I missed a lot of UK import shows (Red Dwarf, Blackadder, Fawlty Towers) until I got to college and started going to parties hosted by friends with videotape collections.
I never got into Fawlty Towers, but I also saw Red Dwarf and Blackadder for the first time in college, usually crowded with something like a dozen other people into the one dorm room in our friend group that had a TV and a VCR. (In hindsight I am impressed that this was physically, spatially possible, since I remember it as a relatively tiny double with a bunk bed and the usual complement of desks and chairs. People just sort of piled onto the bunks and occasionally the floor. Maybe dragged in some chairs from the common room. Maybe space-time is different in college. It must be; I don't understand how I took so many courses, either.) We watched both shows concurrently until we ran out of Blackadder and then we watched Red Dwarf through the first half of Season 7. I'm glad to know this is a fine campus tradition.
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I never got into Fawlty Towers, but I also saw Red Dwarf and Blackadder for the first time in college, usually crowded with something like a dozen other people into the one dorm room in our friend group that had a TV and a VCR. (In hindsight I am impressed that this was physically, spatially possible, since I remember it as a relatively tiny double with a bunk bed and the usual complement of desks and chairs. People just sort of piled onto the bunks and occasionally the floor. Maybe dragged in some chairs from the common room. Maybe space-time is different in college. It must be; I don't understand how I took so many courses, either.) We watched both shows concurrently until we ran out of Blackadder and then we watched Red Dwarf through the first half of Season 7. I'm glad to know this is a fine campus tradition.