Inhuman Swill

Oh that's made my day that has.

Thank God for BBC America.

Man, I kind of want to see Coupling Jr. now. Er, as long as it's done in England because yeah, US remakes generally not so good.

Time to start a letter-writing campaign!

you mentioned Coupling and made me imagine teen Jeff in that scene! I love you forever now!!

:-)

In these divisive times, I think we can all agree that Oliver is just no replacement for Jeff.

this is very, very true. I wish that, instead of trying to create a faux Jeff, they had gone with adding someone who is completely unlike him. I thought James would have made a very interesting addition to the gang, especially if he started spending time with Steve and Patrick, making horrified faces as they talked about the Sock Gap and the Body Swerve.

I completely agree about faux Jeff. Hadn't thought about James, but that's a great idea.

Word up to that!

American Coupling was woefully miscast.

Being a big fan of the original I was looking forward to the new version - and I had high hopes. The original creator was involved and the first couple shows were using the same scripts as the first season of the original show (changed only so far that UK idioms were "translated" to US ones. "flat" to "apartment" for example).

I watched the first episode (Flushed) and it fell completely flat. I kept thinking "this is funny stuff - so why am I not laughing?" The answer was the cast. They just couldn't do comedy at all. Plus, they weren't very likable.

Imagine an American Coupling with the cast of "How I met Your Mother". It's like the difference between "lightning" and "lightning bug".

I admit I never saw a single episode of the American Coupling, but I'm tempted to watch it on DVD just so I can speak knowledgably about how unfunny it was.

I love The Office, but for my money How I Met Your Mother is the best sitcom on American TV right now. Most importantly, those people are damn funny, as you imply. But just as importantly, the show seems to have learned from Coupling how to be sexy, raunchy, and romantic all at once, how to create likeable funny characters who seem real, and how to tell stories in innovative ways. Some of those Mother episodes could have come straight from the Coupling playbook, like the technique of showing the same conversations from different points of view, in different contexts. I love it.