Comedy you love but begrudgingly recognise is starting to date

[Jumblegraws]

We can't be friends any more :'-(

( "Joan Crawford " aside, the majority of Derek and Clive's stuff was unfunny, foul mouthed rubbish. The film version of "Get The Horn" is something of a career nadir for both)

The Whales' National Anthem is worth the licence fee alone.

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

The Whales' National Anthem is worth the licence fee alone.

Features Dudley Moore rhyming " plankton" with " wanked on", so  yeah, that gets a pass  too.

[chveik]

We can't be friends any more :'-(

( "Joan Crawford " aside, the majority of Derek and Clive's stuff was unfunny, foul mouthed rubbish. The film version of "Get The Horn" is something of a career nadir for both)

fine, I'll let that slide

[Poirots BigGarlickyCorpse]

That would have been known then as well though, unless you mean that as a kid in the 80s you wouldn't have been aware of any of that.

...Yeah, now that you say it, that's definitely a factor. I still like it and most of the comedy holds up but there's still that awareness that it's Comedy World War II where nothing horrible is happening in Poland. That said, there are a couple of "Jewish tailor" jokes in Series 1 that ohhhhhhhh no. They don't go there ever again, they must've realised you can't have Comedy Nazis and remind people of what was really going on.

I saw bits and pieces of Series 1 and 2 as a kid but only saw it all the way through in the last couple of years when Yesterday started showing it from the beginning. And they used to put The World At War on right afterwards just to remind you that you were a monster for laughing XD