To wish I lived in Gavin & Stacey?

[EnchanciaAnthem]

I'm poorly so on the sofa watching Gavin & Stacey.

I love it. I wish my family and DH's family were like that. The one where they order the Indian takeaway and the Christmas one always make me think it looks so cosy!

What TV show would you 'live' in??

[Costacoffeeplease]

Julia Davis also wrote and starred in Hunderby, totally different from nighty night but just as dark - bloody funny too though

[devoncreamtea]

I love it!! Some of the Welshies could be straight out of my family. My fave line is:'has she got her bag for life..?' !!

[scarlets]

NoManJan - how about a "When Barry Met Sully" mug?

ilovesthediff.com/mugs.html

[DisappointedOne]

I went to school in Wales for a few years. There were a few days girls like Nessa. They all came from different towns and they hated each other. When I watched G&S the welsh characters were spot on.

It's not a Welsh thing - it's a Barry thing. My best friends when I was growing up were from Barry. It's not a comedy: it's a documentary.

[MrsJayy]

My fri3nd is the spit of pamelaaaaa she has 2 little princes though (27 and 19) she is lovely though. I love Gavin and Stacey the christmas special where dave coaches proposes is my favourite. And pete and dawn are hilarious.

[R0nJ0n]

I want to live in the Gilmore Girls. I want to drink coffee at Luke's with Lorelai (who'd be my bff, along with Suki), and I want to live in a clapboard house in Stars Hollow and go to all the kooky town events and festivals.

[TinklyLittleLaugh]

Surely the whole premise of the show is that Gavin and Stacey themselves, (particularly Gavin) are very nice, normal, slightly dull kids, who just happen to have totally bonkers extended families. They are not meant to be the interesting characters.

DH has a colleague we call Ness, (though he is a bloke). He was signed to a premiership football team as a young man, has a sister who is a supermodel and is really good mates with quite a few legendary musicians. Just mentions these things quite unaffectedly in conversation; you haven't a bit of a moment, and then you google later and it's all absolutely true.

[MrsJayy]

Yeah G & S are meant to be a bit dull

[Nowombattheinn]

G&s was brilliant! The scene where they order the Indian takeaway was hilarious as it was so true. Great observational comedy, "is a korma boring, gav will you laugh at me if I have a korma?" I so hope they do more episodes one day.

[whitershadeofpale]

It's the little conversations that are so funny and true to life. I love the ordering a curry and the conversation about oven gloves . Also the trip to the beach and bbq.

[LeftMyRidingCropInTheMortuary]

WHAT HAPPENED ON THE CAMPING TRIP?!!!!

[LeftMyRidingCropInTheMortuary]

don't forget the sag alooo!

[MrsJayy]

I loved micks turkey "Doesnt even taste like turkey tastes like salmon"

[LisbethSalandersLaptop]

Leftmyridingcropinthemortuary - we don't know and never will....

[CambridgeBlue]

I've thought ever since I watched it that I want to be like Pam and Mick when DD is older and brings her mates home. Love so many things about G&S, the humour is so clever and spot on.

To answer the original question I'd love to live with the Larkins from Darling Buds of May :).

[SteamPunkGoth]

I love Gavin & Stacy. The Barry thing is so true. I'm Welsh, from just up the road from Barry Island. Spent many a summer day there.

I have been compared to Nessa a lot. In fact just 5 minutes ago, dh said I sound like Nessa!

[TSSDNCOP]

The first one I ever watched was the Christmas special.

I text my BF to say "oh dear god, I am Pam"

[hackmum]

Love G&S. Reading this thread makes me realise how many of the best comedy moments in it are related to music - part of its genius, I think.

Whenever we order a curry, there's a good chance that someone in our house will either say "Will people think I'm boring if I have a korma?" or launch into Smithy's "Chicken bhuna, lamb bhuna, prawn bhuna, mushroom rice, bag of chips..."

The thing that has always amazed me is how Ruth Jones and James Corden managed to produce something so funny and so original when neither of them had written anything before. Corden, I think, was only in his early 20s. How did they do it?

Typically, most successful sitcoms (Porridge, Fawlty Towers, Father Ted) start from the premise of having a group of people trapped together, and the comedy comes from the friction between them. Domestic comedy on the whole tends to be very anodyne (Terry and June, My Family etc).

But in G&S people aren't trapped, and for the most part they all like each other. Such a hard thing to pull off. I think a lot of the joy is in the attention to detail in the creation of each character - the way, for example, that Smithy doesn't just call Pam "Pamelah" but calls Gavin "Gave-lah" and so on. Just wonderful.

[Bearbehind]

And when they're all having breakfast at pam and mick's and can hear Gavin and Stacey shagging. Pam cranks the radio up and starts dancing to "relight my fire".

It was 'could it be magic' wasn't it, and the whole joke was the 'come, come, come' bit wasn't it

[Bearbehind]

I adore Gavin and Stacey.

Totally agree that they were by far the weakest characters and the show really could have done without them.

I don't think I've laughed as much as the last one- the 'Stop all the Clocks' reading and Scott and Charlene's wedding tune was comedy genius.

[FloraDiesEarly]

Gavin and Stacey were the only straight characters, but you needed them getting together to bring the families together and create the drama in the first place.

[MrsJayy]

Yeah it was could it be Magic with Pam singing come come ..

[Bearbehind]

Thanks mrsjayy - glad I wasn't going mad!

[NuggetofPurestGreen]

MrsJayy is your friend's second son gay? Cos Pamelaaaah would have loved that. Fashion advice, emotional support...

[The80sweregreat]

Funny when John Prescott turned up at Ness's wedding.