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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum

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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum	comment	Yet another vintage BBC sitcom from before the days of political correctness. It Ain't Half Hot, Mum was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, the creators of Dad's Army. The show, which broadcast between 1974 and 1981, was about the adventures of a Royal Artillery Concert Party stationed in India (later Burma) during World War II.Nominally in charge of things were officers Lieutenant Colonel Charles Reynolds (Donald Hewlett), a stereotypical, stiff-upper-lip British army officer, and Captain Jonathan Ashwood (Michael Knowles), Reynolds' none too bright second-in-command. Actually in charge of things was the hard-as-nails Battery Sergeant Major Bryn "Shut Up" Williams (Windsor Davies), the only true soldier among the main cast, and always quick to seize any excuse to berate the motley assortment of actors and musicians under his command.The performers included Jewish Bombardiernote Equivalent to a corporal. "Solly" Solomons (George Layton), the resident leading man; effeminate Gunner/Bombardier "Gloria" Beaumont (Melvyn Hayes), the resident leading lady; comically short and fat Gunner Harold "Lofty" Sugden (Don Estelle), who possessed a remarkable singing voice; inept but eager ventriloquist Gunner Nigel "Parky" Parkin (Christopher Mitchell), whom Williams suspects might be his son as he had a romantic affair with Parkin's mother years earlier; upper-class, university-educated pianist Gunner Jonathan "Paderewski" Graham (John Clegg); tough Scottish strongman Gunner "Atlas" Mackintosh (Stuart McGugan); bird caller and later George Formby impersonator Gunner "Nobby" Clark (Kenneth MacDonald); and the perpetually eating paper tearer Gunner "Nosher" Evans (Mike Kinsey).Natives included "bearer" Rangi Ram (Michael Bates) note who, although Caucasian, was born in India and could speak fluent Urdu — a fact often brought out by defenders of the show when it gets criticised for the use of Brownface in the case of this character , a confidante to all; "char wallah" Muhammed (Dino Shafeek), who sold tea from a kettle and later replaced Rangi as bearer following Bates' death; Indian "punkah wallah" Rumzan (Babar Bhatti), who frequently displayed Hidden Depths of intelligence and savvy; and Chinese cook Ah Syn (Andy Ho), who replaced Rumzan in the final series.Common plot devices included conflict with the Indian locals, Sergeant Major's belief that Gunner Parkin might be his son, and his attempts to have the Concert Party "posted up the jungle". Eventually he was successful, and from the fifth series onwards the action relocated to Burma. The Concert Party would usually perform a musical number Once an Episode.After the show finished, it was hardly ever repeated (unlike, say, Dad's Army). There are racist undertones inherent in the way the Indian characters were treated, in addition to which the fact that the most prominent Indian character was played by an English actor in Brownface has not aged well. On top of that, there's the torrent of homophobic remarks directed at the performers in general and Gloria in particular by BSM Williams note although Gloria, for all of his undoubted effeminacy, never actually displays any homosexual tendencies; Jimmy Perry is on record as saying that he's a transvestite, not a homosexual — although one would hardly expect someone like Williams to make such a distinction . As of 2023, though, in common with many other British sitcoms of the era, the series is now being rescreened in full on the nostalgia channels lower down Freeview; it has reportedly gained a big audience both from those who remember it from the first time around, and from those who are too young to remember it first time around and want to see what all the fuss was about. Either way, political correctness gets a great big "SHUT UP!"
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_111f14e	type	Proverbial Wisdom
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_111f14e	comment	Proverbial Wisdom: Parodied with the native bearer Rangi Ram, who would often close an episode with "There is an old Hindu proverb, which say..."
