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Watched a near random selection of British sitcoms. I'm weird because I much preferred Black Books and The Thin Blue Line to Spaced and Black Adder. I know I'm really weird because I not only didn't really care for either of the main characters of Spaced but I think I actually prefer the setup of the first Black Adder where he's stupider to the latter ones where he's smart. Even though this change is what Wikipedia tells me saved the series and turned it into one of the greatest of all time. The better episodes were when the guest characters were pretty smart and he had to deal with an inability to manipulate everyone like he typically could with the regular side characters, which is kind of the premise of Frasier's better episodes.

blackadder 2,3 and 4 are genius imo. You are correct that black books and thin blue line are good. Does Benji know about father ted and patridge, big questions

If you've never seen Bottom you absolutely have to watch bottom.


And Fawlty Towers, obviously.

The Brittas empire is a good weird one from back in my childhood, how do you even explain to an american what a leisure centre is