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Mackenzie Crook's Worzel Gummidge

Started by Norton Canes, June 06, 2019, 12:06:41 PM

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Norton Canes

BBC One announces adaptation of iconic Worzel Gummidge starring Mackenzie Crook with first look picture

QuoteShane Allen, Controller Comedy Commissioning at the BBC, says: "Mackenzie's widely adored and multi-Bafta award winning Detectorists was a grown up love letter to bucolic England and with Worzel he takes a similar approach to English folklore, rural rites and the magic of childhood..."

Looks like it could be pretty fantastic.

St_Eddie

Oh, this is still happening.  I have no opinion.  Don't know why I posted really.

Ballad of Ballard Berkley

Crook looks even more horrifying than Pertwee did, which is quite an achievement. Good, that means another generation of kids are about to be scarred for life. It's only fair.

Norton Canes


Glebe

Fuck, he's a lot less friendlier looking than the Pertwee original!

Deanjam


Dr Rock

He's my next door neighbour (well a couple of houses away).


Glebe

Quote from: Deanjam on June 06, 2019, 01:13:16 PMHe looks like a sad Tim Roth.

The saddest Tim Roth imaginable. With worms burrowing into his chin.

Absorb the anus burn


Glebe

It's also like if Ralph Fiennes had some terrible accident with food mixer or summit.

Bazooka

I've seen some horrible gore videos, but that transcends anything, utterly petrifying.

Why is his chin constructed of bean sprouts?

Phil_A

It's got a bit of Clive Barker's Nightbreed vibe to it, hasn't it. The fact his "skin" looks like that of a major burns victim only enhances the effect.

BlodwynPig

Quote from: Ballad of Ballard Berkley on June 06, 2019, 12:24:40 PM
Crook looks even more horrifying than Pertwee did, which is quite an achievement. Good, that means another generation of kids are about to be scarred for life. It's only fair.

He looks like a shit Dr. Who flubber seal. The BBC has failed again in the make-up department.

BlodwynPig

Quote from: Bazooka on June 06, 2019, 01:20:54 PM
I've seen some horrible gore videos, but that transcends anything, utterly petrifying.

Why is his chin constructed of bean sprouts?

Soft lad. The hyperbole of a teen youtube commenter.

He's no more scary than a Dr. Seuss character.

Bazooka

Quote from: BlodwynPig on June 06, 2019, 01:49:54 PM
Soft lad. The hyperbole of a teen youtube commenter.

He's no more scary than a Dr. Seuss character.

Hyberbole doesn't work, when followed by triple hyperbole.

gib


BlodwynPig

Quote from: Bazooka on June 06, 2019, 01:56:28 PM
Hyberbole doesn't work, when followed by triple hyperbole.

I was being restrained Bazoooks, as you well know.  ;0)E   

Norton Canes

Quote from: Bazooka on June 06, 2019, 01:20:54 PM
I've seen some horrible gore videos, but that transcends anything, utterly petrifying.

Why is his chin constructed of bean sprouts?

His head's a mangelwurzel. Those are the roots.

Ballad of Ballard Berkley

Quote from: BlodwynPig on June 06, 2019, 01:48:35 PM
The BBC has failed again in the make-up department.

That's my point, they've made him far too ugly. His 'whiskers' in particular are disgusting. It's a design failure. Compared to this monstrosity, Pertwee's paedophile tramp looks positively wholesome and cuddly.

Gulftastic

I hope they keep Aunt Sally as a stone-cold heartless bitch. No face turn, please.

bgmnts

He looks shit with that spaghetti attached to his chin. Really shit.

NattyDread 2

Looks like he needs a nice cup of tea and a slice 'o fuckin' cake.

Crabwalk


non capisco

I hope he sings 'My Cock's Bigger Than Yours' in this.

Gulftastic

Quote from: non capisco on June 06, 2019, 09:02:38 PM
I hope he sings 'My Cock's Bigger Than Yours' in this.

Would Wurzel's cock be a carrot?

Quote from: Gulftastic on June 06, 2019, 06:59:15 PM
I hope they keep Aunt Sally as a stone-cold heartless bitch. No face turn, please.

They're adapting the original Barbara Euphan Todd books for this, where Aunt Sally was his aunt, rather than remaking the 70s/80s series, where she was a would-be girlfriend.  He's married to Earthy Mangold in the books, I think.

That'll presumably also mean no changing heads or Crowman, both invented for the Hall/Waterhouse series.

mjwilson


St_Eddie


St_Eddie


studpuppet

I think you're all forgetting the sheer terror of Pertwee's posh head.