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ToraToraTora | 18:33 Sun 08th May 2022 | Film, Media & TV
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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?
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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.
21:48 Sun 08th May 2022
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.
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.
For all their earnest words this is a chink in their armour.
There are a lot of cuts in these repeats to squish the adverts in. There were no advert breaks in the original series
Is deleting a line containing a derogatory racist term, butchery?
I had no idea that it was a "derogatory racist term."
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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.
"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!
SQAD, Chambers Dictionary shows it as, "offensive slang".
Did they cut the previous line with the same word in that episode?
Del: Got to get down the (Chinese) before the auction finishes
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yes, they did but it didn't demolish the scene in that instance. They just blanked the end of one sentence. Still bad though.
Stop watching them on those rubbish repeat channels. I'm sure you've got the full set of DVDs
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yes I have barry but I feel sorry for others not getting the full value.
It's a slippery slope ...
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.
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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.
True, choux, I was just saying the very same to me old mate Chalky today.
Why did you censor you question? He says Chinkies and not Chinese Restaurant.
douglas, that was Jim Davidson's realm.
Darent even think how many times I’ve watched these episodes!

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