On Sat, 03 May 2014 07:57:10 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2014-05-02 11:37 PM, Jeßus wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 May 2014 01:15:15 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know of any modern ones either. I loved the British version of The
>>> Office but the American one fell flat for me. I liked Fry and Laurie that
>>> aired a few years back and there was another one on at the same time with a
>>> little red haired man who liked to play pathetic characters. One of the
>>> skits was him working in a suit shop and he would tell the customers, "Suits
>>> you sir!" But my all time favorites have to be Are you Being Served,
>>> Neighbors or perhaps it was Good Neighbors or The Good Life, To The Manor
>>> Born, Keeping Up Appearances, One Foot in the Grave and Butterflies. They
>>> just don't make shows like that any more. Oh and Fawlty Towers!
>>
>> Fawlty Towers is a classic in all sorts of ways and always been a
>> favourite of mine.
>>
>>> Great but
>>> too few episodes. Also liked Mr. Bean. Just not the movies and Black
>>> Adder.
>>
>> I love Blackadder and yes, I watch all the episodes at least once a
>> year. I hate Mr Bean though...
>>
>>> I liked Ab Fab for a while but soon one episode began to blend in with
>>> another and most of the plots (if you could call them plots) just seemed to
>>> be almost the same.
>>
>> I like Ab Fab, but need to be in the mood for it. I watched all the
>> episodes again only a few weeks ago.
>>
>
>One of the best BBC comedies was a short lived one called Night Night.
>It features an amoral and manipulative hair stylist who poisons her
>husband so she can pursue her married neighbour. It is a very dark comedy.

I'll have to look into that one
>
>The British have the good sense not to let comedy series run on forever
>and ever. If they are exceptionally good they run a few seasons and end it.

Yes, they do seem to have the good taste to know when to quit. The
Young Ones in particular were under a lot of pressure to continue but
intentially quit right at the show's peak. Same with Fawlty Towers.
Doing that certainly did no harm to their long term reputation... keep
'em wanting more.

I know it's not quite the same thing, but contrast that with The
Simpsons, which IMO was excellent up until around season 10, then went
into a steady decline. The last time I watched a current episode
(maybe 3 years ago), the show is basically a parody of itself now, and
quality of the writing is very poor.