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I think it was Stephen Fry who made the point that with comedy you have to distinguish the subject of the joke from the target of the joke. This was never racist comedy, it was comedy about racism.
I think you've hit the nail on the head here, I was thinking myself, how best to explain it
Bullshit, I'm a 59 year old Brit. It was definitely racist but at the time we didn't know what racism was
@@dt1607 I’m 66 and I disagree,
im 59 ... there was both of course but at that time racism was ok just like weed was illegal in the states ... times change and attitudes change
back then we had the minstrels show on the BBC ...get out of that one
Well I'm 64 if its age related. They never showed the white actor as a winner over the black guy. The white guy ended up looking stupid in every episode. So it wasn't racist it was about racism as the last guy stated. What is racist is when people look to create racism where it doesn't exist. Maybe it's beyond some people to see that because they love to be martyrs.
MARTYR- someone who tries to get sympathy from others usually when that person caused the problem himself or herself:
In the 70s when this was made the uk was still suffering post-WWII and fruit such as Mangoes were a very rare sight for most people.
At the time this was broadcast it was getting on for 30 years since the end of ww2 and nearly 20 years since the end of food rationing. If the UK was still 'suffering' then I must have lived in a privileged circle as I never noticed! It is true that the range of fruits and vegetables was less than is the case today but for far simpler reasons; supply and demand. Never having eaten mangoes or yams there was no demand for them to be imported, so they weren't. Only when the British became exposed to a wider range of foods through travel or contact with recent immigrants was demand great enough for 'exotic' fruits to enter the mainstream supply chain.
For context, my grandmother's family were fruiterers in Liverpool up to the start of WW2 owning a number of shops including some close to the docks. As they had quite a few West Indian seamen frequenting their shops they made an effort to seek out such exotic fare as mangoes but rarely managed to pick up more than the occasional crate--and that was buying on the docks straight from the ships (as they did daily). As my grandmother recalled, "However much we asked the reply was always that there wasn't the demand. If we did get any it was just an odd box put in to fill out a load."
I still find it a novelty being able to buy Eggs. Don't know why. Don't let me loose in a sweet shop. I go barmy.
@@MrPaulMorris TL;DNR IA. However yeah, you were privileged, clearly.
That's true. I'm 55 and my mum was born in 1939. She said it wasn't until after the war that she even saw a banana. Rationing lasted many years after the war.
Bollocks. Rationing ended in 1954. A simple Google search will tell you that. In the 70s, Britain was full of boiled cabbage eating, skint, pasty bastards that never ventures further than the end of their street. Thus there was no demand. "I'm not eating that foreign muck"
The scriptwriting for this show was brilliant
You want to watch Warren Mitchel playing Alf Garnett in "Till death us do part."
And the movie "Rita Sue and Bob Too" , Sue fetches her Asian boyfriend home and her father played by Willy Ross calls him a "Black Bxxtard" how can people be so Cruel ?
He was jewish and that program was band
@@angleschannel9373 theres a ton of supposedly educated people cant understand parody or ridicule ... remember ali g ? ... he got tarred with anti semite ... ali g ... played by sacha baron cohen lol !!!! ... lot of ppl thought he was black LOL!!!!!!
Luckily just like when the Internet was new they eventually heavily censored certain programmes & added new laws to prevent it. I used to watch the black & white Minstrel show. I used to think they just blacked up for entertainment. Just like they used to put white makeup on in certain circumstances. It's only when the righteous brigade started uproaring people realised. Maybe we all are still in the learning process. Then you also get the ones who look for something to create a fuss over because they can. Boy am I glad I lived in the easy days instead of the whinging society of todays do gooders who are so negative.
Loved it. I don't care what the righteous brigade think.
Hi Jay. I used to work for Granada TV one of the big TV companies in the UK & i can tell U that it used to get about 16/20 Million viewers & was enormously popular.They only got away with It because Eddie always ended up looking the fool with egg on his face.Today no TV station will touch it for repeats.I admire u for watching it.
My mum says you can stream it still.
