Col'n Carpenter was a spin off from the popular character created by Kym Gyngell from Comedy Company. It was actually quite good an moderately successful. The main plot was Col'n moved out of his mother's house to live with two house mates, Michael (Stig Wemyss) and Julia (Vikki Blanche). Michael was the more kindhearted, while Julia was easily annoyed by Col'n's antics (although you could hardly blame her). Basically Julia was a teacher, can't remember what Michael was and Col'n was unemployed. Col'n was basically the lovable idiot. Some of the episodes were classic. Some examples where when Col'n discovers Julia writing a diary and decides to write his own: "Dear diary, today I bought you. Now I'M WRITING ON YOU".
And:
Col'n:(Referring to Anne Frank) Maybe they'll make a movie about my diary!
Michael: You haven't had a very interesting life Col'n.
Col'n: I dunno, Michael. When I bought this diary, I stepped on an orange!
Michael: Col'n she was hiding from the Nazis.
Col'n: I was in bare feet.
Michael: Col'n!
Col'n: It could have been Poo...
And:
Michael: She's writing a diary, you're writing a diary, everyone's writing a diary. It's like a disease.
Col'n: Yeah, diarrhea!
Another was when they had to paint the kitchen, but when they discovered they had nudist neighbors, they spent the whole day coating the bottom part so they would not get into trouble. The acting was hardly brilliant or anything but was very funny. Unlike American sitcoms, there was NEVER any sexual tension between Julia and the boys. Nobody EVER slept together, they were just friends. Julia dated her own men, unlike in the typical American sitcom where it would be obligatory for the main characters to sleep together at some stage. Sometime in season 2 (or three) Julia moved out (I can't remember why) and was replaced by New Zealander, Linda Williams (Kaarin Fairfax). It was still good as Linda's personality was virtually the same as Julia's, so it wasn't a major loss. Unfortuantly at the end of season 3, they decided to get rid of Michael and Linda (Michael joined the police force and Linda went to New Zealand to have her baby). It was a two parter which first saw Col'n in the hospital, then accused for a crime he didn't do. I hoped it was one of those dramatic episodes where everything is OK in the end, but it was not to be. Col'n was alone and they had an old woman come in a lot instead. That pretty much killed the show. Next season it was canceled.
And:
Col'n:(Referring to Anne Frank) Maybe they'll make a movie about my diary!
Michael: You haven't had a very interesting life Col'n.
Col'n: I dunno, Michael. When I bought this diary, I stepped on an orange!
Michael: Col'n she was hiding from the Nazis.
Col'n: I was in bare feet.
Michael: Col'n!
Col'n: It could have been Poo...
And:
Michael: She's writing a diary, you're writing a diary, everyone's writing a diary. It's like a disease.
Col'n: Yeah, diarrhea!
Another was when they had to paint the kitchen, but when they discovered they had nudist neighbors, they spent the whole day coating the bottom part so they would not get into trouble. The acting was hardly brilliant or anything but was very funny. Unlike American sitcoms, there was NEVER any sexual tension between Julia and the boys. Nobody EVER slept together, they were just friends. Julia dated her own men, unlike in the typical American sitcom where it would be obligatory for the main characters to sleep together at some stage. Sometime in season 2 (or three) Julia moved out (I can't remember why) and was replaced by New Zealander, Linda Williams (Kaarin Fairfax). It was still good as Linda's personality was virtually the same as Julia's, so it wasn't a major loss. Unfortuantly at the end of season 3, they decided to get rid of Michael and Linda (Michael joined the police force and Linda went to New Zealand to have her baby). It was a two parter which first saw Col'n in the hospital, then accused for a crime he didn't do. I hoped it was one of those dramatic episodes where everything is OK in the end, but it was not to be. Col'n was alone and they had an old woman come in a lot instead. That pretty much killed the show. Next season it was canceled.
