# It's Been A Long Time Coming. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 6, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-a-long-time-coming/459074 "2008-08-06T20:07:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-a-long-time-coming/459074/21 "2008-08-07T00:03:10Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] Which parts, particularly? I didn’t bother to read the whole thing, but the half I got through was just a list of things that are different between the US and the UK. I mean, “You pronounce it ‘zee,’ but we pronounce it ‘zed,’” isn’t exactly what I’d call a great comedic insight. [/QUOTE] British people drive like this, American people drive like _thisssss_. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-a-long-time-coming/459074/22 "2008-08-07T12:43:08Z")
Fine, but we’re not giving up orthodontics. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-a-long-time-coming/459074/23 "2008-08-07T12:50:56Z")
[QUOTE=PunditLisa] Fine, but we’re not giving up orthodontics. [/QUOTE] We’ll let you keep your psychotherapy as well. We know you need to feel good about yourselves! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-a-long-time-coming/459074/24 "2008-08-07T13:13:15Z")
I’ve often recoiled in horror just considering what an American Red Dwarf would be like. Perhaps Cuba Gooding in the lead role? ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-a-long-time-coming/459074/25 "2008-08-07T15:22:54Z")
[QUOTE=Kuboydal] I’ve often recoiled in horror just considering what an American Red Dwarf would be like. [/QUOTE] ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/KwymOX6ey_g/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/KwymOX6ey_g?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque Watch and weep. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-a-long-time-coming/459074/26 "2008-08-07T18:06:42Z")
Seriously, WTF, that’s just not right, ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-a-long-time-coming/459074/27 "2008-08-07T22:04:15Z")
[QUOTE=Telemark] ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/KwymOX6ey_g/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/KwymOX6ey_g?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque Watch and weep. [/QUOTE] How to port a British show to the US. 1. Use cast more beautiful [women] or handsome [men… or women if they are required to be old] than British version. 2. Remove all political incorrectness and subversiveness. 3. Identify what made the show a success in Britain. Remove it. 4. Increase the budget tenfold. 5. Add a laugh track at the moments you (very very wrongly) think are supposed to be funny. edit: I couldn’t finish watching the quoted link. It was so bad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-been-a-long-time-coming/459074.md?page=1)