Pru and Trude 'borrowed' from French and Saunders?

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emmajfk8 — 17 years ago(July 05, 2008 01:41 PM)

I've just had the TV in the background, and thought Kath and Kim was onbut it was an old French and Saunders re-run, and the voices sound just like Pru and Trude.
The sketch pre-dates Kath and Kim, and features French and Saunders playing posh art gallery assistants. Dawn French also sports the silver grey hair that Pru and Trude wear.
The accents are sooo similarly animated that it's impossible to conclude that Riley and Turner have not drawn 'very heavily' from the French and Saunders sketch. I'm not claiming they stole the characters, but they have definitely been influenced by the great F & S.
This bad recording doesn't do the similarity justice: http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=xzhnxsXe06o

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u_r_talkin_2_sum1 — 17 years ago(July 18, 2008 06:07 AM)

Yeah, I can definately see the resemblance. I reckon it's more of a homage or a send-up of French and Saunders as opposed to being just a blatant "copy".

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kaneda-jones — 17 years ago(September 12, 2008 11:58 AM)

its quite a gradient.. a slippery slope..
sometimes there is no real diffrence between homage, send-up, or copy.

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nemuro8 — 17 years ago(October 27, 2008 07:24 AM)

Pru and Trude are evolutions of the Liberal Voting Women from Big Girl's Blouse (1994), so I don't know if that F&S sketch is before or after 1994. But Pru and Trude have been around for a while