The Great Pottery Throw Down branded 'utter filth' by Twitter after innuendo filled debut show
Could 'a nice crack' become the new 'soggy bottom'?
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Your support makes all the difference.While The Great Pottery Throw Down may sound like an innocent family TV program, it was anything but. Over the course of an hour, the BBC show managed to throw hundreds of innuendos at viewers, a fact Twitter was quick to pick up on.
“The Great British Pottery Throw Down program is utter filth,” wrote one viewer, while another commented: “The pottery innuendo and rather graphic clay caressing makes the baker’s “soggy bottoms” look childishly tame.”
Other innuendos included saying a pot had “a rather beautiful crack” while one of the challenges including a lot of “clay pulling”.
Of course, Tweeters were quick to come up with their own pottery puns, with one noting how "a nice pull" may become the new "soggy bottom”.
The first episode of the show - which is brought to you by the producers of The Great British Bake Off - aired on BBC2.
It is hosted by radio DJ Sara Cox, who previously said: “You don’t need to add puns in if you’re discussing making pottery because you’re already talking about cracks and rims.
“I got so used to chatting about somebody’s rim on the show that I just wouldn’t laugh at that sort of humour, or make a thing of it.
"Obviously kids are watching as well, so you don’t really need to do any of that.”
The Great Pottery Throw Down airs every Tuesday at 9pm on BBC2.
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