A seriously depressing british comedy about government-sponsored terrorism.

[DetlefK]

And most fucked-up thing is that it really works like that.

[nycbos]

1. I love Yes Minister.

"Bernard, I have served eleven governments in the past thirty years. If I had believed in all their policies, I would have been passionately committed to keeping out of the Common Market, and passionately committed to going into it. I would have been utterly convinced of the rightness of nationalising steel. And of denationalising it and renationalising it. On capital punishment, I'd have been a fervent retentionist and an ardent abolitionist. I would've been a Keynesian and a Friedmanite, a grammar school preserver and destroyer, a nationalisation freak and a privatisation maniac; but above all, I would have been a stark, staring, raving schizophrenic."

Think that is my favorite lime in the whole series.

[erronis]

3. Thanks - that monologue was remarkably smart on.

[ZZenith]

2. "Oh for God's sake!"

“Must you go around flashing your petty private individual little conscience?”

Such crisp and witty screenwriting they employ in other nations.

A Rake’s Progress in 29:43.

[erronis]

4. Almost all of the "other" English-speaking nations know how to turn phrases (I'm US)

The US social discourse just seems to be surface-level in-your-face. Innuendo? WTF is that?

Even Archie Bunker and Ralph Kramden (and the rest of the crew) were great at those "asides" that meant much more than the words.

Erudition is a tremendous thing to lose.

[ZZenith]

5. Eruditely put!

[erronis]

6. Thanks! And welcome to DU!

[ZZenith]

7. Thank you!