Americans Watching British TV: Keeping Up Appearances
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Ever wondered what Americans think of British TV. Well, nothing really as they've never seen most of it. But what if they did? In Americans Watching British TV Matt Thomas shows a bunch of unsuspecting Americans a British TV show and asks them what they think.
Aww come on, Keeping Up Appearances is hilarious. A classic. And yep, I'm an American.
exactly, I've been watching it for years!!! A classic!
+riogotti79 I'm Argentinian, English isn't even my native language, and I've LMAO with KUA for years.
+Laurie Eno this is one of my favourite tv shows of all time,everything about it is funny
+Laurie Eno As a Brit I can't stand this show!
Lerkio as a Belgian living in France i loooooooove it
i'm american and i started watching this when i was 9 and i always understood the dialogue and plotlines. also the dog doesn't only stay in the car, she is sometimes seen around the house and onslow takes her in the car in one episode. and she isn't a main gag in the show, the real gag is more the fact that hyacinth doesn't like dogs in general but pretends to when she is around upper class people who have dogs
Watched Keeping Up Appearances for years on Alabama's PBS station. That show is comfort food.
exactly that!
STRANGE, STRANGE!!! KUA makes me vomitously ill@@chibaz8882
How can anyone not love Keeping Up Appearances? I am an American and I love my British comedies. I have been a fan since the early 90's. My collection includes My Hero, Father Ted, Vicar of Dibley, Waiting For God, A Fine Romance, Butterflies, Fools and Horses and so much more. When it comes to comedy the Brits have it going on. Hyacinth is my favorite though.
I watched Father Ted, a few days ago. As well as on the nineties. One of my favourite of all time comedy shows. My other favourite one's are - Royle Family, Trigger Happy TV, Friday Night Dinner, Keeping Up Appearances, IT Crowd, Two Doors Down, One Foot In The Grave, Open All Hours. I just absolutely love dry humour, or sarcastic humour. 😊
(Father Ted is Irish)
Personally I am embarrassed to be speaking any semblance of the English language here in the US. Thank God we have our 2nd Amendment protections here in this country!! But poor Richard does not. SAD!!!
Hey, I'm American and I love "Keeping Up Appearances". AETN (Arkansas branch of PBS) has shown episodes of it for years. It always makes me chuckle.
Thank god for that! The viewers here just DIDN'T GET IT!
I LOVE THIS SHOW, I LAUGH SO HARD MY STOMACH HURTS, AND YES, I AM AMERICAN!!!
Cool. 😊
Well I can relate to stomach issues when watching KUA. In other words I get nauseous. I guess I have to admit you Brits are sometimes rather stout and sturdy!
No offence but can you show this to Americans who aren't all young, upwardly mobile college graduates? They just seem so clueless
Amen! That guy couldn't even understand the accent or follow the basic story. I wanted to slap him. He probably finds Dane Cook funny.
+Krzystof Citrus But no one else matters! ( wink )
the young guy is a complete idiot. not a confusing show at all.
+Krzystof Citrus
I agree with you on this. I'm in my upper 20s, post college and hopefully still upwardly mobile but I find this show to be very funny.
Honestly, this is one of my favorite shows of all time
+dave h I thought that but then he WAS the only one who liked it AND he liked Onslow! I love all Jeffry Hughes characters,Onslow,Twiggy and Eddie Yates,he was such a brilliant comedy actor and a great loss to us,may he RIP!
This was somewhat frustrating to watch. I love the show.
That dog barks everytime, in every show, she visits her sister Daisy. It's a running gag. Americans should know what that is.... ;-)
Jeroen Stobbe You'd assume they would get that it was a joke and not try to turn it into a PSA for leaving dogs in cars...
And the dog always seems to bark mostly at Hyacinth, never when Richard walked by. It was a running joke. It seemed to get lost on this group. I guess they just did not realize Hyacinth's personality and disposition.
I'm American and had no problem even as a teen understanding their dialogue....
I'm 33 now by the way and watched it on PBS when I was in high school
+Jeremy Doe I think the guy was either deliberately misunderstanding stuff or he's an idiot.
+The Batman The guy is an idiot AND was deliberately misunderstanding the program because he is also a sneering asshole.
+Matthew Brick Yep. That's how I saw it. I'm 44 and I've loved British television for as long as I can remember. WAY more than 3 shows, too.
+The Batman jajaaa! if he's not an idiot, that was a really good acting !
