The Worms That Turned

Welcome to a special festive edition of THE WORMS THAT TURNED! In this episode, we recreate Christmas Day in the nick by locking ourselves in a small room, fermenting our own port from orange juice and air freshener, and watching the 1975 and 1976 Christmas episodes of top prison-based sitcom, Porridge! Does Porridge belong in the Comedy Hall of Festive Fame or the Dustbin on Comedy Past? Listen to the end of the episodeto find out! And then have a very Happy New Year 🥳 Warning ⚠️this episode contains language that some listeners may find offensive... but only because we're quoting old TV shows, not because we enjoy using those words. We're not your father-in-law. And boy, was he on top form on Boxing Day...If you liked this episode, please subscribe and rate us on Spotify or iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. The Worms That Turned is written, presented, and produced by Will Barrett and Rob Pearmain. Theme tune by Rob.    

Hola! And welcome back to The Worms That Turned - a podcast where we watch old UK TV sitcoms and decide whether they are suitable for our modern, woke world.In this episode, we take a nostalgic look back at the package holiday based sitcom “Duty Free” and ask, “Wish you were there?”"Probably not" is the answer, as we uncover massive xenophobia, attempted infidelity, unwieldy luggage, and some very questionable holiday outfits. Will David and Linda ever consummate their holiday romance, or will Amy and Robert always catch them out? We watched all three series, plus a truly awful Christmas Special, to find out!Plus, in this episode, Will repeats some very inappropriate words about foreigners and Rob explains exactly how traveller’s cheques work (even though literally no-one uses them anymore).Warning ⚠️this episode contains language that some listeners may find offensive... but only because we're quoting old TV shows, not because we enjoy using those words. We're not your father-in-law.If you liked this episode, please subscribe and rate us on Spotify or iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. The Worms That Turned is written, presented, and produced by Will Barrett and Rob Pearmain. Theme tune by Rob. 

Welcome back to The Worms That Turned - a podcast where we watch old UK TV sitcoms and decide whether they are suitable for our modern, woke world.In the second part of our deep live into Sorry!, the sitcom that firmly established Ronnie Corbett’s comedy persona, we finally get around to talking about some actual episodes of Sorry!, having spent far too much time debating who is most like Ronnie Corbett’s character in real life*But most importantly, we decide whether Sorry! belongs in the Comedy Hall of Fame or the Dustbin of Comedy History.  * It’s Will. Obviously.Warning ⚠️ this episode contains language that some listeners may find offensive... but only because we're quoting old TV shows, not because we enjoy using those words. We're not your father-in-law.If you liked this episode, please subscribe and rate us on Spotify or iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. The Worms That Turned is written, presented, and produced by Will Barrett and Rob Pearmain. Theme tune by Rob. 

Hello! And welcome to The Worms That Turned - a podcast where we watch old UK TV sitcoms and decide whether they are suitable for our modern, woke world.We’re back for another two-parter, in which we take a long, withering stare at the classic Ronnie Corbett sitcom, Sorry!, about a middle-aged librarian still living at home with his domineering mother.In this episode, we compare our middle-aged lives with Ronnie Corbett’s character, Timothy Lumsden, and feel only slightly better about our own careers, relationships, and lifetime achievements. In this episode, Will discovers that recording a podcast is far cheaper than actual therapy, and Rob reveals the shocking fact he is slightly taller than average height.Is Britain’s 77th most popular sitcom* of all time overdue a cultural revival or has it aged as badly as Ronnie Corbet trying to play a man ten years younger than himself? Join us and find out!* According to the Top 100 Best British Sitcoms (2004). Warning ⚠️this episode contains language that some listeners may find offensive... but only because we're quoting old TV shows, not because we enjoy using those words. We're not your father-in-law.If you liked this episode, please subscribe and rate us on Spotify or iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. The Worms That Turned is written, presented, and produced by Will Barrett and Rob Pearmain. Theme tune by Rob. 

