#33668 - Fri Nov 02 2001 03:52 PM
Favourite Foreign Shows
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List as many tv shows as you like! The only rule is that they can't be made in your home country (this will be a little harder for our resident Americans, I'm sure  )! In no particular order:
Iron Chef - is this Japanese? (I just saw a guy sculpt a pagoda out of a carrot!)
Whose Line is it Anyway? - United Kingdom (with Clive Anderson)
The Simpsons - USA
Keeping Up Appearances - also from the UK. [ 11-02-2001: Message edited by: LadyCaitriona ]
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#33669 - Fri Nov 02 2001 04:32 PM
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Whose Line is it Anyway- the British version
British Men Behaving Badly
Mrs. Bucket- I haven't seen this one in years, but why not list it.
Christina- I think this show is Mexican
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#33670 - Fri Nov 02 2001 05:27 PM
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There's a Mrs. Bucket ("pronouned Boo-kay!") in Keeping Up Appearances. Is that the same show?
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#33671 - Mon Nov 05 2001 08:47 AM
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I love the Iron Chef.
Especially Chen Kenichi.
I love food, love to eat...<drool>.
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#33673 - Mon Nov 05 2001 04:06 PM
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I like Whose Line Is It Anyway !! that is my favorite of all the import shows. Iron Chefs is bizarre to me. I first saw it this summer on vacation in California and was not sure what to think of it. My husband likes it. [ 11-05-2001: Message edited by: malizma ]
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#33674 - Tue Nov 06 2001 04:16 AM
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If I say that British television is the best in the world will you stone me? I think it best answers the needs of the citizens. It has something for everyone. Hours of snooker for insomniacs, highbrow, lowbrow, local languages, reruns everything! My favorites are (from the States because here in France everything else is foreign):
Keeping Up Appearances (watching this makes you realize how happy you are to be with someone who is not Hyacinthe. I actually would prefer making a bacon buttie for Onslow!) Are You being Served? (Brits you might laugh at us, but when pledge week comes up they get the actors on screen and people pour out the money! Mr Humphreys is such a non pc gay guy too and yet people love him!) Fawlty Towers, this one is too precious for words. I have the tapes with the interviews. I do a pretty mean "I know I know" like his wife!) I loved the Kenny Everett show, a brilliant comedian who did the best routines and American accent I've ever seen!
His big breasted comedienne saying "in the best possible taste" would make me break into wild laughter. Here's one I like The Red Green show, from Canada, cause if the women don't find you handsome then let them find you handy! Inspector Morse, of course.
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#33675 - Tue Nov 06 2001 04:38 AM
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"Are You Being Served", is that the one with the wonderful ensemble cast in the old fashion department store? I think they are all wonderful. I don't think we are receiving the show right now, they come and go. I think I enjoy it so much because the cast plays off each other so well.
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#33676 - Tue Nov 06 2001 06:13 AM
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Are You Being ServedI'm free!  Favourite Foreign shows, in no particular order: Saturday Night Live (USA)-This show is responsible for so much. The Simpsons (USA)-Fantastic for kid's and adults alike. Although it began life as a cartoon snippet on Tracey Ullman's show(Brit). Most American SitCom's - I can't understand why people say the Yanks have no sense of irony? Monkey (was it Chinese or Japanese)? - Dubbing of the highest order and stunt's aplenty. Tom and Jerry (USA)-Still has me 'in bits' even now I'm a D! Loads more........but Freeserve's just about to cut me off!
wez
Heather, you forgot to mention Blackadder LOL
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#33677 - Tue Nov 06 2001 06:29 AM
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Wezpenny, love that site. That is the sticom I thought it was. "Are You Being Served", has to be one of the funniest shows of all time.
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#33678 - Tue Nov 06 2001 06:30 AM
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MOST DEFINITELY "Keeping Up Appearances"! "The Boo-Kay Residence. Lady of the house speaking!"
