One of the best stick on television in the 70s why we can't have these today it's because people would be saying they are being racist there's not one thing in this programmes that is racist it's good good sitcom at the time it's only couldn't be like it today
yeah sure not one thing wrong. id dare u to walk up to me and call me a nignog. matter of fact try it out to the next black man u see. let me know how it works out
Bill calls Eddie, 'Snowflake' which is so ironic considering how the word is used today to describe someone who gets upset by things they deem as unacceptable to their sensitive little minds. For example this programme. But not having the intelligence to realise that this was taking the mickey out of racists, not condoning it, and also not realising that as this show developed Bill and Eddie became best mates, although I suspect neither would admit it, while still taking the mickey out of each other on racial grounds, which only friends can do and get away with.
Exactly! Eddie usually came out looking the fool. Those two did become best friends. It was just a bit of fun. I am a black Barbadian. I am English born. When this came out we had just relocated to Barbados. My mother had experienced racism occasionally but she had also experienced more of the welcoming kind. I myself had never experienced racism at all. We never missed this show, my mum, my dad and I. It was our favourite. And still hilarious after rewatching several times! Brilliant!
No matter the seemingly insensitivity of Eddie's behaviour towards Joan, there is absolutely no doubt that he truly loves her. Just like his blatant racism towards Bill, doesn't distract from his real friendship for Bill.
This is the most original programmes we will ever see, true to the heart, its what was said in the times, just like today said how we feel. Like it or lump it.
Never knew they did some in Australia , Im now in Oz and ill pop to they house they made it one day ,its still there in Auburn 40mins for me in Sydney . I can't find the last episode in uk , he left to get work then family was coming later , the usual bloody Pommy stereotype came next as I got whenI came
True comedy able to laugh at our own ignorance. We call our mate's names but when push comes to shove we will be there for them. My favourite episode so far is Voodoo. So funny. Haven't seen them all yet but a brilliant sitcom.
Brilliant I like that both sides give as good as they get the writers intended that its like all garnet he was to be laughed at its only bigot n racists who think these 2 characters are heroes because they are too ignorant to understand
The girls used to get chewing gum and nylons (stockings), chocolate etc from the GIs soldiers. They had better rations then the British during Second World War.
This is sort of how friends are made without problems if people leave out all the bleeding hearts i mean im aboriginal and mates call me chocolate drop and I call them honkeys or Skippy's but we are mates and at the end of the day who cares.
@@Bluesmusicno1 but they talk about it as if it's something new. For Eddie maybe it is but for Bill it seems odd because he had a tache in the episode before this one and in most of the others.
Mary Tunstall this is how things were in the 70's. They would have been considered quite good husbands for the time. They were not involved in violence, they both retained themselves in employment, their gambling was limited to raffle tickets and they gave the women space to be involved in women's activities including socialising with other women.
I would choose a husband from that era than today, nowadays there's no loyalty , social media makes it easy to cheat... with one click of a button there's a prostitude ready, Instagram thots all over the place. I'd give anything to have lived in those days.
It was very 70's behaviour, you're right.. but there still were a lot of divorces back then because the men stayed at the pub too much and women got lonely and had had enough.
I think I have made an error, it's not the racism that's objectionable, (though that is unmistakable despite Eddie being a buffoon); Jack Smethurt's acting is the true farce: a witless, childish style emptied of comedy, elan, skill it's crude face-pulling and little else. Well a terrible accent too; Rudolph Walker is little better, gurning widely..
The writers made it that both sides gave as good as they got n all garnet and Eddie are to be laughed at at their ignorant views but ignorant people think them as heroes is all in your prospective
@ALLAN CHARLES I hate cookery programmes and find comedies like 'Peep Show' and 'Toast of London' and can't be with Smethurst in particular, ridiculous performance. Sample dialogue, "Cobblers!" "Knickers!" Well it's hardly 'Fawlty Towers'!
I disagree with your comments about Smethurst's acting, that is the character that he has developed, a sort of pretentious middle-class accent and behaviour. with working class ambitions. His character had changed through the series, being more working class in the earlier series, with the pretentions of middle class seemeing to develop in the later series. As for the racial element, it just shows Booth as cringeworthy idiot, much like Ricky Gervais' character in The Office.The Kate Williams character Joan, as the pants-wearing wife, is probably the better-developed character, although as a character, god-knows why she would stay married to such a bigotted idiot as Eddie. In the real world, I doubt that two such people would have remained married for long, or even have got married in the first place...Nina is probably the most natural of the actors in the series, playing the part straight but light. But, hey, it is intended as light entertainment, not dramatic art! The real problem that I have with this is that I was brought up on this style of Brit-com, Bless this House, Man about the house, George and Mildred, etc, even Fawlty Towers, and the women of the house was always the dominant people, the males always scheming to get down to the pub or some other scheme to get away from the wife, with the Love-Hate relationship. I thought that this was normal and acceptable behaviour, that the wife was always angry about anything that the husband did, that the husband always complained to his mates about the wife, etc.
