Back in the day, (early 80's) me and a few friends went to one of these shows as the studio audience, I can't remember which episode it was but you might be able to hear me in the background..
The concept for this show (which aired in the 1980s, not the 70s) came from a regular segment from an 1970s sketch show, 'The Naked Vicar Show', but Ross Higgins (who played Ted Bullpit) was the only actor who carried his role into this spin-off. Ironically, despite the show's title you never got to see Ted's beloved Holden Kingswood. As for "wog", in Australia it was a derogatory name for an Italian or Greek immigrant.
Just like every Aussie term, it could be used as an insult or term of endearment, depending on the tone and the circumstance. Yes it was mainly used to try and insult old mate, but he took it the same way as everyone did with attempts at insults back in those days, brushing it off, and giving back as good as he gets, although a bit less due to his relationship with the daughter.
Kingswood Country was my fathers fave show. The "wog" is Lex Marinos. The word wog is used in both insult and compliment. It was directed at the Mediterranean immigrants or as my nan would call them "new Australians". Wog is used in the same manner "Pom" is used for brits.
Definitely unpc! Backstory, Ted Bullpit only drives Australian Holden cars and historically, around 18k Italian soldiers surrendered to Australian soldiers in WWII! Thousands of Italians settled here after the war, building many important farms, gardens, cafes and restaurants! Effective communication and full acceptance was a slow process! 😣🧐🤗
It's normally was used to describe Italian/ Greek imagrints You don't want to know what Asians used to be called back then This was a era when people didn't have such thin skins It was each to their own back then and most loved the show
During the war massive amount of Italian surrendered to the Australian so there's lots of jokes about them being cowards or having three reverse gears and their cars. And this was actually the 80s
My Aussie born friend married an Italian boy. He’s so Funny, when visiting he’d say ‘Wog boys here’ and laugh. We can use wog as a term of endearment sometimes. I remember when I was a first time grandmother, he wanted to be called Poppa Wog lol.
It's dated now, but was hilarious in its day. The racist, misogynist, bigoted, stubborn and rather dense Ted Bullpit was a caricature of the parochial Aussie male and he dials up the "ocker" factor to the max, including the exaggerated ocker accent. Bruno's character is simply a well spoken Italian Australian and has no foreign accent at all, giving the lie to Ted's pathetic insults that never land. I don't recall the character Bruno's storyline, but it's a fairly safe assumption that his family came to Oz as refugees after WW2, and "Bruno" was likely born here. Fun fact: The actor who played Bruno "the wog" came from the town of Wagga Wagga (pronounced Wogga Wogga).
Very well said. Like the character Archie Bunker in America, Ted Bullpit was ridiculously over the top and exaggerated and that’s what made the character funny.
One episode had an appearance by the Australian Prime Minister at the time, Bob Hawke. It was a hugely popular series and some of Ted's expressions were often heard in general conversation and even in the schoolground. Like the bigotted Archie Bunker, Ted very rarely came out the winner and was always the brunt of many jokes. He was an anti-hero.
@@sarahanderson3897that’s so true they made it their own. I’ve met heaps of Greek / Australian men who introduced themselves as “The Wog”. I would never call them that but they always made me laugh when they called themselves that. I love Greeks. They always welcome everyone as family.
Hi good to see other parts of the world enjoying Aussie humour. Short history lesson, there's a biscuit company in Australia called Arnott's which is still going, making great stuff including the Tim Tam, I call it Gods biscuit, anyhoo as a kid there was a chocolate biscuit by Arnott's called Golliwog biscuits. They were in the shape of a big headed guy with big afro hair, looked like an animated clown. Great biscuits but they were discontinued after a while. But there was a TV show in the 80's called Acropolis Now where the term WOG became a badge of honour among the Australian European community to a point where there was a stage show called "Wogs out of work". There are loads of spin-offs from that too, probably on RUclips somewhere. Also there was a Maltese guy I used to work with, people called him a Wog & he took it as a compliment saying "Yes I am, I'm a Welcome Overseas Guest!". Brilliant.
