Bull

I happened upon this today, episode 1, It was SO bad I recorded it for my wife to watch with me, she was as flabbergasted as I was, considering it had Robert Lindsay, Maureen Lupman and Matt Lucas, we were amazed by how unfunny and badly written it was, WHO was it written for ? I'm happy to see it didn't last long, HOW was this ever commissioned??

I can honest say I haven't seen worse than this utter BULL****.

Robert Lindsay is a talented comedic actor who in 11 years of 'My Family' and in the last 6 of them was the most consistent source of laughter in it. He also in the small group of actors who have a legendary sitcom behind them in the form of the excellent 'Citizen Smith'.

It's a shame then that he has to pop up in oddball sitcoms like this one that surely will go nowhere. The characters are paper thin and the sitcom is so old hat it's almost like one of the items in the shop.

Maybe it will do well and prove me wrong, but tucked away on a little channel like Gold I can't see it happening.

People make me laugh when they just watch one episode of something and give it the thumbs down, without giving it a chance, really silly! And to sign up to IMDb just to tell us?!

Well I for one will be watching it to the end! How can you tell from ONE half hour? Some people have no patience or imagination.

This series has much room to grow, if given a chance! I have watched comedies in the past where I wasn't too sure about the first episode (because I haven't gotten to know the characters yet) but have seen them flourish and become popular!

This is a crazy, comedy full of mad cap eccentric behavior and the characters are very funny, in fact, all absolutely crackers! Yet well portrayed!

Love the kids in it (they're going far, really like Claudia Jessie) they work well together with Robert Lyndsay and the GREAT Maureen Lipman. I really hope it does well, it deserves a chance!

Q) What do you do if you have a store room full of bottled mineral water, and the best-before date is tomorrow?

A) You drink it all, and then spend the rest of the day running to the toilet.

This simple idea could only have come from a comedy genius, presumably one of the two writers.

Sadly, only three episodes of Bull were made. But they were three of the most mindblowingly joyous and ridiculous programmes I've ever seen. Masquerading as a bog-standard traditional British sitcom set in an antique shop, with good old Robert Lindsay and Maureen Lipman at the helm, there were in fact no limits on what was possible and where the joke was going next. Progressive comedy at its best.

Claudia Jessie deserves a special mention. She must have been born with funny bones.

We had them recorded on an old Virgin TV box, but that is gone now and I have no way of ever watching them again :(

It's not often that the title of a show is also part of it's description but in the case of "Bull", I think you will find it hard not to imagine yourself thinking what a load of bull---- this is. A typical, modern "sitcom" in the loosest sense of the word. It has a situation, i.e. an antiques shop, and some people think it is a comedy. I'm afraid I belong to that group of people that thinks comedy needs to be funny. I found very little funny about this. Maybe if you're the kind of pretentious lamebrain who thinks the constant repetition of a particular word or phrase is hysterically funny, then you will probably find this so. Personally, I left that kind of humour behind before my eleventh birthday.

Having "Bull" showcased on a channel that regularly screens "proper" comedy in the form of "Only Fools and Horses", "Fawlty Towers" and "Open All Hours" isn't doing it any favours. Maybe it should have gone out on Dave. After Midnight. When something good was on another channel. I'm all for variety in comedy and the encouragement of British-made TV, but this is little more than elitist undergraduate sniggering-in-the-wine-bar comedy of the type most normal, everyday folk find utterly immature and plain stupid. Robert Lindsay and Maureen Lipman, both veterans of classic British TV sitcoms, deserve better than to have this kind of puerile garbage on their CVs.

Maybe it's the setting? After all, "Never the Twain", also set in an antiques shop, or rather two antiques shop, was hardly a classic despite featuring two fairly good comedy actors and it, like "Bull", featured a dimwit assistant. Then again, Victoria Wood's classic "Acorn Antiques" skit was also set in an identical situation so maybe it's just that "Bull" isn't very good after all.