Suit up for a comedic clash of titans as Liam and Andrew orchestrate a World Cup-style battle to crown the best UK sitcom of the last 30 years. With 32 fan-favorite sitcoms, including the likes of "Phoenix Nights", "The Office" and "Peep Show," ready to go head-to-head, you the listeners will be the deciding jury. From discussing potential frontrunners to shining a spotlight on wildcards like "The Vicar Of Dibley" and "Ghosts," we're setting the stage for a series of showdowns that promise belly laughs and banter. Will underdogs topple the comedy giants? Your votes will write each chapter of this laugh-out-loud saga.
Suit up for a comedic clash of titans as Liam and Andrew orchestrate a World Cup-style battle to crown the best UK sitcom of the last 30 years. With 32 fan-favorite sitcoms, including the likes of "Phoenix Nights", "The Office" and "Peep Show," ready to go head-to-head, you the listeners will be the deciding jury. From discussing potential frontrunners to shining a spotlight on wildcards like "The Vicar Of Dibley" and "Ghosts," we're setting the stage for a series of showdowns that promise belly laughs and banter. Will underdogs topple the comedy giants? Your votes will write each chapter of this laugh-out-loud saga.
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Speaker 2:Before we get into this episode, it is literally just a draw of the last well the group stages for this World Cup, so it probably is going to be fairly dull. So don't worry about switching this one off and just checking out the groups. But if you want it, we're going to go through the draw.
Speaker 1:Yes, better.
Speaker 2:Hello and welcome to the podcast Living with Maidalee. This is a TV nostalgia based podcast. This is series seven and we are well, I'm Liam the co-host, andrew Hague is with me, but we're suited and booted ready for the World Cup draw of sitcoms, yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm fine, mate. Yeah, so we decided to film this. It might not go on YouTube, depending on how it looks after, but we didn't want any people saying that we've fixed it for our favourite. So just a bit of background into this. We're going to try and find the best UK sitcom of the last 30 years We've got.
Speaker 1:We've changed a lot around you, not your Liam's, but like people's choices that they've sent in. We've put them in like whatever we've got the most folks and stuff like that. So there's a couple in there that we've not actually seen ourselves and what we're going to do is this is the World Cup draw now. So we're going to put them immediately into groups of four. So I think it's going to be eight groups of four to 32 sitcoms, that's right. Two's going to go through from each group and then we're going to get to the knockouts at later episodes. We'll describe what we're going to do in later episodes. We're basically going to tackle them round by round. So this we're not actually going to go into the sitcoms, that much. We're just going to do the draw.
Speaker 2:We're going to do the draw. We're going to discuss if we get a group of deaths you never know there might be one in there we're going to yeah, basically, you, the listener, the viewer in this occasion, can decide for us who goes through to the quarter finals and we'll then have our input, but it will still be you guys who decide what goes through, so we're not involved in this. You could eliminate our favorites, you could. You could keep all the shite in the list. To be fair, it's a strong list, yeah, the rules. If you're looking at it thinking, why did they cut out my choice or why haven't you gone for it? Just explain the cutoff. What was the cutoff date that we agreed on?
Speaker 1:So if this sitcom was made, if the sitcom you chose were made pre-January the first, 1994, it doesn't count. It doesn't matter if they had any other episodes after that. So for instance, you could have had, I don't know, red dwarfals and horses and stuff like that, but the first episode had to have been released post 31st of December 1993. I've just got a little list there actually the.
Speaker 1:UK sitcoms. I was going to say to you there I've got a list of all the sitcoms that you sent in that didn't quite make it and I've not saved it.
Speaker 2:So so it's a good one.
Speaker 1:We haven't got the list of that, but thanks for everyone.
Speaker 2:if yours didn't make it, there would be no reason, which would probably you didn't get enough votes, so so I'm going to share my screen shortly, so I don't know if that may just still see us or not. Don't anything lewd, andrew, in case you're still on camera.
Speaker 1:But I like Peter Hebden.