I absolutely loved this show. Ted Bullpit was hilarious. WOG originally stood for Western Oriental Gentleman but over the years it was aimed at mostly greek, Lebanese, italians
You nailed it straight up, Mikey. There was a lot of similarity between Archie Bunker and Ted Bullpit. Also, I think Bruno’s accent was educated Australian for the time. Equivalent to Received pronunciation now.
I'm reading Teds paper $5, 850AU for a new car here in Australia back then, wow things have changed. Thats about $4000 u.s, my first car was a Valant AP5, wow wish I still had that it is worth a fortune now
Valiant driver in the 60's and 70's a Chrysler Valiant was known as a WOG Chariot, some say WOG meant Western Oriental Gentlemen but it meant someone from the Mediterranean or Middle East
The clip needed a famous Ted Bullpitt Kingswood quote. Like: “The Kingswood! You’re not taking the Kingswood! I just shampooed the tow bar!” Or “chrome plated the fan belt!” or various other ridiculous excuses.
Kingswood Country was a great show its on dailymotion I think, It is un PC but even back then we were laughing at Ted's ignorance, and were not with him in his thinking but some were and still are today like Ted, but we were laughing at him and watching it thinking, "oh no, sure he would say that" at the time, I was a young teenager when it was on TV in Australia and remember it very well. , WOG is a derogatory term for a non white immigrant. It was used in a racist ways but has since been embraced. And often immigrants even today refer to themselves as wogs, Such as the Superwog videos here on RUclips, you should get a laugh out of those, if you haven't seen them have a look.
A Kingswood is a Holden car.. Replace wiht "Woody Wagon"!.. This show wouldnt get made today!! TV Series 1980-1984. This is REALLY early, possibly one of the first eps.. And new car prices in the paper, $5000AUD!! A w0g is an offensive term for Italian.. Hence the Mussolini references from WWII. I think thats where Aussies picked up the term.
Wog was in fact an English expression as far as I recall. It came from the 18th/19th century when the English were in China and stood for Wily Oriental Gentleman. I would say at a guess it was appropriated by Australia during the gold rush era and over time came to represent an immigrant of any race. There was another word that I think came into use during WW2 which was Wop that specifically meant an Italian person.😵😵💫😧
I believe Ross Higgins was such a nice man that he used to apologise in advance for anything he had to say to the other characters. Wog by the way can be an insult or term of endearment depending on how it is used. A group of Aussie/Greek actors made a couple of movies called, along the lines, of The Wog Boys and Acropolis Now. I have Italian friends who prefer the term Dagoe
Wog was a term used by whyte Australian to be derogatory towards Greeks and Italians. In the 1980s there were some Comedians of Mediterranean immigrant background that used the term and owned it. They put out shows called ‘Wogs out of Work’ and ‘Acropolis Now’. The whyte Aussies have come to accept the post WW2 migrants - the more recent the migration wave the worse the racism. The exception is Indigenous Australians, that started in 1788 and is still going 😢
It’s ok mate. Australian Greeks and Italians call themselves wogs these days and are proud of it. Acropolis Now was a TV show and movies called the Wog boy have been made.
Wog is the same as wop, it means someone from Italy or Greece, our major migrants after WWII, and they called us Skippy's, or Skips, after Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. Originally an insult, wog became a term of endearment or backwards compliment. Only good friends can insult the hell out of each other and laugh about it. Kingswood was a model of car, the Holden Kingswood, which 50% of the population drove as their family transport back them. The other half drove Ford Falcon's, they were big rivals on the racetrack and in the driveway. Wasn't it great when people had a sense of humour, and didn't get offended by every little thing?
He mentioned Valiant which is typically called a wog chariot hence why they chose the Valiant as his car and im vaguely aware he was also born at Wagga Wagga which is pronounced Wogga Wogga so yeah the show definitely doesn't suit today's world lol
Wog was initially used for Italians.... you know.... spaghetti munchers, but today, the know all current "learned" generation uses the word for many different immigrants to Oz.
The father in law was such a jerk and I admire his son in law and everybody else for putting up with him.Archie might have been nicer but probably only a bit
I bought the best of Kingswood Country recently. There was another series called Bullpitt filmed in the 90s Ted was in a retirement village then. Wog can be an insult. However I know people you can call a wig and it is taken in fun. Nothing wrong with the show. It’s just people having a laugh and a joke when we could take the piss out of something. Just like they did in Blazing Saddles. What people don’t get is shows like these are making fun of racism. It was from a time where we could laugh at ourselves without all this pc crap.