They don't have our class system. Or it's context in the 90s. They probably interpreted Patricia Routledge's bang-on performance as a working class tory desperately trying to "pass" for something she's not, as just a a "posh English woman having trouble".
+cx1735 And in America they tolerate aspiration, and even find it noble and decent (hence feeling sorry for her), while in Britain we see it as pretentious and risible.
+cx1735 agreed they dont have OUR class system, or the deep roots it carries. But i think its always crazy and ridiculous when the US claim they dont have a class system at all...
+cx1735 This video looks like all an act to me. I think a lot of (maybe just more mature? older?) Americans love Keeping Up Appearances for what it is - a well-written comedy of manners. And unlike, say, some other UK-grown programs rerun here over the years, we get the dialogue (without straining to understand the dialect or quite grasping the context)! As for the class thing, I never fully understood the differences between the U.S. and our former colonial "parent," but your system sure has led to some great comedy. P.S. In the U.S. the word "posh" was never quite used as you use it over there, but recently it seems the British use (to describe what we would call "rich" or wealthy) is becoming much more common.
+70sleftover Yep, you've definitely got it. Except for "posh", that's something to do with class, rather than money. For example, Wayne Rooney has a lot of money, nice cars and a swanky house, but he's definitely not posh, because he has a thick working class accent and has little in the way of panache or style. Keira Knighley would be considered "posh", because she has grace and a Home Counties accent.
+leopold When ships sailed from Liverpool to India the very rich enjoyed the Port side Out and the Starboard Home because they got the sunny side both ways. Crew marked their luggage with P.O.S.H.
British humour at it's best!! Will never forget sitting down with the family every Sunday in the 90's to watch this. We loved it as did most Brits…..I guess our humour/comedy can be missinterpreted if you aren't fully aware of British culture/social class etc. And can you stop banging on about the damn dog!!! He's part of the act and very well looked after I'm sure.
I swear, I never ever expected to get addicted to watching this show as a kid. I've always wondered how did Richard not drop dead from some kind of...heart thing having to wake up to that every day...
I have got all the episodes on DVD. Love watching them when I am having a bad day. Always cheers me up!
Keeping Up Appearances has been popular in the United States for more than 20 years and has been airing on broadcast television in every media market pretty much nonstop the entire time. The entire series has been released on DVD more than once in the U.S. with good sales. "never heard of it"? You're a bit uninformed.
I'm not going to lie, this is one of my favorite old shows! Watch them all on Netflix!
"Keeping Up Appearances" is hugely popular in the U.S. It has a cult following and has played on PBS for more than 20 years. These arrogant young people are idiots, and whats more, live under a rock if they have never heard of the series. They are not representative of Americans, either in their narrow ideas or their level enthusiasm for the series.
Matthew Brick Can you believe how sad you sound right now....
@Sideways Rain youre right. didnt mean "Sad". i just thought what he said was over the top
I don't know who posted this under my name but it wasn't me.....WTH...?????.....I didn't even find this show til a few months ago.....WTH is going on?????
betty cogswell Huh ?
@@bettycogswell9851 what?
British humour - self-deprecation
American humour - being a wise-ass
+Mark Oglesby Spot-on. So much US comedy seems to be based around unbearable, snarky sarcasm. I always preferred our stuff - desperate no-hopers just trying to survive (Reggie Perrin, Steptoe & Son, Bottom, etc).
+Bigyeti Technologies Yanks aren't even good at sarcasm. I think they also tend to over act a bit, they tell jokes in a way that is saying "look at me i'm telling a joke".
+Bigyeti Technologies Best Analysis Ever
+Bigyeti Technologies That's pretty true in general. Most American comedy leads are just a walking bag of one liners.
But then you get shows like the Simpsons, South Park and Louie where the main characters do have flaws and the characters satirise not only themselves but America as a whole too.
We also have the smartarse characters too.
Johnny Torpedo Yeah, this I don't understand. The cartoon sit-coms such as the products of Groening and MacFarlane are excellent and have no laughter track,
The guy here needs to have his ears syringed. Seemed to be struggling to keep up with basic dialog.
You could syringe his whole brain and still think he had blocked ears. There's just nothing going on upstairs.
Fete Fatale just wow - so perfctly put. Hahahaha
that guy in the black shirt has absolutely no sense of humor, omg us brits are pure splitting our sides and they're sitting trying to work out what is funny...
