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*PREVIEW* Britainology 12: Only Fools and Horses

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Comedy

4.6 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Milo takes Nate on the most inscrutable journey yet: a vision of British 1980s/90s sitcoms that are too cockney to be parsed without a translator. Yes, it's the 'Heroes and Villains' episode of Only Fools and Horses, perhaps the most British thing Nate has had to encounter yet, and the one that did the most to break his spirit. Hope you enjoy! This episode is on the $10 tier, which gets you all our bonus content and a second Britainology each month -- access it on Patreon at the following: https://www.patreon.com/posts/48986418 We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://bailproject.org/?form=donate *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

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0:00.0

That was it.

0:11.4

That was the episode we watched.

0:14.1

I mean, to be honest with you, I recognize the sort of importance, like, in terms of this show being really popular

0:22.6

and, like, the sort of centrality of it being in Peckham and stuff.

0:26.2

Like, I still see references to it and things like that.

0:28.4

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:29.1

But I'm not going to pretend that this is a show that I'd be like, I want to watch all seven seasons

0:32.9

right fucking now.

0:34.3

I've got some bad news to you about the rest of this podcast.

0:38.4

Every episode, only falls and ortses.

0:40.8

That's what we're doing now.

0:42.5

Which is funny because, I mean, I did grow up watching some British TV because my mom,

0:47.4

you know, had shows she liked watching.

0:50.4

And then also we had friends when we lived in Germany who were a couple from

0:54.5

Manchester but they had lived in Germany for like 25 years at that point and they

1:00.3

they in those days if you bought a VCR in in Europe it was PAL so like we had a VCR

1:08.5

that basically couldn't play American tape so we and German TV fucking

1:12.3

sucks sucks now it sucked then region coding was so cool how they used to do that just to just to

1:17.5

fuck with people basically my parents eventually got a one that had a switch that you could actually

1:22.2

do NTSC and PAL but um anyway so we uh I remember watching stuff like all, every season of the Black Adder and some other like Rowan Atkinson stuff and some like BBC dramas with my mom and stuff like that.

1:35.5

But this, I feel like my mom left England early enough that this would not have entered on her radar of like a show.

1:41.8

Nate just wants to watch America's strongest man.

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