odd i was thinking of papers please captain peacock

Now there is a crossover that needs to happen...

captain peacock in papers please !

Using the 'sharing while at war theme' is fine albeit a bit overused (yeah I know, we are just not past that at all as it will be the same thing in 2018). But the 'over depiction' of soldiers in their uniform and all is just too much I think, at some point the more you describe the more you raise points of controversy and (gog forbid !) clues of revisionism .
Nothing to be offended about though (It's not like there are still people who fought WW1 around).

Now that demands an apology. My roommate showed me a clip of that show and I couldn't believe how bad it was. It was a real eye opener that not all British comedy is actually funny.

eh it depends on which episode you have seen
the later seasons ( past 6 ) are not nearly as good as the first five

and its mostlya piss take off the class system at work in the uk in the 70's and the stiffeld work enviroment they work in

the humor comes from thes every different and in some cases snobbish people and having them interact
and mr humphries is ...well mr humphries no other way to describe him

but its an aquired taste much like the young ones and bottom

( i dont like the vicar of dibly or absolutley fabulous with that last one i must resist an urge to hurl objects and explitives at the tv while scrambeling for the remote if i happen to come upon it )

I think the constant and obsessive need for catch phrases all over the places pretty much killed it for me. The class jokes might be beyond me, we don't really have classes in this part of the US, but then again, my English roommate hated it, so it's clearly not just a matter of culture.

yeah the catchphrases do get rather grating after a while

the whoel class structure was lower class middle class upper middle class and upepr class and those borders were strictly dleiniated and deviating off them was just not done

though im sure an actual brit could explain it better then me

the humor comes from how true these stiff caricatures actually were how these peopel fromd ifferent classes had to interact while pretending to be better then each other and their penny pinching superiors and piss poor working enviroment

ever seen bottom or the young ones ?
or father ted ?

I'm generally a fan of Brit-Coms, but that one is just so tedious with the obsessive catch phrases that I could barely sit through one scene without changing to something else.

I haven't seen bottom or the young ones, but Father Ted was brilliant. Not to mention Coupling and My Hero. Most of the ones that make it to the US are worth seeing, when one doesn't make it to the US it's usually a case of not being very good. And in the case of Red Dwarf, if it hadn't made it big in the US it would have been canceled after that 1st series. Or was that 2nd, anyways, canceled well before it had run its course.

bottom and the young ones are ...an aquired taste
they tend to be rather random with deranged slapstick

you either like them or hate them utterly there is no in between

speaking of red dwarf that one never clicked with me i tried to watch it but it never clicked for me