[pressgang] One Easy Lesson and Deadline

[Claire Douglas]

I’ve always been a Colin girl too. He’s hilarious and back then I had a thing for his hair - such devastation when he cut it. 😉 That was also the year Kelda cut hers - worst haircut ever.

I always thought the sewage references were a clever way of getting around the censors but still getting to make the jokes. 

Because I already recently did a rewatch, to the end of series 4, I’ve also noticed a lot of very non-PC lines that I don’t think even registered before. Then there’s Colin in brown face pretending to be an ‘Arab’ prince, which would probably be slammed on Twitter by the woke kids today, even though it fits his character.

Claire

> On 6 Feb 2022, at 19:48, Laura Nunn <laura.nunn at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 
> Over the last seven days, Eldest girl (9) and I watched One Easy Lesson and Deadline.
> 
> Our thoughts:
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> One Easy Lesson
> 
> This was the first PG episode I ever watched, and only then by accident as my mum had recorded ITV instead of CBBC while I was out!
> 
> This was also the first episode that really "grabbed" my daughter. The plot was easier to follow, and she thought it was funny. She has a real soft spot for Colin, which is worrying as I was more of a Kenny girl.
> 
> She absolutely loved the Pings and kept spotting them throughout the episode.
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> As a grown up I keep realising how pretty Spike is. And also how genuinely dreadful some of the acting is *cough* Sarah *cough*.
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> 
> Deadline
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> Another winner for my daughter. She thought Colin was hilarious again (though not sure she completely understood the idea of a print run / deadline / why they couldn't photoshop Tommy Anderson).
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> A really unpleasant line about Sarah who will do the article "once we've sewn her wrists up". Not a budgie's chance in a microwave that would make it in today!
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> The main story about Sullivan's sewage was funny mainly because every single one of the jokes around it would have been funny if they'd used the word "shit". But because they used "sewage", it fell flat. "Mr Sullivan I hear you're full of sewage" etc. etc. ad infinitum. As a 9 year old, I wouldn't have been able to make the leap to complete the idiom - not sure even as a 14 ish year old I'd have got there. This feels like dialogue written for an older audience and then babied down.
> 
> We enjoyed spotting a Ping in a pot plant.
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> A recycling of the joke about Tommy Anderson being the one who... (implied scandal), which was done about Spike at the school dance 3 episodes ago.
> 
> The end credits with Sarah arranging for Gary Morris to get beaten up was very well done. Another winner!
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