Top Gear no more

[Mike4]

And anyway, we're talking about a TV program here. It doesn't matter if you don't like it. There isn't a TV program in existence that everybody likes.

WHAT????????

You mean there are people who didn't like the "Morecambe and Wise Show" on a Saturday night?

I'm not sure I believe you!

[bungeejumper]

You mean there are people who didn't like the "Morecambe and Wise Show" on a Saturday night?

I'm not sure I believe you!

I'll see you, and raise you the Black and White Minstrels.

BJ

[Harry23]

You mean there are people who didn't like the "Morecambe and Wise Show" on a Saturday night?
I'm not sure I believe you!

I'll see you, and raise you the Black and White Minstrels.
BJ

Dad's Army and the Two Ronnies, surely.

[Mike4]

You mean there are people who didn't like the "Morecambe and Wise Show" on a Saturday night?

I'm not sure I believe you!

I'll see you, and raise you the Black and White Minstrels.

BJ

Really? I was bored witless by that while Mum and Dad considered it essential viewing. As a kid I could never understand why...

The Muppet Show however, was UNMISSABLE!

Also Spitting Image.

[bungeejumper]

I'll see you, and raise you the Black and White Minstrels.

Really? I was bored witless by that while Mum and Dad considered it essential viewing. As a kid I could never understand why...

Did you miss the irony wink?

The Muppet Show however, was UNMISSABLE! Also Spitting Image.

Absolutely. The latter, not least because of the input from a certain Mr Hislop.

BJ

[Mike4]

Really? I was bored witless by that while Mum and Dad considered it essential viewing. As a kid I could never understand why...

Did you miss the irony wink?

The Muppet Show however, was UNMISSABLE! Also Spitting Image.

Absolutely. The latter, not least because of the input from a certain Mr Hislop.

BJ

Ah I thought it was just a wink, rather than an irony wink!

I'll inspect it more carefully....

[bungeejumper]

Did you miss the irony wink?

Ah I thought it was just a wink, rather than an irony wink! I'll inspect it more carefully....

As private Baldrick said, the meaning of irony is clear to anyone. It's just like goldy or bronzy, but with iron.

BJ

[didds]

You mean there are people who didn't like the "Morecambe and Wise Show" on a Saturday night?

Once id got past the quasi social indoctrination of "everybody watches all on TV all the time", aged about 18/19 (ie when I left home), indeed I didnt.

[Leothebear]

You mean there are people who didn't like the "Morecambe and Wise Show" on a Saturday night?

I'm not sure I believe you!

I'll see you, and raise you the Black and White Minstrels.

BJ

It's a once a year card but your B&W Minstrels and raise you "The Hogmany Celebrations". IIRC each edition was the same, each peaking with Andy Stewart doing his Elvis impersonation of "Donald Where's Your Trousers". This was met with hysterical laugher year after year from men in kilts. Maybe they all got so blind drunk they'd all of it the following day.

[ReformedCharacter]

It's a once a year card but your B&W Minstrels and raise you "The Hogmany Celebrations". IIRC each edition was the same, each peaking with Andy Stewart doing his Elvis impersonation of "Donald Where's Your Trousers". This was met with hysterical laugher year after year from men in kilts. Maybe they all got so blind drunk they'd all of it the following day.

Och aye, I used to be allowed to stay up late to watch this. Absolutely ghastly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9MoA_rFsPw

Don't be tempted to click on the link

RC

[bungeejumper]

It's a once a year card but your B&W Minstrels and raise you "The Hogmany Celebrations". IIRC each edition was the same, each peaking with Andy Stewart doing his Elvis impersonation of "Donald Where's Your Trousers". This was met with hysterical laugher year after year from men in kilts. Maybe they all got so blind drunk they'd all of it the following day.

Ah yes, I once had a Glaswegian editor who would lament, after a few drinks, that his countrymen suffered from an incurable schizophrenic condition. At New Year, he said, and on Burns Night and certain other teary-eyed occasions, they were emotionally at one with Andy Stewart, Kenneth McKellar and the perennial Moira Anderson on the TV. The rest of the time, though, their emotional solidarity was with Rab C Nesbitt.

BJ