@@richardhill2643 That's a lovely rebuke, or rather articulation of our disagreement. It reminds me - I risk being pretentious here but why break the habit if a lifetime? - where .R. Leavis would identify a passage of prise and ask "That is so, is it not?" Which is really what you are saying about Smethurst. A parallel worth trying on Endeavour Morse, generally judged to be well portrayed by John Thaw though I found this generally esteemed actor uneasy inhabiting the role of an educated man. His accent and manner seemed to me poorly judged, it was too obviously ACTED àlthough, of course with Smethurst we are meant to know he is always acting since he's putting on airs. As you say, of course. But I still find him a poor actor, though if you are right that is on me not the actor! As to the misogyny, that is interesting and has become especially pronounced as aspects of feminism have shown themselves in television and in our society generally. You can see it way back in Aristophanes too. I can't disagree, like the mother-in-law joke writ large and not always something time and social change has emancipated us from. Fwiw, I find 'Love thy Neighbour' like 'Benidorm' to be remarkable for the very low esteem it holds its viewers in. They seem to have almost boundless contempt for the bodgers,, oafs , sloths and incompetents that make up both the screen and those watching it. Thanks for the thoughtful appraisal. Best wishes Gary.
You sir are a brilliant father... teaching your children through comedy how stupid and absurd racism is. I offer you nothing more than my best wishes in bringing up your young ones to be as open minded and tolerant as you.
If you can't have a good laugh, then theirs something wrong with you 😂😂
Its so sad there are only 3 of them left now. Jack Smethurst was a brilliant actor
Jack Smethurst died
I did wonder, don't recall him doing anything after this programme.
@@jenparry718 He appeared in comedy shows Keeping up Appearances and Dinnerladies.
Well nobody lives forever..
@@Stickleback I know
One of the best programs in the 70s
COMEDY AT ITS BEST. THE BRITS KNOW HOW TO MAKE TRUE COMEDY
Amen ms cdf
One of the best stick on television in the 70s why we can't have these today it's because people would be saying they are being racist there's not one thing in this programmes that is racist it's good good sitcom at the time it's only couldn't be like it today
yeah sure not one thing wrong. id dare u to walk up to me and call me a nignog. matter of fact try it out to the next black man u see. let me know how it works out
Brilliant, simple comedy ! Just love this show xx
Misunderstanding is always funny, and writer Brian Cooke did it so well in Father Dear Father
Eddie: It doesn't show at all.
Joan: No well, it wouldn't! It was only a chocolate finger!! LOL
Bill And Eddie both Look handsome with their moustache’s. 🤔👍
Love how Bill always sits in the club on his chair backwards. Might try that... Wish I had a friend as cool as Bill.
Absolutely hilarious, this. Very clever.
Behave, it was pretty weak humour. It was of its time
@@TheWelwyn21 Grow up Karen this was in the 70s where people used to have laughs, Unlike your generation
@@TheWelwyn21 much like todays faux outrage humour. Boring.
My dad used to be an agent for John Moores catalogues. I remember buying a Toshiba Walkman for £70 and paying it back weekly lol.
Can he still get me one?
@@moneymandan6217 lol afraid not
John Moore's catalogue we use to get all sorts out of that blast from the past 👍
2:35 Bill gives Eddie the finger LOL , such a subtle but brilliant joke
Bill calls Eddie, 'Snowflake' which is so ironic considering how the word is used today to describe someone who gets upset by things they deem as unacceptable to their sensitive little minds. For example this programme. But not having the intelligence to realise that this was taking the mickey out of racists, not condoning it, and also not realising that as this show developed Bill and Eddie became best mates, although I suspect neither would admit it, while still taking the mickey out of each other on racial grounds, which only friends can do and get away with.
exactly.
Agreed 👍
Exactly! Eddie usually came out looking the fool.
Those two did become best friends. It was just a bit of fun.
I am a black Barbadian. I am English born. When this came out we had just relocated to Barbados. My mother had experienced racism occasionally but she had also experienced more of the welcoming kind. I myself had never experienced racism at all.