In the 70's and 80's .. the Greeks and Italian's even called themselves WOGS. We called British POM's ...Americans were YANKS and it just gets worse from there ..
Wog is slang for anyone who came to Australia from Europe or any other country Ted pulpits is not the same thing you can use as 2023 is not the case here as politically correct is the same thing as saying that people 6:53
Mikey just move to Australia 🇦🇺 and be done with it. Anyway Wog Dago whinging Pom Coon etc isn’t politically correct these days. But brazen Aussies … like myself will still use the terms because back in the 60’s and 70’s Aussies and immigrants could get along with the banter of jokes. We weren’t snowflakes ❄️ or pansy’s
Oh gosh this was as far from political correctness f As I am from the North Pole . Growing up I had no idea what what the heck he was really talking about. It was crass but when I was a kid we just laughed even when we had no idea what he was saying. I know my brother hated it and I at the time didn’t know why. Aussie humour back then was ummmm it’s self explanatory . You had to be there I guess . His son was at med school and he called him the poof I asked my mum what it was once and she said it was a foot stool called a “ poofay” phonetically spelt . Just for mum 😂
There are better clips, it was a classic show! Wog stands for Welcomed Overseas Guest and is derogatory ans offensive..but usually used as good natured jesting.
@@digimont in Melbourne it was used to describe our Mediterranean population, IE those of a Greek and Italian background! Never heard it used towards Asian backgrounds.. interesting!
@@jemxs Western Oriental Gentleman was certainly used during WWII to describe anyone "not English". My dad served in Kenya and Egypt, it was used there to describe both Arabs and African Negros at the time. Just saying I've never heard "Welcomed Overseas Guest" before. My guess is that someone who didn't know the history of the term, decided that's what it probably stood for.
You wrong today Kingwood County wouldn’t made because today in 🇦🇺 we going bad as well 1970 and 1980. He is Italian. WOG in turn Italian and GREEK. Kingwood County was never add it was a tv tv show. You watch A Country Practice because it an Aussie 📺 1970 and 1980: A Country Practice was braking ground because they talk topic people didn’t talk about in those such as guy relationships unloving your your ect
"Money on the fridge wog"!... Every time the son in law takes a beer from the fridge 😂🤣😅
John farnham was actually in one episode mikey
Can't forget Neville the concrete aboriginal 😂😂😂
Back in the day, (early 80's) me and a few friends went to one of these shows as the studio audience, I can't remember which episode it was but you might be able to hear me in the background..
The concept for this show (which aired in the 1980s, not the 70s) came from a regular segment from an 1970s sketch show, 'The Naked Vicar Show', but Ross Higgins (who played Ted Bullpit) was the only actor who carried his role into this spin-off. Ironically, despite the show's title you never got to see Ted's beloved Holden Kingswood. As for "wog", in Australia it was a derogatory name for an Italian or Greek immigrant.
Oh dear 😮
First season was filmed in 1979 and aired January 1980, if you want to split hairs.😉
Not the Kingswood your not taking the Kingswood I just polished the dipstick
Visit Ted at number 13Wombat Crescent
@@getreal4371 👍🤗
Just like every Aussie term, it could be used as an insult or term of endearment, depending on the tone and the circumstance.
Yes it was mainly used to try and insult old mate, but he took it the same way as everyone did with attempts at insults back in those days, brushing it off, and giving back as good as he gets, although a bit less due to his relationship with the daughter.
Ross Higgins (Ted Bulpitt) was also the voice of Louie The Fly. ruclips.net/video/BNnqOUA_mzc/видео.html
Wog means new person to the country
Kingswood Country was my fathers fave show. The "wog" is Lex Marinos. The word wog is used in both insult and compliment. It was directed at the Mediterranean immigrants or as my nan would call them "new Australians". Wog is used in the same manner "Pom" is used for brits.
Sadly Lex passed away just recently. R.I.P. Lex.
