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The look of resigned confusion on the historians face when Cunk asked if Arthur ’came a lot, more than a teaspoon’ was fantastic.
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Escobarbarian posted:Cunk on Britain is real good. I keep thinking the character is gonna jump the shark but it hasn’t yet Honestly, the more I've thought about it, the more I think Matt Baker would make a good pope.
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Ccs posted:Also Mackenzie Crook sure is an odd looking guy. I'm glad he was able to make a career as he's obviously incredibly talented as an actor and director, but he looks like a recovering meth addict. I remember him bringing his testicle measurement device on Would I Lie to You, because he grew up with severe developmental problems and had to be constantly assessed.
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Apr 12, 2018 12:40
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He lived round the corner from my mum and we used to see Lance’s car and Peter’s camper van parked in the street all the time. It was pretty startling to see them in the wild. I think they moved out to Essex (or Suffolk, wherever the show was filmed) so we don’t seem them any more 
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His odd looks have also helped him get the part of Worzel Gummidge in the reboot that nobody asked for. I’m biased though because I used to find Worzel Gummidge loving terrifying as a kid.
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More scary than that witch lady on Terrahawks?
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She wasn't too bad but that toothy murder monster she had was terrifying.
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SEX BURRITO posted:His odd looks have also helped him get the part of Worzel Gummidge in the reboot that nobody asked for. I only recently learned that Jon Pertwee was also the voice of Spotty on SuperTed. On which note, I enjoy how angry the narrator at the start of SuperTed sounded. "Like a piece of RUBBISH!" Was that the guy who narrated Tugs?
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Wheat Loaf posted:On which note, I enjoy how angry the narrator at the start of SuperTed sounded. YES. Like it was the 47th take and he was supposed to go home about an hour ago. A spotty man found him!
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I was both bored and curious so I looked up the narrator on Wikipedia and apparently it was Peter Hawkins, who also did a lot of Dalek and Cybermen voices in the 60s, among other roles. Having not looked up his other work to compare it, I still think it sounds like Patrick Allen, who narrated Tugs and the first series of Blackadder.
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If you didn’t watch Superted in the original Welsh with English subtitles, you’re a philistine.
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EL BROMANCE posted:If you didn’t watch Superted in the original Welsh with English subtitles, you’re a philistine. I used to watch it in Irish, which was equally terrible
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NOT BEHIND THE BUS SPOTTY! I was talking to a friend who works for BBC Wales the other day and she said they basically can't show any Superted anymore 'cos it's racist as gently caress.
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Junkenstein posted:I was talking to a friend who works for BBC Wales the other day and she said they basically can't show any Superted anymore 'cos it's racist as gently caress. I don't think I ever actually saw SuperTed on television; it was on this three-hour video compilation tape my grandmother had which had loads of obscure cartoons on it. The Junglies, that kind of thing. One of the ones I remember was The Fruitties, which according to Wikipedia was a Spanish show, but was translated and broadcast here. I can't remember anything from it other than the theme song, which I linked, but on the basis of that, I have a sneaking suspicion that it probably relied on a few (ahem) stereotypes.
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Was superted the one with a bad guy called Texas Pete? My mate and I used to love that character because his dad was called Pete.
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Wait, so an alien robot(?) brings him to life with dust but then completely separately Mother Nature gives him super powers? I didn't remember that bit.
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Junkenstein posted:NOT BEHIND THE BUS SPOTTY! I only remember the show in broad brush strokes, what was racist in it?
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Escobarbarian posted:Cunk on Britain is real good. I keep thinking the character is gonna jump the shark but it hasn’t yet I like how she keeps using Brush Strokes as a historical point of reference.
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I only remember a PSA in that cartoon that essentially was 'stop standing behind the drat bus!'
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I still get that ‘Not behind the bus, Spotty’ in my head when I do just that thing he’s warning against.
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Behind the bus, like a piece of RUBBISH.
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I don't think I've been more annoyed by the end of a masterchef final, what a goddamn travesty. Kenny stole his recipes every week from whatever fancy restaurant they'd just gone to, he cooked two things in the final that were just 'the things I did at other restaurants' and somehow he won? Ugh. Also he saluted some soldiers who walked by and did a memorial of Churchill when he had to pick a hero. What a bellend.
