Is anyone watching this series? It is on Discovery Science channel on Saturday nights. It is a Ricky Gervais/Stephen Merchant production and is pretty funny.
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Huntington Beach CA
1162 posts
Love love Ricky Gervais. Thanks for the tip, I'll make sure to DVR it! Did you guys see him on The Office with Steve Carrell a couple of weeks ago? Those 2 minutes he was on was hilarious! A bromance brewing, for sure!
Posted by
Washington, DC
888 posts
We too are watching it. Very hilarious.
Posted by
Chicago/Rural WI
811 posts
I'm watching it. And love it.
Posted by
San Francisco/Marin County
9436 posts
To answer James, no it's not. I watched it last week and enjoyed it. It's pure Ricky Gervais and I love his humor, but the whining did get a little tiresome towards the end.
Posted by
Sacramento, California U.S.A.
10595 posts
Thanks for the heads up. I just set it up on my DVR to record.
Posted by
Seattle
922 posts
Haven't seen the Petra episode yet, but China and India were pretty funny. Ricky and Stephen are sometimes downright mean to poor Karl though!
Posted by
Des Moines, IA
2193 posts
I don't know about this "idiot" show, but that long thread from the weekend about Americans travelling abroad made me think about the lyrics to Green Day's American Idiot...
Posted by
OP
Phoenix, AZ, USA
1035 posts
Actually, the lyrics are pretty telling. "Don't wanna be an American idiot. One nation controlled by the media. Information nation of hysteria.
It's going out to idiot America." Love that album.
Posted by
Pearland, Texas, USA
441 posts
Had to laugh when, in the Petra episode, he was on the camel. They were playing the theme from Lawrence of Arabia.
Posted by
Macungie, PA, USA
463 posts
i will be setting my tivo to tape it. perhaps it will make me feel better about my own mis-adventure! thanks!
Posted by
Eastern Iowa, USA
8037 posts
To be honest, I thought I would like the series better than I did. After a couple episodes, the joke is getting a little stale, more about "let's see how we can make Carl miserable" than about the places he goes to.
Posted by
Arlington, WA
993 posts
We are huge fans of Ricky Gervais at our house. Wouldn't miss it.
Posted by
Tacoma, WA, USA
671 posts
Sometimes he really does make a lot of sense (like who would want to live near where they sacrifice people, even if it is beautiful- haha), and when we consider our mail system, here, I am impressed by that, too! (Other times, his whining or rudeness is a bit over the top, but that seems like it is dropping over time.)
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Saratoga, NY, USA
75 posts
LOVE this show. I hope lots of people are watching. I laughed hysterically when in the Peta episode, he said he was more impressed by the fact that the people who lived in a cave received mail, than he was by the actual Wonder of the World he was visiting. I honestly can't tell if Karl is really this big a goofball, or a superb comedic actor, or both? Either way, I have been laughing until I can't breathe.