Men Behaving Badly

Men Behaving Badly is a British sitcom, first broadcast in 1992 on ITV but moved to BBC One (and a later timeslot) from the third series onwards. Six series were made, and a final short run of three 45 minute episodes was made in 1998 to finally wrap the series up. There has also been a Christmas special. There do not seem to be any plans to make more.

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Sitcom - 1992 - ITV - BBC One

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Written by Simon Nye, it centres around two "blokes", Gary (Martin Clunes) and Tony (Neil Morrissey) (Tony replaced Dermot (Harry Enfield) from the second series on) sharing the ground floor flat owned by Gary in a converted house.

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Martin Clunes - Neil Morrissey - Harry Enfield

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Their lives centre on lager and girls. The former is easy to come by, both in canned form and at their local pub, The Crown. As for the latter, Gary has a long-term girlfriend, Dorothy (Caroline Quentin), and Tony pines for Deborah (Leslie Ash), the girl upstairs. Neither of these necessarily stops them looking elsewhere for their "totty", though Gary usually feels guilty if he goes much beyond ogling some Kylie Minogue publicity shots.

Related Topics:
Lager - Girl - Pub - Caroline Quentin - Leslie Ash - Totty - Kylie Minogue

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The series was briefly remade for US television with a different cast. The American remake aired on NBC from 1996-1997; it starred Rob Schneider and took place in Indianapolis, Indiana. As a side-effect, the original series was eventually screened in the US on BBC America as British Men Behaving Badly.

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Remade for US television - NBC - 1996 - 1997 - Rob Schneider - Indianapolis, Indiana - BBC America

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The series was not without controversy as it was claimed young males were copying their "bad behaviour", and in the public imagination it has become synomous with the mid '90s lad culture phenomenon. In one notorious scene, the boys pretend to be Welsh in order to stop their neighbour selling their house.

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Lad culture - Welsh

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Location shots for the British series were filmed in and around Ealing in west London.

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Ealing - London

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