Did Mrs. Slocum’s (Are you being Served?) pussy have a name?
Was it ever mentioned on any episode?
I dunno, but it IS female, and had kittens (offstage) on one show.
I always found it funny that ribald low-brow British comedies were shown on PBS, the “educational” network. Do educational channels in Britain air 'Married With Children"?
What was the name of Warren Oates’ cock in the movie Cockfighter?
[sub]Sorry if that seems rude, but the thread title made me laugh out loud…[/sub]
I think it was “Tiddles” or something like that. Funny enough show for about the first three seasons (until Mr. Grainger left), then became a lame parody of itself.
Sir Rhosis
Such is the case with all of Jeremy Lloyd and/or David Croft’s creations.
c.f.: Allo Allo, Dad’s Army, Hi De Hi, It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, etc etc
You mean it was funny at some time?
Yes, I would argue (not too forcefully) that for the first three years or so, it was pretty funny in, as one poster put it, its own low-brow way, but the jokes became stale, i. e. it was sort of amusing to hear about Mrs. Slocum’s pussy once, twice, or five times, but by 1985, when we had heard it 137 times, it was beyond wearing thin.
YMMV.
Sir Rhosis
Revtim wrote:
PBS seems to have this notion that if it’s British, it must be high-brow culture. I’ll wager they’re thinking about showing Benny Hill reruns any day now…
I’ve ALWAYS watched Benny Hill on PBS. Where else can one see it in the US?
It’s Slocombe by the way, but I’m sure most British people feel a sense of humiliation that this crap (Hill included) was allowed to see the light of day at all, let alone be exported as an ambassador for our culture :rolleyes:.
Judging by various threads in Café Society there’s a theme here - Britain’s most embarrassing shows seem among the most popular among an American audience. I wonder why.
If most British people feel that Benny Hill was crap, why was it on for 20 years? Soley for the American PBS market? :rolleyes:
It wasn’t till the sequel “Are You Being Served Again” did we get to see the cat whose name was Tiddles.
heh heh “Tiddles.”
Wow, that was an unfortunate spelling of ‘Slocombe’!
:eek:
Well most British people didn’t watch it - you don’t need a majority of the population to watch a show for it to be a commercial success, and I concede that it was a commercial success whether you (or I) watched or not. It’s not just America where it sold either - it was the single biggest export for the company that made it for years. Hill himself was a very bitter man when it got cancelled 'cos they couldn’t justify the decision on commercial grounds alone.
I can’t be bothered to search for a link, but trust me there have been several threads like this one saying “I liked this British show” and I can just hear the teeth being clenched over here with people thinking “Aaagh, we didn’t send them that did we?” I still say AYBS was crap, but it’s only an opinion.
Perhaps it’s one of those things, like Jerry Lewis shudder being extremely popular in France.
Since there’s a Simpsons quote for everything:
Bart: You're watching PBS?
Homer: Hey, I'm as surprised as you, but I stumbled across the
most delicious British sitcom.
[the title of the show appears on the screen]
Bart: [reading it] "Do Shut Up"?
Homer: It's about a hard-drinking yet loving family of soccer
hooligans. If they're not having a go with the birds,
they're having a row with the wankers.
Bart: Cheeky.
Is he?
Is Jerry Lewis really popular in France I mean? I never met a French person who game a damn about him.
Did anyone else ever ponder the subtext of the Captain Peacock character ?
I vaguely recall having one of those late night pass-the-spliff conversations in my student days that hinged on whether his self-important military bent was, in fact, compensation for having a pea-sized cock.
If memory serves, I believed we also entertained the notion that his unhealthy over-subservience to The Young Mr Grainger might have hidden deeper sexual tendencies.
Nowadays, one assumes, it’s Mrs Bucket/Bouquet who captures students imagination