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#33679 - Tue Nov 06 2001 12:16 AM
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Not seen many progammes from countries other than the UK and US, except for instantly forgettable kids programmes that the BBC used to foist on us. "Monkey" was good, what was that? Japanese?
"The Water Margin" - Chinese? I love the obvious "Simpsons", "South Park", "Buffy", and I'm growing fond of "Malcolm In The Middle". "Friends" can be pretty good, "Seinfeld" is (was) superb....theose are the best for sure. Oh and "The Powerpuff Girls" are cultural icons, so I'd have to put them in....
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#33680 - Tue Nov 06 2001 01:31 PM
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Of course! Blackadder! I love him. Rowan Atkinson is brilliant as a knight. I haven't seen many of those shows from America but Frasier and Seinfeld are my favorites. Cheers, Taxi all of those. They have Seinfeld in French if you want a laugh! We watch the Nanny and what's the other one called Tony and Angela in French. The day the French make a decent sitcom I'll go to Lourdes. They don't manage laughtracks very well. They haven't figured out that it goes after something funny! [ 11-06-2001: Message edited by: bruyere ]
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#33681 - Tue Nov 06 2001 02:22 PM
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I think watching a show in another language is pretty cool, but does Seifeld and the like loose anything when it is translated to French. Is the Nanny the same as the American show Who's the Boss.
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#33682 - Wed Nov 07 2001 01:18 AM
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originally posted by bruyere
I loved the Kenny Everett show, a brilliant comedian who did the best routines and American accent I've ever seen!
He was fantastic, had forgotten all about him until recently they started the old Captain Kremin radio show back on our local radio. "the Kenny Everett, video Cassette" The Bill, Fwlty Towers, Malcom in the middle, Friends and Blackadder was brilliant
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#33683 - Wed Nov 07 2001 01:36 AM
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The Nanny is Fran Drescher with the English playwright. Funny because in French what kills me is the love interest, as in any typical American sitcom, is kindled between them and they'll have close misses and use the familiar form of "tu" and then when they've come to their senses they go back to "vous" and he calls her Miss Fine. It drives me up a wall! There's why I hate reading in translation too. The Tony and Angela one is every night around dinner time.
Same remark, he is her employee and therefore must use "vous" or the formal with her. I mean the hierarchy thing doesn't translate well! Even in the most modern office you still use "vous" with the boss in French.
So even when they're smooching in the kitchen in a moment of passion they'll snap back to the formal tense.
I don't know if the little boy uses tu with Tony though. Kenny Everett was fairly impudent. I don't think his version of an American general would have gone over big!
The British version of an American accent is really full of RRRRRs...and damn and backslapping. Benny Hill's isn't half bad!
I once said I liked Benny Hill and a Scottish friend said "only idiots watched that crap", and I said, "then count me in, I just find it funny, don't know why!"
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#33684 - Mon Nov 19 2001 05:45 PM
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I'd say that my favorite foreign show, well actually one of my favorite shows, in general, has to be Absolutely Fabulous. I find something new to laugh at every time I watch one of the episodes. And yes, I am excited that new episodes have been made. Can't wait to see them all. I can't forget the Canadian shows I loved growing up. You Can't Do That on Television, which aired on Nickelodeon, and all the Degrassi series  Man, that was like a soap opera for pre-teens! Loved it, still do. I wish they were
rerun  Also, since getting BBC America on my cable, I'm addicted to Changing Rooms and Ground Force
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#33685 - Mon Nov 19 2001 06:38 PM
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I used to love Degrassi when I was younger!! this could get tricky, 'cos I've got a million to choose from. I already know I'm going to leave stuff out, but here goes nothing : Red Dwarf, The Young Ones, Black Adder, Whose Line Is It Anyway (US & UK), Buffy, The Monkees, blah blah blah
...I just have no stamina when it comes to these things!!
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#33686 - Wed Nov 28 2001 06:03 PM
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well my favorite show would be happy 2(JPN)--it's a japanese drama
and MADtv(USA) i luv the show and the cast is the greatest
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