Mrs Browns Boys

[hillbilly]

Spot the difference:

Mrs Brown	Bread
Set in working class house	Set in working class house
Family led by strong mother	Family led by strong mother
Cheeky characters	Cheeky characters
Gay son	Gay son
Daughter struggling to stay in relationships	Daughter struggling to stay in relationships
Son on the take	Son on the take
Irish family	Irish descent family
Inexplicibly popular	Inexplicably popular

On the bright side, nobody remembers Bread 20 years after it was on and it is never repeated (not even on UK Gold).

[Oscar's dad]

I like the way Mrs Brown is filmed in front of a studio audience and they keep some if not all of the out takes in. 

[Redlight]

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On the bright side, nobody remembers Bread 20 years after it was on and it is never repeated (not even on UK Gold).
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Bread also suffered from the very BBC notion that anything said in an exaggerated Scouse accent must, by default, be funny.

[mattc]

On the bright side, nobody remembers Bread 20 years after it was on and it is never repeated (not even on UK Gold).

Bread also suffered from the very BBC notion that anything said in an exaggerated Scouse accent must, by default, be funny.

Wasn't that the basic premise of Brookside? (CH4's flagship series, as I recall)

[Wascally Weasel]

No Brookside was invented to show that a fictional Merseyside soap suburb could be every bit as depressing as a fictional London soap suburb.

[hillbilly]

A typical scene from Brookside:

[ian]

No Brookside was invented to show that a fictional Merseyside soap suburb could be every bit as depressing as a fictional London soap suburb.

It was tradition, as a student in Liverpool, to be chased by the security guards at the end of the 'close'. As was jumping on the weather map in the docks and water-pistolling Chinese tourists by the Penny Lane road sign.

I am not proud of any of these activities.

[rogerzilla]

I thought Brookside was about lesbians and bodies under patios.

[toontra]

About as funny as root canal treatment.

[rogerzilla]

Disappointingly, I couldn't find "The Great Escape" on any terrestrial channel this Christmas.  Standards are definitely slipping.

But happily, "The Dam Busters" has been on.



Official, Ministry of Aircraft Production: You say you need a Wellington Bomber for test drops. They're worth their weight in gold. Do you really think the authorities will lend you one? What possible argument could I put forward to get you a Wellington?

Doctor B. N. Wallis, C.B.E., F.R.S.: Well, if you told them I designed it, do you think that might help?

Is the dog's name badly dubbed as "Trigger" these days?