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TV 19 - Simpsons Did It

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American shows I had no idea were rip offs of original shows in other countries (e.g., The Office and Coupling):


All in the Family (UK)
Big Brother (Netherlands)
Cash Cab (UK)
Homeland (Israel)
Sanford & Son (UK)
Shark Tank (Japan)
Survivor (Sweden)
Three's Company (UK)
Ugly Betty (Colombia)
 
Kepler said:
American shows I had no idea were rip offs of original shows in other countries (e.g., The Office and Coupling):


All in the Family (UK)
Big Brother (Netherlands)
Cash Cab (UK)
Homeland (Israel)
Sanford & Son (UK)
Shark Tank (Japan)
Survivor (Sweden)
Three's Company (UK)
Ugly Betty (Colombia)
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I haven't watched Ugly Betty, but I swear it was marketed as the first English language telenovela in America, and with that I just figured it was an original USA-centric story. Turns out Betty, la fea is one of the most famous and reproduced shows in the world with two dozen adaptations.

Never would have guessed All in the Family had roots somewhere else.

Cash Cab makes sense. Seems like most game shows come out of Britain.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
I haven't watched Ugly Betty, but I swear it was marketed as the first English language telenovela in America, and with that I just figured it was an original USA-centric story. Turns out Betty, la fea is one of the most famous and reproduced shows in the world with two dozen adaptations.

Never would have guessed All in the Family had roots somewhere else.

Cash Cab makes sense. Seems like most game shows come out of Britain.
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All In The Family was based off of Till Death Do Us Part.

Sanford and Son was based on Steptoe and Son. The actor who played the dad on Steptoe and Son, Wilfrid Brambell, played the fictional Granddad of Paul McCartney in A Hard Day's Night. He was always referred to as "dirty old man" in the show and that's why everyone in A Hard Day's night says "he's very clean".
 
Jimjamesak said:
Sanford and Son was based on Steptoe and Son.
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Was there anything analogous to the race angle in the Brit version? The Brits treat the Poors the way Americans treat blacks, was it an East End junk dealer or something?

Red Foxx cracks me up on teevee because he was, evidently, the second-dirtiest blue comic in history, after Buddy Hackett. Guys who said stuff so bad even other comics were like "whoa," and they were doing it in the 50s and early 60s.
 
Kepler said:
Was there anything analogous to the race angle in the Brit version? The Brits treat the Poors the way Americans treat blacks, was it an East End junk dealer or something?

Red Foxx cracks me up on teevee because he was, evidently, the second-dirtiest blue comic in history, after Buddy Hackett. Guys who said stuff so bad even other comics were like "whoa," and they were doing it in the 50s and early 60s.
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No, it was more about the father/son relationship.

Till Death Do Us Part had the London East End Conservative Working Class vs Liverpool Labour Socialist angle though.
 
Kepler said:
Was there anything analogous to the race angle in the Brit version? The Brits treat the Poors the way Americans treat blacks, was it an East End junk dealer or something?

Red Foxx cracks me up on teevee because he was, evidently, the second-dirtiest blue comic in history, after Buddy Hackett. Guys who said stuff so bad even other comics were like "whoa," and they were doing it in the 50s and early 60s.
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I bought a Redd Foxx comedy cd at a truckstop somewhere in flyover land and every one of us in that car couldn't believe what we were hearing. Laughed out asses off but holy shit.
 
E1 of Crime of the Century about how big pharma and the government got America hooked on opiates. These fuckers make the Reagan administration with their crack push look like choir boys. Hooray for deregulation and laissez faire.
 
Slap Shot said:
E1 of Crime of the Century about how big pharma and the government got America hooked on opiates. These fuckers make the Reagan administration with their crack push look like choir boys. Hooray for deregulation and laissez faire.
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I plan to watch that next week.
 
Slap Shot said:
E1 of Crime of the Century about how big pharma and the government got America hooked on opiates. These fuckers make the Reagan administration with their crack push look like choir boys. Hooray for deregulation and laissez faire.
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I will deliberately not watch that because I am afraid it will give me a seizure.
 
Kepler said:
I will deliberately not watch that because I am afraid it will give me a seizure.
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It's an extremely good two part documentary. Now, I've always been a super big Alex Gibney fan, but imho he delivered once again with this show.

If nothing else, you have to watch the three minute segment about a half hour into episode 1 where they show a montage of meth and heroin od's and drug houses in West Virginia, set to John Denver's Take Me Home, Country Roads.
 
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Slap Shot said:
E1 of Crime of the Century about how big pharma and the government got America hooked on opiates. These fuckers make the Reagan administration with their crack push look like choir boys. Hooray for deregulation and laissez faire.
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As you probably already know, Rex Chapman has a lot to say about this.
 
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