• 2hundredpancakes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 hours ago

    I remember IT Crowd as having some really funny moments back when I watched it, but also being very hit or miss. Looking back, the episodes with the theater gays and the trans woman were… deeply unfortunate. Also it turned out Graham whatshisface is a full-time transphobe. So it’s consigned to the trash bin for me.

    BBT, I never saw more than a few episodes and what I did see was very bland tbh.

    TL;DR maybe they both suck actually

    • Denjin@lemmings.world
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      36 minutes ago

      Not disagreeing that Linehan has some awful opinions and that has leached out into a couple of his writings. But, the theater episode, at no point, makes the fact that people are gay the butt of the joke it’s the main characters that are terrible people in that episode, particularly Roy.

      It’s like getting upset that Father Ted is racist for the episode that specifically makes racists the target of the joke.