This show isn't funny. Did you hear me? I'll say it again, just in case. THIS SHOW IS NOT FUNNY.Whats that? It has to be funny! It's British! After all they gave us Monty Python and The Office! Therefore, they are incapable of producing bad comedy.Well looks like a monkey wrench was just thrown into that equation.Everything about this show sucks. You know, there's a fine line between "subtle" and "monotonous". Now, before you pretentious jerks get on my case, I'll make it very clear that I "get" this show. It really isn't very complicated. But it certainly isn't exciting.I don't know if there are still new episodes, but if there are, its gotta end.By the way, just to remind you, this show isn't funny, never was, and I'm beginning to think it never will be. And I definitely won't be sticking around to see.

This is not a matter of ethnicity. I feel it's a matter of intelligence. You have to understand sarcasm and irony to enjoy this series. I agree South Park is pretty weak, but no less tiresome than Monty Python. I'm not comparing them, simply stating that both can get old pretty fast. Bob and Margaret is a sophisticated, eclectic, sardonic comedy series. My wife and I can't wait for this series to come out on DVD. It is a slice of life that we can sit back and laugh at someone else's problems, and compare them to our own, with a sense of humor. Definitely worth enjoying if you can find it. It's too bad this series was not received well by the masses, it doesn't have the slap-stick, easy to digest fell of some of the other comedies that people mindlessly ingest.

Bob and Margaret are the 'living' proof that a story-line is more important than anything. This series should be called "Wit and Intelligence" instead of Bob and Margaret. What a difficult task! To make you really LAUGH showing you no other thing but normal neurosis in a couple of very normal lives! Gee! I don't get the people who criticize Bob and Margaret here. I bet you that they adore the fact that 'Seinfeld' is about nothing, because Seinfeld is American, but they just hate another product that can be so successful worldwide as Bob and Margaret (and which also deals with "nothingness") because is foreign! Sorry, people, I know two things: If you wrote against Bob and Margaret there are two options: a) You are not intelligent, so, it's OK you wrote against it. b) You ARE intelligent, but you hate yourself and your weaknesses and you are just incapable of laughing at them so you hate this show because it reminds you of them. It's OK too! Bob and Margaret is pure genius! Kudos to a series that REALLY REALLY REALLY could be renamed "Wit and Intelligence"!!!!!!!!

Well to please Canadian and British reviewers, I will give a fair review. Of course, unlike South Park, this is sophisticated humor, and of course a lot of Americans don't get it. Well, I could explain in a lot of ways why. For one, we don't usually find this type of material funny, we find it insane. Especially for the episode where the kennel owner is afraid of his mum, who his made of straw. I know a lot of "sophisticated" gentlemen reviewing this are saying that it is much better than Southpark, but i think that I, and many other Yanks, have proof that it's not true. For one, Southpark is still on Comedy Central. Two, the characters on South Park have a little more personality. I admit that Bob and Margaret are quite funny in their uptight British way, but come on, compared to Cartman, they are so one dimensional. Then again, who knows, I could be wrong, after all when I was 5 i never said anything like "Mummy can I have some chocolate biscuits?!" Now I will give the UK credit, they somewhat made a Simpsons of their own. But don't get ahead of yourselves now. This is more like a soap opera, than comedy. But if this is adult humor, I guess it's only funny if you're a British adult, because my mom, who is the mother of 5, and and a major in Mathematics, thinks this show is boring.