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"My messy TV memories"
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Most folk here like to talk about their memories of watching messy TV shows when they were younger. Here are a couple of mine.
1. A Scottish TV show called "Pick a Number". The premise was simple. Two teams from different schools in Scotland went against each other, first in a simple music quiz, and then the second half involved them doing silly tasks, some of which were messy, to get points. If they won, they got three points and, if they lost, they got a custard pie from the opposing team. The final round was "double or gunge". A member from each team went head to head in one last challenge. The winner got six points and the loser got two big buckets of lumpy green gunge poured over them. After the show, the end credits rolled and everyone threw the remaining pies all over the place, usually at the host.
2. Fun House
Most British people who were kids in the 90s will remember this. Two teams of two, one boy and one girl, went against each other playing messy games and then a go-kart race, followed by the winning team going into the fun house to find prizes. One particular messy game sticks in my mind. The boys were placed under a conveyor belt carrying custard pies and the girls had to pick the pies up with their teeth to save the boys from getting covered. (if that was me, I'd have just told my teammate not to bother
heheh)
3. Noel's House Party.
I didn't get into this until the second series, which was the era of the car wash gunge tank.I think that was the most unique and the best tank he used. The gungings from that I remember the most were Anthea Turner, Jeremy Clarkson, Tony Blackburn, the Pearly Queen, Anneka Rice and my favourite one was Piers Morgan. (would love to reenact that one now but maybe replace the gunge with lava)
4. Jim Davidson's Generation Game.
I'm not his biggest fan but there were a couple of fun messy moments from this. The dad who got pied from his least favourite football team for making their tea taste horrible. A mum who got put in a turkish bath and then got pied by all the students in the keep-fit class. Someone getting an almighty flanning from the Roly-Polys, a teacher getting pied by his pupils for eating all the sweets he confiscated from them and a dad who got pied and gunged by everyone and everything he hated.
Do you have any other messy memories of these
1. A Scottish TV show called "Pick a Number". The premise was simple. Two teams from different schools in Scotland went against each other, first in a simple music quiz, and then the second half involved them doing silly tasks, some of which were messy, to get points. If they won, they got three points and, if they lost, they got a custard pie from the opposing team. The final round was "double or gunge". A member from each team went head to head in one last challenge. The winner got six points and the loser got two big buckets of lumpy green gunge poured over them. After the show, the end credits rolled and everyone threw the remaining pies all over the place, usually at the host.
2. Fun House
Most British people who were kids in the 90s will remember this. Two teams of two, one boy and one girl, went against each other playing messy games and then a go-kart race, followed by the winning team going into the fun house to find prizes. One particular messy game sticks in my mind. The boys were placed under a conveyor belt carrying custard pies and the girls had to pick the pies up with their teeth to save the boys from getting covered. (if that was me, I'd have just told my teammate not to bother
heheh) 3. Noel's House Party.
I didn't get into this until the second series, which was the era of the car wash gunge tank.I think that was the most unique and the best tank he used. The gungings from that I remember the most were Anthea Turner, Jeremy Clarkson, Tony Blackburn, the Pearly Queen, Anneka Rice and my favourite one was Piers Morgan. (would love to reenact that one now but maybe replace the gunge with lava
) 4. Jim Davidson's Generation Game.
I'm not his biggest fan but there were a couple of fun messy moments from this. The dad who got pied from his least favourite football team for making their tea taste horrible. A mum who got put in a turkish bath and then got pied by all the students in the keep-fit class. Someone getting an almighty flanning from the Roly-Polys, a teacher getting pied by his pupils for eating all the sweets he confiscated from them and a dad who got pied and gunged by everyone and everything he hated.
Do you have any other messy memories of these
Well I love NHP and was a big fan of both the standard and car wash gunge tank. Highlights included: Anthea Turner, Jeremy Dry, Adam Woodyatt.
Also loved the Gen Game, all the pieings were great especially the ones you mentioned.
I remember seeing a clip on Tarant On TV years ago where some poor guy on a Japanese gameshow lost a kareoke competition and was gunged with used engine oil then buried it at least 200 pies!!! I've searched high and low and never been able to find it.