Speaker 2:I don't think I like him. You don't chair. I had all sorts of ideas. Again something sorted out that did a really sort of fancy draw from a hat type thing I had a time. It's ended up very much in the spirit of living with Maitley. It's an ex-LG and a randomorg number generator on top of it. So what I'm going to do is draw initially one to 32. That'll give us team one in group one. Then I'm going to draw one from 31, which will give us team two in group one. You'll see as we go along. If you're watching it like, say, if there's any accusations, we've fixed it. This is just to prove these are completely random. That's why you might see the video but it might make not very much sense. But just know that if you are only listening, there is video proof that exists.
Speaker 1:That's not fixed, I suppose, like we could have fixed that you could be playing a video of the draw that we've already done.
Speaker 2:but if we aren't going to go to the effort of sorting out the draw properly.
Speaker 1:That is not happening, but yeah.
Speaker 2:And, to be quite honest, like we're genuinely I mean we both love sitcoms we try to write for you that people have stitched us up, not good enough.
Speaker 2:Yeah, not good enough, but we've. So we are really intrigued by this. Actually, we obviously we want to get our input, we want to tell you what we think, but we're not going to try and sort of force this down any certain route. The only thing I would say is we have ranked these, so if there's ever a dead heat, it's going to go on Twitter votes. It seems to be fair to. If we only get sort of 10 votes, it could quite easily be dead heat. So make sure you vote in, make sure you make sure everyone vote.
Speaker 1:Yeah, once this gets out, you're going to have a week to vote for all these, but we'll do that at the end and we'll talk about it.
Speaker 2:So should we get into it?
Speaker 1:Let's do it.
Speaker 2:So, first things first, going to share the screen. So, for anyone who isn't watching, let me just take you through the list. So, and I've randomized these in no particular order, we have Vickra Dibley. I'm Alan Partridge, max and Paddy Peep Show. Royal Family. Father Ted, the Office. Gareth Moringi that's Dark Place. Car Share Outnumbered. Mighty Boosh Game On Early Doors. The Thick of it. League of Gentlemen Extras. Do you want to read the last 16?
Speaker 1:Yeah, last two short Coupling Spaced this Country IT Crowd Inbetweeners, black Books, total London, two Pints of Larga. I'm surprised that one. Actually I thought we were having that, but a couple of people did vote Benadorm, gavin and Stacey Not Going Out, friday Night Dinner, cycleville Ghosts and Phoenix Nights. Like I say, these are not our favorite 32. There's a lot of stuff that we've not. We want an operation, good guys in there. We want what were the other ones that we wanted Nathan Barley and stuff. But people have voted, the public have spoken for the round of 32.
Speaker 2:If you've sent us your list of choices, either sort of on a public message or a private one, we have factored them in. So yeah, these are kind of the top voted ones. I mean, I know you've not got any glass on, which is why you put your head very closer when you read. And also, I've never heard anyone pronounce coupling as coupling before.
Speaker 1:So they say coupling, coupling.
Speaker 2:So right, let's get into it. I'm going to generate and the way we're doing it. We're not sticking to World Cup format here, so we're not drawing the first team in each group. We're going to draw the four teams that make up group one of the eight groups.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and have a little bit of a reflection about it, yeah, so nervous.
Speaker 2:Next Group one. Let's see who's in it.
Speaker 1:Good start. Balls need warming up a bit, so number 13, so that's early doors. Early doors yeah, a lot of people ask for this. Actually, one of the most, that's four ones, I think. Early doors, actually all the ones.
Speaker 2:We're going to have it anyway. But yeah, the way I'm going to do this, I'm going to take that out of the list, but then what I need to do is delete. This is ridiculous, hold on, let me just remind myself. So number 13 goes back in instead of number 32. And now I'm going to draw from 31. Right, right, and that's the easiest way I could think to do it. So this time the Max. This mouse is terrible. So the Max now is 31. So we go again. So team two is number 18, which is coupling or coupling.
Speaker 1:Coupling Right. So group one, early doors and coupling Two go through from each group. I'm just writing them down in case we forget them.
