I haven't finished reading this yet, but I thought I'd create a thread to highlight some of the obscure references in the book that I've been able to spot. To spot these references you need to hold a qualification in British TV and books of late 1960s. Or in other words, you need to be British and probably, ideally five to ten years older than me.
Newsarama have done an article on the main players: http://www.newsarama.com/comics/loeg-ce ... 10727.html
While that's very helpful, I could swear that atleast one member of every crowd panel was a reference to some British TV show or book.
So, just to help you out where I can (plus it was fun for me to spot them) here's what I've noticed so far:
There is one panel with these characters from Steptoe and Son:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Yoy2tDXfXHc/T ... an0188.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steptoe_and_Son
Characters from On The Buses appear in one panel:
http://www.tvcream.co.uk/wp-content/upl ... uses02.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_buses
Rich Johnston's commented on five references here:
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/07/31/ ... -me-smile/
Funnily enough, on the far right panel of Mr C's bit, I could swear the old dear looking pissed off at the man throwing up is a reference to an old TV ad. However, according to the bottom link, it's a reference to Dame Edna Everage, a Barry Humphries character - who you probably all know. The australian bloke's another Barry Humphries character too, it would seem.
Looking at Rich Johnston's fourth reference, it appears Steptoe and Son wasn't too hard to spot!
And now, just to show how half arsed my attempts at noting references were - check this out:
http://jessnevins.com/annotations/1969annotations.html
By the way, the book itself reads very well! I shall finish it soon.
LOEG 1969
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