I sat down earlier and was delighted to see that the charmingly insane Jimmy Doherty's show "Jimmy's Food Factory" was up on iPlayer. The basic idea of the show is that an over-enthusiastic farmer (Doherty) is tasked with discovering just what it is that goes into our food. A simple enough premise and it is executed without ever taking the moral high-ground which is a pleasant change.
That was until episode six when he was attempting to artificially ripen bananas. Now I'm all for a bit of hyper-ripe, phallic fruit but the fact that the use of four crates constituted the need for a Blind Date reference really began to irritate me.
For those of you too young to remember, Blind Date was a show where men and women were flattered to the point of nausea by sixties anachronism Cilla Black- a woman whose teeth could easily function as a multiplex cinema complete with popcorn stand. From there the unsuspecting victims of a televised date-rape would be sent on a romantic weekend to somewhere away from their home- where they couldn't escape from the nefarious plans of Cilla and her droogs. They would then have to sit through an interview whereby the point was infinitely proved that dating based on a few slightly saucy questions would never work (if you've seen Mallrats, by the way, it's a similar format to the game show being filmed at the end).
Now Blind Date ended in 2003. That makes the reference used in Jimmy's Food Factory at least six years out of date. If we take into account the fact that the show was only really culturally relevant during the 90s' then there's even more need to want to backhand Jimmy into a cement mixer.
That was until episode six when he was attempting to artificially ripen bananas. Now I'm all for a bit of hyper-ripe, phallic fruit but the fact that the use of four crates constituted the need for a Blind Date reference really began to irritate me.
For those of you too young to remember, Blind Date was a show where men and women were flattered to the point of nausea by sixties anachronism Cilla Black- a woman whose teeth could easily function as a multiplex cinema complete with popcorn stand. From there the unsuspecting victims of a televised date-rape would be sent on a romantic weekend to somewhere away from their home- where they couldn't escape from the nefarious plans of Cilla and her droogs. They would then have to sit through an interview whereby the point was infinitely proved that dating based on a few slightly saucy questions would never work (if you've seen Mallrats, by the way, it's a similar format to the game show being filmed at the end).
Now Blind Date ended in 2003. That makes the reference used in Jimmy's Food Factory at least six years out of date. If we take into account the fact that the show was only really culturally relevant during the 90s' then there's even more need to want to backhand Jimmy into a cement mixer.
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