Rather than Black Lagoon, I’d suggest Noir, although I don’t know what its availability is right now. A team of female assassins working out of Paris, one of whom has amnesia. I’ll never forget the popcorn scene in one of the early episodes.

Yup. Mum had the Simca, Dad had the Saab. Because Dad had to drive to work every Dad, Mum had to look after us rugrats and occasionally drive to the shops.

Wasn’t the JDM Harrier a Lexus RX300 with a Toyota badge?

(Full Disclosure: I have never watched Veep, but I watched this:

Like I said, everyone turns out their own brand of crap. What I’m saying is that the stuff that is most identified with a country is what is different. Most people identify US comedy with bland sitcoms. Ask anyone to name a defining British comedy and you’ll probably get ‘Monty Python’. There’s the difference.

Sorry, but that’s Amero-centric rubbish. Do you have any knowledge of the Music Hall comedy in Britain in the late nineteenth - early twentieth century? That’s the origin of modern British comedy. Or the radio comedy in Canada that started in the forties and fifties? A lot of Canadian comedy spun out from that.

Yeah, I’ve seen a few episodes of Futurama. I don’t like it because there are no sympathetic characters. The POV character, Fry, is a twerp. I need at least one character I can identify or sympathize with. Even though Dave Lister is a bit lazy and stupid, he’s a nice guy, and his heart’s in the right place. He carries…

There are always outliers. I don’t find anything on Adult Swim particularly funny, more offensive for the sake of being offensive, barf jokes and the like. But I can see it being edgy in comparison to the pablum of the mainstream.

Cognitive dissonance? I mean, at the same time they whine about ‘political correctness’ they don’t want anything more offensive than Father Knows Best or The Brady Bunch.

God, you’ve got me. Maybe it’s a recent development and established culture hasn’t caught up yet?

And there’s still nothing like Blackadder, The Thick of It, or Red Dwarf. They tried to make an American version of Red Dwarf once, and it was so painfully unfunny no one saw it.

Every country has it’s whitebread humor. Canada has Corner Gas and years ago The Trouble with Tracy and King of Kensington. Utterly boring, flaccid stuff. The U.K. may be even worse, with crap like Are You Being Served?, Darling Buds of May, On The Buses, and Keeping Up Apperances.

It also explains why most American comedy is more conservative, or ‘safe’. Think Full House, Friends, or The Big Bang Theory. Compare that to Canadian comedy, which is much more edgy (Kids in the Hall, LetterKenny) or British comedy, which can go right over the cliff.

Don’t forget that they sell beer! Which, depending on your jurisdiction, is a massive shift in perspective.

I have the original series on DVD. It was available as a set in a cardboard ‘briefcase’. Might still be for sale.

Wow, you’re lucky. I have a couple of collectable figures I pre-ordered from Japan months ago. They arrived at the warehouse in Tokyo, I paid for them, they got shipped, and now they’re listed on the Japan Post web site as ‘returned to sender.”

I was wondering about that. I was saying to myself,”Do anyone watch anime anymore?”

So I’d never heard of AWA, but it sounded interesting, so I clicked on the link, took a look at the page for The Resistance, clicked on ‘Buy Now’, and it took me straight to Comixology.

You forgot Barbara Carrera as the femme fatale, Fatima Blush. 

Which was completely wrong, because the baddie was supposed to have a Smith and Wesson revolver, not an automatic. But it’s still a great line.