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Stubagful
Приєднався 8 бер 2011
I am a sort of person thing that talks about TV shows.
Uploads every time that I've made a video.
Uploads every time that I've made a video.
Nighty Night: The Darkest Sitcom Ever Made
Nighty Night was a living nightmare in the form of a sitcom, and I think there's an important point in it that often gets missed in contemporary dark comedy.
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Baby Reindeer and the Internet Problem
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Part of the reason Baby Reindeer did extremely well might also be part of a problem that doesn't have a solution yet. www.wearesurvivors.org.uk 24/7 support line - 0808 500 2222 www.patreon.com/stubagful
My Family: Britain's Miserable Family Sitcom
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My Family is one of Britain's most successful sitcoms and I think it says a lot about our national character. www.patreon.com/stubagful Interview with Fred Barron - gold.uktv.co.uk/my-family/article/fred-barron-interview/ Kris Marshall explains why he left My Family - www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/my-family-star-quits-1597601
8 Simple Rules: A Sitcom about Grief
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One of the more remarkable staples of US sitcom rerun blocks from the mid 2000s seems to have faded from people's memories. So I'm going to remind you about it now. johnritterfoundation.org/ www.patreon.com/stubagful
EVENT TV: What makes a show get Massive?
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Streaming has completely changed the way shows get popular. This fact caused me to have some random half-connected thoughts that I've vaguely strung together into a video essay. www.patreon.com/stubagful Read the Stranger things original pitch deck here - screencraft.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/StrangerThings_Bible.pdf
Episodes: A Soul-Crushing Post-Friends Sitcom
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Friends is a warm fuzzy nostalgic show. Episodes uses this fact to beat the audience to death. www.patreon.com/stubagful
An Analysis of The Simpsons: Post Golden Age & The Movie
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It feels like opinions on the Simpsons post season 9 are so universally accepted that they're unquestionable. So I'm going to question them. www.patreon.com/stubagful Stuff that I referred to/pictures I used: Death of the Author by Roland Barthes - read it here sites.tufts.edu/english292b/files/2012/01/Barthes-The-Death-of-the-Author.pdf Aspects of the Novel by EM Forster - buy it here www.amaz...
He Who Moans Reviews Doctor Who: The 60th anniversary specials
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Hey, remember that? www.patreon.com/stubagful
Some old BBC sci-fi show no one remembers
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I found this old pilot for a show from the 60's that never got picked up called 'Doctor Who' - has anyone else heard of this show? www.patreon.com/stubagful
What Futurama Means to Me
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Futurama made a very deep impact on me when I was growing up, and the fact its back feels...weird www.patreon.com/stubagful
He Who Moans Reviews Doctor Who: The David Tennant Farewell Specials ft. FiveWhoFans
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David Tennant is back as The Doctor, so I thought I'd revisit the last few episodes from his tenure joined by Billy, Jon & Richard from @FiveWhoFans www.patreon.com/stubagful Richard - 26/09/2023 19:32 Can you please include in the video description that we have singlehandedly vindicated the end of time as being a good episode also please? Thank you x stubagful - 26/09/2023 19:53 "we have singl...
An Analysis of The Simpsons: Early Years & The Golden Age
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I've been wondering about the Simpsons place in pop culture recently, so I've decided to undertake a thorough qualitative analysis of this behemoth and see how it changed over the years. Starting with the era that everyone loves. www.patreon.com/stubagful Round table with Conan and the Simpsons writers - ua-cam.com/video/DtJ28qOEG1g/v-deo.html&pp=ygUOc2ltcHNvbnMgY29uYW4= Matt Groening explains ...
I F**king love Kevin Can F**k Himself - Season 2
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Kevin can F k himself was always destined to have limited appeal, but this is the role I'm always going to remember Annie Murphy for. www.patreon.com/stubagful
Stubagful Reviews: Inside No. 9 Series 8
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Stubagful Reviews: Inside No. 9 Series 8
The Last of Us: This is How you adapt a video game
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The Last of Us: This is How you adapt a video game
He Who Moans Reviews: Doctor Who: The Mind Robber
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He Who Moans Reviews: Doctor Who: The Mind Robber
The Story of Joey: The Failed Friends Spinoff
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The Story of Joey: The Failed Friends Spinoff
So Netflix just Cancelled your new favourite show...
