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dont mention the war , episode gone
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I can't see Porridge surviving Lukewarm's character either. The big laugh his letter to "My darling Trevor" got will see to that.
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They wont back down from this its now or never and they know it, the final dance
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The Office.
David Brent: "This guy tells an excellent joke. Oh no, it's not you, it's the other one." |
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I'm sure it was very different when it first started (Netflix), I can't remember what year it was, but it all changed about 4 or 5 years ago.
There are still a lot of good older productions (TV and movies) on there, but you can bet they're getting scrutinised now, more will be binned, scenes will be cut, whole episodes vaporised. Only Fools was one of the early casualties I think. 2 or 3 years ago, they cut scenes out of at least one episode. |
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OFAH got butchered on a new DVD box release a few years ago https://www.zavvi.com/dvd/only-fools-and-horses-complete-series-and-specials/8564878.html
The leopard print version box set The newer box version even more so, not worth bothering with either of them |
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Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Dad's Army?
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Auf Wiedersehen, Pet will go for sure
The "abduls" nickname the gang gave them will see to that They called the Germans "erics" as well |
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They called the turks abduls
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https://youtu.be/3XFBAL0CL8M
I feel like this |
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Giz a bottle a pils Adolf and Get yer laughing gear roond that Pepe always makes me laugh
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Only just heard this, unbelievable don't these lunatics get satire!
I expect they'll be taking off that Indian comedy next with the old indian fella playing up to all the stereotypes,(can't think what it's called), or is it ok for Indian people to send themselves up. |
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It Ain't Half Hot Mum?
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Forget that was it Goodness Gracious Me?
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Major:''I took her to see India.
Polly : ''India !''. Major : ''At the Oval'  |
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Lets see how PC they are when hardly anyone is paying the license fee plus the woke shoite they are pushing left right and centre starts to hit the viewing fugures and the advertisers start to turn off the revenue stream. If anyone has seen any part of that garbage from the US Batwaaaman, they'll know what I'm talking about.
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Removing these things from Netflix should see socially distanced queues outside hmv next week as folk but dvds using contactless cards.
If there's any hmvs left after cut backs and riots... |
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Buy dvds
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it wasn't Fawlty's fault ...it's not about the Germans
this was because of the Major .... using the w and n words |
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For the last fecking time:
1) It’s not because of the war 2) It’s about repeated use of the N word 3) BBC edited the offending scene in 2013 4) Cleese fully approved of it 5) Netflix & UKTV were airing unedited version 6) Edited version will likely be used in future From twitter, probably won't help, but they want to complain, |
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anyone seeing that trisha goddard interview last night and think these programmes should still be available are plain and simply RACISTS, END OFF,
no what about,what if,blah,blah |
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The thing about these shows,fawlty towers,till death us do part & even love thy neighbour was that the racist/bigot always came off the loser second best.cant these people see that they shouldn’t take them at face value.we re laughing at the bigot not with them.
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Some people didn't realise that on this forum last week
Amazing innit, It still causes the racists words to be used against people as catch phrases, so ridicule of racists somewhat failed as they simply were not bright enough to get the ridicule. (might just be Russian bots on here though) |
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Doesn't negate the intent of the sitcoms though.
If anyone can watch Love Thy Neighbour and want to be humiliated the way Jack Smethurst's character was each week, then they're beyond help anyway. Ditto anyone who watches Major Gowen in Fawlty Towers and decides that that is how they themselves would like to be perceived. |
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The real genius of Love Thy Neighbour was that Jack Smethurst's thick bigot was a diehard Labour trade union activist, while Rudolph Walker's black character was a Conservative voter who wanted to get on in life.
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Oh I agree on the intent, just that it didn't work on some
who still hero worship alf garnett.. |
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I didn't make my point well, dambuster. None of those old sitcoms promoted bigotry or racist insults, whoever they were coming from. Randolph Walker's character got his come-uppance from his wife just as much as Jack Smethurst's character did. The long-suffering women just made both the menfolk look stupid.
I was objecting to you-have-to-laugh's contention that just because some people still use those insults, then those sitcoms must have been failures. My contention was that anyone who watched them and saw the way Eddie Booth and Bill Reynolds behaved and got henpecked for it, was simply beyond help anyway. |
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You make your point well, imo
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the goddard stuff,lttle britan stuff was 10/15 years ago
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Thank you.
Are you sure Chit-Chat is really for you though? |
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The demise in BBC comedy has been catastrophic in the last few years as I've been boring people for years on this very forum :)
It's all woke bullshit with the BBC agenda. Drama, documentaries, news, all riddled. There is no BBC comedy I can think of in recent years that I'd want to watch or could name as something I thought funny, not so many years ago there was loads. The BBC just needs put down IMHO. Boyle, Hislop and Kumar can do Guardian christmas lunches. |
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Responding to the deletion of the “Germans” episode of Fawlty Towers from BBC-owned streamer UKTV, Cleese says:
“The Major was an old fossil left over from decades before. We were not supporting his views, we were making fun of them. If they can’t see that, if people are too stupid to see that, what can one say?” |
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I totally agree that these left wing apologist are thick, just look at the Banksy mural removed by Tendring council in 2014,
it was an exotic looking bird sitting next to pigeons who held up placards saying things like 'Go back home' and Go back to Africa'. He was mocking UKIP winning the local elections, but council cheifs panicked in case it offended anyone, they received 400 complaints for removing it, and 1 person supported them. Once they found it was Banksy, they asked him back again, when they knew it would be worth a fortune to them. He never returned as far as i know.  |
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Just watched Love they neighbor for the first time ever .... can't see how it paints blacks in a bad picture from the episode i saw (apart from the loud music party next door maybe )
white bloke portrayed as a complete moron ,as he was .  black guy next door seems a good egg and seems well liked . other then the use of certain racist words repeated far too often I think it was OK ,one or two funny gags |
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cleese may well have said that but like most of us cleese probably didn't think the major would be more main strain today than he was the,if that was on today who do you think the brexiteers,right ukip some in tory party would be laughing with or laughing at,
as mr ferari woiuld say if you don't like been called a ------- go somewhere else |
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Coach
They saw that blacks and whites were getting on to a small degree and that's not acceptable, a united working class are frowned upon by the ruling elites They keep saying "unite" but they don't mean it, they want divide and chaos |