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Wokeometer Rating
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TL;DR Verdict
Come Fly with Me Season 1 scores a low 1/10 for wokeness by sticking to crude stereotype gags and airport parody sketches with no identity politics or social messaging. It's neutral entertainment that prioritizes laughs over any agenda.
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Detailed Analysis
Come Fly with Me Season 1 is a 2010 mockumentary sketch comedy created by and starring David Walliams and Matt Lucas, parodying airport documentaries like Airport and Airline through exaggerated characters at a fictional London airport and airlines such as FlyLo.
The six episodes feature recurring sketches with figures like Omar Baba (Walliams as an Arab budget-airline owner cutting costs ruthlessly), Precious Little (Lucas as a lazy Jamaican coffee-kiosk worker in blackface shouting 'Praise the Lord!'), Taaj Manzoor (Lucas as a dim Pakistani ground-crew member), Ian Foot (Walliams as a bigoted immigration officer), and Japanese schoolgirls Nanako and Asuka (the duo in yellowface prosthetics). These rely on racial, national, and gender stereotypes played for crude laughs, with no narrative framing that critiques traditional norms or promotes identity politics.
Key Factors
- Creators Walliams and Lucas portray nearly all roles via drag, prosthetics, blackface, brownface, and yellowface to depict ethnic stereotypes for satire
- Plot points center on airline cost-cutting, passenger mishaps, and immigration checks without any systemic-oppression or DEI messaging
- Contemporary and later reception focused on accusations of racism rather than any progressive intent or themes; show removed from platforms in 2020 over the makeup and portrayals
- No creator statements or plot elements advancing feminist, LGBTQ+, or anti-capitalist activism; the comedy style is traditional boundary-pushing British sketch work in the vein of Little Britain
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We've run a full content analysis on Come Fly with Me - Season 1 and scored it 1/10 on the woke scale. Read our detailed breakdown above to see exactly what we found.
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What kind of woke content is in Come Fly with Me - Season 1?
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Is Come Fly with Me - Season 1 family-friendly?
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