After the second season of Little Britain I told myself I was cutting myself off, becase they just keep doing the same handful of skits over and over and over and over and over again, without hardly any development or deviation that might make the characters more interesting or even worth following.

I totally fell in love with the show after the first season...but then again, it was all new. Little did I know, the same jokes and schticks and gags would be recycled WAY into the ground from that point forward.

Yet here I am, with Season 3 sitting in my DVD player.

Maybe I'm just comforted by the familiarity of their trademark repetition? Maybe I like the idea of a comedy show where nothing new ever happens? The characters from different skits could at least cross over into other skits or...SOMEthing. I think the two guys who do the show are obviously great comedic performers and have a very smart take on social satire...I just wish they'd break free of their formula once in a while. It's getting really old.

I SWEAR: I'm not renting Season 4.

Unless it's good. Is it good?

Who you callin' "Little", you great big John Wayne creature


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I never even heard of it.

I do like that song "Little HEAVEN" though. By Toad the Wet Sproket.

Ever hear it?

It was on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer (The movie) Soundtrak.

Kristy Swanson is just a way hotter Buffy, then stupid Sarah Michelle, IMO.

SureThing said:

what

Anx said:

Nevermind. I probably shouldn't have said anything.

Anx said:

Little Britain -> Buffy. How can you not see the connection?

retina said:

if tracey pollard played buffy i'd be such a huge fan of that show.

yeah but no but yeah but no but yeah but no but yeah but no but yeah but Buffy?

oldpurple said:

SHUT UP! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU JUST SAID THAT!

i want that one

SureThing said:

I liked Artie Lange's story on Letterman where he told of how his uncle calls Buffy " some jew broad who fights draculas".

Anx said:

don't be giving people evils!

The first series was very funny, but yes the second and third series were crap. Bubbles, Lou and Andy and Marjorie Daws? are the only characters i find funny. Also the fat guy annoys me a bit as he always has the same facial expressions for every character he does and is not as good an actor as the other guy. The Christmas special 'Little Britain Abroad' was so unfunny it was embarrasing..and this show wins awards every year at every UK comedy award show??

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

I just started watching it this week in fact, sort of by accident. I thought some of the sketches were funny, and others just I couldn't see what the hype was all about.

Maybe I'm watching the most recent ones though.

SureThing said:

purplehippieonthe1 said:

org says nooooo.

My friend wants me to start watching this.

Oh, oh. I can't imagine what Americans get out watching these two self-satisfied cunts making each other guffaw. Perception's arrow is made of balsa wood when it comes to the mass fawning over this turd, man. Then again, I'm not the easiest punter to please, so it's probably hilarious stuff and I should stop reading so many Third Reich books. "It's so refreshingly un-PC!" "Oh, fuck off." Never found Monty Python funny either. Just a bunch of rich kids dressing up, condecending and patronising the (lesser, of course) masses with silly voices and horribly obvious fingertip grasps upon the slippery ledge of wit. Pish that David Bowie wouldn't drink in 77.

Number23 said:

I hate little Britain too, fucking hate it. Not Python though, although I do hate everything else that came from it (Faulty Towers and all that crap) - interestingly, what do you find funny?

harry the rude hamster

I find Little Britain mildly amusing but detest Monty Python.

Having said that, the Little Britain Christmas shows were SHITE!

The only thing that made me laugh was Julia Davis as Ivanka the Swedish bride.

Number23 said:

Ok, now I don't like you anymore.

minneapolisgenius said:

Number23 said:

minneapolisgenius said:

Number23 said:

That was such an odd occurance though.

what? there's a season 4? i thought there was only 3???

cborgman said:

THERE ARE SEVERAL CARDS OF CHOCOLATE IN A BOX, ALL PREPARED TO SCAR YOU ALIVE - WHICH CARD DO YOU PICK?

Spookymuffin said:

the mint one?