UKC

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/dennis-the-menace-rebrand-be...

I wonder how, and if, they will pull this off....

In reply to Big Ger:


Hmm my episode suggestions are: -

Denis openly farts during a yoga class.
Denis mixes up his LinkedIn and Tinder accounts.
Denis claps between movements at a classical music concert

In reply to Big Ger:
Aren't they missing the point here? The attraction of Dennis to kids is precisely that he is a 'menace'.

In reply to Big Ger:

Will it empower Walter the Softy to stand up for himself and fight back, with Dennis being the victim?

In reply to Lusk:


Probably enter into a mutually supportive bromance, and set up a support group for their disabled Libyan refugee lesbian friends.

In reply to Big Ger:

Bloody PC liberal caring people hey? I've been asked on facebook to sign a petition to keep an Iraqi friend of a friend in the UK to let him finish his PHD (his place of study fucked up the paperwork meaning he may have to leave before he does). Should I turn it down to not conform to stereotype?

More seriously, I can't believe they're removing the Menace bit from his name.

In reply to keith-ratcliffe:

The "Menace" has been dropped from the title of the comic before, back in 2009. Then too the title was simply "Dennis and Gnasher", though obviously he continued to be a 'menace' in the sense that he was mischievous. (He has of course never been an actual menace, any more than Beryl was a genuine peril.)

There were similar whinges about "political correctness" back then too but I think they'd be missing the point more if they worried over-much about that, then or now.

https://www.marketingweek.com/2017/11/02/the-beano-digital-transformation/
'When asked if there has been any pushback from nostalgic readers, Scott claims the main criticism has come from “middle aged men” who don’t like the new direction the brand is taking. But she insists they are simply not the brand’s primary focus.'

In reply to deepsoup:

The brand's primary focus seem to be getting on swimmingly with Horrid Henry.

In reply to Big Ger:

Is he going to regenerate as female and be called Denise

In reply to Big Ger:

What next?

The Gentle Pat on the Back Street Kids.

Billy Well Under the Speed Limit.

In reply to Chris Harris:

Apparently, Desperate Dan’s vegan now.

In reply to Chris Harris:

Lord Philanthropic.

Little Native American Indian

Fatty would win "Biggest Loser", and Plug would get on a makeover show.

In reply to Big Ger:

Gnasher is now Toothless
Walter the Snowflake
Ivy the not so bad
Smiffy the cerebrally challenged

In reply to Big Ger:

Here's that actual truth about it.
http://downthetubes.net/?p=42241

In reply to Duncan Bourne:


We don't need your kind, coming round here with your "facts".

In reply to Duncan Bourne:

That's a different perspective, but is it "the Truth", or some arse covering by the Beano, who defines "the truth"?

In reply to Big Ger:

I am inclined to the truth but I will ask Nigel and Lew when I next see them and get it from the horses mouth

In reply to deepsoup:"Dennis and Gnasher"

I still pronounce it Gernasher.