THE IN-BETWEENERS:
A bus wankers cunting for Channel 4, as they seem to be mulling over a reunion of the Unbetweeners. Far, far too late in the day.
Everyone has a guilty pleasure and mine is for the very un-PC comedy show which ran from 2008-2010, dealing with four sixth forms lads, Neil, Simon, Jay and Will , and their comments and jokes were disgusting. Just go on You Tube and see things like “Will’s mum” or “Inbetweeners watch Two Girls One Cup” and you will see what I mean.
At the time of recording the lads were meant to be between 16 and 18, though the actors playing them were in their twenties. Today two of them are 40 (Simon Bird and Joe Thomas), 39 (Blake Harrison) and the baby of the group (Jay) is 37.
Even if you could find some excuse to bring them together, times are so different, and the yoof of the country so puritanical you would never get away with lines like “My dad ain’t bent” or “knee deep in clunge” or “she’s on the blob” or “If she wasn’t your mum, would you fuck her?”. I can’t see where Mr. Pea Dough Kenendy would fit in now, or the elderly ice cream lady. Neil’s fingering in the car and “she wanked me off a few times” would certainly not get past the script editor.
You can just picture the audience and the production team clutching their pearls, and sniffing their smelling salts, while they get RSI posting their distaste on X for “likes”
Only one of the cast (Joe Thomas) doesn’t look dissipated – two of them look frankly raddled, one frankly looks like a tramp (“I think you are meant to call them homeless these days” as Simon had it).
I am a dirty old man of many years standing, and I sometimes watch the old shows on DVD if I am feeling really down just for a good laugh, but as Thomas Mann wrote “you can’t go home again”. Far better to leave them as four teenagers with foul mouths than bring them back as middle aged politically correct bores.
Why are the company even thinking of doing it?. It will never work.
Nominated by: W. C. Boggs
Morning benders.
This really is a shit idea.
The whole point of the show was that the 4 boys were in between adolescence and adulthood. Trying to do grown up things while still being kids at heart and hilarity ensues. Which it did. I stumbled upon this show completely by accident somehow (on Yank telly) and could not believe it was actually being broadcast. I can only guess the Yanks who bought the show and allowed it on air didn’t know how absolutely filthy the language was. And to those I say a huge thank you.
Like many shows, The Inbetweeners is of its time. I cannot be re-done and shouldn’t be. Let’s hope the potential cast members turn it down.
Bumder.
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Morning “Benders”? …. I think you mean “BUMDERS”!
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No Jay was benders and Will was bumders (to Neil’s dad —–ooooh, Neilllll!)
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Reunion or comeback shows rarely work.
Only two I can think of are the colour return of Steptoe and Son in 1970 ( it was off air for five years) and Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads.
Oh, In Sickness and in Health – Alf and Elsie Garnett’s 80s return – was also good as well.
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When Alf went to take on the whole of Australia, it was well funny.
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Columbo did a comeback which wasn’t too bad… I guess. After the initial run from 1968-1978, the show was brought back and ran between 1989 and 2003.
Some of those episode were pretty good … although I didn’t like that some episodes included what was basically a fucking CSI team… that kind of defeats the object of Columbo.
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Steptoe was wonderful. It was my favourite comedy of all time Ray Galton and Alan Simpson’s finest hour. One of the best from the later series was “Divided We Stand”, where they divided the hoyse up but shared the television (Harold: I have the law of contract on my side” Albert: I have the knobs on MY side)
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You’re right Mr.Boggs.
I remember thinking it would be crap given the format v my much older age range but that’s until I caught an episode with my niece.
From then on I was hooked it was funny as fuck and no way would it work as the watered-down comedy of today.
Note to
producers, don’t fuck around with the classics you have proved so many times it won’t work N.b. comedy is supposed to be funny not weak and inoffensive like the rubbish currently being churned out
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My Dad (born in 1950) and his sister/my auntie (born in 1952) both loved the show. In fact it was my boomer auntie who introduced my boomer Dad to The Inbetweeners.
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The Inbetweeners was a rarity,
Genuinely funny, laugh out loud comedy.
Jay was the funniest
https://youtu.be/RAOB2THiGHw?si=VpDJoxfN5Osk9q2C
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I was dreading the possible return of Life On Mars.
