Talk:Little Britain (TV series)

message: Who did the guys get the material and ideas for the show from?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.197.207.87 (talk) 14:13, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Material

message: I find the criticism section to be somewhat riduculous and the shows critics opinions are unfounded. yes, the show is crude. yes, it ridicules many people, but it is a very self loathing sort of ridicule which is the entire reason it is funny in the first place. What the show is really making fun of is the manners - peculiar to the English in this case - of prudes, homophobes and racists. 'Little Britain' indeed. Don't these people know what 'camp' is?! This is not 'South Park,' which actually is offensive and stupid, since SP is done by two straight rich white guys, who don't even understand what they're making fun of most of the time, which is why they are not funny, and Little Britain is. I think the comparison to South Park is warranted, but South Park is a failure as camp humor. I also feel this article warrants an LGBT tag since it is pure queer humor and is most certainly part of gay culture. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kelt65 (talk • contribs) 15:26, 2 July 2007
Seeing as Mat Lucas has no hair at all i think he knows what it is like to be a minority and the show trivialises differences such as homosexuality and race making people look past it to the appauling personality of the character-Fists-  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.168.214.140 (talk) 01:22, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Criticism

message: I think these characters are very similar; in fact when I first switched on MD, I thought it was Pauline (League of Gentlemen)... the difference being one stops people getting jobs, and the other stops people getting slim, due to their own personal inferiority complexes and bullying. Definitely some influence there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.41.232.50 (talk) 22:05, 13 February 2005
:This seems correct. They are both clipboard-using, bullying, and also men dressed as women.DavidFarmbrough 11:59, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, there are definate parallels, and it is also documented that The League of Gentlemen team had workshop sessions and collaborations with Walliams & Lucas.--feline1 13:09, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Majorie Dawes and Pauline 

message: Isn't Mr Mann really a Series 2 character? He only makes a single appearance in Series 1, in the 'Pirate Memory Game' sketch. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tchocky (talk • contribs) 21:44, 5 June 2005
:The fact that he appears in all three seasons makes him count as a character in each of them.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.167.5.117 (talk) 03:24, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mr Mann - series 2? 

message: "The name is a modification of the term 'Little England'."
Is it? I thought it was from 'Great Britain'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.63.87.227 (talk) 12:45, 22 July 2005
:It's from both. Crazy Eddy 11:33, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: * "Anybody? No? Dust. Anybody? No? Dust." (Marjorie Dawes)
* "(Crying, yet screeching) Ivor! That's the name of Ivor!" (Janet)
Only said by a character once. Don't see how it counts as a catchphrase.
Edit: Actually, Marjorie says this again in Series 2, during the Christmas Day Out with the Fat Fighters.KatsuyaJounouchi 14:59, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Non-catchphrases

message: This might be really picky or indeed even incorrect, thus why I ask here, but isn't her quote "don't go giving me evils" not "Don't give me evils!". I'll go and watch the DVD again but doing a google search I think I might be right. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hesperus (talk • contribs) 15:50, 22 October 2005
:It actually is "don't go giving me evils."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.167.5.117 (talk) 03:25, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Vicky Pollard catchphrase

message: When have Keith Harris, Paul Daniels, Debbie McGee and Caroline Quentin appeared in the show? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Trampikey (talk • contribs) 23:03, 23 January 2006
:I'm wondering where the heck is "Samantha Power" in the list of the Little Britain voice actors? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.106.231.25 (talk) 04:46, 8 June 2006
::I think they were in a Series One deleted scene, featuring Peter Andre, who tried to pose as Keith Harris with a fake Orville. Squidward2602 20:44, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guests 

message: I have been through this article and, without removing any of its intended content, have given it a general tidy-up, including replacing any repetition and grammar/typos that needed fixing. (Hopefully I spotted all of them!) I removed the (Series 1–3) tags, as they are redundant if a character appeared in all three. I also expanded some of the character descriptions to (hopefully) give a concise summary of each. Chris 42 18:00, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Clean-up

message: I'm pretty sure Wikipedia users can easily find fan sites with a Google search - I really don't think we need this many listed. --Gary Kirk (talk) 20:04, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree with you. But only the very notable ones should be listed. --Siva1979Talk to me 20:16, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: littlerbritain.com was not a fan site, but the only official tribute act people... --Asterion talk to me 19:38, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Regarding removal of the fan sites by Jeffthejiff, I don't particularly mind having fan sites there, non of them actually constituted SPAM. What I did mind originally about the list that was it was untidy and very difficult to follow... So I tidied it. It was then reverted (by another person) to it's original untidy form for no reason so I changed it back again. As it stands, there should be no arguement no matter how many or how little fan sites are listed, just please keep it tidy. Peter Bowers 21:16, 14 May 2006 (UTC+1)
The only fansite that should be listed is littlebritainfans.com, it's a reliable source with a lot of news articles.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.10.66.213 (talk) 10:52, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fan sites 

message: I've found two references to somewhat abstract literature, if a few more can be found it might be worthwhile to add a section about literary references, otherwise it could be included in the trivia section. As it is, the references are:
- In a Bernard Chumley Sketch, a poster for "An Inspector Pops Round" can be seen on the wall. This is a reference to "An Inspector Calls" by J.B. Priestly.
- In a Mr. Cleeves sketch, he uses the line "Unman, Wittering and Zigo absent" which is a reference to the play "Unman, Wittering and Zigo" by Giles Cooper. Tomtyke 06:45, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  References to literature 

message: For the record, I am a big fan of Little Britain.  However, is it appropriate to say that Little Britain "despite appearing rude, is actually intelligent humor?"  It doesn't seem like such a statement should appear in an encyclopedia, as it seems to be completely subjective. Jiggz84 05:06, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  So-called intelligent humour 