You just can't beat it
The view point to almost be that racist the racist people cringe
Very clever and ahead of its time 😊
i think the point to remember is the racist white guy always came off worse ... good old fashioned propoganda ... give it a few decades and we would shame ourselves with the wind....
Don't make right though does it...because that show was true of all black people but their nemesis wasn't a fool like Eddie it was white vile skinheads trying to beat a man for being black...not quiet the same real racisism...nobody laughs ...
Just like the film Blazing Saddles.
Tarzan - written by Edgar Rice Burroughs was about a Lord Greystoke - whose parent's died in the jungle and he was raised with the animals. So yes in that story he was white.
This was a great program satirising the racism of the day.
yes .. it wasnt racist ... would an african have written about a chinese tarzan and would that be racist ?... no there wasnt racism in that sense ... of course there WAS racism in that the protagonist had to be white to engage some empathy and antithesism in the reader in the mind of the author
Thank you for showing this, the whole idea of the program was to take the piss as Eddy the white guy was made to look the fool.
Tarzan was Lord Greystoke, shipwrecked as a child and brought up by apes. Read the book, it's excellent.
thats what i just told him.
I'm sure everyone knows who tarzan is. Unless you live on Uranus.
I never knew that. Pmsl. I used to watch the first black n white TV series ( Johnny weismuller) Gi & cheeta the monkey. I wish they bring it back on one of those million of channels we have today.
Food at the time was still traditional in many houses at this time. It was about the late 70s before I had anything that might be regarded as "foreign" at home - spaghetti bolognaise - my Dad using his knife and fork to cut it into 2" pieces - I was 19 before I tried Chinese and about 25 before I had a curry.
Ha! I remember my dad hacking up spaghetti with a spoon, growling "stupid damned stuff!"
@@DaveyMulholland my first curry was a vesta dried box ...it was mostly awful but i`d kill for a crate of those yellow crispy noodles .. i suspect they were mildly radioactive
I have to say that I don't recall seeing a mango in the supermarkets (grocery stores) until at least the 80s and didn't eat one myself until the 90s. Fruit imports tended to focus on the common staples: oranges, lemons, grapefruits, bananas and grapes. Other fruits were still primarily local and seasonal: apples, soft fruits (strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, plums etc), pears, rhubarb.
Exactly the same
Thank God you've started showing up in my recommendations again. I love your reaction posts. Thanks from the UK.
Another fantastic reaction , i'm glad you are enjoying it.
"ignoring takes away the power"
Works with nicknames too.
Jay, your reactions are funnier than the show 👍
Glad you like the humour. It was a brave programme that attempted to show how ridiculous ignorant racism is. And it involved all the actors. Most UK viewers sided with the black family. It offended a few, but the black man always won. I was a kid and all of us clapped when he did. If you can laugh, good on you. It was anti-hatred
theres still americans out there think ali g was black and alf garnet was racist
@@EvilSean62 Ali G reminds us all that there is a man who died for our sins, according to the rules set by his dad ... he got burned on the cross on Xmas day.
And we should never forget that.
I was in my teens watching this with my black friends and we use to wet ourselves laughing, because he always looked the idiot so it was well written, as people did call black people Sambo, Spade all the rubbish so this helped people see it as foolish bigotry and helped the younger generation not to do it
Me too.
Think I was well into my 20s before i understood racism. And yes I loved this programme like thousands of British people did and at the time we didn't see anything wrong with it, if i wasn't White I probably would have.
4:28 This type of music from Trinidad (and Tobago) is called Calypso and associated with Limbo Dancing. Reggae is associated with Jamaica but did not really start until around 1967/8 whereas Calypso is a much older form of music.
I stumbled across your channel and this video and I am still laughing, my stomach is aching lol 😂. I was a teenager in the 70,s and I used to watch “ love thy neighbour “ it was hilarious. ! I would react to it just as you do today , I was OMG 😆 this is crazy lol
I was raised to believe we are all the same , no matter what colour our skin is , there is good or bad in everyone , we have different cultures and backgrounds but we are all brothers and sisters . My auntie bought me a black doll when I was little and I loved it .
