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I love that when Raquel Welch appeared on Mork and Mindy, there is an entire page of end credits dedicated to who made her look good.

Mork and Mindy end credits
FOR MISS WELCH
Make-Up by TOM LUCAS
Hair Stylist CAROL MEIKLE
Costumer LINDA BISHOP

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 26/09/2026

Watching the Hammer film She, and what a tedious load of old fucking waste of time bollocks.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 25/09/2026

Anyway, I really liked my review of it - which Letterboxd has deleted - so here it is.

Of course it’s incredible, and packs more menace in one and a half minutes than some horror films manage in a full length film.

It does, however, also make me ponder the randomness of what gets to survive and live on in the memory, and what doesn’t. I’m sure this did indeed scare a whole generation of children; but this isn’t my childhood. My childhood was instead scarred by the terrors of Knightmare. And yet Lonely Water managed to get lovely DVD and even Blu-ray releases. With Knightmare, we have to get by with scruffy off-airs. It has never had any kind of commercial release.

We can watch Lonely Water better now than anybody did at the time; Knightmare is forever poorer quality than I experienced as a kid. And yet it was one of the very best television shows ever made.

What gets to live on properly is not a meritocracy. It’s a complex mix of contractual arrangements, the right people being in charge and interested in releasing something at the right time, and dumb luck. Which is always worth remembering once in a while. The history we watch is a kaleidoscope, not a complete bookshelf, no matter how much we would like it to be otherwise.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 20/09/2026

Hands up who wants some fun research into The Young Ones? Brand new on Dirty Feed: the truth about Colin Baker's appearance, or rather non-appearance, on the show. www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/09/evil...

Rick with his hands in the air, from The Young Ones, "Bambi"

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 17/09/2026

This is a perfect example of how Google’s AI Overview gets things wrong. None of the below is incorrect, but the important thing is the phrase as displayed to the player in-game, not its presence in “internal files and code”.

AI Overview

The phrase "the sphinx remains strangely quiet" is a specialized piece of text pulled directly from the internal files and code of the classic 1996 strategy game Heroes of Might and Magic II (HEROES2.EXE).

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 16/09/2026

The Young Ones, "Bomb". Re: the flies on the fall sequence - the close-ups are clearly the actors in a costume. (The mouths!) But the overhead shot is not the actors, just puppets, and a completely different setup, isn't it?

The Young Ones "Flies on the Wall" sequence - one shot

The Young Ones "Flies on the Wall" sequence - overhead shot

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 15/09/2026

Today I’m at BBC North, Quay House, for exciting TV related things*. * learning about how file delivery works for broadcast

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 06/09/2026

You know, this little piece of whimsy is far less fun if you’re like me and work every other Sunday.

Rob Weychert
This site is closed on Sundays
I’m trying to avoid screens at least one day out of the week, and this is my way of encouraging others to consider doing the same. I’d apologize for the inconvenience, but I think in many ways modern expectations of convenience have gotten way out of hand, don’t you? Feel free to bookmark this page and come back another day, and I hope you’re able to step away from the screen and find another way to enjoy your Sunday. If not, well, there’s a whole lot more internet out there. But for today, this little piece of it is closed.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 05/09/2026

A short piece on some group research done the other day on Bluesky, about BBC2, snooker, and Red Dwarf. www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/09/a-gi...

Coverage of the snooker, with the caption:
Red Dwarf will follow this Final

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 29/08/2026

All in the Family, "Mike and Gloria Meet", CBS TX: 11th December 1977.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 26/08/2026

Off the point, but I'm suddenly wondering if this moment from Red Dwarf IV is taking the piss out of Llewellyn needing cue cards in a scene during Red Dwarf III.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 26/08/2026

All in the Family, "Archie's Grand Opening" (CBS TX: 30th October 1977) Anybody who thought Sally Struthers was playing some kind of boring dumb blonde stereotype was not paying even the slightest attention at what she was up to.

Sally Struthers, pulling a horrendous face showing her entire teeth and gums and jaw

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 25/08/2026

The consultant for the episode was Gail Abarbanel, who three years earlier set up the Rape Treatment Center in Santa Monica Hospital. It was a revolutionary service in any number of ways. Who do you think knows more about the subject: her, or Frank Swertlow from the Chicago Daily News?

Rape of Edith Bunker
will be sexploitation
By Frank Swertlow
Chicago Daily News

Sometimes you wonder when television will stop kicking and stomping on women for ratings.

