The royle family is clever because the action is limited, there are pauses just like real life and it's realistic, everyone has a Jim or a Barb or a Nana in their family and everyone at times slobs in front of the T.v and talks about the pub, club biscuits and toilets (Whether we admit to it or not) The acting is good, scripts are great and Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash have great character observation. Jim Royle's catchphrases are funny and well remembered and the extra characters, Cheryl, Mary, twiggy etc are cool.
Anthony and his dippy mate Darren are funny to watch doing their impressions.
I have read that some people hate this show because they think the language of northerners is hard to get and they are scruffy and live in council houses.
Welcome to the real world, people are scruffy and some do live in council houses, that can still be funny. i live in the south east of England, very far removed from Manchester but i still love their ways, their expressions and can still identify with them; it doesn't matter where you live, people all over the globe are getting married, having children, fighting with siblings, getting drunk etc.
Yes they don't do a lot but the T.V is full of action films and sitcoms with lots of action involved, this is realism, it's about people, real people, living together and it's the realism of the show that makes it funny. We can all go 'I'm just like that' or 'oh god we're like that'.
Give this show a chance, watch all the episodes they don't get boring, in fact it's quite addictive.
