All aspiring cartoonists should watch Rude Dog and the Dweebs, as inspirational evidence that you don't need artistic talent to get a cartoon made. A clothing logo and some of the worst designed cartoon dogs ever had their own TV show. And we watched it.
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"Visionaries, Knights of the magical light!"
Remember when toys were covered in holograms? That was good wasn't it? I bet all those hologram stickers have faded now and don't look half as cool any more. That's like a metaphor. A clever metaphor. I done a metaphor.
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What's the best time to watch the Krankies' Christmas special?
a) Christmas Eve
b) Christmas Day
c) July
The correct answer is that you should never watch the Krankies do anything at any time ever.
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The sad news of Brian Cant couldn't be ignored, and we'd already done Trumpton, so we watched Bric A Brac and celebrated some of his brilliance. But just because the man was great doesn't mean we'll go easy on the show... or that we'll even necessarily pay attention.
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To me. To you. To me then. To you then. To me. To you. Copy. Paste. Done.
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Centurion
/sɛnˈtjʊərɪən/
noun
1) The commander of a century in the ancient Roman army.
2) A man covered in pegs onto which aeroplane, boat or motorbike parts can be affixed in order to fight the forces of evil.
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A drama series about a newspaper run by teenagers? Sounds boring right? Right. That is absolutely correct.
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This week Mark and Martyn watched Dooby's Duck Truck. I refuse to write a proper blurb for this. Because it's Dooby's Duck Truck. What have we become...?
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Two primates have some fun "monkeying about" and probably learn a lesson or two along the way. Then they watch Bangers and Mash, a cartoon about naughty chimps.
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Not a Prison Break spin-off, or a lesson in bad sportsmanship in first person shooters. Not even an account of a dubious sexual practice. Just the simple story of a young girl fighting an evil witch who lives in a magical teapot with (or without) the help of a little boy who is (or isn't) the witch's assistant. Or whatever.
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White expressionless hippo people have vaguely creepy adventures in the animated atrocity that is the Moomins. That's all I have to say about that.
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"Rosie and Jim, Rosie and Jim,
Chugging along on the old Ragdoll..."
Mark and Martyn settle down to watch the Annabelle/The Conjuring prequel Rosie and Jim, about two sort-of-alive dolls who probably have some kind of murderous intent. Because they always do.
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Happy Easter Wheelers! Let's celebrate getting fat eating Easter chocolate by watching a fat kid and his friends nearly kill an old man. This is the plot of the Fat Albert Easter Special for some reason.
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"Next time you're at the checkout and you hear the beep,
think of the fun you could be having on Supermarket Sweep!"
To be clear, this show's definition of fun is basically picking up novelty inflatables and solving riddles whilst doing someone else's shopping. Fun.
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What a time of mixed messages the 80s and 90s were. On the one hand we had Charlie the cat warning us about strange men promising puppies, and on the other hand we were presented with programmes like Watt On Earth, where a creepy grown man tries to befriend a young boy and keep their relationship a secret
and we as the audience were supposed to think that was ok.
Well it's not ok. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they have done!
No wait, that's the Borg. Still, Watt On Earth deserves to be destroyed in a fire.
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What is Michael Barrymore famous for? Manhandling old ladies on gameshows, saying "awight" and nothing else. Nothing. Stop trying to think of things. There isn't anything. Especially nothing controversial.
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"Ranger... Barbarian... Magician... Thief... Cavalier... and Acrobat!"
Mark and Martyn revisit the first episode of W4B by rewatching the first episode of Dungeons and Dragons again. Reliving all the fun and adventure of a group of abandoned teenagers hampered in their quest to get home by a small mewling unicorn. For a second time. It's just as good as it sounded before.
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It's all been building to this - the episode where Mark's countdown to play the episode will also be the title of the show we're watching.
Also we've now done a hundred episodes, and we're marking the occasion with a rubbish gameshow for some reason. why did so many old gameshows have weird animated mascots? And who do you think would win in a fight between Bully from Bullseye, Dusty Bin from 3-2-1 or Mr Chips from Catchphrase? Send your answers
to us via twitter with the hastag #gameshowmascotrumble and reinstate my faith that there's a point to writing these show notes.
100 episodes. Party popper sound effect.
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"It's a Bullseye!"
No, it's not narrated by Super Mario, it's just Tony Green being too enthusiastic about thirty minutes of darts and trivia. It's like spending a night down the pub with your most boring friends.
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The thrilling adventures of a burger restaurant named after a type of shoes. It's Emu's Pink Windmill Show's breakout star's finest hour, as we watch Joe Greco rehearse for his next job.
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We love a good quiz. We also used to love Telly Addicts. Good joke. Everybody laugh.
Anyway, we combine our usual talking over TV shows thing with trying to answer questions about TV shows, in a hideous mess of a podcast that probably shouldn't have slipped through.
Maybe you should go back and download last week's episode again. That was quite good.
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Harrowing examples of children being killed in farming accidents and acts of unsupervised stupidity abound, as Mark and Martyn watch the public information film "Apaches." Don't play on farms. You will die.
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"Just say NO!"
Yes, it's the peak of the hard-hitting Zammo drug storyline, and seemingly one of the only episodes of Grange Hill not to feature the titular school setting at all. At least we get to see a lot of Ro-land's job at the arcade though.
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*TROMBONE SLIDE*
Every child of the 80s will understand the bleak depressing Northern horror of Jonny Briggs. Here's a tip - watch Threads instead. It's probably got a happier ending.
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"Toad in the hole and dog in a blanket..."
The innocent adventures of a small boy and a mad old woman. How often were similar formats used in the 80s? Not any more though. Grown ups in the 80s were clearly much more trustworthy around young people...
#sarcasm #yewtree
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