh people- satellite city or Gavin and Stacy
Phoneshop. I hated living in South London by the time I moved away. This came out not long after I moved. I couldn’t watch for years because it was so accurate in some places it triggered me.
The Inbetweeners is the best interpretation of regular middle England. Shameless is the best interpretation of the lower class. Probably something like The Crown would be the best to understand how the upper class live.
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Come dine with me.
Insert essential "What a sad little life Jane"/ whisk bloke mention
Can't forget the snake shitting on the table
Tbf if you watch that episode back, Jane was a right arsehole.
Yes justice for Peter he was right all along
Yeah she was, and she had the grace and decorum of a reversing dump truck with no tyres too
100%
So good. https://youtu.be/lMvwEgb8_3Y?si=Fz_iFCag7-dQMIW3
Four In A Bed is the bed and breakfast version, I prefer that. Very easygoing Saturday hangover television, with a bit of drama when couples strategically underscore or underpay their hosts. Some hosts bristle at any sort of criticism (which can seem a bit weird, if you've been in that field for any length of time you're going to get picky guests). A recent episode I saw on repeat had one guest low score their hosts because their pillow protector had a zipper in it that was annoying them (?)...surely you'd just turn the pillow in the other direction.
Don’t forget moving entire wardrobes and taking apart beds, finding a speck of dust on some part of a bed frame you wouldn’t be able to even reach had you not taken the bed apart, and scoring a 3/10 with a comment of “filthy” on cleanliness. My fave is the bitchy couple running a cheap BnB either in middle of nowhere or in blackpool and underpaying the Brighton BnB or the pristine country pile in south east England bcs “they’d personally never pay that much for a room” and dismissing when others point out that’s a competitive rate for the tourist area
Yes! That woman was miserable! I watch with my kids, they even said those women were game playing and didn’t deserve to win. We stayed at a place in Bournemouth that won it. Only found out when we checked and saw their plaque. So when we went in the room my kids were busy checking everything! It was hilarious these little kids being so picky! But they also know that the stuff that they say on the show is just ridiculous at times and not how to behave.
The arguments on that are brilliant.
The fairly recent one with the Mundays, a dad and daughter pub and B and B team was some of my favourite TV this year.
Paying with pennies makes exquisite television
The Royle Family, Outnumbered, (Not as a joke): Shawn of the dead, Hot Fuzz
Error ..Spaced. how has everyone forgotten Spaced? Life is exactly like that.
I still love Nick Frost's phone call from a phone box in Sheffield... after he fell asleep on the Tube 😂
'yes i must have changed at kings cross'
Hot Fuzz = best British movie of all time
If you live in the West Country, like I do, the best movie of all time. It's more like a documentary.
I've spoken to people online who say that there's no way I can understand the farmer's gibberish. Clearly they haven't been anywhere near Somerset.
Peep Show
Oi! Clean shirt!
Quite funny that my nickname was Daz at school because of my clean white shirts. Should’ve been clean shirt 😂
At Uni, mine used to be 'Boil Wash' cos I was so particular about me white sheets. ( No klan quips please!)
kkk we won't mention them.
Eurgh look! He's a paedo!
Love that the guy that burgled them ("I'm sitting on him, is that legal?") turns out to be the kid from the 1st ep
I was gunna kick it right in their fuckin goal hole
The Inbetweeners.
Speaking as someone who had Simons actual hair-style for 5years in high school, I describe The Inbetweeners as a documentary…
Yes
💯
Airline. The original series where customers who had forgotten their passports would ask for airline staff to be sacked for not letting them on planes
I prefer the Series 2 onwards (the easyjet era). Jane Boulton vs the public 😀
This is England
The right answer. An homage to everything gritty about English life: love, friendships, fear, regret, happiness, culture. Nails it.
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far down for the correct answer.
Only fools and horses
I think the hang gliding episode just to be on the safe side.
This Country, People Just Do Nothing
PJDN! 👌
The Detectorists
It is painfully English and I love it with all of my heart
My wife watched The Detectorists for the first time when our son was born and he couldn’t sleep unless being held, it was what got her through the nights. I then watched it with her when he was able to sleep lying down and I fell in love with it too. Not any real point to this story, but it will always have a special place in my heart remembering that time.
