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Post by motti82 on Jun 17, 2024 21:24:23 GMT
Gino, oh, Gino Ginelli!
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jun 18, 2024 7:19:36 GMT
They still sell it in South Africa, weirdly. I think it’s a Unilever brand so got sacrificed for Carte D’Or most places and kept being sold where that would be too premium. Had the brownie one when I was last in SA and it’s very bog standard.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 18, 2024 9:15:24 GMT
I still find it weird that they sell Vienetta in Tokyo.
They aren't as high class and luxurious as I remembered
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Post by rawshark on Jun 18, 2024 9:27:43 GMT
I still find it weird that they sell Vienetta in Tokyo. They aren't as high class and luxurious as I remembered I know, right? We used to have them Sundays when I visited my nana, and it was the most fancy thing you could dream of. Had it as an adult and it’s basically a crushed choc ice. |
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Post by jimnastics on Jun 18, 2024 9:35:19 GMT
I think it was last week when I found out that Trebor is just Robert backwards and they did that on purpose for the brand.
"Trebor mints are a minty bit stronger, stick them up your bum and they last a bit longer"
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Post by robthehermit on Jun 18, 2024 15:03:07 GMT
I think it was last week when I found out that Trebor is just Robert backwards and they did that on purpose for the brand.
"Trebor mints are a minty bit stronger, stick them up your bum and they last a bit longer"
Jambo obviously never knew anyone called Robert at school. I think I was called Trebor for a good 6 months before people got bored. |
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Post by Lizard on Jun 18, 2024 21:58:31 GMT
Always fucking hated 'daddy or chips'.
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Post by Vortex on Jun 18, 2024 22:11:20 GMT
"Trebor mints are a minty bit stronger, stick them up your bum and they last a bit longer"
Jambo obviously never knew anyone called Robert at school. I think I was called Trebor for a good 6 months before people got bored. Is that why you became a timreh? |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 19, 2024 2:27:47 GMT
Kid was off sick for a few days, so I gave them Forest of Doom and they must have spent most of the day quietly playing through it by themselves. (I'd forgotten it's potentially endless as it's one of the ones you can loop back to the beginning if you don't find everything you need).  Unfortunately the version I could get these days has the blander updated art style, but it's still cool. Always fucking hated 'daddy or chips'. Which one did you hate? |
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Post by Lizard on Jun 19, 2024 3:24:03 GMT
Always fucking hated 'daddy or chips'. Which one did you hate? Lol. The daddy and the daughter. The father steals one of her chips, the daughter is overly possessive of said chips. The chips themselves are innocent. |
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Post by wunty on Jun 19, 2024 9:59:05 GMT
Kid was off sick for a few days, so I gave them Forest of Doom and they must have spent most of the day quietly playing through it by themselves. (I'd forgotten it's potentially endless as it's one of the ones you can loop back to the beginning if you don't find everything you need). Unfortunately the version I could get these days has the blander updated art style, but it's still cool. I've got that one on my phone. Well, that and House of Hell. I forgot how fucking hard they were. |
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Post by robthehermit on Jun 19, 2024 11:48:26 GMT
The space one was shit.
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Post by wunty on Jun 19, 2024 12:13:10 GMT
Talking of general nostalgia... For some reason the other day I remebered that Rik Mayall had actually died and I became quite melancholy. Started YouTubing footage of some of the Bottom live shows and bloody hell. Him and Ade were absolutely phenomenal on stage, particularly when they veer off-script. Razor sharp both of them. I'm going to have to watch all the episodes of Bottom again very soon.
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Post by rawshark on Jun 19, 2024 12:59:47 GMT
Talking of general nostalgia... For some reason the other day I remebered that Rik Mayall had actually died and I became quite melancholy. Started YouTubing footage of some of the Bottom live shows and bloody hell. Him and Ade were absolutely phenomenal on stage, particularly when they veer off-script. Razor sharp both of them. I'm going to have to watch all the episodes of Bottom again very soon. I got into the habit of watching episodes on Gold before heading to bed… still make me laugh. Like the one where they get trapped on a ferris wheel that’s about to be demolished. For some reason Eddie is wearing a skirt… Richie : Well yes, I can see your point. Eddie : It's this new skirt, it racks up very easily. |
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Post by motti82 on Jun 20, 2024 9:48:43 GMT
I agree, I think that Bottom was almost sneered at for it's slapstick approach but it was a staple in our house on Friday nights. Most of the dialogue would have gone over a young Motti's head at the time but that's how great series work, on 2 levels.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jun 20, 2024 9:58:08 GMT
I don't how true this is but it seems to me that you would have expected Bottom fans to be older, people who were into The Young Ones the first time around but they seemed to age out of it that kind of humour and it was mostly watched by teenagers (and most fondly remembered now by people in their 40s rather than people in their 60s). I didn't know any adults who watched it at the time.
