AIBU to object to Hancock's Half Hour?

[TiddlesTheTiger]

I took exception to this episode. I complained to the BBC and they replied.
I won't say, yet, what I wrote or what they replied so if you have a few spare mins have a listen to the episode and give me your view.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b007yntz .

@CounsellorTroi

Dalek creator Terry Nation is said by some to have “borrowed” the idea from Tony Hancock. Imagine if the Daleks, rather than shouting “exterminate” had wandered about morosely saying “Innit marvellous, eh” in sarcastic world weary tone.

That sounds quite like Marvin, though with the crucial difference he had a brain the size of a planet.

@Xiaoxiong

YANBU to ask people to listen to this. YABU to object!

I think it's incredibly valuable to listen to this stuff to make people understand what used to be acceptable and how recently won many of our rights as women are, and how precarious the views are around violence against women and girls.

I might play this to some of the teenage boys I know who just the other day were horrified to imagine that in MY LIFETIME there was a European country where women couldn't vote. And I'm not even 40!!

I hope the boys find it funny after all it's a comedy not a documentary

Does anyone else wonder if, following OP's "listen to this" instruction, the BBC are thinking "wow, there's been a lot of downloads of HHH this week. We must air more of them!"
Unintended consequences and all that.

Only on the grounds of it being described as funny.

@ForeverLooking

@BarrowInFurnessRailwayStation

The thing about Tony Hancock's shows is that he's always so full of himself, but comes unstuck and does stupid things which show him to be a buffoon. He's also hugely neurotic and none of the views he has can be taken seriously at all and the audience ends up laughing at him. He's a typical neurotic middle aged man that nobody takes seriously.

Exactly this. I think part of the problem you're having with this @TiddlesTheTiger is that you don't know the context of this show. How could you, you're not an adult living in 1958. The character Hancock portrays is never an admirable man. The character is a workshy layabout who surrounds himself with loser friends just a bit thicker than himself, who is always trying to scam off others. He thinks a lot of himself, is grandiose - and a failure. You're not meant to think he's right, the portrayal is of a man who is consistently in the wrong.

Let's ban Oliver then. Nancy beaten to death, after previously beaten in front of children for not wanting to do the bidding of Bill Sykes.
Dear God, so many programmes, books and films deal with the reality of the world. Women are still being beaten where 'the bruises don't show' even today.
Get a grip OP, and next time, just come right out and say what you beef is rather than just telling us you didn't like something while you were multitasking

I'm sure there was a similar post on here not long ago about Rigsby in Rising Damp. Again, a man who was played as racist ignorant, homophobic fool. We were not as a viewer supposed to look up to him...he was put in his place and made to look like the idiot he was all the time. Philip and Alan constantly made him look a behind the times loser while they did well, and Miss Jones couldn't have been less interested in him. The joke is him, same as with Hancock.

As long as he needs me
Oh, yes, he does need me
In spite of what you see
I'm sure that he needs me

Who else would love him still
When they've been used so ill
He knows I always will
As long as he needs me

I miss him so much when he is gone
But when he's near me
I don't let on

The way I feel inside
The love I have to hide
The Hell! I've got my pride
As long as he needs me

He doesn't say the things he should
He acts the way he thinks she should
But, all the same
I'll play this game his way

As long as he needs me
I know where I must be
I'll cling on steadfastly
As long as he needs me

Sung by Nancy.

Written by a man who understood

Women are still being beaten where 'the bruises don't show' even today.
And it's funny?

Yabu for judging an old TV program by today's standards. Things are very different

Is being acted it in all sorts of ways for out entertainment.

Now I think you're being deliberately obtuse @TiddlesTheTiger

@TiddlesTheTiger

Women are still being beaten where 'the bruises don't show' even today. And it's funny?

Oh damn, you got me.

Honestly thought you were being serious! LOL

Saucery Tony Hancock was funny sometimes, Mrs Brown's Boys not.

I can’t stand it so don’t listen to it. Dh loves it and python I won’t be watching any of it.

You'll be shocked when you hear about Monty Python OP

Made me chortle 😁

@Thoosa

I really hope “Do half an hour of homework and then reply” doesn’t catch on as a MN question format.

“Blah de blah. Discuss” is quite bad enough.

Indeed. Plus the suggestion of completing the task while doing the dishes 🙄

@TiddlesTheTiger

Why do you think posters do dishes?

Why not? I do, and listen to things at the same time.
I also listen while doing various other things eg sawing branches.

What if you don't do dishes or saw branches? Might it not be easier just to say what you find problematic about this show?

This has to be a joke ??

@SheldonesqueTheBstard

I would listen to it while I do the dishes but someone nicked my rubber gloves.

And you know, I’ve got to be careful about my nails and shit.

Who nicked your rubber gloves? You have to keep your hands nice. Mine are past it.

@senua

Does anyone else wonder if, following OP's "listen to this" instruction, the BBC are thinking "wow, there's been a lot of downloads of HHH this week. We must air more of them!" Unintended consequences and all that.

Aha! Maybe that's what he/she/they are trying to do! Possibly a beneficiary of the Hancock estate.....

Is the topic too distressing for you to explain on here?

Ha ha I opened this thinking it would about an intervew with Matt Handcock which was on LBC yesterday 😁