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Post by mekon on Apr 13, 2020 10:05:38 GMT
So is this the legacy of 70s kids TV. Some good stuff but mainly made by paedos?
The Krankies was fucked really. A man and his midget wife who he dresses up to be a school boy. Then it turns out they were actually sexual deviants in the real world.
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Post by philthewindsurfer on Apr 13, 2020 10:39:22 GMT
Clangers.
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Apr 13, 2020 10:44:31 GMT
Oh the Clangers were brilliant and I won't hear a word against them. Try watching them on acid. |
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Apr 13, 2020 15:05:39 GMT
When you were really wee, Camberwick Green and Chigley were like a comfort blanket. So laid back they were guaranteed to leave you in a state of total Zen.
And Gerry Anderson never made anything that wasn't brilliant. I only found out recently that he was behind UFO which me and my bro loved but classic stuff like Captain Scarlett, Joe 90, etc were incredible.
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Post by mekon on Apr 13, 2020 15:08:31 GMT
I could never get into that speccy cunt Joe 90.
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Post by pantah on Apr 14, 2020 11:28:22 GMT
I could never understand the nation's love for Last of the Summer Wine. I saw it briefly when my parents watched the show and thought it was basically 3 daft old cunts talking shite and getting into unfeasible scrapes. Oh and one of them had the hots for this Nora Batty sort. Funny as fuck that was, she was pig ugly and kept knocking the Compo cunt back.
I never watched it again till about twenty odd years later and it was basically 3 daft old cunts talking shite and getting into unfeasible scrapes. Pretty sure one of them was still trying to get into the crusted knickers of the now geriatric Batty.
Why the fuck don't they just kill off shite TV instead of bleeding them to fucking death.
Going to have to admit it, i used to like It ain't half hot mum. I'll probably get flamed for that but fuck off, you are a bunch of pooooofs !!!!
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Post by neilf on Apr 14, 2020 12:22:24 GMT
I could never understand the nation's love for Last of the Summer Wine. I saw it briefly when my parents watched the show and thought it was basically 3 daft old cunts talking shite and getting into unfeasible scrapes. Sounds like Top Gear! |
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Apr 14, 2020 12:58:43 GMT
Aye we all used to enjoy It Ain't Half Hot Mum but it was another typical 70s early evening family friendly sitcom that was absolutely seething with homophobia and racism. There's no way you could show that ever again. You instantly think of characters like Alf Garnet and shows like Love Thy Neighbour when discussing these issues but it was absolutely everywhere and was accepted without question.
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Post by pantah on Apr 14, 2020 13:51:58 GMT
Aye we all used to enjoy It Ain't Half Hot Mum but it was another typical 70s early evening family friendly sitcom that was absolutely seething with homophobia and racism. There's no way you could show that ever again. You instantly think of characters like Alf Garnet and shows like Love Thy Neighbour when discussing these issues but it was absolutely everywhere and was accepted without question. To be fair El the R, it was not in the same league as Love Thy Neighbour with said issues. It was actually a piss take of the old British colonialism and how detached the ruling classes were from the damn natives. Croft and Perry had first hand experience of the situation in India and so it was a chance to expose the whole thing in comedy. Michael Bates was actually born and brought up in India but blackening him up and sticking a snake belt on his turban was maybe going too far (it was funny mind) but he came out with some classic Hindu proverbs. As for the homophobic jokes, who would have guessed that in the 21st century we would have become so anal.  |
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Apr 14, 2020 14:26:44 GMT
Didn't Warren Mitchell always claim that he played the character of Alf Garnett to shine a light on people with those awful opinions? Doesn't really work if the audience doesn't get it. Same with Love Thy Neighbour. The racist guy always lost out morally but words like sambo and nig-nog were firmly in the national vocabulary and we would use these in the playground without a second thought. Also expressions like "ya fucking poofy bastard" were liberally used to deride anyone. It must have been absolute torture for anyone who actually was a fucking poofy bastard and was perhaps struggling to come to terms with their fucking poofy bastardness.
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Post by pantah on Apr 14, 2020 14:59:53 GMT
Didn't Warren Mitchell always claim that he played the character of Alf Garnett to shine a light on people with those awful opinions? Doesn't really work if the audience doesn't get it. Same with Love Thy Neighbour. The racist guy always lost out morally but words like sambo and nig-nog were firmly in the national vocabulary and we would use these in the playground without a second thought. Also expressions like "ya fucking poofy bastard" were liberally used to deride anyone. It must have been absolute torture for anyone who actually was a fucking poofy bastard and was perhaps struggling to come to terms with their fucking poofy bastardness. Agree the background and meanings bypass a lot of people but doesn't mean there isn't a place for comedy to expose how ridiculous some situations can be. Motobanzai and myself included constantly deride poofs and poofery, especially blatant poofery but although my wife tends to think i'm homophobic the truth is i'm open minded but still think there's a place for comedy in pretty much everything. Frankie Boyle is a case in point. My own stepson is gay and i respect him totally for his choices in life. Fuck knows it must be difficult to take some of the abuse. As a ginger i know how it feels |
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Post by Droog on Apr 14, 2020 15:37:17 GMT
I definitely am not down with anything homophobic. A few posters on here make me cringe at times but they get a private rebuke. It's definitely a generation/age thing though. I'm guilty of saying Paki shop still and get annoyed when I'm pulled up on it. I get it though. Changing our thinking is difficult.
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Apr 14, 2020 16:01:58 GMT
I definitely am not down with anything homophobic. A few posters on here make me cringe at times but they get a private rebuke. It's definitely a generation/age thing though. I'm guilty of saying Paki shop still and get annoyed when I'm pulled up on it. I get it though. Changing our thinking is difficult. It must have been extremely difficult for gay men. Derogatory language was rife and unchallenged and there wasn't even legal parity between gays and hets. Absolutely no cunt was openly gay when I was school and it's easy to see why so many gay men ended up suppressing their feelings and marrying burds with fannies and then using those same fannies to make babies. My mate's dad did exactly that and the fucking collateral damage when he did finally come out was utterly brutal. I remember when my daughter came home from school with her friend William who was as festive as a Xmas tree. It felt like society had pleasantly progressed as he clearly felt able to be openly gay. I'm not suggesting he didn't get some shite at school but the progress was there and it was great to see. I still bump into him now and again and he's still as fruity as a Garibaldi and doesn't seem to have any of the hang-ups or guilt that gay men of my generation were weighed down with. |
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Post by roobarb on Apr 14, 2020 17:39:11 GMT
My Dad always made sure the family telly was tuned to these whenever they were broadcast...
Documentary: The World At War
Drama: Secret Army
Comedy: It Ain't Half Hot Mum
I think I might be Mark Francois.
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Post by mekon on Apr 14, 2020 18:13:44 GMT
Networkonair.com is a good site for old UK stuff. Plenty of shit but good stuff like the medusa touch and saturn 3. Apparently Kirk Douglas was well on the metoo during filming.
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