To see your reaction to the show and how you find it hilarious is great ! That’s how it should be … it’s meant to be funny and to see your reaction is heartwarming ❤️. X
I'm an English guy of 61 years old and I used to watch this every weekend a great series can you imagine them showing that now in this woke snowflake society
Watched this as a kid, never with prejudice always found it funny 😂❣️
Tarzan was heir to the estate of Lord Greystoke.
Greystoke is in Cumbria, Northern England.
Surviving a plane crash in Africa, he was raised in the wild by animals
oh, he was completely fictitious, too
Excellent and entertaining reaction too :o)
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Love your stuff bro, you make it funnier than it was.👍
Back in the day it broke down barriers, allowed people to talk about the difficult subject, we need more brave TV.
When you understand the show is all about mocking the stupidity of Eddies prejudices, Bill falling for Eddies bullying and both women having all the sensibility then you get the show.
bill never loses, that's what puts the humour in this, we were all waiting for Eddie to get his comeuppance.
I remember this being on tv . I didn't find it very funny then , I quite liked "mind your language" and "Rising damp" though .Don Warrington was hilarious .
It was very nostalgic watching this; your reaction was funny and cute.
Sir you are wise beyond your years!
There is another British series that you would really love called MIND YOUR LANGUAGE. I knew the guy who played the Indian in it. It is a classroom of international English students and the star who plays the teacher is well known for his time as a doctor in the DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE/DOCTOR IN CHARGE series. Anyway, look it up. You'll love it.
Yeh that was a great series.
Your laugh is contagious 😂😂😂
i was a kid when this was on telly , i dont think for one minute it was racist , it was hilarious both eddie and bill were amazing and if you have halve of a brain eddie was the butt of all the jokes he didnt realise it
Tarzan was indeed white, in the original novel he was 'Viscount Greystoke, or Earl of Greystoke, &
Chieftain of the Waziri. He was lost as a child in the jungle & brought up by apes.
Surprised you didn't notice a change in the cast. Eddie's wife, Joan, was played by Gwendolyn Watts, in the first episode. In this episode and for the rest of the airings, Joan was played by Kate Williams.
Kate Williams is far better she clicks better with Eddie
Don't be too hard on him you know we all kind of look a like 😆
@@edmann1820 Brilliant! (Completely in the spirit of the show 😆 😅 😂 🤣)
Moved houses too., and still had the same neighbours. They must really like each other.
What other program was she in? I remember her face, but the name just didn’t ring any bells? But the face I recognised immediately (no 2 Joan)
I must say Jay. I love your laughter. I have just subscribed to this channel. Ps. Have you noticed that the white man's wife is different from the first episode. 🏴🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧
The ironic thing is about this show it wasn't about eddie being racist, it was a platform to highlight racism.
Tarzan was played by (amongst others) Johnny Weissmuller, U.S. actor and Olympian!
This programme was banned In my house during my childhood, My parents invented cancel culture in the 70's. Yours seems to be a voice of reason in crazy times.
Did they ban any other 70's shows?
@@dirkbogarde44 Yeh, pretty much all the garbage that exploited real social ills for laughs, that sounds a bit sniffy but it still goes on, the TV companies know that race baiting will get them into trouble so they now exploit those in poverty, with shows such as benefits Street etc. Utterly repulsive. I still saw these shows back in the day, just not in my parents house. Cheers!
Bro I'm glad you laughed man this was in the early 80s it was shown till late 90s we've come along way we got ways to go but through my kids I can see that we believe achieve equal another banger bro 👊🙏🇬🇧🇺🇲
They ended up best mates and bill always made eddie look a fool hahaha.
One of the best TV shows ever really funny people it wasn't about race it was purely 100 percent comedy classic 👌 👏
There were quite a few different types of fruit that weren't widely available in 1970's UK. Mangoes and yams being a couple of them. There were some specialist shops, particularly in London, that sold them but they were expensive as they had to be specially flown in. Nowadays, there's a much better variety of tropical fruits available and the price has dropped relative to other more common fruit. Out of all the, 'exotic', fruits available back then, I suspect coconuts were the most common. Although, they weren't fresh coconuts, as such. Not compared to how they are fresh from palm trees.
