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Little Britain
2003 · TV series · 30 min episodes · 3 seasons
Created by Matt Lucas, David Walliams
A zany comedy show with Matt Lucas and David Walliams, featuring characters from all over Little Britain.
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I enjoy python stuff but not all of it aged well. A lot of older comedy aged better. Jacques Tati films for example. Or Chaplin.
They could be bizarrely homophobic and also celebrate gay culture in the same show. They were often very misogynist.
I still laugh at it. I still watch it. But the adulation faded.
No Australian enjoys their take on Australian wine. It's wincingly unpleasant. Barry Humphries, Germaine Greer and Clive James fed cultural stereotypes which died out when earl's court became too expensive for Australian backpackers. The abos armpit thing comes back to me far too often from naive British friends who would never use the N word, or make jokes about Irish being stupid. They don't know what they're saying.
Eric Idle complained he had to do Spamelot to get some retirement income. George Harrison made bank on the films.
The situationist surreal stuff, Terry Gilliams pasteup animation, very good. Dressing up as ladies.. tiresome.
There's a line from pythons dressing up as working class women to little Britain making fun of incontinent old women.
Internet Archive not only has lost episodes, but whole lost seasons of shows. For example, Little Britain has been “cancelled” on streaming/digital purchases. The DVDs are out of print so third party sellers jack up the price. Internet Archive provides a way of enjoying these out of print works.
Or, as the TV show Little Britain put it: "Computer says no"
While reading your first two sentences I just imagined it on the detail level of xkcd comics.
Then when reading your question about the viewpoint the details increased and saw the stream from the perspective from a top of a building. The man did not wear any clothes. I could not tell the material of the store front because it's just as it were roughly sketched. When thinking about the man in the store a scene from little britain [1] comes to my mind.
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFQ_ZrRqBlQ
edit: actually when thinking about it most images in my head are mashups of memories. Like I am sure the street I imagined comes from either a tv show or some language learning materials that where used to introduce vocabulary related to shopping or urban life.
The TV series "Little Britain" had a regular sketch featuring an apathetic bank employee who just checked the computer after every request made by a customer and read out "computer says no" every time, never with any justification to the seemingly completely arbitrary rejections.
For banks it reflected the reality at the time (2000-2007), but it's creeping into more and more areas.
Lately I've been busy and have accidentally not watched TV in a while. Lots of DVDs, though, and a couple trips to the movie theater.
Right now, I'm watching the BBC's "Little Britain" on DVD, though I don't count anything on DVD as television.