Dialogue. Learn to spell
@@jimmymalone9139 depends what part of the world you’re from. Learn to not be so ignorant.
They watched the show and all the got was a dog?
+maria cummings The dog only barked at Hyacinth and it was the dog's home with the windows down. I loved that bit!
I've watched every episode!!! I think people need to watch more than these few little snippets to really understand and enjoy this show...its truly hilarious!!!
British sitcoms & sketch-shows are the best in the world) it's a shame that everybody knows Mr.Bean but not such classics as Keeping Up Appearances or One Foot In The Grave
greetings from Ukraine
nice one alexan
Mr Bean...uurgh! Not one of Rowan Atkinson's best. He was much funnier in Blackadder.
yeah but the yanks love Bean which is odd
and these three guys evaluating the show represent the whole spectrum of american audience ? I lived in Los Angeles 20 years, and watched every saturday this show on PBS, I LOVED IT, loved the characters, the humor, so did lots of americans.. ..sorry you only knew these three kids to help you do your video. They don't represent my diverse and rich group of friends in US that adored this show, and so many other british shows. I watched Sherlock, Absolute Fabulous, Downton Abbey, the drama The Forsythe Saga, As Time Goes By, Spooks, Luther, Miranda, etc etc, all in the US...and used to comment episodes with my american friends who were very fond of british shows...so back to the "actors" in this video, I think they represent only a group of audience...a very dumb audience....sorry if these are your friends, time to explore other venues...
ab fab was great realy miss it
Gabriela Lopetegui well your group of friends doesn’t represent americans in general either, so... but they closer..
This was shown on PBS in the USA and found a (relatively for PBS) large and enthusiastic audience. But it's for older people rather than twenty-somethings.
Eh I watched it in my house growing up and still have a fondness for it. I'm 32 now. Patricia Routledge is a comedy legend. Recommend checking out the opera sketch she did on stage and possibly KItty, written by Victoria Wood, although I've shown it to non-Brits and they didn't get it.
I am American and have been watching British comedies for years on Public Television stations out of Boston and Providence. Keeping Up Appearances is one of my favorites - Richard had the patience of a saint! I also loved Are You Being Served, Mr Bean, The Vicar of Dibley, Waiting For God, and of course, Monty Python and The Benny Hill Show.
The dog used to sit on Onslow's lap in front of the telly. The car is like his doghouse. The comedy in the dog barking only at Hyacinth = she never learns to expect that he will be there & that he will bark at her. Daisy & long suffering Elizabeth are my favorite characters. I find "Daddy" & "Rose" to be questionable characters at times.
So somehow the comedy derived from Hyacinth's inability to evolve?! How do we know Roy Clarke and his writers were simply too lazy to write more creatively because they were too busy going round the corner for another pint? But it would seem counter -aspiration is very British. It explains why Maggie was so out of step with the country she had the misfortune to lead.
Neat - more please! :) The Royle Family? Blackadder? I'm sure more will come into my head the second I press 'post'
The Royle Family. Of course! Hadn't thought of that one.
Matthew Thomas More suggestions.... Goodness Gracious Me? Drop the dead donkey?
You did put only fools in there 😰
+Jessica English Last of the summer wine(Three old guys cause mayhem as they grow old disgracefully), Open All Hours(Miserly shopkeeper & his put upon nephew) The Fast Show(Brilliant character sketches) To appreciate a lot of British humour you need to know about our class system & how they interact.
Bottom and The Young Ones, would love to see this. One Foot in the Grave, and Red Dwarf too! I have to introduce these programmes to Tennesse soon lol
Keeping Up Appearances is far too advanced for them I suppose ;) lol
I love this show I started watching them on KlRN. I was born in the USA and I understand the show. Its about a middle class family that leaves a good life in a nice neighborhood Hyacinth has poor relatives that leave in a poor neighborhood. Hyacinth tries to keep up appreances to be a high class lady with lots of money. There is lots of Hyacinth everywhere .Mrs. Patricia Rudledge is a great artist.
Well I live in Canada and have my entire life. I religiously watched Keeping Up Appearances as a kid, it came on Monday to Thurs nights on PBS right after Are You Being Served?(another favorite of mine btw).
Friday nights would have Red Dwarf and Chef!. I watched those all the time as well.
But I guess I have to blame my mother for it, since she is 1/2 British (he mother was British) and that makes me 1/4 British.