You're spot on with how to deal with actual racism. Much like trolling, it's best not to feed into it/stoke it and make it grow. Be totally inert and those who try to push it end up with no fire left, having their attempts to rile extinguished. Programmes like this showed up both Eddie and Bill's reactive nature to what was, (and still is), a lot of nonsense derived from sheer ignorance and obstinacy to better understand certain differences. Comedy being one of the best ways of doing it.
This was the 1970’s even though their was a big Caribbean community building up in the U.K since 1960’s mangos were still exotic fruits then. Rarely seen in u.k. Before the Caribbean, Chinese and Indian communities came to live in the u.k food was bland regarding flavours.
Not really true about the food. Unfortunately during the war we lost the ability to cook properly, The meals my mother and Grandmother cooked were very tasty, they used seasonings, herbs etc.now it's tasteless takeaways.
@@iriscollins7583 depends which ones you go to. The ones I’ve been to are tasty plenty of flavours but unhealthy.
the actor who played sambo went on to star in eastenders as patrick trueman
You are great 🇬🇧 ❤ Keep happy as you bring us joy.
Love thy neighbor should be the American police's national anthem ✌️
I never saw mangos in the 70s ..we didn't have the supermarkets like now ..this show is taking pee out of Eddie's behaviour
Eddie and Bill were as bad as each other from what I remember - it was up to Barbie and Joan to show the common sense in the series, expressing that it was the women that showed the true strength in the family and community. So the show was just as much about feminism as much as racism.
I hope that shows like this changed London attitudes to one of the most mixed cultures in the world .
Ouch !!! I remember watching this in the 70s.
It was brilliantly done. Very clever & even though I was a white teenager then I remember it with fondness. Later I lived with about 4 black guys in a hostel for young homeless working guys for about 2 years. it was one of the best times of my life. I miss them & wonder how they are today. I learned to chill & party, we protected each other & still love my reggae n soul today. Guys I miss you all & have searched for you often on Google/Facebook etc with no luck.
LOL Jacko is saying "I'll have half! that means half a pint of beer lol
I am a white guy from the UK we have tea and crumpets when we watch your videos.
I'm not sure that this show was 'cancelled' as you say. UK shows always ran far shorter than in the US, LTN ran for 8 series, 53 episodes, including a film midway through the run, for a 1970's UK comedy show, that's a very long time. Often regarded by many as their favourite comedies of the period 'The Good Life' ran for 4 seasons & 'Fawlty Towers' ran for just 2. British writers don't like going for too long with a show, they tend to think it's ran its course & they want to move on, also our shows are only written by one or two people, unlike in the US which is usually a team of writers.
I am fed up to the extreme of how many times I have been called racist FOR NO REASON, that now I just laugh at the name callers! I have grown up, not being racist (provable), I have also worked not being racist (provable) and I have also loved not being racist, which is also provable! So whenever some idiot calls me racist, I have to laugh!
You ought to understand that the expression 'to call a spade a spade' was in use and very common WELL before the derogatory term for a black person, originating in the US from playing cards in the 1920's. Spade has essentially been another word for shovel in the UK for God only knows how long, and it's still in very common use.
The phrase itself has the same meaning as 'not beating about the bush' or 'speaking ones mind'. The spade is essentially unimportant in itself, it's that you don't call a spade simply a gardening tool, that's too vague, you call it a spade, but it could apply to not calling a spoon cutlery or a pencil stationary, it doesn't really matter, but that's the phrase. The origins of the phrase go back to classical Greek. The translation being 'calling a fig a fig, and a trough a trough'
My point being, the phrase would have been well used in a totally non racial way, the joke during this ep is that there was a misunderstanding due to the word spade being fairly newly used as a slur. Everyone in Britain seeing this would have known that when Barb said '...a spade a spade...' she meant the gardening tool, as part of the well known expression.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_a_spade_a_spade
Before the 1980's you wouldn't see alot of the more common place exotic fruits in the U.K other than in certain markets near to the docklands , however there were some exotic fruits readily available that are rarely seen now like "custard apple" and "prickly pear".
Bill will always tease Eddy by playing to his biases and racism, try to get a reaction, while Eddy really acts to his inherent nature.
