恋爱迷宫第一季

A: I told you he was not your type
B: I am surprised he was ever yours, what do you see in him, he's so dull! I need personality verve humor. I see why you call him donkey brain.
A: Actually I call him donkey
B: yeah but I got your point
A: No you didn't
B: What you mean...
A: some men are born lucky. some men are born very lucky
B: what was Patrik born
A: a tripod
B: you let me dumped a tripod, you bitch!


英国人果然很尖刻

英国人总是有办法让尴尬的事情变成令人喷饭的幽默。又是一个关于sex的喜剧，不过，不同于sex and the city的夸张（或者因为看了sex and the city以后更容易接受coupling的略显含蓄的调侃），coupling对sex的调侃让人感觉比较自然。同样是涉及到sex,coupling也比美国派不容易让人感到恶心。说了这么多，就是想赞扬一下BBC的水准，虽然是a naughty new comedy about nothing but sex,但是，男女主人公都很可爱，笨拙但不猥琐，他们碰到的一些在处理男女关系方面的问题许多都是一般人可能会碰到的。刚刚认识的尴尬，打电话问好过以后不知道说什么，等等。。。然而调侃得非常的好。一头卷发的Jeff真是一个活宝，跑题的水平一流，总是在关键时刻冒出一两句不相干的话，罗罗嗦嗦并且有强迫症的Jane，居然强迫一个Gay跟她约会，优柔寡断意志薄弱的Steve，分个手约个会都弄得非常的困难。本片英语很清晰，YDY字幕翻译的也还可以，如果要看外挂的也可以。

Season 1:
外挂中文: http://lib.verycd.com/2005/04/28/0000048534.html
YDY: http://lib.verycd.com/2005/10/28/0000071800.html
Season 2:
YDY http://lib.verycd.com/2005/11/10/0000073944.html
外挂中文：http://lib.verycd.com/2005/07/17/0000057397.html

另外，英国人真是喜欢讲政治，开玩笑也喜欢调侃政治。Sally为了Patrick的保守党身份挣扎了好一阵。I would consider anyone except animal and Torries最正常的就是女主角了，可惜因为这样她也稍显无聊。
片头曲很有意思，正好是Quizas, quizas, quizas的英文版，perhaps, perhaps, perhaps, 不同的是，Nat Cole King的Quizas唱得比较柔情缠绵的爵士，perhaps则唱得欢快一点，调侃意味更多一点，有点mambo味道，让人听了就想笑。
Quizas的歌词是这样的：

Siempre que te pregunto
Que, cuándo, cómo y dónde
Tú siempre me respondes
Quizás, quizás, quizás

Y así pasan los días
Y yo, desesperando
Y tú, tú c ontestando
Quizás, quizás, quizás

Estás perdiendo el tiempo
Pensando, pensando
Por lo que más tú quieras
Hasta cuándo Hasta cuándo

Y así pasan los días
Y yo, desesperando
Y tú, tú c ontestando
Quizás, quizás, quizás

Estás perdiendo el tiempo
Pensando, pensando
Por lo que más tú quieras
Hasta cuándo Hasta cuándo

Y así pasan los días
Y yo, desesperando
Y tú, tú c ontestando
Quizás, quizás, quizás

我总是一遍又一遍的追问你
何时，何地，又该如何
你却总是回答说
或许，或许，或许

时日就这样飞过
我的绝望与日俱增
而你，你却还是这样回答
或许，或许，或许

你在浪费时间
思考着
思考着什么才是你最需要的
可是，这抉择到底什么时候才是尽头？

时日就这样飞过
我的绝望与日俱增
而你，你却还是这样回答
或许，或许，或许

既然你不肯承认你对我的爱
那么我又如何能够知道你是否爱我？
你只是告诉我
或许，或许，或许

千万次我这样问过你
反复追问
而你却只是回答
或许，或许，或许

如果你无法作出抉择
我们之间将永远无法开始
而我也不愿就这样
以分手和心碎结束

那么如果你真的爱我就肯定的回答我“是”
但是如果你并不爱我，亲爱的
也请你坦诚的回绝
而不要只是告诉我
或许，或许，或许

English translation of original Spanish lyrics:

“PERHAPS, PERHAPS, PERHAPS”

I am always asking you
When, how and where
You always tell me
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps

The days pass this way
And I am despairing
And you, you always answer
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps

You are wasting time
Thinking, thinking
That which you want most
Until when? Until when?

The days pass this way
And I am despairing
And you, you always answer
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps

You are wasting time
Thinking, thinking
That which you want most
Until when? Until when?

The days pass this way
And I am despairing
And you, you always answer
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps



Coupling里面的英文版的歌词是这样的：

Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps


                     By Cake


You won't admit you love me.
And so how am I ever to know?
You only tell me
perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.


A million times I ask you,
and then I ask you over again,
you only answer
perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.


