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What's the best TV show ever made and why is it Better Call Saul?
The best TV comedy series was "Blackadder", named after the snake. It was made by your fellow Limeys. -Dave the Bloody Yank
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I liked breaking bad, but rewatching it is only meh.
Better Call Saul is great for multiple watchings.
Although I never got interested in it, it’s a sequel to “Breaking Bad.” One of the (literal) supporting characters in that show was a lawyer going by the alias of “Saul Goodman” (in one episode he tells someone he chose the name to attract clients who believed in the stereotype of Jews being smart lawyers), who handles cash transfers and keeps the main characters out of legal trouble.
Apparently the sequel shows “Saul” being available for other criminals needing legal assistance.
@allanrichardson1468 it's a lot more than that!
It's his story.
And his best lawyering was elder care.
Sometimes a name of a show relates to a strange, foreign concept, like "Friends"
Lol
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I'll be your friend!
Smelly cat!
Did no one tell you life was going to be this way?
New Mexico is * in the South, but it's not IN the South. South in the US isn't just geography it's also cultural.
But it is in the South West.
@@username65585 The Southwest is different from "The South." The former referers to the part of the US that originally belonged to Spain and then Mexico before the Mexican American War. The latter to the states that formed The Confederacy.
@@LazyCat010And Texass is somewhat in both!
When the region got it's name, it pretty much the whole south of the country.
@ We generally refer to the entire swath from California as the Sunbelt. Only the Southeast is referred to as the South, because of the cultural cohesion (except for South Florida, Atlanta, and large cities in other states) of the region, which actually extends quite far to the north, including Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia (was not part of the Confederacy, but is culturally Southern), and Virginia.
Slight gripe, but Ed and Al in Fullmetal Alchemist didn't get parts of them turned to metal. They lost parts of their bodies. Ed's arm and leg are prosthetics, and Al lost his entire body, so his spirit is bonded to a suit of armor, which is functionally also a prosthetic.
Also, state alchemists all have codenames in the show, and Ed's is Fullmetal. But he was given the name as a nod to his prosthetics. This often causes people to think Al is the alchemist, because he's the one that's all metal. Still a good video though!
Found the weeb.
Came here to say this. Fullmetal is Ed's title as a government sanctioned alchemist.
"The Wire" isn't about wiretapping, the name originally comes for the military term for the perimeter of a fort, base or FOB. In modern American parlance, those "outside the wire" are outside of the "safe area".
I think it refers to another kind of wire. Frequently, either professional law enforcement officers or criminals seeking a lighter sentence will go undercover with a recording device or radio transmitter going to a nearby van with recording devices and police officers listening. This is known in slang as “wearing a wire” and can get the person wearing it killed if caught. Hence the sense of danger in the title “The Wire.”
Oh. I was thinking it referred to the "news wire" which is the original way many associated press articles were distributed around the world to various newspapers.
@ Possible, but that doesn’t have a direct connection to law enforcement. The show is about catching drug dealers and other organized crime figures, which often requires undercover work.
Back in the old days, they would name TV shows after the actor who played the main characters. For example: The Andy Griffith Show.
Once in Doctor Who, Missy (Who was pretending to be the Doctor at that point) introduced herself as "Hi, I'm Doctor Who" and then later explained to The Doctor's companion (I think Clara?) that he used to call himself Doctor Who but dropped the "Who" part because it was too mysterious. This was almost certainly added after the show was named, but it's an interesting example of a character named after the show named after the character
He was always just Doctor Who. The change to The Doctor was more recent.
Bill, not Clara.
The Third Doctor had "Who" on his car's license plate, and I think he was listed as "Doctor Who" in the credits.
@ That doesn’t make it their name.
Several times, when he introduces himself as "The Doctor", he gets the response "Doctor who?" as they try to get a more specific name from him.
"Breaking bad" as a term must be regional, even in the South, as I've lived most of my life in it and never heard it except as the name of a tv show.
Vince Gilligan is from Virginia, perhaps it's a Virginian term
Calling New Mexico "the South" is like calling Wales part of "southern England."
Note The South in a US context refers to the southeast and not the southwest. South (people usually dont bother to say south east) vs South West. Two different political/historical/demographics based regions the borders of which are disputed.
Texas is arguably part of both, New Mexico is not a southern (ie southeastern) state.
As little sense as it makes, New Mexico technically isn’t in the south of the US /nm
Many people call that region the Sunbelt (also including the South proper).
What does "technically in the south" mean? If you draw a line through the center of the USA, California might be ambiguous, but New Mexico is definitely in the southern half.
@ He meant "the South" in the sense of the 11 former Confederate states.
Curb your enthusiasm also references a very common street sign that used to exist in a lot of places, especially New York City where Larry David is from. "Curb your dog" it's basically an instruction to dog walkers to please try and have your dog do his business at the edge of the street in the gutter instead of either in the middle of the sidewalk or the traffic lane. This was before we came up with the idea of having bins and bags available everywhere for people to clean up after their own dogs.