It was discussed a couple of years ago. But thankully it has never surfaced.
Gene Hunt in a woke world? it just wouldn’t work.
One can only imagine the damage the BBC or Disney would inflict onto it.
Some ‘feisty’ black woman cop outwitting Hunt and ordering him around.
Loads of trans and poof bollocks. It would have been a disaster.
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Thinking up new ideas is stupid. Today’s world is all about recycling, remaking and often destruction of the original idea.
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I remember that Liver Birds comeback.
It was shit.
The Auf Wiedersehen Pet return was OK in parts.
But nowhere near rhe quality of the classic first series.
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The Robin of Sherwood audio series is a good one.
All of them are now too old to recreate the 80s heyday onscreen But the original cast do a good job with the new version. Both Michael Praed and Jason Connery have reprised their Robin Hood roles. Hard to believe it first hit our TV screns 40 years ago.
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Good shout Norman,I knew nowt of it but will seek it out and digitally “rent” it or something.
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The Clannad Robin of Sherwood soundrack is also being restored and reissued next month. Tez.
An entire new disc of extra music from the original series will be included.
https://hmv.com/store/music/cd/legend-legend-extended
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I like to see old telly shit bought back. This is because I don’t like change. New stuff is invariably shite. Have you noticed how all the scripts are just the same old words put in a different order?
Bringing back ‘Please Sir’ would be fantastic, even though John Alderton is in his eighties. They could still have the muzzie kid in it, but not many of the others. Maureen, Duffy and Franke Abbott could always be be played by balloons and parkies to get it past the diversity police. Derek Guyler as Potter the caretaker would be a no-no as he was offensive and looked like a pieman sort. Anyway he is dead so that’s okay.
If ‘Please Sir’ took off, they could look at a reboot of the classic ‘Curry and Chips’.
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The great Deryck Guyler is no longer with us.
Always had a thing for the ‘two Sharons’.
Penny Spencer and Carole Hawkins.
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Maureen, Frankie and Duffy also brown bread☹️
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Maureen Bullock, Dennis Dunstable and Peter Craven are dead.
Eric Duffy and Frankie Abbott are still alive, Jill.
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I enjoyed Please Sir.
But the final series – with no Hedges and some new kids – was fucking shit.
The Fenn Street Gang spin-off episode, where daft Dennis has an affair with an older woman (Yootha Joyce) was both funny and touching.
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https://www.facebook.com/LoveYootha/videos/yootha-as-glenda-in-the-fenn-street-gang-the-woman-for-dennis-/246253164524127/
Clip link here.
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https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/carol-hawkins-1076414d
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Curry and Chips. Spike Milligan..
Anyone remember his turn as the Paki Paddy in Till Death Us Do Part?
And who can forget the Pakistani Dalek?
‘Put him in the curry!’
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@Norman, I meant Dennis and not Duffy but could’ve sworn Frankie Abbott actor carked it. Of course it was the wonderful Barbara Mitchell that played his mum that’s no longer with us. Thanx for the correct info👍🏻
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And – needless to say – The Disney Star Wars sequels were total shite.
Completely bastardised bollocks.
Rey and Kylo Ren, my arse.
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Always had a bit of a soft spot for Star Wars. It was the first movie I ever saw at the cinema. My dad took me and it was ace. Loved it. Bought the Star Wars comic every week too.
The two subsequent movies were decent.
But then everything turned to shite and what Disney have done to the brand is truly horrific. All in the pursuit of money – naturally. Woke agenda infused wank. Something once admired and respected ruined by a cunt of a corporation.
I think I read somewhere that George Lucas now regrets flogging the rights to Disney because of what they’d done to it. Writing was on the wall George, you twat!
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Those 70s Marvel Star Wars comics are worth a bit now, IY.
I also loved the Atari Star Wars arcade game. That was ace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJv94FPRddA&t=1227s
The recent Obi Wan Kenobi series was the gruesome nadir of Disney’s new regime.
A ‘feisty’ shouty black woman hogging the entire thing. The biggest joke being she holds her own in a duel with Darth Vader, and she also survives the encounter unscathed. Total bollocks.
