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The show loosely parodied the increasing commercialisation of British football and the then-notorious violent loyalty of the fans. The script also made frequent use of Ricky Lenin's attempts to fit in with what he saw as a 'western' lifestyle, in a similar way to some of Sayle's appearances as the Balowski Family in '' The Young Ones ''. Situations included the trouble caused by the Ghost-writing of Ricky's regular column in ''The Daily Tits'' (parodying '' The Sun '' - a complicated argument in favour of collectivism in Lenin's original was transformed to "I hate all paddies, but I wouldn't mind giving that Gloria Hunniford one" in the paper); the North-South economic divide in England ("In Crunchthorpe there's a hundred and three per cent unemployment. The Government uses the place to dump Nuclear Waste ! They pile it up in the town centre. Outside Freeman Hardy and Willis") and films '' The Titfield Thunderbolt '' and '' Apocalypse Now ''. A knowledge of football was useful but not essential. The script also took great delight in the violent nature of professional football at the time: :Northern pundit: "The average Crunchsider knows his football like the back of his hand. And what he really likes to see is really elegant, skilful one-touch players. Out in the middle of the park, screaming in agony, clutching their gonads." :Commentator: "So Crunchthorpe don't really go in for one-touch play, then?" :Northern pundit: "Oh, aye, they do. Provided the one touch is delivered just below the kneecaps like a Steam Hammer hitting an Avocado ..." Another ongoing joke was various characters (particularly Sayle) speaking lines from pop songs as dramatic dialog. The fictional town of Felchester was itself presumably a joke: a reference to the relatively obscure practice of Felching . 1ST SERIES 1988 #Up for the Coup #Felcherama #The Fifth Man #Max Gut 2ND SERIES 1989 #Ghosts and Goolies #The Felchester Firm #Apocalypse Des #The Final Solution Series 2 was released as a double-cassette set in 1992. EXTERNAL LINKS
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