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  • Offending the Creator's Own: The series is now best remembered for its series of "Julian and Sandy" sketches, featuring two young Camp Gay men. Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddick, who performed the routines, were in fact both gay, and the sketches became very popular among British gay men because they smuggled in a lot of actual gay male humour in a "laughing-with" way. There have, however, been repeated online backlash incidents where American gay men have stumbled over the sketches and considered them homophobic due to the stereotyping, to the displeasure of British gay men.
  • Seasonal Rot: Marty Feldman, one of the writers, left after series 3 around the time that the theme tune was phased out for a new one. It generally isn't considered as funny without him.
  • Values Dissonance: The skits about Doctor Chou-En Ginsberg have not aged at all. Possibly because they are dreadfully, dreadfully racist.

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