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Ted Bullpitt (Ross Higgins) is not keen on the idea when his wife Thel (Noeline Brown) suggests a second honeymoon in Paris. Their son (Kevin Golsby) announces that he is heading to Tibet.
Curator’s notes
Ted, Thel and their son are repeat characters on The Naked Vicar Show, appearing in various kitchen scenarios designed to provoke Ted Bullpitt’s narrow views. This trait plays on stereotypes of a conservative, blue collar, middle-aged Australian male of the era. He is blusteringly prejudiced, suspicious of intellectuals and tall poppies, wary of social change and, in a quality later demonstrated by Darryl Kerrigan in The Castle (1997), believes the everyday details of his Australian suburban life – in particular his beloved Kingswood car and his greyhounds – are the pinnacle of human existence.
Sending up the tastes and obsessions of suburban Australia is a recurrent theme in Australian comedy, with prominent examples including 'housewife superstar’ Dame Edna Everage (see The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, 1972) and Kath and Kim (2002–07). As with Kath and Kim, this send-up of Bullpitt seems quite affectionate.
