I suddenly realised, that I haven't done any new installments in the category "Be Like Me" in a dog's age, and I haven't covered TV yet, so I've chosen today to discuss a few TV shows I like to watch. All three of them are BBC production, and I don't believe they have ever been aired Stateside, but maybe if you're interested you can view them online. Right. Here goes:
"Nighty Night" This is a comedy series. Probably the funniest one I ever saw, even though it's completely politically incorrect. It isn't entirely new, but Belgian TV are showing reruns, so I'm discussing it anyway. It's about a hair dresser by the name of Jill, who is cockiness personified, and a sex addict (no explicit sex shown). Her husband Terry has just survived cancer, but Jill manages to hide it from him, and instead of taking him home, she takes him to a home to die. Then Jill decides she wants to have her neighbor Don, who is married to Cathy, who is beginning to experience the symptoms of MS. Jill goes to great lengths to capture Don's heart at the expense of Cathy, but she's not that successful. In order to reclaim his full attention, she stages Terry's funeral, just when Terry returns home having learned he's not dying. At the funeral party, yes PARTY, some people actually see Terry, so Jill convimces them they've seen a ghost. It does leave her with a problem, so she decides to kill Terry. There's also a need to kill the vicar. She then makes friendly with a real loser, by the name of Glenn, whom she talks into taking the blame for the murders. That (episode eight) is about the end of the funny part of the series, though. After that it sinks into mediocrity. I don't think the series will ever be a success in the States. Too many organizations (cancer survivors, MS patients, obese people, sex abuse survivors, lonely hearts, etc.) will take serious offense. Luckily in Europe they do seem to have a better sense of humor.
"Balderdash and Piffle" This is more of a documentary series, in search for a better word (no pun intended). The origins of common words in the English language are investigated, in a very humoristic and informative manner. It's also an attempt to improve the quality of the Oxford English Dictionary. For each word the origins are given, but this is not entirely accurate, because it relies on written or recorded evidence, and they simply don't always have the oldest available information. Viewers are engaged in finding evidence which can backdate words by as many years as possible. I find that my knowledge of the English language increases with every episode I watch. The most recent installment was about expressions containing the word "dog" by the way.
"The Catherine Tate Show" A sketch show, in which the female comic Catherine Tate plays dozens of different, hilarious characters. The funniest I think are an extremely prejudiced grandmother who embarrasses his grandson in just about any human contact she engages in, a Northern Irish mother of a gay son who is happier about the fact her son is gay than the son himself, and a ginger rights activist. In that series of sketches redheads are discriminated throughout the UK, upto the point where police officers put on plastic gloves before handling a redhead -or ginger- and slowly they begin to stand up for their rights, culminating in a "Gingers for Justice" protest on the roof ofa public building, the way the organization "Fathers for Justice" fight for their right to play a role in their children's lives after a divorce. I watch a lot of British sketch shows, and this one is the best so far. Monty Python eat your hearts out!
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