British sitcoms: the deathmatch (19-01)

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blinddrunkonmulledcider Jan 2019 10:03am, 4 Jan 2019 204 posts	0 blinddrunkonmulledcider Only Fools and Horses has to be the most over rated trip ever produced. Voted Phoenix Nights - utter genius
Angus Clydesdale Jan 2019 10:08am, 4 Jan 2019 14,543 posts	0 Angus Clydesdale With the possible exception of the 'falling through the bar' and the 'unscrewing the wrong chandelier' gags (both of which were telegraphed from a long way out), OFaH was a great example of not knowing when enough was enough.
GregP Jan 2019 10:08am, 4 Jan 2019 109,999 posts	0 GregP What Ankh says.
Nelly Jan 2019 10:09am, 4 Jan 2019 3,868 posts	0 Nelly Things have obviously moved on since I last caught up with a deathmatch... please can somebody explain the Pools? Is it just the top entry that goes through to the next round, or top 2/3?
Maclennane Jan 2019 10:09am, 4 Jan 2019 20,432 posts	0 Maclennane someone has voted for Birds of a Feather
Nicholls595 Jan 2019 10:10am, 4 Jan 2019 17,498 posts	0 Nicholls595 Opinions, opinions, opinions. Only Fools and Horses is consistently voted Britain's favourite sit com.
GlennR Jan 2019 10:12am, 4 Jan 2019 40,089 posts	0 GlennR I suspect that Blackadder is the only British sitcom I have ever found funny, I am wracking my brain trying to think of others. Ah. Up Pompeii. I enjoyed Shelley, Dear John and It Takes a Worried Man, but that's a slightly different matter. Was Reginald Perrin a sitcom?
Angus Clydesdale Jan 2019 10:13am, 4 Jan 2019 14,544 posts	0 Angus Clydesdale By the same people that voted for Boaty McBoatface, presumably?
Carpathius Jan 2019 10:15am, 4 Jan 2019 16,252 posts	0 Carpathius I was coming in to ask if I was the only person in Britain who doesn't find OFAH funny.
Diogenes Jan 2019 10:15am, 4 Jan 2019 33,538 posts	0 Diogenes Yes, Reggie Perrin was. I will never understand why they did the remake with Martin Clunes?