I've been waiting for someone to say that.
1 It was novel then
2 Groundbreaking satire for television
3 We were a lot younger
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Tue 1 Dec 2020, 15:56,
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I’ve been trying to work out just who Britbox think their target audience is.
UK Gold viewers maybe. It’s just that Spitting Image started to feel out of date in the early nineties. I’m fairly sure ITV already did an unsuccessful reboot. The source material may be contemporary, but the old template creaks, a lot. It seems an odd flagship for a new platform, but as I understand it their essential offering is archive BBC and ITV stuff, so maybe it’s apposite. Do they have any other new stuff?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 1 Dec 2020, 16:16,
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The name Britbox suggests an older audience.
Other than that, no idea, I watch YT mostly.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Tue 1 Dec 2020, 16:39,
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My sister subscribes, she mainly uses it to watch vintage Doctor Who as far as I can tell.
A few years ago I binged all the Spitting Image shows, at the time they were all free on YT.
My assessment: in retrospect they were always 90% shite with the odd funny sketch, or the odd recurring joke that actually worked. Towards the end the shite was 90% in-jokes and self referencing (infinite callbacks to 'and the vegetables'). They deliberately made the theme music increasingly unbearable with distortion and obnoxious music concrete techniques, as if they were daring viewers to switch off and daring executives to cancel them.
I think FeralCatMan is right. Hislop, Grant & Naylor were funny to me at the time, and they still have their funny moments, but satirical jokes and cultural references are prone to ageing badly, the majority are forgotten. E.g. how many TWTWTW sketches do you know?
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 1 Dec 2020, 17:11,
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I know my place.
Which is a pretty impressive feat for that knackered old sketch since it was first broadcast long before my birth and I’m unaware of TW3 ever being repeated in toto in my lifetime.
EDIT. That wasn’t from TW3 anyway, so none in fact.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 1 Dec 2020, 17:38,
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Grant and Naylor eh?
That somewhat explains why it's similar to Red Dwarf, in that it seemed exceptionally funny at the time, but now isn't even remotely amusing.
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Yup. Same principle, the gags that emerge from the situation still land but a lot of the cultural references to the mid 20th century need contextual subtitles or something.
Red Dwarf was a good concept and 'Son Of Cliché' is still an objectively funny name.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 1 Dec 2020, 20:04,
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Politicians were a lot more colourful back in the day.
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Tusk knows where you live, Tue 1 Dec 2020, 17:46,
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Norman Lamont had a yogurt pot on his head.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 1 Dec 2020, 18:02,
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Apart from John Major
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 1 Dec 2020, 18:36,
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Love him or loathe him, Boris is psychedelic.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 1 Dec 2020, 18:39,
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Whatever you do
do not re-watch any of the amazing shows you used to watch when you were younger.
I am watching 'the comic strip presents' again, and some of them are pretty dire.
Obviously, Bad News, Mr Jolly, 5 go mad and some others are still fantastic but they are pretty thin slices of bread surrounding a fat shit sandwich.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Tue 1 Dec 2020, 19:58,
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Yeah, I was going through the CSP DVD box set earlier in the year
and it is very hit-and-miss, although I did enjoy this episode which I'd not seen before.
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Tue 1 Dec 2020, 23:53,
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