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_113472aa	type	Miles Gloriosus
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_113472aa	comment	Miles Gloriosus: In "The Last Roll Call", the Concert Party repeatedly talk with vigour about how they are going to tell Sergeant Major Williams exactly what they think of him (in one case, even hit him) once they are discharged. Come the moment of their discharge they all wimp out, fearing unspecified repercussions.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: In the first episode, when Parkin writes to his mother, and the last episode, when Muhammed writes to Beaumont.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Rangi Ram would often address the audience directly during episodes.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_20b5cce7	type	"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_20b5cce7	comment	"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: Performed by Gloria and the gunners.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: The Urdu spoken by the Indian characters is real.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: Reynolds and Ashwood's plans for after the war involve television and laundromats. Neither thinks the other has much chance of success.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_32821ceb	comment	The Unintelligible: Rumzan, at least to those who don't speak Urdu. He drops a few English words at the end of each sentence to convey the gist of what he has just said in Urdu.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_32ec6393	type	Shotgun Wedding
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_32ec6393	comment	Shotgun Wedding: Parkin's parents are implied to have had one of these, as he was born barely nine months after they were married.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The concert party and its officers survive the war and go back to Britain, however they are forced to leave Muhammed behind, though he hopes to be able to join them later and open a restaurant. Rationing means that they cannot enjoy the luxuries they have been looking forward to for so long and their efforts in the war go largely unappreciated by the people they speak to. The officers (particularly Ashwood) almost immediately forget the wartime camaraderie and go back to the "them and us" mentality of the class system. Despite these things, they all part on friendly terms with hopes to make new lives for themselves as civilians. Sgt Major Williams, a career soldier, is forced to leave the army, cannot immediately find employment due to his age and finds that the widow he hoped to make a life with has already remarried. Parkin takes pity on him and offers him a place to stay until he gets back on his feet, which Williams gratefully accepts.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_46e53efd	comment	Screams Like a Little Girl: Beaumont, at ear-shattering pitch.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sergeant Major Williams may be loud and blustery, but he'll defend those he cares about to the death, especially Parkin (whose mother is a former girlfriend of his). A letter written to Parkin and meant to be opened only when Williams is dead reveals that the Sergeant-Major is only being so "hard on the men" because he is trying to turn them into soldiers, and he actually thinks "they're all grand lads, especially little Lofty". Reading this brings "Gloria" Beaumont to the verge of tears. (Moments later, they discover evidence that proves Williams innocent of the theft they suspected him of, and Gloria does indeed collapse howling.) Similarly, in "Lofty's Little Friend", Williams has to order a party to shoot an elephant that has broken into camp, and his voice barely holds steady as he explains that one of the rifles has been loaded with a blank cartridge "so you can all kid yourselves for the rest of your lives that it was not you who shot the elephant". When Sugden insists on blindfolding the elephant "so's he can't see when we murder him," Williams' response is;
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_4a0f49cf	type	Not Now, We're Too Busy Crying Over You
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_4a0f49cf	comment	Not Now, We're Too Busy Crying Over You: In one episode the Concert Party find themselves behind enemy lines and are given a mission to blow up a bridge to cut-off the Japanese retreat, which is then cancelled at the last minute after Lofty's sent to set the charge in place. After trying three times to let him know they see the raft coming back and explode, causing them to mourn Lofty with Williams offering a eulogy just as Lofty comes back from where he got out of the river. When Williams finally sees him he's positively raging.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_51beab21	type	Good Old Fisticuffs
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_51beab21	comment	Good Old Fisticuffs: Played for laughs. Ashwood finds out that he and Williams are dating the same woman and challenges him to a fistfight. Williams points out that Ashwood stands little chance as he has no real combat experience while Williams is a career soldier. The resulting â€œfightâ€� consists of Ashwood throwing punches wildly in the dark jungle while Williams calmly waits for him to tire out.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: Williams repeatedly threatens to have the Concert Party "posted up the jungle".
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_598ad6e2	comment	Even the Guys Want Him: Slight twist on this one with Beaumont, who in several episodes is mistaken for a real woman by sex-starved soldiers.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_5dc04c4e	comment	Brownface: Rangi was played by the white (though Indian-born) Michael Bates.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_6375f746	comment	Drill Sergeant Nasty: Williams never misses a chance to belittle and berate the men under his command, determined to make real soldiers out of these pansy performing artists.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_6df43486	type	Stereotypical South Asian English
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_6df43486	comment	Stereotypical Asian English: All the Asian characters speak in an up to eleven sort of way.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_6fd5262a	type	Swing Low, Sweet Harriet
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_6fd5262a	comment	Swing Low, Sweet Harriet: In one episode of the show Gloria is desperate to get right a number that involves him playing a beautiful girl on a garden swing. He gets hurt when Sergeant Major pushes him off the swing, and Sergeant Major is forced to take his place!
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_70c462fb	type	AB Negative
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_70c462fb	comment	AB Negative: In the episode "It's a Wise Child", Rangi steals Williams and Parkin's medical records, and the Concert Party discover that Parkin has Type O blood while Williams has Type AB blood, meaning he cannot be Parkin's father. However, since this would remove Williams' reason to keep Parkin from being posted up the jungle, throwing the door open to the rest of them being likewise posted, they doctor Parkin's record to list his blood type as AB before Williams can see it.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Rangi Ram disappears without mention after series 5 due to actor Michael Bates' death. Punkah Wallah Rumzan vanishes without a trace after series 7 and is never mentioned again.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: Michael Bates' death after series 5 caused bearer Rangi Ram to be absent from the show from series 6 onwards.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_7cf2f728	type	Boomerang Bigot
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_7cf2f728	comment	Boomerang Bigot: Rangi dismisses the other Indians as 'ignorant natives' and uses phrases like 'we British' when talking to the crew. Michael Bates based this aspect of the character on similar encounters he'd had with social-climbing Indians in British India.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_85ce4a76	type	Scooby-Dooby Doors
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_85ce4a76	comment	Scooby-Dooby Doors: In one episode where four of the men think they have arranged a romantic tryst with Mrs Waddilove-Evans and/or her maid. All go over to the house and rush in and out of the various doors to the same room, narrowly missing each other every time.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_948642c9	type	The Short Guy with Glasses
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_948642c9	comment	The Short Guy with Glasses: Sugden. To quote Williams, "Is it a mushroom? No. Is it a soldier? No. It's Gunner Sugden!"
