# UK Dopers, is Coupling any good? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 18, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-is-coupling-any-good/182770 "2003-06-18T19:10:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-is-coupling-any-good/182770/1 "2003-06-18T19:10:52Z")
Just wondering after reading [this](http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/1214.htm) article in the NY Post. It’s supposed to be a ‘replacement’ for **Friends** which is hit or miss IMO. They say > [@](#): > > They went overseas and bought the rights to all the scripts for the UK hit. The U.S. version uses the same scripts, mostly word for word - minus the British slang. so I guess that means we’ll have the same show with different actors. Is this anything to get excited about? ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-is-coupling-any-good/182770/2 "2003-06-18T20:12:06Z")
Actually, the UK version really -is- witty and well written (my friends say, “It’s like ‘Friends’, but funny!”), but it’s also a bit more blatantly sexual. My thought? They’re going to grab it, Americanize it, and it’ll turn out to pretty much be crap. My advice? Get BBC america or a friend who can video tape it for you and watch the episodes. Start with season one and work your way through. They’re on season 3 now, and it’s really entertaining. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-is-coupling-any-good/182770/3 "2003-06-18T20:15:02Z")
Oh, I thought it was _awful_—they show it on a local Long Island station, and I saw two episodes. All I could take. Leering, sex-crazed dialogue with all the wit of _Three’s Company_; a largely talentless cast given to bug-eyed double-takes, “plot twists” you can see coming three miles off . . . _Dreadful_ show. ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-is-coupling-any-good/182770/4 "2003-06-18T20:16:03Z")
Er, when I say ‘it’, I mean the original, not the americanized version. D’oh! ---
**Author:** ![Loneraven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c0e974/32.png) [@Loneraven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loneraven)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-is-coupling-any-good/182770/5 "2003-06-18T20:32:28Z")
The British episodes are very good, IMHO. "I’ve got the key to paradise… …but I’ve got too many legs!" ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-is-coupling-any-good/182770/6 "2003-06-18T23:32:04Z")
I enjoy the British version. You can see it on public television in Georgia. ---
**Author:** ![amy\_shamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@amy\_shamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amy_shamon)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-is-coupling-any-good/182770/7 "2003-06-18T23:47:50Z")
I despise the British version. The Welsh character (the dumb one) is slightly funny, but unless you want to hear old jokes repeated by bad actors then I suggest you give it a miss amy ---
**Author:** ![Peg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Peg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peg)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-is-coupling-any-good/182770/8 "2003-06-19T00:22:47Z")
Wait. I thought “Coupling” was the UK version of “Friends.” Now there will be a US version of “Coupling”? ---
**Author:** ![serenitynow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@serenitynow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/serenitynow)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-is-coupling-any-good/182770/9 "2003-06-19T02:02:25Z")
I love the show! I have seen commercials for the American version, and perhaps it is because I have seen the original that I think the Yank version will suck. The girl who plays Jane, at least, is nothing at all like Jane. I don’t know why they didn’t just buy the real thing and show it, (minus a few words you can’t say on network tv.) As an aside, does anyone else have the season 1 dvd? The sound does not sync with the picture. What’s up with that?