🦝 I'm so glad I grew up in the 80's and 90's, our telly was WAY less sinister than the noseybonk-infested 70's
🦝 Like, I watched What's Up Doc on Saturday mornings, that wasn't scary, that was great. Man, I miss Baljit. Lemme search him up real quick.
🦝 ...
🦝 Oh, Wooly, right, those memories were REPRESSED, yes I remember now
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🦝 ohhhhh yeah, Dan, you only remember the wolves and Baljit the hairy thing, you'd blocked out Mister Spanky and his roast beef waistcoat, and the 3,000 year old grandma
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They had this segment where they'd throw someone to the wolves, these two guys here, Bro and Bro, the section was called "Thrown to the wolves." They'd throw a character to the wolves and the wolves would eat them.
I remember watching Baljit get thrown to the wolves and laughing, ha ha ha, I love this show, it's like a cartoon, folk can get eaten lol.
Next week, tune in as usual.
Where's Baljit?
No, it's like a cartoon, they're supposed to come back every week, right? RIGHT?
WHERE'S BALJIT
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They threw one of the three main presenters to the wolves. She was PREGNANT.
This was the producers' way of handling her maternity leave but I was just staring open mouthed at the telly going 🦝 she was PREGNANT
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There was behind-the-scenes bullshit going on, series 1 was great and everyone had a good time and then series 2 got screwed up by the producers and they kept dragging it on for years with everyone having a horrifically bad time, it was all live so stuff like this happened
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That was the pregnant lady who got thrown to the wolves btw
These pics are from a guy's retrospective on the series, it's here https://itsastampede.com/2019/06/15/i-revisited-whats-up-doc-after-27-years-it-was-a-bumpy-journey/
He sourced his episodes from youtube and he keeps saying "Such-and-such disappeared with no explanation and was never mentioned again," I think what happened here is that his youtube source edited out the Thrown To The Wolves bits because their absences very much were explained (they got thrown to the wolves) although he's right that they were never mentioned again
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Eventually most of the characters had been eaten by the wolves. The wolves didn't just devour the characters, they memory-holed them as well, these characters just never got talked about again. It seems from interviews after the fact that these were the folk who walked out, but as a child it was just a horrifying reminder that life is fleeting, death comes at random and you won't be missed
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Anyway the wolves got their own spin off series and it was called Wolf It
This is exactly the sort of name I'd come up with if I was making all this up but it really was genuinely called Wolf It
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feel like shit just want him back
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oh shit yeah Frank Sidebottom was on it as well
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@ifixcoinops blimey
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@ifixcoinops Jesus Christ
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@ieure @ifixcoinops ikr? Wild.
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@ifixcoinops i can‘t unsee that as „mullet guy and all his different personas“
Meanwhile Germany had a moving yellow dot called „Zini“. The show was called -without context it sounds like the most german show ever- „fun on tuesday“.
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@ifixcoinops the more I learn about British children's television, the more I am agog. incredible stuff
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@ifixcoinops mans was born hands-first
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@ifixcoinops Is this Frank???
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@triple based on, kinda.
Jon Ronson, who co-wrote that movie, toured with the real Frank:
Frank: The True Story That Inspired the Movie - Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank:_The_True_Story_That_Inspired_the_Movie
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@scruss Oh that makes sense now, thanks!
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@triple no, that was... idk, it didn't really have anything to do with frank sidebottom but kinda vaguely looked sort-of like him?
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@ifixcoinops Ooooh ok, thanks!
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@triple @ifixcoinops kind of. The film is inspired by but not a biopic.
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@jfrench Oh that makes sense now, thanks!
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@triple @ifixcoinops Yes.
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@ifixcoinops FRANK SIDEBOTTOM???
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@ifixcoinops is this where all the vore / furry crossovers originate from?
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@ifixcoinops omifzcinggod dan onfgggg.
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@ifixcoinops Okay but the wolves are cute
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@growlph clicks stopwatch THERE it is
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@ifixcoinops So basically in the 2000s they brought the wolves back, but as hyenas in Scratch & Sniff's Den of Doom, only now it's a children's game show and the losers get cooked and eaten.
Is that more or less horrifying than eating pregnant women?
https://youtu.be/rbrtYNcb8So
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@ifixcoinops What in the cinnamon toast fuck...
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@ifixcoinops I thought Seattle having a clown who was mayor of the city dump as our children's TV icon was weird.
(I still love JP Patches)
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@ifixcoinops What the ...
Are you folks okay over there?
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@ifixcoinops I was sure this was gonna be about Chocky's Children
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@ifixcoinops Noseybonk was bad. But Chocky gave me nightmares for weeks.
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@ifixcoinops I must have successfully repressed the memory of noseybonk, but I will be sleeping with the lights on tonight!
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@ifixcoinops That is all creepy, but I grew up with Krofft Superstars.
Over hill and highway, the banana buggies go.
For drama, later we had You Can't Do That on Television, which managed to keep like 3 performers across 10 years. One of them played "Barf".
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