Well we've all done the sad trawl through Red Dwarf and pointed out the pseudo-science continuity errors but has anyone noticed any historical innacuracies in our sitcoms.
One to start you off:
In Blackadder, Nursie comments "ointment that's what you need when your head's been cut off, that what they give your sister Mary when they done her". Cousin possibly, but sister NO.
Any others?
(And yes I probably should get a life, before you comment lol)
Quote: yowie29 @ February 22 2012, 12:35 PM GMTWell we've all done the sad trawl through Red Dwarf and pointed out the pseudo-science continuity errors
Have we..?
Quote: yowie29 @ February 22 2012, 12:35 PM GMTIn Blackadder Nursie comments "ointment that's what you need when your head's been cut off, that what they give your sister Mary when they done her". Cousin possibly, but sister NO.
Yes, they seem to have confused their Marys.
Quote: shaggy292 @ February 22 2012, 12:49 PM GMTYes, they seem to have confused their Marys.
No, I'm sure it was a deliberate bit of characterisation???
Quote: radiat10n @ February 22 2012, 2:27 PM GMTNo, I'm sure it was a deliberate bit of characterisation???
How so?
There must be loads in Goodnight Sweetheart. Will have to trawl through. I'm just interested in how difficult it must be to write a historical style sitcom and make it credible.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ February 22 2012, 12:46 PM GMTHave we..?
Can't say I have.
Quote: yowie29 @ February 22 2012, 7:33 PM GMTit must be to write a historical style sitcom and make it credible.
I would wage that Dad's Army is hard to catch out, even Pike's many film references.
And Rene Artois wasn't really that irresistable to women.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ February 22 2012, 12:46 PM GMTHave we..?
Lister has his appendix removed
twice
Who cares?
It's a sitcom !!
Quote: lofthouse @ February 22 2012, 11:25 PM GMTLister has his appendix removed
twice
It has actually been known.
It's called appenditwiceis.
Quote: Badge @ February 23 2012, 12:05 AM GMTIt's called appenditwiceis.
Quote: Chappers @ February 22 2012, 11:13 PM GMTAnd Rene Artois wasn't really that irresistable to women.
Allo Allo had some wonderful anachronisms, for instance a precursor to the pregnancy test involving frogs (where Yvette's frog is muddled up, and that's not a sentence I say very often). I thought the Renaissance song based on the Ovalteeneys was an anachronism, but no the group goes back to the 1930s, and its just a song in any case.
EDIT: Actually the frog thing is perfectly correct as well.
Quote: Chappers @ February 22 2012, 11:13 PM GMTAnd Rene Artois wasn't really that irresistable to women.
Herr Flick on the other hand... Cor.
Was this thread a birthday present Zooo gave Aaron?