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So Netflix just Cancelled your new favourite show...
He Who Moans Reviews: Doctor Who: Power of the Doctor
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He Who Moans Reviews: Doctor Who: Power of the Doctor
He Who Moans Reviews: Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
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He Who Moans Reviews: Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
He Who Moans Reviews: Doctor Who: The Three Doctors
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He Who Moans Reviews: Doctor Who: The Three Doctors
The Voice | A Short Film by Stuart Hardy
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The Voice | A Short Film by Stuart Hardy
Stubagful Reviews: Don't Hug me I'm Scared
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Stubagful Reviews: Don't Hug me I'm Scared
The Abandoned Factory | Abnormal Stories Podcast
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The Abandoned Factory | Abnormal Stories Podcast
The Intruder | Abnormal Stories Podcast
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The Intruder | Abnormal Stories Podcast
He Died as he Lived | Abnormal Stories Podcast
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He Died as he Lived | Abnormal Stories Podcast
Merry Easter | Abnormal Stories Podcast
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Merry Easter | Abnormal Stories Podcast
Stranger Things Season 4 is a bit of a mess
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Stranger Things Season 4 is a bit of a mess
Your drawing of the troll face had me rolling on the floor laughing
( 0:22 ) Reminds me of that abrupt ending in Screenwipe! 😂
Actually no idea what it was, and I live under a sufficiently insulating rock that I had only ever heard the name from dating profiles I swiped past. I clicked on this video hoping it would tell me what it was. So thanks, actually, summarised very well.
i remember watching this show on tv as a kid before i really understood what death was. the dad passing away and being absent for the remainder of the show was my first real experience with grief and loss and it stuck with me for a long time. looking back on it now after having lost a parent it hits even harder
Would love to see you cover the show “Camping” I’m sure you’ve seen it! Love this channel!
For me the cruelest and in a way darkest british show will always be stressed eric, its just unmatched in its level of cruelty.
My favourite was always Chandler. R.I.P. Matthew Perry
Great analysis. That makes a lot of sense.
Joan and Jerricha?
I think this was quietly a thing in the 90s. Create a show that was extremely broad on a surface level but had some weight and darkness beneath said surface. The ultimate for this was One Foot in the Grave. Even to this day I meet people that think it was a naff broad sitcom "for old people" and I just think nooooo that's such a bad take, it's arguably the most existential sitcom that's ever been made with some seriously heavy content. Hell even the Brittas Empire has a bit of bite to it when you delve into it on the rewatch.
You are stupid, I work 42 hours in a week. Yet I still watch friends. Don’t say something so nasty.
( 19:58 ) 😂
Friends is garbage.
i had no clue what baby raindeer was, and honestly it's totaly not a show i would ever watch. I like to hear the discussion around it though...
The dream sequence of the kidney episode idea is by far the better idea
It's quite amazing that you don't get anything out of Nine Lives Kat even though it's one of my favourites that I find interesting and moving! It's what's great about inside number 9, something for everyone.
Was waiting for you to cover this one. Better settle up now otherwise it just gets nasty
I can't buy prawns without thinking of "smashed prawns in a milky basket"
Never watched this show before, literally been binging it over the last couple of days since watching this video. It is strangely watchable
You mention that you can’t imagine a show like this being made in the USA, but honestly this sounds a lot like the UK white-collar version of Married: With Children; it had a similar vibe, until it became more deliberately absurd in the later seasons
I would like to add some contrast for Lisa's intellect- it's often observed that more community based cultures who have to prioritize education have kids who speak in complete thoughts or with complexity. Maturity does occur with trauma, but when that trauma is tied with access to education, you often see children having streams of consciousness near what is expected of an adult. I don't know the show well enough to say whether Lisa is accurately intellectual for her environment/what she has access to, but children in these spaces nowadays- at least, the ones who love video essays- are probably getting that extra hand holding over literacy that they need. I wonder if we will see some demographics of Gen Alpha possessing far more mature thought processes in the coming years, and what environmental factors caused them to turn to learning via videos like this. Source: I was a documentary-brain as a child, and I can only imagine what video essays could have done for my contextualization of the world, but at least I'm learning now!
