He's under Clark Gable?!

Yeah, apparently when it went to America it was revoiced to sound 'warmer' (Mel Smith's very warm! Well, sweaty anyway), all the uses of the word 'blooming' were replaced with 'merry', and the whole 'getting drunk in Vegas' section was cut. As well as the builder's cleavage being redrawn in a couple of scenes. I…

According to Wikipedia it contains some banned-in-the-U.S. chemical or colouring or heaven knows what, so it can only be sold in an altered 'compliant' form. I imagine it's awful, and if I know anything about American history it sounds like either Nixon or communists were behind it.

Spike Lee? Elliott Smith? Guillermo del Toro? The Hamburglar?

Irn-Bru is surely what Ambrosia from the Gods tastes like. If they don't sell it in America, then that's it, I'm definitely never going there.

They also made another Christmas show from Raymond Briggs' work; Father Christmas. It has a diarrhoea joke! Kinda funny, but doesn't seem to be shown anymore.

At last! A Radiohead album I'll like! 'Though I'm worried it'll be a Peter Gabriel cover album…

I still left room for people to make jokes about my use of the word anal!

From the Basement isn't a BBC series; it's a Sky series. Very, VERY big difference.

'Rape? Not Me!!' is, of course, the finest Family Circus collection.

In Soviet Russia, zoo keeps Kevin James!

Cameron Diaz is apparently auditioning to play Bane.

He's a white guy with dreads who likes Cheech and Chong and wants everyone to know his conspiracy theories about the Illuminati. In short, every stoner anyone's tried to avoid at a party, ever.

Time Trumpet was indeed very good, but the best Armando Iannucci series (maybe even the best British comedy series of this millennium, to get a flame war going) is the Armando Iannucci Shows. Criminally underrated but so, so funny.

Thank you for understanding the real drive behind my original post: the aesthetic joy of the word 'faeces'. Well, that and an overpowering hatred for Michael Buble.

Oh look, faeces beat shit.

As one of the AV Club's most infrequent, undistinguished and non-notable commenters, I recommend it highly. Plus, it has that whole British sitcom brevity thing, so it could all be done very, very quickly.

I'll agree Mrs Doyle is the weakest, or at least the most one-note, of the characters. I do love Father Stone and Noel Furlong but could see how, if those characters don't do it for you those episodes wouldn't work. Having just gone over a list of episodes I realised, which I'd never really thought about before, that…

What episodes would you count as failures? I've never really thought of Father Ted as having any notably weak episodes, although 'And God Created Woman', with the novelist staying over, is maybe a little less memorable. It still has Mrs Doyle shouting 'ride me sideways', which is both hilarious and disturbing.

I live in hope of the day that Father Ted comes to TV Club, even though I know virtually every episode of it off by heart already and therefore would find reviews near-worthless.