I started watching last night's (US) episode, and the intro scene with the telephone conversation could not have been more identical to the BBC version if it was...um...the BBC version with American actors :) (altho i do recall that the subject of the Tony Blair missive was changed to Dubya).
To be fair, I've only seen the BBC version of that episode once, so my memory may be faulty. Or perhaps further into the episode (after I had stopped watching), they made some signficant modifications.
Either way, I think we're both in agreement ...the US version is just bad.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Doom
To: CF-Community
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 6:58 AM
Subject: Re: the office
I've seen two American episodes, and they did change the dialogue and
plotlines quite a bit.
Unfortunately, just not for the better.
They really tamed it down in a lot of ways, with very indirect
references to things (I'm thinking specifically of vibrators and dildos
here) instead of the very direct (and hilarious) references (like the
Jr. Patrick).
Can we tell what last night's show was ripped from, boys and girls?
Anyway, the moral of the story is "Watch on BBC America!"
--BenD
Charlie Griefer wrote:
> The american version of coupling is ...wow..words fail me.
>
> The scripts are very nearly identical, word for word. The acting is bad. I
> mean even for a sitcom bad.
>
> Just makes me wonder...if we American folk had no intention of even changing
> a word in the script...why even pay bad american actors? Just run the BBC
> version on network TV.
>
> charlie
> (grateful for BBC-America)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Ihrig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 3:34 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: the office
>
>
> yep its great!
>
> on a side note
> in our ever expanding lack of creativity we took a beautiful bbc show
> "coupling" and made it American...
>
> not even going to watch it..
>
>
>
>
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