On Oct. 16 a rapist will attack Edith Bunker in a one-hour special. No half-hour rape is good enough for Archie Bunker’s wife.

“In essence, she was raped,” said a spokeswoman for CBS’ All in the Family. “Edith was roughed up, pushed around and tied up, but there was no penetration.” Isn’t that nice? Here’s the scenario for the attack:

The Bunker family is at a neighbor’s house planning a surprise 50th birthday party for Edith. She remains at home, and answers a knock at the door by a strange man who identifies himself as a police officer investigating a rape in the neighborhood. When Edith opens the door, she is attacked. Part I ends.

Enough is enough, and in the case of Norman Lear, who produces All in the Family, I am tired of socially redeeming programs about issues that have been presented on television ad nauseam.

Stop the preaching, Norman. If I had a dollar for every time a woman was mugged, raped or molested during the last few TV seasons, I would be rich. I am sick of rape chic.

It’s not that I don’t think Edith Bunker is worth attacking or that she is middle-aged and most TV rapes are perpetrated against sexy young women, but rather that use of rape as a ploy, either comedically or dramatically, is getting to be a bore. And by now, the only reason why rapes are aired so many times is to get high ratings.

Is this not exploitation?

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 24/08/2026

A short piece about some early Red Dwarf which went unseen for decades. www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/08/clos...

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 21/08/2026

Sorry JD Sports, did you put the minutes of your marketing meeting up in your shop window by mistake?

Sign in JD Sports shop window:
WE EXIST TO FUEL YOUTH CULTURE

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 19/08/2026

Last year, I wrote something about a deleted ending to the Fawlty Towers episode "Gourmet Night". For boring reasons, I had to merely describe the missing material. Anyway, things are different now, so I've just revised the piece to include the actual script. www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/09/luck...

Basil rooting around in the trifle for the errant duck

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 14/08/2026

Here is a comparison of how Red Dwarf, “Holoship” was first introduced back in 1992 on BBC Two network, and how network, Wales and NI introduced it last night. Forgive my poor editing done at 2am.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 13/08/2026

So tonight, not only did BBC Two introduce the Red Dwarf episode "Holoship" using the same symbol used in 1992, but it also used most of the original continuity script. Your 1992 network announcer: Halyna Kozak www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jV6... Your 2026 network announcer: Nicola Phoenix

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 04/08/2026

Brand new on Dirty Feed: Mary Tyler Moore's long-misunderstood 1978 variety series, Mary. Part One: www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/05/some... Part Two: www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/06/some... Part Three: www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/06/some... Part Four: www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/08/some...

Newspaper advert for Mary, featuring a smiling Mary Tyler Moore.
MARY 7PM
A DELIGHTFULLY DIFFERENT MARY!
Mary Tyler Moore clowns, sings, dances and lets loose with an outrageous troupe of inspired comics. An irresistible hour of entertainment! Starring Mary Tyler Moore, Jim Hampton, Judy Kahan, Michael Keaton, Swoosie Kurtz, David Letterman, Dick Shawn.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 26/07/2026

Also, these stopped working two playout contracts ago.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 24/07/2026

I feel this is a particularly grim example of the traditional shocked face YouTube thumbnail. Go and stick your head down the nearest toilet, the pair of you.

Two irritating little bastards pulling shocked faces, in a video thumbnail for:
JACKIE BROWN Movie Reaction! First Time Watch!

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 17/07/2026

Question: for around 20 seconds or so, the following caption appears on the show. (This is taken directly from an off-air.) It looks like a watermark of the broadcasting station - has anyone ever seen this before? Was it a common thing at the time?

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 17/07/2026

The highlight: a parody of all the celebratory anniversary programmes which networks were making at the time. Here, we get a celebration of "Mary: The First 25 Minutes", with Carl Reiner.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 15/07/2026

For anyone interested, here’s a bit of background from the AP, July 1974.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 14/07/2026

This is Sally Struthers talking about her time on All in the Family, and is literally, actually, entirely false. If you watch the shows, she gets loads to do. Proper big comedic moments. What a load of made-up bullshit.

“I usually had about three lines per show that said, ‘I'll help you set the table, Ma,' ‘Michael, where are you going?’ and ‘Oh, Daddy, stop it.’ And then the next week I’d have the three same lines in a different order. And if they literally didn’t know what to do with me in a scene, they’d have me go upstairs to take a bath or wash my hair. It was very frustrating.”

