冤家成双对 第一季

       顺着大大的喜剧标签，我点进了这部英剧。专属的英式幽默，揭示了腐国人生活中都是段子手的真相，能说会道，开（猥）放（琐）程度丝毫不逊色于美国。
       一共六集的剧情，大多数情况下围绕“性”展开，男人与女人对于这个话题的不同认知。我承认不太喜欢这种过分露骨的探讨，中国人保守思想使然，同时茶余饭后的谈资已被工作学习、娱乐八卦湮没。比如近期的柯震东、房祖名吸毒事件，霸占头条迟迟不肯退居二线，余热一波波蔓延着水深火热的娱乐圈，引无数网友瞠目结舌。中华民族不可能是一个整天把“性”挂在嘴边的民族，我们有自己的信仰，庸俗到极致只会引领这个民族走向衰亡，自认为Freud的“性本论”有待商榷。
       我特别喜欢它的开头，非常巧妙，两个场景的拼接很容易让人误以为是他们一男一女在互通电话，实际上却是和各自的伴侣约会碰头。别出心裁的处理给了我追剧的动力和信心。随后，就是人物的自由重组，Susan和Patrick的分手，Steve和Jane的分手，为他们两人在一起创造了契机，于是Susan和Steve成了名正言顺的男女朋友。除此之外，还有Steve的好基友Jeff，Susan的好闺蜜Sally，三男三女一台戏，开启了一幕生活闹剧。
       谈不上对里面的哪个人物最有好感，都just so so吧。Susan还算正常，一般的小女人，是非分明，可为嘛每次躺枪的都是她。一次是在餐馆里袒胸露乳，另一次就是ML的视频供大家欣赏（后来证明那盘不是她的录像带），还有最后脱了衣服白白给Jeff看去了。Steve看上去挺老实一人，内心还是比较好色猥琐，男人嘛，你懂的。每次想和Jane说分手，都会被她的火辣身材征服，嘴边的话活生生给咽了下去。Jane的人设貌似是个双性恋，身材倍儿棒，一度对Steve念念不忘，后来忙着去Patrick那投怀送抱。Patrick堪称情场老手，上过女人的录像带都能堆满一柜子，收藏这个是赤果果的炫耀嘛，变态心理啊。Sally对Patrick很有好感，贪图他的床上功夫吧，害怕衰老，有一套属于自己的永葆青春的理论。至于Jeff，总喜欢给兄弟支招，出发点是好的，可没有实战经验的他只能算纸上谈兵。可惜的是里面还错过了一段异国恋情啊，语言不通真是罪过。
       我最喜欢的一集是关于笑点膨胀理论的，自己取的名字够有才吧。默哀的时候，是一个逐渐积累笑点的过程，事先声明这不是对死者的不尊重，只是情非得已迫于无奈。当笑点达到杯子的顶峰，一切就如火山爆发势不可挡，喷涌而出，为时已晚。这个跟现实生活比较贴近，当时笑尿的节奏。
       有人说冤家成双对是英国版的老友记，会不会让人误会美国和英国的开放程度呢？

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!

　　重新看coupling还是那么好笑，又记了两段jeff和patrick对于lesbian porn的看法，大概能回答不少女生的困惑。
　　
　　jeff：oh, wouldn't that be great.being a lesbian.all the advantages of being a man but with less embarrassing genitals. plus, every time you have sex, there's four breasts! two guest breasts, and two you can take home afterwards.oh it's bloody brilliant!
　　
　　patrick：i like films with lesbians in them, 'cause it's nice to think that there are attracive women who can't find a boyfriend.
　　
　　BTW，patrick在E4的发型真的是soooooo gay。

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

这部戏绝对可以作为喜剧的教材，台词精雕细琢。也难怪，那么红的剧5年才出了28集，慢工出细活，完全不担心观众会忘了跟。

好评楼上的已经说了很多，就翻译第一集一小段台词让大家自己判断吧。

Jeff： 你真要干？
Steve：对，我决定了。
Jeff： 她知道你要甩她吗？
Steve：应该知道。每次见面我都提出分手，已经提了四回了。
Jeff： 那怎么还没甩掉？
Steve：我们上床了。
Jeff： 你们上床了？
Steve：她逼我的。
Jeff： 怎么逼？
Steve：她要求的。
Jeff： 她主动要求？
Steve：是呀！
Jeff： 她是魔鬼！
Steve：上次甩她，结果我们把床弄塌了，她就以为我们复合了。
Jeff： 蠢！
Steve：是呀，爱情不止是床。
Jeff： 你提出分手后，她就要求上床？
Steve：是呀。那次我都要走了；我想我总算脱身了。她就靠过来，看着我的眼睛说：“我穿了连裤袜”。
Jeff： 天哪！
Steve：她以前从来没穿过，处那么久了，一次也没穿。我还求过她。
Jeff： 史蒂夫，你有权看她的连裤袜。


Sally：他说为什么要见你了吗？
Susan：没说。
Sally：可能他要求婚。不是说上周末你们过得很开心吗？
Susan：是啊。
Sally：那么你是不是还想和他……
Susan：爱情不只是床。
Sally：可能你应该嫁他。
Susan：没那回事，我们很随便的。全在床上，偶尔聊两句。
Sally：万一他是你的最后机会呢？万一你以后没机会了呢？记住，脸只会一天天变松。打三十岁起，我就每天控制面部表情，要微笑也只对单身汉笑，决不浪费，免得脸变松了。
Susan：你整天就担心这些？
Sally：你以为我干吗挑这份工作？就是为了让自己别老担心头发。
Susan：这番话居然出自我的美容师之口。
Sally：倒提醒我了。星期三晚上来做脸。
Susan：好的，但别一看见皱纹就数出来。
Sally：我数出声了吗？
Susan：你还给我建了档呢!
Sally：萨莉，你有没有想过，年龄会带来智慧和更多自信。
Susan：苏珊，年龄带给你更多需要修理的地方。


Susan： 玛丽•凯利才不喜欢你呢
Patrick：她的一举一动都说明她喜欢我。
Susan： 对你而言，女人做什么动作才算不喜欢你呢？
Patrick：还真没碰见过。