Line #8 YMMV/TheBennyHillShow


1	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Much to the puzzlement of the British (at least at first), many of whom regard Creator/BennyHill with a reaction somewhere between discomfort and disgust, ''The Benny Hill Show'' was (and, in some cases, still is) very popular in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Australia, France, Italy, Finland, and Romania, among other countries. The show has [[ValuesDissonance not aged well]] in its native Britain, but remains popular overseas. The show was so popular in France, Spain and Italy to the point that when Hill visited those countries for leisure, [[GroupieBrigade locals recognized him]] and wouldn't leave him in peace.
2	* MemeticMutation: Setting a chase scene ([[SoundtrackDissonance/YaketySax or anything, really]]) to the show's theme song by Boots Randolph's "Yakety Sax".
3	* NeverLiveItDown: Many Americans still associate British humor primarily with Benny Hill (after Creator/MontyPython, of course). The Brits definitely do ''not''; his programmes have not been re-run on terrestrial television since 1992, or on cable or satellite since 1999. However, that's not to say he's entirely despised:
4	** In 2006, Creator/Channel4 aired a documentary called ''Is Benny Hill Still Funny?'' in which a cross-section of adults too young to remember the series when it was still on the air watched a half-hour compilation of sketches. Not only did they find them funny (the "Wishing Well" sketch featuring an appearance by Creator/DavidProwse was the group's favourite), they didn't find them particularly offensive.
5	** In the "France" episode of ''Series/{{QI}}'' (which originally aired in January 2009), [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCTjL9zlaWA Phill Jupitus notes]] that Creator/StephenFry's beret and glasses make him look like Hill, and the two plunge into a brief, appreciative retrospective.
6	* RetroactiveRecognition:
7	** Creator/AnnaDawson, who would later be best known for playing Violet in ''Series/KeepingUpAppearances'', appeared in 9 episodes between 1975 and 1989.
8	** Creator/CandyDavis, who would later be best known for playing Miss Belfridge in ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'', was a Hill's Angel in "Holiday".
9	** Creator/DerekRoyle, who would later be best known for playing the second [=LeClerc=] in ''Series/AlloAllo'', appeared in two episodes of 1985.
10	** Creator/DorisHare, who would later be best known for playing Mrs. Butler in ''Series/OnTheBuses'', appeared in a 1965 episode.
11	** Creator/FelixBowness, who would later be best known for playing Fred Quilley in ''Series/HiDeHi'', appeared in three episodes in the mid-'60s.
12	** Creator/JuneWhitfield, who would later be best known for playing June Fletcher in ''Happy Ever After'', June Medford in ''Series/TerryAndJune'', and Mother in ''Series/AbsolutelyFabulous'', appeared in four episodes throughout TheSixties.
13	** Creator/JaneLeeves, future star of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' and ''Series/HotInCleveland'' is one of Benny's "Hill's Angels".
14	** Creator/MoiraFoot, who would later be best known for playing Denise Laroque in ''Series/AlloAllo'', played various characters in two episodes between 1975 and 1976.
15	** Creator/PamelaCundell, who would later be best known for playing Mrs. Fox in ''Series/DadsArmy'', appears in a 1968 episode.
16	** Creator/PaulaWilcox, who would be best known for playing Chrissy Plummer in ''Series/ManAboutTheHouse'', appears in a 1972 episode.
17	** Creator/PennyIrving, who would later be best known for playing Miss Bakewell in ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'', appears as an extra in "Show 14".
18	** Creator/RikkiHoward, who would later be best known for playing Betty Whistler in ''Series/HiDeHi'', appears as a blonde girl at the beach in "Show 3".
19	* ValuesDissonance:
20	** Hill's Asian characters (often wearing thick glasses, and always speaking in a comically exaggerated Chinese accent) were controversial even at the time, and completely cringe-inducing now. [[note]] Although it should be pointed out that Hill's Asian characters were never shown to be inferior or dumber to the British characters. [[/note]]
21	** Many of the jokes that are judged as sexist today were considered much more acceptable in the seventies. Though even at the time it got quite a few accusations about this, to which Benny's typical response was that it was always the ''men'' who looked like idiots and they never succeeded in catching the girls they were chasing.

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