BRITISH THAT 70S SHOW
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Have you ever thought to yourself... "What if That 70s Show took place in the UK"?
No? Well someone did... and the end result is Days Like These.
Despite being a word for word remake of it's predecessor, it definitely doesn't hold up to it.
#That70sShow #DaysLikeThese #UK #US #Show #Remake
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the difference with the British version is that it ACTUALLY looks like it was done in the 70s
It’s looks awful though it looks like it’s being shot on a shoddy video camera
Damn, fair point.
So, the only difference is that's its intentionally worse?
but the 70s in britain and the 70s in the US were completely different... the way it looked in the US is pretty accurate so is the british tho... they're accurate for the two different cultures
Karl O'Shaughnessy the style yes, the sets and costumes look good. But the cinematography the lighting, camera work etc all look outdated and hazy. At least with the original you could still watch it without it seeming aged out of time. Stranger things is another good example they still remain true to the set designs and costumes and you could still get a feel for the time with the cinematography and camera work looking good
Days Like These: “can i copy your homework?”
That 70s Show: “yeah just change it up a bit.”
"Mom can we have that 70's show tonight?"
"No we have that 70s show at home"
That 70s show at home:
I don't get this meme
@@lindseycassella3015 then do
@@lindseycassella3015 that's how i feel about most memes
This comment wins
The main surprise is the diffrence in production. The UK show looks like it was filmed through a potato.
They both but, but even shows that were filmed in the 70's had better production values, and if you set a show in the 40's you don't have to shoot it in black and white. The fact the UK version looks so much older than the US vesion baffles me.
The 70's show US version was recorded on 35mm film. 35mm film can be scan to 4k. The UK version was probably recorded on VHS which cannot be rescanned in HD
@@dexedge4645 ITV being cheapskates.
The difference in video quality is probably just a bad transfer from one region's digital recording to another's.
Same as most UK shows vs their american counterparts
I'm British and I can confirm this show had a terrible budget
I've worked in British television. Actually, I worked in British television at the time this was being made.
It actually had a budget that was above average for British TV at the time, because the American producers didn't realise that we spend far less on producing television than they do.
Hell, for the actors in the show, this was probably the biggest payday of their careers by some distance.
@@ChasingLamely I wonder if the show-makers deliberately tried to make it look dingy like a lot of British tv shows/films looked like back in the 70s (many ITV sitcoms at the time looked like that); it does have a similar screen-quality to other seventies British sitcoms. Either that, or the version Vee found was recorded off a American television network who used the original footage without changing it (there's a difference between British and American television footage, apparently).
@@jaydee4697 to the best of my knowledge, it didn't air in the US. Partially because it would've been redundant, partially because it thankfully never reached enough episodes for syndication.
I'm 99% certain that the quality is what's known as a "generation" issue. Someone has taped it off the telly onto VHS, then found it and digitised it later, then uploaded it, which means it lost quality at least three times.
As I said in another comment, this was pretty common in the old wrestling tape trading days. Anything beyond the third or fourth generation of recording would be rendered completely unwatchable because of it.
@ً no, I worked on a different show, but I remember this being discussed fairly regularly. The idea of a major American production company getting involved in British TV on that scale was big news. People were obviously hoping to get gigs if they kept doing it, because the money was rumoured to be almost double the normal going rate.
@@ChasingLamely Ah, fair point. I see what you mean; yeah, that makes way more sense.
that 90s show would have heroin circles rather than weed circles
That wouldn't work out well for a UK adaptation.
We were all about ecstacy in the 90s. Heroin didn't become a thing until the early 2000s.
@@burgersbeansandchips I'm not saying it wasn't here, it's been here since the first opiates were brought over in the 1800s. But it wasn't the in thing in England to the extent it was in the US in the 90s. We were doing rave drugs. X, LSD, etc.
ChasingLamely like every grunge singer from the 90s died from a heroin overdoses dumbass
AllPurposeWater People still smoked weed in the 90s.
Taj Pasquale Eddie Veder and Chris Cornel didn't, dumbass!
I'm British, a big fan of That 70s Show, a big fan of British comedy (especially the absurd stuff - Monty Python, Mighty Boosh etc.) and I remember the British Version like some hellish fever dream! It was God aweful! You didn't mention the terrible wigs! I think it was the wigs and the bad acting that really ruined it.
'Days Like These' looks like a video on a serial killer's television.
Why is the British version less passionate and lively.
No wonder it was cancelled.
Because it was based in Luton
Because, as Vee explained in the video, British comedy isn't based on the principle that you have to be big to be funny.
This is literally how British comedy works. You give them the words, they say them, there are laughs.