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I had not heard previously, but Bob Mortimer said on his podcast he's making a new series of Big Night Out "with Jim". Still throws me when he refers to him like that.
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Wheat Loaf posted:One of the ones I remember was The Fruitties, which according to Wikipedia was a Spanish show, but was translated and broadcast here. I can't remember anything from it other than the theme song, which I linked, but on the basis of that, I have a sneaking suspicion that it probably relied on a few (ahem) stereotypes. Memories of 3am on Cartoon Network in the 90s with this irredeemable shite coming on next to Tabaluga and Blinky loving Bill, ahhhh (It's not nearly as bad as some of the images in that four-hour intro make it seem, it's just not any good.) Trin Tragula fucked around with this message at 11:10 on Apr 14, 2018 |
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Not Very Good is a fair summary of pre Cartoon Cartoon era CN.
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Trin Tragula posted:Memories of 3am on Cartoon Network in the 90s with this irredeemable shite coming on next to Tabaluga and Blinky loving Bill, ahhhh Yeah, I remember both of those on Cartoon Network. The thing I remember about Tabaluga (which I believe was a German cartoon, of all things) was that his father was this gigantic ethereal dragon who lived in space and whenever he needed help he'd look up and say something like, "Watch over me, father!" so I've never been entirely sure if that dragon was supposed to be God and Tabaluga was meant to be Jesus.
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Big intro, big outro. Anything to minimise the number of frames you actually have to draw per episode.
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It's like how in Teletubbies, they'd always do that bit where they'd watch a live-action segment on one of their screens, then when it finished they'd all go, "Again! Again!" and it would replay the exact same thing. What did you call the one about the woman who flew a spotty aeroplane?
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I guess nobody watched MasterChef.
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Taear posted:I guess nobody watched MasterChef. There's only so many times you can hear Greg Wallace talk about 'a lovely playda food'.
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goatface posted:Both of them are insufferable. I watched the second last episode and John Torode started crying over an apple crumble mille-feuille. Shame the camp Thai lad didn't win
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goatface posted:Both of them are insufferable. Eh he was a mild novelty with the depressingly short lived Time Commanders reboot. Man I am still bitter how short that was.
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WeAreTheRomans posted:I watched the second last episode and John Torode started crying over an apple crumble mille-feuille. That part was so incredibly strange. Although perhaps he used to cry over other stuff and they cut it out but now don't think there's anything wrong with it?
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I’ve teared up over a steak before. It was the best steak I’ve ever eaten*, and food can illicit strong emotions. *Hawksmoor Seven Dials
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The_Doctor posted:I’ve teared up over a steak before. It was the best steak I’ve ever eaten*, and food can illicit strong emotions. Hawksmoor is nice but man it's not crying food. I've been to some really fancy places and still never cried over it. When they're cooking things that remind them of [relative] I completely see them crying over that but John's reaction just felt weird.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I don't think I ever actually saw SuperTed on television; it was on this three-hour video compilation tape my grandmother had which had loads of obscure cartoons on it. The Junglies, that kind of thing. Huh. I remember when Thames TV lost their franchise and got replaced by Carlton, in the build-up to the switch-over whoever was programming the block of cartoons on a Saturday morning evidently decided their job was no longer worth doing properly and just started putting the same tape in every single week. So I must've seen the same episode of the Junglies three or four weeks in a row. That's probably the only reason I remember it at all, as nothing about it was in any way memorable or good. A visit to youtube confirms it really was grim bargain basement stuff. That theme song, Jesus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6WP8wInfcg
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Incidentally this showed up on Twitter a few months back and is good tv nerdery: https://twitter.com/marklipscomb/status/947600896569036800?s=21 https://twitter.com/marklipscomb/status/947602417314537472?s=21 And the actual handover: https://youtu.be/APTmtaWMpHU
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Wheat Loaf posted:It's like how in Teletubbies, they'd always do that bit where they'd watch a live-action segment on one of their screens, then when it finished they'd all go, "Again! Again!" and it would replay the exact same thing. The new Teletubbies is weird. They have babies now. I don’t even want to know how they were conceived. Harry Hill’s Alien Fun Capsule is back. I don’t generally like panel shows but it’s pretty good.
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