Censoring the Classics

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

I'm pleased i ordered series two and three of Bottom from Music Magpie today in their 2 for £3 offer, before that too gets deleted for being offensive and starts going for silly money on dvd.

[iank]

Yet more evidence that streaming sucks.

[gag]

It's becoming a joke and out of order, my friend has sent me clips people have took on tick tick of council workers taking down Churchill statue and others statues around London. Getting ridiculous now.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I'm pleased i ordered series two and three of Bottom from Music Magpie today in their 2 for £3 offer, before that too gets deleted for being offensive and starts going for silly money on dvd.

I bought The Complete Series 1-3 box set from BBC Shop when it was shutting down for the grand total of £6. It was money very well spent!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

I bought The Complete Series 1-3 box set from BBC Shop when it was shutting down for the grand total of £6. It was money very well spent!

Agreed. I've owned the first series for years but never got round to getting the others on dvd. I remember watching them numerous times when they initially aired thanks to vhs recorders.

[Dave Boy]

Luckily I already have Fawlty Towers on DVD and Gone With The Wind on Blu ray.
Gone With The Wind has topped the Amazon US sales. It's sold out now.
On Amazon UK a few days ago the title was for sale but now all different editions are unavailable.
Ebay sellers are racking up bids for the title.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

The BBC has found The Germans episode of Fawlty Towers episode to be 'difficult' for a long time. Mark Lawson wrote a particularly good column (Fawlty Towers isn't racist. Major Gowen is.) about it back in 2013. I won't put the whole article here, just one paragraph which stands out.

However, the objection to those shows is that the assumptions behind the characterisation and writing date from an era of different attitudes to race and therefore risk causing offence now. In contrast, Cleese and Booth, when they wrote the character of Major Gowen, were clearly not being unthinkingly racist; rather, they were satirising an English upper-class bigot. The joke depends on the audience first thinking that, when the Major rebukes his companion "No, no, no", he is condemning her for inflammatory language, when it turns out that he is simply a particularly pedantic racist. A liberal pedant might object that it was odd of the BBC to cut just that one line from the episode in question as the entire premise of The Germans is English post-second world war humour and hostility towards the country. But, while the show will never win a prize for encouraging Anglo-German cultural understanding, Cleese is comically depicting – rather than politically promoting – fear of "Fritz".

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...major-gowen-is

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Dave Boy

Luckily I already have Fawlty Towers on DVD and Gone With The Wind on Blu ray.
Gone With The Wind has topped the Amazon US sales. It's sold out now.
On Amazon UK a few days ago the title was for sale but now all different editions are unavailable.
Ebay sellers are racking up bids for the title.

I still have the four disc dvd of Gone With the Wind. An awesome package.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I still have the four disc dvd of Gone With the Wind. An awesome package.

I have the same set. I also have the 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition which I daresay is even better!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

I have the same set. I also have the 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition which I daresay is even better!

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!

Sorry, couldn't resist.