Not everything needs to look like a Cosmo Kramer room entry.
Euro acting in general is a bit toned down, compared to the u.s. Sometimes this is a good thing ...but clearly not in this example.
@@thebrettyouneed178 to be fair, had they actually let the writers - who are among Britain's best sitcom writers - actually adapt the show rather than just change the cultural references, it probably would've been okay. The 70s in Britain weren't the same as the 70s in the US in any regard. You guys had disco. We had punk. You had Ford. Things got so bad here that we thought Thatcher was an improvement.
A version of the show featuring something actually resembling the British 70s, rather than the American 70s with weird accents, could've been brilliant.
Also, we don't have bad British actors. We prove it at the Oscars every year 😂
No bad British actors? Not whilst Hollyoaks still exists 😂
General Rule: Most Remakes overseas don't work when the two countries speak the same language - Not just that 70s show, but the UK remake of "The Golden Girls" (Which was called "Brighton Belles" here) was bloody awful. Flip side,US attempts to remake Red Dwarf and The I.T Crowd were horrendous as well. The Office is a rare exception but largely because they rewrote so much of it and the UK series wasn't that long to begin with.
It's kind of interesting when you consider two of the more iconic American sitcoms "All In The Family" and "Sanford and Son" were remakes of two classic British sitcoms "Till Death Us Do Part" and "Steptoe and Son".
The US did a pretty good job with their version of Shameless
@@Elementa2006 "Three's company" was a pretty successful one as well.
Don't forget "On the Buses" too, they really ballsed that one up.
Same with Skins
I believe “That 90’s Show” ended up being called Trainspotting 😂
I would love to see a "That 90s show" I think now that A decade has passed since the last episode of that 70s show it would be fresh and New also That 70s show was made nearly 2 Decade's after the 70s ended so it would make sense to make a that 90s show around this time
that 90’s show is happening
@@isaiaharmand8841 you predicted it
Its crazy how horrible the quality of the video is from uk look like it was legit made in the 70s 😅🤣😅
It wasn't aired like that, but look how bad friends season 1 looks now
Maybe that was the point lol. I figured it since it was such a bomb the only copies of footage were poor.
TV reception in the 90s was fucking awful so most things recorded then look shit. It was better in the 80s strangely.
We also use a slightly different frame rate for TV recording
There's a big difference! That '70s Show in America had a studio audio format! Days Like These, or That '70s Show in the UK, had a monaural audio format, which was acceptable in the REAL '70s!
Ok, im a brit and I'd never heard of this
Well, don't feel bloody bad! Days Like These was no Monty Python! That's for bloody sure!
@@thisguyhere6641 im more of a mock the week/have i got news for you fan. That and Eddie izzard
@@benhramiak8781 Good one! #LOL
I'm from the UK and I'm a huge fan of That 70's Show. I've never heard of Days like these and it just goes to show that some shows shouldn't be remade, The US version of the inbetweeners also comes to mind.
Edit: I should of watched to the end of the video before commenting :D
@@aweigh1010 Nope definitely shouldn't
If ya told me the UK version was actually filmed in the 70s I'd believe you. Maybe that was what they was going for though?
Being British I saw this first and for the longest time I thought that 70’s show was the spinoff of our version
Lol 😂
Lmao
So I'm curious. Now that you know it isn't how do you compare the two?
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There was a that 90s show, it was called "saved by the bell"
Im pretty sure that 90s show was called "Friends"
Yeah, can I apologize for the entire UK. That was terrible. It's weird because the guys who adapted it for the UK, Jesse Armstrong
and Sam Bain both went on to have massive successes, with Peep Show here in the UK and most recently Jesse Armstrong creating and writing Succession for HBO.
They apologised for it too on an episode of charlie brookers screenwipe. It's been a bit since I watched the episode but gist I get is they still hadn't found their voices as writers and wrote this show to try and get more work as writers. They said it made them cringe looking back and it was god awful or something to that effect.
Oh man….Peep Show is the best. I can’t wait for the new season to air in the U.S.!
Once eric left it was lame. Why are they all at his house? The show revolves around him at his house.
Like rosanne minus rosanne. Wtf?
Agreed. Even though they seem to try to make it as if there was no main character it does revolve a lot around Eric and his house. That's why it's not so weird when he left but they're still at his house. Although in their defense they kind of slowly made it like the Formans accepted them all as family. They basically adopted Hyde into the home and even had Fez live there for a little bit so then staying around was kind of their way saying even though they aren't family they are still
@@stevenfriedman2902 yeah it was still good. Married with children is my fav but 70s is a close number 2.
I like a sitcom where i dont have to learn a life leason in the last 10 min.
