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Edukasional comedy

Lab Rats, BBC2

Thirty minutes of this show about a university science lab confirmed it to be one of the dodgiest sitcoms I have ever seen. Perhaps even worse than My Two Dads. It offers no insight whatsoever into the world of tertiary education or science, other than that ’science types’ make lame jokes about having ‘gay hair’. How can someone like Chris Addison go from one of the best sitcoms (The Thick of It) to one of the worst quite so quickly?

Summer Heights High, BBC3

Thirty minutes of this show confirmed it as one of the best Australian comedies since, well, writer and star Chris Lilley’s last series – We can be Heroes. His satire of school life reminds me exactly why school days were not the best days of my life, but still makes me laugh. Why is this show buried on BBC3? I guess Australian comedy is just too niche.

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3 Responses to “Edukasional comedy”

  1. Chris Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 9:46 am

    I quite agree about Lab Rats. Was it trying to be ironic? Even the titles were like something out of the 1970s. I started to watch it with great expectations and ended up getting through the 30 minutes in a state more akin to grim determination.

  2. BLTP Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 11:48 am

    cheers saved me a job: Lab rats was total rubbish. It was just insulting, I don’t think the writers had been anywhere near a Lab. Whatever researchers are they aren’t stupid and these characters where dumb. It was just rubbish, underwritten rubbish.
    where as summer heights is genius if faintly creepy.
    on the same subject don’t watch the hip hop sitcom on beeb3 it worse than labrats it was like some kind of bad itv kids comedy, you do wonder about what the actors think do they think these shows are funny?

  3. Cocktails Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

    Well, at least it wasn’t just me. And you know how some sitcoms are a bit ropey, but still have some kind of redeeming feature so you think that they will pick up over time and keep watching – well, I’m not even going to bother with this one.

    Actually, come to think of it, wasn’t that sitcom in Extras lampooning precisely this sort of show?

    PS. Hello Chris and welcome. I guess you didn’t find this site by googling ‘Lab Rats is great’!?!

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