NOT FUNNY.

I cannot believe that someone doesn't find them funny.

what was to dislike about them? i thought they were all pretty cute. i'd admit there's a slight tweeness to them all that tries to display them all as intensely loveable that may have been overbearing (kinda like Belle & Sebastian or Lemon Jelly perhaps), but the surreal quirks and/or ultimately human aspects of their characters prevailed

I mean, come on it's not a new or funny revelation that people working in creative media are often bums or egotistical slackers (like me) so why point it out as if it's the funniest thing in the world?

i dont think they were dragging it out that badly, i dont recall seeing a realsitic depiction of creative types struggling to get motivated and get work anywhere else in a British sitcom in recent times...its not even meant to be 'funny' as in 'look, you must laugh now' - just a well observed, well executed half-comment to me

That bit where the modern artist is explaining how he paints "aggression, pain, frustration" and it's presented as if it's a joke. Very funny - "modern art is, like, really weird man! Look, people covered in paint - they must be mad!". or "Wow! Clubbing is funny. Look people on drugs - they're really funny."

the "pain, fear, aggression" (or whatever it was) thing is funny because its a swift, well executed montage and because of Mark heap's facial expressions (his 'fear' face cracked me up).

the clubbing episode was VERY cliched, but still funny to see Mike in a tight pink leotard and Tracks (the Irish courier) having a flashback and buzzing his tits off to the sounds of roadworks, the telephone and a boiling kettle - yes VERY Human Traffic, but again well executed and just something to make you smile if not roll around on the floor like an epileptic having a fight with a 6ft feather duster

apologies to everyone for getting into another Spaced: Good/Bad thing, i'm sure there have been loads before and opinion is divided probably 50/50

anyone else think My Family is funny tho?!

I can feel my lip starting to curl again.

no-one liked the Alexei Sayle bits tho admittedly, probably not even Alexei Sayle

i dont think they were dragging it out that badly, i dont recall seeing a realsitic depiction of creative types struggling to get motivated and get work anywhere else in a British sitcom in recent times...its not even meant to be 'funny' as in 'look, you must laugh now' - just a well observed, well executed half-comment to me
Anyone who's ever made fun of students has done this. Squaddies aren't funny.

the "pain, fear, aggression" (or whatever it was) thing is funny because its a swift, well executed montage and because of Mark heap's facial expressions (his 'fear' face cracked me up).

Normally I'm a big fan of this kind of expressive comedy, and I think things like League of Gents has this down to a fine art but soz, it didn't float my boat - just made me cringe.

the clubbing episode was VERY cliched, but still funny to see Mike in a tight pink leotard and Tracks (the Irish courier) having a flashback and buzzing his tits off to the sounds of roadworks, the telephone and a boiling kettle - yes VERY Human Traffic, but again well executed and just something to make you smile if not roll around on the floor like an epileptic having a fight with a 6ft feather duster

Okay, I must admit that the show did make me smile once in a while. There's one outtake of them singing "This Beat is Technotronic" which made me titter and some of the clubbing episode was fairly heartwarming. Just not enough in there to make me think of it as anything more than a lukewarm attempt at simplistic observational humour.

Cor I can't half rant about this programme can I? Apologies as well for the repetitiveness of the "Spaced" subject, but I'm just confused at myself for not getting it considering it gets so much good press and has a lot of actors whom I normally enjoy seeing in other programs. I do WANT to like it, really - I bought the DVD for chrissakes. Maybe series two is better?

its hard to appreciate Dad's Army but i'd accept it was a good British sitcom even i probably never laughed at it once - same goes for Porridge, one of the best Uk sitcoms ever really, and i think i did laugh at it once or twice in the past...working under the view that british sitcoms in their traditional format are just utterly redundant these days

NB their dimness was a constant whether they had just smoked pot or not.

our reading of the characters remains quite different tho - i think they're all great, perhaps more cariactures than characters indeed, but this is not a problem

you might prefer series 2 altho i'm not sure i do (so maybe you would ;)

I suppose you could call Blue Jam etc. creepy and unpleasant too but that impressed me in other ways.

PS I was well under 25 and an unemployed socialist drunkard so I can see no sociological basis for my dislike.

When I was 10 I didn't really understand that they were students, or at least I didn't understand anything about student life. I don't really know what I thought they were doing in that house.

As a burlesque parody of 80s students I think Rik was pretty good.

And then the was.. Mike.

i suppose i was obssessed with the Young Ones as a kid, and Blackadder also. Vyv was my favourite character in the Young Ones - didnt find Mike funny at all as with Sayle's skits tho. perhaps its so embedded deep in my humour psyche that i refuse to consider the possibility its crap...i mean i could watch it now and not laugh or smile at all because i know it so well, but that dont make it a dud in my book.

i also loved Bottom up until the middle of the third series where it went beyond formulaic, beyond self-parody and into...nothing. by that point i'd realised Mayall and Edmondson together were one trick ponies and didnt care, but from then on, it just stopped being remotely funny.

Sadly Eddie Murphy - i blame the ladyboys

The Young Ones still holds up mostly, I think. A lot of people say it's dated, which is true in certain points (the references to Thatcher, etc) but there are loads of moments that are just plain silliness which continue to be enjoyable today - as Chaki said. Vyv going to Narnia, the whole thing in "Bambi" where the entire cast are amoebas or something which get eaten by an elephant, Rik writing to the lead singer of Echo & The Bunnymen because he thinks MPs are facists... and there are character-based lines which are just fantastic (Neil: "Open uuup, it's the piigs"). I love the exchanges between Rik, Vyv and Neil. But it's true those Alexei Sayle bits are pretty awful, except certain times when he's sticking to the script ("Oh no, some bastard broke your chair!" - the delivery of that is hilarious to me, for some reason).

Blackadder IV, though, is terrible drivel. They were repeating themselves by that point. The whole thing is just really lame.

-- Martin Skidmore"

Surely a keeper for the DVD boxed-set cover blurb?

this is the M******* S******?

Midnight society yeah

right. I don't find it funny but some other people seem to.

reminds me of

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