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

I was a bit surprised when reading Malala Yousafzai's autobiography to find that she was a big fan of Mind Your Language!

My mum (Gen X) loved Charlie's Angels as a little girl & introduced it to me..it was pretty proto-feminist for its time. Why was there a trigger warning??

Charlie's Angels was on TV recently. I couldn't believe it had a trigger warning at the start! I enjoyed rewatching it, but that's probably just because it was a nostalgia trip.

Just adding that they were fascinated at how appalling Little Britain was. It wasn’t clear from my post.

Someone sent my kids a clip of Mind Your Language as though it was a meme. They were appalled when I told them that unbelievably, it was real. And is still shown on one of the Sky channels. They were similarly fascinated with Little Britain.

They do adore Love Actually but I get overly wound up that everyone has to speak like Richard Curtis in his films: ‘blue and wibbly’, ‘fuck a doodle doo’.

I love Margo Leadbeater. I think she’s an absolute style icon with her kaftans and matching headbands.

Same here!

I always wanted Jerry and Barbara to get it on 😉😉🥰

I hated Mr Bean but loved Blackadder and the Thin blue line 😊

nah, it needs more traffic

Richard Briers didn't like the character, Tom Good, in the Good Life. He said he was selfish and inconsiderate to Barbara.

Now I'm in my late 40s, I really fancy Jerry 😂

This is my understanding too. Apparently it used to drive Warren Mitchell mad when people used to agree with Alf. The whole premise of the show was to challenge his world view not endorse it.

I think Richard Curits is a brilliant screenwriter, with a great imagination of what will be popular; but a major weakness is that he works alone, as well as his default attitude towards women. I don't think he's a deliberate misogynist, but just generally quite clueless and dismissive when it comes to women.

I can't help thinking that, if he worked in collaboration with others, including female ones - all having an equal say in everything - his films would be so much better, and much less problematic.

yeah, back in the 90s I watched one episode of Butterflies because H had said it was really good

Decided I was bored with people who thought "can't be arsed to find out what to do with food, EVEN though it's the only thing I have to do to stop myself dying of boredom" was funny. And what the hell made her think latching onto a slightly different man would improve things?

I enjoyed Butterflies when it was originally broadcast in the late 70s but have seen it since and been appalled.

She can't get a job because "her husband doesn't want her to." He's a nice-enough vague sort of bloke - would he even notice if she got a job? He certainly doesn't notice anything else.

But she decides she can't work. She'll be a housewife: "reluctantly." She has a cleaner. She can't cook. She is bored stiff. Erm . . . why not LEARN to cook?

I thought she was pathetic, drifting around vaguely doing nothing and leading on an equally pathetic man.

There was a scene when Elkie Brooks ' "Lilac Wine," was on the radio. Ria exclaimed: "Pull yourself together, you stupid cow!" to much hilarity.

My irony-meter nearly exploded - it in exactly what I had thought watching every single episode of Butterflies.

YABU.

This thread should be moved to Telly Addicts

Carry On Girls is the greatest feminist action film of all time

I’ve watched two films this afternoon. They are so light hearted and I still find them very funny even though I’ve seen most of them several times.

Patricia Routledge was a multi-talented performer: a complete class act. She and Lansbury - icons both.

I love that PR had the guts to call time on “KUA” because she felt some of the ideas for the scenes were becoming repetitive and maybe because she didn’t want to get typecast. She was just brilliant, basically married to the craft and it showed in the most wonderful way possible.

Lindy West!

She's back in the news in the US (and expect the graun to start running articles on her very soon) because, for all her feminist no nonsense on Love Actually she's ended up in a Throuple with a shit who duped her into it as a sort of reparation for slavery (yes. Really).

She's essentially the woke Liz Jones now

Paul Eddington was an absolutely wonderful, sympathetic comedic actor, sadly taken far too soon: he was outstanding.

@Octoberfestre Love Actually: have a read of this.

https://www.jezebel.com/i-rewatched-love-actually-and-am-here-to-ruin-it-for-al-1485136388

Laugh out loud funny.

Ugh I always hated Mr Bean

The point was that Mr Bean was an idiot (and an alien) who ended up in situations embarrassing to him like losing his swimming shorts when diving and accidently flashing a load of girls. He also ends up in a toilet with a man when trying to retrieve his credit card that the guy mistakenly puts in his back pocket. You're meant to laugh at his misfortune.

Edit: I'd also forgotten he headbutts the queen by accident!

Like Ab Fab these aren't people to emulate but to be laughed at.

only if they learn to use language more creatively

A few years ago, I watched She-Ra with my son and it was brilliant. It had a plot that carried on through the series so you needed to have watched them all to understand what was happening.