I’m not sure I’ve met anyone who even mildly dislikes the show, and I managed a video store which rented the tapes for about 6 years. I think it’s the worst shit ever put on television. When I first heard about it, I thought, “Wow! That sounds really cool!” First time I saw it, “What a disappointment!” Second time, “Boy, this sucks!” Third time, “Guess it’s not a fluke, this really is as bad as I thought.” I’ve seen a total of those 3 full episodes and several 5-minute bits here and there.
I’m with you. I love British comedies in general, and people kept telling me how much I’d love AbFab. I’ve seen several episodes now, and haven’t even cracked a grin.
::waving both arms in the air while jumping up and down and screaming::
Closer… it’ll have to do. I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate this show. I sat through an entire season of it for reasons far beyond my control and related to my employment (there should be a law about that, kinda like sexual harrassment) and never, not once, ever laughed. In fact it made me vastly uncomfortable.
First of all, there is nothing wrong with wanting to tone and strengthen one’s abdominal muscles. Second, why on earth would an exercise video appear on Comedy Central. . . oh, wait a minute . . . . . . . . . . .
Seriously, folks, I haven’t see any episodes of AbFab. But I did see one funny sketch by French and Saunders that I enjoyed years ago.
The French and Sauders stuff is hysterical. They did a LOTR parody not long ago that had me rolling on the floor. They were also great on “The Young Ones” - they both played bit parts a few times. It’s just AbFab that’s dull.
In my experience, it seems that, sadly, the most popular of the Britcoms tend also to be mediocre. “Are You Being Served”, for example, was fairly annoying to me.
I do not understand the appeal of this show either. When I was in grad school a friend was telling how great it was. She even gave me a tape telling me that they had a great “anti-technology” rant, about cell phones and the internet, etc.
I found it to be incredibly dull and not the least bit funny. I have seen a few French and Saunders shows in bits and pieces, and it is much more entertaining.
I think the show is really funny. I have watched all the episodes many times. I laugh & laugh & laugh at the same jokes every time.
On the other hand, my 13 year old daughter HATES the show, and yells at me if she finds me watching it. She thinks the characters are stupid drug-taking drunks who have no morals, and it is not the kind of thing she wants her mother watching. What more could a mother ask for?
The first season was the best, and then it got worse with every new season. It was basically a one-joke show about a particular culture in a particular place and time and the longer it tried to stretch that joke over the most fleeting fashions, fads, and slang, the thinner the joke got. The new episode set in New York was a disaster.
Jennifer Saunders also kept giving herself more and more of the lines without understanding that on the show her character is not the funny one. There’s a reason stars need someone to sit on them when their egos get out of hand.