T.V.

From the album ‘Ad Nauseam‘ (1978).

Clive:

D’you know, I’ll tell you something which really annoys me…

Derek:

Yes, tell me.

Clive:

…of which nobody tells the fucking truth about…

Derek:

Mmm, ye-e-ess, mmmm.

Clive:

…and that’s how much television affects people. I mean, peop-, kids, you know, elderly people, all that sort of type, they watch television and they get very influenced by it.

Derek:

Yeah.

Clive:

And I speak from personal, you know, personal knowledge.

Derek:

(belches out:) RIGHT YOU DO!

Clive:

I-, I was watching that ‘Holocaust’ thing, you know, where-, that story about, er,…

Derek:

(sniggers)

Clive:

…about Hitler and Him-

Derek:

Yeah, what a cunt he was!

Clive:

Well, he-, yeah…

Derek:

Ohhhhh, I didn’t want to know, he’s a cunt!

Clive:

He’s horrible.

Derek:

Yeah, fuckin’-, fucking…

Clive:

And he, you know, he formed this dislike of-, for some reason, probably psychological, for, er, the Jews.

Derek:

Yeah.

Clive:

And the story was on Holocaust how, er, you know, they all got wiped out and, er,…

Derek:

Mm.

Clive:

…put in gas ovens and stuff like that. And I was very influenced by that ’cause, er, Michael Moriaty was very good as that, er, Nazi.

Derek:

Mmm.

Clive:

And, as soon as I switched off the third episode I, er, got on, er, got on a number 18…

Derek:

Mmm.

Clive:

…and got up to Golders Green and I must have-, I must have slaughtered about eighteen thousand before I realised, you know, what I was doing…

Derek:

Mmm.

Clive:

…I thought, ‘the fucking television has driven me to this’.

Derek:

Yeah, mmm.

Clive:

Same thing happened with, er, you remember ‘Andy Pandy’?

Derek:

Yeah.

Clive:

He used to come on. As soon as that was on I used to get in a glove. I used to jump in a glove and rush down the road and, you know, the power it has over people.

Derek:

Mmm.