Friends on E4 just had TWO advert breaks

[electrogirl]

Haven't shit cable/freeview type channels always done this though? ..

no

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

The first one was quite good because I never knew how the story started. The second one was fun for nostalgia's sake. The third one was repetitive of the others, poorly written, and the novelty was over. Then we watched one from the second series where they suddenly had all these other charcters, and promptly deleted it all in disgust!

I suspect that this is true of many things which people get nostalgic about.

Except the A-Team. I've re-watched it as an adult, and it's still excellent, albeit for reasons entirely different to those I picked up on as a kid - and in fact, I suspect it was originally intended to be enjoyed for those reasons in the first place.

 

[DotCommunist]

Even as a kid I remember thinking 'WTF' when watching Thundercats: the movie. In it's opening scenes Lion-O jumps out of bed, in full Lion-O uniform, sword strapped to his waist.

You'd at least take the sword off before bed, wouldn't you?

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Even as a kid I remember thinking 'WTF' when watching Thundercats: the movie. In it's opening scenes Lion-O jumps out of bed, in full Lion-O uniform, sword strapped to his waist.

You'd at least take the sword off before bed, wouldn't you?

 

[electrogirl]

Thundercats reference has gone down a storm

 

[kained&able]

i thought is was illegal to have more then 15 mins(or something) of adverts per hour on uk tele.

was it on at a weird time like 8:20 to 8:50 or something.


dave

 

[Agent Sparrow]

I suspect that this is true of many things which people get nostalgic about.

Except the A-Team. I've re-watched it as an adult, and it's still excellent, albeit for reasons entirely different to those I picked up on as a kid - and in fact, I suspect it was originally intended to be enjoyed for those reasons in the first place.

Cities of Gold is a cartoon from my childhood which is also perfectly watchable as an adult. Although you might get more out of it if you saw it first time round.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Thundercats reference has gone down a storm

I think it is the thread now.

 

[electrogirl]

Cities of Gold is a cartoon from my childhood which is also perfectly watchable as an adult. Although you might get more out of it if you saw it first time round.

Do they ever find the city of Gold?! My dad always used to moan when I watched it 'when are they gonna fined this city of effing gold then ffs?'.

Do they find it? No don't tell me.....oh I want to know!

No. Don't tell me.

I think it is the thread now.

Something had to recue it.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Do they ever find the city of Gold?! My dad always used to moan when I watched it 'when are they gonna fined this city of effing gold then ffs?'.

Do they find it? No don't tell me.....oh I want to know!

No. Don't tell me.

You know, when I thought about it, I really wasn't clear on what actually did happen! I vaguely remembered but then asked Crispy, and he couldn't quite remember all the details either, and he actually looked it up on t'interweb.

So I have the knowledge, if you want a spoiler tagged description.

 

[Badgers]

Stop watching Friends
Stop watching E4

 

[stavros]

Who actually does have the UK rights to Seinfeld? BBC2 was showing it about ten years ago, after Newsnight , but now it's nowhere to be seen. It's so weird that despite being just about the most popular US sitcom ever no one knows it over here. (I love it by the way.)

 

[ovaltina]

Who actually does have the UK rights to Seinfeld? BBC2 was showing it about ten years ago, after Newsnight , but now it's nowhere to be seen. It's so weird that despite being just about the most popular US sitcom ever no one knows it over here. (I love it by the way.)

I just got the first three seasons from Amazon for £9.99.

That's 880 hours of Seinfeld for less than a tenner.

I wish there was a DVD menu option to get rid of the slap-bass guitair

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002W13T8/ref=ox_ya_oh_product

 

[PacificOcean]

Who actually does have the UK rights to Seinfeld? BBC2 was showing it about ten years ago, after Newsnight , but now it's nowhere to be seen. It's so weird that despite being just about the most popular US sitcom ever no one knows it over here. (I love it by the way.)

Paramount or Comedy Central as it's called now.

 

[kained&able]

5 mins past and 18mins past

thats an outrage.

yes i was that desperate for somrething to watch while having dinner.

I'm boycotting the last 10mins though.


dave

 

[mhwfc]

Similar to what the US get I guess with 2 or 3 ad breaks in a half hour show

They probably didn't have an ad break between episodes instead, Fiver do it as well with Home and Away and Neighbours, there's no ad break between the programmes but there's 2 ad breaks

 

[skyscraper101]

Stop watching Friends
Stop watching E4

Meanwhile, on More4 right now: The World's Biggest Penis

starts again on More 4+1 at half midnight. I'm fascinated.

 

[DotCommunist]

anyone would think they were tailoring tripe to fit the audiences attention span

 

[electrogirl]

Friends is actually pretty funny though.

 

[DotCommunist]

Friends is actually pretty funny though.

Worth it for chandler and phoebe.

The rest are meh.

Joey really didn't need a spin off series of fail.

 

[electrogirl]

Yeah that was really bad, they'd characatured all the characters too far for ANY of them to have a spin off tbh.

 

[skyscraper101]

I don't really get the whole Phoebe thing. I mean she's a great character, but I don't find her moments as funny as Chandler, or Ross.

 

[starfish]

Friends, i loved em, still do. Lot of people round here didnt though, my we had some laughs.

 

[kained&able]

Friends is NOT funny. I don't think i have ever loled. It is watchable though.


dave

 

[stavros]

Regardless of whether you think it funny or not (I think it's shite), surely nobody can think it funny enough to deserve 5 episodes of repeats a day?