I do have a slight accent from what I have been told by people when I say certain words (as my mother has a slight accent all the time).
Weirdly, I'd say the American version is Frasier, where Frasier and Niles are the pretentious, upper class Hyacinth and Martin is the working class Daisy/Onslow.
To understand this show..you must watch episode one and get to know the characters. I LOVE this show. These people only saw bits and pieces and they're kinda young to get the humor.
I could watch Americans being bemused by old British sitcoms all day. Please make more of these.
Yeah.... this is a GREAT show that I've loved for years ! ~~ Showing it to three of the most clueless young twits is a waste of time.
Watched reruns on public tv for over 20+ years. Loved it from the start. Social class satire/comedy at its best. As an actress Patricia Rutledge is supreme bar none. Your choice of american viewers must have been reared in a bubble of obliviousness. It appeared only the middle one could understand spoken English. Possibly spending too much time gaming instead of sharpening communication skills, like listening to other peoples speech patterns? Curious to observe their response to the Vicar of Dibley. lol Oh yeah, the dog who lives in the broken down car IS hilarious. lmao
If you haven't seen this before, I don't think you can base your opinions on just one episode. You have to fully watch the whole series to appreciate this gem.
Keeping up Appearances is My Favorite 🎉
There are a lot of Americans who have heard of this show and love it. It comes on every Saturday morning with other British comedies. There is a huge following here for those kind of shows. Also unlike what a former poster had said its popular with younger people to. I am 34 and have been watching it since I was 17 or 18. I am also a huge fan of Are you being Served,Last of the summer wine, Mrs Browns boys and so on.
I love watching Mrs Brown's Boys. So funny.
Please! This show is hilarious! We "discovered" it during the OJ chase in the Bronco on live TV. Maybe because we're more British than anything from our heritage but we love it and watch it whenever we can. I think also, like everything else, when you can identify with the characters and know people in your life that are like the characters you will find it much more entertaining.
I haven't seen many UK shows, but KUA is my favourite. And I am from Latvia.
P.S. Brown eyed girl was the smartest one of three. It's obvious.
Well I'm American, from Maryland, and I have been watching Keeping Up Appearances, Are You Being Served, and many other British television shows since I was a teenager. I love them!
love this show. and all you Brits. your humor is superb. and may grammar apparently sucks.
Okay, wait. So, there's like, six friends? And sometimes they go for a coffee? But not always together?
Wrong audience! I've been watching this since they used to air it on PBS here in America, and I absolutely love it! Hyacinth is a comedic genius!
I am mexican/american and I love this show its hiliarious. Love onslow & his wife.
American here. When I was a kid, the local PBS station would have a weekly “Britcom” night and this was one of my favorite shows. They would also play Are You Being Served?, Mr. Bean, Blackadder, Vicar of Dibley, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers and several more.
I'm American and have watched "Keeping Up Appearances" on PBS a thousand times and love it. Alot of other Americans will tell you the same.
Yeah, I'm American and can say the same.
Note to self: Never to watch a Mission Impossible movie with Derek.
Yeah, that's the best way to take in a programme for the first time: on your tiny laptop screen with tinny speakers.
trip2themoon tiny? Lol it's big... Even a phone wouldn't make any diffrerence if they can see...
For information - The shows ran for 5 series from 1990 to 1995 and ended when the actress who played Hyacinth didn't want to do any more shows..
"In America she (Hyacinth) would be in jail, or something bad would have happened to her." WTF!?? I´m sorry, but this doesn´t help how the rest of the world see americans. And that guy....no words! Oh, and the comment on how it´s not funny when the same thing happens over and over again (the dog)- how about "NOOOOOORM," the same greeting over and over again on the american show Cheers. I bet there are numerous shows that have the same concept.
Oh come on now! Am I the only male on earth who wishes that Richard, or Emmett, or even the Vicar would give that bitch a good swift, LITERAL kick in the "c"?!?! I understand you can use that "c" word in Britain without causing nearly as much offense as in the US. But then again maybe they don't like to hear it from a cheeky yank. Just goes to show how far apart British and US sentiments have drifted apart.
And yet, Dame Routledge is doing something that successive quasi-left-liberal US administrations (quasi-left-liberal by US standards, anyway) have been unable to do,ie, move US politics substantially to the LEFT!!! (again, left by American standards). And to think all it took was a despicable, crass reactionary woman, allegedly human. But, one thing still puzzles me and that is, by what stretch of the imagination can the British imagine this to be comedy!?!? Oscar Hammerstein the 2nd really got it so right when composing those lyrics to the immortal SOUTH PACIFIC. "There is nothing you can name that is anything like a DAME!!!"
