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Zmithy
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Saw monkey dust for the first time last night, weird show, but good animated stuff. Especially the trial scene with the Mugabesque dictator, and the clubbers talking nonsense. Are the characters the same every week?
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Nurdbot
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Monkey Dust is okay, pretty dark. But the king of all British Satire is still Spitting Image.
What time is 2DTV on? and when?
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Melllvar
DOOP Secretary
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Funny though, I listened to a Spitting Image album a few weeks back, and it's incredibly dated. Some of it's just not that funny. Bizarre, how my folk-memory of it has distorted over the years.
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Nurdbot
DOOP Secretary
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Also, I saw the last episode of the first series of Little Britain. Why haven't I got a Boris The Babysitter avatar yet?
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User_names_suck
Professor
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But it pisses me off about monkey dust people say its "kind of dark" as if that automatically means its good.
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Nurdbot
DOOP Secretary
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I didn't say it was good, It relies on the dark gallows humour a lot. The stuff they choose can be disturbing sometimes.
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User_names_suck
Professor
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That's my main problem it just feels like its trying to be shocking and controversial.
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Nurdbot
DOOP Secretary
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Really? Because they suck at the controversial part. It's down right odd.
Anyone got the themetune of Boris The Baby Sitter?
'My brother is a very bad man!'
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Juliet
DOOP Secretary
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Originally posted by Nurdbot: Really? Because they suck at the controversial part. It's down right odd.
Anyone got the themetune of Boris The Baby Sitter?
'My brother is a very bad man!'
I could give it a try plus I post some pics for you to pick an avater if you want?
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Jamesbondcja
Professor
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"Im Brian Blessed....Hello!"
Man Monkey Dust is just plain exellent. I'll have to get the series 1 DVD, ohh to have money....
Plus it cant be long till the second series of Look Around You, and its going to be full half hour long episodes too, write that in your copy books now. Does anyone have any ideas of a release date?
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User_names_suck
Professor
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Originally posted by Nurdbot: Really? Because they suck at the controversial part. It's down right odd.
But that's what I'm saying, that's why I said its my main problem with it. So why post as if you disagree with me. Communication breakdown here.
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Nurdbot
DOOP Secretary
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Sorry years of cynicalism. When I first saw Monkey Dust I thought it was going to be something like a 2D Spitting Image. I was sadly mistaken.
Is there any Spitting Image DVD's out?
Juliet: Thanks.
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catindisguise
Screamy
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« Reply #18 on: 12-02-2004 13:29 »
« Last Edit on: 12-02-2004 13:29 »
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Bloody computer...ahem. Originally posted by Jamesbondcja: "Im Brian Blessed....Hello!"
Man Monkey Dust is just plain exellent. I'll have to get the series 1 DVD, ohh to have money.... Can't you just "borrow" it off some unsupecting "friend" like I have? Plus it cant be long till the second series of Look Around You, and its going to be full half hour long episodes too, write that in your copy books now. Does anyone have any ideas of a release date? No news on the release date, but you were right (for once) about the episodes. Whee! From t'interview:And we'll get half hour episodes instead of 10 minute ones?
Yes, there will be six of them (6).
Won't it be hard for students to concentrate for that long?
Each 30 minute programme is punctuated by regular 'nap-breaks'. Look! (around you)I may ask for the Dependable Video Discus ('DVD') for xmas... God, I'm a link-whore today
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Melllvar
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Originally posted by catindisguise: Look! (around you)
I may ask for the Dependable Video Discus ('DVD') for xmas...
I have the Dependable Video Discus already. I'm keeping a close eye on BBCi for an announcement regarding the new series of Look Around You. It was originally slated for December, I understand. Now, write that down.
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Juliet
DOOP Secretary
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You don’t want to have cable because it is so shit. You want to get Sky. I might order mine today. -----------------
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Tweek
UberMod
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Originally posted by Melllvar: Funny though, I listened to a Spitting Image album a few weeks back, and it's incredibly dated. Some of it's just not that funny. Bizarre, how my folk-memory of it has distorted over the years. I guess that is inevitable as given that the show was mostly based on things happened that week, the world has changed a lot since then, at the time it was must see tv, I don't think there is any satire like that these days unfortunately.
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User_names_suck
Professor
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Originally posted by Digital Dragon: I loved Monkey Dust, it was quite dark and controversial but it didn’t rely on it’s darkness and controversy, it possessed a genuine sharp wit underlying every sketch.
No it didn't, it feels like controversy for the sake of controversy. It brings a chuckle at best Really quite a brave comment on the paranoia over paedophilia that exists in britain. Except Brass Eye did this over 3 years ago. Sorry that's just my opinion.
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Zmithy
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I just watched World Shut Your Mouth. It's Trigger Happy TV! , the only show that makes me laugh more than Futurama. It's on BBC1 at 10:40pm on Fridays. I can't find a damn thing about the show on the internet, apart from its upcoming dvd release for those of you with better things to do on a Friday night... I'll mention a few memorable bits of the first show below. An old guy with a foghorn starting an argument with a bunch of skaters. 'British Bob' trying to jump the grand canyon with a shiny cardboard rocket pack (the huge crowd of Americans sure believed him ) People in fatsuits shouting into gyms and at joggers "Skinny! Skinny! You fit bastard!" A Giant Turd Suit. A remote control 'peeping tom' gnome with giant binoculars riding a little car freaking out a couple lying in a shady park corner. (The gnome's eye view was great!) And the 2 fat schoolboys with breaking voices are back!, getting old men to buy them porn!
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Juliet
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Well I have been watching High Spirits on BBC3 to see what it’s like and all I can say about this comedy is it’s bloody crap. -----------------
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Juliet
DOOP Secretary
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BUMP!
Why is this thread dead? Oh I am so happy because tonight on channel 4 they going to show Max and Paddy’s Road To Nowhere the outtakes at 10pm. this might be the ones where they going to put it on DVD soon.
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User_names_suck
Professor
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It's dead because of the state of British Comedy, there's nothing worth talking about except thankfully a new series of QI next week,though it going to clash with a horrible looking sketch show called spoons.
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Juliet
DOOP Secretary
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I have gone off Balls Of Steel after I watched the tonight's episode
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I Dated A Robot
Crustacean
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I'm not familiar with any recent British comedies. All I know is that I need to buy The Young Ones DVD some day. I'd like to see Black Books again too.
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~FazeShift~
Moderator
DOOP Ubersecretary
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I've downloaded Black Books 1 & 2 and nearly have 3! Woo! Also got Bill Bailey, Part Troll (awesome, trying to get Bewilderness too) and Irish comic, Dylan Moran in Monster (double awesome, cos I get the Irish jokes and you all don't, haha, I rule!)
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User_names_suck
Professor
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tittybangbang is another example of dark comedy without the comedy, same with Nighty Night.
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Melllvar
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*BUMP-O-MATIC* The Mighty BooshI love it, being a person who never gets things on the first try, my girlfriend bought me the DVDs for my birthday (both series') and I'm a total convert to the world of The 'Boosh. My favourite episodes are "Hitcher" from series 1 (basically anything with the Evil Cockney in it), and " The Priest & The Beast" from series 2. I love the characters of Rudy and Spider, they crack me up.
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