Talk:The Mary Whitehouse Experience

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It's got a good beat!

Its ages since I watched the show, but wasn't there a sketch with someone dressed up as Lynn Foulds Wood making statements like "This marshmallow could be a potential deathtrap"?

I don't think it was a sketch, but part of a monologue that (possibly) Rob Newman did. I fondly remember during a stand-up bit between Steve and Hugh they raised the subject of old toys found in the attic and how people tend to go daft when they find them. Steve continues talking about the subject as Hugh is transfixed by a Teddy Bear which has been sat on a plinth. Eventually after several soppy outbreaks of "It's tedd-y-y-y!", Steve presses a plunger and the Teddy Bear mercilessly explodes into a cloud of feathers. A mortified Hugh turns to Steve and shouts "YOU BASTARD!!!". Classic. ~~ Peteb16 19:14, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Hugh Dennis played Lynn Foulds Wood. The sketch played on Lynn's parts in (I think) that Esther Ransten show where in that show she'd talk about consumer issues. As far as I can remember this section became its own programme about consumer issues... might have been Watchdog? Anyway the sketch definitely revolved around Foulds Wood (Dennis) making an example of an incredibly un-dangerous household object (e.g. potted plant) and proclaiming it to be a "potential deathtrap". This was a huge source of playground comedy, almost as much as the hallowed "that's you that is". Cpc464 20:18, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

If someone can find a definitive source, it might be worthwhile adding to the article that David Baddiel has admitted at least once that the idea for 'History Today' was actually taken from an (effectively identical) joke invented by his older brother Ivor. 212.69.225.18 14:45, 20 March 2007 (UTC)