If the English start becoming irony proof, we're f*cking screwed.

I've tried re-watching the show lately, and I just hate it. I remember loving it, but it just annoys me lately. I do not really know why.

I guess I'm just tired of the "misunderstandings that get out of hand" genre of comedy.

Welcome to Shartbama's England.

I agree with TFA.

"Yes, you did. You invaded Poland" is one of the funniest lines in TV history.

/do NOT mention the war
//I think I let it slip but I believe I got away with it

Sounds like trying to watch Blazing Saddles on TNT.

/What a cut up mess

censoring of a racial slur has the unintended effect of censoring satire on racism?

You don't say.


Also

"Attitudes to racist words were different then; some people might find certain phrases offensive.'"

I'm pretty sure most people considered that word offensive in 1975.

Ohhh... German. I thought there was something wrong with you.

I was trying to cheer her up, you stupid kraut!

ModernLuddite: I've tried re-watching the show lately, and I just hate it. I remember loving it, but it just annoys me lately. I do not really know why.

I guess I'm just tired of the "misunderstandings that get out of hand" genre of comedy.

I like the show, but watching it is actually stressful. It is so manic that it causes me to get anxious watching it.

This is an outrage!

John Cleese relies on residuals from the airings of these old shows to finance his marriage habit!

/shocked, nay, appalled.

Farty Towels

I always had a thing for Cybil.

RobertBruce: This is just ridiculous, Now I'm curious, how shy would CBS be about rerunning All in the Family now?

Since Chuck Lorre didn't make it,they wouldn't air it at all.

That back and forth with the Major in that episode is one my favourite parts. Shame they had to take it out.

but forgive and forget...god knows how, the bastards.

I like how racism that isn't racism is called racism because it cheapens actual racism and makes racist people feel they being treated with racism.

Good luck with that sentence, but I assure you it makes perfect sense.

ModernLuddite: I've tried re-watching the show lately, and I just hate it. I remember loving it, but it just annoys me lately. I do not really know why.

I guess I'm just tired of the "misunderstandings that get out of hand" genre of comedy.

Dramatic Irony is a delicate tool to wield, but comedy writers think it's a sledgehammer. It's one of the reasons I just can't watch 95% of American sitcoms anymore.

Teetotaler: RobertBruce: This is just ridiculous, Now I'm curious, how shy would CBS be about rerunning All in the Family now?

Since Chuck Lorre didn't make it,they wouldn't air it at all.

Chuck Lorre is worse than Hitler.

Trocadero: Teetotaler: RobertBruce: This is just ridiculous, Now I'm curious, how shy would CBS be about rerunning All in the Family now?

Since Chuck Lorre didn't make it,they wouldn't air it at all.

Chuck Lorre is worse than Hitler.

Whoa, Charlie Sheen is a Farker, AND he has an alt!

albert71292: At least the episodes are still intact on the DVD set.

..and on Netflix streaming.

Doktor_Zhivago: Eirik: Sounds like trying to watch Blazing Saddles on TNT.

/What a cut up mess

It's even more offensive without the full on language because it never reaches the heights of ridiculous hyperbole required to make it so over the top that it becomes funny instead of just offensive. The whole point of that movie is to jab at the people who seriously say things like that and if they don't actually say those things it just destroys it. If someone is offended by full on Blazing Saddles then they are too stupid to understand that they're mocking exactly that sort of ignorance and xenophobia.

/"we'll take the n*ggers and the chinks but not the irish" isn't as rediculously nonsensical as if you say "we'll take the african and asian americans but not the irish." it just loses the whole thrust of the joke which is pointing out the absurd hierarchy of ethnicities that such a statement infers.

My parents saw this in the movies when they were dating. There was a black couple in the row ahead of them. My parents were afraid to laugh at first. Turns out the blacks couple was laughing the hardest in the theater.

/only stuffy white people are offended.
//The Jeffersons and Sanford and Son are butchered on local airings.

JolobinSmokin: Now I know why these were replayed in the US much if they used the N-word post 1970's.

You're a moron.

Hawk24: albert71292: At least the episodes are still intact on the DVD set.

..and on Netflix streaming.

Which leads me to ask why Netflix doesn't have the entire second episode of season 1 of MI-5 (the deep fat fryer episode)?

So, that's two egg mayonnaise, a prawn Goebbels, a Hermann Goering, and four Colditz salads.

"I speak English good. I learn it from a boook!"

"You naughty moose!"

In Australia they have recently added more TV channels, and are putting on a lot of old 1970's UK comedies, including 2 I thought I'd never see again - "Mind Your Language" and "Love Thy Neighbour".
"Mind your Language" is set in an adult English language class and consists of every stereotype there is. The polite and deferential Japanese man, the sexy French woman, the Chinese girl who has Mao's little red book, the lecherous Italian bloke, the ugly German woman etc. I reckon it's the most racist show ever.
"Love thy Neighbour" is about a white (Daily Mail reading no-doubt) guy who has a black family move next door and the wonderful sophisticated comedy that ensues from this situation is both subtle and nuanced. At least once an episode the white guy says "Nig Nog" and the black guy says "Honky" and they never fail to get a laugh.
They also show The Goodies, which I can remember being essential viewing when I was a kid, but now just isn't funny.

Dumb-Ass-Monkey: FTFA - Sadly, though, this isn't the first time BBC eagerness to censor its past output has robbed us of brilliant comedy. The Goodies - the most successful laughter series of the Seventies and a show that drew ratings-busting audiences - is simply never repeated.


Laughter series?? WHAT???

LAUGHTER OL!

FFS! Just love the cleansing of history. It's so helpful.

Gyrfalcon: vrax: FFS! Just love the cleansing of history. It's so helpful.

Yes, in a few more years, nobody will even understand why the March on Selma even had to take place.

I know! The poor thing...

vrax: Gyrfalcon: vrax: FFS! Just love the cleansing of history. It's so helpful.

Yes, in a few more years, nobody will even understand why the March on Selma even had to take place.

I know! The poor thing...

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I'd march on Selma.

Flint Ironstag: Flint Ironstag: The word they censored is the very same word that Fark censors.

/attractive and successful African-American.

Wow, wasn't censored in the preview. Had me worried there for a moment...

I guess preview deliberately doesn't apply the filter so people won't notice it and thus experiment with ways around it (like adding punctuation, or changing letters to numbers, etc.) before committing their comments.

Flint Ironstag: xria: Flint Ironstag: Flint Ironstag: The word they censored is the very same word that Fark censors.

/attractive and successful African-American.

Wow, wasn't censored in the preview. Had me worried there for a moment...

I guess preview deliberately doesn't apply the filter so people won't notice it and thus experiment with ways around it (like adding punctuation, or changing letters to numbers, etc.) before committing their comments.

Makes sense.

Lets see if Fark censors the really bad words...

Semprini.
Belgium.

Why don't you ram it up your pim-hole, you fusking cloff prunker.