# Comedy TV Characters moved in time or space

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-tv-characters-moved-in-time-or-space/788390>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 7, 2017, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-tv-characters-moved-in-time-or-space/788390 "2017-06-07T22:04:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-tv-characters-moved-in-time-or-space/788390/21 "2017-06-08T06:37:24Z")

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> [@bobot](#):
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> I feel confident about my knowledge of British slang because I have watched every episode of The Young Ones multiple times. 😃

You should read the English editions of _ **Asterix** _, too. A veritable gold mine of British slang. (Especially the early editions, before they edited all the non-PC stuff out. :mad: )

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**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-tv-characters-moved-in-time-or-space/788390/22 "2017-06-08T11:01:06Z")

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I’m thinking Schneiders shtick on One Day at a Time isn’t going to last long. Especially with two underage girls living there.

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-tv-characters-moved-in-time-or-space/788390/23 "2017-06-08T13:04:55Z")

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Lisa Douglas would just divorce Oliver and live in New York.

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**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-tv-characters-moved-in-time-or-space/788390/24 "2017-06-08T16:21:34Z")

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Funnily enough…this ‘can’t do their thing in modern times’…Seinfeld did to themselves in the last episode.

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**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-tv-characters-moved-in-time-or-space/788390/25 "2017-06-08T16:30:50Z")

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> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> I’d like to see Flo from “Alice” try that “kiss my grits” crap in a present-day IHOP.

She’d have to do it in an Indian accent. (I haven’t been in an IHOP not owned and run by folks from the subcontinent for quite a while. Not sure why this is so…)

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**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-tv-characters-moved-in-time-or-space/788390/26 "2017-06-15T21:51:33Z")

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A little off topic but I don’t want to give it its own trivial thread

The 1984ish Cardassians written today? I wonder if a writer wouldn’t be able to help but expand their society and talk about thought crimes, hate speech against the govt., mandatory retraining, se sensitivity training under the guise of allegiance to govt etc

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**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-tv-characters-moved-in-time-or-space/788390/27 "2017-06-15T22:24:27Z")

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> [@Dale\_Sams](#):
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> Move Ron Swanson to Seattle and he’s Archie Bunker.
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> Move Archie Bunker to England today…and he’d be in jail.

That’s weird. Archie Bunker was based on a British show…

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