I will be using this as a tool to help teach prevention vs. reaction alongside general media literacy. I've been applauding as I watch, thanks for taking us not only back to English Lit, but giving us a more digestible way to understand the material
Shut up silly boy, I laughed my arse off at pegg, grow up divvy, t
LISA MORAL? NO. She spews leftist talking points because she still has a poor perception about the real world, and sometimes uses these talking points to act superior even though most of the things she advocates for are degenerate and destructive. She is written as if she is a Affluent White Liberal Female, or a AWFL.
I agree about the real life teenage drama, it didn't need to be included, it's not at all why we like or watch the show, I really liked how the show set up all the kids as wise and mature beyond their years, able to overlook petty drama amongst themselves to save their friends, that's what made the show so unlike other media and so wholesome and like a world you would want to exist in. I feel like they trashed that idea for season 3, and while I did really enjoy the Robin and Steve storyline and those shenanigans outside of that I hated how everyone was fighting and disconnected and acting immature back in regular Hawkins, the adults and the teen relationships included. Maybe it's because in my own life I've had enough with people acting immature and petty and watching that play out in a show that I liked for the escapism and idealism as far as relationship just really bummed me out.
Great channel!
Once nick left it was never the same for me
Have you done something on Human Remains? The finest thing that Rob Brydon ever did and a great bit of Julia Davis quasi horror. I’ve never gone back to Nighty Night. It annoyed me so much and, as you say, series 2 wasn’t great.
Honestly i feel Phoebes story has the most potential for a spin off. She was such a weirdly interesting character, a lot of her backstory was told through jokes in the original show but she lost her mother to suicide, never knew her father, ended up homeless at a young age, and somehow managed to claw her life back to living pretty comfortably in New York with a wonderful group of lifelong friends. And after all that, she has an upbeat, optimistic, fearless and self assured personality. I would watch a realistic show about Phoebe before Friends, shes a super inspirational character.
We brits love normality juxtaposed with horror. Oh no! Mums annoying, mean boss is staying the night, how awkward and comically unpleasant! Oh no! *H E D I E D*
Radio goodies is objectively Graeme's best performance throughout the whole series, I would rather have an evil pirate dictator (who wants to take the UK out the five-mile limit) tell me the six o'clock news than the salacious crap we've got on radio today. Love the goodies.
3:10 didn’t the doctor grab the copies
I don't watch Netflix. I virtually never have. I clicked on this video because I used to enjoy your Doctor Who material, and wanted to see something more recent from you.
This is an eloquent description of why I also consider Attack of the Clones to be one of the worst films ever made. Everyone spent years talking about how bad The Phantom Menace was, but the point about AOTC is simply that no one mentions it at all. It's as though it never happened.
6:45 I think you're the first youtuber to point this out. I've always thought that the tv series was purposefully making fun of the audience for over thinking the entire series. You can kind of see it in the interviews with the creators stating that all theories are correct. Now the only question I have is, did they purposefully make a straight forward series in order to make fun of lore theoriests or did they not even consider the audience? Chicken or the egg situation.
I strangely think about this show a lot, but never heard anyone talk about it.
The most insane comedy I've ever seen. There was a whole ten minute stretch of S2E4 where, at a certain point, I just had to pause and really take in what I had just witnessed. I wasn’t offended, I was OVERWHELMED, it was like a Hieronymus Bosch painting come to life. I've said this elsewhere, but Jill really is the closest we'll ever get to a live-action Eric Cartman, they're both absolute slime and I love it. Similar dynamics between Jill and Cath/Linder as Cartman has with his mum/Butters.
