This is the first ten minutes of the first episode of “Misfits,” a British show that debuted on Channel 4 last month. It’s kind of like NBC’s “Heroes,” except with a Breakfast Club premise and swearing. From Wikipedia:
Misfits follows five teenagers on community service who get struck by lightning and are given special powers. Kelly (Lauren Socha) becomes telepathic, Curtis (Nathan Stewart Jarrett) can rewind time by small amounts, Alisha (Antonia Thomas) can send people into a sexual frenzy when they touch her skin, Simon (Iwan Rheon) can make himself invisible when he feels he’s being ignored. Seemingly left unaffected is smart alec Nathan (Robert Sheehan).
This looks outstanding to me, but mostly because everyone talks like Jason Statham and there’s a sexy black girl. Oh, I’m sorry, did I say “sexy black girl”? I meant, “Oi fink dat black bird’s right fit, now innit?”
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Yeah, she’s fit. But my god, don’t she know it?
Motorboat ya tits, love?
Do not mock the way we speak! Talk about our bad teeth and how we’d be speaking German if it weren’t for you lot.
I can’t watch British television for some reason. It’s the greyness. Growing up I always watched the ‘A-Team’ or ‘Murder She Wrote’ instead of ‘Miss Marple’ or ‘Coronation Street’.
Up and down the apple and pears!
Sounds kind of like Misfits of Science from the mid 80s. Anyone else remember that?
+1 Farthammer
The world needs more The Streets
@Farthammer/Leapin: But I stopped hawkin for a minute to get chips…and drinks.
A little Goldie Lickin Chain goes a long way as well.
+1 Farthammer
This is the second British clip you’ve posted today that, when i’ve clicked on it, has read, “This video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions.” Which is ironic as i’m the Chief Executive for Channel 4.
Hey Smegga, Q.I’s on.
The world also needs more Dan Halen.
Black chicks with British accents are pretty hot, but Asian chicks with British accents are even hotter.
I would like Q.I. as Fry is awesome but I dislike Davies, the permheaded twat. Instead I will now watch some Mad Men.
Just watched an episode of this. It was pretty good. Appreciated the nods to Trainspotting, The Big Lebowski & Groundhog Day – but it’s, y’know, for kids. And what the fuck was Dexter Fletcher doing playing the dad of one of the misfits? Low blow, man. Low blow.
I can’t be the only one hoping that the kids’d get hit in the head by one of those hailstones.
c’mon, I can’t be the only one who caught the Duke Nukem reference…
…can I?
/cricket chirp