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 13/07/2026

All in the Family is kicking off Season 5 with an ambitious four-parter about the financial affairs of The Bunkers.

DVD menu: ‘The Bunkers & Inflation’, four parts

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 05/07/2026

Really enjoying my sojourn through the greats of classic cinema.

The Women in Cages Collection blu-ray set, featuring:
The Big Bird Cage
Big Boll House
Women in Cages

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 25/06/2026

Just seen another brilliant definitely-in-good-faith take here on Bluesky!!!

Al Bundy putting his finger to his temple to simulate shooting himself with a gun, while Peg looks on, unimpressed

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 21/06/2026

Just seen yet another bad faith argument from somebody I thought was sensible.

Al Bundy in bed, reading the book "FINAL EXIT: The practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the dying"

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 20/06/2026

There are also moments which surely worked well on the page, but they didn't have the money to sell them on-screen. In your imagination, a modern US stamping down on the traditional English should be a striking, memorable image. As shot, it just doesn't register.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 18/06/2026

I think this sums up why I love Married With Children.

Al also mentions that he "wouldn't mind starring in an episode or two of 'Growing Pains' ", a popular family sitcom that aired on ABC from 1985 to 1992. Al then has an outburst and screams that he doesn't want to be on ABC before attempting to hang himself.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 18/06/2026

I could never get a job in social media, you aren't allowed to post a clip like this without plastering the caption AL BUNDY'S BORING JOB!!!!! IT'S SO RELATABLE!!!!!!! all over it.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 18/06/2026

Also from "Al Bundy, Shoe Dick" is this amazing joke from Al at the end, which is a gag I don't think I've heard anywhere else. What really gets me about MWC is that the line-by-line jokes are generally so strong and original. They put the effort into the bits that matter.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 18/06/2026

Married With Children, "So This Is How Sinatra Felt" (Fox TX: 1st December 1991)

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 18/06/2026

Also, Kelly walking in wearing this top - which nobody even remarks upon - is one of the funniest things the show ever did.

Bud wearing a FIRST IN LINE FOR LOVIN' t-shirt
Kelly wearing a PROPERTY OF CHICAGO JAIL t-shirt

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 13/06/2026

I stand for quick and swift judgement in all forms, but I also have this image saved on my phone, so this may be ill-advised.

Star Trek: Voyager episode caption - “Neelix’s Nippleclamps”

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 11/06/2026

I wrote a short thing about one of my favourite moments in Married... with Children. www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/06/elec...

David Faustino as Bud, having just been electrocuted

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 11/06/2026

Ever since I was sent the following by Tumblr in 2018, I've been worried about this shit. Because I was dealing with what I thought were harmless accounts, and I thought I was clever enough to spot dodgy people when I see them. But... no, clearly not.

Dear dirtyfeed,
As part of our commitment to transparency, we want you to know that we uncovered and terminated 84 accounts linked to Internet Research Agency or IRA (a group closely tied to the the Russian government) posing as members of the Tumblr community.
The IRA engages in electronic disinformation and propaganda campaigns around the world using phony social media accounts. When we uncovered these accounts, we notified law enforcement, terminated the accounts, and deleted their original posts.
While investigating their activity on Tumblr, we discovered that you either followed one of these accounts linked to the IRA, or liked or reblogged one of their posts:
bellaxiao previously known as: blogmadworldlove
bellygangstaboo
bestofninegag previously known as: apolicethepolicethings
blacktolive

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 11/06/2026

I did this once into an episode of Top Gear in 2015.

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 09/06/2026

Married With Children, "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" (Fox TX: 18th November 1990). Bud "fixes" the doorbell, and MWC decides to the effect PROPERLY, all in one shot. How easy it would have been to cheat and just cut to a close-up of Bud, and they don't!

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 06/06/2026

There is a fascinating, sick, queasy feeling when I watch clips of those years now. I never saw Boris and Ivana at the time - description taken from NHP30 - but watching it now, I do have a respect for how unpleasant the show was willing to be!

A bizarre running gag also emerged during the show’s final weeks involving the exploits of Boris and Ivana, apparently performers from the Latvian State Circus, who each week would attempt a death-defying stunt that would invariably go wrong off-camera.

This would be followed up by a section of the audience having red gunge designed to mimic blood fired at them by a particularly aggressive device described memorably by the writer Stuart Millard as going off “like a nailbomb”. The final appearance of this act, days before the show was axed, climaxed with the gunge cannon being turned on Noel.

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