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Dumbing Down 50 Years On
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In an episode of The Sweeney from 1975 the character Inspector Jack Regan answers a villain’s ironic “Drink?” by quoting from Swift (“Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring”), which added a different level to an ‘ordinary’ cops and robbers show.
Just watched a cable TV rerun of that episode. The villain still asks “Drink?”, but Jack Regan’s elegant Swiftian response has been cut to some nonsense like “Drink deep” and nothing else.
Why?
Do they really think the quote that raised eyebrows nigh on 50 years ago would nowadays upset the viewers in some way?
I’ll turn the lights out on my way out.
Allen
Just watched a cable TV rerun of that episode. The villain still asks “Drink?”, but Jack Regan’s elegant Swiftian response has been cut to some nonsense like “Drink deep” and nothing else.
Why?
Do they really think the quote that raised eyebrows nigh on 50 years ago would nowadays upset the viewers in some way?
I’ll turn the lights out on my way out.
Allen
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