The Mandalorian began well. But it’s last series was emasculated shite. Loads of feminist crap and guest starring Lizzo. Say no more
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Fuck me, another comment gone into moderation! Can’t work out what is offensive this time. So much is banned nowadays it could be anything. What a massive pile of syphilitic cunt.
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Where is Ron Knee, I was expecting some saucy pics of Belinda Stewart-Wilson, she must be in Ron’s wank bank (and why not)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5j3SvqViSY
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She’s only about 11 years older than me but seeing her playing a milf in The Inbetweeners has put her firmly in my wankbank. She makes me wish I were a decade younger.
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To be fair, FND did fall off a cliff towards the end of its run. For me, it became a bit cringe-worthy. Replacing Wilson was a mistake for one thing and Jim’s character because absurd and annoying.
I believe the writer, Robert Popper, used real life experiences and events to shape series 1. After that, it became a question of inventing events and situations and trying to make them funny using those characters. It just became absurd. The caravan episode for example – totally unbelievable.
The early series were ace though. Sadly, the actors who played Martin (Paul Ritter) and Nellie – Jackie’s mum (Frances Cuka) have both passed away.
Shit on it.
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And what about Boy Meets World Star, Maitland Ward?
Now a full blown hardcore porn star.
I bet Disney choked on their chips…
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She is bloody good at it and all.
The woman is filth.
So I’ve heard, you understand….
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wink wink say no more😂
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I loved Neil’s comment about Will’s mum “she’s so fit, she could be a prostitute”
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Slightly off topic – Talking pictures are showing re-runs of “Enemy at the Door” about the german occupation of the Channel Islands. There was an episode last week whihc involved a black woman (housekeeper from nigeria for an old sea captain who had picked her up on his travels). Obviously there lots of hurty worda as it was like listening to stan unwin.
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The Inbetweeners was THE show of my late teens/early 20s. I was never a cool kid either, so it was one I could very much associate with.
The ‘Caravan Club’ episode still makes me piss myself, as does the scene where one of them punches a fish to death.
In an ideal world C4 will leave The Inbetweeners well alone. I say that, but it would amuse me if Jay turns out to be a massive bumder.
Your mum’s well fit.
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I loved Bottom.
Mayall was a genius. RIP.
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I never ‘got’ Bottom. From what I could tell, it’s just the Rik and Vyvyan characters from The Young Ones just doing what Rik and Vyvyan used to do in The Young Ones.
I do agree that Mayall was a comic genius though. The New Statesman is ace and the different characters he played in The Comic Strip are timeless.
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The abject failure of Richie and Eddie at pulling women was hilarious.
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What your full name Eddie?
Edward Elizabeth Hitler.
Any relation?
Yes.
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Odin, I think it went:
Any relation?
Well, I’ve got a mother.
No, I mean Adolf Hitler!
Yes! That’s her!
Bottom was, along with Rab C Nesbitt, some of the best comedy ever devised in my humble opinion. Nothing will ever be created like it again, nor will we see creative geniuses of the stature of Mayall and Edmondson again. The times and the environment cannot any longer nurture that kind of unconstrained brilliance – and the refusal to allow us to laugh at human frailty and our imperfections is one of the greatest crimes of the miserable, humourless, virtue-signalling, Marxist cunts we have controlling everything these days.
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In fact I have just read Edmondson’s autobiography, in which he laments the modern censurious humourless bastards setting the cultural narrative these days. In particular, he despises the vilification of the white, heterosexual, male – an evil he deems to be doing untold harm to young white boys and men.
A good egg in my opinion.
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Jay – yep, I can see that.
Neil – defo.
Simon – yeah, I can see that too.
Will – nah. He’d be a teacher in some wank comprehensive.
Clunge.
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All woke modern remakes are shit.
Westworld, The Twilight Zone, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Sherlock.
Absolute arse.
The Creed films weren’t too bad. At least they starred Old Sly and Dolph Lundgren.
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That’s probably the one saving grace of shows which never because successful due to getting cancelled after 1 or 2 seasons.
Shows like:
– Firefly
– Dark Skies
– Space Above & Beyond
– Jericho
and others which escape me right now.