Definitely unpc! Backstory, Ted Bullpit only drives Australian Holden cars and historically, around 18k Italian soldiers surrendered to Australian soldiers in WWII! Thousands of Italians settled here after the war, building many important farms, gardens, cafes and restaurants! Effective communication and full acceptance was a slow process! 😣🧐🤗
Is classic TV in Australia 🇦🇺
So totally not politically correct, but bloody love Ted! 🤣
Omg. I was telling a friend about our car l grew up in was a Holden Kingswood. How ironic is that. ❤
It's normally was used to describe Italian/ Greek imagrints
You don't want to know what Asians used to be called back then
This was a era when people didn't have such thin skins
It was each to their own back then and most loved the show
Mike its hilarious 😂
During the war massive amount of Italian surrendered to the Australian so there's lots of jokes about them being cowards or having three reverse gears and their cars. And this was actually the 80s
The kingswood, you're not talking the kingswood, I just Mr sheened the hubcaps.
You can best the one line joke 🎉
My Aussie born friend married an Italian boy. He’s so Funny, when visiting he’d say ‘Wog boys here’ and laugh. We can use wog as a term of endearment sometimes. I remember when I was a first time grandmother, he wanted to be called Poppa Wog lol.
A wog is someone of Italian ancestry usually. Greeks are called wogs too. Some wogs call themselves that , yet some get a bit offended .
Acropolis now.
Not the Kingswood, you're not taking the keys to the Kingswood😂
Can't take the Kingswood I just polished the dip stick.😂
"I just chromed the tow ball" "I just vacuumed the glove box",
Best show ever
It's dated now, but was hilarious in its day. The racist, misogynist, bigoted, stubborn and rather dense Ted Bullpit was a caricature of the parochial Aussie male and he dials up the "ocker" factor to the max, including the exaggerated ocker accent. Bruno's character is simply a well spoken Italian Australian and has no foreign accent at all, giving the lie to Ted's pathetic insults that never land. I don't recall the character Bruno's storyline, but it's a fairly safe assumption that his family came to Oz as refugees after WW2, and "Bruno" was likely born here.
Fun fact: The actor who played Bruno "the wog" came from the town of Wagga Wagga (pronounced Wogga Wogga).
Very well said. Like the character Archie Bunker in America, Ted Bullpit was ridiculously over the top and exaggerated and that’s what made the character funny.
Fun fact was interesting. Didn't know that. Also, hilarious!
Kingswood country is the best show back then. Love Ted 😅
Mick l people who don't hide who they are 🎉❤👂✔️2️⃣🐕👁❗️💯
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One episode had an appearance by the Australian Prime Minister at the time, Bob Hawke. It was a hugely popular series and some of Ted's expressions were often heard in general conversation and even in the schoolground. Like the bigotted Archie Bunker, Ted very rarely came out the winner and was always the brunt of many jokes. He was an anti-hero.
There is some classic TV show
That show made me laugh so much you have to watch a full episode of the show my family watch it all the time it is a really funny show must watch ⌚ 😄
Perhaps explore the naked vicar show ..
❤it was a favourite show when I was younger. Wog is western oriental gentlemen
Oh in my neck of the woods was Welcomed Overseas Guests, but both work!
It started out that way in the gold rush, but the Greeks took it and made it their own! Wogboy Wogs out of work Acropolys now
@@sarahanderson3897that’s so true they made it their own. I’ve met heaps of Greek / Australian men who introduced themselves as “The Wog”. I would never call them that but they always made me laugh when they called themselves that. I love Greeks. They always welcome everyone as family.
It came from Britain - it was a derogatory term used for Indian labourers on ships, and possibly shortened from golliwog.
Our humer is different because of us growing up in different countries. Thats all it is. ❤
RIP Ted Bullpitt Gone but not forgotten.