They were all in Eric house because Hyde still lived there
The footage you have for the UK version looks like it was actually filmed in the 70s
The comparisons really make me appreciate the editing and camera work of the u.s. 70s show.
Another example is the UK version of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares which is more real and grounded, compared to the US version with the over the top reactions, music and editing.
As a brit - i never heard of this.
The best of 90s British comedy shows were (you should watch these)
- 'Spaced'
'Black Books',
'Father Ted', (that's an Irish one)
'Big Trains',
'The day today', (this has dated really bad, because it was making a satirical comment about the news, however, they are a lot of over the top comparisons in the real news)
Red Dwarf
Bottom
Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie
The New States Man, though that was 80s
Game on ( first seaon, after they replaced the main character and it didnt feel the same)
and of course absolutely fabulous
@Nathaniel Baxter it's funny how UA-cam's algorithm has been recommending a video of that scene recently, not that I'm complaining, certainly better than recommending these annoying outrage youtubers.
@@TheBadElf yeah it was good that, I overlook it for some reason, as it felt more comedy drama edge to it
I'm in the UK and I've never even heard of this, and I would have been their target audience, student, stoner and to skint to be out on Friday (went out on Saturday instead). Hell, me and my mates watched That 70's Show and this flew right past us. Had to wikipedia the show (and the entry is very small) to make sure it was a remake because it looks like it was made in the 70's. Either that or it's a copy of a copy of a copy
The quality of the UK version makes it looks like as if it was actually taken in the 70s
Heck yes! I asked you to cover this one. Absolute garbage.
It really was!
I was thinking about rewatching That 70’s show so this video was perfect timed.
Dude, I totally spaced that the star of That 80s Show was Dennis from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia!
Thank you for including Vicious in your UK shows montage. It is so fucking funny and had been all but forgotten 😔
I’m British and tbf I prefer the original version of That 70s Show rather than our own version. I didn’t even know this existed until a couple of months ago. But what made the original series so special imo was definitely the casting choices and how they delivered their lines, it just felt natural. Even though I understood more of the references from “Days Like These”, I always preferred “That 70s Show” because it’s really funny to watch, it’s easily re-watchable and it’s totally original
I watched all these episodes omg it was rough . Thanks for the awesome video Vee
Made to look like 70's TV in the UK by the looks of it, plus you have the whole PAL & NTSC differences
This show... IS absolutely *unforgivable!!*
One of my fav foreign adaptations of a show is the Bosnian Two and the Half Men for actually changing up the premise alot and having a good and consistant humour through the shows runtime.
I’m from the UK. I wasn’t even aware there was a UK version of this. The USA version was huge here. I grew up watching it at dinner time with my parents 🤣
I didn't know there was a British version and I'm from the UK, I'm still watching the american one lol
Caitlin McCann don’t watch the 8th season
Wait they changed it to a zephyr? So what happens later in the season when red gets all fucked up and sells the Vista cruiser and goes back to get it and says "its a Vista cruiser....you can literally cruuuisse the vistaaas"
A joke about the god of wind and feeling the wind on his scalp through the windows? idk
@@sarabeth641 lol
I doubt it got that far. :)
i pray that whenever that 90s show becomes a real thing, it continues the story of that 70's show
" You're gonna get pissed off anyway, who cares?!" 😂😂😂
Would like to see Vee comparing Shameless UK and US versions..
Or SKINS. Both series I prefer the UK version. When it’s set in the US it just feels off. Like the US one feels like a drama not a comedy but it’s the same script.
That's exactly what I was thinking about... Cause I've seen a few clips of the UK one and it looks WEIRD
Oh god i remember this show now, thanks Vee, thanks a lot 😤 also why in the hell did the quality of the show hit the floor? This crap actually looks like it was made in the 70s
I like your reference to the Big Train sketch clip you used. didn't think any yanks were aware of Simon Pegg before Hot Fuzz
You should really look at other UK adapted US shows that failed.
This vid was good!
can you do video on Malcolm in the middle that is if you ever did watch it LOL
What kind of video should he do on Malcolm in the middle?
@@connorlanker5952 on when Malcolm in the middle died even though the show was always entertaining from beginning to start or how few years later a certain show on ABC called the middle aired that was quote on quote not a copy
You know what?! That is NOT a bad idea, Vee Infuso! The Day Malcolm in the Middle Died!
@@thisguyhere6641 I don't think Malcolm in the middle really went downhill like a lot of other shows. I think the last season wasn't as good as the others but it wasn't like season 8 of that 70s show.
@@connorlanker5952 That's for sure.
I have to give you props, m'dude. Your dissection of the differences between British and American comedy hit the nail right on the head. Good job.