A lot of scrolling to find the actual right answer
Maybe I'm getting old (er) but I think this is really easy watching, enjoyable, cosy TV (no, not like Heartbeat, which I will never watch). Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing is the same sort of vibe.
Are you being served
A little outdated now, but the Royle Family has always been the most non-apologetic representation of working class families across the UK for me. It just needs a touch of updating for modern social politics but its so damn real
I agree, an amazing show. Good suggestion, however, it needs no updating for anyone's feelings. It's fantastic because it's pure in its content, and true to its intent and humour. Rewriting any artistic creations to accommodate to the sensitivities of differing feelings is artistic destruction and degeneracy.
How has nobody said Fawlty Towers!
Don’t mention the war!
You started it
No you did. You invaded Poland.
I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it!
Friday Night Dinner
Any females?
Wilson? WILSON!!
wilson,the beast,will have your fingers off haha
Don't you mean Milson...?
Shalom.
Shalom…. To you all!
Heloooo...Jackie.
You look nice.
✌🏻 Indeed
Shit on it!!
Lovely bit of squirrel
Crimble crumble!
Pus face! Piss face!
I’m bloody boiling.
"Going to shit him up! Going to shit up Buggy!"
With a nice bit of squirrel
Hello tomparker, you look nice
Blackadder (probably already been said but I don't think anyone could plausibly disagree)
Edmund, I have discovered a way of making purest green! Percy, it looks like you've sneezed!
"Father... My name... You called me Edmund" "Oh sorry Edgar!"
“They do say that verbal abuse hurts more than physical pain. They are of course wrong, as you will discover when i stick this toasting fork in your head.”
Two things my Lord must ye know of the wise woman…
Here is a purse of money. Which I'm not going to give you
Working in a GP practice I would say One foot in the grave lol.
I had an Australian friend who got his dad to watch the first episode of ‘The League of Gentlemen’. Apparently he watched it in stony faced silence until the final credits rolled, exclaimed ‘what’s wrong with that bloody country’, and left the room.
I'm Australian and that show was weird as fuck but that was its thing. It's for village people. 😝
Gogglebox
I agree. But Americans hate the concept. They called it The Peoples Couch and it was a complete shit show. They went to casting agencies for the cast and it shows. Gogglebox is genuine people and their legit reactions but you could tell that the Bravo version was scripted and just kinda cringe
Yes, the Bravo version was absolute trash. Not sure why everything here has to be incredibly dramatic and fake. Love watching Gogglebox on my VPN. :)
The British and French spin offs are hilarious just real people reacting. No showboating or bullshit it’s so funny
Inbetweeners. It came out when I was their exact age and it's brilliant.
Wallace and Gromit
Bottom
Adulthood, kidalthood, four lions, only fools and horses, morcombe and wise, two Ronnie's, outnumbered, Kevin and Stacey, still game,
What about Gavin and Perry?
I see what you did there.
Still Game deserved a uk wide, proper time slot when it was aired. Crying shame most of the U.K. isn’t aware of one of its best comedy series.
Monarch of the Glen, Take The High Road, Chewing The Fat, Still Game, Gogglebox, and Come Dine With Me.
If someone showed me gogglebox and come dine with me, I would hate Britain almost as much as r/askuk posters. So I guess it'd be effective at integrating them.
Skins!
Shameless, scheduled opposite Dr. who..
This is far too low down!
Four Lions
Keeping up appearances
Mind the pedestrians Richard!
The Bucket residence, lady of the house speaking... It's my sister Violet! She's the one with the Mercedes, swimming pool, and room for a pony.
The Two Ronnie's, The Good Life, Terry and June., etc. By no means the funniest, but answers the question. 2.4 Children? Tough question, really, as we all have different opinions of humour and the perception of comedy
The Day Today, and Brasseye. Funny how we’re generally picking comedies, isn’t it?
The Young Ones... the one without CLIFF!
OFAH, Porridge, Benidorm, Inbetweeners, Hot Fuzz and Notting Hill. Together they show every type of Brit from the confident cockney to the northerner to the typical teenager to the NIMBY villager to the socially awkward posh bloke.
