What is the most sinister TV programme ever made? Ghostwatch? Threads? Thriller? Dramarama? When Jonathan Ross & Russell Brand phoned Arthur C. Clarke and called him a ‘Mysterious World Muppet’?
Scarily not. From all available evidence, the most sinister TV programme ever made would appear to be a long-forgotten ITV lunchtime effort named Sara & Hoppity.
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Archive for May, 2009
Sara & Hoppity Get Lost
May 26, 2009Posted in Dragged From The Archives |
Tags: "boo hoo hoo out on blue six is betraying all of us by not posting angry emptiness about how sara & hoppity is better than in the night garden and modern children are stupid", arthur c. clarke's mysterious world, arthur petrelli's explain the previous volume's plotlines you fuckers world, dania ramirez, david tennant playing an 'unruly' youngster, dramarama, gerry anderson, ghostwatch, hardwicke house, heroes, jonathan ross, roberta leigh, russell brand, sara & hoppity, space patrol, stookie! always ready to take a chance, threads, thriller, tv 'clown' (test card) consults lawyers, tv 'girl' (test card) consults the gaping chasm of lava-spewing evil, video nasties
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The Stone Roses 20th Anniversary Box Set: What You Get For Your £873.54
May 18, 2009- The Stone Roses and Turns Into Stone for at least the fifteenth time, as if there isn’t a single person in the world who doesn’t already own both of them eighteen million times over
- Blackpool Live for at least the fifteenth time, as if there is a single person in the world who ever wanted [...]
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Tags: "box this sound and the real sound government", bawrence awaits the twentieth anniversary edition of back in denim ("with extra seventies!"), blackpool live? i'll give you fucking blackpool live... i was there... and at spike island... and neither stand up to listening frankly, charlie brooker, gonch, grange hill, grange hill summer special 1986, groove (black magic devil woman), happy mondays, i'm without shoes, ian brown, inspiral carpets, it's hard to do an 'extraneous commas' gag when the commas just seperate it into individual tags (though that in itself is satire of a sort), jason donovan straight from the heart, john squire, just save your money and buy stand by for action - the music of barry gray instead, madchester, mani, noel gallagher, not affiliated with mr thompson off heroes, reni, roland rat, sarah & hoppity, she became a vet in case you were wondering, somewhere soon, space spinner, the heartthrobs, the high, the stone roses, the sundays, thompson, turns into stone, uncle reni's boots have a hole/cause he only gets money from the dole, waterfall, well i like the bloody candy flip album even if you don't, whither rachel carlotti?
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Pick Of The Lazy YouTube Embedded Pops: Eurovision Special #5, Zdob Si Zdub ‘Boonika Bate Doba’
May 16, 2009And finally, we alight on 2005, when Moldova was splutter-inducingly represented by a comedy version of one of those lo-fi organ-toting European acts that John Peel was so fond of, only made up of blokes who all looked like both of The Mighty Boosh at once… Zdob Si Zdub with Boonika Bate Doba!
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Tags: andrew lloyd fucking webber, bing crosby, boo hoo hoo i like frank zappa, boonika bate doba, eurovision song contest, eve myles tits, funtastian retrololz, john peel, katie price, lionel morton, michael palin, rage against the machine, roland rat, roll on the forthcoming bashing of emf and sarah and hoppity, sendhil ramamurthy tv's mohinder from heroes, terry wogan, thank drucker that's over, the grimleys, the mighty boosh, the mighty gobbo, the mighty wurlitzer, this is... eurovision, white christmas, zdob si zdub
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Pick Of The Lazy YouTube Embedded Pops: Eurovision Special #4, Brainstorm ‘My Star’
May 15, 2009Today’s venue on our Courtesy Of The Time-Bending Exploits Of One Peter Petrelli-style whistle-stop tour through the history of Eurovision is 2000, when, in one of the great what-the-fuck? television moments of all time (you can fuck off with your ‘that song about nuclear war off Alfresco‘ nonsense) when a Britpop band from Latvia stormed the [...]