Hi good to see other parts of the world enjoying Aussie humour. Short history lesson, there's a biscuit company in Australia called Arnott's which is still going, making great stuff including the Tim Tam, I call it Gods biscuit, anyhoo as a kid there was a chocolate biscuit by Arnott's called Golliwog biscuits. They were in the shape of a big headed guy with big afro hair, looked like an animated clown. Great biscuits but they were discontinued after a while. But there was a TV show in the 80's called Acropolis Now where the term WOG became a badge of honour among the Australian European community to a point where there was a stage show called "Wogs out of work". There are loads of spin-offs from that too, probably on RUclips somewhere. Also there was a Maltese guy I used to work with, people called him a Wog & he took it as a compliment saying "Yes I am, I'm a Welcome Overseas Guest!". Brilliant.
I absolutely loved this show. Ted Bullpit was hilarious. WOG originally stood for Western Oriental Gentleman but over the years it was aimed at mostly greek, Lebanese, italians
You nailed it straight up, Mikey. There was a lot of similarity between Archie Bunker and Ted Bullpit. Also, I think Bruno’s accent was educated Australian for the time. Equivalent to Received pronunciation now.
It was a religion this show when i was a little kid
Wog isn't offensive in Melbourne but some people seem to be offended in sydney. Wogs we refer to the Greeks, Italians.
I'm reading Teds paper $5, 850AU for a new car here in Australia back then, wow
things have changed. Thats about $4000 u.s, my first car was a Valant AP5, wow wish I still had that it is worth a fortune now
Valiant driver in the 60's and 70's a Chrysler Valiant was known as a WOG Chariot, some say WOG meant Western Oriental Gentlemen but it meant someone from the Mediterranean or Middle East
The clip needed a famous Ted Bullpitt Kingswood quote. Like: “The Kingswood! You’re not taking the Kingswood! I just shampooed the tow bar!” Or “chrome plated the fan belt!” or various other ridiculous excuses.
It's just not right without talking about Neville
Western Oriental Gentlemen
Kingswood Country was a great show its on dailymotion I think, It is un PC but even back then we were laughing at Ted's ignorance, and were not with him in his thinking but some were and still are today like Ted, but we were laughing at him and watching it thinking, "oh no, sure he would say that" at the time, I was a young teenager when it was on TV in Australia and remember it very well. , WOG is a derogatory term for a non white immigrant. It was used in a racist ways but has since been embraced. And often immigrants even today refer to themselves as wogs, Such as the Superwog videos here on RUclips, you should get a laugh out of those, if you haven't seen them have a look.
I loved this show as a kid. If you react to an episode try the one Graham Kennedy was in. Classic.
A Kingswood is a Holden car.. Replace wiht "Woody Wagon"!..
This show wouldnt get made today!! TV Series 1980-1984. This is REALLY early, possibly one of the first eps..
And new car prices in the paper, $5000AUD!!
A w0g is an offensive term for Italian.. Hence the Mussolini references from WWII. I think thats where Aussies picked up the term.
Wog was in fact an English expression as far as I recall. It came from the 18th/19th century when the English were in China and stood for Wily Oriental Gentleman. I would say at a guess it was appropriated by Australia during the gold rush era and over time came to represent an immigrant of any race. There was another word that I think came into use during WW2 which was Wop that specifically meant an Italian person.😵😵💫😧
Lex Marinos passed away last week sadly
This is a full episode. 😂
ruclips.net/video/qjWRHgTm6wk/видео.html
I believe Ross Higgins was such a nice man that he used to apologise in advance for anything he had to say to the other characters. Wog by the way can be an insult or term of endearment depending on how it is used. A group of Aussie/Greek actors made a couple of movies called, along the lines, of The Wog Boys and Acropolis Now. I have Italian friends who prefer the term Dagoe
not the kingswood
I just ironed the bloody mudflaps! 🤣
Wog was a term used by whyte Australian to be derogatory towards Greeks and Italians. In the 1980s there were some Comedians of Mediterranean immigrant background that used the term and owned it. They put out shows called ‘Wogs out of Work’ and ‘Acropolis Now’.
The whyte Aussies have come to accept the post WW2 migrants - the more recent the migration wave the worse the racism. The exception is Indigenous Australians, that started in 1788 and is still going 😢
It’s ok mate. Australian Greeks and Italians call themselves wogs these days and are proud of it. Acropolis Now was a TV show and movies called the Wog boy have been made.
