Which "Sitcoms" didn't you "get"

[RJUKL]

I didn't get Last of the Summer Wine or Dad's Army although everyone else seems to love these.

[poohshunny]

I'm with you on this one RJUKL! At last, someone that feels the same way about those programmes. I'd add Steptoe and Son to the list too. I didn't get Allo Allo either.

[Buenchico]

I love 'Last of the Summer Wine' so much that I've started collecting videos of all of the old series. (I know that they're all available on DVD but it's much more fun to seek them out, on VHS, in charity shops). I also enjoy 'Dad's Army'.

It took me a while to 'get' Ad Fab and I can still take it or leave it.

However the most unfunny (British) TV comedy for me has to be the absolutely, completely, utterly, totally dire 'The Office'. I fail to understand how a vastly superior comedy series, shown at around the same time, failed to win all of the awards. I refer, of course, to the brilliant 'Still Game'.

[MarkRae]

Last of the Summer Wine was very subtly witty when it first began in the 70s, but soon descended into unwatchable drivel.

Dad's Army, on the other hand, was the best of the best. Fantastic writing, superb casting and acting, real and fully developed characters dealing humorously with serious and potentially threatening situations.

[MarkRae]

> Sorry no to all of them

What are you apologising for...?

[RJUKL]

'Allo 'Allo' made me cringe (not that I ever watched it) just to glimpse the trailers or accidentally switching the programme on was enough for me.
the same goes for Hidi Hi (if that's how you spell it)
Also the one with Larry Grayson (aka Nigel Lythgoe) with "I'm free" as the catch phrase.

[Buenchico]

'Allo 'Allo might have lacked subtlety in it's plots but it mimicked the works of Georges Feydeau, who is generally regarded as the master of theatrical farce.

[Buenchico]

Larry Grayson????

Surely you mean John Inman?

[cupid04]

absolutely fabulous

[RJUKL]

Yes Buenchico, I made a mistake. I hate both sitcoms. Shut that door whatever that was allabout and I'm free. So similar in their triteness that they are interchangeable.

[mightyWBA]

I don't "get" The office.
allo allo is superb by the way ...you are tooking crip if you dunt fund it fanny