That is just utterly wonderful.

:D

Ewwwwwww. “Ethyl.”

Ooh, if anyone’s got an F there’s a cracking double-word score up for grabs there…

Ooh, if anyone’s got an F there’s a cracking double-word score up for grabs there…

Filthy.

There’s nothing really that bad though, is there? If something like ‘FUCK’ was there I wonder if there would have been a possibility of it being cut or the episode re-rated.

‘Fellate’ is pretty strong for 8pm in 1975, as well as ‘Anal’ in that context. But it’s the relentlessness of the rudery on the board that gets me. Of course, very few people had video recorders then - the most you can spot on first view is ‘ORIFICE’, and that made us pause and go back…

If FUCK was there, and the examiner spotted it, I expect it would have to be re-rated from a PG to a 12.

People probably didn’t know what ‘fellate’ meant in 1975… ‘Oh, it means to eat a…fell…’

Actually, what I love about the board is less the rude words themselves, and more that a) It’s *perfectly* in-character for the people playing it, and b) You can *exactly* imagine how the conversation went whilst playing…

Man About The House is great. ITV never did good sitcoms? Rubbish.

I bet you didn’t see ‘cervix’ outside a medical textbook in 1975 either, which makes it all the funnier for me. Has anyone noticed ‘Okapi’ in the middle of all of that rudery? Either someone had a dictionary, or the cast/crew were well educated!

Has anyone noticed ‘Okapi’ in the middle of all of that rudery?

Either that or they guessed and got lucky, or they heard it was rude. :)