CLASSIC sitcom Auf Wiedersehen, Pet has been slapped with a trigger warning by ITV for racist humour.
Episodes on the channel’s ITVX platform now warn the show, which follows a group of Brit builders stationed in Germany, makes “racial remarks”.
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The beloved series made stars of Jimmy Nail and Tim Healy and Timothy Spall, following their capers as they pursue high wages and plenty of frauleins.
Episode five now warns: “Contains frequent mild language and mild racial remarks.”
The piece is called Home Thoughts From Abroad and follows Bomber, played by Pat Roach, as he travels home to find his missing daughter who them runs up on the building site in Dusseldorf.
The flag could have been applied to cover jokes from Oz, played by Jimmy Nail, including one remark about Germany: “They’re the ba**ards that bombed me granny.”
Another of his asides was that “they started it”.
The entire show is flagged to contain “sexual themes, nude images and moderate language throughout”.
In 2000, series one was ranked number 46 on the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes in a list compiled by the British Film Institute.
The beloved series ran for four series in total, two from 1983 until 1986 and then after a sixteen-year gap, two series and a Christmas special were shown on BBC One in 2002 and 2004.
Previously, viewers of the The Fast Show have been warned about “discriminatory language” in a Suits You scene from an episode which aired in February 1996.
It could concern a scene where the series’ lusty Middle Aged Guys declare women who rebuffed their advances “lesbians”.
The Office and Only Fools and Horses are also screened with BBC warnings about their appropriateness for modern audiences.
Channel 4 has previously been branded “humourless” for flagging a series of Father Ted episodes on its streaming service, and ITV has a similar caution on 1970s comedy George & Mildred.
