Is there a greater TV moment than.....

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  • duggro
    duggro Posts: 1,343
    dunkman wrote:
    ok maybe not.. but i'll tell you what does... only me and finsy are old enough to remember this most likely :rolleyes: but Noel Edmonds used to do this show and its was called Noel's Christmas Presents and he got this guy to believe The Hollies were playing on the jukebox and then he took him out the back door.. oo-er... and he had the REAL The Hollies playing in his back garden.. He Aint Heavy He's MY Brother... tearjerker!!!! but it was just so amazing! my dad cried at that bit and when i said "dad are you crying" he said "nah, i poked my eye with the, ehhh, champagne flute"


    bufty ;)
    aaaaw now thats emotional
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  • duggro
    duggro Posts: 1,343
    Ledbetterus wrote:
    I honestly don't get the Tim/Dawn obsession. They had little if any chemistry together. I just got finished watching the UK Office, and I don't get the hype. Okay, it's a damn funny show. Really quite genius to be honest. It's hard to really pick a winner between the US and UK versions, however.. Tim and Dawn were boring compared to Jim and Pam. It was barely even a teasing relationship until like the last 2 of 14 episodes.

    The only time they ever got somewhat close was when Tim asked Dawn out.. But hell, it didn't even sound like it was as serious as the other characters made it out to be.

    Jim and Pam dominate Tim and Dawn. Better pranks, more sexual tension, funnier lines, much better acting.
    the jim/pam thing is just a television relationship though! brash, open and fuck all underlying sexual tension.

    from the british perspective, or at least mine, the tim/dawn relationship was a perfect example of what i have gone through, and seen others experience which is a much more subdued thing based on stolen glances and awkward pauses! thats the british way dammit!! so much more sublime than that stupid jim/pam nonsense

    btw, i think the US office is great as a show, but its a faaaar poorer version of the uk show (there are other threads for this argument i know, but it has to be said)
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  • Ledbetterus
    Ledbetterus Posts: 592
    duggro wrote:
    the jim/pam thing is just a television relationship though! brash, open and fuck all underlying sexual tension.

    from the british perspective, or at least mine, the tim/dawn relationship was a perfect example of what i have gone through, and seen others experience which is a much more subdued thing based on stolen glances and awkward pauses! thats the british way dammit!! so much more sublime than that stupid jim/pam nonsense

    btw, i think the US office is great as a show, but its a faaaar poorer version of the uk show (there are other threads for this argument i know, but it has to be said)

    If I've never watched the US version or heard of the UK version I wouldn't have put Tim and Dawn together. It didn't seem like something that was going to happen. Call me a stupid American, but I just didn't see it.
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  • ThreeSadSemesters
    ThreeSadSemesters Posts: 60
    ok, I got a couple things here, first...

    I have absolutely zero interest in any "dramatic" stuff they try to pull over on the american Office show. The pam and jim stuff...I dont know. I surmise that Im supposed to care because they spend so much motherfucking time on it, but I dont. At all. at all. The original series dealt with that relationship a bit more delicately, so it meant a bit more...to me, anyway.

    Regardless. The more important thing is this...

    In the UK Chrimbo special...what is the song that plays when Tim & Dawn finally get together...you know the one. Its all like...I forget the lyrics. But its also in the penultimate scene in Can't Hardly Wait. I've been waiting my adult life to have an excuse to ask someone about this. So dont let me down.
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  • Brain of J.Lo
    Brain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    ThreeSadSemesters wrote:
    Its all like...I forget the lyrics. But its also in the penultimate scene in Can't Hardly Wait. I've been waiting my adult life to have an excuse to ask someone about this. So dont let me down.

    *points and laughs*
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    I think the writer's strike tops it.
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  • duggro
    duggro Posts: 1,343
    ThreeSadSemesters wrote:
    ok, I got a couple things here, first...

    I have absolutely zero interest in any "dramatic" stuff they try to pull over on the american Office show. The pam and jim stuff...I dont know. I surmise that Im supposed to care because they spend so much motherfucking time on it, but I dont. At all. at all. The original series dealt with that relationship a bit more delicately, so it meant a bit more...to me, anyway.

