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Why did they do this in the first Dad's Army episode?

Started by Asclepius, August 06, 2024, 02:11:13 PM

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Rankersbo

Quote from: dontpaintyourteeth on August 07, 2024, 10:01:13 PMWhen it was repeated in the nineties did everyone do the "he's dead... he's dead... he's not dead..." thing over the opening credits or was that just my family?

It was enough of a thing there was a sketch about it on some comedy show or other

dissolute ocelot

Quote from: Ignatius_S on August 07, 2024, 06:29:11 PMThere's a tradition of people with the second name of Clark/Clarke to have Nobby as a nickname and the combination used to crop up with in various British works. One of the missing episode of Callan is called Goodbye Nobby Clarke (who is played by Michael Robbins, arguably best known - rather unfairly - for his role of Arthur in On The Buses).

Strangely nobody seems to know where Nobby comes from - main theories are that clerks used to have calloused (knobby) hands, or they dressed smart or wore top hats ("nobby" meant smartly dressed, like a nob, and a "Nobby" was a type of top hat). It's sometimes cited as originating in the navy, but not sure why sailors would be so familiar with clerks; cryptographer William Clarke (1883–1961) who worked in naval intelligence in World War One seems to have been one of the first. But certainly a long-established nickname. Parodically stupid Guardian Notes And Queries thread.

McDead

Imagining what this show would have been like if the entire cast had had prodigiously - and visibly - large cocks

Gulftastic

Quote from: McDead on August 09, 2024, 08:45:16 PMImagining what this show would have been like if the entire cast had had prodigiously - and visibly - large cocks

'With length and girth and giant balls too
When we whip them out, you won't feel blue..'


dontpaintyourteeth


Glebe


McDead

Quote from: dontpaintyourteeth on August 09, 2024, 09:11:14 PMdon't show 'em pike!

SHOW THEM, PIKE! SHOW THESE GERMAN INTERLOPERS OUR BLUE VEINED BRITISH STEEL!

dontpaintyourteeth

He's got a big cock... he's got a big cock... he's got a big cock

Gulftastic

Much as is the case in the normal version, in the big cocks version, Sgt Wilson would have the biggest. It would add a further layer to the resentment between him and Mainwaring

Glebe

Quote from: McDead on August 09, 2024, 09:35:16 PMSHOW THEM, PIKE! SHOW THESE GERMAN INTERLOPERS OUR BLUE VEINED BRITISH STEEL!

"Do you think that's wise, sir?"

Or alternatively "Do you think that's wide, sir - the width of my cock!" Oh dear I seem to have become stuck in the purile mire...

McDead

Quote from: Gulftastic on August 09, 2024, 09:36:28 PMMuch as is the case in the normal version, in the big cocks version, Sgt Wilson would have the biggest. It would add a further layer to the resentment between him and Mainwaring

No doubt in my mind that Sgt Wilson is hung with the very hammer of Thor itself. Meanwhile, poor Mainwaring is having to make the most of things with his wartime walnut.

Glebe



Gulftastic


Glebe


The Bumlord

I reckon Jonesy would have an absolute whopper down his long johns, a right old baby's arm

McDead

Quote from: The Bumlord on August 09, 2024, 10:18:12 PMI reckon Jonesy would have an absolute whopper down his long johns, a right old baby's arm

You might be onto something there, Bumlord, he noticeably trips up on *something* during the end credits


Hobo With A Shit Pun


Dr Rock

I know the British are able to laugh at themselves, but I wonder if anyoyne who did serve in the home guard was offended by the show.

Good One of Wally

Quote from: Dr Rock on August 10, 2024, 08:42:38 AMI know the British are able to laugh at themselves, but I wonder if anyoyne who did serve in the home guard was offended by the show.

My Dad was in the Home Guard and thoroughly enjoyed the show.
He marched with broomhandles just like the lads, and guarded the local church hall in Bootle with such steely resolve that it never once fell into German hands.

Fambo Number Mive

Quote from: McDead on August 09, 2024, 09:41:26 PMNo doubt in my mind that Sgt Wilson is hung with the very hammer of Thor itself. Meanwhile, poor Mainwaring is having to make the most of things with his wartime walnut.

Wilson's penis is used as a rope for the men to haul themselves to safety when river exercises go wrong. Even when he is undergoing extreme pain due to another member of the Home Guard tugging really hard on his limp member, Wilson never does more than raise an eyebrow.

Fraser, aware of how small Mainwaring's penis is by comparison, takes delight in commenting to the Captain on the size of Wilson's penis as much as possible.


Former Problem

Quote from: Asclepius on August 08, 2024, 06:12:21 AMI believe he's also playing the exact same Vicar in the Dad's Army film in which Toby Jones does Mainwaring.

Pike actor's in that too, but he's a different character.
He also played a wartime English vicar (again unnamed) in the 1970 Bourvil film The Atlantic Wall, one of the big French films of that year.



superthunderstingcar

Quote from: Thosworth on August 06, 2024, 11:15:39 PM
Every single scene after the initial 1960s-set one was shot in weirdly soft focus, across all of the subsequent series and films. But they've been repeated so often that we're all so used to it that we don't even notice it any more.

Mr Trumpet

Quote from: Dr Rock on August 10, 2024, 08:42:38 AMI know the British are able to laugh at themselves, but I wonder if anyoyne who did serve in the home guard was offended by the show.

I think my grandad (in his 20s, reserved occupation) was bothered that they were portrayed as a load of old duffers.

Harlequin

Quote from: Glebe on August 07, 2024, 10:15:08 PMYes! I had a bit of a crush on monocled lesbian Cissy.
Quote from: Glebe on August 08, 2024, 10:15:41 PMYes, a surprisingly positive depiction of a gay character in a mainstream show at the time.
Quote from: Gulftastic on August 08, 2024, 10:11:38 PMQuietly groundbreaking as a character. Fully accepted by her family, her sexuality was hardly an issue, except for a tiny bit of gay panic regarding Su Pollard's character.




fucking hell, and i am sorry, but phwoar. she absolutely serves.

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