Also loved the Gen Game, all the pieings were great especially the ones you mentioned.
I remember seeing a clip on Tarant On TV years ago where some poor guy on a Japanese gameshow lost a kareoke competition and was gunged with used engine oil then buried it at least 200 pies!!! I've searched high and low and never been able to find it.
When I was a kid in the UK in the 1960's there were few slapstick shows regularly on tv, apart from an ocassional scene on "Crackerjack" or messy game on "It's a Knockout" so all we had were old movies like The Stooges and The Great Race and slapstick stars such as Richard Hearne (aka Mr Pastry, the UK equiv of Soupy Sales) and circus clowns like Charlie Cairoli.
Regular messy slapstick on UK TV did not really take off until 1975, when TISWAS first started.
My earliest memory of a slapstick event I missed out on, was in 1963 when I was at Primary School and producers from The Children's Film Foundation came to visit our school and they needed several kids to appear as extras in a slapstick pie fight scene they were shooting. CFF made lots of films we used to see as 2nd features at our local cinema on Saturday mornings. Many child actors like Keith Chegwin, Dennis Waterman, Susan George and Richard O Sullivan got their start working on CFF film productions. Sadly, although I had my hand held up high, I was not one of the kids they selected for their messy scene they were shooting at my school...but it was fun to watch.
MK
Regular messy slapstick on UK TV did not really take off until 1975, when TISWAS first started.
My earliest memory of a slapstick event I missed out on, was in 1963 when I was at Primary School and producers from The Children's Film Foundation came to visit our school and they needed several kids to appear as extras in a slapstick pie fight scene they were shooting. CFF made lots of films we used to see as 2nd features at our local cinema on Saturday mornings. Many child actors like Keith Chegwin, Dennis Waterman, Susan George and Richard O Sullivan got their start working on CFF film productions. Sadly, although I had my hand held up high, I was not one of the kids they selected for their messy scene they were shooting at my school...but it was fun to watch.
MK
Do unto others, then run
Somebody at least ought to mention OTT the "adult" late night spin off of Tiswas,
(Today Is Saturday Watch And Smile).
It didn't last sadly, but opening gag was almost always a jug of custard being poured
over a bikini clad girl. (Not her head but her breasts usually got a good dowsing)
(Today Is Saturday Watch And Smile).
It didn't last sadly, but opening gag was almost always a jug of custard being poured
over a bikini clad girl. (Not her head but her breasts usually got a good dowsing)
ScotsPie said:
2. Fun House
Most British people who were kids in the 90s will remember this. Two teams of two, one boy and one girl, went against each other playing messy games and then a go-kart race, followed by the winning team going into the fun house to find prizes. One particular messy game sticks in my mind. The boys were placed under a conveyor belt carrying custard pies and the girls had to pick the pies up with their teeth to save the boys from getting covered. (if that was me, I'd have just told my teammate not to bother heheh)
2. Fun House
Most British people who were kids in the 90s will remember this. Two teams of two, one boy and one girl, went against each other playing messy games and then a go-kart race, followed by the winning team going into the fun house to find prizes. One particular messy game sticks in my mind. The boys were placed under a conveyor belt carrying custard pies and the girls had to pick the pies up with their teeth to save the boys from getting covered. (if that was me, I'd have just told my teammate not to bother
heheh)betweenmy2oes said:
1. Fun House
Anyone who knows me knows that the version of the game of twister they played on there was a favorite. The host points out that the guys had taken off the slippers they were wearing and were 'ready in bare feet'. I think the one guy loved having the glop between his toes.
Another favorite game was a two-step game the teams did with their ankles tied together. They had to put glop filled hats on their heads, walk over to a hat rack and hang the hats up. I'm not sure if they had regular goggles on or blindfold goggles, but they got very messy and were in bare feet. Wish someone had the intro to the game.
The teams also played a game where the guys had to put pudding filled shoes on the girl's bare feet to find a shoe that fit. Only have the vague memory of it
4. College Mad House
Love the games where they had to transfer balls in mess from one team mate to the other until it was placed in another container.
