Happy Families is a traditional card game, usually with a specially made set of picture cards, featuring illustrations of fictional families of four, most often based on occupation types. The object of the game is to collect complete families. The player whose turn it is asks another player for a specific card from the same family as a card that the player already has. If the asked player has the card, he gives it to the requester and the requester can then ask any player for another card. If the asked player does not have the card, it becomes his turn and he asks another player for a specific card. Play continues in this way until no families are separated among different players. The player with the most cards wins. One of the rules states that a player cannot ask for a certain card to deceive any player if he does not have a card in the set he is asking for. The game can be adapted for use with an ordinary set of playing cards (see Go Fish).
This isn't that.
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What are we watching this week?
Has Spielberg made it?
Have actors played it?
In theatres too?
Give Us A Clue!
Does TV show it?
Do bookworms know it?
One word or two?
Give Us A Clue!
Give Us A Clue!
Give Us A Clue!
Seriously, give us a frigging clue!
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"Look and Read,
Read and Look,
Eyes eyes eyes,
Books books books."
The boys watch Look and Read,and learn how to build words.Badly.
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Wasn't Captain Pugwash full of saucy innuendo? Sorry, I got those words in the wrong order - Captain Pugwash wasn't full of saucy innuendo.
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What the hell is this all about? Crystal Meth and LSD more like. In this episode, we pay for having a really long podcast two weeks ago by having to watch something short.
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Lovely Wibbly-Wobbly Derek Griffiths teaches us all about, I don't know, miming? Anyway, he's bloody brilliant and we'll fight anyone who says different. Apart from Derek Griffiths. We'd never fight him.
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We've made 150 episodes of this now, which is more than you've done isn't it? So why not celebrate with us by watching the best movie about Karate Kids, the third Karate Kid movie, Karate Kid III.
Also, here are some Karate Kid-based recommendations we mention during the episode;
Daniel is the Real Bully - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Gz_iTuRMM
Sweep The Leg by No More Kings - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olQ3vaiv47I
Wax on, F*ck Off - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAtd2r49wFw
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Back in the eighties, all teenagers looked like they were about 45. That's why kids' sitcom Metal Mickey looks like it's about a group of middle-aged layabouts having nervous breakdowns.
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"The most important... the most beautiful... the most magical... saggy old cloth cat in the whole wide world."
It's hard to make fun of Bagpuss, given its status as one of the nation's most fondly-remembered kids' tv shows. Although this episode has some saucy drawings in it so we managed.
Please note - there were some technical issues with the recording, so you may notice more editing than usual. It's free, what more do you want?
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Forget the Flumps - is the Great Kettle Race availale on Youtube yet? and if not, why not?
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Tony Hart apparently had the power to bring plasticene to life. And did he use this power for the betterment of mankind? No. No he didn't.
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The Green Goblin from the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movie terrorises some cyborgs and a dog/dragon hybrid, in the third installment of our Mark-ology of Fear.
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"Hay-lp, Hay-lp!"
Wacky Racer Penelope Pitstop evades the Hooded Claw in this cartoon for children about attempted murder. Mark faces his childhood fears and we get to re-use jokes we wrote years ago. Good times all round.
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"Wizadora, We adore her, doing things in her very special way..."
Remember Wizadora? We thought we did too. We were wrong.
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A race of one-dimensional creatures whose names reflect the complete gamut of human emotions - Happy, Grumpy, Greedy...Tickle.
It's the Mr Men.
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Remember when Doctor Who was cancelled in the 80s? This is why.
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"Songs of joy and tears of laughter, are all we need, to lift our hearts..."
If your Christmas Day is boring enough that you're downloading a podcast, it'll take more than Russ Abbot in various fat suits to lift your heart. Still, we'll do our best. MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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"Say what you see!"
"Two nearly middle-aged men using a podcast as an excuse to watch old tv shows to relive their youth?"
"Well now I feel sad."
It's Catchphrase.
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Our survey said...do more gameshows! So we did. Although we only surveyed two people. And those people were us.
It's Family Fortunes!
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"I'm a Tot!"
"Je suis un Tot!"
"Tilly, Tom and Tiny."
"We're the Tots from Tots TV..."
"One, Two, Three..."
"BOO!"
Flat-faced Rose & Jim-type puppets make worrying noises as Martyn and Mark squeeze another episode into a late night recording session when they should have know better.
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A boring educational cartoon disguised as superhero fun. It's only Captain Planet innit? No Don Cheadle though. Wahh.
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David Hamilton plays hangman with a giant keyboard. But no actual hanging man. It was a family show.
It's like Mel Giedroyc's "Letterbox" but a lot more expensive-looking. I mean a TV show called "Letterbox." Not Mel Giedroyc's actual letterbox at her house. I bet that's quite a reasonably-priced looking letterbox.
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Put on your bicycle clips and bake a pie made out of songs or dreams or other intangible things. It's Pie In The Sky! No, not that one. The other one.
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Imagine spending an hour running away from a man in a helicopter. Sounds exciting doesn't it?
Well it isn't. It bloody isn't.
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Can we pretend that we knew this episode was going to be uploaded the week of Halloween, and use the tenuous link that we're watching Creepy Crawlies, a gentle animation about some friendly insects, in an
attempt to be topical?
No? Bloody sod you then.
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