I like it too. I saw a repeat recently - it actually sends up British colonialism and snobbery pretty well, I think. And it's funny. What a bargain...

>I think this show is great! I've watched a few of the re-runs and its unconventional mix of bigotry and old-school humour is superb. I never fail to laugh at the Indian characters apart from that strangely roasted-duck body dusted Micheal Baites man. I can't get over the distraction of the build up of encrusted tanning lotion on his eye-lids. Not to mention the incorrect religious references. He's posing as a Sikh yet rants about being a Hindu! It's really quite outlandish.
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>My Asian friends love its erroneous tomfoolery.

Presumably in the same way that Americamn idiots think Are You Being Served is sophisticated and heartwarming and the best of British (or Britcoms as the stupid cunts call them, and lump THAT alongside Python and Blackadder, good grief....).
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aaaaggghhh, stop living in the past get with the future i.e. rise in petrol prices, extreme violence in the middle east and a dominating unhelpful dull primeminister, nothing at all like the 1980s...

#"... 'cos we are the generation that's gotta be heard..."#

sorry do not get reference, born in eighties, but not recollecting them (thank god)

>sorry do not get reference, born in eighties

It's Robbie Williams, you young tyke. Honestly, I don't know what they teach you in schools nowadays.

>... and a dominating unhelpful dull primeminister, nothing at all like the 1980s...

You clearly don't remember the 1980s. It may well be a cheap 11ocs throwaway line to say Tony Blairs is just another Margaret Thatcher. Well I do remember the 1980s. And he isn't. Oh, and petrol prices went down in the 80s too.

This is worrying. If RHC thinks Tony Blairs is like Maggie, we're all in trouble.
Just like those newly enfranchised US voters who are about to let Bush Jr in because 8 years of Clinton has enabled them to forget the legacy of Ronnie and George...
"They're all the same" they say.
No they're not. None of them are saints, but they're not all the same...

Isn't Bush Jr's rightful role in life that of Vice-occasional presenter of Record Breakers?

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>You clearly don't remember the 1980s. It may well be a cheap 11ocs throwaway line to say Tony Blairs is just another Margaret Thatcher. Well I do remember the 1980s. And he isn't. Oh, and petrol prices went down in the 80s too.
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And now we have flooding blamed on global warming.

Coincidence, or something more sinister?

Sheep

don't forget John Majors if you're talking about dull prime ministers.

"I think this show is great!"

Has kinder discovered irony?

IAHHM is the pub landlord's favourite sit-com. Take that as you will.

I thought it was funny when I was a child.
I once saw Don Estelle in Woolworths in Weston Super Mare. me and my friends were cheeky to him and he stuck up his vs at us

Well, I liked it as well. As a child. I also liked "Are You Being Served?"

It's quite true that TV influences children's behaviour. There was an episode in which the posh man (forgotten his name) beckons Miss Slocombe to speak to him, and she responds by flicking the V-sign at him. This got a huge laugh. So I did it to my mum when she was saying goodnight that night, thinking it was a really funny thing to do. I got into trouble for it.

Anon: I think that not recognising the Robbie William's lyrics is a good think, but doesn't he pinch lyrics anyway?

Sorry if I have the eighties summed up all wrong, in future I will only refer to the present.

If it wasn't for IAHHM, we wouldn't have had to endure 'Whispering Grass' by Windsor Davis & Don Estelle.

And I suppose Dad's Army was resposible for Clive Dunn's 'Grandad' (written by Herbie Flowers).

There are probably a few more that could be added to the list...

An ex-colleague used to delight in singing 'Land of Hope and Glory' in a cod-Asian accent and then shouting 'Sha-a-a-t A-a-a-ap' in a Windsor Davies voice.

The programme itself however, I can't say I like.

My first boss' barber was Melvyn Hayes' cousin.

Has anyone got a more tenuous link with the show than that?

I've just had a curry.

i'm a racist.

It's a classic. In my opinion I think all the Indian characters have the upper hand. And they have a camp man! It's got all the ingredients for sitcom quality.

Does that mean Russell Peters has been replaced by Melvin Hayes in your fickle affections, kinder?

I wonder when the website will be going up...

Fickle affections? Aren't my affections allowed to expand and embezzle? You can learn from comedy my dear Jon, and I suggest you become a little more diligent when it comes to absorbing from comic greats what it is that makes the male form something to cherish.

Eh?

>IAHHM is the pub landlord's favourite sit-com. Take that as you will.
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>I thought it was funny when I was a child.
>I once saw Don Estelle in Woolworths in Weston Super Mare. me and my friends were cheeky to him and he stuck up his vs at us

I saw him in Woolies in Scarborough.

I saw him in The league of Gentlemen. He gets around