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[MrCB]

http://achewood.com/index.php?date=04042008

OK, really now, the computer is getting a bit old. Enough already.

I do like the idea of Cornelius conversing with a finch though.

[CortJstr]

Today I learned that finches natural enemies include owls and quick dogs. Especially when said birds are lost in a good book.

Education.

[oball]

I actually laughed at this one, unlike the previous three.

[theinevitable]

yeah, um. no laughs.

[Ben-San]

This is all just setup for the revelation that Shrovis-Bishopthorpe is headquartered in New Jersey.

[littlefallsmets]

Yeah, I definitely am no getting anything out of this particular nugget of gratis entertainment.

Maybe someone with a deep Anglophilia would? I dunno. I like England just fine, many interesting things and people have come from there but... there are Americans who make a deep fetish of it and I'm not one of them.

I reckon those people are the ones who keep shitty old British sitcoms on PBS rerun blocks under the idea that since they're British, they must be good when... no... they're bad sitcoms of roughly the same badness of our own, except with actors that look like human beings instead of aliens from the planet Plastic.

The Young Ones and Monty Python, for example, are great.

The show about all the excitable assholes who work in British Macys twenty-five years ago or the one where Judi Dench lives in the country and is married to an ugly man for some reason? Not so much.

This little run definitely correlates with the latter and not the former.

[Noah]

remember how bad the "wee britain" story arc was in arrested development?

[littlefallsmets]

Well... yes.

However, the ending with the walking on water and "that's... not my trick" ...beat... "that's my ILLUSION!"?

One of the best endings in television history... so it made up for itself. If this story arc can end with the best "Being There" reference ever, all would be forgiven.

[Golfhaus]

The show about all the excitable assholes who work in British Macys twenty-five years ago

I dunno, dude. I love Are You Being Served? The spinoff, Are You Being Served... Again?, on the other hand, blew goats.

[wombat]

Jeez, why's everyone so cranky this weekend. I liked this. I was pleased to see it.

[Hambone]

remember how bad the "wee britain" story arc was in arrested development?

For reasons that had nothing to do with the "Wee Britain" premise itself and everything to do with a) the stupid Michael-doesn't-realize-this-girl-is-retarded storyline, b) the fact that said stupid storyline was carried on way too long, and c) Charlize Theron's complete inability to play comic roles/general lack of charisma? 

Yes, I remember that. 

As for this arc, I think it's turning a corner... I liked the first one, enjoyed the next two in a lukewarm kind of way, and now... well, this one is better.  I don't know why, but I think something's emerging beyond the repetitive British jokes. 

Of course, that means the arc is probably over.

[oball]

I just think the whole "Oh, I say old chap, isn't this rather British?" schtick is lazy humour.  The only bit I laughed at in the entire arc was the "owls and quick dogs" line.

[Choop]

you realize that complaining about it makes him do more of them right



PERSONALLY I LOVE THIS BRITISH COMPUTER STORYLINE AND DO NOT WISH IT TO END
SPIN IT OFF INTO A NEW STRIP ONSTAD
WITH TEE SHIRTS OF ITS OWN AND THE LIKE
THE FINCH CAN COOK RIGHT

[spiral]

I'm enjoying it but then I'm English, and it's fun trying to figure out what all these stereotypes mean.

[herofix]

I was just impressed that anyone outside of Britain knew about Al Murray: Pub Landlord.  That alone was worth a snicker.  Then again, maybe he just searched for 'publican' on Google Images.  Then again, maybe he came across him on his trip to Britain.  Then again, maybe Al Murray is more well-known outside of Britain than I thought.

Then again...