Wog is the same as wop, it means someone from Italy or Greece, our major migrants after WWII, and they called us Skippy's, or Skips, after Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. Originally an insult, wog became a term of endearment or backwards compliment. Only good friends can insult the hell out of each other and laugh about it. Kingswood was a model of car, the Holden Kingswood, which 50% of the population drove as their family transport back them. The other half drove Ford Falcon's, they were big rivals on the racetrack and in the driveway. Wasn't it great when people had a sense of humour, and didn't get offended by every little thing?
He mentioned Valiant which is typically called a wog chariot hence why they chose the Valiant as his car and im vaguely aware he was also born at Wagga Wagga which is pronounced Wogga Wogga so yeah the show definitely doesn't suit today's world lol
Not kingwood 📺1️⃣💯🌅🦘🇦🇺
He's Italian
In Australia it’s either get offended and stay offended or give us shit back and fit right in . But yeah we still have a racism problem
Wog was initially used for Italians.... you know.... spaghetti munchers, but today, the know all current "learned" generation uses the word for many different immigrants to Oz.
70z it was the 80s,
The father in law was such a jerk and I admire his son in law and everybody else for putting up with him.Archie might have been nicer but probably only a bit
I bought the best of Kingswood Country recently.
There was another series called Bullpitt filmed in the 90s
Ted was in a retirement village then.
Wog can be an insult.
However I know people you can call a wig and it is taken in fun.
Nothing wrong with the show.
It’s just people having a laugh and a joke when we could take the piss out of something.
Just like they did in Blazing Saddles.
What people don’t get is shows like these are making fun of racism.
It was from a time where we could laugh at ourselves without all this pc crap.
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In the 70's and 80's .. the Greeks and Italian's even called themselves WOGS. We called British POM's ...Americans were YANKS
and it just gets worse from there ..
Wog is slang for anyone who came to Australia from Europe or any other country Ted pulpits is not the same thing you can use as 2023 is not the case here as politically correct is the same thing as saying that people 6:53
Mikey just move to Australia 🇦🇺 and be done with it.
Anyway Wog Dago whinging Pom Coon etc isn’t politically correct these days. But brazen Aussies … like myself will still use the terms because back in the 60’s and 70’s Aussies and immigrants could get along with the banter of jokes.
We weren’t snowflakes ❄️ or pansy’s
Oh gosh this was as far from political correctness f
As I am from the North Pole . Growing up I had no idea what what the heck he was really talking about. It was crass but when I was a kid we just laughed even when we had no idea what he was saying. I know my brother hated it and I at the time didn’t know why. Aussie humour back then was ummmm it’s self explanatory . You had to be there I guess . His son was at med school and he called him the poof I asked my mum what it was once and she said it was a foot stool called a “ poofay” phonetically spelt . Just for mum 😂
It was called a drug back in my day. 😂 I remember well "straight from rubbish tip to you 😂😂😂😂😂❤
@@elisehamilton7878 lol yup … oh to be that innocent again… have a great night xoxo
There are better clips, it was a classic show! Wog stands for Welcomed Overseas Guest and is derogatory ans offensive..but usually used as good natured jesting.
I was born in the 60s and have NEVER heard that explanation before. Western Oriental Gentleman or Westernised Oriental Gentleman.
@@digimont in Melbourne it was used to describe our Mediterranean population, IE those of a Greek and Italian background! Never heard it used towards Asian backgrounds.. interesting!
@@jemxs Western Oriental Gentleman was certainly used during WWII to describe anyone "not English". My dad served in Kenya and Egypt, it was used there to describe both Arabs and African Negros at the time. Just saying I've never heard "Welcomed Overseas Guest" before. My guess is that someone who didn't know the history of the term, decided that's what it probably stood for.
You wrong today Kingwood County wouldn’t made because today in 🇦🇺 we going bad as well 1970 and 1980. He is Italian. WOG in turn Italian and GREEK. Kingwood County was never add it was a tv tv show. You watch A Country Practice because it an Aussie 📺 1970 and 1980: A Country Practice was braking ground because they talk topic people didn’t talk about in those such as guy relationships unloving your your ect
This is from the early 80s - Australia is just as PC as the USA now - maybe a fraction less but not far behind.