Speaker 2:So now number 31 is replaced by number 18, which has come out, so we generate again. I won't explain that every time. Yeah, sorry, that's from 30. So it's already gone wrong. So the next number is number 14, which is the thick of it.
Speaker 1:Thick of it and early doors. That'll be a tough game, that to be fair. The thick of it. Early doors, coupling and thick of it. You can see the coupling writers and stuff are in the audience like, oh, you're like grimacing to each other.
Speaker 2:You know, like you know, when they kind of grab each other by the shoulder, waiting to see who else is coming in.
Speaker 1:Well, sometimes they do like a smile down, don't they like when they'd like. So you know, if it's a bad draw they'll be like ha ha, I knew we'd get these.
Speaker 2:So, final one, we've got number 11, which is the mighty boosh. That is a really tough group, so just read us out that group then.
Speaker 1:So grouping early doors, coupling thick of it and mighty boosh I thought thick of it, early doors and mighty boosh would definitely get to the last 16. One of them's not going to make it. I think that's a really, really strong group actually.
Speaker 2:Well, two of them, because there's only two go through, isn't there? Sorry, did you see? You thought three of them would be last 16?.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I thought three of them would go through and I think I can't see a coupling making it. We might be surprised, but early doors thick of it and mighty boosh Mighty boosh and thick of it you know been going through. I thought four series I think they had. I think early doors were only a couple. But yeah, all those ones mentioned there in group A are ones that we have had sent in multiple times from other people as well.
Speaker 2:So yeah, big mix there, because mighty boosh coupling thick of it, big mix very, very different styles. So I don't know if that'll play into it. It would be interesting.
Speaker 1:And what we're going to do, by the way, is group A now. So we'll do it as in a World Cup. So when you start voting, whoever wins the vote will play second place in this group here, group B, and we'll do it like that. Have you ever seen a World Cup? United Works, you know it.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Group B.
Speaker 2:First team, number 20. And it's this country.
Speaker 1:This country. I've never seen this. What we've said is, if it gets through to the final round, we have to, because when it gets to the next round we're going to analyze them a bit more. The further they get, the more analysis will be one and more facts and trivia and clips and stuff. I've never seen this. So if it gets through, I will watch the series before we do it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that stands for both of us. There's one or two in here that I've not seen. I have seen that, so I'm aware of it, but you might even refresh yourselves a little bit, even if we have seen it, to be honest. So team two in group B, I think, is number six, and that's Father Ted.
Speaker 1:Father Ted, that's a strong contender for a winner. For me, Just beat it actually 1994,. That started to just beat the cutoff point.
Speaker 2:And obviously if you're watching this it'll make more sense. But team six could come out again. The ball six hasn't gone.
Speaker 1:We reset the balls each time and strip them down, so just before you start with Father Ted, because people might say, hang on, it's Irish. It is, but it was made by a UK company, so we'll put it in there. Was it Hatrik who did it? Hatrik Hatrik Productions?
Speaker 2:yeah, Right, so next team? Oh fucking thing, number 10. So that's outnumbered.
Speaker 1:Outnumbered. Yeah, this was something that I watched quite a lot when it were out. I'm not sort of getting it on DVD or anything but yeah. I think it's a yeah, I like it. I think it was a no brainer to have it in there.
Speaker 2:I think it's a good one. This is team three, I believe. Is it no four? This is the final.
Speaker 1:I was just the final to it, oh so the final one oh, it's a strong one it's the Royal Family. So what we've got there is this country, Father Ted outnumbered, and the Royal Family I think the book is at our Father Ted and Royal Family going through, but, like I said, this country in particular got a few votes to be in it, otherwise they probably wouldn't have been.
Speaker 2:So I once tried to get you to watch that when you came here and you weren't bothered with it.
Speaker 1:No, I will watch it. I will watch them, though, if it gets through. If it doesn't, it can go and suck a lemon for me.
Speaker 2:Group C Group C, number 13. That is.
Speaker 1:Phoenix Knights. Oh, that's a big hit. That is a big hit, phoenix Knights, a definite contender for the winner. I think, if you punt, if you expert might have had that. You know was one of the favourites, I think.
