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By: NancyB

NancyB — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:54:52 +0000

I liked Are You Being Served very much, but thought it needed subtitles. I’m from Chicago.

By: Can't hark my cry

Can't hark my cry — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:57:06 +0000

When I was living in NYC in the late 70′s Channel Nine ran a week of programming from some British channel (I remember the event being called “Thames on 9,” so possibly the Thames channel? Or something. . .) I wasn’t much of a TV watcher (still amn’t), but this was ENGLISH TV, y’know? So I watched a couple of shows, one of which was the opening episode for an absolutely hilarious sitcom, but of course I never got to see any of the other episodes.

badump, badump

Some years later, I (still not a TV watcher) was thrilled when I saw that that same show was now going to be broadcast in America. Well, not the SAME show–the American version, but all the same, I was thrilled. And I watched the opening episode and it was, so far as I could tell, word for word the same script. And it was the dumbest thing I’d ever seen.

Yup. Gotta be the accents.

What? Which show? Three’s Company. . .

By: Roman Wolf

Roman Wolf — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:39:20 +0000

Oh, I always knew that MT was just recycled British TV. It’s just when my parents watched it, I’d go over into another room and read a book. To quote Groucho Marx, “I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.” But I have seen some of the 80-90′s British TV fare as well as the occasional older one, like “The Prisoner”.

By: Christopher Taylor

Christopher Taylor — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:43:27 +0000

Oh yeah it was just goofy low brow comedy stuff, just cheesy sitcom but funny. But since they had a British accent it got shown on PBS, culture, don’t you know.

By: Daily Pundit » Guilty Pleasures

Daily Pundit » Guilty Pleasures — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:54:21 +0000

[...] S. Weasel In fate’s ongoing Summer War on Celebrities, actress Mollie Sugden died today. She was 86. Best known for her role as Betty Slocombe in Brit TV’s Are You Being Served? She managed to outlive Wendy Richard (who played the young tart) by some months. [...]

By: S. Weasel

S. Weasel — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:41:37 +0000

Even before I hooked up with a Brit, I always though it hilarious that ANY old shit with a British accent was considered classy enough for PBS. What we call Masterpiece Theater they call television (seriously -- MT just recycled ordinary BBC short serials). And stuff like Are You Being Served? was the lowliest of low-rent comedies.

By: Christopher Taylor

Christopher Taylor — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:40:50 +0000

I loved Are You Being Served, what a great show. Mrs Slocombe was hilarious, they all were.

By: Roman Wolf

Roman Wolf — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:35:29 +0000

…I feel like that kid in the back of class who didn’t do his homework, any studying, or even listening to the lectures…and just getting handed a test. I have no clue what’s going on. I’m confused, lonely scared, and have absolutely no clue what the answer to number one is.

Oh, but the cat is cute. Otherwise, I’m confused, lonely, and scared.

By: Schlippy

Schlippy — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:30:19 +0000

Great deal of good Are You Being Served? clips on youtube to be had too. Something to be said for good dry English humor even when it’s decades olde. Beats hell out of most comedy in the US these days to be sure.

By: JuliaM

JuliaM — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:30:30 +0000

“Are you Being Served? I watched that show as a kid and used to know the theme song by heart.”

For anyone who doesn’t:

http://www.headington.org.uk/adverts/themes/a.htm

Enjoy!