🦝 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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Before What's Up Doc there was MotorMouth and I remember one day they were doing the whole, "Let's see what the kids have sent us through the post" thing that they do, y'know when they take a few minutes to show everyone's drawings etc on the telly, sometimes the kids would send in little presents for the presenters, keyrings and shit, y'know. Like crows giving presents. Cosy lil "Aww our viewers are so good at drawing" moment.
Anyway they do the whole thing as normal with one presenter Doing It Normally and one presenter looking sort of annoyed at Some Bullshit That Happened Off Camera, way over our heads, if this was in the internet era then we'd all know what it was that annoyed this bloke, but of course it's like 1991 and we're children and it's a mystery. Anyway the segment reaches a conclusion and Annoyed Presenter says to slightly tired looking Normal Presenter "You know where all this stuff goes, don't you?"
And there's this tiny pause. A heartbeat of them just looking at each other.
And then Annoyed Presenter reaches behind him and shouts "IN." and pulls out a rubbish bin. Snatches the little girl's drawing out of Normal Presenter's hand. Thrusts it into the bin. Points at it. "THE BIN."
Camera cuts quickly away to Third Presenter with a momentary flash of 😬 on her face
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Sometime between Sunday and next Saturday they must've had the conversation of "Right, what are we going to do about the Incident that happened on the show," because next week they'd leaned into it.
"What a lovely drawing David's sent to us. Dnto the bin with it. Oh, and little Tammi's sent us some of these Sylvanian Families figures, they can go in the bin too,"
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@ifixcoinops Did… Did they at least paint a smiley face on the bin?
As someone who grew up in place too rural to have a live kids show, I'm feeling a bit better about my childhood.
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@troublewithwords I think they used a normal bin during The Incident and then spangled it up for what then became the regular Send Us Stuff To Go In The Bin segment
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