British Men Behaving Badly (TV Series) Jingle B***s! (1997) User Reviews

Greatest Xmas special ever

[carlwilkessob · 10/10 · 4 December 2022]

Massive fan of men behaving badly but even I have to admit it's no where near the same league as only fools and horses or friends.

The Christmas Special however is in a league of its own. Capturing the perfect Victorian Christmas whilst flirting back to the present day disaster you would expect from mbb

Underrated show anyway but this episode is something special. As good as friends, only fools and horses, how I met your mother, two and a half men etc are they do not deliver a Christmas special quite so special as this

Must see Christmas viewing for me and my family every single year.

Warning tho do not watch with young believers, there's a Santa spoiler in it.

Unfunny and boring - just like all of season 6

[puzgolac · 2/10 · 4 March 2024]

This is a review of season 6 in general.

I don't consider MBB to be a great sitcom, but it can be funny, sometimes even very funny - or at least that was the case for seasons 1 through 5. But season 6 has been absolutely terrible. At its best it was merely boring, but often times it was much worse than that - annoying and a chore to watch.

I like all kinds of humor, including crude and dark humor, provided that the jokes are actually funny. Season 6 simply failed to be funny, and just desperately tried to have characters say and do stupid and gross things in hope that stupid and gross automatically means funny. However, when a clean joke fails, it is just that - a joke that failed. When a crude joke fails, it is more than that - it makes the author of the joke look like a desperate try hard, who attempts to mask their lack of intelligence and humor by being outrageous. And that is what season 6 has been all the way. I vaguely remember laughing once during all of the 7 episodes. Even though the episodes last for half an hour, they felt like three times as long.

Another problem with season 6 is that the episodes feel almost like a sketch show. There is no sense of direction, it is just random events thrown on top of each other to fill the runtime. None of the events in the life of protagonists seem natural and organic. People getting together, people being in a relationship, people breaking up - it all feels completely random and every time an important event pops up, you can just hear the writer saying "how about we try that?"

Just three more episodes in this show, I will watch them when I have the time, but I have absolutely no hopes that they will be any good.