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Tags: 1989, alan driscoll lead singer of techno band thewomb, alfresco, bawrence, brainstorm, denim, eurovision song contest, here is my song for europe, jimmy olsen to sue olsen brothers, lionel morton, michael mcdonald, my star, olsen twins to sue olsen brothers, peter petrelli, reynard cowper, sonia, this is... eurovision, thousand yard stare, was not was to sue olsen brothers
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Pick Of The Lazy YouTube Embedded Pops: Eurovision Special #3, Sweet Dreams ‘I’m Never Giving Up’
May 14, 2009Today, it’s time for 1983, an over-eulogised (by idiots moaning about Steven Frost or something) year that saw Roland Rat at the height of his fame, and the UK represented by one of a long line of ill-advised attempts to recapture the Eurovision-winning magic of Bucks Fizz by deploying a bunch of Bucks Fizz look-and-sound-alikes, Sweet Dreams, [...]
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Tags: 'belouis' 'some', 'rat rapping' scores nul points, barrell jobes at the organ, barry blue, bucks fizz, carrie grant, david grant, futurama, GRR GRR OBLIVION BOYS, here come the zanies! (del boy theme), i'm never giving up, i'm ronnie corbett and i'm very very sorry, john sullivan, linx, lionel morton, lynsey de paul, not affiliated with doctor who and the time warrior, only fools & horses, open all hours, pipkins, roland rat, ron roker, ronnie hazlehurst, sendhil ramamurthy tv's mohinder from heroes complains about voting being 'too fast', so this is romance, sweet dreams, the adventures of rupert bear, tina charles, tony head, two ronnies do an unhilarious eurovision parody (probably)
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Pick Of The Lazy YouTube Embedded Pops: Eurovision Special #2 Teach-In ‘Ding-A-Dong’
May 13, 2009Today, we turn our attention to perhaps the definitive Eurovision moment, Teach-In’s victorious 1975 Netherlands entry Ding-A-Dong, which boasts the perfect example of that all-important combination of ridiculous nonsense lyrics and weirdly melancholy vaguely psychedelic chord changes, and of course lots and lots of beards.
Ding-A-Dong finished just one place above that [...]
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Tags: "and our picture's on the lid", "certain sub-stan-ciiiiiiiiis", "there's! ev!i!de-ence!", A-AUSTR, alan cumming, barry blue, bawrence consults a look-in annual, bing-tiddle-tiddle-bong, buffins the owl, call me mister was rubbish though, derek griffiths, ding-a-dong, edwyn collins, eurotrash, eurovision song contest, fangface, glam goose, hank marvin, lionel morton, pulaski, red riding can fuck off, ricky hervaid, ring-a-ding, roger ruskin spear & his giant orchestral wardrobe, roy walker, russell harty, teach-in, the high life, the leicester coracle, the shadows, the yogs, this is... 'dinners', this is... eurovision, watch with mother
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Pick Of The Lazy YouTube Embedded Pops: Eurovision Special #1, France Gall ‘Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son’
May 12, 2009Welcome, one and all, to the first of this week’s series of mini-celebrations of some of the fabbest pop waxings ever to emerge from that annual spectacle of televisual bonkersness, The Eurovision Song Contest. Every day there’ll be a video of a personal favourite, accompanied by some Talk About The Passion-style Fab Facts about the [...]
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Tags: "i didn't form a band to record cilla black songs", adam adamant lives!, alain carazze sez: "ou est le theme de slim john?", barrell jobes at the organ, belle & sebastian, boy krazy, britpop, charles mchaltenwood, cilla black, david bowie, dubstar, dusty springfield, eurovision song contest, france gall, frenchpop, golden lights, GRR GRR RUSHES (MODEL TRAIN SPECIAL), kathy kirby, lionel morton, lonely singing doll, morph, paul varney is not serge gainsbourg, poupee de cire poupee de son, serge gainsbourg, since when was 'adam adamant lives!' similar spelling to 'france gall'??, that becky, that cat that looks like graham linehan, the settlers, the smiths, this is... eurovision, twinkle, waltham green east wapping carpet cleaning rodent and boggit extermination association, was the 1963 entry done by whoever did the theme to R.3?, whither paddy klaus & gibson?
