It's geet canny like, the theme tune lyrics are so appropriate. Remember the slum clearances as a kid. Was good to have a sitcom from the true north of England, just the lack of Geordie/ Mackem twang
Listening to the hypocrite Malcolm Muggeridge spilling out his bs is hilarious. If you think he was a devout Christian, he was actually a sexual pervert
i think the film made fun of the followers, and the tendency for people to follow anyone, and that demigrated religion, and belittled religiosity, making them like groupies and Jesus just another bloke being chosen like Brian. I think this is why the priests felt affronted. the followers were but of the joke, ie the priests too.
Seeing this again confirms my opinion that it was tripe then, and that remains unaltered. Both of main protagonists type-cast themselves. Neither were able to be other than themselves.
This brought back a whole lot of buried memories until now. remember watching this as a 16-year-old in 1972. Loved the decor of the day, and the comments LOL, especially the schoolgirl fantasy...this would have had the politically correct snowflakes up in arms if this was today.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
The decor and furniture reminds me of every unending horrible boring Christmas at the in laws. Just seeing brown sofas or ANYTHING orange makes me lose the will to live.
When Terry commented that the barometer (thermometer to him) was too big to put in Thelma's mouth, he should have followed up with: "Unless it goes in the other end!"
Wonder if there's a full version of the theme music of this comedy classic .afther all Humour comedy is the best medicine espeicialy if you're feeling down.
It was a 100% live show. Also it was open ended, it didn't have an end time, the show continued for as long as the conversation lasted, this mean it could runs for 45 minutes or 2 hours depending on the debate and discussion.
lol, the guy in the dress (don't they criticise drag queens?) saying that religion is going to be around for a long time got that wrong eh - pew polls and gallup kinda show religion is fading faster than predicted at the last poll. religion is just organised superstition, the ultimate finger crossing, _that_ might be around for ever, it's an evolutionary survival trait, but religion is already dying. and seriously, jesus didn't write anything, no one has a clue what he was like, one theory is that paul used his death to start the religion for his own purposes. and no one wrote about jesus during his life, despite the opportunity to report these "miracles" it's claimed he did. claimed ten years after he was dead and gone, maybe even 70 years after. i think people are growing up when it comes to mythologies, if you think islam isn't true, or hinduism isn't true, then why think christianity is true? and lastly, christianity is based on a bloke having a hallucination of a dead bloke he NEVER MET.
There is more historical evidence as to the existence and words of Jesus than there is of Aristotle, Plato and even Shakespeare. Yet people have no problem believing in those men, while questioning the historical existence and accuracy of who Jesus was. It is clearly willful ignorance to ignore all the evidence available to all who wish to expand their knowledge base. Even Flavius Josephus and Pliny the Younger, both secular Roman historians, did not question the veracity of Jesus' history, and recorded it in their writings.
