Something for the weekend
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"Something for the weekend?" is a euphemism traditionally used by barbers in the United Kingdom when offering condoms to their clients. [1]
It is mostly used verbally, but the first known recorded example is from a sketch by the Monty Python comedy team on a 1972 record.
Something for the Weekend has since been the title of several works and broadcasts:
[edit] In television
- Something for the Weekend (1980s BBC TV series), a BBC sketch comedy show that aired on Friday evenings in the late 1980s.
- Something for the Weekend (Channel 4 TV series), a 1990s "lad"/"ladette" show presented by Denise van Outen
- Something for the Weekend (2000s BBC TV series) a British television programme mixing live cooking and guest interviews with clips of previously broadcast general-interest programmes. [2]
Given the subject matter of the programme and its scheduling, the question arises as to whether the programme-makers were aware of the import of this phrase when choosing it as their title, or whether this is an example of the sort of cultural-linguistic ignorance satirised in Mitchell and Webb's sketch "Touching Cloth".
[edit] Elsewhere
- "Something for the Weekend", a song by The Divine Comedy on the album Casanova
- "Something 4 the Weekend", a song by the Super Furry Animals on their debut album Fuzzy Logic
- Something for the Weekend, book written by Jamie Oliver (published by Penguin, 2005. ISBN 0-14-102258-2)
- Something for the Weekend, a Saturday morning show on Nottingham Hospitals Radio, hosted by Steve Hopewell [3]
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