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Welcome to Boganville, population US?

9/12/2008 7:58:16 PM

manatiki

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Welcome to Boganville, population US?

Look, it took me years to escape from Boganville*. I stil sometimes suffer a shock of cognitive dissonance when I see an 8 year-old WITHOUT a pack of cigarettes rolled in her t-shirt sleeve.
It's the reviews - I review for radio, so I've been reading the DTF reviews. They go on a bit about 'low-brow, bogan' humour.
Am I missing something here?

Maybe it's because you can take the girl out of the flanelette, but you can't take away the little primitive brainstem spark that flares at the sight of a skanky checked shirt (so soft, so sweaty..)
My question is this - does the fact that I like DTF quite a lot mean that these fuckers can call me a 'bogan'?

Seriously, I thought 'bogan' culture was fabled, like the unicorn & the ox-moron, or something I had a lot of trouble finally scraping off my shoes. And if it did exist on TV, I thought it'd be Home & Away, and the kind of comedy that comes with a laugh track so's you know which bits are funny.
Where I'm confused is in the way all the people I know who enjoy this show tend to be on the intelligent side. If not hyperintelligent. Is this an anomaly?

Are the reviewers just looking at the visuals? How are they missing the sharp intelligence it takes to write some of the savagely funny dialogue in this show?
I'm gonna dig my own grave here and admit that most of my favourite music is heavy, and most of my favourite demons are Krusty. But I can use a knife & fork, & I've learned it's not actually considered nice to stab people with them when I do.
So are the reviewers calling us lowbrow here? You too, if you're reading this, are being accused of hiding some kind of forehead deficiency in the back pocket of your genes!
How the rest of you feeling about this? (other than the obvious not giving a hardcore fuck, of course).

*nowhere near Papua New Guinea

9/12/2008 9:12:30 PM

Stevil

11 posts

Re: Welcome to Boganville, population US?

I wouldn't take it to heart.

That (wrongly appointed) title of "bogan humor" has been assigned to DTF by scared, small minded psuedo-thespians who are actually horrified by the fact that they actually enjoy the show, but can't let their fellow cheese club companions know it, or, that they have been spoon fed any stimuli and have no concept of irony and parallels of social statement.

In my opinion, if you want true bogan humor, watch the AFL Footy show or anything the writers of Australia's funniest home video show have a hand in. There is that oxymoron you were looking for.

9/12/2008 9:46:05 PM

manatiki

48 posts

Re: Welcome to Boganville, population US?

So the moon is waxing, & my hackles briefly raised. You're right - I didn't even think of the Footy Show. An oversight I specialise in.

9/13/2008 6:11:23 AM

manatiki

48 posts

Re: Welcome to Boganville, population US?

Meanwhile, despite my feeble, transparent protests, there remains the reality of being a 'once were' bogan. Which is entirely irrelevant because the reviews are still basically just boring & a wee bit lazy.

What I' like to see is a review that says:
'This is low brow, bogan humour BECAUSE...' or
'This is low brow, bogan humour COMPARED TO..'

Now THAT would be interesting.
How hard can it be?

'This is low brow humour because people are laughing maniacally while using the ground to slow the progress of their heads.'

'This is bogan humour compared to shows where men WITHOUT flannel shirts are the ones making me laugh 'til my diaphragm siezes.'

Your turn.

9/15/2008 9:57:50 AM

ubercaledor

325 posts

Re: Welcome to Boganville, population US?

I don't understand the use of the term "low-brow" bogan humour, is that implying that there is "high-brow" bogan humour?? maybe there's a coma missing in there, but it seems to me that most reviewers, or indeed most writers of magazine/newspapers wouldn't pass a basic Grade 3 grammar test anyway- (possible career path for morg??).

I don't read reviews very often, because most of the time, the shows that I like watching are shows to which the core demographic have better things to do than write reviews for women's weakly (SIC), or similar wretch-inducing publications. Don't even get me started with the Herald Sun (or your local tabloid equivalent)... I think a randomly selected group of 8-year-olds have a better grasp of the english language, and a better concept of "balanced reporting".

From what I can tell, at least- for the most part, the fan-base of DTF is comprised of reasonably intellectual people, and I mean that in a force-of-intellect, rather than a "ooh, look how intellectual I am with my glasses and sub-culture-dictated-style-or-antistyle-fashion-statement" way.

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