Yes Minister: C or D

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Cos no one seems to be giving possibly the most intellegent British sitcom ever any love on that other thread.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

It's brilliant! And still astonishingly relevent.

― Stewart Smith (stew s), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, Joseph. It's wonderful, yes. It should have been on my top 10 list at about No.5. I forgot.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I like it. I grew up more with the Prime version, though.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

one of my favourites.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I was too young to understand it when it first aired, but I think the 'Prime' episodes are generally a bit better. I love the one where he locks Humphrey out of Number Ten.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Jim Hacker: "Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers:
- The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country;
- The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country;
- The Times is read by people who actually do run the country;
- The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country;
- The Financial Times is read by people who own the country;
- The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country;
- And the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is."
Sir Humphrey: "Prime Minister, what about the people who read the Sun?"
Bernard Woolley: "Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits."

Right or wrong, this greatly colored my view of English media when I was a teenager.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

It's pretty spot on.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

So who reads The Independent, then?

― Richard Jones (scarne), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

The Mirror one is a bit weird, or is these days. I guess it refers to trade unionists.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

So who reads The Independent, then?

People who aren't sure who should be running the country.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd reverse the Telegraph and the Mail.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, that's good. I had my mind set on 'People who don't think there should be countries'

― Richard Jones (scarne), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Like John Lennon?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

The Star
'People who don't even know what countries are.'

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

The Express is read by people who... no actually I've no idea who reads the Express.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Which ones, RJG?

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

all of thems!

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh - those.

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

the independent didn't exist then, surely?

the hacker diaries are possibly the greatest ever script-based sitcom spin-offs ever produced. i read them as a kid before i'd seen the tv series and was totally sold.

― Pete W (peterw), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I believe someone on that other thread claimed that "Yes Minister" was "dated."

What an asshat.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

The Independent launched in 1987, I think. I don't think anyone was blaming the writers for not including it. We were just carrying on the theme.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic: perfectly cast, tightly scripted and brilliantly funny without being afraid to go for the cheap gag.

As mentioned upthread the spin-offs books are equally good.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

Utterly C.

(ordered the complete box set together with that Dad's Army one and Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister got here first)

― StanM, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 17:28 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

Currently going through that complete box set. What a bargain!

― baaderonixx, Monday, 15 June 2009 14:41 (sixteen years ago)

three years pass...

did not know that Nigel Hawthorne was in this. He looks SOOOO young!

http://cutfromthecloth.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/sir-humphrey.jpeg

― Fiendish Doctor Wu! (kingfish), Sunday, 17 June 2012 04:15 (thirteen years ago)

classic, even if each episode is essentially the same as any other

― irrational angst that makes me innocuously thingy (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 June 2012 04:59 (thirteen years ago)

he looks even younger in that episode of Going Straight he's in

― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Sunday, 17 June 2012 05:42 (thirteen years ago)

two years pass...

box set is great. I've now reached the stage where I don't care that its the same every episode, it just becomes the framework for the writing and the performances.

― Come and Heave a Ho (darraghmac), Monday, 11 August 2014 18:25 (eleven years ago)

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