“How’s yer Dick?”
“It’s Mick!”
*Cue hysterical audience laughter that I swear to holy jeebers is being recycled from 1990 whatever when ‘One Foot in the Grave’ was reasonably funny*
I’m home alone, and for the first time in months I decided to take a break from the blog-slog and watch some TV. EastEnders is my only telly vice and even though the Beeb have chosen to re-re-recycle Letitia Deane AGAIN I still love it and have to watch it on pain of death. And so I happened to come across Mrs Brown’s Boys.
WHAT THE HOLY MOTHER OF FRICK IS GOING ON AT THE BBC?
Has everyone been so obsessed with the Olympics that that haven’t noticed that someone has made, produced and aired a really shit One-Foot-in-the-Grave-meets-Father-Ted? And what the hell is with the laughter? Seriously if that is the audience then the Beeb are obviously wasting out License Fees on sherry for the elderly in the hope that it’ll loosen their vocal chords up.
“How do you clean dead flies off your flapper?”
*Cue more INANE laughter”
It’s INSANIA of the highest degree. BBC3 shouldn’t be the bastard channel of great programmes with BBC1 airing utter UTTER tosh.
I don’t know what’s going at ‘Auntie’ but she needs to move with the times and cut the crap.
I'm Annie and I live in the depths of the New Forest. Mother to many, wife to one, blogger, creative type, lover of real books and a bit of a lush.
I’m Northern Irish and I feckin hate this show, it is completely unfunny dross. I know absolutely no-one in real life that behaves like this and believe me I know some strange people! It needs to be nuked along with most of the other rubbish the Beeb throw at us for entertainment these days.
It’s like the word ‘feckin’ and the occasional ‘shite’ is hysterical-chortling-inducing-words. I just don’t get it. Not at all.
You would think that the Beeb would put all their best stuff on THE channel of the Beeb, BBC1. Boggles my mind.
Thanks for commenting – it’s reassuring to know it’s not just me grinding my teeth at this!
ps. I think they may have stolen the set from ‘Bread’
I agree, it really is a turd, not even a polished one
I hear you sista!
I despise Mrs Brown’s Boys. I caught it one evening and I thought – What is this shit? – honestly, it’s like a send-up of a sit-com. Are we supposed to know Mrs Brown is really a man in a frock or not? Why all the supporting actors laugh amongst themselves? Have we missed something?
Then, the next day, all of my so-called friends on Facebook (well, mainly family and you can’t choose them buggers) were going on about how great it was and I started wondering if they were watching the same pile of crap I was.
T’is truly epic shit. And, to be fair MammaS, if you watch Eastenders and think something else is bad, then it truly must be. It’s Corrie all the way for me!
Get your Corrie lovin’ arse off my blog.
Just jesting of course – but seriously ‘Enders all the way!
See if they shot it with younger actors and whacked in the BBC3 people would assume it’s and ironic piss-take and probably love it – but the sad thing is that it’s an actual proper programme.
Again… there’s a mind boggling here!
Thank God, some voices of reason – I was starting to think it was me due to similar praise by people I know. It is utter dross and I can’t for the life of me think why the Beeb bought it. Who is it supposed to appeal to?! It’s not even as good as One Foot in the Grave. In fact, I’d even go as far to say Keeping Up Appearances looks like a quality programme by comparison and it was a pile of shite! Maybe we should start a campaign – or just keep switching off in droves.
Maybe it’s side effect of ‘Binge-drinking Britain’ that peoples brain cells have eroded and us pooter bods are the only actual sane ones left. Like 28 days later where we are the uninfected few….
This is thing, innit? TV ratings are calculated from a ‘representative sample’ of just 5000 people who agree to have the tracking box thingies in their homes and to update who’s in the room at all times. Not every type of person would agree to do that – in fact it strikes me as an odd way to live, so I seriously doubt it’s representative in the least.
Do you think that there’s a chance that 4,500 of those tracking boxes are gathering dust in Nursing Homes where the tv is just turned on and left to entertain those who haven’t the strength to turn it over?
I am 100% with you on this but, like Heather, I’ve heard it praised very highly and so was worried the world had taken leave of its senses and I was the only one hating it. Seriously, it’s like a bad dream and it needs to stop!
It won a BAFTA! I think the BAFTA voters were taking the piss
A BAFTA?! What the holy mother of ‘Feck’ ?
I’m am glad to say I do not know of this programme and now that you have highlighted it I will avoid like tramps pants. Was it as painful as that David Jason thing at Christmas? Wow that made my eyes and ears bleed.
One can only wonder if David Jason, ‘back in the glory days’ of Only Fools and Horses got the Beeb to sign a contract to employ him once a year for the rest of his life.
Was ‘The Green Green Grass’ a spin of Only Fools and Horse or just a very bad dream I once had after eating too much cheese?
Thank feck for this blog post Annie! (cue huge guffaws from the blogosphere!)
