The Black and White Minstrel Show was hugely popular Saturday night telly in the UK, running for nearly twenty years until it was shut down in 1978. I don't think there's anyone who doesn't cringe thinking about it now.

I am a wee bit worried tackling Important Social Issues = banning dodgeball.

I am a wee bit worried tackling Important Social Issues = banning dodgeball.

I think there's something off about this version of Lafayette, too.

I think there's something off about this version of Lafayette, too.

You'd think.

You'd think.

I have a horrible feeling they're setting the table for next season. I hope I'm wrong.

I have a horrible feeling they're setting the table for next season. I hope I'm wrong.

Totally a real thing and a welcome change from getting drunk in a field on pilfered booze if you grow up some place small and/or remote.

Totally a real thing and a welcome change from getting drunk in a field on pilfered booze if you grow up some place small and/or remote.

So were the other members of the authority (apart from Dieter) in on Salome's plan? Is that why the witnesses on the bus were killed? Or did Steve Newlin and Vampire Sharon Osbourne just go with the flow? And why did they involve the baby-eater, seeing as he was imprisoned for baby-eating, not a political prisoner?…

So were the other members of the authority (apart from Dieter) in on Salome's plan? Is that why the witnesses on the bus were killed? Or did Steve Newlin and Vampire Sharon Osbourne just go with the flow? And why did they involve the baby-eater, seeing as he was imprisoned for baby-eating, not a political prisoner?…

I agree there were lots of great, fun moments in this episode (the stand out being Russell's smooth karaoke sidle) but it was like watching a collection of awesome gifs interspersed among an hour of incoherent storytelling.

I agree there were lots of great, fun moments in this episode (the stand out being Russell's smooth karaoke sidle) but it was like watching a collection of awesome gifs interspersed among an hour of incoherent storytelling.

I haven't a fucking clue what's going on in this show any more.

I haven't a fucking clue what's going on in this show any more.

I was hoping for Tatum O'Neal, but maybe that would have been too crazy. Sad crazy, not fun crazy.

I was hoping for Tatum O'Neal, but maybe that would have been too crazy. Sad crazy, not fun crazy.

That reminds me of the filthiest passage in Dracula.