# I love this British shit and I move move to England! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [April 28, 2021, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-this-british-shit-and-i-move-move-to-england/940998 "2021-04-28T22:41:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-this-british-shit-and-i-move-move-to-england/940998/382 "2021-09-07T23:45:54Z")
Yup, not my age group - I’m on the younger side of gen X and I loved Allo Allo and so did most of my friends. Maybe it was specifically teenagers who were too cool for it. The restaurant I went to (it’s just an occasional thing, in London) was pretty much all proper in their 30s and 40s. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-this-british-shit-and-i-move-move-to-england/940998/383 "2021-09-08T00:55:34Z")
> [@Kron](#): > > Spaced is #1 😛 > > And, it is available to watch (with ads ☹ ) on Amazon Prime; Just introduced my 17-year-old to it yesterday, in fact; he binged the first series and plans to do the second tonight. What a dad! I can’t even get my similarly-aged friends into it. Well, a few have done it and they are elite people in my eyes. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-this-british-shit-and-i-move-move-to-england/940998/384 "2021-09-08T08:25:14Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#): > > Even went to an Allo Allo themed restaurant last year. Long-distance duck _à l’orange_? Knockwurst _en pantalon_? _Bombe surprise de Noël_? ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-this-british-shit-and-i-move-move-to-england/940998/385 "2021-09-08T08:50:18Z")
And did the cheese course come with a cabaret (or vice versa)? ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-this-british-shit-and-i-move-move-to-england/940998/386 "2021-09-08T09:00:13Z")
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_League_of_Gentlemen) explains all: > Filming took place mainly on location in the north [Derbyshire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derbyshire) town of [Hadfield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadfield,_Derbyshire) and consequently had no live audience.[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_League_of_Gentlemen#cite_note-bbc-comedymap-3) A [laugh track](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laugh_track) was added to the first and second series, by inviting a studio audience to watch a playback of the completed episodes as well as the filming of certain interior scenes, such as the Dentons’. The laughter track was dropped from the Christmas Special and series 3 when shown in the United Kingdom. I remember the Denton house scenes - Benjamin drinking aqua vita, the house rules rhyme, Nude Day etc. The audience were cacking themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-this-british-shit-and-i-move-move-to-england/940998/387 "2021-09-08T13:58:11Z")
Just in here to say that **Taskmaster** will be back with season 12 on [Sept 23](https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a37510416/taskmaster-series-12-air-date-first-look/). ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2021, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-this-british-shit-and-i-move-move-to-england/940998/388 "2021-09-11T19:06:08Z")
I’ve been watching Prime Suspect first episodes. I’ve noticed there are some, rather vague, similarities with how The Closer used the premise. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-this-british-shit-and-i-move-move-to-england/940998/389 "2021-09-20T00:49:33Z")
When we’re taking the mick out of EastEnders we always end up saying “I ain’t a grass!” ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-this-british-shit-and-i-move-move-to-england/940998/390 "2021-09-20T14:17:12Z")
In my world it’s “Gerrahta my pub!” When it’s not: _“You’re not my mother!”_ _“Yes I am!”_ _[Doof!Doof!]_ ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2021, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-this-british-shit-and-i-move-move-to-england/940998/391 "2021-09-20T16:06:48Z")
_“Either you tell him … or I will”_ _[Doof!Doof! etc]_ ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-this-british-shit-and-i-move-move-to-england/940998/392 "2021-09-23T03:41:50Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > This is a distinct type of UK programme, set in a village in the 50s, selling the wonderful bliss of living in England (not Scotland or Wales) when everyone is well off, and there’s nothing to worry about but coffee mornings (and murder if it’s that type of programme, or the boss coming to dinner, if it’s that type, ie: Terry and June), That sense of comfort is why the remake of **All Creatures Great and Small** has just started broadcasting the second season, and someone is apparently remaking **The Darling Buds of May**. And I’ll probably watch. > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > McDonald & Dodds, which is a cop show, that had an episode with Rob Brydon. The show was about a group of 80s popular icons involved in a murder, and the four icons were played by Patsy Kensit, Cathy Tyson, Rupert Graves, and Martin Kemp I really like **McDonald and Dodds** - that episode with _Patsy Kensit_ and _Martin Kemp_ et al was great. The casting was inspired. > [@pjd](#): > > other 2 > are based on Bodie & Doyle from the Professionals. I would love to see a reboot of **The Professionals**. > [@Tarataratara](#): > > The beginning of the Olympics reminded me that I thoroughly enjoyed a comedy called Twenty-Twelve, about a group planning the London 2012 Olympics. **Twenty-Twelve** was in the same vein as **The Games** - an Australian show broadcast in the lead up to the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. _John Clarke_ (a kiwi comic who did his best work in Australia) was just fantastic, and the 100m Track episode is awesome, with lines like > I don’t understand then, Mr Wilson, quite why in the construction of a 100-metre track you > would want to depart too radically from the constraints laid down for us by the conventional > calibration of distance. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-this-british-shit-and-i-move-move-to-england/940998/393 "2021-09-23T03:44:14Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > I’ve been watching Prime Suspect first episodes. I’ve noticed there are some, rather vague, similarities with how The Closer used the premise. Don’t miss **Prime Suspect 1973** , which goes back to Jane Tennison as a fresh WPC. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-this-british-shit-and-i-move-move-to-england/940998/394 "2021-09-23T08:03:05Z")
> [@si\_blakely](#): > > That sense of comfort is why the remake of **All Creatures Great and Small** has just started broadcasting the second season, and someone is apparently remaking **The Darling Buds of May**. > > And I’ll probably watch. From wonderful The Day Today [This is Britain, everything will be alright](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWkTQvlnDTI) ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-this-british-shit-and-i-move-move-to-england/940998/395 "2021-09-23T17:58:34Z")
Two new episodes of Vera season 11 just dropped. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-this-british-shit-and-i-move-move-to-england/940998.md?page=19)