As some kind of weird fiesta, Fox Classics showed Everybody Loves Raymond all through Australia Day. There are two things wrong with this, of course. One, it is American. Two, it is f**k!
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Fox celebrates Christmas with the full length version of The Mahabarat.
Posted by: flute | 28 January 2005 at 11:05
That's officially the stupidest f'ing thing I've ever seen in my life. Let's ping bottles at Bill Collins' house.
Posted by: Adam 1.0 | 28 January 2005 at 11:08
What's The Mahabarat, Flutey? An Indian sit-com?
It's true, Adam. I blame Bill, too. He should never have been allowed to take holidays. We need eggs, also.
Posted by: Tony.T | 28 January 2005 at 11:31
US sitcom marathon on "Australia Day of Ray". Pity, as you say, they picked such a fucked show. In their defence, Ray does rhyme with Day I suppose....Therefore why not: http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-2475/
Posted by: RT | 28 January 2005 at 12:33
Well Toneratops, the mahabarat is big story for hindus. Or maybe its what "The Laughing Poppadom" changed its name too after a Sydney Road type food scare.
Posted by: flute | 28 January 2005 at 12:41
Not only that, Tone, it took up two entire Foxtel digital channels that day. Fox Classics and Fox Classics +2. These arseholes did the same thing on New Year's Day when they ran The Rocky Horror Picture Show over and over and over again all day on both channels. It makes me ponder why I fork out for Foxtel.
Posted by: Caz | 28 January 2005 at 12:49
Shoot, the only thing that would beat endless episodes of Raymond would be endless episodes of Becker. Blah, doesn't take much to be a classic these days.
Posted by: Darlene | 28 January 2005 at 18:46
I used to have a drug dealer called Raymond. Everybody loved him.
By the way, I just noticed unintelligible is spelt wrong on your masthead. But that could be the joke, of course.
Posted by: hungbunny | 28 January 2005 at 20:42
I think they had a Becker marathon on TV1 on New Year's Day as the Rocky Horror Picture Show went end-to-end on Fox classics.
Who the fuck sits and watches these fucking marathons? And why am I handing over my hard-earned to Foxtel?
Posted by: The Hack | 29 January 2005 at 08:38
Because, dear, after 6 weeks without it when we moved to the Mountain Liar, you told me you couldn't live without it any more.
Posted by: Caz | 29 January 2005 at 09:11
That's horrible. Raymond is quite possibly the worst sitcom of all time. Except maybe Home Improvement (do you get that one over there?). I don't even know any Americans who love Raymond. Really. We all loathe him and his whiny wife.
Posted by: vague | 29 January 2005 at 09:37
And you were of the same opinion. Now we have it, though, we scratch our heads and wonder why. Remember when that back-to-back Barry Humphries documentary was the best thing on the other night. So. Very. Tragic.
Posted by: The Hack | 29 January 2005 at 09:41
You people watch too much TV. It's pathetic. I'm going to read a book.
Posted by: Tony.T | 29 January 2005 at 11:31
Naa. Bugger the book! Stargate Sg-1 looks the best of a dud bunch. I missed the start, but that's OK; it'll be on again tomorrow. Is that show EVER OFF?!?
Posted by: Tony.T | 29 January 2005 at 11:42
"Unintelligble is a joke. I was waiting to see if someone noticed."
That is what I would LIKE to say!
Posted by: Tony.T | 29 January 2005 at 14:56
Tony, the only good thing about 'Everybody Loves Raymond' (apart from it ending) is the presence of the guy from Di Niro classic 'Taxi Driver' playing the father. In the movie he played a character called 'The Wizard'. I think it's Peter Hoyle, or Boyle.
This show is dumb, just plain bloody dumb, with any laughs trying to be forced out of the big, lump of a brother who is a cop but comes over as a meathead. Who the hell is Ray Romano anyhow? His nasal, droning voice puts you off this crap instantly.
