Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28128 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-02-23
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 4

Synopsis
Includes: 'Chewin' The Fat - Series 1', 'Chewin' The Fat - Series 2', Chewin' The Fat - Series 3' and 'Chewin' The Fat - Series 4'.

Customer Reviews

Get it up Ye
I understand that, at the time, Chewin' the Fat was talked about as being a scottish version of the Fast Show. True, it's a sketch show, quite given to lampooning TV genre cliches - everything from tartan shorties ('boring mince, shot from queer angles') to US cop shows. True, a few of the sketches make you go 'what was that for?'. The 'it's never too early for a fusilier' one in series 3, for example. But that's where the similarity ends, for Chewin' the Fat is funny - much, much more funny.

The first two series are, of course, the slightly weakest of the collection. But series 3 and 4 are quite brilliant. There, the more aimless sketches are gone, and F and G trust the best of the recurring characters - Ronald Villiers, The Old Slapper , the Neds, the Lighthouse Boys ('Gonnay nae dee that...jist, gonnay naw!' became a phrase on everyone's lips in Scotland when CTF was originally broadcast), The Big Man - to do what they do best. It's a pity CTF it didn't win the audience it ought to have done in England. I hope fans will appreciate the overlap between CTF, Stil Game, and The Karen Dunbar Show - made by F n G productions, sharing a common pool of authors, situations, and observational humour. This isn't always obvious. I never knew that Sanjeev Kohli, who plays Navid in Still Game, wrote some of The Loneley Shopkeeper scenes in CTF, for instance.

Criticism of CTF, like that of the excellent Still Game, has tended to say that it's 'too Scottish'. An objection so foolish that it merits no answer. Although, for the sake of argument, I can't think of a more cosmopolitan comedy, frankly - they are almopst as many british and US accents and settings in the sketches as Scottish ones. You have no reasonable excuse for not buying these set of four DVD's - the price of 4 dvds is the same price that most places will charge you for a single one. Check out Still Game, as well - whose new and third series, at time of typing, has started on BBC1 scotland at 9:30 on Fridays(available on Sky if you don't live in Scotland.)

Gonnae DAE that - buy this that is!
Chewin' the Fat and its characters are now (almost?) as much as part of the Scottish psyche as Rikki Fulton's Scotch and Wry and its characters were. Chewin' the Fat can be summed up by using the catchphrase that was spawned from another BBC Scotland comedy classic namely City Lights - Pure Dead Brilliant!

If you like character based observational comedy then CTF is for you. The box set contains the four series of CTF as broadcast on BBC Scotland. (I think the last two received a UK wide showing.) The Hogmanay specials (broadcast only in Scotland) are not included, which is probably just as well as they have not met the standard of the full series in my opinion.

You don't need to be Scots to enjoy this sketch show. (Do you need to be American to enjoy Frasier??)

What a Bargain
This is must for all fans of chewin the fat. In fact, its a must for any comedy fan. What you are getting here is all four series of chewin the fat. These are all complete editions and bring together for the first time on DVD all espisodes of chewin the fat that have been transmitted on BBC.

All your favouites are here including Jack and Victor, Ronald Villiers, the Neds, Big Man and the old slapper. This has to be one of the most underated programmes on the BBC. What you are actually getting here is 4 dvd's.

What a bargain! Go on treat yourself! Cheap at double the price! Enjoy