Makes me think about an experience with watching Bones and NCIS years ago I watched regularly then stopped for a while, a few episodes brought me back for a while, but ultimately those episodes didn’t really impact the story believably. Being entertaining, but breaking my suspension of disbelief made me feel like it’s a waste of time. Some amount of predictability is good and the lack of that can destroy an interesting show like the anime Romeo X Juliet . . . the plot goes off the rails about 10 episodes in or less . . . and a novice fan fiction writer could easily do better, . . . but those first episodes held so much promise and intrigue it almost hurts.
Wait people thought that up the hill bullshit song was good ? That song was literal trash
never watched it at the time but the dvds arrived last week
Tiny thing. Probably too small for you to mention. But I have always liked how despite how dark the show is, it has the most ironically upbeat theme song I’ve ever heard outside of children’s television.
Lol set against the most haunting shot in the history of British TV though. The intro is genius
Steptoe & Son is pretty miserable too, it's a seamless blend of both depressing & hilarious
Greta review of an underrated classic. I'm completely missed it the first time around but found out about it from Wee Lin I think and watched it within the last few years. Jill following project was very disappointing in my opinion Sally4ever. That was a real gross out "comedy" but not particularly funny despite having a promising premise and some really inspired moments occassionally.
What are your thoughts on the show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia? I've been binging it recently and I have a feeling you'd like it It's a dark comedy about a group of five alcoholics who own a bar together and are effectively the biggest assholes on the planet. Season one, more than the other seasons, feels like it's deliberately trying to be offensive by touching on hot button issues (episode one is titled "the gang gets racist"), however after the first season it seems to not care as much about being edgy and instead focuses on seeing just how low it can get it's main characters to go. I like it because it fleshes out each character to be a horrible human being in their own unique way, then as a group they all bring out the worst in each other but since nobody in the outside world really likes them, they only ever have each other to hang out with. For the first four seasons they go to lower lows each season, the degree of how despicable they starts to plateau around season four and they change the dynamic in other ways, but they kinda have to given that season four has them get so horrible (kidnapping a journalist, burning a family's home down, almost eating someone alive) that there wasn't much lower they could go while still feeling like real people. The core of the characters doesn't actually change that much throughout the show's run, but that's deliberate, and it finds other ways of staying fresh. They will throw each other under the bus without hesitation and they've all accepted that their friends are horrible, but they have nowhere else to go. It's effectively about five people who are trapped in the hell they've collectively built for themselves and absolutely deserve With all that said, it is laugh out loud funny with some of the best absurdist humour and comedic acting I've ever seen. I think part of what makes it work is that it's grounded with an air of realism, a lot of the stunts are done by the actors themselves, most of the dialogue is improvised so their arguments always feel like a warped version real argument you've have with your friends before.
I’d forgotten about that show - remember laughing so hard at it that I couldn’t breathe
Jill may be a diagnosable sociopath, but she throws a good coffee morning. I remember having to speed run the five stages of grief for the first two episodes when you realise her character isn't blindly self-absorbed, and she knows full well what she's doing.
New Stubagful? The day after Inside Season 9 conclusion? This’ll be swee- Oh, it’s a video about a show I’ve only vaguely heard of. I mean, it’s nice I suppose.
Definitely going to go and watch this now. Julia Davies’ deadpan spitefulness as Dawn in Gavin and Stacey is one of my favourite parts of that series.
I saw a few eps, was too young to really like it and the whole family never sat aorund to watch it like we did Fools. Seeing it some years later, it was even worse. Just not that funny.
"Nighty Night puts you in Cath's shoes" is so spot on. I'm disabled, and so obvs that's a thing I'm gonna be sensitive about, but I find Nighty Night's absolute viciousness so precise and so careful that it reveals great empathy. While it might not seem to care how the viewer reacts, it's not doing this by accident, and it's honestly cathartic to go "Yeah, sometimes it feels like this when you're Cath." It's truly lovely that some modern writers are attempting to write "normal" disabled characters now, but I have never seen a depiction that was so evocative without being one of those "this is a morality tale for able bodied people to feel sad about how awful it is to be disabled" stories, which ironically exclude disabled people from the audience. Plus it's just very very funny on top.
Never heard comedy be described as a method of control over the audience but it does make sense. The comedian sets the joke's tempo and Nighty Night's tempo sounds like it'd fill me with dread