Speaker 2:Next team is number one Vicaradibli.
Speaker 1:Vicaradibli Vicaradibli. I have seen it, obviously, but I'm not a, you know I'll have to watch it back if it gets through, but it's another one that people have suggested and massive, hitting his day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like a bit of Vicaradibli. Next one, number five, which is two pints of lager and a packet of crisps.
Speaker 1:Yes, I was so amazed at people because obviously it's critically savaged. We had enough votes for it to warrant it being in a both certain other thing, so yeah, do you remember what was it we watched?
Speaker 2:Who was it was talking about it? Was it Alice Cooper or no?
Speaker 1:Oh, Gene Simmons when he said he likes two pints of lager and a packet of crisps.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love it man. I love two pints of lager and a packet of crisps.
Speaker 1:A packet of crisps.
Speaker 2:Number four, which is Peepshow.
Speaker 1:Ah, so big it is there. Phoenix Knights and Peepshow I think they'll be fairly happy with that. I think Vicaradibli's got a chance. That's like a bit of an outsider, but I fancy Phoenix Knights and Peepshow to romp that group. To be fair, it'd be interesting to see who finishes first actually.
Speaker 2:So just recap me on that one then. So those four are.
Speaker 1:Phoenix Knights Vicaradibli, two pints of lager and Peepshow.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, Another strong group. I think that one. Yeah, Right. So D First team. First sitcom, Number 11, Friday Night Dinner.
Speaker 1:Friday Night Dinner is something I've never seen, I've heard. It's brilliant. To be honest, I should probably watch it, and I will if he gets through. Whoever's in this group, by the way, is likely to have a massively hard game in the last 32.
Speaker 2:So last 16, so yeah, that's a good point, Number 19. Number 10, so that is Benidorm.
Speaker 1:Benidorm another one I've not seen actually, but really critically acclaimed and again, people have asked for it and that's why it's in there. I think someone will be happy with this group so far, Although Friday Night Dinner is very well-liked by people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, not something either of us has really got into, but if he gets through then we certainly will watch a few episodes to make sure we're aware of it. Right, number first team. Sorry, where are we now? This is Third in group.
Speaker 1:D.
Speaker 2:And that's number three, which is Max and Paddy.
Speaker 1:Max and Paddy. I think this is a wide open group. There's a lot of outsiders in there. Never really got a lot into some good bits in Max and Paddy. Again, it's another one that we've got in there mainly. I don't think either of us have had it in our 32, but happy to go back.
Speaker 2:Oh, no, no, I would have actually yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I'm a fan. I think there's some. I don't think it's all brilliant, but I think when there's some moments, that are great. But yeah, next one. This is the final Number three which is Ghosts.
Speaker 1:Ghosts, that is a wide. That is the last one we picked. By the way, we've got a lot of suggestions for Ghosts in the final few days. It's the last one to make the list. It was number 32. I think it edged out plebs, didn't it? In terms of votes?
Speaker 2:I think yeah because I kind of wanted plebs in there. But yeah, we went on the numbers.
Speaker 1:The public, so that group.
Speaker 2:Didn't really get edged out as well, didn't it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, Friday night dinner Benidorm, Max and Paddy and Ghosts. That is wide open, that could go either way though.
Speaker 2:Anyway, though, so we move into group E, second half of the draw Number 11. First team is not going out.
Speaker 1:Not going out One of the longest-running sitcoms of all time, I would have thought, no Again, not something I'm huge on, but there are some really good moments in it when I have seen it Again, well liked.
Speaker 2:So the second team in that group is number 11, which is extras extras Javais.
Speaker 1:That's the first we've seen of Ricky Javais. He'll be in the audience probably laughing. I think it'll be happy when we're up against Lee Mack, I think there, ricky, ricky.
Speaker 2:What have I done there?
Speaker 1:No no.
Speaker 2:No, it's okay. It's okay, I think I'm all right.
Speaker 1:It's all right.
Speaker 2:So it just needs to go to 14.
Speaker 1:Yeah 14.
