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Started by Vesanic, Mar 22, 2012, 04:17 PM

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Vesanic

Excellent sitcom that I'd recommend to anyone hungry for British humor. Some parts made me cry from laughter, I swear. Only three seasons, but three seasons of pure awesomeness. I'd say season 2 is a bit lackluster but still funny overall.

The best of Black Books

Dylan Moran Black Books

[spoiler]Bernard Black is the proprietor of his small bookshop, Black Books. The series revolves around the lives of Bernard, Manny, and Fran. A central theme is Bernard's odd position as a belligerent and openly hostile shopkeeper who has a loathing of the outside world and all the people who inhabit it, except his oldest friend, Fran, who initially runs a trendy bric-a-brac shop, Nifty Gifty, next-door to the shop.

Bernard displays little enthusiasm or interest in retail (or, indeed, anything outside drinking, smoking, and reading) and actively avoids having to interact with anyone, even inside his shop, as he has a personal dislike of his customers, treating his bookshop more like a personal library. It is suggested that Fran and Bernard once slept together, but now they remain happy to be friends, sharing a love of smoking heavily and drinking to excess. Fran otherwise has a rather hopeless love life.

Manny is introduced in the first episode as a stressed-out accountant who enters the bookshop seeking The Little Book of Calm. During a drunken night out, Bernard offers him a job as a shop assistant and a room above the shop if he will do Bernard's accounts for him. Sobering up, Bernard realises Manny's optimistic nature is not suited to "this kind of operation". Fran, however, seeing that Manny is good for Bernard, forces Bernard to let him stay.

Many episodes are driven by Manny and Fran's attempts to force Bernard into a more socially acceptable lifestyle. Their efforts usually result in chaos, sucking them back into Bernard's nihilistic view of the world. The bookshop, which also doubles as Manny and Bernard's residence, is frequently depicted as being in an unhealthy state of dirtiness and often inhabited by animals and other unidentified creatures, while disorder is a frequent aspect of the running of the shop. Manny's attempts to improve both the shop and the residence often fail.
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luisch

one of the better sitcom I've seen in my life, thnks V
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Penicks

you mean some people actually don't know what black books is?

Vesanic

omg luk at meh dats so 2000


You can't say it's really famous in Belgium, brah.

Penicks

maybe not in that walloon shithole of yours but canvas broadcast it lots of times back in the day

tarkil

Well, I don't know about it, and will therefore check it out !!!



If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face.

Vesanic

Quote from: Penicks on Mar 22, 2012, 10:24 PM
maybe not in that walloon shithole of yours

That's right.