3 posts tagged “telly”
Interesting:
...the programme derived its name from "a Tin Pan Alley phrase from years ago. When they got the first pressing of a record they would play it to people they called the "old greys" - the collective nickname for the office cleaners who would typically start work at 5pm as office staff were leaving. The tunes they could remember and could whistle, having heard them just once or twice, had passed "the old grey whistle test".
Okay, so Hollyoaks is the second worst television programme currently marring the schedules (the first being Two Packets Of Lager And A Pint Of Crisps, obviously), but I'm sure you can forgive me for feeling a slight flutter upon seeing the trailer for the latest spin-off: Hollyoaks In The City.
It's set in Liverpool. Liverpool. Tinhead was in the trailer. Tinhead. And so was Jerome (you know, Mick's cousin, or whoever he was).
You see where I'm going with this?
If Jimmy Corkhill appears on screen for even a split second, I swear I will scream.
Come 'ead, Cracker!
Who is your favorite Muppet? Why?
QotD submitted by knitwitology.vox.com.
The Doozers by a country mile.
The cutest of any Henson-created creature, these little green fellows captivated me as a child (I had a clockwork Doozer man) because of their symbiotic relationship with the Fraggles. If you remember, the Doozers made elaborate, beautifully engineered constructions which were then eaten by the Fraggles. The Doozers didn't mind this, though. They took great pleasure in the building of their Minimalist minarets, but cared little for the end result. (I wonder if this influenced my career choice of contributing to tomorrow's chip paper, even as I took the Fraggles' unthinking hedonism and love of music as a template for my adult life?!)
There was even, I think, an episode where the Fraggles went on a diet, leading to, er, wherever it was the Fraggles lived being filled to bursting with Doozer structures. This crisis was averted when a Doozer diplomatic mission persuaded the Fraggles that they should eat again, so that the Doozers might build on forever.
The best Doozer moments were not, though, the episodes in which they came to the fore, but their constant presence, and the Fraggles unthinking destruction of their works: I can still picture the odd look of combined satisfaction and exasperation on a Doozer's face when Red Fraggle chomped noisily on a freshly-built Doozer stick balustrade.
