Sometimes you just pick the wrong moment to freeze-frame the TV when you want to make a cup of coffee or nip upstairs for a "comfort break…"
Having dashed out of the room without really paying all that much attention, I returned to find that this image from a trailer for a "documentary" that I'm never likely to see (or indeed want to see...) was the one which had remained static on my TV for the previous five minutes.
Now, as I walked into the room, and perhaps unwisely, my immediate first thought, perhaps revealing far, far too much about my instinctive inner voices and my knowledge of what the subject matter of most TV documentaries are about nowadays, was...
"Heil Bear…"
Now, as I walked into the room, and perhaps unwisely, my immediate first thought, perhaps revealing far, far too much about my instinctive inner voices and my knowledge of what the subject matter of most TV documentaries are about nowadays, was...
"Heil Bear…"
I really ought not to have quite so many "politically incorrect" thoughts about such things, of course. After all, I'm a reasonably well-educated, open-minded, liberal kind of a guy even if I do, on occasion, leap right over that line into the realms of bad taste whenever I'm having a jolly chat with m'colleagues.
But then, TV Documentaries have been raking over the embers of what the Nazis did, or where they are now, or a thousand-and-one other "Nazi-Related" topics for years in a desperate attempt to find a title lurid enough to drag the punters in, so it might not have been too far a stretch to wonder whether some idiot had woken up one day and decided that his pet bear was the reincarnation of Hitler and decide to ring up a documentary film-maker and try to make some money out of his madness.
After all, they're always looking for something when they've run out of 'body horror' or 'weight related' topics to share with an incredulous public, and, once you've seen one hoarder, well, you've pretty much seen them all. Anyway, if it's a slow week for conspiracy theorists, or it's not quite close enough to a 9/11 or JFK anniversary, and the story of MH370 isn't quite resolved enough to risk investing in making the documentary just yet, then maybe a 'Nazi bear' might be just the sort of thing Channel Five might be looking for to fill that weekday 9:00pm slot...?
After all, these days it seems that nothing, absolutely nothing, is too distasteful for the telly to consider sharing it with all of us and, like eager young pups sucking at its endlessly forthcoming teat, we'll just lap it up tie and time again which, of course, only encourages them to dig even further through the bottom of that empty barrel.
Mind you, like during "Have I Got News For You" on Friday, April the 11th this year, sometimes you switch on your television and get to see Alan Titchmarsh wearing two gay men on a cake as a hat... because, despite everything, telly can sometimes still surprise you.
But then, TV Documentaries have been raking over the embers of what the Nazis did, or where they are now, or a thousand-and-one other "Nazi-Related" topics for years in a desperate attempt to find a title lurid enough to drag the punters in, so it might not have been too far a stretch to wonder whether some idiot had woken up one day and decided that his pet bear was the reincarnation of Hitler and decide to ring up a documentary film-maker and try to make some money out of his madness.
After all, they're always looking for something when they've run out of 'body horror' or 'weight related' topics to share with an incredulous public, and, once you've seen one hoarder, well, you've pretty much seen them all. Anyway, if it's a slow week for conspiracy theorists, or it's not quite close enough to a 9/11 or JFK anniversary, and the story of MH370 isn't quite resolved enough to risk investing in making the documentary just yet, then maybe a 'Nazi bear' might be just the sort of thing Channel Five might be looking for to fill that weekday 9:00pm slot...?
After all, these days it seems that nothing, absolutely nothing, is too distasteful for the telly to consider sharing it with all of us and, like eager young pups sucking at its endlessly forthcoming teat, we'll just lap it up tie and time again which, of course, only encourages them to dig even further through the bottom of that empty barrel.Mind you, like during "Have I Got News For You" on Friday, April the 11th this year, sometimes you switch on your television and get to see Alan Titchmarsh wearing two gay men on a cake as a hat... because, despite everything, telly can sometimes still surprise you.
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