Speaker 2:That's right, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, 14 left, so joining, not going out and extras is 13, which is toast of London. Toast of London. Some absolutely tremendous moments in that toast of London. Yeah, I'm happy that's got a lucky like a not I won't say an easy group, but it's got a chance of getting through.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know what I'm not sure about, but yeah, possibly as it stands. Let's see who else it's up against, though. So the final team number three, which is life's too short.
Speaker 1:So two Javaises, two Javaises there. Javais up against himself. Warwick don't know where to look in the audience there. So that is it. That's another tough group. I fancy extras in toast of London, but we'll see.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't write off life's too short. I don't think, yeah, yeah. So group F group F, first team number six Gavin and Stacy Gavin and Stacy.
Speaker 1:massive Gavin and Stacy, for better or for worse, started the career, realistically, of a certain James Corden.
Speaker 2:Something's gone wrong here. It can be corrected, don't worry. So we've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11. So that one should be 12.
Speaker 1:12. Yeah, do you do a bit of problems in the FIFA draw. No one really knows what they're getting to, that you remember what when he's drawn out.
Speaker 2:So I know it should only be 11 left now, though, shouldn't it? Yeah, there should only be 11 left. So if I still got in there, our life's too short. That's why it's just come out Get him out. So actually, that makes sense now. Yeah, I got confused there. That one should have gone to three. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1:We're back on track. We're back on track, yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean, the main thing is it's random each time. So whatever's left, it's just random out what's left. Number three Saqoville.
Speaker 1:Saqoville. We weren't sure whether to put this in because we weren't sure if it was a sitcom. It's classed on the BBC as a sitcom, andy, I fucking get brilliant, and I think it should be in there because it is unbelievably funny.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I got a few votes and yeah, we think it is a sitcom. So next in the group number nine, Karsha.
Speaker 1:Karsha Not really seen much of this, to be honest. I've seen bits of it and what I've seen of lights which has never got into the full thing that this straight up for tough one is Gavin and Stacy, Saqoville and Karsha.
Speaker 2:I'm joining them in group F Is that right?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Number nine that I've just deleted. Andy, should be left now.
Speaker 1:Should be, eight Should be nine, all right, so we've just got rid of.
Speaker 2:So we've got a Karsha, okay, okay. So that one should have gone. Yeah, let's just have a look what number Karsha was, because that's what's based Needs to become nine Right. So nine left, is that right?
Speaker 1:Yeah, nine left. Yeah, two more groups.
Speaker 2:Number eight, gotham, rengie's Dark Place.
Speaker 1:Dark Place. So you've got two yeah, gavin and Stacy, saqoville, dark Place and Karsha. That's a tough group as well, I think. To be fair, not sure about that one. I think Karsha might get through, maybe Gavin and Stacy, not sure.
Speaker 2:So we've got two groups left. Anyone watching will be able to see who makes up these groups, because we'll decide one which will dictate the other, but if you're listening along, we'll tell you both yeah, group.
Speaker 1:G.
Speaker 2:Group G first of group G.
Speaker 1:Game On, game On that, one of your favourites, liam.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Young Samantha Janus period.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know how big it was. Actually I thought it was great, but I don't know whether it had a massive audience or not. But we'll see what people think. People think Seven, ooh, the office, the office loans.
Speaker 1:That is a definite contender for the winner. I don't think, probably our favourite between us, but yeah, yeah, I see it. Game On. Yeah, tough draw, tough draw.
Speaker 2:So I thought yeah, I wanted to put it up against the office, but we'll see. Third team in the group. He's number 5, which is the in-betweeners.
Speaker 1:Oh my god. This is a bloody, unbelievably hard group. Now. You've got two massive ones in there the office and in-betweeners. If you get there's a couple of more here that, if it comes out, I don't know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2:So the final one in group G, yep, number three, the League of Gentlemen.
Speaker 1:Wow, right League of Gentlemen. People will say it's a sketch show. It is a situation comedy setting in one particular place with the same characters and there is a story going through it. So very much like Psychoville we had it in. That's a tough, tough group out office, in-betweeners and League of Gentlemen.
