Love Thy Neighbour vs. Trigger Happy TV

[Dan Vito Corleone]

 

 

I'm staying neutral in this one. It's been a long time since I've watched LTN, so long in fact I can hardly remember anything to do with it.

 

I'm not a big fan of Trigger Happy TV, that sort of comedy doesn't do much for me to be honest, I prefer sit-coms and sketch shows. It's funny in bits don't get me wrong but overall isn't my style.

[Carvalho Diablo]

My vote is cast buana

[Guest davelfc]

Somebody handed me a DVD of LTN a couple of months ago, I watched the first episode (I watched them all as a kid) and it has not aged well. It wasn't really that funny all those years ago.

 

Trigger Happy TV was brilliant, but you always knew like all of those shows that it had a short shelf life.

 

Trigger gets the vote from me.

[Thants]

How the fuck did these two get in?

I can't vote for either.

[Rocky Sullivan]

What Thants said

[hamstrung]

Love Thy Neighbour is the really racist one isn't it? How did that even get in?

[Strontium]

Love Thy Neighbour is the really racist one isn't it? How did that even get in?

 

 

I think it was "racist" in the sense that Blazing Saddles was racist; making heavy use of racial apithets, but predominantly to mock those using them. You're not supposed to laugh with the racist, you laugh at him.

[L19red]

I think it was "racist" in the sense that Blazing Saddles was racist; making heavy use of racial apithets, but predominantly to mock those using them. You're not supposed to laugh with the racist, you laugh at him.

 

 

That was the claim made by the writers of in sickness and in health, and to be fair to them, Alf Garnett is clearly the butt of much of the humour in that series.

Love they Neighbour by contrast was racist in the way Bernard Manning is racist minus the swearing.

 

I hope you dont think Eddie is predjudiced just because he calls Bill a sambo. etc

[Guido]

Christ this thread is depressing. AWFUL television.

[Stu Monty]

Trigger Happy was superb at times. Anyone that thinks the scene where the businessman drops his briefcase and sprints down a street away from about a hundred charging, screaming, animal costumed-up psychos isn't hilarious needs a talking to.

 

Or a guy dressed as a burglar, and carrying a bag with SWAG on it, asking people for ladders to get back into "his house".

 

It was very good.

[Faustus]

Trigger Happy was superb at times. Anyone that thinks the scene where the businessman drops his briefcase and sprints down a street away from about a hundred charging, screaming, animal costumed-up psychos isn't hilarious needs a talking to.

 

Or a guy dressed as a burglar, and carrying a bag with SWAG on it, asking people for ladders to get back into "his house".

 

It was very good.

 

Aye. The first two series or so were very good. Unfortunately, programmes like that only have a short shelf life.

[cochcaer]

Black bloke and white bloke, neighbours in 70s London, not liking each other... nonsense...

[Remmie]

I liked the clips of Trigger Happy where he pretends to be a spy. Or drops thousands of pounds in front of buskers and runs off. The mascot fights were also good and it had a really good soundtrack. Won't make it through the next round but a solid comedy I reckon.

[hamstrung]

I think it was "racist" in the sense that Blazing Saddles was racist; making heavy use of racial apithets, but predominantly to mock those using them. You're not supposed to laugh with the racist, you laugh at him.

 

I don't think that's true of this particular show.

[cochcaer]

I don't think that's true of this particular show.

 

It's racist if the writing is mediocre or not aimed at Jews. Throw the Jew Down the Well... Wir mussen die Juden ausrotten...

[lucozade]

these both suck. We should have put Porridge up against one of these and Partridge against the other and then they would both be out...

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

So Spaced and Love They Neighbour have drawn. Quality.

[Dan Vito Corleone]

Trigger Happy TV progresses to the next round after an emphatic win.