Inessential shit from the backwaters of years old TV that you somehow still remember

[JesusAndYourBush]

I'd put money on it being Not The Nine O'Clock News.


Edit:  It is.  Search this page for "Scotland Yard" and it gives the precise episode the sketch was in:  http://sotcaa.org/history/sotcaa2000/sotcaa2000_frame.html?/history/sotcaa2000/editnews/not_episodes.html

Thanks!

My other query was to have been "Handhi Bendhi Gandhi" but a simple google search popped up a youtube link.  I was thinking Smith & Jones or NTNOCN but it turns out to be from Three Of A Kind.

[Catalogue Trousers]

This thread is now so long, I can't remember if I ever asked - or if it was in a previous thread - but I have been trying to ID a thematically-similar sketch which features a newsreader finishing his broadcast, and popping open the front of the computer monitor on his desk to reveal his dinner, nicely warmed and ready to eat...

Could that possibly be an episode of The Day Today, mothman? Given the way that every episode of that ended with Morris doing some sort of gag while seated at a newsdesk by a computer monitor...

[kidsick5000]

Thanks!

My other query was to have been "Handhi Bendhi Gandhi" but a simple google search popped up a youtube link.  I was thinking Smith & Jones or NTNOCN but it turns out to be from Three Of A Kind.

Wasn't it the "Bendy Kingsley"?

[mothman]

Could that possibly be an episode of The Day Today, mothman? Given the way that every episode of that ended with Morris doing some sort of gag while seated at a newsdesk by a computer monitor...

It could well be - I wouldn't like to say no straight off. But my instincts tell me otherwise for a couple of reasons: I'd imagine if there was anywhere I'd find someone with an encyclopadic knowledge of the Morrisian ouevre, it'd be here - that, and my imperfect memory insists that this was a one-off "anchorman" sketch within the context of an all-sorts sketch chow.

[Mr Banlon]

Baggy-Pants & the Nitwits.
The Oddball Couple. (A cartoon version of The Odd Couple with a dog and a cat)

[Bingo Fury]

Speed Buggy.
The Great Grape Ape.

[Gulftastic]

Speed Buggy.

I always remember the catchphrase 'Won-won-won-WONDERWHEELS!' from the cartoon 'Wonderwheels', but in my head, I picture Wonderwheels looking like Speed Buggy instead of the motorcycle a quick youtube search reveals it to be.

[Rev]

A drama called Soul Survivor with Ian McShane playing a DJ who travels to the States to get a fictional soul group back together. Isaac Hayes was one of the group. My main memory is McShane being told by The Man that the radio station now only plays hard rock music and he locks himself in his studio and plays a metal song by a group called Roosterhouse over and over again, drunkenly shouting/swearing over the top of it.

Preceded, and this is the only specific bit I remember, by him picking up a CD single from the pile of bullshit the station were playlisting and demanding 'who the hell are Radiohead?'  I think 'The Bends' came out about six months later so that scene may not have dated too well.

[George White]

Harry Hills impression of Dodgy Dave Courtney as Ronald Rat. Still unable to find out what episode it's from. On a similar note, still unable to find the almost apocryphal but it definetly did happen 'Mike Reid blacked up as a Rastafarian saying onion rings' clip.


In my mind both those things were amongst the funniest things I've ever seen so perhaps it's best I never see them again?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St0Kjt2AGqQ

[Clownbaby]

Spam up

For a special tea

Spam up

For an anniversary

Spam up

For the taste of it

Spam up

(Spam up)

[petril]

SUBBUTEO OI OI OI OI

[jamiefairlie]

A Grange Hill one:  a class are at a swimming pool, and while the instructor is attending to an adjacent pool they mess about despite being told not to.  This culminates in one of the kids jumping into the pool to get something from the bottom, but he ends up staying at the bottom of the pool in a really strange way.  I just remember that, really - the peculiar way that he was staying on the bottom of the pool not moving.  Then the class of kids suddenly started screaming and legging it out of the swimming pool room.  I don't remember much else but I think whether he survived was left ambiguous at the end of the episode.

<edit> Ooops. just noticed this was from 4 years ago, ah well still Grange Hill talk so fuck it.....

Jeremy Irvine that was, cousin of Gordon "Jonah" Jones, the absolute star of the previous two series who had mysteriously disappeared to Wales in this series but his carrot top cousin showed up in his stead. That left me bewildered for years, until I read that what happened was the writers had planned a storyline where Jonah was pissing off his mates and in a desperate attempt to win back their approval, drowned tragically in the pool. When the actor/agent caught wind of this idea they nixed it and  he left the show (later to show up a similarly school-based show on ITV, Behind The Bike Sheds), so the writers hurriedly introduced his cousin Jeremy to GH (he had appeared in the previous series attending Rodney Bennett) and basically transferred the Jonah plot to him

Next week - the mysterious airbrushing from history of the original classmates of Pogo Patterson.

[petril]

don't phone, VONE

[beanheadmcginty]

"one step at a time Martin"

[kalowski]

EVERYBODY
VERYBODY
ERYBODY
RYBODY
YBODY
BODY
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DY
Y
EVERYBODY'S HERE!

I swear no one else knows what I'm going on about.

[kalowski]

"Don't know...it's all covered in mud." From some crisp advert with monks in it.

"It's a potato"

[Chriddof]

EVERYBODY
VERYBODY
ERYBODY
RYBODY
YBODY
BODY
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DY
Y
EVERYBODY'S HERE!

I swear no one else knows what I'm going on about.

https://youtu.be/Xl23qEk-F5I?t=90

[kalowski]

https://youtu.be/Xl23qEk-F5I?t=90

I can now die happy.

[studpuppet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St0Kjt2AGqQ

Lovely that Mike Reid's touchstone for a Jamaican accent was the Birdseye Steakhouse Grills advert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyx5g5L91tg

[Drop Dead Fred]

Cook
Cook
Cook
Cookability.
That's the beauty of gaaaaaass!

[Jockice]

If we're playing that game.

Boom
Boom
Boom
Boom
Esso
Blue.

[kalowski]

Cook
Cook
Cook
Cookability.
That's the beauty of gaaaaaass!

Which always reminds me of Viz and why Gaz Top is the king of pop.

Pop
Pop
Pop
Popability
That's the beauty of Gaz

[mjwilson]

Apologies if this has already come up (or if I have got the words wrong, or if you have been trying hard to forget it) but

Yankee Noodle went to town
With lots of straight spaghetti
He twisted it all round and round
And this is what he getti

(A-noodle-doodle-doodle-doodle) butterflies
(A-noodle-doodle-doodle-doodle) houses
(A-noodle-doodle-doodle-doodle) something else
Eek! noodle doodle mouses

[mjwilson]

Googled it and it's actually "Noodle Doodle".

[kalowski]

Which reminds me of

Yankee Doodle stayed at home
Cooking for his pony
Put fat spaghetti in a pot
And called it macaroni

[thraxx]

Kid looks into his reflection in a sheet glass window:

'A me... A me... A me....
I... I wish i lived here...'

[Norton Canes]

"You like cheese, you love these!"

Usually quoted at school by another kid as he wafted a fart into someone else's face

[JesusAndYourBush]

A cup of wee.
Fweshing.
Dee.
Licious.
Brooke Bond Dividend D.

"You like cheese, you love these!"

Usually quoted at school by another kid as he wafted a fart into someone else's face

I remember one kid at school farting then exclaiming "Ahhh! Bisto!" which got a good laugh.

[petril]

THE FUN IS BACK OH YES SIR-EE

[DrGreggles]

"We hope it's chips, it's chips..."