Pulled where floo?
I just edited my last post, not the words but the fact that my post was with Rose's, inside the quote box.
I already said my bit about '' 'til death us do part'' so won't repeat it. Great show but I think some didn't understand the subtlety of Speight's writing. Alf Garnett was a caricature (unfortunately I did know someone slightly who personified the character, better off financially and not crude but very, very like him).
Really loved Spitting Image! Marvellous, so clever.
Later: Wiki article about Alf Garnett. If you scroll down to the ''Character'' section, everything about him is explained. He really was a horror.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alf_GarnettHere's an extract:
''Alf was reactionary, mean-spirited, selfish, bigoted, anti-Irish, anti-Catholic, racist, misogynistic and anti-Semitic. Warren Mitchell himself was in fact Jewish. In In Sickness and in Health he also displays homophobia, largely because he gets a gay black man whom he calls "Marigold" as his home help. The home help calls him "bwana".''
and this:
''The British public loved Alf Garnett -
since everyone knew such a reactionary figure within their own locality - although the television show was heavily criticised for the character's prejudices. Writer Johnny Speight often commented that the character was supposed to be a figure of ridicule, but admitted that not all viewers saw the satiric elements of the character.[2][3] Speight defended the Alf Garnett character, saying: "If you do the character correctly, he just typifies what you hear - not only in pubs but in golf clubs around the country. To make him truthful he's got to say those things, and they are nasty things. But I feel as a writer that they should be out in the open so we can see how daft these comparisons are.''
