I've been watching the original British series, Coupling on DVD the past couple of nights. While it took me a couple of episodes to get into it, and the characters are simply not likable, I am finding it funny, and will continue to watch.
One of the aspects that makes it worthwhile entertainment are the catch-phrases. Like BBC's Metrosexual, the series script writers provide an endless stream of new popular jargon that isn't as over used on this side of the pond as the jargon we still fall back on from Sienfeid.
My two favorites:
The first from Metrosexuals, "Cheese on Bread!" in place of "give me a break and just relax". Odd? Trust me, it makes someone who is being irrational and stressed out snap out of it - at least for a second.
From the first season of Coupling comes, "The Giggle-Loop." It describes the impetitus towards uncontrolled laugher in the most inappropriate situations. When you think, "wouldn't this be the worst place to start laughing," at a funeral, or other dire occassion, you continue to stifle that laugh, until it just absolutely becomes impossible to stop - and you burst out anyway.
Rent the DVD, it's available at Netflix - the episode, "The Giggle Loop," explains it better than I can.
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