Well that's down to an American misspelling. The narrow part of public walkways where the pavement meets the road of the is more properly called the kerb.
A 1962 police procedural about the advance of technology derived from cops being in cars and communicating by radio combined these elements to be called Z Cars.
Two detectives were spun off into a show about chasing organised crime, based on the phrase "Softee Softee Catchee Monkey!" So a cop show had the weird title "Softly, Softly.'
Then the premise got changed slightly giving the cops a wider remit and an ability to go anywhere in the country. So the show's name was changed to the utterly bizarre "Softly, Softly: Task Force."
I feel like another thing to mention is that Arrested Development has more than one meaning which in a way also reflects the writing style of the show.
Like, a lot of the jokes come from misunderstandings due to sentences having more than one meaning.
Like, take the classic "There's always money in the banana stand". Which one character understands to mean that the insurance sum is comically large, so they light it on fire to collect the insurance money.
But, it was actually meant literally, as in, there was cash lined in the walls of the banana stand, so they actually lit the money on fire.
Full Metal Alchemist - they didn't have parts of their bodies turned to steel. The Alchemy requires 'equivalent exchange' - Alphohse's entire body and Edwards right arm were taken in exchange for the forbidden knowledge they received. Because Al's soul couldn't exist without a body, Ed then exchanged his left leg in order to bind it to a suit of armour. Ed then had custom prosthetics created to replace his arm and leg. These, as well as the armour now acting as Al's body are metal.
Ed is given the nickname "Full Metal Alchemist" when he used the forbidden knowledge to pass an exam to become a State Alchemist - essentially a member of an elite branch of the military. The brothers do not like or trust the military, but they need access to the research that they can only get if Ed is a State Alchemist.
There is also a running joke where people assume that Al is the Fill Metal Alchemist because Alan is, they assume wearing, a giant suit of armour, while Ed is a teenage, and l very small for his age - he doesn't look like he could be a legendary member of the military.
I was going to let that technically incorrect stuff about Fullmetal Alchemist go, but I'm glad someone got properly pedantic about it.
Minor minor correction. There's no space between Full and Metal, it's "Fullmetal Alchemist".
This is contrary to the show Full Metal Panic and the movie Full Metal Jacket, which are written with the space.
I was wondering about that because a recent episode of the Lateral podcast had a discussion of Peter Capaldi playing a character only called the WHO Doctor (World Health Organization) before playing the lead on Doctor Who, saying the character names were reversed. And I was like, I'm pretty sure the script never calls The Doctor "Doctor Who."
I was told that "Monty Python's playing circus" was called that because they wanted to name it something different every week, as part of the comedy sketch. The powers that be said they could not do that they had to have one name, so they chose the most absurd name they could think of....
It's "Flying", not Playing.
What a wonderful idea for a Name Explain! I loved this episode!
New Mexico is in the south, but it is not in the South. There is a difference.
"Soap" was just a placeholder name for Susan Harris' soap opera parody but she never came up with anything else
4:22 Correction: the experiment gone wrong (resurrection of the dead) took away the older brother's arm and leg and the younger brother's entire body, which were replaced by metal prosthetics and a suit of armor, respectively.
The extra funny thing about "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," is that Philly is a fairly cloudy and rainy city. We see about 205 days with sone sunshine each year but the average sunshine per day is only about 5 hours putting us in the same tier of cloudy gloom as London, Seattle, or Vancouver. We just get more snow and fog than rain.
Also lots of muggy drizzle in the summer that makes the sewer stink really permiate the air in a way that kinda smells like home, but is often described as gross by outsiders.
Actually, according to Missy (a regeneration of the Master) in the newer Doctor Who show (which you also used frames from), his name *is* actually "Doctor Who". It's not his birth name, but - just like he chose the "Doctor" part - he chose the "Who" part of his name.
TBF, tho: We can't know gor sure if Missy was lying, but at least it's possible gor "Doctor Who" to be his actual canon name.
As someone who lives in Pennsylvania...I can tell you it is definitely not always Sunny, in fact we have some of the fewest sunny days per year.
So true about the last 15 years. When I was a kid, being on TV was seen as a big step down from being a movie star. Nowadays, the streaming world basically has elevated the expectations, quadrupled the demand, skyrocket the available budget, and as a result, the overall quality of "TV programming". I'd say ever since 2017-2018, it's all too common to see current, active A-listers in all kinds of big budget or high profile shows and it's perfectly normal and at times, better than what we were used to seeing on the big screen 20 years ago.
holy shit i did not expect him to namedrop Marvelous Mrs. Maisel right when i’m in the middle of watching it, Patrick has amazing taste
It's a great show, hope you're enjoying it!
Something I'm shocked was not discussed in the Fullmetal Alchemist name meaning is that the original doesn't call him "fullmetal". In Japanese, both Ed and the series are known as the Steel Alchemist.
The title fullmetal was a translation choice to give it more flair, and also relate it to war, which is an integral theme of the series. The term Full Metal Jacket is a type of ammunition where a softer metal is covered by a harder one.
My favorite one of those shows is Doctor Who as its my favorite show of all time.