Speaker 2:Yeah, really strong group. That's probably what you'd be talking about game of death, group of death maybe.
Speaker 1:I think that's the group of deaths so far. Yeah, so what we got left on group H, so the final group.
Speaker 2:So I've just put the wrong number in there. That should be three. We'll draw them out, even though anybody watching can see what they are. But we'll just. We'll complete the draw, because that's how it should be done. So the final group is I'm Alan Partridge.
Speaker 1:I'm Alan Partridge. Yes, another real Whoa. That's good if the next round, because if that gets through he's got a Good round coming up. Go on.
Speaker 2:We then have Number two, which is the it crowd the it crowd.
Speaker 1:Obviously lina and Arthur Matthews appears in Alan Partridge, so mix loyal is.
Speaker 2:We have number one, which is black books. Black books is in there, leaving a final sitcom group to be Spaced so that space.
Speaker 1:And that concludes the draw. So, um, televised fixtures, your economic, um, let me have a look at. Uh, let me just get your thing off here because I can't um.
Speaker 2:So if you, you could share your screen with the groups in. If you want to, now don't know.
Speaker 1:I can't because they're on two different pages. Because of that thing, I'll just read them out, because the people anyway, um right. Group A I want your thoughts on this, liam, as we're going through. So group A is early doors, coupling thick of it, mighty bush.
Speaker 2:Sorry, yeah, I was going to try and put them into groups on this, but I won't. We'll just discuss them, um, do we? Do we want to do our predictions? Do we want to sway anyone? I don't. I don't know how how much we want to go into this. What do you think?
Speaker 1:Um, no, I'm gonna try and stay neutral throughout this if we don't swing anyone, I think. I think it's got a really cool fan base coupling. We got our surprised people asking for that because we were gonna have it in at first and we got rid of it. Then people asked for it. Think of it a classic, I think, one of the best you know, that's one of my favorites and the mighty bush of this, another Almost beyond cult classic, I think, in it into genuine classic of fairly modern sitcoms. I think One of those going out is going to be tough. It's going to be tough on them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know where mighty boost sits. It's, it's very, very cool. This isn't it. Some are on the list, but that one particularly so. Yeah, I'll be intrigued what kind of what kind of voting that gets.
Speaker 1:Group B We've got this country father Ted, ant numbered and royal family. That looks like a straightforward group to me with father Ted and royal family. But you know I've not seen this country enough for this country outnumbered. I really like.
Speaker 2:But I think not not giving any sort of Review as such. Yeah, I can see why this country's in the 32, but but yeah, I don't think it's necessarily one of the strongest. But again, uh, somebody sort of more Slightly obscure ones might do better in the vote, and that's what I'm intrigued to see. Will, uh, will the fan base turn up for the big hitters?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you don't know. Group C phoenix knights vicar adible, two pats, log in a packet of crisps and peep show.
Speaker 2:To me that's. I wouldn't necessarily think it's as clean-cut, but I think the public will think that's quite an easy two to choose from, that I think.
Speaker 1:Victor Dibley's probably the biggest show out of the lot in terms of viewers, but I think Phoenix Knights and Peep Show has left a bigger legacy, I think it's fair to say, with even younger generations.
Speaker 2:It's a good shout-out. I don't know whether who knows who's going to vote. If we just get me a new vote in, it's just going to be our favourite show anyway, but if anyone else is voting. I'd be intrigued as to whether Victor Dibley does it capture more of a bigger fan base, maybe.
Speaker 1:I think two parts of the log are there. They just stop it to be here, though, aren't they, will Miller? They stop it to be here, aren't they?
Speaker 2:They went through the qualifiers, didn't they? And played the extra game. They got through.
Speaker 1:Group D this is wide open. Friday Night Dinner Benadorm, max and Paddy and Ghosts that is wide open.
Speaker 2:That's one I probably wouldn't like to call. To be quite honest, I've got my two, and my two actually would be quite clear favourites, but I'm not sure that's the way it's going to go that group.
Speaker 1:I think Friday Night Dinner will get through and I think, like I said, these are not my favourites. I think Max and Paddy might get through that, which.
