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October 2, 2008Continuing my impromptu series on good comedy, here’s another one. Steve in Coupling, with his legendary rant about naked women. The backstory here is that in the days leading up to this dinner party, Susan (the blonde across the table), found one of Steve’s lesbian porn videos (”Lesbian Spank Inferno”, here come the search engines!). He’s forced into detailing the “plot” of the porn video during the party.
Coupling is definitely worth your time, one of the best comedy series of all times. It’s kind of like Friends, but then without the repetitiveness, annoying Americans, worn-out New York backdrop, and lame stand-up comedy jokes. Coupling is a series where there really aren’t any individual, one-line jokes - everything depends on one another. Finding a suitable scene to demonstrate the type of complex humour generally used in Coupling is difficult, but this one is pretty decent.
The series makes extensive use of split-screen, time lapse, and different people speaking about the same events but from different angles (men vs. women, mostly). The characters in coupling are not meant to reflect real people - Susan and Steve could be real, but the other characters are stylised extremes of the male and female psyches.
It’s an extremely innovative show, and definitely worth your time.
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Well, you certainly won’t find me defending Friends, but Coupling might appeal to me if I was a catty teenage girl or a particularly effeminate gay male, but my god I’d rather claw my face off than watch this show.
To me, this is a bunch of gossipy with annoying characters, far more like Friends than different.
I have had this show recommended to me by multiple people and I simply do not understand the appeal of this.
It’s a pretty big hit here in the US, btw. They show it on BBC America. Americans *love it*.
Comment by Quag7 — October 2, 2008 @ 7:38 pm
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Comment by Administrator — October 2, 2008 @ 7:53 pm
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Comment by Quag7 — October 2, 2008 @ 8:40 pm
He sure did. It burns, doesnt it?
Comment by Soulbender — October 3, 2008 @ 7:08 am
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Comment by Quag7 — October 3, 2008 @ 11:13 pm
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Comment by Tom — October 10, 2008 @ 1:39 pm