Rab C Nesbitt

Description: BBC / 1988 - 1999 Sitcom / Scottish Rab C Nesbitt is a rude, lazy, foul-mouthed, sexist, alcoholic who spends all his ... more

Rab C Nesbitt ... time chasing women (despite being married), fighting, drinking and telling anyone who will listen his views on life. His wife Mary and sons Gash and Burney have to put up with him.

Newest Review: ... (his son Burney) devil worship, domestic violence, cancer, police brutality, drug abuse, and so on. In fact, it would appear that absolutely no topic is taboo to Rab C Nesbitt; one show even had a criminal who specialised in cannibalism. (He ate the corpses of the people he killed!) Often the way the show deals with these topics touches a nerve with the viewers, and some of Rab's home spun ... more

... philosophies and ideas aren't so way out as they first appear, and as well as raising a laugh can often get you thinking about something in a totally different light. That said it's not a show either for the squeamish or for those who have an av...more

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Rab C Nesbitt: The Wee Jaggy Bunnet Merchant (695 words)
by - written on 31/01/08 (Very useful, 152 readings)
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"Rab C. Nesbitt" is a totally irreverent and over the top sitcom starring Gregor Fisher that was produced by the BBC and which ran for a total of 8 series and 52 episodes between 1990 and 1999. It first aired as a regular sketch on the BBC2 show "Naked Video" from 1986 to 1990, and a special Christmas edition pilot show was made purely for Scottish audiences in 1988 called "Rab C. Nesbitt's Seasonal Greet". So what's it about, and what makes the show so irreverent and OTT? Rab C. Nesbitt is a resident of a sink estate in Govan. (A district in Glasgow) Rab is the absolute epitome of all that is bad about working class Scots, ... Read the complete review

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