This was always Great fun..Glad you enjoy it
This was brilliant. My mum's was so racist she made you wonder why. When she found out my sister was gay and a granddaughter married a Bangladeshi, I thought her head would explode. Serves her fair I think.
Your a brave man watching and reacting to racist stuff . Bless you and very gracious of you to give this your time . Personally I love it and it was only to teach us how not to be really and that I'm sure you already know .
it was taking the piss out of the white man, as he alway's lost the argument.
This is not racist.
You don't need to be brave at all, just have a mature, open mind and not become over emotional when exposed to language you disapprove of within a fictional tv show, and to also realise the purpose of the show, and who the brunt of the joke really was. Many people claim to be liberal and progressive today yet don't want to understand where people are coming from in order to change opinions. In the media we hear of fully grown adults now requiring safe spaces and students demanding not to be exposed to opposing attitudes and ideas at universities and so on. Judging by social media and modern attention spans, many would no doubt cancel a show like this in a heartbeat if they could after watching a mere few minutes, sharing their pseudo outrage and selected clip without thought for the biggest reaction and support as some sort of mental comfort blanket.. I'm sure most tv stations wouldn't touch this kind of show either for fear of the same over-reactionary media and audiences potentially ruining their reputation. Yet this was actually a progressive show exposing the attitudes at the time.
@@MrVidification to be honest it represents attitudes that I still hold dear being a 70s man. Lol
@@retrowatches1655 perhaps you could star in the remake :)
I subscribed - love your channel 👍🏼
There was another show like this called In Sickness and in Health. it was around the same era.
this is so brilliant comedy gold im glad you find it really funny and witty. Next you should watch blazing saddles and do a reaction it's absolutely so so funny you will be in tears laughing your head off you would not be able to breathe 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The actor who plays Eddie booth also stars on a show called for the love of Ada is part in the he is completely diffrent
Old Jacko always said I’ll have half when it come to drinks
Did you notice they changed Joans? The first Joan was only in the pilot. Nothing on imdb as to why they got another actress. The first one sadly died at 62 years of age.
I've always thought this was a lot more about how society is held back by the male ego and how much more evolved females are. Look at how much more the females in the show achieve - they have managed to keep informed and abreast of societal changes, they clean, keep house, nurture their partners as well as working and the guys just think of how they can compete (to prove what? LOL), how they can assert their superiority and reasons to fight LOL
yes they managed to sneak that under the radar in the same era as Dr who ( supposedly progressive for the time ) still had the protagonists captured weekly by a moustached dismissive military mid ranked officer who would either be transformed into a lefty or immediately daleked
Good watch thanks for the video always a pleasure to watch with👍
I loved that series, it was so funny! And the joke was always on Eddie for being racist. Good ole 70s comedy :)
Please try Desmond's. It was brilliant.
I was in my 30s before I even saw a mango.That would be the 1980s I live in West Yorkshire,
I grew up in the 70's (UK), I don't think I ever saw a mango back then !
Eddie isn't racist, he's a product of his generation . It doesn't occur to him that he's saying things he shouldn't, he is not a racist....
and the beauty of this is that they end up good friends great writing to show how racism is nothing but ignorance and we can all get along we needed that in the UK at the time, maybe if it was shown in the south of your country in the 70's you still would not be such a racist society, bless you for watching it but try to watch more cause they are great fun i know how he talks but like my friends said who met people like him it was being shown to humiliate him and to educate the population
I'm 48 and there were a lot of sitcoms on British TV that would be, rightfully, not be acceptable to be made or even shown in 2022. It doesn't mean that there were not funny, but their attitudes are very outdated and not acceptable by today's standards. Whilst the UK is not perfect today, I'm pleased that we live in more tolerant times in terms of race, but yet we are less tolerant of other different views.
I'm really enjoying your channel and your honest reactions.