We never missed this show, my mum, my dad and I. It was our favourite. And still hilarious after rewatching several times!
Brilliant!
Jesus we still do at work n now. Tease each other.
Uk banter is a bit less harmless than American , we carried on about Lancashire and Yorkshires in the factory war of roses😆
Classic!
The thing they always show they always comes in on top over racism
The good old days 😢😢😢
When the air was clean, but the sex was dirty.
Um, it wasn't that good.....
@@michaeleastham3868 you must be a lefty. 😂
@@michaeleastham3868 my child up bringing was ok perhaps yours wasn't 🤷🏻♂️
I really wish this show was on now ,as it showed when all colours had sense of humour, even if Bill makes Eddy look a idiot every week
Eddie didn't need Bill or anyone else's help to make him look like an idiot 😀
They are talking about bringing it back watch the documentary on it on here
Comedy is the steam valve of our boiling mad society. The more its censored, the worse the social tensions .
Well they've banned the Fawly Towers "Germans" episode etc - not that any Germans complained I believe. So many others offended on their behalf...??
Too many woke snowflakes desperately looking for anything too be offended by.
Pc f them
It was on telly last night!
No matter the seemingly insensitivity of Eddie's behaviour towards Joan, there is absolutely no doubt that he truly loves her. Just like his blatant racism towards Bill, doesn't distract from his real friendship for Bill.
Love the show I have a pint not full lol
Bill and Eddie do Movember LOL!
His suit so Victorian and tash brill
This is the most original programmes we will ever see, true to the heart, its what was said in the times, just like today said how we feel. Like it or lump it.
Had a crush for barbie when I was a kid.
i still got a crush on her and im 56
Love Eddie’s moustache. 😀
Someone in the kitchen at 18:16 putting plates on the table.
Bill always greets Barbie with love and respect, unlike Eddie when he sees Joan.
My favorite episode so far.😁👍
I noticed Bill and barbie never kiss properly!!!
Eddy looks good with a moustache!
l cannot believe the racism.
Never knew they did some in Australia , Im now in Oz and ill pop to they house they made it one day ,its still there in Auburn 40mins for me in Sydney . I can't find the last episode in uk , he left to get work then family was coming later , the usual bloody Pommy stereotype came next as I got whenI came
Bill never really kissed Barbie on the lips. Look carefully and see.
Season 8 waw can't even find any past season 2 just now just seen this hope can find them all ah it's not season 8 it's 2!
True comedy able to laugh at our own ignorance. We call our mate's names but when push comes to shove we will be there for them. My favourite episode so far is Voodoo. So funny. Haven't seen them all yet but a brilliant sitcom.
Me too. I laughed till I cried when Eddie was dancing around the trees.
Brilliant I like that both sides give as good as they get the writers intended that its like all garnet he was to be laughed at its only bigot n racists who think these 2 characters are heroes because they are too ignorant to understand
God I love this programme
"He probably took advantage of you in a weak moment with chewing gum and nylon!" I'm confused, what have they got to do with it? 🤣🤣🤣
The girls used to get chewing gum and nylons (stockings), chocolate etc from the GIs soldiers. They had better rations then the British during Second World War.
During the wat the soldiers would get women chocolate n nylon stocking n gum
It also goes back to the conversation in the club, with comments by Jacko.
Keep up !
Back in the "good" old days, English women were whores when the Americans were in town during WW11...
The first black barbie lol
Silly place to have a dart board, right next to the bar.
Depends how bad the dart player is 😁
Silly place to put a door
What’s with eddies left hairy side burn the right side different
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Jittybugger! LOL
Eddies voice got posher!
This is sort of how friends are made without problems if people leave out all the bleeding hearts i mean im aboriginal and mates call me chocolate drop and I call them honkeys or Skippy's but we are mates and at the end of the day who cares.
love thy porkupine
EDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDIIIIEEEEEE HITTTTTTTTTTTTLLLEEEEEEERRR...!!..LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL..!!
Eddie had one sideburns longer and hairy than the other
5:23 A microphone makes an appearance!
😁😁😁saw it, the good old days .
They appear all time in older sitcoms. All part of the charm.
Part of the (lack of) continuity in those manic production days. Every comedy had such incidents.
@@shaun8702 and old Coronation St episodes as well.
Practising every night on his own so double sided brll
😂😂
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Jacko in George and the dragon u tube sid james etc brill ms cdf
Kyushu I
Am I missing something here. Bills always had a moustache?
