Faulty Towers to be rebooted?

[Yossarian]

"Don't mention Brexit"

 

[marty21]

It will be shit - cancel it now

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

I'm hoping it goes the way of the Father Ted musical.

 

[two sheds]

My lovely horse?

 

[danny la rouge]

This time instead of Fawlty being the butt of the joke, I expect he'll be using the character as a conduit for his own anti-woke feelings.

From the point of view of the major.

 

[krtek a houby]

"Don't mention Brexit"

"Don't mention the woke"

 

[tonysingh]

Faulty Towers was shit to begin with, a remake can only heighten the shitness.

 

[DotCommunist]

they should bring back one foot in the grave or porridge. Fuck it, I'd take a rebooted Brittas Empire over this.

 

[krtek a houby]

they should bring back one foot in the grave or porridge. Fuck it, I'd take a rebooted Brittas Empire over this.

Porridge came back for a series a few years back, don't remember it getting good reviews

 

[DotCommunist]

Porridge came back for a series a few years back, don't remember it getting good reviews

that was, i think, four one off special reboots. One was porridge, can't remember the others but they were f that vintage.

shit, googling reveals Punky Brewster got a reboot. Fucking hell.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Faulty Towers was shit to begin with, a remake can only heighten the shitness.

I loved it when I was a kid. Slapstick humour is great for kids. But it's aged badly, for sure. And I loved all kinds of rubbish when I was a kid. The Goodies, for instance, on which, ironically, Cleese once appeared, disparaging it as a 'Kids' Show'.

 

[krtek a houby]

that was, i think, four one off special reboots. One was porridge, can't remember the others but they were f that vintage.

shit, googling reveals Punky Brewster got a reboot. Fucking hell.

Reggie Perrin did as well, which must have been odd with Leonard Rossiter being long dead and all that

 

[Supine]

Episode 1 - Mrs Brown stays. Hilarity ensues.

 

[Chz]

they should bring back one foot in the grave or porridge. Fuck it, I'd take a rebooted Brittas Empire over this.

I used to use that as a touchstone for shit comedy as well, but I thought I'd give it a go again when they re-aired it a while back. The first series is just as dire as you remember, but after that sort of cratered they seem to have thought "Fuck it" and it gets quite surreal (in a good way) later on. I still don't think it's great, but it's no longer my byword for failed sitcom either. (I think Hi-Di-Hi should be that now)

 

[surreybrowncap]

Reggie Perrin did as well, which must have been odd with Leonard Rossiter being long dead and all that

Yeah - Martin Clunes as Perrin..
(I didn't get where I am today without knowing that...)

 

[belboid]

Surely most of the Star Treks are, effectively, reboots? Even if every series was less good than there previous one.

And Arrested Development.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Yeah - Martin Clunes as Perrin..
(I didn't get where I am today without knowing that...)

I missed that. Sounds awful. Paul Merton as Hancock didn't work either. Why do they do these terrible things?

 

[krtek a houby]

Surely most of the Star Treks are, effectively, reboots? Even if every series was less good than there previous one.

And Arrested Development.

DS9 (despite the filler EPs) is still the best

 

[Pickman's model]

I used to use that as a touchstone for shit comedy as well, but I thought I'd give it a go again when they re-aired it a while back. The first series is just as dire as you remember, but after that sort of cratered they seem to have thought "Fuck it" and it gets quite surreal (in a good way) later on. I still don't think it's great, but it's no longer my byword for failed sitcom either. (I think Hi-Di-Hi should be that now)

The bsi standard for shit comedy is oh dr beeching

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I used to use that as a touchstone for shit comedy as well, but I thought I'd give it a go again when they re-aired it a while back. The first series is just as dire as you remember, but after that sort of cratered they seem to have thought "Fuck it" and it gets quite surreal (in a good way) later on. I still don't think it's great, but it's no longer my byword for failed sitcom either. (I think Hi-Di-Hi should be that now)

I liked Hi-Di-Hi. Caveat, as before, I was a kid at the time.

 

[two sheds]

I've never actually seen an episode of On the Buses but the clips I've seen just don't seem funny

 

[Chz]

I liked Hi-Di-Hi. Caveat, as before, I was a kid at the time.

TBF, I'm sure it's quite different if you've actually experienced that sort of thing. Summer camps in Canada were a very different sort of affair.

 

[DotCommunist]

The bsi standard for shit comedy is oh dr beeching

can it be any worse than the short lived Comrade Dad:
17 December 1984 - Comrade Dad: With George Cole, Claire Toeman, Barbara Ewing, Doris Hare. In an alternative future, Great Britain is part of the USSR in 1999 - an imperfect situation but one that pleases Reg, the 'Comrade Dad' of the Dudgeon family.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

can it be any worse than the short lived Comrade Dad:
17 December 1984 - Comrade Dad: With George Cole, Claire Toeman, Barbara Ewing, Doris Hare. In an alternative future, Great Britain is part of the USSR in 1999 - an imperfect situation but one that pleases Reg, the 'Comrade Dad' of the Dudgeon family.

Why have I not heard of this before?

 

[Sue]

Vegetarians/vegans demanding that Cleese personally remove all meat from the hotel/street/town/country.

A reboot of the Warldorf Salad episode but vegans not Americans.

(You read it here first, folks.)

 

[Mumbles274]

'lefty swot war'

 

[Pickman's model]

can it be any worse than the short lived Comrade Dad:
17 December 1984 - Comrade Dad: With George Cole, Claire Toeman, Barbara Ewing, Doris Hare. In an alternative future, Great Britain is part of the USSR in 1999 - an imperfect situation but one that pleases Reg, the 'Comrade Dad' of the Dudgeon family.

yes

 

[Chz]

can it be any worse than the short lived Comrade Dad:
17 December 1984 - Comrade Dad: With George Cole, Claire Toeman, Barbara Ewing, Doris Hare. In an alternative future, Great Britain is part of the USSR in 1999 - an imperfect situation but one that pleases Reg, the 'Comrade Dad' of the Dudgeon family.

Heil Honey I'm Home?

 

[surreybrowncap]

 

[cupid_stunt]

can it be any worse than the short lived Comrade Dad:
17 December 1984 - Comrade Dad: With George Cole, Claire Toeman, Barbara Ewing, Doris Hare. In an alternative future, Great Britain is part of the USSR in 1999 - an imperfect situation but one that pleases Reg, the 'Comrade Dad' of the Dudgeon family.

I don't re-call that, not surprising as I was living in Ireland and didn't have a telly at the time, but it's all on youtube, so I'll take a butchers later.