I went to the graveyard today...

I'm free... :-)

Mark Harrison -- in Sydney, Australia

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Re: Fawlty Towers - OT

CONGER - The Irish diaspora in Munich

>Todd,

If you like FT and Brit comedy... PLEASE take a look at a series called 'The League of Gentlemen'... and one called 'The Office'. These are the progression of FT.. but VERY different... and devastatingly funny. The LOG comes under the realm od 'obtuse', the Office is un-nerving - has tendencies to reality TV... Soooo funny.

-g-

No! Don't watch The Office...

Mark Harrison -- in Sydney, Australia

>Reminds me of too many places I've worked at!

However, I can recommend one very but relatively obscure BBC comedy series called "Black Books". This is seriously funny!!!

Also:

One foot in the grave - I keep thinking I'm looking at myself in the future through a time machine. If you've seen it, you must surely be feeling sorry for my wife :-)

Father Ted - highly surreal.

The Young Ones - ditto, but a little older.

Re: No! Don't watch The Office...

John NY

>A couple of others... i'm a displaced brit so I may be a little biased:

Allo! Allo! -series 1 available on video/DVD

Black Adder 1,2,3,4 - I get these from my local video store {Star Rowen Atkinson but not as Mr Bean}

Red Dwarf = if you like your Sci Fi a little on the crazy side...

Re: No! Don't watch The Office...

Mark Harrison -- in Sydney, Australia

>Good Moaning!

I loved Allo! Allo!... I remember about ten years ago I was travelling in the US on business with a colleague. I worked for American Express at the time and I was in Phoenix, AZ. We had the weekend free and we decided to go to the Canyon (as in, Grand). This was my second trip to the Canyon and I had taken a side trip to Sedona before.

Side Note: If you haven't been to Sedona and you have been to AZ, SHAME on you :-) Turn around and go back now! It is such a beautiful place words fail me, and it is not every day you hear me say that! It's like driving through one of those John Ford westerns.

Anyways: We pulled into Sedona and there is a place called Tlaquepaque which is a group of shops and restaurants in the spanish mission style. An upmarket mall, and I mean that in the nicest possible way.

There was a restaurant called, wait for it: Cafe Rene. Well, guess where we had lunch? :-)

I don't think that "Allo! Allo!" had been seen in the US at that point. I somehow doubt that it ever was ever popular in the US. The art of the double entendre is rarely practiced in North America.

I now note that the restaurant has changed its name (it is now simply Rene!) and I strongly suspect that our visit probably had some influence in that with our Officer Crabtree impressions and frequent bouts of laughter! :-) By the way, lunch was very nice.

I also highly recommend your other suggestions. As an amateur student of history, I particularly liked Black Adder 3. Rotten boroughs, Dachsunds named Colin and the Prince of Wales proclaiming himself to be English :-), amongst other delights.

Re: Fawlty Towers

Andy from England

>Actually, the building 'Fawlty Towers' as filmed from the outside was a nightclub just west of London called Wooburn Grange, I used to go there quite often of a Wednesday night. Sadly some developer bastards knocked it down a few years ago just to make some money; gits !