If you've heard some of the stories about naming Monty Python's Flying Circus, then you know that one of the titles that was thrown around was "Owl Stretching Time", which would have been another ridiculous name!
Also, as an Oklahoman, I kind of knew what the phrase "breaking bad" meant, but I wouldn't say it's commonly used around here, unless of course you're talking specifically about the show!
the anime fruits basket has a pretty strange title especially if you dont know the meaning of the phrase itself. it comes from the name of a japanese version of duck duck goose but instead they use ingredients for a fruit basket/fruit salad and if you arent called a fruit (like instead they call you an onion) you dont get picked because you are the odd one out. the title also references the feeling of being treated differently because society has rejected you but to also appreciate your flaws.
Fullmetal Alchemist is named after a character. Ed is referred to as "The Fullmetal Alchemist" throughout.
Seems like this one needed a lot more research. So much wrong.
I always assumed the name "Full Metal Alchemist" was also an homage of some sort to the war movie "Full Metal Jacket" but I haven't seen it to see if there are any parallels there
5:12 The a-Ha song is actually "The Sun Always Shines on T.V." Thanks, didn't know that's the origin.
Strictly Come Dancing is a quite stupid name when you think about it but people have just got used to it.
Yes, it only makes sense if you’re aware of the classic British TV show Come Dancing and the Baz Luhrmann film Strictly Ballroom. I guess it was meant to imply, “We’re bringing back ballroom, but edgier”.
“New Mexico is in the south”. Actually geographically in the US, New Mexico is part of the Southwest region or “west”. Vince Gilligan is from “the South” cultural region, specifically Virginia which extends as far west to Texas(ish). Breaking Bad is a southern expression meaning “raise hell”. But other than that, Breaking Bad is a western geographically and thematically speaking.
Westworld really strayed off its name. Towards the end they weren't even in the park!
A show that really intrigued me was a British show called Scrotal Recall. It got renamed through its run to Lovesick.
You could make a sequel of this: books into movie adaptations that change ([into] their sometimes weird title)
You got the flying circus picture right but not the story. The colourful planes were a German WWI fighter group, led by Manfred von Richthofen aka the Red Baron.
8:53 surprise ypu don’t know Arrested Development was also the name of an ill-forgotten Afrofunk band, and the show wryly riffs on it
What about popular British sitcoms like Only Fools and Horses, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em & It Ain't Half Hot Mum?
All with a very obtuse relation at best to the premise of each show.
On the title of “The Last of Us”. I always took “Us” to have a double meaning. Us is used in meaning humanity. But because the game intentionally is inspired by Americana & primarily set in America, I figure “Us” is also meant to be “U.S.” as in “The Last of the United States” or “The Last Americans”.
The only ones of these I ever saw at least an episode are Monty Python's Flying Circus and Doctor Who.
I was hoping you’d explain Last of the Summer Wine.
Marilyn(d). Not Mary Land. The d is optional, but subtle if you say it at all.
4:09 please no not show that image ever again
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New Mexico is NOT "the South", homie.
And Canada and Greenland should not be part of the US, but here we are 😛
this video is amazing i now know why the shows have weird names
U didn’t even finish it yet, it’s only been up for 5 minutes 💀
4:09
One of the most painful moments in all of fiction
The Fullmetal Alchemist one isn't right, and your description of the events isn't really either, but that would be spoilers.
"The Fullmetal Alchemist" is a title bestowed on the main character. All State Alchemists, a military group the character joins, are given unique codenames. His in particular is seen as a bit of a joke since he is the smaller one with easilier concealed robotic limbs while his brother is bound to the large suit of armor.
Honorable Mention: Peep Show!
David Mitchell even has a video on UA-cam where he talks about how that name isn't really accurate/doesn't really mean anything, but names really just have to reflect "the thing something is called" to work.
@erraticonteuse really? That's somewhat surprising, as I thought it referred to the rather unique 1st-person perspectives the show uses...we're "peeping" into their heads!
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia was originally It's Always Sunny in LA... Not sure why they changed it to Philadelphia- everything is generic enough that it could be any city, and literally no one on the show has a Philly accent.
In Netherlands there are probably some shows films or tv programs. The only one i can imagine is Draadstaal a comedy show or program. It literally means Tread/ Wire/ String steel.
One of the best comedies of the 90s was 'Drop The Dead Donkey'. A lot of people were and are still convinced it has a meaning relating to some aspect of TV production. In reality, the creator Andy Hamilton just picked it because of its absurdity.
It's about newspapers, not television. I was baffled by it as a kid but apparently it's a reference to an edict from an editor to abandon a mundane article just before press time because a more interesting story has recently come in.
The best TV comedy series was "Blackadder", named after the snake. It was made by your fellow Limeys. -Dave the Bloody Yank
Blackadder is also a Scottish surname.
Are you really surprised Dr. Who is so low? The last several seasons have been preachy garbage.
They really haven’t.
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Wait...HE'S NOT ACTUALLY CALLED DR. WHO???
They never were.