We were lucky if we had a tangerin back in the 70's UK lol let one a mango
The old man is saying I’ll half a half as in a half a pint of beer
You should see the one where Eddie thinks he has put a Voodoo curse on Bill and Bill pretends to be dying from it and gets Eddie to dance naked round a tree in order to reverse the alleged curse!
yes was just thinking that. That is the episode to watch
Nina Baden Semper what a beautiful woman she would melt the hearts of any man
aint that the truth
This at the time unfortunately was how we acted. Now we are so multicultural it is daft. We love everyone ❤️🇬🇧
In real life they are best off friends. But love thy neighbour is one biggest classic and my mate is jamaican and I told her I watched the program and she tod me why didn't I put it on I said I didn't want to defend her but that was her favourate program. And I never watched it as a kid I couldn't get on with it but time went by I started to watch it and enjoyed it i needed a good lough and didn't laugh as much I ever did what a classic there never be another love thy neighbour like this again they both worked grate together
"Till Death us do part" and "Rising Damp" were also comedy programs that Poked fun at racism. 😀
Nope Tarzan would probably have been white going by the back story ."Tarzan is the son of a British lord and lady who were marooned on the coast of Angola by mutineers. "( Wikipedia )
I had mango often in the 70s my dad worked on the dock
The comments about mango's does sound silly today but this was 50 yrs ago when produce supplies at shops were so different. Containers were only just coming in with refrigeration and quick turn around so now we can have tropical fruit that back then may have spoiled before it reached the consumer. It was also a time of seasonal fruit and vegetables that no longer exists. i.e. you can buy strawberries and salad items all the year round. back then you couldn't.
I would love to have bill and barbie live next door to me. What a lovely couple. There was a black family a few doors down from me in the 80s. I used to spend a lot of time there smoking weed and we would all be pissing ourselves laughing.
Don’t bite my sweet. In this programme the white always loses . ❤️🇬🇧
Find the episode when Eddie thinks he's been cursed and must dance naked around a tree.
"A spade a spade" refers to shovels and spades. But obviously different subtext in this.
Still don't see it?
@@iriscollins7583 it stems from when people started to try to sound more corporate and professional by calling something such as a 'spade' a "personal soil excavation apparatus" or such. So 'call a spade a spade' means just to tell it how it is and don't be pretentious
tarzan was an Englishman aristocrat Lord greystoke who's parents were killed on a nature museam field trip in the jungle and the young tarzan baby was taken in by a chimpanzee and raised. at least according to greystoke tarzan. So it had a backstory where tarzan was a white English fella
1972 UK did not have mangoes until 1990s
It's of the time, it's called free speech.
I may not like what he says, but I defend he's right to say it
the funny political thing is eddie (white racist ) was left wing (democrat / labour uk /socialist / communist family) and his black integrist neighbour was republican ( conservative uk capitalist etc... what we would now call right wing !!!))
if you want to look at it from a social political angle , the show was made to help smaooth the integration of immigrants into the uk ... we were , at that time still very colonial minded
He is so bigoted he is hilarious
Although there were people like Eddie, the UK was far less racist than the USA e.g. we never had segregation. People will always be prejudiced against other groups - this episode shows that Bill was prejudice, calling the Chinese takeaway owner 'Fu Manchu'. Also, back then, in the UK, it was pretty usual to refer to people by where they came from, either region or country - and that comes up here too i.e. people from Liverpool are Scousers, Welsh People 'Taffy'. Irish people 'Mick'. I don't recall people being offended because we weren't told we should be. Whilst today in the UK, no-one would dare say anything to offend someone of a different race, the hate and prejudice that existed then against certain white people - by white people, is just as it was then i.e. much hatred by a lot of Scottish and Welsh towards the English, much of the north hates the people of the south - and so it goes on. It was the same with nicknames at school, now they are deemed as bullying, then they were a badge of honour and acceptance (oddly, it was only ever boys that had nicknames)
When he said Al Jolson … 😂
Thank you again for your amazing reaction. As a white guy this one was actually a more painful watch I felt but they are all educational in their own way.
People could take a joke back then! Unfortunately everyone now is a snowflake!
Calling a Spade a Spade meant that you said things as they were and didn't beat about the bush, but it has been high jacked to mean something it never did. Like a lot of words these days that have had their original meanings taken away. The English language has evolved detrimentally.
lol I have the boxset so funny its sarcasm at its best