Eddie's got one n bill hasn't always had one sometimes its shaved
@@Bluesmusicno1 but they talk about it as if it's something new. For Eddie maybe it is but for Bill it seems odd because he had a tache in the episode before this one and in most of the others.
i they were my husbands i would divorce them, they spend more time in the club than with their wives.
Mary Tunstall this is how things were in the 70's. They would have been considered quite good husbands for the time. They were not involved in violence, they both retained themselves in employment, their gambling was limited to raffle tickets and they gave the women space to be involved in women's activities including socialising with other women.
Spinster.
I would choose a husband from that era than today, nowadays there's no loyalty , social media makes it easy to cheat... with one click of a button there's a prostitude ready, Instagram thots all over the place.
I'd give anything to have lived in those days.
It was very 70's behaviour, you're right.. but there still were a lot of divorces back then because the men stayed at the pub too much and women got lonely and had had enough.
@@terrythekittie 1 in 2 marriages now end in divorce - much higher than in the 1970's.
I think I have made an error, it's not the racism that's objectionable, (though that is unmistakable despite Eddie being a buffoon); Jack Smethurt's acting is the true farce: a witless, childish style emptied of comedy, elan, skill it's crude face-pulling and little else. Well a terrible accent too; Rudolph Walker is little better, gurning widely..
The writers made it that both sides gave as good as they got n all garnet and Eddie are to be laughed at at their ignorant views but ignorant people think them as heroes is all in your prospective
@ALLAN CHARLES I hate cookery programmes and find comedies like 'Peep Show' and 'Toast of London' and can't be with Smethurst in particular, ridiculous performance.
Sample dialogue, "Cobblers!"
"Knickers!" Well it's hardly 'Fawlty Towers'!
I disagree with your comments about Smethurst's acting, that is the character that he has developed, a sort of pretentious middle-class accent and behaviour. with working class ambitions. His character had changed through the series, being more working class in the earlier series, with the pretentions of middle class seemeing to develop in the later series. As for the racial element, it just shows Booth as cringeworthy idiot, much like Ricky Gervais' character in The Office.The Kate Williams character Joan, as the pants-wearing wife, is probably the better-developed character, although as a character, god-knows why she would stay married to such a bigotted idiot as Eddie. In the real world, I doubt that two such people would have remained married for long, or even have got married in the first place...Nina is probably the most natural of the actors in the series, playing the part straight but light.
But, hey, it is intended as light entertainment, not dramatic art!
The real problem that I have with this is that I was brought up on this style of Brit-com, Bless this House, Man about the house, George and Mildred, etc, even Fawlty Towers, and the women of the house was always the dominant people, the males always scheming to get down to the pub or some other scheme to get away from the wife, with the Love-Hate relationship. I thought that this was normal and acceptable behaviour, that the wife was always angry about anything that the husband did, that the husband always complained to his mates about the wife, etc.
@@richardhill2643 That's a lovely rebuke, or rather articulation of our disagreement. It reminds me - I risk being pretentious here but why break the habit if a lifetime? - where .R. Leavis would identify a passage of prise and ask "That is so, is it not?" Which is really what you are saying about Smethurst. A parallel worth trying on Endeavour Morse, generally judged to be well portrayed by John Thaw though I found this generally esteemed actor uneasy inhabiting the role of an educated man. His accent and manner seemed to me poorly judged, it was too obviously ACTED àlthough, of course with Smethurst we are meant to know he is always acting since he's putting on airs. As you say, of course. But I still find him a poor actor, though if you are right that is on me not the actor!
As to the misogyny, that is interesting and has become especially pronounced as aspects of feminism have shown themselves in television and in our society generally. You can see it way back in Aristophanes too. I can't disagree, like the mother-in-law joke writ large and not always something time and social change has emancipated us from.
Fwiw, I find 'Love thy Neighbour' like 'Benidorm' to be remarkable for the very low esteem it holds its viewers in. They seem to have almost boundless contempt for the bodgers,, oafs , sloths and incompetents that make up both the screen and those watching it.
Thanks for the thoughtful appraisal.
Best wishes Gary.
@@garymorgan3314 oh and I hated Fawtey Towers. Now that’s cringeworthy with exaggerated acting and outright nastiness.
I have mixed race kids my mate think it's inapropriate that I watch this TV show, there's nothing racist about if as far as I can see
You sir are a brilliant father... teaching your children through comedy how stupid and absurd racism is. I offer you nothing more than my best wishes in bringing up your young ones to be as open minded and tolerant as you.