BUT another candidate for worst 'comedy' sitcom has gotta be the Yank show called 'Nikki' with it's atrocious storyline and abysmal acting. In fact the only reason for catching it is to view Nikki's more obvious 'assetts' !
Posted by: Brett Pee | 29 January 2005 at 21:16
Peter Boyle was in Young Frankenstein. So at least he's got that going for him.
I also recently saw him in Beyond The Poseidon Adventure. It should have been called Beyond All Reason. A bunch of loot-hunters strolling around in the upturned hull like they were supervising a slightly messy warehouse clearance sale. Bizarre.
Posted by: Tony.T | 29 January 2005 at 21:36
Yeah....in 'Taxi Driver' he portrays an intelligent cab driver. If such a thing is possible. He tells Di Niro he's been in the job 17 years and how you become the job that you do- he dispenses worldly wisdom to the Di Niro character. Do NOT mention Poseidon or any of it's sidekicks. This is garbage of the lowest common denominator- it's participants should be ashamed.
Posted by: Brett Pee | 29 January 2005 at 22:00
I don't like Martin Scorsese. Bugger Taxi! Bugger Raging Bull! Bugger most of the rest! About the best is Mean Streets. And Goodfellas is ok in a kind of Best-Of-Marty way.
His docos, on the other hand, are fantastic.
Posted by: Tony.T | 29 January 2005 at 22:18
So, it's probably for the best that i don't mention 'Gangs Of New York' then ?
Goodfellas ? The little runt was the best thing in that fillum- you know, the short arse Jimmy. Electrifying performance.
Posted by: Brett Pee | 29 January 2005 at 22:24
Gangs of New York? What was D-Day Lewis on? Talk about super-ham! Stupid fillum!
Posted by: Tony.T | 29 January 2005 at 22:27
"super-ham" ? Very good. His character was Bill The Butcher !! Over the top 'tache i admit, but his performance was the only good one in the fillum. Di Caprio entirely failed to convinve me that he could match the butchers character and defeat him in a fight. Not tough enough.
Posted by: Brett Pee | 29 January 2005 at 22:31
Very good, but accidental, Brett. Dick Apprio is yet to convince me he can act in anything. He's a pretty faced dud.
Really, though, Brett, it's not just D-Day's 'tache that's OTT. I wouldn't say his performance is good; at all! He's a cartoon character. The film is twat.
Posted by: Tony.T | 30 January 2005 at 11:58
Rich: Is that the same Ray Stevens who "streaked"? They'll let anyone on TV! Although, I seem to remember Glen Campbell's show was one of the top rating programs.
Flutey: I'm all out of dinosaurs, Johnelliotasaurus, perhaps? Maybe you meant Mind Your Language. I'd prefer It Ain't Half Hot Mum.
Caz & Hack up there toking Panton Hill ganga in the Lair: I must admit, I was very puzzled as to why they ran Rocky Horror Picture Show all day, Christmas Day (Or New Years?). It was crap when I saw it in 1976 and it's still crap. Still to this day, if I met a try-hard who used to dress up and go to the Valhalla, I'd have to beat them up. Fuckers!
I can't believe you watched the Mr Humphries show, either.
But! Never dump Foxtel. There should be a law making everyone have it. You really know it when you don't have it. I know two people who live in the Far East who don't have it and would certainly dob them in if it became a crime.
Darlene: Every single bloody show on telly attains "classic" status sometime through it's existence. Even the most vile crap. Gilliagan's Island, for fuck sake! It's absolute vile turd, and yet it ALWAYS gets spoken about as a classic. Hogan's Heroes, too. It's shit! The list is never-ending. Personally I think the word should be exorcised from the English language, but some Pony-Tail would soon replace it. And if a Pony-Tail didn't, a Mini-Goatee would.
Vague: Home Improvement was on network telly here for ages. But it jumped the shark after the first series. In fact, a promising idea quickly became totally saccharine, contrived, forced, unbearable tripe. It's now on cable here, too.
