2007-03-07 16:31:51 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
I recently watched a couple of the DVDs with my kids. They didn't get a lot of it.
The silly stuff is timeless. Cultural and topical references are what make it dated.
2007-03-07 16:36:30 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh some of the references to politicians and celebrities of the time are dated, certainly the clothes and hairstyles. A few technologies have changed (like the idea that in Britain you can only choose between a couple of BBC channels)...
But the humor is timeless - playing on personalities, characters, religion, class, culture, manners...
Applying for a grant to develop your silly walk from the Ministry of Silly Walks, paying for someone to argue with you, attempting to return a dead parrot to a pet shop and they argue with you, buying cheese from a cheese shop that has no cheese, frantic election night coverage that feeds upon franticness, No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition!, cross-dressing lumberjacks, spam...
And remember, if you see a sketch that isn't funny to you now... it may not be that it's dated. It quite possible wasn't funny then either. These guys were good, not perfect.
2007-03-08 20:06:52 · answer #2 · answered by HumerusOnline.com 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The clothing is dated.
The comedy is timeless
The graphics are dated
The music is timeless
You could do the show tomorrow and it would still be funny.
It did no period pieces.
2007-03-08 00:36:29 · answer #3 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's got to be Ernest Scribbler, it has me in stitches every time. And John Cleese's speech at Graham Chapmans funeral.
2007-03-08 00:57:18 · answer #4 · answered by brillo 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Clothes & graphics but the rest is timelss
''This parrot is no more''
The films are the same '' Come back you cowrard''
'' What did the Romans ever do for us?''
2007-03-08 03:49:14 · answer #5 · answered by echo 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It will never go out of style, like Seinfeld and Lucy.
2007-03-08 01:23:23 · answer #6 · answered by Craig G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My brother loved it I didn't cause I was younger, when repeats were shown and I was older then I could see how funny it was.
2007-03-08 00:49:42 · answer #7 · answered by Bernie c 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am sorry I can't reply, I am too busy rubbing lard in the cat's boil.
2007-03-08 13:24:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
30 tears!!!!!!!!!!! Man, you make me feel ancient!!!!
I loved "The Lumberjack."
2007-03-08 00:35:39 · answer #9 · answered by TedEx 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