this be not great art and be not admire the ceiling of the sistine chapel . guernica it isn not . on the bus be a cheaply make comedy from the era of the ford cortina and the austin maxi . it be hugely popular with ordinary brit who drive ford cortina and austin maxi . it be their misfortune to be unaware that their predilection for seaside postcard humour would be regard with contempt by a future generation many of whose value no doubt they in turn would have regard with contempt . we must be careful whilst criticise their taste to remind ourselves that in 1971 tv be not awash with gutter language and explicit sex and extreme violence . sitcom be cheeky and yes and but nobody take them seriously . it be comedy and for god sake . be it possible that there be a correlation between the increased awareness of the medium on the sensitive issue of sexism which their policy maker seem to believe can be deal with by ruthlessly crush any reference to the female sex in a comedy programme that be not totally adulatory and and the increased amount of disrespect and violence show towards woman in society in 2006. when reg varney make some outrageous remark to a large bosom bus conductress be he perhaps exorcise vicariously some deep need in the male member of his audience to do exactly the same thing themselves . rob by the self appoint arbiter of public good of the opportunity of such relief and the nagged and the hen peck or the simply inadequate become more and more frustrated and sometimes with tragic result . there be no real people in on the bus . everyone be an escapee from a donald mcgill postcard . cheeky bus driver and frustrated housewife and fat lady with glass and miserable husband and buffoonish authority figure . i watch footballer wife last night . a blind man be throw down a lift shaft and woman be portray a scheming and greedy and lying and immoral and stupid . that progress . i can not quite see how that empower woman perhaps i be miss something . compare to footballer wife and on the bus be a source if innocent merriment .