If someone here links to clip on Youtube, I will happily follow it, and often I'll laugh. But, I never even try sitting down to watch it for a full episode anymore.

Lurky McLurk's Newswire Nightmares

Having low-end kitchen work experience in my past, often in poorly run environment, I really respect the clarity of his advice. I'm one of those people that doesn't mind a hardass boss if they genuinely know what they are doing. If he had come into a couple of the places I worked and got shit in order, I would have…

For years, my entire experience of Gordon Ramsay was him screaming on ads for his shows. I just assumed he was an enormous asshole. I somehow ended up watching a marathon of the UK KItchen Nightmares, and it was taken aback at how much he really did seem to want to help people. The show was so much warm and fuzzier…

As an Australian who lives in the US, every time I come back into contact with Australian culture, it makes me sad that Americans are so lazy at making fun of us. Every Australian joke is a Paul Hogan or Simpson's quote. I've heard them all a hundred times.There is so much else you can use to make fun of us!

VanDerWerff is one of those critics I find interesting because I often disagree than because I agree.

I guess the chilly lack of affect in Vicki's performance spoke to him.

Fair enough. I'm an Australian that has mostly lived in the US, and also lived in England for a time. I agree that it's easier to from Australian to British than from American to British, I just think it can still be a challenge for a lot of people. It's not not like going from a Midwestern US accent to a Canadian…

Reality TV is the easy go-to when mentioning a guilty pleasure. The whole genre carries a stigma, but there are some of them are very well put together.

I once spent an entire winter's day watching a Kitchen Nightmares marathon. I had never seen it before, and have never watched it since, but it was pretty satisfying.

I suppose, but assuming you can do good British accents because you have are from South Africa is like assuming can pull off a good Brooklyn accent because they are from Atlanta. They are both American accents, after all.

The accents really aren't that much alike.

As a Cross-Temporal Comment Enforcement Officer from the year 2017, I am here to warn you about the dangers of ananchronous meme spreading. The world of 2001 has yet to experience the plague of CancerAIDS that would ravage entire comment sections in the later years of the decade.

Just to add detail to your story, the guy didn't even want to go to the house, but the person playing the child in chat kept insisting, saying he was alone and really needed someone to be there. They were basically guilt-tripping him into walking into the trap.

Clearly they brought George Miller in to direct that one.

I only half-watched one episode that was on in the background at my parents' place, but I do remember it actually having more style to it than the typical TV procedural. If there hadn't been conversation going on, I could have seen it sucking me in.

I kind of feel bad for kids that these aren't staples of afterschool TV anymore. As I was a kid in the '80s, these shows were better cartoons than most of the cartoons that were running at the time.

The pilot for this actually ran in theaters in Australia, and I loved it. I couldn't have been more than five at the time. It's up there with Star Wars in my early theatrical experiences. I get what you are saying about the costume. It looks pretty bad, but it adds a certain verisimilitude. I was looking at the "real"…

I don't really care for either show that much at the moment, but Family Guy does at least seem to be trying harder to make me laugh, and sometimes succeeds. I don't know The Simpsons is trying to do these days, but it isn't working at all.

Probably for the best if died when it did. Enrico Colantoni needed to be out of that show in time for Veronica Mars.