Posted by: Tony.T | 30 January 2005 at 12:53
And just in case you people are thinking "What a bah-humbug." I've just watched umpteen and a half hours of Dad's Army. Now THAT is a show!
"You stupid boy!"
Posted by: Tony.T | 30 January 2005 at 13:17
"He's a cartoon character".
Did you know people actually dressed like that? Just in case you thought his getup was too outrageous to be real. Especially his "Sunday best" garb which was absolutely laffable.
My legendary Coles Funny Picture Books (reprints, of course) had quite a few drawings of people dressed like The Butcher. And I *think* some Monty Python and Beatle-related animation contained similarly dressed characters as well.
(Unless Scorsese based his character on a cartoon. It's all getting a bit confusing now.)
And finally... I read a GoNY review in the newspaper where it was claimed that Daniel Day Lewis' character was soooo scarily good, he will be remembered as one of the all time great big-screen baddies.
No, and finally... When you said "D-Day's 'tache [is] OTT", I thought you meant D-Day from Animal House. His 'tashe was also OTT. It looked teh gay LOL!!!1!
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 30 January 2005 at 18:17
Yes Tone the Ray Stevens who had the hit "The Streak", dreadful song: I hollered, "Don't look, Ethel!" But it was too late, she'd already been mooned. He had a bigger hit "Ahab The Arab". File under novelty pop - if you must...They must have given TV show to anyone in those days.
I watched a couple of shows in the Dads Army marathon. Quality all the way. Wilson "would you chaps mind falling in. C'mon Godfrey there's a good chap". Close up of Mainwaring, lip twitching ready to explode.
Posted by: RT | 31 January 2005 at 09:22
Big, I can't work out if you're talking it up, or bagging it down. But I like that you mentioned D-Day.
If D-Day Lewis was one of movie-dom's great baddies, I'm Dracula. Which, as it happens, has it's upsides.
Rich, I was having a good think about Dad's Army last night and it occurred to me Wilson might just about be the key character.
I saw Don "Gunner Sugden" Estelle in one as well.
And Clive Dunn's still alive. He must be older than Dicky Dird.
Posted by: Tony.T | 31 January 2005 at 21:29
Actually, Clive Dunn is a mere 40 years young. Started playing old blokes when he left the womb. Was born bloody old.
Posted by: Brett Pee | 01 February 2005 at 04:57
So am I stating the obvious to Dad's Army fans when I inform you that a number of episodes have been lost forever? (First link is a good news story.)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/treasurehunt/finds/dadsarmy.shtml
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~r.anderson/dadsarmy/missing.htm
(FYI: Dr Who has 109 missing episodes.)
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 01 February 2005 at 11:41
I first saw Clive Dunn in a TV show called Jokers">http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0295102/">Jokers Wild.
Check out THAT cast for a Best (and worst) of British.
Big, for me the big loss is Pete & Dud's TVC shows. The Beeb just chucked the tapes out when they were short of space. Dickheads!
Posted by: Tony.T | 01 February 2005 at 20:41
Did you say Hogan's Heroes was shit ? Only caught a few of those shows- looked like a one-joker to me. A fillum was made recently about Hogans star Bob Crane, turned out he was a leering, leacherous perv who watched home fillums of his naked antics!! He was battered to death and the murder is still unsolved..Apparently.
Posted by: Brett Pee | 04 February 2005 at 04:46
Hogan's Heroes is truly, irredeemably awful. It's no coincidence he died a deviate and the cops never really tried to suss the case.
Posted by: Tony.T | 04 February 2005 at 17:35
"Everybody Loves Raymond" is, in fact, utter crap. Utter crap. Maybe Sir Rupert is making a statement about his former homeland?
By the way, you guys can have Rupe back, unless you don't want him. Maybe Albania will take him?
Posted by: Max | 05 February 2005 at 06:08
Sorry, Max. He's all yours to keep. And, you're correct, of course, ELR is truly abysmal(sp?) tripe.
Posted by: Tony.T | 05 February 2005 at 13:16