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Post by motti82 on Jun 20, 2024 10:01:13 GMT
I don't how true this is but it seems to me that you would have expected Bottom fans to be older, people who were into The Young Ones the first time around but they seemed to age out of it that kind of humour and it was mostly watched by teenagers (and most fondly remembered now by people in their 40s rather than people in their 60s). I didn't know any adults who watched it at the time. I do think that they'd managed to branch into our gen (Millenials by and large) but the previous generation who were watching and quoting The Young Ones on the regular. Early 90's Slapstick such as Bottom and The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer meant there was a large audience for it and they got good viewing numbers as well. |
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Post by rhaegyr on Jun 20, 2024 10:08:03 GMT
I'm 37 and my friends and I quote Young Ones and Bottom on a regular basis - we all grew up watching it in our very early teens and it's stuck with us since.
Rik Mayall quotes are like a second language between my brother, mum and dad - it annoys my fiancee no end. Whenever we hear a line that's approximately similar to something he said and we all start laughing she'll roll her eyes and say "go on, what's that off - Young Ones or Bottom?".
Joke's on her - it was Flash by name, Flash by nature. Hooray!
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jun 20, 2024 10:08:41 GMT
I think that tracks I was watching and laughing my tits off over Bottom as a kid and watching stuff like Shooting Stars and the like when I was 13.
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Post by rhaegyr on Jun 20, 2024 10:10:05 GMT
Talking of general nostalgia... For some reason the other day I remebered that Rik Mayall had actually died and I became quite melancholy. Started YouTubing footage of some of the Bottom live shows and bloody hell. Him and Ade were absolutely phenomenal on stage, particularly when they veer off-script. Razor sharp both of them. I'm going to have to watch all the episodes of Bottom again very soon. I got into the habit of watching episodes on Gold before heading to bed… still make me laugh. Like the one where they get trapped on a ferris wheel that’s about to be demolished. For some reason Eddie is wearing a skirt… Richie : Well yes, I can see your point. Eddie : It's this new skirt, it racks up very easily. The Ferris Wheel episode (Hole) is practically a slapstick version of Waiting for Godot. Richie's monologue about his Van Heusen shirt has me in stitches every time. Easily the best episode of the final season which felt a bit up and down at times. |
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Post by dangerousdave on Jun 20, 2024 10:14:16 GMT
Loved Bottom, but bizarrely not Shooting Stars. I do love Bob Mortimer a ton, though.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jun 20, 2024 10:18:36 GMT
I think Shooting Stars was better in the early days when the guests weren't sure what the fuck was going on. It got diluted when people were more in on the joke.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jun 20, 2024 10:23:48 GMT
I went to see Vic and Bob live in 95/96 and they did a small Shooting Stars bit where they got audience members up. When Bob said 'I really want to see those fingers', the whole audience shot them up and he quipped that we looked like an epileptic Hitler Youth rally.
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Post by rhaegyr on Jun 20, 2024 10:29:10 GMT
Yeah, shooting stars was a lot of fun in the Mark Lamarr era. Didn't really stick with it after he left.
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Post by wunty on Jun 20, 2024 10:31:13 GMT
Yeah the early Shooting Stars were amazing. The first three series in fact. I kind of went off it after that as well.
Pretty sure I had an extended episode on VHS with Martin Clunes, Les Dennis, Robbie Williams and Julia Carling, which I probably watched enough to wear out the tape.
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Post by motti82 on Jun 20, 2024 10:46:08 GMT
I agree, Shooting Stars when it was fresh and had every type of "celeb" on it made it a must watch. Vic and Bob's later series after Bob's health scare has returned to form but not the same energy. Still random as ever though! And yes rhaegyr it's the same in our house, quoting all the above, plus Simpsons until Series 12. |
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Post by rawshark on Jun 20, 2024 11:45:15 GMT
I reckon Shooting Stars is one of those shows where if you showed it to kids today they'd bounce right off of it. To be fair there's quite a bit of stuff that wouldn't fly today - blackface skits, Vic being a perv, Mark Lemarr...
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jun 20, 2024 11:48:27 GMT
Going by what certain comedians do and say these days I think it would be fine.
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Post by motti82 on Jun 20, 2024 12:05:20 GMT
I reckon Shooting Stars is one of those shows where if you showed it to kids today they'd bounce right off of it. To be fair there's quite a bit of stuff that wouldn't fly today - blackface skits, Vic being a perv, Mark Lemarr... I've shown my kids The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, especially the French Farting Blokes AKA "Le Corbussier et Papin" where it's pure slapstick. Some of the cultural references like Countryfile, Slade and Food and Drink/Masterchef won't work as the original programmes they were ripping off haven't been on TV in 25 years. |
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Post by rawshark on Jun 20, 2024 13:06:41 GMT
The Slade stuff was brilliant, though. Kids don’t know what they’re missing.
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