Category: Piffle
-
Power To The People
This one’s a bit pointless, even by my standards. Sorry. Let’s start with a re-watching of the opening titles for Citizen Smith. https://youtu.be/JFPnxKiGee4 First off, it always amazes me that The Red Flag is set to the tune of O, Tannenbaum, a song about a Christmas tree. But that’s not what I bought you here…
-
The Daniels Boyle
This is going to get a bit convoluted, so bear with me. Last night, I was watching Keeping Up Appearances, the Patricia Routledge sitcom from the 90s. As is my wont, I sometimes look at Wikipedia whilst watching 90s sitcoms (I mean, it’s a 90s sitcom but it has a whole episode about a vicar…
-
Boy Wonders Or Boys Wonder?
I can’t even remember what it was that triggered my thought, but I was reading something or other yesterday which made me ponder … Is the plural of Boy Wonder: Boy Wonders Boys Wonder So I put a poll up on Twitter, and as of now, the split is exactly 50/50. I think it’s like…
-
Did Tracey Ullman Date Vyvyan Basterd?
Although I don’t like these shared universe theories, I do keep stumbling across them. A tweet on that there Twitter made me seek out the Tracey Ullman cover of the Madness song, My Girl called My Guy. First of all, I don’t really understand why Neil Kinnock is in this video, nor why he seems to…
-
A Moment In The Young Ones You’ve Never Seen Before
I was moving frame by frame through the opening sequence of Boring, from the first series of The Young Ones, and I found this flash frame at 1m25s2f. It pops up just after the skating vegetables, and just before we cut to Neil sitting in his window, looking out at the dawn. In the second…