Well then, maybe it is for the best that Britain comes to grips with the fact that the US is far too uncivilized/uncivilised to .ever be taken seriously as the UK'S ally ever again. Even when things go awry in Hyacinth's world she never gets a good swift kick in the "c" (insidey parts).. Are you getting some idea now of just how uncivilized/uncivilised we in the US are. I'm sorry if this offends but please understand I mean a literal KICK. Even if Hyacinth were my gran, or mom, or an otherwise favorite aunt she would be in a world of hurt between her legs. Please inform your mp that the US should no longer be a member of NATO, and on the positive side for the UK, you won't get involved with any more of our major BLUNDERS in the mid-east. It will work to the benefit of both our nations, I hope you understand. Cheers!
But, from the US side of the pond maybe that's precisely the point! I'm sorry if you don't like to hear it but in a nation with 2nd Amendment guarantees, Hyacinth 'Bukay' would likely be in constant physical danger and further more, Dame Routledge would no doubt have to have her own security detail for the rest of her life. Now, if this is too uncivilized/uncivilised for you to deal with, I suggest you appeal to your local mp to have the US ejected from NATO, and all other security agreements, seriously. If this should actually ever occur, it can be said that Dame Routledge has had a far greater influence on geopolitics than Baroness Thatcher ever could have imagined in her time, and that's no mean accomplishment. (and it will keep the UK from any further BLUNDERS in the Middle East, at the request/behest of dubious US leadership. It could work well for all us!). And all of this is in keeping with the Spirit of 1776 that we celebrate for the the 248th time on this very day!
Or, AM I MISSING SOMETHING???
I must be a unique american. I grew up in the 80's - 90's and I love British TV at least what we could get here in the US. I grew up in New Jersey by the shore. I watched Keeping Up Appearances, Are You Being Served? and the spin off Grace and Favour or Are you Being Served? Again! The Black Adder, Faulty Towers, The Good Neighbors, Doctor Who (The Original Series), Absolutely Fabulous, Last Of The Summer Wine, The Vicar of Dibley (love that one), and many more. I've always thought British TV is better than the rubbish they broadcast here in the USA.
+Dan Apollo And Monty Python!
Me too! Don't forget father ted and vicar of Dibley!
I'm American too and you guys listed nearly half of my favorite shows!
Keeping Up Appearances in the US wouldn't need to go to the Midwest - Massachusetts, New York or New Jersey would fit fine. You just have to remember that Richard and Hyacinth live in a upper middle class neighbourhood while Onslow, Daisy and Daddy show where Hyacinth originally came from.
you got it francis bang on
This magnificent show just embodies what really makes a good sitcom work: extensive characterization and development, strong plotlines, and a healthy serving of zingers and one-liners. Some of the tropes do tire, admittedly, like the blonde bimbo, but overall, very entertaining program whose emphasis lies in the frugality of its humor, not in overzealous special effects.
Well said, Brett. Well said. (And a brain cell was born) 😘
Here in America it aired on PBS which was BBC and as for myself and others I know, we loved it! Some of us bought VCR tapes of the shows. But it was a little bit older people than what was seen here judging it.
British comedy is awesome
We all loved this show in Poland! It was always played on Saturday afternoon. Hyacinth is the best!
I'm an American and I LOVED watching "EastEnders", "Coronation Street", "Casualty" and "Are You Being Served?". The shows air on our Public Broadcast channel (we didn't have cable in our house, so I had to watch something)...
Oh, and Hyacinth Bucket from "Keeping Up Appearances" with her white, slimline telephone who kept getting calls from the Chinese take-away... LOL
I've been watching Keeping Up Appearances for years. I'm also a fan of Blake's Seven, Eastenders and Are You Being Served.
If Derek wasn't so think and the girls didn't have to explain EVERYTHING to him they all might have enjoyed it more.
