extras... wtf?

[greenfield]

I think that was politics. If I remember it was laugthing at the outdatedness of the leaflet and its dumb advice rather than gays.

That's not how I remember it. It was a leaflet written by Gay Men Fighting AIDS, so I don't get how the advice could have been dumb. IIRC, it was taking the piss generally...

 

[Santino]

Tha advice consisted of such gems as 'Why not come in a piece of fruit, e.g. watermelon?'

 

[mk12]

That's not how I remember it. It was a leaflet written by Gay Men Fighting AIDS, so I don't get how the advice could have been dumb. IIRC, it was taking the piss generally...

it was dumb because it was saying things like: "why not come in his hair".

"why not come out of a window".

 

[electrogirl]

That's not how I remember it. It was a leaflet written by Gay Men Fighting AIDS, so I don't get how the advice could have been dumb. IIRC, it was taking the piss generally...

no honestly, it was taking the piss out of the ludricous suggestions given by the leaflet, in the same way people take the piss out of those "how to be a good housewife" guides from the 50's, or are they chauvinists?

 

[PhyllisG]

I thought McKellen was hysterical with his acting stuff ... lovely performance from Gervais in that scene as well.

I also thought the episode was homophobic. Millman is homophobic ... and a bit of a prat because of it. Quite funny. But in the end I just couldn't find any way to read it on more than one level: as a viewer, I was consistently asked to laugh at homophobia. And more homophobia. And more homophobia. It wasn't very sophisticated, it got very repetitive and wearying, and try as I might in the end I couldn't find anything cleverly, subversively anti-PC about it: to me it felt like a long, boring half-hour of cheap anti-gay jibes. The homophobia felt embedded in the writing.