Occasionally catching a few seconds of one of those Saturday night shows where crowds of people are clapping along to some inane performance, it makes me want to write a living will to ensure someone ends me humanely if my brain ever rots to being one of those clappy seal drones. It's terrifying.
The dumbing down of TV, what do you miss?
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agreed. Kids today woul dlove these types of cartoons, better than that Ben Force 10 gash. I showed my nephew the first few episodes of Ulysses 31 as I had them on DVD and he ended up borrwoing the whole lot as he wanted to know how it ended. Then he came back and said you got anymore like that, so now he is on Thundercats with MASK and Dino Riders lined up next.
He also got a brief 5 mins look at Space 1999 which I had on in my home office the other day and asked if I have the boxset for that.
don't agree. the messaging in runs like Ulysses 31, HE-MAN, She-Ra, D&D thundercats, jayce and wheeled warriors, M.A.S.K etc was all focused on doing the right thing, not being a melt and having respect for your elders etc. If anything kids today could do with some of that type of messaging
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Mind your language
Its available on you tube
Wonder how many have never seen it, nothing like some like hearted racial and ethnicity jokes.
Danielle though, phew, smoking hot
Its available on you tube
Wonder how many have never seen it, nothing like some like hearted racial and ethnicity jokes.
Danielle though, phew, smoking hot
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Yes but the variety shows launched the careers of many household names; Larry Grayson, Stan Boardman, Bobby Davro, Gary Wilmott to name but a few.
While I loved some of the 80s alt comedy e.g. Edmunson/Mayall, Hale & Pace, Digance - I think it helped killed to kill off the more traditional comic acts, from a TV perspective, anyhow as they were perceived as too “end of the pier”.
Now, however, I think the pendulum has swung too far & “comics”, with a few exceptions, are just not funny. Possibly because they’re ramming their worldview down your throat the whole time & if you don’t align politically with that view then it’s hard to be entertained by such acts. Nish Patel leaps to mind. On the other hand, I loved Ben Elton & he was really pc but, again, pc for his time & wasn’t so extreme as to exclude us non lefties.
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The Good Old Days was/is shown on BBC4. Obviously any act that had Yewtree/paedo credentials - not shown.
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My friend's son loves the old cartoons and the originals of childrens' tv. He prefers the claymation Fireman Sam over the CGI version. One good thing about liking older stuff, DVDs are cheap from charity shops, CEX etc. He also likes Stoppit and Tidyup. Late 80s cartoon narrated by Terry Wogan and features characters which have names which are commands which parents say (more to the point, need to do today) Don't Do That, Beehave and Beequiet then the big bad I SAID NO!
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I introduced my lad to a few cartoons I loved as a kid. on the whole he was not fussed.
but trapdoor was a massive win.
"it's bonking time"
