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I would not recommend Allo Allo for binge watching. Every single character is a stereotype, catering to all kinds of prejudices anyone might hold against the French, Germans, Brits or Italians. When I am in the right mood, I find it grossly, hilariously, irreverently funny(*). One acquaintance just found it gross.

(*) Also achieved, in a quite different way, by The Young Ones, where the fun only hit me after a quarter of an hour of watching WTF cartoon mayhem when Vyv the punker smacked Rik the poet full in the face with a big wooden plank.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Ones_(TV_series)
 
An interesting observation, having hosted my 16 yo neice over the past week I tried introducing her to what I thought would be some humorous tv ... Monty Python ('just stupid'), Young Ones ('really not funny'), Derry Girls ('why are all the characters so f' annoying')

Dogma, Miss Meadows and Killing Eve were 'OK' tho !

Kids these days ! :)
 
TsrJoe said:
An interesting observation, having hosted my 16 yo neice over the past week I tried introducing her to what I thought would be some humorous tv ... Monty Python ('just stupid'), Young Ones ('really not funny'), Derry Girls ('why are all the characters so f' annoying')

Dogma, Miss Meadows and Killing Eve were 'OK' tho !

Kids these days ! :)
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Monty Python is great comedy imo, I can't see how that isn't hitting home even in our brainrot generation. Seems close enough tbh.
 
martinbayer said:
Thank you for the clarification, Rhinocrates - would you recommend to watch that show for fun to a post WWII progressive German, because seriously we are running low on non-brainrotting online content to consume?
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Yes, Arjen is right. No need to binge, and on its own terms, it's hilarious.

British humour has three main strands (with mixtures). Biting satire like Yes Minister, In the Thick of it, The Death of Stalin; (ii)logical nonsense like The Goon Show and Monty Python, which draws on a long tradition of nonsense going back to Lewis Carroll; and general silliness with caricatures more than characters who are far from being up to the jobs they're meant to do and engaging in ridiculously complicated schemes that inevitably either fail or become even more complicated. Dad's Army and Fawlty Towers are examples of this. There's always a lot of innuendo. 'Allo 'Allo definitely falls into the last category. I'd say The Young Ones is a mixture of the last two.

'Allo 'Allo is rather 'meta'. It was a inspired by a very serious series called Secret Army, about the resistance in Belgium during WWII. Part of the humour depends on the tension of 'I can't believe they made a comedy out of that!' Any potential darkness is negated by the fact that there are no 'goodies' and 'badies' - everyone's too incompetent to be either heroic or a threat. Even Herr Flick of the Gestapo (he's almost always called or introducing himself by that full title) is one of the funniest characters.

It's for the post-post war Europeans without any grudges, it's shallow, and very very silly.
 
TsrJoe said:
An interesting observation, having hosted my 16 yo neice over the past week I tried introducing her to what I thought would be some humorous tv ... Monty Python ('just stupid'),
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I’m 16 and honestly I really like the Monty Ohyton humour…

I have a deaw fwiend in Wome called Biggus Dickus
 
martinbayer said:
Please, explain in detail. I can confidently assure you that you are utterly failing at making any point at all that you might actually try to make.
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Ferrari in Formula 1 fucking sucks and the driver is frustrated at the circus that the team is and the crappy strategy they use
 
Michel Van said:
the Goon Show was most insane radio comedy in World
made by Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe they introduce a legendary comedy show.
It influence allot people like the Beatles or Monthy Python

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuVFFNvyUT8&pp=ygUNdGhlIEdvb24gc2hvdw%3D%3D


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7XyP4VHcRM&pp=ygUNdGhlIEdvb24gc2hvdw%3D%3D
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Interesting.

Let's just say that in my generation and current internet culture the words "goon", "gooner" or "gooning" have vastly...different...connotations.
 
EmoBirb said:
Interesting.

Let's just say that in my generation and current internet culture the words "goon", "gooner" or "gooning" have vastly...different...connotations.
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Words carry different meanings in different communities. Separated by social status, age, geography, taste, hobbies, ideology, or any combination.
If you grew up with a generation of comedians who named The Goon Show as their inspiration, the 'goon' as idiot/thug is the meaning that sticks.

My native language is Dutch. Whenever I visit parts of the Netherlands for the first time, on rare occasions Dutch words I thought I knew the meaning of can mean something (completely? only slightly?) different.
That problem is compounded when I visit parts of the UK I have never visited before, because English is still a foreign language to me.
 
GTX said:
Errr...even memes are trying to communicate something. If they aren't they are just random nonsense and thus shouldn't be posted.
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With all due respect, if someone doesn't understand an F1 driver ranting their soul out with the caption of "Jesus Christ..." as an expression of disbelief and sympathy, than that's not the issue of the poster but of the person not understanding something obvious. Perhaps asking for an explanation of the circumstances would have been an adequate reactions (as has happened here several times when some people don't understand a meme directly).

So hardly random nonsense. Although I'm aware you were not alluding that this was the case here specifically.
 

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