Speaker 2:I mean, benadorm has a huge fan base and it's been around for a while, so yeah, and if Johnny Vegas gets behind it?
Speaker 1:You never know yeah that's what you have Group E Not Going Out Extras. Toast to London and Life's Too Short.
Speaker 2:Tough one for me, though Again, we're not trying to put our favourites through, but not necessarily. I really think that one definitely. I think that's close up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think Extras is probably the favourite, but Toast to London got a cool fan base. Life's Too Short, not Going Out's massive. Anyway, group F, gavin and Stacy, cycleville, car Share and Dark Place.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's another good group, Fairly sort of, even in my mind that group I know Car Share is loved. I've never really got into it, so if that gets through I'll have to probably watch a little bit more. I've seen some of the outtakes which are brilliant, but I can't judge the sitcom on that.
Speaker 1:And then we've got this is the group of death Game On, who, unfortunately, are like the I won't say they're probably going to be the Sammarina, aren't they, this group? Because the other three are the Office, the Inbetweeners and the League of Gentlemen.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'd love to see Game On compete, at least getting a mix for a bit. Maybe put themselves up in and around it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, get 1% or whatever but yeah that is, I think the Office in Inbetweeners will get through, but League of Gentlemen, people might not see it as a sitcom, like I said. That was one of those that we did talk about like can we have it here? But it is a situational comedy, isn't it? And there is a linear story going through it.
Speaker 2:so yeah, exactly yeah, they're not standalone sketches. They do follow a storyline.
Speaker 1:So yeah, it is a sitcom yeah, and the final group, I'm Alan Partridge, the IT crowd, black Books and Spaced that I think Alan Partridge should walk. It'll be Apu who aren't partridge, sitting in crowd looking at that, having confidence.
Speaker 2:It'd be just nodding. I don't think he'd be cheering, but just nodding, just calm.
Speaker 1:But the other three I've massive fan base like IT crowd's, really well-lined Black Books obviously really really sort of cool viewing again, and Spaced puts out a peg on the map and the other dude Frost.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I'm intrigued. I'm intrigued by all of them, because we could end up might even be better for us in some ways, if our favourites don't go through and we get to try out some new sitcoms.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I'm intrigued, let's see.
Speaker 2:So they groups, all eight groups, are going to get posted on the Living with Maneley Twitter page, or X as it is now. But yeah, you don't have to follow us to vote. I don't think so, even if you think.
Speaker 1:No, you shouldn't have to.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll listen to them. I don't want to follow them, can't think of anything worse, but you can still vote. So it's important that if you have a preference, vote. If you think people around you would have a preference, give them a nudge, point them in the direction so you can get involved.
Speaker 1:See what you think, get involved. All you have to do is hit a button and your favourite sitcom could. We might get well a problem. I was going to say we might get a trophy made up, but that's not going to happen, so forget that. But yeah, so the next time you hear from us, we're either going to do a midweek and decided, yeah, it's to fend like girls with a vote, and we might do a midweek to announce the winners, or it might just be a case of straight on to the last of 16, but we'll let you know as we're on Twitter.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if there's anything interesting to talk about, either in comment or in the way the voting's going, whether there's some groups, if some groups are really close and really tight, that might be worth us having a little chat about, but we'll see. If it's just an easy, two in each group might be not much to talk about. What you will get next time from us, though, is much more opinion. In a sense. That here's why we like this one. We're not going to say we think should win, or are we going to win?
Speaker 1:No, we're not going to say we think should win, but we're going to try and do the case for both. So let's say they're out on 16, just looking at this now. Let's say it's the office versus out on Partridge. We'll do 15 minutes on the office, 15 minutes on Partridge. Just a bit of background so people refresh the memories and stuff. Then it will ever go through. From that they'll have more research on it and as it gets to the final, that's when we'll yeah.
Speaker 2:So if they are your favourites, then definitely keep voting, because the further it gets, the more clips, the more analysis, the more review, the more banter.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the more banter. Right thank you for that, liam, and I will see you next time.
Speaker 2:Goodnight, cheers dude.