#42

I loved it when it was first on. But I watched an episode again recently and couldn’t figure out why I’d liked it.

#43

I think it’s an almost classic example of comedy that hasn’t aged at all well.

I definitely found it quite funny at the time, and quite irreverant, whereas now I find it cringey and irresponsible, so it goes to show how tastes change.

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#44

I thought some of it was really funny at the time (as an 11 year old) - although not funny in an intelligent way at all, it was just really silly - but it got repetitive and stale very quickly, even before the end of the 1st Series (before it got tremendously popular and became much more boring).

But yeah, it doesn’t hold up well now. Quite amazing given how unanimously loved it was as little as a decade ago.

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#45

Shittle shitain!

#46

I have been, and now I need a cigarette.

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#47

I’ll concede that “Ivor; that was the name of Ivor” is a beautiful line.

It dropped off after the first series. Even as a young teenager who’d been a big fan, I remember thinking the third series was shite.

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#48

I enjoyed the first series on bbc 3 (remember that?!) but it quickly got tiresome when it jumped to bbc2 with its second and third series. I’m fairly sure the first series wouldn’t be funny either right now, but I would have been the right age for it (15 iirc)

#49

great bunch of comedy
32 I was

#50

I swear it got much more popular after the first series. I remember when the first episode aired and hardly anyone talked about it. Then the second series came out and suddenly everyone at school was raving about it, repeating the catch phrases etc. Then by the time the third series came out, everyone watched it (and it was basically overdone and rubbish).

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#51

yeah it moved from bbc3 to bbc2

#52

The first and second series of the TV show were on BBC3, then they were repeated on BBC 1 ahead of the third series switching to that channel.

There were a couple of series of the radio show on Radio 4 before then too.

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#53

ah yeah ok, the point is, that waslargely the reason it became a big deal

#54

Oh aye, yeah. The leap in exposure between BBC3 and BBC1 is even bigger than to BBC2.

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#55

That’s funny, I swear I remember watching the first series when it first aired on either BBC 1 or 2 (then it got more popular and moved a different channel). Wasn’t BBC 3 only available on Freeview or something? Cos I’m not sure I had Freeview then.

I thought it moved from BBC 1 or 2 to BBC 3 for the second/third series (which was when it became a lot more popular amongst people at school, since that was the ‘in’ channel I guess). I’m probably wrong, but that’s how I remember it.

#56

nah as @marckee says, repeats before season 3