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IndustrialTrudg
12/05/21 11:22:50 AM
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Only Fools and Horses vs Fawlty Towers vs Black Adder vs The Young Ones




Which of these four classic British sitcoms is the best?

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Buu_88
12/05/21 11:27:10 AM
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Grew up watching Young Ones VHS tapes

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IndustrialTrudg
12/05/21 11:31:00 AM
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Buu_88 posted...
Grew up watching Young Ones VHS tapes

It's still hysterical lol. Felt pretty ahead of the curve in terms of absurdist humor.

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The Popo
12/05/21 11:31:56 AM
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Dont mention the war!

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Heartomaton
12/05/21 11:50:33 AM
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Blackadder.

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Funkydog
12/05/21 11:51:47 AM
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All great, but Blackadder tops it for me.
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Juhanor
12/05/21 11:57:21 AM
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Fawlty when Basil "wins"
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Xavier_On_High
12/05/21 12:08:27 PM
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Really tough, but Fawlty Towers. The show is damn near perfect. Still might be the smartest comedy ever written.

The Young Ones is really rough around the edges and although its anarchic spirit is still cool, the show as a whole doesn't hold up that well.

Blackadder suffers from only having two or three plots, which are repeated over and over.

Only Fools and Horses had 5 great series, but drastically dumbed down from series 6 onwards. This show speaks to me the most because I'm from an "underclass" background of wheelers and dealers and benefits fraudsters.

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Pandamonic
12/05/21 12:09:51 PM
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Fawlty Towers is probably the funniest shit I've ever seen.

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DeadBankerDream
12/05/21 12:11:15 PM
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There's too much quality difference between the series' of Blackadder to lump them together like this.

Blackadder Goes Forth is one of the best things ever. Black Adder the Third is one of the okayest things ever.

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IndustrialTrudg
12/05/21 12:12:42 PM
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Xavier_On_High posted...
Really tough, but Fawlty Towers. The show is damn near perfect. Still might be the smartest comedy ever written.

The Young Ones is really rough around the edges and although its anarchic spirit is still cool, the show as a whole doesn't hold up that well.

Blackadder suffers from only having two or three plots, which are repeated over and over.

Only Fools and Horses had 5 great series, but drastically dumbed down from series 6 onwards. This show speaks to me the most because I'm from an "underclass" background of wheelers and dealers and benefits fraudsters.

Gotta disagree with The Young ones not holding up, but I do think I agree with Fawlty Towers being the most tightly written.

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UnfairRepresent
12/05/21 12:16:09 PM
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Heartomaton posted...
Blackadder.


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Xavier_On_High
12/05/21 2:36:11 PM
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IndustrialTrudg posted...
Gotta disagree with The Young ones not holding up, but I do think I agree with Fawlty Towers being the most tightly written.

Character ages better than plot, so on some level the Young Ones will always hold up, simply because it's basically a showcase of Rik's and Ade's comedic talents, which are timeless.

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