Butchering T V - Especially Sitcoms - O F A H ......

[ToraToraTora]

just watching "The Frogs Legacy" for the Nth time so I more or less know every line. So at the wedding, Boycie has a go at the Trotters' present.....
Boycie: "He probably gave them that old crockery he bought at the Chinese auction"
Del: "How dare you..."
Boycie: "Well I wouldn't put it past you.."
*1 Rodney: "It that true? did our dinner service come from the Chinese takeaway?"
Del: "No I swear..."
Rodney: "...well those plates had an awful lot of Pandas and pagodas on them..."
Del: "..OK they did ...etc
Anyway Rodney's line marked *1 was cut, why? How is that in anyway offensive and even if it was why is comedy being butchered like this?

[THECORBYLOON]

Rodney did not say, "did our dinner service come from the Chinese takeaway?"

He said,

"Did our dinner service come from the bankrupt [offensive term for Chinese folk]?"

That explains why the line has been deleted.

[Sqad]

We live in a funny old world, one in which anything you say might be misconstrued or taken the wrong way.

I struggle at times to understand this "brave new world" but am convinced by the modern generation that it is for the better.

[douglas9401]

For all their earnest words this is a chink in their armour.

[barry1010]

There are a lot of cuts in these repeats to squish the adverts in. There were no advert breaks in the original series

[THECORBYLOON]

Is deleting a line containing a derogatory racist term, butchery?

[Sqad]

I had no idea that it was a "derogatory racist term."

[ToraToraTora]

barry, "There are a lot of cuts in these repeats to squish the adverts in. There were no advert breaks in the original series " - yes but chopping the guts out of a vital scene just kills the scene. Plenty of other places for cuts. This is TROB butchery, can they not accept that these programs are "of there time" - in fact I have seen some warnings to that effect on other programs.

[THECORBYLOON]

"chopping the guts out of a vital scene just kills the scene. Plenty of other places for cuts. This is TROB butchery"

It was ONE line, get over it!

[THECORBYLOON]

SQAD, Chambers Dictionary shows it as, "offensive slang".

[barry1010]

Did they cut the previous line with the same word in that episode?
Del: Got to get down the (Chinese) before the auction finishes

[ToraToraTora]

yes, they did but it didn't demolish the scene in that instance. They just blanked the end of one sentence. Still bad though.

[barry1010]

Stop watching them on those rubbish repeat channels. I'm sure you've got the full set of DVDs

[ToraToraTora]

yes I have barry but I feel sorry for others not getting the full value.

[Ellipsis]

It's a slippery slope ...

[choux]

I often think of repeats as giving someone their first viewing, so I get TTT's pov. For those of us who have seen the programmes from the very off it can feel a bit like being cheated and enforces the dreaded "woke" word.

[ToraToraTora]

it can also ruin the pay off in John Sullivan shows. He has a tendency to build a main joke through the episode and chopping it about can ruin that. So I feel new watchers may have a different opinion of a show because they are not seeing it as the writer intended.

[douglas9401]

True, choux, I was just saying the very same to me old mate Chalky today.

[archibaldy]

Why did you censor you question? He says Chinkies and not Chinese Restaurant.

[choux]

douglas, that was Jim Davidson's realm.

[Smowball]

Darent even think how many times I’ve watched these episodes!