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_98d3f973	type	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_98d3f973	comment	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Parkin's mother, Edith, was simultaneously involved with both Williams and the man she ended up marrying when Parkin was conceived, leading Williams to think he might be Parkin's father. Parkin is horrified by the idea (and even Williams isn't that thrilled as he witnesses Parkin's incompetence at everything he tries to do), and is relieved when a look at their medical records in "It's a Wise Child"note As in, "It's a wise child who knows his own father." reveals that his father probably is his mother's husband after all.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_9c092ab0	type	Armed Farces
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_9c092ab0	comment	Armed Farces: The officers are Upper Class Twits, the non-commissioned officer is a brute, the enlisted men are various flavours of liabilities, layabouts, and ne'er-do-wells... it's the armed farces, all right.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_9cc1a329	type	Upper-Class Twit
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_9cc1a329	comment	Upper-Class Twit: Captain Ashwood.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_a06b62b7	type	Frozen in Time
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_a06b62b7	comment	Frozen in Time: The series lasted seven years, one more than the real World War II - and the events cover just over four months in 1945 (May to September 1945; V-E Day is announced in Series 1, while V-J Day occurs in Series 8).
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_a8b5a55e	type	Welcome Episode
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_a8b5a55e	comment	Welcome Episode: "Meet the Gang", the first episode of the first series, includes the addition to the Concert Party of the newly-arrived Gunner Parkin, who is the latest of many soldiers to be billeted at the camp for a few days before being posted up the jungle.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Sergeant Major Williams.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Sergeant Major Williams has several: "SHUT UP!", his stock reaction to attempts by the men to protest against his orders or outwit him; "Lovely Boy", a favoured way to address members of the Concert Party when he isn't barking orders at them; "Oh dear. How sad. Never mind", his stock dismissal of excuses offered to get out of following his orders; and "Mr La-di-da Gunner Graham", his reaction to the university-educated Graham's eloquent attempts to reason with him. Captain Ashwood's catchphrases included "That's rather a tricky one, sir", his reaction to the many questions or explanations for which he had no immediate answer, and "Carry on, chaps!", his favourite valediction as he left the performers and Williams to their own devices. Rangi Ram's catchphrases include "You know, there is an old Hindu proverb which say ..." followed by a "proverb" which may or may not be relevant to the current situation, and "Don't be such clever dickie!", his preferred way to chastise Muhammed or Rumzan. "Gloria" Beaumont's words of choice for expressing his anguish at the conditions in the jungle are, "I can't stand it!"
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Rangi derides the Indian locals as "coolies" and "natives" despite being Indian himself (as mentioned under Boomerang Bigot, this was a real attitude among socially ambitious Indians during the later years of the British Raj).
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_bd88e905	type	Concussions Get You High
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_bd88e905	comment	Concussions Get You High: When concussed by a coconut, Gloria becomes battle-high, becoming even more intimidating than the Sergeant Major to the concert party, killing a venomous king cobra snake with his bare hands and with the assistance of the Sergeant Major, clears out a Japanese mortar position that was cutting off supplies to the base. He returns to his normal self afterward, but still gets rewarded for his actions with a Mentioned in dispatches, and promptly faints when he gets pricked by the award pin.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: At one point, Williams says, "What about that ventriloquist? He did a turn with a fox. I mean, whoever 'eard of a fox talking?" This is a poke at popular children's series The Basil Brush Show, the title character in which is... a fox puppet.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Muhammed and Rangi appear to be a Type 1 example, with Muhammed blissfully oblivious when Rangi calls him a "coolie", "ruddy fool" and "damn native".
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_e43b42ea	type	We Need a Distraction
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_e43b42ea	comment	We Need a Distraction: The Concert Party would sometimes be called upon to perform a show in order to distract bandits, facilitate an escape, or some other mission (such as trying to foil an assassination). Became Show Some Leg if Beaumont's drag act was used instead.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_f165cf2c	type	Last-Second Word Swap
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_f165cf2c	comment	Last-Second Word Swap: In "Money Talks", having just sat through Gunner Graham's piano recital to ingratiate themselves with him:
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_f47bdd2a	comment	Violent Glaswegian: Mackintosh, who had an extreme temper and performed a "strong man" act in the Concert Party's shows.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Averted when George Layton (Solomons) left and Michael Bates (Rangi) died. No one was brought in to replace them but Gloria and Muhammed were promoted to Bombardier and Bearer respectively. When the actor playing Rumzan left in the final series, he got a Suspiciously Similar Substitute in the form of the cook Ah Syn.
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: In the episode "Monsoon Madness", Sugden is driven insane by the heat and attempts to kill Sergeant Major Williams.
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