Category: Piffle
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Mrs BJ Smegma
What’s your favourite comedy name? In my more formative years, I remember being told by someone whom I respected that the use of comedy names was the last resort of the desperate. This person of course, was very, very wrong. Re-watching Bottom, I’m appreciating some of the peripheral character names a great deal. Mr Sex,…
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Whither 2 Point 4 Children?
Not sure where this is going, it may just be a rambling jumble of words, but what happened to 2 Point 4 Children? I’ve had the theme tune stuck in my head all week, which is quite something, because I probably haven’t heard it since the late nineties. It was a flagship show for the…
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The Newsradio Ghost
There’s something odd going on in this clip from Newsradio. It’s from the end of the season three episode The Trainer, notable for its guest appearance by Ben Stiller. But did you see the phantom? Did you see the ghost? Did you see the weird appearing and disappearing character in the mix? There he is…
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A Rabbit In A Hat With A Bat
When I was in halls at Uni, the guy in the room next to me used to play this song a lot. And I mean a lot. It’s a perfectly good track. It sticks in your mind. However, it’s burned deeply into my brain because the guy in the room next to me took the…
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Can You Read Clocks In Movies?
I can’t read clocks in movies. Or on TV shows for that matter. I don’t mean the flipping ones like in Groundhog Day, or digital clocks, I mean yer bog standard analogue ticky tock type clock. (Not sure I ever noticed that picture of a man hanging from the clock hand before. Good foreshadowing is…