They don't get the whole concept of this comedy.. Britain still to this day has a social class system this show is basically a mockery of that.. Been watching it since I was a kid in the 90's still love it
I love british TV. "Keeping up Appearances " is much like life in an upper middle class neighborhood in the 50's abd 60's. If you had relatives that lived in slums you visited them. They seldom if ever came to your house. Ladies dressed up to go to church, doctors, downtown, even to the grocery store and hair salon. You showered in the AM, creamed, powdered and made your face presentable, styled your hair, made sure your shoes were clean and accessorized with a pin, broache, bracelet or small necklace and of course colonge. Most women wore dresses, slips and girdles. My, we have changed. I'm not sure it is for the better.
Hey I Am a youngster American who loves keeping up appearances!!!!
I'm an American and KUA was always my favorite show. I'd been watching it since 1995 and I totally "got" the humor of the show. You do have to watch several episodes in order to understand what the characters are all about, then you'll get humor of it.
let them react to It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Are You Being Served?, Fawlty Towers. Allo Allo, Dad's Army, A little bit of Fry and Laurie
Allo Allo is one of my favorites I got the entire series on dvd
I always thought this was one of the more well known and well loved britcoms in the United States. Started watching Keeping up Appearances and other pbs aired British comedies in the 90s when I was around age 5 only to stop when our local station quit airing them. Of course I eventually bought the dvds. 😂 Probably my 3rd favorite behind Are You Being Served? and Waiting for God. Shocked at how they couldn’t understand or enjoy much of the humor.
These 3 I donno. I think if they would watch all the episodes they would understand it better. I'm American and this show cracks me up, I love it. I could watch it over and over.
The dog barking isn't funny no, it's when Hyacinth jumps and falls into a bush every time.
One things the Americans wouldn't understand it that the writer never visits the set, Roy Clarke posts the scripts in and the director and the actors do the rest, he is also the writer of the UK longest running comedy that ran for over 30 years , all written by one man..
American here. I've watched this show for years on PBS. I love it. You have to think of this show as slap stick humor with a running theme of a snobbish woman who wants to better herself and her social position but is shown by people and her environment that she is no better than anyone else. Americans may not understand the importance of some British people on social position and traditions.
No way! I'm American and I grew up watching this show! I love it
It’s also funny how she tries to hide Onslo but he ends up being popular with the upper class people she tries to impress. Favorite one is when The high class lady Mrs. Fortisque ends up playing darts with Onslo and the Pub while Hyacinth is outside getting stuck on a truck with her skirt flying up.
She was also in a series about a detective- had a completely different personality and starred with Dominic Monaghan of Lost and Lord of the Rings fame. The Heighty Wainthroup mysteries
Liz nailed it, we do want Hyacinth to succeed, somewhat. If I were to have dinner with any character, I would be remiss if I were to miss one of Hyacinth's candlelit suppers.
Apart from the fact that Hyacinth might talk a bit too much, about her daughter who a huge swimming pool, and room for two ponies. 😄
But, frankly I wouldn't go around saying that because you might be singlehandedly sabotaging what little chance we have in the US for ever having universal healthcare. And that shouldn't be so difficult for a person with only British intelligence to understand. In other words, on the US side of the pond reactionaries will read your comments and get the idea that the NHS must be no damn good if it doesn't afford the public better psychiatric help than what you apparently need. I wish this were a joke, but sadly it's not!. This hopefully shows just how much the US and UK have grown apart. Cheers. Also, was there ever such a thing as "British Intelligence"? I thought it was all about operatives having same sex lovers and sharing our secrets with the Soviets.
I grew up watching this show. So this throws me back.
I was on holiday in Florida a couple of months ago and I actually came across an episode of Keeping Up Appearances while flicking through channels on the TV in my hotel room.
Please let them watch league of gentlemen
I’m American and my entire family grew up watching this show in the 90s. We both understood it and loved it! And honestly this show has never stopped airing on PBS since the 90s, it’s hugely popular nation wide. I genuinely don’t get why these people can’t understand what’s going on. 😂 My grandpa grew up in Alabama in the 1930s which is quite culturally different and yet he could understand everything about this show and thought it was hilarious!
Keeping Up Appearances is already broadcast here in the USA, and has been for about 25 years! Someone didn't do their research properly.
The barking dog wasn't the joke, the joke was she keeps forgetting her family keep the dog in the car and she flings herself back into a bush and is mortified that she's even there.
Plus dogs in cars die, well duh, it's a TV programme any of those actors like most of the UK would be mortified and angry if they knew someone was keeping a dog in a car.
