Rewatchable and classic commedies?

[diy_fun_uk]

I was planning to watch the American version of The Office but never got around to it although I think it's very good. What is Curb Your Enthusiasm like is it one that you can watch again and again? I've not watched it before.

It's all subjective. For me yes, I can watch Curb again and again, with some period of time between though With it and The Office there are scenes, dialogue and mannerisms that make me laugh, cringe or both! I've worked in office environments most of my life so that perhaps explains part of the draw The Office has for me, you see bits of characters and scenarios that you can relate to people you've worked with.

And with Curb, I often agree with Larry's point of view, which probably says quite a lot about me as a person!!! What I'll say is the first series now seems a bit slow and laboured compared to more recent series, however I wouldn't advise people to base the whole experience on series 1.

 

[teaboyjim]

It's all subjective. For me yes, I can watch Curb again and again, with some period of time between though With it and The Office there are scenes, dialogue and mannerisms that make me laugh, cringe or both! I've worked in office environments most of my life so that perhaps explains part of the draw The Office has for me, you see bits of characters and scenarios that you can relate to people you've worked with.

I feel the same way about The Big Bang Theory

And with Curb, I often agree with Larry's point of view, which probably says quite a lot about me as a person!!! What I'll say is the first series now seems a bit slow and laboured compared to more recent series, however I wouldn't advise people to base the whole experience on series 1.

I'll give it a watch

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

When did everybody start getting satelite TV? It must have been early 2000s right?

I installed my 1m steerable sat dish around 1990.

 

[teaboyjim]

I installed my 1m steerable sat dish around 1990.

MTV hadn't even started at that time I'm guessing

 

[Brigade77]

I installed my 1m steerable sat dish around 1990.

My dad paid for Sky to be installed for xmas 1989 & was overjoyed to discover a German channel (IIRC RTL) which used to overdub The Benny Hill Show. He was fluent in German & we had to endure hour after hour of Benny in German. My dad always said it added a lot to the comedy as the Germans have absolutely no sense of humour.

 

[EddieM]

That's well early isn't it. What was available in 1990 via satellite? I'm guessing even MTV hadn't started at that time. Are you one of those boffin types who are really good with technology?

MTV was one of the first channels.

 

[Brigadier]

That's well early isn't it. What was available in 1990 via satellite? I'm guessing even MTV hadn't started at that time. Are you one of those boffin types who are really good with technology?

There was a bloke down our road who had a motorised, remotely-steerable dish in the mid to late eighties, iirc.
He reckoned he used to pay for access to a couple of satellites, then just move it around to whatever else he fancied watching.

 

[EddieM]

There was a bloke down our road who had a motorised, remotely-steerable dish in the mid to late eighties, iirc.
He reckoned he used to pay for access to a couple of satellites, then just move it around to whatever else he fancied watching.

Yes, the original analogue satellite channel access security was pretty much non existent and trivial to override.

 

[Brigadier]

Yes, the original analogue satellite channel access security was pretty much non existent and trivial to override.

Rereading my post, I didn't mean "remotely - steerable" as "barely - controllable" but, as him being able to point the dish via some sort of mechanism, rather than have to manhandle it

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Rereading my post, I didn't mean "remotely - steerable" as "barely - controllable" but, as him being able to point the dish via some sort of mechanism, rather than have to manhandle it

That would have been a threaded rod, turned by a motor, with an encoder on the shaft, so the found position of satellites could be stored and returned to. Idea was, the dish would be set up to describe and follow the satellite arc in the sky, then all that was needed was a single actuator to sweep it through the arc. I remember driving the 220 miles down and back to Brum, to collect my kit, one of the few places in the country that stocked it. Very few of the satellites were encrypted back then and only four channels on terrestrial. A good free one, but very close the western horizon for me, was the US Discovery Channel.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

That's well early isn't it. What was available in 1990 via satellite?

Red Hot Dutch.

 

[teaboyjim]

Red Hot Dutch.

The new spicy flavour Doritos?

 

[Ihavenojob]

Some people just don't understand comedy, and possibly struggle with real life as well.
https://www.mylondon.news/lifestyle...tsapp&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

 

[teaboyjim]

Some people just don't understand comedy, and possibly struggle with real life as well.
https://www.mylondon.news/lifestyle...tsapp&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

Talk about having an agenda

 

[teaboyjim]

Double post