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replies: text: This page is supposed to be about improving the Little Britain article. It is not for self-promotion.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.167.5.117 (talk) 03:30, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Wikipedia: WikiProject Fawlty Towers]]

message: This entry is completely biased towards the viewpoint of whomever wrote the entry. Perhaps I am wrong, but should an encyclopedia not just report information and not have a slant on it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.30.202.16 (talk) 14:49, 18 July 2006
:Perhaps you could elaborate? As far as I can see, it is factual and balanced. Furthermore, it wasn't written by one person: it is a collaborative effort, and some of us try to ensure that it stays as neutral as possible. Chris 42 21:00, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biased entry  

message: Should Yuki Gushida, who plays a named character (Gita the beauty therapist in Bubble's sketches) be in the guest characters or normal cast or what? I've added her in the past but she seems to have been removed in an edit since. Feedback please.
— G<B>a</B>ry Kirk | talk! 18:37, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Yuki Kushida]] 

message: Hi all,
This article is way too long lets clean it up!
I have made a new episode guide and a massive nav-box at the base of the article, so lets get to it and try to just link new pages to the nav-box and get that horrible characters list and dvd's list off the main article.
Thankyou , --Aaron J Nicoli 13:07, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Also, the Trivia section is too big. Some of the information can be cleaned up into other parts of the article or episode guides. It certainly shouldn't have its own subsection. The Doctor Who references could be made into its own section, and expanded to include references to other TV series. ~~ Peteb16 13:16, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good work mate, everyone needs to pich in and get this article looking smick! --Aaron J Nicoli 04:15, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shorten it up, new episode guide! 

message: I'm going to be bold by reinstating the duplicate links to actors' articles contrary to the current comment (and remove the comment while I am at it).  
My interpretation of WP:MOS-L section 1.1 is that terms recurring in the same sentence or paragraph should generally not be relinked, but instances of the term that are distant from one another may be linked if appropriate.
It is plausible that a reader may go directly to "The Cast" section (or take notice of it while scanning), see "Tom Baker", and want to go to his article.  They should not need to rescan the entire article looking for his previous wikilink.
I'll directly notify  and  since they were involved in the original edits that resulted in the relevant comment tag being added to the article.
Cheers, Chovain 07:49, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links to actors' articles 

message: With WP:NOT#REPOSITORY in mind, can anyone see any reason for keeping the fansite links?  They're unencyclopedic, and any donkey can find them in Google. Chovain 22:50, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Consider them gone. Chovain 20:21, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed - fansites don't really have any place here IMO CLW 21:14, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

text: I think the links to the Australian tour and to the "Little Britain Shop" should go as well. It's just advertising. 81.145.242.40 18:22, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, and will remove them.  The Australian tour site is also linked in-line as a reference (see "Stage Show" section).  I'm going to look for a better reference when I get a chance, but in the meantime the inline link is all we've got. Chovain 00:26, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fan sites 

message: :Image:Little Britain Logo.PNG is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Little Britain Logo.PNG

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Desiree de vere.jpg

message: I've merged what had become a substantial "Main characters" section with the Little Britain characters article, and trimmed that section down, mentioning Vicky Pollard as a character whose catch-phrase has become quite popular.  I've also removed the quotes section because the content can be placed on wikiquote if it isn't already there. --Tony Sidaway 19:05, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Characters and quotes

message: Little Britain has ripped off many of League Of Gentlemans skits. A lot of Little Britains sketches have stolen a significant number of the Leagues surely this should be mentioned under criticism ?. 78.150.161.172 (talk) 22:50, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Only if it is sourced. Carl.bunderson (talk) 02:07, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ripping off League of Gentlemen 

message: The criticism section is out of the scope of an encyclopaedia article. This article should just briefly explain what Little Britain is about and who makes it. Anything more should be put on a fan site or a website dedicated to the show itself. An encyclopaedia has a specific purpose and giving praise or criticism to a television show is not part of that purpose. Unless this section is drastically changed or even removed, I'll have to remove it in the next few days Owen214 (talk) 08:59, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: While the section could certainly do with a bit of balancing, it is perfectly acceptable within the context of Wikipedia per WP:MOSTV#Reception. As long as the criticisms are supported by reliable, third party sources (which is the case here), there's no reason to remove it. Pinkadelica♣ 09:47, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

text: Then I suggest opening a WP:RFC on the matter. Pinkadelica♣ 10:51, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Out of scope 

message: Anyone know of any information about this episode? There is no mention of it in this article. There is some information here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007qb6r  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.0.89.166 (talk) 20:00, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Little Britain Down Under 

message: The section currently reads like there were two seperate specials. Let me know if i'm wrong, but wasn't it one two part special? Also did they visit multiple countries? I thought it was just the island they crash land on.
"In 2006, two Christmas specials were released. In each, characters from the show were depicted as visiting other countries."
I think it should read something like 'In 2006, a two part Chistmas special was released......  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Craigthomas1 (talk • contribs) 22:44, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Little Britain Abroad, 2006 

message: What or who are "wet wipes"? Were they right or wrong to be offended? The author should not take sides here. I will replace the phrase with "viewers".11:07, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unencyclopaedic phraseology: "offended wet wipes"