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The quote is wrong, it's "big men in frocks", making this a very far-fetched connection.


** In the Niamh Connolly episode, her anti-clerical song starting with a shriek of "MEN! IN! DRESSES!", given Graham Linehan subsequently becoming more notorious for his virulent online transphobia than his comedy writing.
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* UnintentionallySympathetic: While he's undeniably a hypocritical {{Jerkass}}, the videotape Bishop Brennan is blackmailed with in "The Passion of Saint Tibulus" is of him spending quality time with his mistress and son in America. Such a move keeps the main trio on Craggy Island, but in doing so, might have possibly guaranteed said mistress and son being abandoned through no fault of their own.
* ValuesDissonance: While it's clear such an absurd choice of entry in "Competition Time" is the joke, Dick Byrne, Cyril MacDuff, and Jim Johnson using {{Blackface}} in their Supremes costumes would ''not'' have flown in any U.S.-made series without comment at the time the show was made.

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* UnintentionallySympathetic: While he's undeniably a hypocritical {{Jerkass}}, the videotape Bishop Brennan is blackmailed with in "The Passion of Saint Tibulus" is of him spending quality time with his mistress and son in America. Such a move keeps the main trio on Craggy Island, but in doing so, might have also possibly guaranteed said mistress and son being abandoned through no fault of their own.
* ValuesDissonance: While it's clear such an absurd choice of entry in "Competition Time" is the joke, Dick Byrne, Cyril MacDuff, [=MacDuff=], and Jim Johnson using {{Blackface}} in their Supremes costumes would ''not'' have flown in any U.S.-made series without comment at the time the show was made.
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* UnintentionallySympathetic: While he's undeniably a hypocritical {{Jerkass}}, the videotape Bishop Brennan is blackmailed with in "The Passion of Saint Tibulus" is of him spending quality time with his mistress and son in America. Such a move keeps the main trio on Craggy Island, but in doing so, might have possibly guaranteed said mistress and son being abandoned through no fault of their own.
* ValuesDissonance: While it's clear such an absurd choice of entry in "Competition Time" is the joke, Dick Byrne, Cyril MacDuff, and Jim Johnson using {{Blackface}} in their Supremes costumes would ''not'' have flown in any U.S.-made series without comment at the time the show was made.

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