Why don't people get "gunged" on TV anymore?

[DrGreggles]

Dick & Dom In Da Bungalow is the last one I can remember (finished in 2006).

https://youtu.be/nwRGrF9Gd3Q?t=4454

Wonderful show.
I always loved how much fun they clearly had making it - often far more than the kids seemed to be enjoying it.

I will now spend the rest of the day watching Da Bungalow clips on YouTube.

[Gulftastic]

Wonderful show.
I always loved how much fun they clearly had making it - often far more than the kids seemed to be enjoying it.

I will now spend the rest of the day watching Da Bungalow clips on YouTube.

I adored Da Bungalow. I'm old enough to remember Tiswas, and always bridle when it's held up as the greatest Saturday morning kids telly. It's second to Dick and Dom.

[jobotic]

Was great, and i was too old for it really. Which programme had the Geordie copper though? Not sure it was them.

I did like Trev and Simon a lot, even if the rest of the programme was shite.

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They reused the same germ-filled gunk each time so I suspect they stopped doing it because people were dying of concentrated nonce piss

[Gulftastic]

Was great, and i was too old for it really. Which programme had the Geordie copper though? Not sure it was them.

I did like Trev and Simon a lot, even if the rest of the programme was shite.

It was them. Harry Batt. Here's a great little bit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CubKONoAR5Y

[DrGreggles]

It was them. Harry Batt. Here's a great little bit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CubKONoAR5Y

I knew it'd be that bit!

[Ludicrous Display]

I think the Harry Batt bloke also provided the commentary for the sticker game, where he puts on a pretty convincing Northern Irish accent. Man of many talents, wonder what he's up to these days.

I was very young when Da Bungalow started so only remember the last couple of years but I have very fond memories of it. Also weird that Melvin Odoom is now on telly more than Dick and Dom who have been consigned to the nostalgia circuit.

[Kankurette]

I hope Dave Benson-Phillips never gets Milkshake Ducked. I did love Get Your Own Back. Funhouse was the show i aspired to be on though.

[Sebastian Cobb]

He does van haulage and rental (bouncy castles, marquees) business stuff as well as uni/children's entertainment, I'm guessing it's a side-hustle that grew out of just needing the stuff for the entertainment touring originally.

[bomb_dog]

Ian Kirkby was DC Harry Batt and was always a highlight of DADITB. He started out on 'Your Mother Wouldn't Like It' in the 80s on ITV and has been chronically underused as a comedy actor ever since, in my opinion. Was great in 'The Slammer' with Ted Robbins. Recently been seen on Crackerjack on CBBC.

[DrGreggles]

Ian Kirkby was predominantly a theatre performer, who did bits of telly and v/o work on the side.
My mate is a drama teacher and she took a class to a play that he was in just after Da Bungalow had finished.
None of the kids noticed/gave a shit, but she was very excited to see DC Harry Batt in the flesh.

Anyway, an impression you didn't see on TV much in the mid-2000s:
https://youtu.be/MkrXWov223M

[Gurke and Hare]

Anyway, an impression you didn't see on TV much in the mid-2000s:
https://youtu.be/MkrXWov223M

Spot on impression, and the kids just staring blankly without a clue what's going on. Brilliant.

[beanheadmcginty]

The Harry Batt Wikipedia article is surprisingly detailed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Batt

[El Unicornio, mang]

Because no one wants to make anything that can repurposed as fap material on youtube.

Yeah, less innocent times. Young children getting covered from head to toe with a strange looking thick foamy liquid by a cackling bloke with a mullet in his weird fantasy lair just doesn't look right these days.

[jobotic]

Forgot about The Slammer. The few episodes of that I saw were good fun.

[JesusAndYourBush]

The real reason why House Party ended was because the supplier of the gunge[nb]Mr Blobby[nb](The gunge was his spunk.)[/nb][/nb] refused to supply Neol with any more gunge.

[dissolute ocelot]

Nickelodeon are still all about gunge (or "slime" as the Americans call it); the Kids Choice awards every year is basically an excuse to ejaculate over Shawn Mendes, Pixie Lott or the late Kobe Bryant.

Wikipedia obviously has a history of gunge in kids TV. Sam and Mark's Big Friday Wind Up has been keeping the goo flag flying on CITV in recent years.

[thecuriousorange]

When you turned on the TV a couple of years ago you were more likely to see a polician get milkshaked in the street.

[mothman]

I always loved how much fun they clearly had making it - often far more than the kids seemed to be enjoying it.

It was them. Harry Batt. Here's a great little bit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CubKONoAR5Y

A perfect case in point. How many kids would know or recognise a 20-year old Dire Straits song? It was such a great show. Most of what I got to watch with my oldest (born 2005) was sadly just best-ofs and compilations.

[non capisco]

Is it true they once had a game on Dick and Dom called 'Sweaty Flaps'? I just remembered my old housemate swearing blind he'd seen it. Probably not worth googling on a work computer, though.

[Gurke and Hare]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_%26_Dom_in_da_Bungalow#Dick_and_Dom's_Top_Ten_All_Time_Favourite_Games

"What a Sweaty Flap"

[DrGreggles]

Lots of Dick gags too.

[C_Larence]

There is a man who's notorious in some internet circles for sending female celebrities messages asking if they'd get gunged wearing jeans (often under the guise of it being for charity).

https://twitter.com/jake46215646?s=21

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Da Dick and Dom Dairies

A new series of compilations began airing during weekday mornings on BBC2 from Monday 26 January to Friday 20 February 2009 featuring newly recorded material from the original cast and the creamy muck muck finale towards the end of each episode.

[mothman]

Yeah, that's west we watched, timing fits too.

[studpuppet]

I thought the answer was...

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[Brundle-Fly]

I heard that it really stinks. They must've used the same bonding agent as Slime because that used to honk too.

Here's a clip of the last person I would have ever expected to agree to get gunged on TV, especially on this man's show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH8JrXPfN_o

[idunnosomename]

found this spoon sir

https://www.vice.com/en/article/akdazj/history-of-gunge-on-british-tv

[thecuriousorange]

Gunging celebrities is still a thing in May 2021 and even Hollywood A-listers aren't safe.

https://youtu.be/LER70aFi2nQ

Although they lose points for not actually using the word gunge.