Round the Horne: Difference between revisions

BBC Four broadcast stage performances of the original scripts in 2004.

 

 

* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Julian and Sandy are textbook cases: walking camp stereotypes, not to mention speech peppered with [[wikipedia:Polari|Polari]], but it's never actually stated that they're gay, and indeed the subject of sexuality is never discussed, only sniggeringly alluded to. In what turned out to be the final episode, they casually reveal that they both have wives.

* [[As Himself]]:

* [[Catch Phrase]]: All the recurring characters had one; probably the most famous was "Hello, I'm Julian and this is my friend Sandy."

* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: Charles and Fiona were prone to this.

'''Fiona:''' Yes, I know. }}

* [[Dirty Old Man]]: J. Peasemold Gruntfuttock, undoubtedly.

* [[Folk Music]]: Rambling Syd Rumpo.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Julian and Sandy did this by using Polari to great effect:

* [[Gratuitous French]]: The writers were quite fond of using [[Catch Phrase|your actual French.]]

* [[Have a Gay Old Time]]: Played absolutely deliberately

* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]:

** Kenneth Williams was that stuck-up guy with the expressive nostrils in the ''[[Carry On]]'' films. He also went on to become a regular on ''[[Just a Minute]]'', where he was often [[The Prima Donna]] persona very similar to the one he played in the "out-of-character" moments of ''Round the Horne''.

* [[Inherently Funny Words]]:

** Gruntfuttock.

 

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