Age

[beingjdc]

I always enjoy the xkcd guide to making people feel old based on film release dates, but as most of you know films aren't really my thing. I wondered what it would look like made out of BBC sitcoms.

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[bopeepsheep]

Nice. I approve, although I think you need to mention The Young Ones (30 years, next year, since series 1) rather than Hi de Hi, but that might be personal prejudice, and for fairness Only Fools And Horses and Last of The Summer Wine ought to be in there somewhere too. /sitcomgeekery

And yes, that does make me feel very old. I *watched* the first series of Blackadder, despite being far too young really (and later watched the second series with my mother's full approval).

Edited because I skipped reading a line, oops!

[atommickbrane]

I recently ordered the first season of Hi-de-Hi from lovefilm after seeing an very amusing picture of a sock monkey dressed up in yellowcoat uniform (on the internet). After great success with the Golden Girls back catalogue I was sure Hi-de-Hi would be even better!

It wasn't. SO BAD. Sorry Peggy :(

[bopeepsheep]

*makes mental note to avoid same mistake*

I was pleasantly surprised by revisiting Just Good Friends, which was better than I remembered. Grange Hill (series 1-4) was mixed. Fame was much worse than (fond) memory suggested. :-(

[bopeepsheep]

Grrr. Anon comment is me, beingjdc, as apparently iPad logs you out without warning!

[bopeepsheep]

And because my memory for sitcom trivia is US-skewed:

Frasier stopped broadcasting: 7 years ago.
Friends started: 17 years ago next week.
Cheers turned out the lights: 18 years ago.
Seinfeld started: 22 years ago.
The M*A*S*H unit finally went home: 28 years ago.
The Fonz showed up: 37 years ago.
Bewitched switched Dicks: 42 years ago.
Lucy loved Ricky: closer to Queen Victoria's death than today. By ten years.

[fleuriee]

urgh. i am closest to being the same age as blackadder then .

and just cos you've escaped the photo-update on my journal that means you'll be in the next one :)

[beingjdc]

As long as I am looking my usual suave self, that's fine!

[fleuriee]

there's one of me and alex, when i kept calling him daddy. and one of me drinking a carton of cream, which i seem to recall was your fault.

[beingjdc]

Yes, it was. I think that was the night you bit me.

[beingjdc]

First series of Fawlty Towers: Closer to Hitler's invasion of Poland than to the present day.

[beingjdc]

No, wait, not until the 7th of October

[thefairmelissa]

ahhh the Brittas Empire. What passed for weeknight entertainment in the early 90s....how my grandchildren will laugh. My parents were addicted to that series. What on earth became of that guy? (Rimmer in Red Dwarf aside)

I had to explain Allo Allo to a Finnish-Peruvian guy in the office a few weeks ago (who is also, strangely, marrying an Italian from Turin. There are lots of them; perhaps it's a plot?) It's quite hard to explain how funny it is because everything that makes you laugh in it sounds fairly racist. But in a mostly affectionate and "Oh-God-that's-so-true..." way.

I also liked Rab C Nesbitt. Why doesn't that ever get repeated on BBC? I'd love to show that to F, though he'd need subtitles. Hell, I need subtitles for it...

[beingjdc]

Chris Barrie? Red Dwarf was before. Since then... Lara Croft's butler.

They made some new Rab C Nesbitt.