Americans love Keeping Up Appearances it is the most sold show by the BBC at a staggering 992 times to multiple countries including America It is one of the most popular British Comedy's in the States get your facts right.
we have this show over here on PBS. If you think about it, we have our own version of "Keeping Up Appearances". It's called "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" and "Real Housewives pick a City" and there have been many comedies where the plot in an episode arc, specifically in comedy is to fool others into believing you are something that you are not. Over here we call that mentality "keeping up with the Joneses"
Keeping Up Appearances has been on the air in the U.S., on PBS, since the mid 90's! No American has really any excuse not to have seen this show at least once.
You should have showed them the QE2 one
"You win an all expenses cruise, and then they expect you to eat with the crew!"
I watch them ALL,,,anything on ARE YOU BEING SERVED,,now that's a rib breaker!
Are you free, Mr. Humphrey? I'm freeeee!
undergroundparablist hahaha...You Get It! Yes!
Are you being served?
And don't worry about the sleeves, madam. They'll ride up with wear! 😙
WHY HAS NO ONE MENTIONED ONLY FOOLS?!?!?!
watched an episode after years of not seeing it just now..... i'm blown away, the comedy is still funnier than most comedians even now. It's outstanding!
"Keeping Up Appearances" airs on our local PBS station, and it's a family favorite of ours. The fact that this group of American kids don't seem to get it is really sad.
Wanita Brown I love Keeping up Appreances and I leave in Texas I started watching it on PBS and now I see it on Netflex.
We're in Tennessee. Now I wonder if we southerners are drawn to it! From my experience living in a small southern town, I've known more than a couple ladies who put me in the mind of Hyacinth!
My aunt was exactly like Hyacinth she would make you take of your shoes, she even had a resemblance like her. I think the show is awesome.
this should be done where the view is of the watchers all the time with a small window of what they are watching
Surely the Americans get the humour of the programme called Absolutely Fabulous (Ab Fab) and what The League of Gentlemen? Another thing we English do that the Americans don't is panel shows like Have I Got News For You, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, QI, Mock The Week, Shooting Stars, Would I Lie to You, et al.
I have heard of and watch Keeping up Appearances it's on every Saturday on 8 pm on public television .I don't know how Americans have not heard or seen this show because it's available on Amazon region 1 dvds,vhs tapes and public tv
I'm from the U.S. and been watching this show on PBS every Saturday night since I was 8 in the late 90s, absolutely love this show. After working in retail for a few years, I really appreciated Are you being served too.
when i was in the middle east, they rarely put aome americans and british show on their channels. but this one is my favorite. i am a filipino but i do get their humor. and i love it!!! if i can turn back time i would really love to watch this all episodes again!!!
These British sitcoms are the best.
I'm an American myself and was introduced to this show through Netflix. Needless to say I haven't stopped watching it since.
Well, plenty of us Americans have been watching this show, and several other treasured British shows for many years. I’m 42 and was watching this as a teenager, thanks to PBS. Just because you’re very young and have just become aware of these masterpieces, doesn’t mean the phenomena didn’t exist before.
Also, keep in mind this show (and several others you’re likely discovering) is built on dry humor and classic British timing. It is supposed to be a silly show. It does not aspire to be “relevant.”
Glad you are enjoying it, though. :)
They've been showing this on PBS for ages! My mother, my grandmother and I would watch it every Friday and Saturday at 8 when I was a kid.
They do have Keeping Up Appearances on in the US. I watched it when I lived in Maryland a couple of years ago.
I'm a USAer..old..(52)..and love "KUA"..."AYBS"...and I don't reside on either coast..contrary to the belief of some of my countrymen on our coasts..those of us in "flyover" land can actually follow a simple train of thought..even with a British accent!
I'm American and have seen every episode at least 5 times, no exaggeration. I almost know all the dialog of every episode. LOL Love it and many other British programs especially Midsomer Murders and Viscous. Yes I'm a very old lady!
I watched this on PBS before SNL came on.
I have been happily watching British TV for the past 50 years or so. I LOVE it! I think "Keeping Up Appearances" is hysterical, and Hyacinth and all the cast - and the barking dog are "lovely" as a Brit might exclaim. Those 3 young American viewers strike me as less than bright, as well as borderline illiterate. Good grief. Honestly - let's pick a few viewers that have a least one brain amongst the 3 of them! Ugh. It makes me cringe in embarrassment at some of their inane responses. ARRGG$%#!!!
Every time two of these three think, a brain cell dies.
Ha!!