Benny Hill, AbFab and Fawlty Towers are still my jam.
Monty Python, though… it never did much for me, oddly.
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Looks like, at least, a partial inspiration.
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But . . . but . . . but . . . not even the Dead Parrot Sketch?? 
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never woulda called that one 
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Meh.
Considering I’m now an educated feminist, I know right?
Still, I watched it in syndication when I was 10 or 12 and laughed my ass off, so it still has nostalgic value for me.
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Something something Life of Brian
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Something something, History of the World…
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So, while home dying of the plague, Netflix finally put it together that between Travellers, Timeless, Arrival… that I might just like time-travel shows, so it suggested El Ministerio Del Teimpo.
Time travel, with a Spanish Bureaucracy twist. Plus, rather than the usual “people from our era travelling in time”, it adds in the culture clash of making the agents from all the various time-periods.
Overall, it’s not bad. Not incredibly original (but who is with time-travel, really?) but so far, pretty good.
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How about interwar German police mystery with Communist factions, dirty cops, and The Coming Menace of Fascism?
“Babylon Berlin” is indeed that. And not bingeable—, just brainable.
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Have you tried continuum?
Now this might be the right audience for this question – I would love to see the Cormoran Strike series the BBC has been doing (looks like they’re nearly through all the published novels), but I can’t find a way to watch them on-line except for the BBC player, and not being in the UK that doesn’t help me.
Anyone got any ideas? I’d rather find a legit streaming site, but since none of my regular places seem to be picking it up…
(Hey Netflix. Get on this!)
ETA: Hm. May have found something. I’ll report back if anyone is interested.
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Ooh, definitely be interested!
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Check this out then:
There’s this weird jerky motion to it, like they’ve dropped every ninth frame or something, but the audio and the exposure seem to be good.
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Interesting contrast!
About the only humor I recall not getting into was Firesign Theater. But then I wasn’t into drugs at school, so maybe that’s why. Now EtOH, that was different.
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Ethanol?
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Yup!
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That’s a long way from ethanol.
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Indeed; that’s my vice of choice.
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