The Good Life: Series 4 Episode 1 (Part 3 of 3)

[kezzajay2]

Who would dislike this??? It's BRILLIANT!!!

[gaedfli]

I always wondered what the Pearsons looked like

[liebtiff]

Please don't compare Margo with Mrs. Bucket. They are not in the same league.

[BiLnEmZ]

Its horns polishing! lol

[rocksoliddude1]

the good life - being a pair of paranoid, neurotic twits!!

[EcirpWehttam]

Geraldiiiiinnnnneeeeee....!

[1979LITTLEMISS]

Polishing a goat's horns - LOL! Sounds like something Mrs Bucket from 'Keeping Up Appearances' would suggest!

[richguy55]

Excellent episode. My mother still has one of those gollywog aprons lying around now, it only comes out at Christmas! Its a harmless symbol and a tradition that has sadly been snuffed out by overly sensitive people who should have bigger fish to fry.

[chriswales19]

There was a scene in Ever Decreasing Circles when Richard Briers watches a program in Welsh - I wonder if that was added in deliberatly in homage to this great episode !?

[jenniferrut]

if i could find an apron like margot's i would wear it today!

Just because I was wearing it doesn't mean i promote slavery...and by the way blacks had slaves too!

[ThreeWordsFirstWord]

being a bit too cautous with your comment

[lizclegg]

Then you're an idiot. Its one thing people doing that in the mid-70s when they were less educated about these issues, but to show such a low level of consciousness and understanding of the implications of certain things in 2009 indicates that you are quite stupid.

[raelnine]

England in the 1975's +

See 'Brixton riots' . There was tension!

But the BBC were stupid and exclusively white male dominated to realise!

The 'logo' was off a marmalade (preserve) company. Not used since.

[teresawoolies]

yea u try having a golly wog today,u wud wudnt get away with it. they were harmless things till everyone got politically correct

[craftylaura]

And quite right you wouldn't get away with it. They were degrading and vicious symbols of the accepted racist attitudes that were in the population at the time. Political correctness has nothing to do with it, it shows how we have changed and become more aware of how things like the Golly-wog and other symbols denote racism and should never, ever, no matter how harmless they seem, ever be tolerated.

[ScottfromTexas]

Yeah, only hatred towards Whites is acceptable now.

[TJJ5621]

Does that mean we should not let our children read story books that we read as children? Rubbish, it is a childrens book series. It does not teach them to be racist.

[craftylaura]

Check out Margo's apron, times have changed!!

[mastmedia]

O-M-G!!!

I hadn't noticed that before. Geeeeez!

[sarahnewt]

that's the point ( to my mind) even-minded people don't notice things like that because they don't matter..... they don't mean anything - just a design.....

[MrRadaikon]

@sarahnewt that's like saying a swastika is "just a design" Yes it has been Asian religious symbol for centuries..but It's downright insensitive to walk about wearing one emblazoned on your chest no matter how cute or pretty you think it is. Unless you live in India, Japan or any country where animism or Buddhism is practiced, It's inappropriate.

[momopomkom]

Good lord, why would anyone walk around with a cartoony plantation house slave emblazoned on their front proudly like a coat of arms?

I guess it goes a long with her having little self awareness? But still, that's appalling.

So little regard for human life is inhuman as it gets.

[craftylaura]

I guess that's why its so important to know that people did wear things like that, we may be appalled by it now but in those days it was ok, its all history even the nasty bits like racist attitudes

shouldn't be forgotten.

What we do in the future we learn from the past.

[lizclegg]

She was wearing it because it was the mid-seventies and people were less aware then than they are now. It was only in the '80s that there was a big campaign against the Robertson's marmalade character as people became more aware as to what these things really mean rather than just taking them for granted.