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<blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 352064" data-attributes="member: 23"><p>That's great, and thank you.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes. There's a sense that the actors are having fun playing up aspects of their character so that it's exaggerated and larger-than-life, but it feels knowing - as though they're in on the joke - and with a sense of pride behind it that they appreciate those things that makes their cultural background special and individual. I think what the actors give really overcomes any idea of racism.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This is very true. And the students really appreciate this in him, as shown in those episodes where for whatever reason he's left the school or off sick or whatever.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I can't argue with that, but I'm still shocked that it was this successful series that I don't remember hearing of it while I was growing up.</p><p></p><p>I have learned that my ITV region never showed the mid-Eighties revival (Series Four), so that goes at least some way to explaining that, but looking at the series I'm really quite surprised that it was never repeated on a Saturday lunchtime or something which is where I remember other series of the ear like <em>On The Buses</em> being (and I dare say many of <u><em>those</em></u> series were probably more offensive than this one if you scratch the surface).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>When I ran an image search for <em>MYL</em>, there's one picture which kept popping up showing all the students dressed in their national costumes, and that's the episode in question.</p><p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsimkl.net%2Ffanart%2F71%2F711540836fb2d7a1_0.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=ffa9ff7883384df9e93b96ea641a7b32fdfba1638c0baf5d3e289887dc0a371e&ipo=images" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 782px" /></p><p></p><p>They wore them for the end-of-term talent show where they had to cobble together a performance at the last minute due to short notice and their lack of talents in the performances they'd previously planned to do.</p><p></p><p>I really liked that the end credits ran over their performances, so they were <u><em>literally</em></u> performing the closing theme for the series. And of course the theme is tailor-made for a group performance like this one.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">[MEDIA=youtube]_9X-CFXiwjo[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spells & Karma, post: 352064, member: 23"] That's great, and thank you. Yes. There's a sense that the actors are having fun playing up aspects of their character so that it's exaggerated and larger-than-life, but it feels knowing - as though they're in on the joke - and with a sense of pride behind it that they appreciate those things that makes their cultural background special and individual. I think what the actors give really overcomes any idea of racism. This is very true. And the students really appreciate this in him, as shown in those episodes where for whatever reason he's left the school or off sick or whatever. I can't argue with that, but I'm still shocked that it was this successful series that I don't remember hearing of it while I was growing up. I have learned that my ITV region never showed the mid-Eighties revival (Series Four), so that goes at least some way to explaining that, but looking at the series I'm really quite surprised that it was never repeated on a Saturday lunchtime or something which is where I remember other series of the ear like [I]On The Buses[/I] being (and I dare say many of [U][I]those[/I][/U] series were probably more offensive than this one if you scratch the surface). When I ran an image search for [I]MYL[/I], there's one picture which kept popping up showing all the students dressed in their national costumes, and that's the episode in question. [CENTER] [IMG width="782px"]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsimkl.net%2Ffanart%2F71%2F711540836fb2d7a1_0.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=ffa9ff7883384df9e93b96ea641a7b32fdfba1638c0baf5d3e289887dc0a371e&ipo=images[/IMG][/CENTER] They wore them for the end-of-term talent show where they had to cobble together a performance at the last minute due to short notice and their lack of talents in the performances they'd previously planned to do. I really liked that the end credits ran over their performances, so they were [U][I]literally[/I][/U] performing the closing theme for the series. And of course the theme is tailor-made for a group performance like this one. [CENTER] [MEDIA=youtube]_9X-CFXiwjo[/MEDIA][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]
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