British Comedy Guide

The Mass (sitcom) Debate! Page 2

There's billions

In sickness and health
Bottom
Steptoe and son
Rab c nesbitt
Still game
Porridge

I could go on an on

Apart from Porridge, and Steptoe, and Birds of a Feather - forget it.

Crossed posts! You beat me to it.

Bottom is very middle class.

Red Dwarf?

Quote: beaky @ 15th February 2014, 7:44 PM GMT

Bottom is very middle class.

Nah

Unimpressed

Two public schoolboys thumping one another.

There is no reference to either of them going to public school as I recall

Richard likes to think he's middle class - but it's clearly just arrogance and snobbery as he looks down on Eddie

And Spud Gun, Dave Hedgehog and Dick Head are clearly working class

"Till Death Us Do Part" was a really interesting example, and explored conflicts within the working class and social mobility; some brilliant writing in its heyday from Johnny Speight, a self-educated working class kid from Canning Town who gorged himself on George Bernard Shaw.

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