Yeah, this has kind of like silent film levels of like comedy violence.

It's so, but you know, I was thinking about this earlier as we were prepping for this episode that, you know, when you actually take a look at it, in a way, it's more ridiculous that a show like Citizen Smith or Faulty Towers or films like The Life of Brian are continually referenced in popular culture.

In a way, it kind of betrays the like choking, crushing hold that boomers and old Gen Xers

still have on like British media discourse in the sense that someone bringing up, you know,

comparing, you know, students who

supported Corbyn to Citizen Smith, it's like, why the fuck would they get that reference?

That show came out in the late 70s, you know, you realize you're like, this is, in the case

of the episode we watch, this is almost 44 years old.

And it's the equivalent of there being like David Bedeal of the late 70s, like fucking,

you know, booming his voice to make fun of you and referencing like a show from 1934,

which is ridiculous, which is fucking absurd.

I'm referencing Hancock's half hour to mock.

Well, you say.

Like, it's that kind of shit, you know.

I've got to stop the ham.

And so you're reminded of the fact that, like, I think this, you could look at this as like

ancillary episode to our episode about the 70s and our talk with

Paul Ewert about, you know, the crisis in Britain that led to Thatcherism, which is that like

the 70s for better or worse have this weird cultural stranglehold on Britain and referencing

the 70s and sort of like holding up as this example of how

everything was so bad and how everything is so much better. This is not the case. It's very

interesting because for me, the thing about this that made it the most striking was just

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