Rood Eye
Friday 31st May 2019 10:35pm [Edited]
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Quote: Sitcomfan64 @ 31st May 2019, 11:29 PM
am I right in thinking Arthur Smith turns up as a milkman in one episode?
Yes, quite right - that's episode one!
Still on the subject of changing times, in episode four, Richie goes into a pub looking for someone who might be prepared to kill his father.
He suggests it to two blokes at the bar who seem reluctant to undertake the mission.
Richie suggests that they're scared and goes on, loudly, "What are you, queer? Maybe they're poofs? Just a couple of poncey old queens. Just two mincing old woofters. Whoops, watch your bums, lads! Backs to the wall! Put on your bike clips or they'll be up your trouser leg! Get 'em a handbag! Bloody fairies! That's what you are, isn't it?"
Throughout Richie's homophobic diatribe, Eddie stands at his shoulder making stereotypically homosexual gestures and movements.
The joke (and it seems rather a long time coming when you watch it in 2019) is that the two guys immediately reply "Yeah" and the landlord adds "This is a gay pub".
They certainly don't write 'em like that anymore.
Nor should they, of course. (I thought I'd better say that)