I watched days like these and really enjoyed it, but that was before I'd ever seen that 70s show which was obviously a lot better, but when I hadn't this was a good show
we did that with that 70s show , but y’all did that with skins
If you ever review "Grounded For Life" I feel like thats "that 90s show" to me.
"Grounded For Life" was very good.
@@SoftVinyl
He actually momentarily flashed the GFL title card thats during the recent Harriet Winslow video
You didn't even talk about how every character was perfectly casted I'm That 70s show
I've been watching all the videos on your channel for about a month now I absolutely love the wrestling videos. Keep up the good work.
Made a playlist of uk 70’s show and that 80’s show for bed lol 5-10 mins and I’m asleep😴😴😴 lol
The cringe is strong here. and I thank you for this. my wife loves T70sS this is going to end very badly
0:39 foreshadowing
It's not a comedy show but I'd love to see you compare the US and UK versions of Being Human
Vee infuso, we Need a vídeo on Arrested Development
I'm from the UK and never knew about this
I started watching it for a laugh, (before watching this video) I didn't expect I was gonna end up watching all of it and kind of enjoying it.
I wonder how many people realize the main star from *That '80s Show* was _Glenn Howerton_ aka _Dennis_ from *Its Always Sunny*
I must say, Americans are a lot more attractive than the Brits.
@@northnorth7585 lmao yall got fucked up teeth
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FearMe Pleasez lmao you got that right
In American sitcom everyone is a supermodel. In real they're all land whales.
@@dr_lubaba That just proves moreso how UK comedy is realistic, because the actors look just like all of us.
I watched this as it aired, years before I saw the American version.
Totally forgot Rosie Marcel was in it (she's now a lead character in a long running medical soap/drama)
Love to see a Married with Children episode
Same
I agree! Vee Infuso, do an episode on Married...with Children! "THE DAY MARRIED...WITH CHILDREN DIED!" #JustSaying
Mexico tried remaking married with children lol it was so stupid they copied the American version like the brits did lol
I’d love to see Vee do a video on that!
The acting was terrible in the UK version.
Nah just British acting
Even for British standards the acting was terrible
That 90s show does exist now
Wow, had no idea this existed and I'm British. Some really interesting points about the difference between US and UK TV. It really interesting to see just how many cross sea adaptations fail. Please do US fawlty towers. One thing I've always noticed about differences between US and UK shows is that so many US show depict aspirational rich people and familes , the American dream realisation etc dallas, dynasty, all the way up to Billions, and the modern aspirational shows, we have mundane working class kitchen sink drama like eastenders, coronation Street etc. Your detective's are hard boiled sexy gun wielding tough guys. We have 70 yr old pensioners in classic cars, touch of frost, miss Marple. I could not believe that shameless was adapted for US audiences , one of the most British shows ever. .keep up the great work.
I love that 70s show so much I have a tattoo of it (Not the UK show)
that's okay, there was an equally terrible US version of The Young Ones
Young Americans?
And also a terrible version of Blackpool lol
Watch That 70's Show - ???
Me and all my friends --- LIVED --- That 70's Show.
The American actors just deliver the lines so much better and the laugh track adds to the American comedy
You gotta do a “ The day community died”
Btw I don’t really think it “died” but we can all agree it gets worse after season 3
it's not over til we get the fucking movie.
Season 5 did not need to happen at alllll.
Why, they showed that 70s show on British TV
I think that if given a chanceThe show would have been all right. I mean more than just 13 episodes but that’s just me nothing beats the original. That 90s show has a lot to live up to.
Coupling UK also got a US version which is basically the same script as well.
So cringe. :(
As someone who has watched That 70's show millions of times holy copy paste. Besides a handful of clips I knew what was going on even without the audio. Off the top of my head the clips that stood out were the one with Kelso on the ground he just found out Jackie might be pregnant, the clip where jackie is standing behind Kelso, the band may have changed but Jackie's questioning why she wasn't invited to the Todd Runderman (Todd Rundgren) concert and finally the clip where red is shaking the table and complains about the uneven legs and Eric says to put sugar packets and red says something like "...that's why the worlds going to crap in a hand basket everyone wants their sugar packet method". Which is then followed by a scene at Donna's house where there kitchen table is wobbly and bob just tells midge to put some sugar packets underneath.
Thank you for making me realize I've watched this show WAAAAY too much
Imagine British Seinfeld lmao
We did that.
It was called The Office.
You're welcome.
ChasingLamely trash
@@JimmyJames10-k7v I'm aware The Office is trash. What's your point?