Welcome back to The Worms That Turned, and part two of our deep dive into The Good Life. In this episode, we decide whether The Good Life belongs in the Comedy Hall of Fame or on the Compost Heap of Comedy History. Are Tom and Barbara the perfect prototype eco-friendly couple, or insufferably smug, middle-class boomers playing at being poor? You’ll have to listen to the end to find out!Plus, in a special bonus debate, we judge which was the better time to be alive – 1975 or 2025!WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH..! Warning ⚠️ this episode contains language that some listeners may find offensive... but only because we're quoting old TV shows, not because we enjoy using those words. We're not your father-in-law. If you liked this episode, please subscribe and rate us onSpotify or iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts.  The Worms That Turned is written, presented, and produced by Will Barrett and Rob Pearmain. Theme tune by Rob.  

Welcome to The Worms That Turned!This week we’ll be planting our own potatoes and making our own fertilizer as we dig down into the rich soil of The Good Life, a much-loved 1970s sitcom about a couple’s attempt to drop out of the corporate rat race and lead an autonomous, self-sufficient lifestyle.In this episode, we too yearn for the simpler, mortgage-free life of a suburban smallholder, free from commuting and consumerism, with only our root vegetables and fruity wife for company. Or are we also having a belated mid-life crisis?Join us while we discuss the original eco-warriors, Tom and Barbara Good, and decide whether we love their free-spirited, frivolous nature or hate them for somehow being able to pay off the mortgage on their large, detached London home before Tom’s 40th birthday.Warning ⚠️ this episode contains language that some listeners may find offensive... but only because we're quoting old TV shows, not because we enjoy using those words. We're not your father-in-law. If you liked this episode, please subscribe and rate us on Spotify or iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts.  The Worms That Turned is written, presented, and produced by Will Barrett and Rob Pearmain. Theme tune by Rob.  

Welcome back to LE WURMS WAT TUNED!You may be wondering why I have a painting of nude lady hidden in a large sausage, why there is so much wet celery lying about the place, and why I have a cuckoo clock shoved down my trousers. That recap can only mean one thing… we’re still talking about the classic BBC TV sitcom, ‘Allo, ‘Allo! In this episode, we decide whether ‘Allo, ‘Allo! belongs in the Comedy Hall of Fame or the Dustbin of Comedy History, and more to the point, is René a despicable wartime collaborator or selfless hero of the French Resistance? Warning ⚠️ this episode contains language that some listeners may find offensive... but only because we're quoting old TV shows, not because we enjoy using those words. We're not your father-in-law. If you liked this episode, please subscribe and rate us on Spotify or iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts.  The Worms That Turned is written, presented, and produced by Will Barrett and Rob Pearmain. Theme tune by Rob.  

Good moaning! And well combed to or pood cost, LE WURMS WAT TUNED! Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once… this week, we are discussing the classic BBC TV sitcom, ‘Allo, ‘Allo!, set during the comedy goldmine that was Nazi occupied France during World War 2. In this episode, we brush up on World War 2 history and discover we have much in common with a middle-aged café owner / wartime collaborator, share an unrequited love for the same French waitress, and learn that not all Nazis were serious, but all members of the French resistance were gorgeous and chic.  Warning ⚠️ this episode contains language that some listeners may find offensive... but only because we're quoting old TV shows, not because we enjoy using those words. We're not your father-in-law. If you liked this episode, please subscribe and rate us on Spotify or iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts.  The Worms That Turned is written, presented, and produced by Will Barrett and Rob Pearmain. Theme tune by Rob.  

We think we've reached our bottom.In this second part of our in-depth exploration of the BBC TV sitcom Bottom, we decide whether it is comedy genius or puerile playground nonsense.In this episode, Rob claims to have cultural superiority as an Englishman, while Will has clearly spent too much time "researching" old back copies of Parade magazine.Warning ⚠️ this episode contains language that some listeners may find offensive... but only because we're quoting old TV shows, not because we enjoy using those words. We're not your father-in-law.If you liked this episode, please subscribe and rate us on Spotify or iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. The Worms That Turned is written, presented, and produced by Will Barrett and Rob Pearmain. Theme tune by Rob. 