The fact that good, well-written, cerebral sci-fi shows often get cancelled after 1 season and yet shite like Star Trek: Discovery get 5 seasons (watched by nobody) makes me want to burn all of the old Star Trek memorabilia I no longer own.
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I can’t fuckin stand that Ade Edmondson ,
The posh talentless cunt.
Shame he wasn’t sat on the Quad handlebars.
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Ade has turned into an insufferable luvvie cunt.
Best actor in the Young Ones was Nigel Planer.
And I loathe French and Saunders. About as funny as crabs.
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Did not know Ade has turned to the dark side. That’s a pity.
I’d agree Nigel Planer was the best actor in TYO. Mind you, he didn’t have much competition at the time. F knows what Alexei Sayle was doing half the time.
F&S were never funny for me. If Saunders could lose half a hundred weight, she’d be a reasonable shag.
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@Norman. When I was about 12 I got a book from a charity shop called “Neil’s Book of The Dead” by Nigel Planer which was a surrealist, hippy, parody of Neil from The Young Ones and at the time I thought it was quite funny.
Now I’m 42 and I think that Nigel Planer was probably either genuinely off his tits on shrooms or just wrote utter nonsense to make fun of actual hippy cunts. Please observe this actual excerpt from the book that I remember off-by-heart to this very day.
“Hurdy gurdy mushroom man, has locked me in a frying pan, everybody laughs at me, the frozen scarecrow in the sea”.
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That Neil thing, Stink.
It sounds like Syd Barrett at his most loony and acid frazzled.
Planer did a great job on the 90s version of The Magic Roundabout. He wrote and narrated new scripts for several unseen and untranslated episodes.
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And most band reunions don’t work either.
The Beatles ‘reunion’ being the most stomach turning.
George Harrison was involved in a massive court case with his ex-business partner.
So, he reluctantly agreed to work with his old foe Macca. And they pretended they never hated each other and there was no bitter feud. Ringo was always up for earning a few quid. So, he was in from the start.
The musical grave robbery that was ‘Free As A Bird’ was diabolical Of course John Lennon had no say in it, as they butchered his below par demo tapes. And even last year, the cash cow was still being milked dry with that ‘Now and Then’.
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But the problem The B*****s had was they were shit to begin with.
She loves you, yeah yeah yeah
I wanna hold your hand
We all live in a yellow submarine
etc
I rest my case.
Two down. Two to go. Come on Mr. Reaper, do your worst!!
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I hope he takes Yoko first, IY.
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At least Harrison saw it for what it was.
In 1996, George commented…
‘I hope somebody gets all my crap demos and makes a hit single out of then when I’m dead.’
Nice one, George.
How he put up with that cunt Macca, I’ll never know.
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Pre-woke, most of it was decent. Starting with children’s programs, Oliver Postgate, a genius who knew how a child’s mind worked. You get Pa Pogle using an axe to chop the witch into firewood (very allegorical) and thence downhill to Tele-fucking-tubbies going ga ga goo goo, a forerunner to the empty voids that stare into their phones all day now.
No TV in chez Poots and the BBC can go suck a egg.
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Tiswas.
The delicious Sally James.
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In her leather jeans.
Phwoar!
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Oliver postgate was a genius,
Spot on.
Noggin the Nog.
https://youtu.be/Jisqle37uWI?si=zp6VqpxV_qz__3t8
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I always thought The Magic Roundabout was wasted on kids, and Captain Pugwash!
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Noggin the Nog sounds like something you shouldn’t be caught doing.
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I recall a spookyand weird ATV series called ‘Thriller’ (nothing to with that Creepo Jacko cunt). It was genuinely very good, and I remember Dian Cilento (Sean Connery’s then Mrs) as a delectable Elvira style glamorous witch in it. Lovely stuff.
Also appearances by a young Helan Mirren, Francesa Annis, Barbara Feldon, Susan Hampshire, Sinead Cusack, Donna Mills, Judy Carne and Linda Thorson.
Crammed with the cream of 70s TV totty.
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That no faced nun in the rocking chair shit the life out of me.
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Good call, Norm. I have this series on DVD. Highly recommended.
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Some coked up cunt should remake the A Team..but with unbelievable gory violence and loads of fit naked wimmin in it.
it’d make 1 billion dollars.
