wow, Fawlty Towers always gave me a bit of trouble but now it's almost unwatchable to me
@zebratron2084 I've always had a low tolerance for "awkwardness humor", the kind where you squirm and wince as foolish and unlikeable people dig themselves into deeper and deeper holes ("The Office" also inspired this feeling), and it's not gotten better post-transition. not that I ever _liked_ Basil Fawlty, but now his antics flay at my nerves
@kara_dreamer Oh, you should DEFINITELY watch that Hennemore sketch, then. *sadistic grin*
@zebratron2084 argh, I remember you recommended this but forgot to bookmark it...d'you mind reminding me again?
@zebratron2084 wow, these escalate quickly!
@zebratron2084 and dare I say the fifth one (with the M and N mixup) seems pretty intentionally a Python pastiche, and the _sixth_ one cribbed the infamous 1st-season ending of the American cop-show parody "Sledge Hammer!" in which Hammer pisses off his police chief one last time by accidentally nuking Los Angeles
@kara_dreamer This reminds me of another Mitchell and Webb sketch you might appreciate: they systematically set up eight or nine classic British comedy sketches and avert every single one of them with a perfect, bland anticlimax. >:D
@zebratron2084 ok, I think what I most like about these is that they basically stick straight to the payoff, which is over in about a minute. skips all the tedious unravelling!
@zebratron2084 @kara_dreamer I hadn't much thought of it before, but the Hennimore sketches are both farcical and satires of farce, which is an interesting position to be in
@zebratron2084 @kara_dreamer I too have a low tolerance for cringe-fueled comedy. ::fist bump::
@kara_dreamer I'm very curious about details for this one. Fawlty Towers is one of those shows I should adore on principle, and I've never been particularly averse to it, but it's never grabbed me either.
I do wonder if Mitchell & Webb's "Get Me Hennemore!" sketches haven't since ruined me on overblown British farce for good... (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PChzIsepmdk )