BOTTOM'S UP!This week, we delve deep into Bottom to pull out this podcast all about the classic BBC TV sitcom. In the first of a two-part episode, we discuss the comedy legacy of Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson's Bottom... Rob confesses to a schoolboy crime that almost ruined the school disco and Will gets Richie's girl-bait chat-up line wrong... Are these the reasons why they have had no luck with girls, ever?Warning ⚠️ this episode contains language that some listeners may find offensive... but only because we're quoting old TV shows, not because we enjoy using those words. We're not your father-in-law.If you liked this episode, please subscribe and rate us on Spotify or iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. The Worms That Turned is written, presented, and produced by Will Barrett and Rob Pearmain. Theme tune by Rob. 

“Christmas was better in the ‘80s” according to The Futureheads. We thoroughly disprove that statement by rewatching the 1982 Christmas Special of Terry & June.In this bonus Christmas episode of The Worms That Turned, we settle down with a glass of port and a mince pie to reacquaint ourselves with Terry and June Medford and discover that their cosy, suburban misadventures were not the most offensive thing in the TV schedule of Christmas 1982...Welcome to The Worms That Turned! We watch old TV sitcoms to see if they are still acceptable family viewing in our modern, woke world.Warning ⚠️ this episode contains discussion of language and attitudes that some listeners may find offensive... but only because we're quoting old TV shows, not because we enjoy using those words. We're not your father-in-law.If you liked this episode, please subscribe and rate us on Spotify or iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts.Follow us on @thewormsthatturned.bsky.social (take that, Elon!)The Worms That Turned is written, presented, and produced by Will Barrett and Rob Pearmain. Theme tune by Rob. 

Welcome to The Worms That Turned! This week we'll be look back at the 1970's sitcom classic, Rising Damp, and deciding whether racial prejudice is still an acceptable basis for TV comedy. In this episode, Will takes an academic perspective to explain character motivations with reference to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, and Rob does the world's worst Leonard Rossiter impersonation. Do we decide the discriminatory language of Rising Damp automatically consigns it to the Dustbin of Comedy History, or do we think the mocking of racial prejudice was actually an attempt to harmonise society in 1970's Britain, and so worthy of a place in the Comedy Hall of Fame? There's only one way to find out - by listening to the end if the episode! Along the way, we'll touch on topics including the UK housing crisis, interior design, why people walking into rooms is funny, and why it's okay to be a sad, desperate, middle aged man, as long as you've got our own podcast. Warning ⚠️ this episode contains discussion of language and attitudes that some listeners may find offensive... but only because we're quoting old TV shows, not because we enjoy using those words. We're not your father-in-law. If you liked this episode, please subscribe to us on Spotify or iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us on @thewormsthatturned.bsky.social (take that, Elon!) The Worms That Turned is written, presented, and produced by Will Barrett and Rob Pearmain. Theme tune by Rob. 

Welcome to The Worms That Turned! This week we'll be taking a look at the long-running BBC TV sitcom "Are You Being Served?" and discussing whether 1970's stereotypes and camp banter are still acceptable family entertainment. In this episode, Rob dissects the social hierarchies inherent in the class-based system of post-war British society, while Will is mostly troubled by teeth. Do we forgive the dated attitudes and lazy stereotyping of Are You Being Served? to put it in the Comedy Hall of Fame, or denounce it as homophobic, sexist nonsense and consign it to the Dustbin of Comedy History? Find out by listening to the end of the episode! Along the way, we discuss such topics as gentlemen's fashions, gender objectification, staff productivity, and the torments of our school days. Warning ⚠️ this episode contains discussion of language and attitudes that some listeners may find offensive... but only because we're quoting old TV shows, not because we enjoy using those words. We're not your father-in-law. If you liked this episode, please subscribe and rate us on Spotify or iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us on @thewormsthatturned.bsky.social (take that, Elon!) The Worms That Turned is written, presented, and produced by Will Barrett and Rob Pearmain. Theme tune by Rob.