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Pinnacle of wiity banter

Advantages: Handy to have all series in one place
Disadvantages: Your mates will all want to lend it.

The complete Blackadder set is basically a must have for comedy fans. It consists of every Blackadder episode from all 4 series, Blackadder's Christmas Carol and also 'Back and Forth'. These 6 discs are all neatly housed in a compact box set, with hilarious Blackadder quotes and pictures of the characters around the box. FIRST SERIES. The first series, entitles 'The Black Adder' is set in medieval England, and portrays the Prince Edmund, Rowan Atkinson, ...
...The second series, entitled Blackadder II, is set in Queen Elizabeth's reign, and see a sharp turn in character personality, as Blackadder becomes a newly intelligent and respected man, whereas Baldrick becomes thick as a thick thing. We are also introduced to Queen Elizabeth and Melchett. Two of the funniest characters in all series, brilliantly played by Miranda Richardson and Stephen Fry. THIRD SERIES The third series, Blackadder III, is set in ...

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Review of Blackadder - Complete Blackadder (Limited Edition Box Set) (DVD)

Completely Hilarious

Advantages: Laugh Out Loud Funny, Great Characters Skethced Out
Disadvantages: Not Appealing To All (See Review)

...below http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B000GYHU12/ref=cmcrdpallhelpful?ie=UTF8&coliid=&showViewpoints=1&colid=&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending Two Pints is an on-going, on-growing comedy sit com broadcast by the BBC (usually BBC3 these days) about the ups and downs of a group of friends living up North in Britain (Runcorn to be exact.) It follows the triumphs and deceits of the friends and captures the warmth and vulnerability of being ...
...apply in the case of Two Pints. If you get it, then you will love it and savor it for the comedy gold that it is. If you don't, then you will probably just find it immature and vile. I love the show and have purchased the boxset for the first reason. I also think, whilst being simple in some places the show carries a deeper meaning under the concept of being in your face. The characters are very real and you actually do come to laugh and cry with ...

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Review of Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps - Series 1-6 - Complete (DVD)

An Innocent Test?

Advantages: Good story, good acting, good varied soundtrack
Disadvantages: Some unlikable characters

...when hubby went out. The film opens with a drunken Archie sending a valentines on the pack of a packet of radish seeds to his best friend wife. He asks if he could Radish her! Alice is the receiver of the valentine but she believes that it is from her husband Sam. As Alice soon discovers that it is not from him she is very intrigued about who sent it. She talks to her sister Flick and the conversation moves onto ether husband Sam would reveal if ...
...for Alice Sam falls for the bate and he goes to meet ‘anonymous’. Flick and Alice are getting worried now but Alice decides that Sam must know it is her and is just going along with the plan. Will Alice get the end results from Sam she is hoping for or will this simple test uncover a completely different side to Sam. What will Archie say if he is discovered to be the original sender of the radish valentine? Well the plot for this film is quite simple ...

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Review of The Truth About Love (DVD)

Friends Series 1-10 Box Set (DVD) Review

Advantages: has all seasons and episodes in it!
Disadvantages: price

...a must have for any Friends Lover. if you watch re-runs of the show on tv and can say every line of any episode, your a fan, so go get this Box set. it includes every season, with bonus extras, out-takes, and bloobers from each season. the best part about it is that you will have them all, and you won't have to go looking online for free channels to watch it, or wait every day to the late hours of the night just to enjoy an episode or two. you can ...

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Review of Friends - Series 1-10 - Complete (Box Set) (DVD)

The Times They Are A-Changin'... Back

Advantages: many
Disadvantages: few

...it’s a ghetto drug.” Bob Roberts is a senatorial candidate with a mission. He’s adopted the rebel persona but he’s a rebel conservative, a staunchly right-wing figure whose agenda is to obliterate wishy-washy liberal thinking, hang the drug dealers, champion self-interest and cast aside pathetic state hand-out scroungers… and he’s going to do it all with the aid of his guitar… Back in 1992, with the support of Working Title, a British company, ...
...of ultra-conservative folk-singing senatorial hopeful Bob Roberts. The concept of the film is simple; documentary maker Terry Manchester (Brian Murray) follows Bob on the campaign trail, closely minded by Lukas Hart III (Alan Rickman), the Roberts campaign manager, a shadowy character with an even more murky past. In a piece of inspired casting, Roberts opponent, the incumbent senator, Brickley Paiste, is played by Gore Vidal, in a weary, all-too-human ...

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Review of Bob Roberts (DVD)