    Regardless. The more important thing is this...

    In the UK Chrimbo special...what is the song that plays when Tim & Dawn finally get together...you know the one. Its all like...I forget the lyrics. But its also in the penultimate scene in Can't Hardly Wait. I've been waiting my adult life to have an excuse to ask someone about this. So dont let me down.

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  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    duggro wrote:
    yazoo- only you

    LOL - "Yazoo - only you"?

    :D
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  • duggro
    duggro Posts: 1,343
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqTvgeZOsN8

    joyous, and yes, accompanied by yazoo with only you, i believe
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  • mbangel10
    mbangel10 Posts: 548
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBerU5X21IM

    Yeah, yeah it's the Tim and Dawn song... but I like Jim and Pam more.
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  • ||Release_Me||
    ||Release_Me|| Posts: 1,871
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnPwI5Euxr0

    It doesn't get any greater than that. Pick any scene from Curb Your Enthusiasm and it could be a contender for 'greatest tv moment'.

    At the moment the scene that kills me is after Larry has injured Shaquille O'Neil and he goes to Starbucks. He goes to the counter and just asks for...
    "one of those vanilla bullshit things". Absolutely classic.

    Here's the clip, i love how he says 'vanilla bullshit'!!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nokGwO7MTwg
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  • Ledbetterus
    Ledbetterus Posts: 592
    ||Release_Me|| wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnPwI5Euxr0

    It doesn't get any greater than that. Pick any scene from Curb Your Enthusiasm and it could be a contender for 'greatest tv moment'.

    At the moment the scene that kills me is after Larry has injured Shaquille O'Neil and he goes to Starbucks. He goes to the counter and just asks for...
    "one of those vanilla bullshit things". Absolutely classic.

    Here's the clip, i love how he says 'vanilla bullshit'!!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nokGwO7MTwg

    Rofl CYE is amazing. The last season wasn't that great but the Leon character was so g.d. funny. There are some unbelievable moments in CYE, my favorite might be when he calls 'Krazy Eye Killa' "my caucasian".. it still has me on the floor laughing.
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  • ||Release_Me||
    ||Release_Me|| Posts: 1,871
    Ledbetterus wrote:
    Rofl CYE is amazing. The last season wasn't that great but the Leon character was so g.d. funny. There are some unbelievable moments in CYE, my favorite might be when he calls 'Krazy Eye Killa' "my caucasian".. it still has me on the floor laughing.

    I think that episode could very well be the funniest 30 mins of television i've ever seen. Although 'The Doll' and 'Wandering Bear' are close behind!

    I haven't seen seasons 5 or 6 yet; getting 5 for Xmas so gonna watch that before downloading season 6. I've heard only bad things about season 5, but good things about six!
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  • ForestBrain
    ForestBrain Posts: 460
    This was better:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcQx1UcWrI4
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  • duggro
    duggro Posts: 1,343
    duggro wrote:
    btw, i think the US office is great as a show, but its a faaaar poorer version of the uk show (there are other threads for this argument i know, but it has to be said)
    right

    i take it back. completely


    the US show is better.

    i was wrong and im not afraid to admit that

    i love pam
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  • Allie
    Allie Posts: 2,908
    Ross and Rachel on the last episode of Friends
    (AND they played YL!)
    did she get off the plane?!

    I got off the plane, Ross

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  • South of Seattle
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    Richard Simmons on "Who's line is it anyway"

    That was the best. :D
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  • dawng
    dawng Posts: 644
    Episode 10, 3rd Series of Monarch of the Glen when Useless finally decides to fetch for Hector MacDonald. "Ahh..."

    Funniest and saddest moment of the series. The show was never the same.
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  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    hurley going down the hill in the van and saving the day in the season 3 finale of lost. i literally jumped out of my seat and screamed. amazing.
  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    dunkman wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr2ZKhV6eKc

    this is something that i can merely mention to my friend and we crack up at the 'thought' of it.

    this is the only clip i can find.. the fun starts at 1.45 in and its Boyzones first tv appearance.. i'm laughing at it just now :D

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