1. Fun House
Anyone who knows me knows that the version of the game of twister they played on there was a favorite. The host points out that the guys had taken off the slippers they were wearing and were 'ready in bare feet'. I think the one guy loved having the glop between his toes.
Another favorite game was a two-step game the teams did with their ankles tied together. They had to put glop filled hats on their heads, walk over to a hat rack and hang the hats up. I'm not sure if they had regular goggles on or blindfold goggles, but they got very messy and were in bare feet. Wish someone had the intro to the game.
The teams also played a game where the guys had to put pudding filled shoes on the girl's bare feet to find a shoe that fit. Only have the vague memory of it
4. College Mad House
Love the games where they had to transfer balls in mess from one team mate to the other until it was placed in another container.
As it was once said on this forum, British Fun House "begat" American Fun House, which "begat" College Mad House, which "begat" all of the foreign Latino versions like Passa ou Repassa, Chega Mais, and Domingo Legal.
https://umd.net/forums/college-madhouse-innocent-fun-or-somethi
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3 stooges
Electric company
3 stooges
Electric company
Freddie Starrs comedy madhouse had the great Toni Palmer getting messy whilst trying to sing I would love to see the final in the series mess I is supposed to be great.
https://youtu.be/Gm_FserCHgI
Also Charlie Cairoli was never afraid to mess up ladies in his TV show "Right Charlie"
https://youtu.be/Gm_FserCHgI
Also Charlie Cairoli was never afraid to mess up ladies in his TV show "Right Charlie"
custardcorrinne said: Freddie Starrs comedy madhouse had the great Toni Palmer getting messy whilst trying to sing I would love to see the final in the series mess I is supposed to be great.
FYI I personally recorded that series on my old Betamax machine when it aired in 1979. I can tell you that there was only one other wam scene in that series with Toni Palmer. There were only 6 shows that were aired before they cancelled it due to public outcry at Freddie's antics (RIP Freddie). While Freddie did do slapstick battles in 4 of the 6 shows, he mostly attacked the orchestra in those scenes. Toni Palmer only got messy twice. Once when doing a the Marlene Dietrich parody which is the clip you see attached, and the only other time was another show when she did the Shirley Temple parody.
Sadly, when I recorded these scenes in 1979, along with the Tiswas scenes, I made a major mistake, because in 1979 I thought I was the only freak in the world who liked wam scenes and nobody else in the world would ever want to see my recordings, so I set my vcr to record at the lowest EP quality in order to save space on my tapes (because blank tapes were expensive in 1979). Therefore my 1979 recordings were only saved in low quality. But at least I did not wipe the shows as ITV did with TISWAS, because they wiped almost all of the 200 shows aired between 1975 and 1979, and all that exists today are 50 shows from the later 1980-1982 era.
http://megastore.wamtec.com/clips.php?id=553
Do unto others, then run
1962. A very obscure TV series called 'It's a Man's World' with an episode featuring run-away tires. A man and woman chase the tires, and some have wound up in a muddy area. The female character seems to love the mud . . . a lot.
I was 9 years old, but it changed me into wanting to find that elusive girl who would love mud.
I was 9 years old, but it changed me into wanting to find that elusive girl who would love mud.
Bobographer said: 1962. A very obscure TV series called 'It's a Man's World' with an episode featuring run-away tires. A man and woman chase the tires, and some have wound up in a muddy area. The female character seems to love the mud . . . a lot.
I was 9 years old, but it changed me into wanting to find that elusive girl who would love mud.
I was 9 years old, but it changed me into wanting to find that elusive girl who would love mud.
That would be episode 3 with Ann Schuyler in the mud. There is a low res copy of that episode on Youtube.
Do unto others, then run
wamtec said:
That would be episode 3 with Ann Schuyler in the mud. There is a low res copy of that episode on Youtube.
That would be episode 3 with Ann Schuyler in the mud. There is a low res copy of that episode on Youtube.
Wow, you actually know the actress and episode number! I found the clip on YouTube and took the screen cap from it. It really changed me as a young lad, I longed to find nice mud to play in, but also longed to meet a woman who would love it as much as I do. Well, I did meet her and married her.
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