'That 90's Show' would just be "Freaks and Geeks" but that show is a better version of 'That 80's Show'
Bout to say that show took place in the 80s
what was funny about Kalso was that he sort of created modern video games when he hacked a pong console and made some major adjustments.
Bro he was 100% right about that 90s show
So weird that u uploaded this today cause i j discovered this show yesterday
We did have a show that was set in the 70s a bit later on. Life on mars
'Til Death Do Us Part gave us All in the Family; Steptoe and Son produced Sanford and Son; both of those shows' US producers understood your reasoning, Vee.
It’s weird when Britain makes remakes of US sitcoms, because our networks are filled with American shows. We just watch those. I had no idea this remake was a thing, until about 5 years ago.
Interestingly, Britain tends to remake American game shows with great success. The long running ‘University challenge’ is a remake of ‘College Bowl’.
Gervais and Merchant opted to not be “hands on” with any of The Office remakes (there’re many of them). As they didn’t know office culture outside the UK. When The US Office was established and a success, they then started directing episodes.
Merchant once said “we decided we would just licence the core idea, because we didn’t know how office culture works in France, America, Germany or Canada. For instance, in France. It’s customary for everyone in the office to share a bottle of wine at the end of the day. I didn’t know that until I saw the French remake. Ricky and I would never have written that in”
The American Shameless did the exact same thing from the UK Shameless for the first season.
This doesnt look like it had a normal budget. The main problem is growing up in the 70s in the UK would be so much different. I doubt there was any need to try to steal beer. It would have been readily available.
I'm from the UK and never heard of this ohh and bye the way Americans here been starling English shows for decades and vice versa WHOS THE BOSS for eg.....
Well if only knew.. that 90 show
I'm peed off because I didn't see this video before which I'm blaming on you Vee even though I didn't subscribe
I’ve seen a tf2 sfm of the “11” bit when I was younger and I always wondered where it was from
Great video
If you want to see a British-US cross adaptation that really didn't work, I'd recommend checking out Skins. The British version died at the end of Season 4. It got a decent 6-episode revival/catch-up miniseries after season 6.
The American version was made for MTV by a large group of people who didn't seem to have seen the show, but knew it involved teenagers and drugs.
Also, no, British TV didn't look like that in the 90s. The difference is that we used the PAL video format, not NTSC at the time, which always looked different anyway (thank fuck for digital) and then these episodes are obviously uploaded from VHS, because the show never saw a commercial release. So you've already got at least three generations of quality loss from the recording, digitisation and uploading.
It's like back in the day, when you'd trade wrestling tapes but yours was like the fifth generation of Japanese death matches and you weren't sure if you were watching Terry Funk or John Candy.
Another example of British-US adaption that didn't work would be the television show(s) "Coupling."
@@blindlobster that was mostly because Coupling started life as a successful Friends rip-off. So, when they tried to convert it back to American, they realised they were just making it a shit version of Friends.
Now, the American version of Spaced?
Frankly, it's a war crime.
@@ChasingLamely Coupling might be seen as a Friends rip-off but the British version (of Coupling) was a lot (trust me, a loooooot) edgier, naughty (I'm cringing while typing the word) and light-hearted. They were very separate in substance. The show "Coupling" couldn't be made today however the show "Friends" could.
@@blindlobster oh, I'm aware. I loved Coupling when it first aired, but if you watch it back now it's really, really obvious they literally saw the first season of Friends and just made a British late-night version of it.
Let's face it, Jeff is just Joey with a Welsh accent and dick jokes.
Oh that intro 0:36 is gonna be awkward since Netflix is making it now
I agree with almost 100%. Well done.
Just discovered your channel. Enjoyable critiques! I agreed with your view on why transfers from the US to the UK, and vice versa, often don't work. If you haven't discovered it already, the UK did a version of The Golden Girls with very highly regarded British actresses. It was called The Brighton Belles and it was horrific. Having said that, the US version of the brilliant IT Crowd was an example of how US TV comedy finds comedic subtlety impossible.
The writing was terrible in it too, there's a scene where they're somehow watching a Benny Hill Show from 1986 when the shows set in 1976......
I know I am late but it blows my mind there was a British version of "That 70's Show.".
Fresh off the Boat is that 90’s show
No lol
No way I'm pumped for this one....
You're right, there isn't a That 90s Show.... Yet ! 😆
His Alex Jones impression, alone, is enough to make me subscribe to the channel.
I'm not sure if that's how I'd categorise british comedy to american comedy but yeah your overall point is right. British and american humour doesnt work when directly translated to each other
Having dug out the first episode on UA-cam I can honestly say it looks like a American show trying to imitate 60s and 70s shows from the U.K. it looks nothing like shows of the era it was made in