It's more a thing that you're surprised *didn't* surprise you sooner. (For the inverse, there's the fact that the Simpsons regularly go to church, which is something that virtually no other sitcom family does). Most British kids will have seen a Punch & Judy show before, but generally won't twig until later that it…

Damnit, "masturbate" is not a passive verb! You can masturbate, or you can help someone else masturbate, but you can't masturbate someone!

…honestly, I'm incredibly surprised that movie companies don't do this a lot more often if there's any point to doing it at all.

About as plausible as Arnie getting it on with a woman he's only just met under inappropriate circumstances.

We seem to always be looking for opportunities to put black & white minstrels on TV. I think League Of Gentlemen played it okay; Little Britain, not so much.

Yeah, I think it's one of those things where as long as they never stop doing it, no one will question it. And to be fair, it's a relatively sympathetic portrayal and what-not. I think it didn't really strike me how weird it was to see a Indian character with a just-off-the-boat accent in this day and age until I…

I was gonna say Pete Postlethwaite? I'm pretty sure he's placed every race.

Oh, yeah, that shit is fucked.

Teehee.

Relatedly… we do just kind of gloss over Apu, don't we.

Of course not, don't be ridiculous.

Well, the reason was that two great actors - I wanna say one of them was Hugh Jackman? - got convinced to film one scene for it back in 2009, and then the producers talked up their involvement to get everyone else in on it.

Best post.

It's kind of weird for us Brits that you can still totally get away with doing minstrel-y Indians in the US. I guess it's because you didn't used to own their country.

The lady who played Ensign Ro went… I dunno, deaf-face? For Messiah.

Which is a perfectly legitimate thing to do when you know that it might result in someone shooting you in the face?

Aim for the legs.

I thought they were pretty adorable, personally. And it's hardly out of character for the show. Remember The Beast Below? I'm pretty sure that the UK wouldn't *actually* design the Good Ship England and have everyone biking around in bowler hats with little flags or whatever; but on the other hand, I can imagine…

Call it what it is: The Cheney War.

Someone told me exactly this about the word "Jesus" written on a bit of paper. I honestly think some people are just weird because, no, you can totally do this.