Programmes that have aged poorly and programmes that have aged well?

@JustbrotherscarlenaNsoul I think the programme and its accompanying "music" are best forgotten about.

All I can actually remember are the Goodies riding around on a tandem for 3 and something about a giant kitten climbing up the Post Office tower 😉

Yip funky gibbon on Totp.
I'd actually forgotten about that one.

It was 'Black Pudding Bertha', I was very fond of The Goodies in my youth.

@JustbrotherscarlenaNsoul Didn't they do "The Funky Gibbon" as well?

As if the show wasn't a big enough pile of rubbish they had to release records as well 🙄

I was the same as a kid
When infact it was a pile of 💩
Plus they released a record big Bertha Queen of Northern soul.
I'm into Northern and not into piss takes.

I remember watching The Goodies in the 70s as a child (yes I'm that old!) and thinking it was absolutely hilarious, possibly the funniest thing I'd ever seen.

I caught an episode recently - what a load of shit. I wasn't even tempted to smile, far less laugh.

I watched a bit of Terry and June this week, some of the language is definitely from a different era but it is still very funny!

The Not the Nine O’clock News toilet sketch with Rowan was hilarious to me as a kid and still is now.

just... gonnae noo!!

I loved West Wing and all the quick "banter", but have hesitated to rematch as I suspected it would have aged badly. It hasn't, not at all. It must have been way ahead of it's time.

Yer not year.

Not the nine o'clock news ..ace
Kick up the eighties..brilliant.
Absolutely ..Scots comedy sketch show..Stoney ridge.iykyn.
Naked video.
Chewin the fat..can I have a swatcher o year fanny..at the ice cream van.

I agree with you. I still find Little Britain funny when I watch it and thankfully most of my friends would think the same.

I don't see why it has to be all or nothing, though. Some of the sketches were - and still are - very funny, astute and harmless; but some of them were extremely dubious then and just as (or even more) outrageous and wholly unacceptable now.

I still find myself frequently saying the word 'yes' as "Yeeeeeeesssss!!!" and sometimes refer to the radio as the 'talking noisy-box' like the Scottish hotelier; and the pithily-observed standard irritation of "Computer says Nooooooo!" that we're all very familiar with.

On the other hand, white men blacking up, making non-verbal people with learning disabilities figures of fun and mocking elderly ladies with incontinence issues was horrendously nasty and punching right down.

I tried to watch Friends a couple of years ago with my teenager. After the 1st 3 episodes we had both given up. That and Frasier used to be my Friday nights!

Oh, I love on The Buses! You're right though in that it hasn't aged well.
I get infuriated by Arthur on Olive's behalf and wish she'd tell him to bog off!
plus she's really NOT fat even though half the show they're joking about her weight
Love the episode where Mum gets a new boyfriend and she keeps leaving them all to it on an evening and they're all pathetically inept and useless. #TeamMum

See i agree with you that Little Britain is still funny and it’s a real shame people have to feel nervous about saying that.

Horrible isn't it.

There was an episode in one of the early seasons where the baby wasn't distressed (I don't think) but they showed a real life baby with his naked genitals on show. Just wouldn't happen nowadays.

And I thought the same as you when I watched an episode of Boardwalk Empire recently - the children belonging to Kelly MacDonald's character were crying terribly in one scene, and I did remark that I wondered how they got them to cry like that because they must have been very upset.

Yes that's a doll, I guess they couldn't persuade a baby to lie motionless like that. The scene I was watching was a baby lying on an examination bed wriggling and screaming and clearly distressed. I'm not stupid I'm familiar with focus on baby and then in someone's arms not clearly visible but sounds of screaming from elsewhere as it's actually a doll. Or like this one a baby that is virtually dead when it's actually a doll. Real babies were distressed in scenes.

I liked Rock Profiles that they did before Little Britain

I'm going to make a confession which won't make me any friends, but..

I never watched Little Britain when is was on TV. I don't like David Walliams - I think he's a nasty misogynistic sneerer and stereotyper.

But I did see one sketch on YouTube where Vicky Pollard is on trial for drug smuggling in Thailand. Dawn French plays her mother and has a line which goes something like this:

"Now I'm not sayin' she aint never done nothin' wrong nor nothin''" which just cracks me up. Dawn French is just brilliant.

Sorry.

Oh, that's up there!
Moss crawling into his mum's room to steal her bra.
Jen: "My tits! My tits are hot!"
Think I might have to rewatch too 😁

Thanks, I'll give it a watch.

Surely the Exploding bra scene of IT Crowd has got to be the funniest - I don't recognise the sound that comes out of me when I watch that 🤣 . I think I need another rewatch.