If you can't make your mind up,
we'll never get started.
And I don't wanna wind up
being parted, broken-hearted.
So if you really love me,
say yes.
But if you don't, dear, confess.
And please don't tell me
perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.

(Solo Section)

If you can't make your mind up,
we'll never get started.
And I don't wanna wind up
being parted, broken-hearted.
So if you really love me,
say yes.
But if you don't, dear, confess.
And please don't tell me
perhaps, perhaps, perhaps,
perhaps, perhaps, perhaps,
perhaps,
perhaps,
per………….haps

previous background: Sally and Patrick are good freinds, but with their friendship developing, each of them, especially Sally, has realised the love between them. Then once Sally said "I love Patrick" incidentally and unconsciously. Then this night, Patrick send Sally a text message, asked her to go for a bar. When Sally entered, found the bar be "Private Function".

前提期要：S和P是一对好朋友，随着他们的日常交往，两个人渐渐互生情愫，尤其是 S，甚至在一次Party上不自觉的说出“我爱P”。但是鉴于P是个“从来只有下半身才会充血”的人，他很久之后才意识到。于是那天晚上P给S发了一条短信约她到平常他们去的Bar里。S很开心的去了，还发现整个Bar都被P包下来了哈。

于是俺们的主角告白开始了：

前面一段我觉得太搞笑了，都是P赞扬S的一段话，什么我希望你是我妈妈，哦，不，奶奶之类的，没记台词。从一半开始：

P: Sally, you're the most wonderful woman, in the history of entire universe.

    Since you have said what you said, I have a lot of time to think.

    But obviously that isn't always possible.(就像我前面说的，P从来只好下半身充血。。。他自己也知道。。。)

    Nonetheless, I have been able to consider your application.

   And this is the point, the very important point.

   Sally, you need someone good enough for you. You don't want some mutton-headed city boy who spend all his time thinking about his cars and his golf clubs.

  You want someone who can love you the way you deserved to be loved. （看到这儿的时候俺开始飚眼泪了。。。。）

    Sally, you need someone who will love you forever, properly.

    You're my friend, Sally, and I want to see you with the best. （继续抹眼泪，我可怜的Sally啊，Partrick还是觉得做朋友更好吗？）

    You need Mr. Amazing, Mr Incredibley Superbly, Fantastickness, and in your heart, I'm sure you know I am right.

   于是，于是我们可怜的Sally也哽咽了，哭着说：

Sally: I don't want Mr. Amazing, Mr Incredibley Superbly, Fantastickness,

        You Stupid Stupid ASS!

        I want YOU!

Partrick这个时候无奈说：for god sake, sally.

Sally：WHAT?!WHAT?!

P:I was talking about ME!!

于是我就破涕为笑了。。。。。

这一大段是对coupling片尾曲的最好解释：

if you love me, say yes, but if you dont, confess, please don't say Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps.

I was just having no clue how to begin with my recommendation of Coupling, when suddenly I got a question: how to say 打吊瓶? I checked with Genius Kane, who initiated the recommendation and she didn’t have the answer, but, she recoiled with a stunning question: “coupling里没有？”

 

Haha! She has been meeting Coupling, the most classic drama I have ever seen for only 2 days! But she already has got such a response! What? A life encyclopaedia? Exactly! The first reason I recommend this drama to you, is its real-life focusing-faith. Every site you come across in this drama is as real as you can imagine- of course excluding those ancient and dreamy scenes out of dramatic needs.

 

But that is far from the main reason I want everybody interested in the life in UK to see it. The main reason, is its unique sense of humour! So unique that it is even a bit hard to appreciate it at first; so unique that it always goes to extreme to disclose the purest emotion of human being; so unique that you can easily condone any disinclination caused by those unusual sex jokes simply because you would already have been amusedly out of breath! It is truly so unique that you can take a real deep look at this wonderful people, with even a few smart choices of words.

 

The whole drama is a piece of art, and the creator Steven Moffat based the characters of Steve and Susan on himself and his wife (producer Sue Vertue), as he explains: "I have described the series as being 'my life as told by a drunk'. Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research. As it happens, Sue and I are married; so I imagined a scenario about what would have happened if we had met ten years earlier, and took it from there!"

 

I could not come up with any better descriptions of this TV series, but one thing is what at least I can assure you, this Steven, he is never exhausted in brooding weird, bizarre, peculiar, ludicrous but also tremendously entertaining and educational thoughts and ways of telling you so!

 

What is the definition of Classic? My version is something old but never out-of-dated, and whenever you review it, you can still gain something new and novel and cutting edge from it, like the Bible, like New Concept English~, like, “Apparently”, the COUPLING!

 

Rob Belcher's review has made a superb epitome of this drama, he wrote: "this show will speak to anyone who's ever dated, been in a relationship, or just noticed that men and women are different creatures."

 

I sincerely wish a perpetual life of Steven Moffat! I recommend this Sexy fairy tale weaved by 6 thirtysomething lovely actors to you, you would never feel losing your capital if you try to memorize every detail in it, trust me!