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Pick Of The Lazy Embedded YouTube Pops – Eurovision Special Sneak Preview
May 11, 2009 “Hi there Euroswingers! Your old pal Funtastian Retrololz here, press the Out On Blue Six Red Button NOW for a cheesetacular evening of Eurovision fun and frolics, all the way from where the party’s sw-*OW!!!!!!*”
Right, that’s more than enough of that. Instead, join Out On Blue Six every day this week for some of [...]
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Tags: "ding a dong we're from poland/when you hit a roland/make sure it is with cricket bat bat bat", "look - it is scoffield from scoffield's europe!", alain carazze sez: "c'est la nouvelle vague!", alan driscoll le premier chanteur de thewomb de bande techno, britpop, carrie grant, eurovision song contest, funtastian retrololz, graham norton, lenny beige, morrissey, tales from europe, terry wogan, that cat that looks like graham linehan, the herreys, this is... eurovision, waltham le rongeur de nettoyage de tapis de wapping et l'association d'extermination de boggit d'est verts, why hasn't catherine tate done eurovision yet?
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Fair use rationale for Image:Sendhil Ramamurthy.jpg
May 7, 2009Oh that Out On Blue Six! If it’s not in trouble for laughing at Stewart Lee, liking Heroes, or having the temerity to suggest that Noddy Holder is not some sort of Jamie Theakston-instigated nostalgia-based antichrist, it’s creating an enormous hoo-hah by failing to correctly credit the copyright holders of images reproduced within its pages. [...]
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Tags: "thsgyznamersbaaaaaaarb", "why's he wearing a victoria sponge on his head?", camberwick green, driscoll (alan) holdings ltd, eve myles tits, from the collection of matthew gulliver, gene hunt, GRR GRR GETTY IMAGES, heroes, jamie theakston, jpgz pls, keighley historical image archive (actually just an old toffee crisp wrapper with 'photos' written on it), mediaband enterprises, noddy holder, rex features, sapphire & steel, sendhil ramamurthy tv's mohinder from heroes, stewart lee, the ronald grant archive, [confiscated]
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“Poets Are Both Clean And Warm, And Most Are Well Above The Norm”
May 6, 2009Sorry about the lack of updates of late, this is due to a reason. Out On Blue Six will return on a more regular basis in the not-too-distant future, but in the meantime, let’s take a moment to congratulate Carole Lee Scott, TV ‘Susan Foreman’ (Doctor Who And The Unearthly Tribe Of Gum), on being [...]
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Tags: doctor who, rod hull & emu, william hartnell, that rubbish poem about cards from soundbites with david baddiel, poem for national garreth f. hirons week, who is this clown?, what's gonna happen to test card face?, "...nobody would sit reading drippy poetry for five minutes from 10:55am onwards, "eh? doctor who? what's he talking about?", the test card, tv 'clown' (test card), "there will now be a medium-sized intermission", is there another series of emu's world in the pipeline?, there's somebody at the door!, the reluctane pote, ha ha ha i am richard herrings, carole ann ford, carole lee scott, carole hersee, lisa scott lee gets new career operating glittery blue bird, lisa scott lee gets new career twisting her ankle and getting scared by the magnedon, lisa scott lee gets new career standing stock still next to evil clown with schmaltzy music playing in the background (ie a steps reunion, boom boom), rod and emu the animated series, "back in spangles" cancelled due to unpopular demand, emu eats the bbc globe, that emu annual where he had adventures independent of his human co-conspirator, jon pertwee sticking his head through the test card and reading the 'bbc1 colour' bit with great interest
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