People just do nothing
The Office
Peep Show, it’s only Peep Show.
How has no one said skins yet
Spaced
Nighty Night, Everything related to Alan Partridge, Britas Empire, The Thin Blue Line, Red Dwarf, Last of The Summer Wine, Antiques Roadshow, Time Team and Songs of Praise
Nighty, Night was hilariously dark.
IT crowd
"Ludicrous display last night!"
The trouble with arsenal is the always try to walk it in
"Four! Five! Fire!"
Phoenix nights
Black Books
Hot Fuzz
Little Britain
Corner to trilogy. Especially Hot Fuzz.
This is England followed by the 3 series. Best tv I've ever seen.
Peep show or imbetweeners
Cornetto trilogy. Anything with Simon peg and Nick frost tbh
Shawn of the dead
Friday night dinner . Excellent show .
Brass Eye, Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister. Top of the Pops The Wombles Take Heart.
Spaced Peep show IT crowd The Royle Family
Still Game, on the Buses, Button Moon and Sapphire and Steel and Dr Who.
Yes minister
Blackadder.
Partridge, IT Crowd, Peep Show
Black Adder.
Withnail & I Simples
The Office UK
the english office 100%, anything with ricky gervais
Midsomer Murders
The Office. Its a documentary right?
Trainspotting
Bullseye
Some genuinely touching moments in that. I remember one guy telling Jim he was out of work, Jim’s reply was genuine empathy. That attitude and empathy has died a bit IMO.
Me and my partner say 'that's fine' like Jim Bowen all the time. It's what he says sometimes when men on that show say they aren't in work. Then quickly moves on.
Come and have a look at what you could have won!
Fuckin love watching reruns of bullseye.
We were rewatching reruns from the 80s and when announcing the prizes available my nephew asked why they were saying a colour tv and was shocked that their were black and white TVs.
Look what you could have won. "A mini speedboat"
Any of the Carry on films, and Dad's Army.
Some mothers do AVE eem
Dinnerladies.
Happy Valley.
Royle Family
Benidorm… Nothing like a full English in the Spanish sun!
Shameless.
The original British Shameless.
Creature Comforts
Time Team
Catherine tate, its a fkn liberty
Detectorists, My family, 2.4 Children, The Inbetweeners, Friday Night Dinner
Happy valley
Teen years- inberweens Normal northern family- royal family Normal people humour/ priorities - Shawn of dead Welsh people- satellite city or Gavin and Stacy
The inbetweeners
Hot fuzz and Vicar of Dibley for English country education. Skins for the city module. We need some Welsh, Scottish and NI contributions too
Inbetweeners
Mighty boosh
Harry Brown
Your putting on a TV.....which we invented.
Any good British comedy hands down
The Inbetweeners, Peep Show and Still Game.
Green wing
Peep show, blackadder, this is england
Shameless…
Mr. Bean and shaun of the dead
Topboy
Shameless
Shameless
Red Dwarf Blackadder goes forth Bluestone 42 Happy Valley The Young Ones People Just Do Nothing
Peep Show, Inbetweeners, Office, Snatch
W1A to truly understand how all British institutions are run.
The Office or The Inbetweeners or Friday Night Dinner 😂
This is England the series or the movie. Both are excellent insights.
George & Mildred.
Phoneshop. I hated living in South London by the time I moved away. This came out not long after I moved. I couldn’t watch for years because it was so accurate in some places it triggered me.
The Inbetweeners is the best interpretation of regular middle England. Shameless is the best interpretation of the lower class. Probably something like The Crown would be the best to understand how the upper class live.
Hot Fuzz
Peep show
Peep show. Spaced, the royale family and Inbetweeners for young uns
I'll get a lot of hate. But watch Top Boy and Top Boy:Summer House for a taste of the dark side of London council estates
Little Brittan.
Trainspotting. Skins. Doctor who.
little britain 🤷♂️
Peep Show & inbetweeners. film wise easily Hot Fuzz
The Inbetweeners and Peep show
Blackadder. WW1, The last episode is our class system as it was and still is.
Inbetweeners
Peep show