Totally pointless. Only good thing for me is that it launched Martin Clunes. Father...stereotypical with an unspecified job and always moaning in a funny way. Unfortunately it's not funny. Mother...more like a sister than a wife, always "doing" unspecified things and being comically long suffering. Except it's not comical. Children...lazy, entitled and lacking in personality. Was there one who was a traffic warden with an amusing relationship with another warden? Problem. Not amusing and patronising. And the neighbours... the woman, complete with "funny" voice seems to be deranged for no reason and the man is just a sounding board for the tedious monologues of the father. As you can gather, I didn't like it.
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Butterflies
(1978–1983)
Typical Carla Lane.
7 March 2024
I've never understood how Carla Lane became so popular for I've never found any of her work remotely funny and Butterflies is right up there. I just don't get it. Poor Geoffrey Palmer having to inhabit a one dimensional character episode after episode. I fact, they're all one dimensional. Rea can't cook....over and over again the joke is repeated. She moans about having to look after the house... with a stereotypical cleaner. The sons are just painful; a couple of "cool" entitled smart arses who every now and then notice their mother and insult their father. But people loved it! Why? Not the worse tedious middle class sitcom...that must go to No Place Like Home...but surely not comedy.
Bread
(1986–1991)
Simply not funny
26 January 2023
I've never been a fan of the late Carla Lane. I found The Liverbirds painful and unrealistic....admittedly then not living in the city I did not know a great deal about Liverpool. One bird came from deepest Lancashire....despite having a Scouse family....and the other from The Wirral! Any old Northerner will do. The characters just talk, " funny" lines in a vacuum it seems. Butterflies I thought was ludicrous and a dreadful waste of an actor like Geoffrey Palmer. The less said about the sons the better. But Bread took...if you'll excuse me...the biscuit! Forget the lazy stereotypes and again the range of Northern accents, to me it simply wasn't funny. And Grandad! God help us. An old man saying piss off is humour? Not to me.
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