UPPER TIER EXCLUSIVE: BONUS EPISODE - SAUCY SEASIDE POSTCARDS
Added 2022-06-21 12:21:39 +0000 UTCTechnically, this is deleted footage - but it's about half the episode we filmed for this week, so consider it basically a brand new standalone episode about the British tradition of the saucy postcard - just for you lot...!
This might've lost a bit of context without the main episode (especially me repeatedly saying you can't say anything these days), but I think it hangs together in its own right.
We're about to film some extra outside bits to go with the rest of the ep (or this week's main ep), which hopefully you're going to see later today or tomorrow. I think it's going to be a good 'un!
Comments
The seaside was always a world of wonders for impressionable young minds. Aside from the saucy postcards and the nudist beaches, there were those pens that had a stripping lady inside, the rude lollipops, the Page 3 girl posters, and the fake plastic boobs. I remember once going into a seaside shop in (I think) Weston-Super-Mare when I was about 9 years old and picking up what I thought was just a plastic cucumber. I then realised the cucumber was a sheath for something else. Turns out it was a big plastic willy.
Simon Lee Tranter
2022-06-23 13:26:26 +0000 UTCHorribly true.
Paul Rose (Mr Biffo)
2022-06-22 12:34:03 +0000 UTC“I don’t get it out for anyone.” Except half of Starbucks.
Kathy Holloway (Silph)
2022-06-21 16:57:49 +0000 UTCThe saucy postcard, absolute staple of UK pre the package holiday. I always imagined them being filtered by a gruff Major type. The cartoonist submitted them to the major. A few tuts and a twitch of his moustache meant it was acceptable. No reaction was unfunny and wouldn't sell. If he stood bolt upright and began to emit fire and brimstone about the end of civilisation, you'd tone it down a bit. The major died of a heart attack when one of the cartoonists returned from a holiday to Spain in 1972, and returned with a pen. When the major inverted the pen to use it, the attractive woman's dress slid down to reveal full frontal nudity. Without his moustache, seaside postcards have merely become smut that require no degree of critical thinking to see the bawdy humour beneath the topless 'dolly bird.'
Dave Graves
2022-06-21 12:28:16 +0000 UTC
