WEARILY I CLETTERED ALONG last night, half-sleeping and half-not. Waking to television shows to teach schoolchildren to pass science examinations. Waking to Friends but too tired to stay awake anyway through it. Waking to Frasier eventually. I love Frasier. After Friends it probably is my favourite American sitcom. (Might I just interject here: American sitcoms were viewed over here for decades as rubbish. The Cosby Show being a really good example. Riproariously popular on your side of the pond. And yet lacking any wit or bite or point of view except that of the slightly right wing Reader's Digest-reading Montel Williams viewing homeowning parent:... know what I mean by that?? It wasn't until Friends came along that any American sitcom became popular over here. And suddenly an invasion of American TV happened. Not so much on our screens (because we've always had American imports (though we make more of our own shows than any other country in the English-speaking world)) but in our hearts. Before the 1990s most of those imports were regarded as candifloss TV. Barely there. Rarely missed. (A few exceptions, of course.) But in the 1990s American telly really seemed to grow up. And now I can say and mean it that ER is better than Casualty (British ER). And Friends and Frasier are better than ... well ... anything else. What a long posting about nothing. Do you see now why I lived for so long without TV? Am I making sense? It was all to do with loving it too much. Not hating it. I just marvel that I did about a year and a half without it!!!
Laundretta hasn't woken since her last bender. Matran has been dead quiet. The house is in drab misery:-== What's new there? But I'm not sleeping as long as before. I'm off to finish the last of my Sainsbury's marge-fried veggie fingers in wholemeal pitta breads & a dash of tomato ketchup. Sorry I know those ingredients were ever so slightly offputting but I love 'em when they're crispy!!! All the Best now. Gleds.
PS If y'all would like to view some fabulous fotografs, (horsey, doggie, flowers and wildlife) have a click on this.
those photos are fantastic. i wonder how she manages to get such large ones on her blog! I'm a great Friends fan too. Some comedy doesn't seem to travel well. English comedy that has been redone American style doesn't seem to be the same. Glad you're enjoying having a TV....something to do in the miserable weather we're having!
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Dare I say "Seinfeld"? :-)
ReplyDeleteThere's good comedy coming from England.
Personally I really don't like Friends, but I think I'm a small minority. I bought the 7, double sided, dvd set of Tom & Jerry last christmas. I think they qualify as 'epic' for me.
Incase you're wondering who I am btw, I'm Nicole's bf ;-)
I like your blog and your honesty.
Take it easy :-)
You're right about English comedy redone: WHY do American execs feel the need for this? To justify their inflated paychecks that they fart back into their swivel chairs perhaps?
ReplyDeleteI mean why does everything have to be so Americacentric? I'm sure it's not the audience asking for this.
Why no CSI London? That would be my first choice of a new location. Not just another American city the same. Or why not CSI Montreal? Spice things up a bit. Come on you dull American fartycushion dying industry TV moguls. Get wid da programme or you will die out like the dinosaurs you are.
Tom and Jerry: was that the classic 1950s ones? If I had money to buy rights those are the ones I'd buy and make a load of new Tom and Jerries as good as the first lot. I agree with you there T&J were fantastic/are fantastic. (Far better than Disney's Mickey Mouse. Does ANYONE actually REMEMBER seeing, let alone recall the plot of a Mickey Mouse cartoon? No. Because Mickey Mouse is Disney's trademark for something to put in those Walt Disney World parxx he's got all over the world ...)
ReplyDeleteSeinfeld is my favourite sitcom of ALL TIME! Apart from that I'm a fan of documentaries.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I completely understand why American television has been viewed as rubbish. It is. I'll bet that some of the better examples may never have made it to your shores, though. Cosby. Fluff indeed.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for your visit to my blog, and your comment too. First, I didn't realize that you were not Portuguese so I didn't quite understand what you meant for not understand my intellectual Portuguese :). The way I write is accessible for anyone who speaks Portuguese, I don't use any fancy words.
I also like very much the photos in Outsider blog. Annie has a special way of capturing nature wonders. I'm an usual visitor to her blog.
Fell free to came back to my blog and comment in English if you prefer.
You brits and your icky food!
ReplyDeleteAhoi, yeah, the T&J's are the early ones. Incredibly beautiful soft colors, really nicely drawn and not to be forgotten great music.
ReplyDeleteWith the exception of Dexter I don't really like any modern cartoons.
Hi! I saw a coment that you wrote on a blog called "Ardemares" and I couldn't pass without saying this... That picture of a beautiful mountain is of a portuguese one... Azorian! The higher point of Portugal. I know we are small... But please, try to understand that they are more moutains on the world beside South America.
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really liked those pics gled...right up my alley. The veggie fingers fried in marge in wholemeal pita sounded good but you lost me with the ketchup (and I'm a ketchup lover)
ReplyDeleteI'll see your Cosby Show and raise you Fawlty Towers...
ReplyDeleteUr way of writing is also my style, mabe partly.
ReplyDeleteI love them, keep up. If so, I'll do so too, for I'd love to see another adition of life vs mine.
Cainha: the "intellectual Portuguese" was a joke because I don't actually speak it at all; I was just using that Babelfish translator to impress you!
ReplyDeleteCainha: this is my original message translated back to English:
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was it really transformed into such authentic Portuguese??
I was quite shocked when you were taken in my my reference to intellectualism ...
ReplyDeleteSaid Gledwood... Cainha: "the intellectual Portuguese" was a joke because I really do not say it in everything; I age just using this translator of Babelfish imprimiz it! 28 February 2007 17:33 said Gledwood... Cainha: this is my translated original message stops backwards the English o: Elogía my friend. I cannot really understand the intellectual its portuges of blog but I love photographs! As the place colored it sustenance here! I make one blog that I am called too much who gledwood2.blogspot.com and you are the majority of boa.vinda to visit me. Blog of the daily one and the full one of my secrets and very different to the majority is ones. To look at avante to see it there. All better. Gledwood. was transformed really into such Portuguese authentic? 28 February 2007 17:38 said Gledwood... I was shocked completely when you my reference intellectualism was make reference to examination in mine...
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Gled you read books... Maybe you could find somewhere a book, any book by Polish writer Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy) translated of course from Polish into English. You should like his writing style is similiar to yours which for me is superb. He can describe life and people as they are. Mind you he lived before II WW and during his life critics spat on his books, drawings and paitings. Witkacy experimented with all sorts of substances. I think he was a kind of genius. He never studied in institutions his dad could afford him private teachers so his mind was not destroyed.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you say about D. Attenborough? And I think British comedy is the best there is.
... and yes the photos are calm and soft and I guess full of love?
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