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The A Team.
I always fancied shagging that Amy ‘Triple A’ Allen.
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This nom is turning into another ‘wank bank’ episode like yesterday’s. Which was ace. Remembering some of those lovelies was a happy trip down memory lane.
Thank the lord for t’interweb and pics of young, fit ladies. No, not the kind that Thomas letches over. Wonderous pics like this:
https://ilarge.lisimg.com/image/22801679/1118full-susan-george.jpg
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Derek and Clive brought back for 2024, you CAAAAHNTS?!
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The League of Gentlemen..
But Shearsmith and Gatiss always come across as real life cunts.
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Fucking me, Norm. Can you imagine how bleak a woke version of that would be?!
Tubbs and Edward celebrated for their incestuous relationship, Babs and Herr Lipp leading a Pride march through Royston Vasey, Papa Lazarou getting government dosh to start his organic peg selling start-up.
No Hillary Briss, though. I don’t think there’s any month of Sundays in which you could make “Special Stuff” vegan.
Are you local?
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*Fucking me was supposed to be “fuck me” / “fucking hell”. Apologies!
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Papa Lazarou would get a government grant for his “peg-selling startup” but that would just be the official, money-laundering front for his “ring-exchange” service.
The actual business would involve buying and selling “DAAAVES”.
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I liked The Inbetweeners as a guilty pleasure, crass, immature, sweary and all the isms and phobes to give lefties an aneurysm.
Comeback shows/remakes are usually shit. I watched This Life in the mid 90’s mainly for the sexy Daniela Nardini and her legs and then they did a reunion show ten years later which was a load of shite and totally pointless.
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Daniela Nardini was filthy as fuck. That is all.
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The BBC remake of Worzel Gummidge is fucking offensive.
A much loved late 70s/early 80s classic ruined.
None of Jon Pertwee’s charm, humour or pathos.
None of the magic between Pertwee and Una Stubbs as Aunt Sally.
Geoffrey Bayldon’s enigmatic Crowman is much missed.
The rural English charm of the Southern TV original is not there.
And no lovely Lorraine Chase as Dolly Clothespeg.
Of course, the new Beeb version has an almost entirely black cast.
Even the two kids in the ITV original were vital to the series and did a fine job.
Now, it’s just two box ticking black kids, who are fucking useless.
And the stories are sickeningly woke, as excpected.
For a ‘proper ending’ of Worzel, check this out. John and Mr Peters return to Scatterbrook for one last time. Very faithful to the classic series.
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Sorry, link here…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-3VxScv3hI&t=16s
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Not seen that before Norm.
Nice one 👍
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Una Stubbs was quite lovely in her day.
https://www.picclickimg.com/78cAAOSw26dkB~Z3/Actress-Una-Stubbs-pictured-at-home-1979-Old.webp
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Without a doubt, IY.
I adorded her in Till Death Us Do Part.
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Bus wankers
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James Buckley of the Inbetweeners was OK as the young Del Boy.
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Never watched that, myself. Was it worth a squint?
I avoided it because love Fools and Horses. I watched it with my dad as a kid and it’s comfort telly. Still funny, too.
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the inbetweeners was fucking brilliant imo. still makes me laugh when i watch the re runs.
classic two series of 6 episodes…just like all the greats. fawlty towers, the young ones etc.
first movie was ok ish, second it was starting to go a bit downhill…….anything after that is bound to be shit.
so many great scenes and sayings…all inappropriate and very funny.
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That Gavin and Stacey shite will clog up our Christmas TV schedules again this year.
I hate it, because I loathe anything with that fat cunt Corden in it.
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Fatty Corden is a talentless twat
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I plan to be incapable of speech and/or sight on Scotch before that load of unfunny shit even comes near our TV on Christmas Day.
The Dambusters and Goldeneye with the fragrant Xenia Onotopp, though? That’ll do.
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Christmas films?
Flash Gordon.
Any of the first four Roger Moore Bond films.
Zulu.
One of the funnnier Carry On films.
The Battle of Britain..
Richard Donner’s Superman.
Rocky I to III.
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I hate Gavin & Stacey because it’s just unfunny dogwank masquerading as comedy.
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Fawlty Towers.
I rest my case.
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