People are inventing “Titles I‘d fully believe were British TV shows” and they’ll make you go “yep, would probably watch that”
Mara Wilson – best known as playing Matilda as a child – has kicked off a Twitter thread about imagined British TV shows:
Titles I‘d fully believe were British TV shows:
Beamish and Quigley
The Quite Corking Quiz Show
Shan’t We Tell the Vicar?
A Bee’s As Good As A Bonnet
Up Your Arse, Alistair!
That Isn’t How We Do It in Lincolnshire, That Isn’t How We Do It At All
Just Joanna Lumley
— Mara Wilson (@MaraWilson) January 9, 2018
Pretty sure we watched “Shan’t We Tell the Vicar?” – they still repeat it on UK Gold.
This has provoked a load of people to join in with stuff like “Slags and hoovers”
Shush Now, Milady.
How Green Can A Frog Be?
O’er The Michaelmas.
Slags And Hoovers.
Bent Coppers.
The Doctor Will Eat You Now!
— Ed Morrish (@edmorrish) January 9, 2018
An Ombudsman In Greenfinch Square
celebrity kerfuffle
Inspector Lavender
An Ombudsman In Greenfinch Square
What's In Your Woodshed?— Scriblit (@Scriblit) January 9, 2018
Arseholed at Sainsbury’s
• Chav Nicked Me Mobile
• Terse World War
• Just Fannies
• Son of Dombey and Son
• Arseholed at Sainsbury's
• Funeral Apology— Muscular Baby Jeb Lund (@Mobute) January 9, 2018
The Baking Cunt
A Touch of Arson
Roasts with Ian
Nip to the Watchmakers
Oh, Fiona!
Tempting the Watsons
The Baking Cunt— rob delaney (@robdelaney) January 9, 2018
Oi, That’s My Fiat 500 You’re Snogging
A Chip Butty With Royalty
Oi, That's My Fiat 500 You're Snogging
Cheeky Nap With Bannister Hoggins
You Can't Tell Me This Isn't Surrey— thomas violence (@thomas_violence) January 9, 2018
Someone’s Nicked Me Knickers
Wot You On About? with Winston Huxley
Brendishire Alley
Rompert and Rompert
Grand Tea Railroad Adventure
Someone’s Nicked Me Knickers
News Hour with Gerald
— kendrick lobstar (@KLobstar) January 9, 2018
And finally, to reverse the trend: TV shows you’d believe were American
Conversely, shows I'd believe are American:
Xtreme Job Interviews
Car Wars
Real Murders of Alabama
CSI Seattle
Real Medics And Their Guns
Highway Patrol: Amish Country
All American Supermodels Who Murder— .☆.:・*-♡-☆°・**[Fudge Judge Maz]☆°・*-♡-☆°・*:. (@MazHem_) January 9, 2018
Please suggest more made up British TV shows on the comments on Twitter or Facebook.