Welcome to Pontypandy, the Welsh village where half the population also serve in the fire brigade. Still, when there are this many kites getting stuck and an arsonist child living nearby, I suppose that's for the best.

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"It's not much of a life when you're just a pretty face..."
It's probably not much of a life when your head's on backwards either. It's the Raggy Dolls, the reject toys who taught kids that being different is ok. Unless you're French.

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"Language Timothy!"

Ronnie Corbett's finest hour... was probably The Two Ronnies.

Ronnie Corbett's best sitcom... appearance was probably that episode of Extras he did.

Ronnie Corbett... was also in this.

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"You and Me, Me and You, lots and lots for you to do..."
Mostly hanging around a market stall with a couple of raggedy puppets covering pre-school curricular basics. Still, at least sometimes Garry Wilmot was in it. Not this one though. Not this one...

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A magically alive superhero teddy bear with a spotty alien sidekick fights an evil cowboy and his henchmen, a fat man and a skeleton. That is all.

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"You must have seen the movie, you must have read the book..."
Mark and Martyn endure the adventures of Bob Godfrey's mellow yellow feline, Henry's Cat. Do you know someone who knows what he knows? You must know Henry's Cat. You MUST.

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"Llllet's get rrreadyyy to infringe copyright..."

Inspired by their sister podcast If You Like (this week covering WWE coughSHAMELESS PLUGcough), Mark and Martyn take a trip back to 1990 when wrestling was all colourful tights and saggy stomachs. It's the Royal Rumble match, full of all the faces you'd recognise in the eighties, and plenty that you won't as well. Sorry Dino Bravo...

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"Up above the streets and houses, Rainbow climbing high.."

...Geoffrey sticks his bum out the window, poos in Bungle's eye. Yes it's Rainbow, the eternal target of all nostalgic kids' TV jokes. How have Mark and Martyn avoided it for so long? Ha ha ha, twangers, etc.
BONUS CONTENT - stick around at the end of the podcast for some uncharacteristic serious political discussion. SPOILERS: we wished the UK had voted "remain."

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"We've got spooks and ghouls and freaks and fools, at... Rentaghost!"
Not to mention all your favourite pantomime rejects and future soap stars. Yes we're back on track (sort of), looking at kids' tv again after a few weeks of old sitcoms. And what more natural route back than via the worst of all children's sitcoms, Rentaghost. Don't go into the cellar! Because there's a dragon, or the ghost of a dragon, or the ghost of a man dressed as a dragon, or something...

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Listen very carefully, we will watch this only once...

Mark and Martyn get political with a tenuously EU referendum-based pick in the form of amiable Nazi-occupied sitcom Allo Allo. So let's all laugh at foreigners just like in the good old days. Ha ha ha, they're slightly different than me.And so on.

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Previously considered for the "untouchable" pile, The Real Ghostbusters was a huge deal to Mark and Martyn as kids and perhaps above mockery...? Shame it isn't the new Ghostbusters trailer...

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Martyn's on his own this week, so as a filler episode he watches a classic advert from the 80s. Sorry.

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People made out of household items use a baked bean can rocket to visit a moon made out of a giant yellow button. You already know what Button Moon was all about, I can't make it sound any weirder than it already is...

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A Scottish man talks to a cardboard cone on his hand and everybody's okay with it, in the made-in-simpler-times British classic FingerMouse. Do you really think Mark and Martyn will avoid the obvious jokes? Do you? This must be your first W4B...

Bonus laughs to be had from the following youtube video, as referenced in this episode;

www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Rc5dNDB2M

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Inexplicable talking tigers, magic word-based transformations and horrible stock animation. Yes it's squinting lawsuit-magnet Captain Marvel. Or Shazam. Or whatever he's called this week. Mark and Martyn have some choice names for him after
sitting through this...

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"Ha ha this-a-way, ha ha that-a-way..." That forced phonetic laughter is the only laughter to be had from this terrible show. Apart from the anti-French xenophobia expressed halfway through.

Mark and Martyn watch Wizbit to honour the sad passing of magician and entertainer Paul Daniels. If only it had been good.

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NB - This week's recording was plagued by technical and audio issues throughout - we hope this doesn't interfere with your enjoyment of the episode, which we feel remains at its usual level of quality.  

Timmy Mallett deserves a punch and Michaela Strachan deserves better - it's WACADAY, the Wide Awake Club spin off that's just as awkward and uncomfortable to watch as it ever was. At least Mark and Martyn get to watch some old adverts along the way...

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The Northern adventures of a bunch of impossible-to-understand teenagers at a youth club in Newcastle. Who goes to youth clubs anyway?

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A cartoon that's useless as both entertainment and advertising, failing as it does to produce either a good story or a good representation of Nintendo characters or hardware. Even Sonic the Hedgehog's cartoon was better than this...

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Part awful horror movie, part awful bawdy comedy, Worzel Gummidge is just as bad and/or good as you remember. Although we only half remember bits and pieces if we're honest. At least the kids aren't particularly annoying though...

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Gentle, calming, good old-fashioned children's classic Thomas The Tank Engine. Even if they wanted to, Mark and martyn couldn't ruin this. Apart from talking all over it. Good job idiots.

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