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The Granada Sherlock Holmes series is not available on Hulu. :( With any luck Eor still has Silver Blaze on his computer and I can watch it. There's actually two more episodes to go until it's my turn, which means a month, maybe two. What they do on the GranadaSlash group (on Yahoo) is everyone has to sign up to take an episode for which they will write a synopsis, an analysis and pose discussion questions (as a general rule most people center the questions on the possible slash interpretations of things going on in the show). I'm really terrified, and was thinking it would be best for me to get this out of the way far ahead of time, because I am going to SO suck at it. But, I didn't do it today, because I couldn't make myself sit in front of Eor's computer and look for it.

Instead, since I was on Hulu, I looked up a British comedy which a coworker suggested I might like because it has Simon Pegg. I actually have very little exposure to Simon Pegg, only having seen him as Scotty in the new Trek movie (which I thought he did a good job with even though he didn't get much air time), so I thought it would be good to see him in something else. The show was called "Spaced," and I liked it a lot, although the setup for the first episode seems, on review, to be rather dull: Comic artist and aspiring journalist are both without apartments and meet up in a coffee shop looking over the for-let ads. The only place they can find that looks good - and it looks possibly a little too good to be true - advertises for "professional couples only," so they go in as roommates, barely knowing each other and trying to pretend they've been in a relationship for five years so that they'll look stable. It was fun. :) I particularly liked when they discuss Scooby-Doo and admit they wanted to be Daphne and Freddy, and then the camera pans back and they're actually dressed as Velma and Shaggy. :) I didn't even aspire to be Daphne, myself, I was more into Velma.

Okay, Tylenol PM, now, and sleep. Yet again I didn't spend the day drunk. Is this a waste of my time?

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Spaced is hilarious :-) It really picks up after the first episode, and the relationship between Tim and Mike (Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are best friends in RL) is just a thing of beauty! (They also play opposite each other in Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz which you need to see. SotD is a - mostly - not gruesome zombie movie and HF is a cop movie).

I've had Shaun of the Dead on my 'to watch' list for a long, LONG time, but had no idea I was missing out on this amazing actor.

Mickey and my sister Aisling were big fans of Spaced. I didn't like it though. I never like it when there's some stereotypical grumpy character in a show and my sister points him (invariably him) out to me and says "that's you, that is". She also thinks I'm the grumpy guy from Black Books. I'm not that dude! I'm as cheerful as anything. Black Books is overrated.

Brit comedy that I like would be Blackadder (all of them), the Young Ones (dated and insane, but still good fun), Shooting Stars (the orginal series, a surreal gameshow), Red Dwarf of course, you know about that one, Drop the Dead Donkey, Father Ted (it is a Brit comedy, since they made it, even though it's all Irish actors and writers), Gavin and Stacey, Monty Python (obviously), Kenny Everett (silly, silly, silly) and Ab Fab mainly for Patsy because she kicks ass. There's probably loads I'm forgetting.

Blackadder

Blackadder, blackadder,
that song has et my brain!
Blackadder, blackadder,
It's driving me insane.

Blackadder, blackadder,
new lyrics every time.
Blackadder, blackadders,
I've finally lost my mind!

Aw, you're not grumpy! You're quiet and sensible and try to help people out. I get the impression having a sister like her might try anyone's patience at times.

I love Spaced! :)

I don't think I'll be able to resist going back for another ep sometime soon. :)

Spaced achieves a unique and robust charm all its own - give it a few eps.

I believe I will! :)