I too think the programme is shit but I once saw on Twitter that many people were praising it so have held back in vocalising my hatred of it until reading your post. I feel like a new person now!
@amummytoo hits the nail right on the head. As you know I work in advertising and there are definite flaws in the TV viewing system. One time a campaign we ran said there were no viewers of quite a popular programme in a part of Wales, which was bollocks. The whole thing is fecking bollocks! (and I’ve said that in a Father Ted way, a sitcom which I adore, rather than a Mrs Brown way cause that show is tosh).
Ps it’s even worse than that Jasper Carrot sitcom that was on and also the one with Jambo out of Hollyoaks in it and they were truly shit. I quite liked ‘Goodnight Sweetheart’ though, a true ‘Guilty Pleasure sitcom’.
I honestly thought last night when I saw it that it was the 1st time it had been on tv. I even chuckled to myself that it won’t last long seeing as it’s so poor and now I hear of BAFTA’s and people loving it and all manner of craziness!
Do you think what we are in the middle of is in fact a 28 Days Later scenario where they are all ‘the infected’ and we are the only ones left with our marbles?
It could happen.
Well where I live (in Ireland) and judging by my Facebook statuses it’s very popular and she does bring some locals to mind – maybe that’s why I’m hoping to move and sick of Facebook? Think I’d probably better run now before I’m lynched!! x
Well this show has appeared here in Australia and I decided to sit and watch it since a number of people I know enjoy this. Given that we don’t get a lot of British TV here…well repeats of golden oldies, this “new” comedy is far from new. I cannot believe how poorly executed the jokes are and how lame they are. I only managed 5 minutes but that was enough. Couldn’t muster a single laugh and for good reason; they are old, cliched and predictable.
What a god awful heap of dogshit I wouldn’t wipe my arse with it I’d rather shit in my hand than watch Mrs browns boys
Mrs Brown’s Boys is so limited and that episode Christmas Eve and Day were very poor. Maybe the first series was mildly funny but that’s about the total of it. 1 series because the characters are so one dimensional. From a foulmouthed woman (man really) to an old codger in a chair who seems to have no role whatsoever, MBB is pointless and storyless.
Definitely, the two 2012 Christmas special episodes of this were the worst programmes on this Christmas. And I thought Val Falvey TD was bad! Come back Val, all is forgiven!
A girl I was seeing before Christmas used to love this show. I watched it once on her recommendation and couldn’t believe she found it so funny or funny at all. Cheap and crass humour.
On Friday nights when I was staying at her’s I had to watch it with her. I couldn’t believe it, Friday night prime time BBC1 TV and they put this on.
We split up the day after Boxing Day and whenever I look back and wonder if I did the right thing leaving her the fact that she found this rubish entertaining is one of the things that confirms I did an it’s a relief that I won’t have to watch it again with her.
Come on BBC, you can do better than this! Another example of TV to appeal to the lowest common denominator and the dumbing down of society. I thought the original aim of the BBC was to entertain and educate, this does neither.
If somebody says they like this programme, they immediately and irrevocably go down in my estimation and they’re dead to me from that point on. It’s so awful that it makes my teeth hurt.
My in laws gaffawed through this a couple of months ago when we were staying over. I was completely gobsmacked. It was like I had got in a time machine and gone back to the 70′s. it was awful. I have no idea why it’s so popular.
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A Bafta, and now a National TV award? I honestly am dumbfounded that such unintelligent, and abhorrent comedy such as this, even gets on television, let alone wins awards. The bafta’s have lost allot of credibility over the past couple of years, dishing out awards to the likes of Towie, and honouring Mrs Browns Boys, as the best comedy on the box, and now that has been backed up with a national TV award…I am speechless, the BBC should be ashamed, it’s like a Talbot Samba winning the best looking car award, it’s utterly utterly ridiculous. Instead of feeding us Sirloin steak, with new pots and veg, the BBC are ramming egg and chips down our throats day after day, and that is exactly what Mrs Browns Boys is, egg and chip television, if you want to watch this pile of crap, so be it that’s a choice we all have, but rewarding it with such high accolades is absolutely scandalous!
This is a show that makes me angry.
I know many people who like it, but I just can’t ( and won’t/shouldn’t) put my opinion on others. But this how really tests my resolve.
There are no jokes. There’s a play on Irish accents, and swearwords and that’s it. But it’s loved! But then so are soaps, x factor, reality shows….
I really think this is a low-water-mark for TV. And it was given an award! The term ‘lowest-common-denominator’ was never better applied.
I’ll calm down and be happy that there’s actually some good tv available, from time to time.
http://tinyurl.com/aw9wkqa now they are making a film of this shite….
I have just watched Mrs Browns Boy after hearing about it from friends and family. What an absolute load of toilet!
The best thing I can compare this toss bag of a show to, is the piss take of a sitcom that Ricky Gervais’s character in Extras is forced to make even though he himself loathes it. I think that show was called “when the whistle blows”
Utter horseshit on all levels.