I can finally see the point of Twitter. It lets you inflict isolated thoughts on people that are too trivial or even self-indulgent to merit a full blog post but that you need to share.
The Librarians is the best Australian TV sit-com. Ever. Discuss.
My ideal final episode: Oils Aint Oils appear at the Ferntree Gully Hotel and are joined on-stage by the real Oils including Garrett, but the concert is disrupted by a fire in the ceiling caused by faulty pink batts. Meanwhile …
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I am one of those on twitter who would like to laugh more at The Librarians. More funny than Shaun Micallef, but not much.
Since Tony Martin, one of Australia’s foremost Comedyologists, is involved in Librarians, and since Tony Martin has a Twitter account on which he regularly spruiks The Librarians, it could be the Tweeter in question is sucking up. Does s/he follow Scrivener’s Fancy? It could also be that s/he saw one of the two episodes (out of twenty) of The Librarians written by Martin. I have not seen the show since its first season, when it was pretty dire, but maybe Martin’s input into the 2010 season has improved the show.
There are still people continuing the “I don’t know anything about Twitter, but I’m going to call it shit anyway.” theme? How strange.
The few times I’ve tuned into the librarians, it seemed just another try too hard aussie comedy with very rare laughworthy lines.
Martin’s pieces in the Scrivener however are excellent. I read the whole archives in one sitting.
Frontline is still the highlight for me.
Sorry, but I think “The Librarians” (which has very little to do with life in a library) is AWFUL, not funny, excruciatingly bad. I don’t understand how it got a second series, let alone a third.
Just my 2 cents’ worth.
“Best Australian Sit Com” does mean, in practice “Better than Hey Dad or Sit Down, Shut Up”. I think this is a defensible proposition.
I reckon I’d classify all of these (in no particular order) as sit-coms:
Mother and Son
Hey Dad!
Kath & Kim
Kingswood Country
My Name’s McGooley, What’s Yours?
Frontline
Hollow Men
Acropolis Now
Sit Down, Shut Up
Stupid, Stupid Man
The only ones I’d hesitate before putting The Librarians in front would be Kath and Kim and Frontline.
On Tony Teacher’s comment, I agree that series 1 was a bit lame, although it showed the germ of the promise that has now been realised. Series 2 was much better and series 3 is just superb IMO. I’m not sure whether the disparaging comments on this thread flow from people who were turned off by the first few episodes of series 1, or whether it’s simply an illustration of the fact that tastes in comedy (and generally) may differ radically. Anyway, if you’re judging it by series 1 I think you’d be doing yourself a favour by going and watching the last couple of episodes of series 3 on iView.
Yes, that’s me (though I didn’t make any disparaging remarks.) Thanks for the tip: I’ll try ot again if there’s another opportunity.
I was mightily turned off by the first few episodes in series 1.
And then because they snuck it on after QI I accidentally watched a few of the later episodes.
Bloody awful – its not the scripts so much as the over acting.
Speaking of acting. The Hollowmen should try it. Or at least have a look at The Thick of It.