No, this isn’t going to be yet another of those postings where the author announces that they’re going to stop posting for a while and signposts this with an hilarious pastiche of Test Card F wherein the girl’s face is replaced by that of Scatman John or somesuch. No siree, Out On Blue Six would [...]
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Blog In Totally Unexpected ‘Doing Hilarious Test Card Gag’ Shocker (Bet You Weren’t Expecting That!)
November 12, 2009Posted in Dragged From The Archives |
Tags: "eh? doctor who? what's he talking about?", "this body - did it have hands? did it have a face? YES? then it is not one of ours", "this chicken - what's it's beef?", 'bill' and 'dean', 'slim charles' sez "yo yo yo yo yo this y'all be waitin' for barbapapa shit is some shit", amber leigh sings "i love the flower girl '88", bill cosby, bsb, bsb's up yer news, carole ann ford, carole hersee, carole lee scott, catherine tate, chesterton, dharma and greg, doctor who, fisher-price, girls aloud reading the news about jem roberts, granada, griff rhys card, GRR GRR I INSIST ON NOT LIKING STEWART LEE'S COMEDY VEHICLE BECAUSE TWO NINNIES SOMETHING SOMETHING, GRR GRR OBLIVION BOYS WOULD NEVER HAVE LESS THAN TWO ROOMS IN A TV SHOW, GRR GRR STEWART LEE MADE A JOKE ABOUT TEST CARD, hamble, heil honey i'm home, humpty, IDEANTS!, ken korda, lisa scott lee gets new career standing stock still next to evil clown with schmaltzy music playing in the background (ie a steps reunion, meglos, mock the week/mock the week/join together/get together/together we can mock the week [CITATION NEEDED], nele morrissey, padmasambhava padmasambhava and not forgetting padmasambhava, paramount comedy, paramount comedy chicken, pat sharp, play school, roll on the forthcoming bashing of emf and sarah and hoppity, sara & hoppity, scatman john, sepat htiw tuoba gnikral rof reenigne tv sih serif doownetlahcm selrahc, sky magazine, test card 'rtd' must go!, the delegates, the flaming lips, the patrick mower auditions were not going well, the test card, tv 'clown' (test card) consults lawyers, tv 'girl' (test card) consults the gaping chasm of lava-spewing evil, tv 'bubbles' (wire), tv 'clown' (test card), what time's celebrity foreigner-patronising plus... behind the scenes 2 on then?, what's gonna happen to test card face?, who is this clown?, william hartnell, xerxes
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A Question Of Parky
November 9, 2009Yes, it’s the return of the big money trivia quiz that makes all other big money trivia quizzes look like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, The Nation’s Biggest Ever Great Big Michael Parkinson Quiz. Will you attain the giddy heights of ‘journalist’, or languish in the lowly doldrums of ‘moaning about the cricket in rolled-up sleeves’? [...]
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Tags: "have a curry you smeghead!", "hello michael parkinson? you're a ghostwatch git", "i don't want to read in the times diary on sunday that I asked for it to be cut out", "the world is full of talking people", "there" said the mayor "that all seems to be that", 'dinners', 'the great american songbook', angela rippon, anna ford, band on the run, billy connolly, bob monkhouse, can you guess what they used for tv-am, david frost, give us a clue, griff rhys moaning, GRR GRR THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO, here come the... delegates! delegates! diddle-a-diddle-a-diddle-a, jade goody, jamie cullum, jonathan ross, matt parkyman, meg ryan, michael parkinson, noel's house parky, parky, parky's magic piano, quadrant parky, rod stewart, roland rat being hit with a cricket bat, terry wogan, that other fucker who was something to do with sport, the grimleys, the rain the parky and other things, tv-am, with michael parkinsonnnn.... liza goddard... andlionelblair!
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Hollywood (FILMS) Presents… The One Hundred And Forty Ninth Fifty Third Annual Centenary Academy Salute To Tyburn Films 2009 (“I SEENED IT” – Honey Monster, Puffs)
November 6, 2009Yes indeed, it’s that time again, and in honour of this momentous occasion, Out On Blue Six presents five amazing facts you never knew about Britain’s favourite defunct provider of third rate sub-Amicus/Hammer horror flicks:
- despite winding down operations in 1976 for absolutely no suspect reasons whatsoever and subsequently having a nice day out at [...]
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Tags: "back in spangles" cancelled due to unpopular demand, "have a curry you smeghead!", "oh - the joy of seeing the daleks getting thumped again!", "SCHOCH HORROR - ACE OF WANDS TO BE REPEATED", amicus films, boo hoo hoo i like frank zappa, coming soon to network - the complete boring planey bastards, eli culbertson, fugue for thought, ghostwatch, hammer films, horror - just about, ian levine, last of the summer wine, mary whitehouse, michael grade is swimming in the fro-zen sky, milton subotsky, monty python's flying circus, phil cool drinking kia ora, pipkins, please address all tedious explanations of who 'this punchinello' actually was to the waste paper basket labelled 'i do not understand humour', rob newman says "mary whitehouse is as rubbish as british rail!", roberta tovey, roland rat being hit with a cricket bat, sendhil ramamurthy tv's mohinder from heroes, silents are rubbish, skin tyburn films alive and shout hooray, spangles, spitting image, supergrass, swizzlewick, tedious nuggets of industry gossip removed due to compliance issues, the bloke out of yell WILL SUE!, the rag trade goes mod, the savage jackboots, threads, tyburn films, tyburn films escapes in a gyrocopter, victor pemberton's the swings, waltham green east wapping carpet cleaning rodent and boggit extermination association, wikipedia, [CITATION NEEDED]
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Pick Of The Lazy YouTube Embedded Pops – Shakin’ Stevens ‘A Little Boogie Woogie (In The Back Of My Mind)’
November 4, 2009Alright, tonight’s the night, we can’t wait any longer, we’re turning out the light and locking up that door! You might put up a fight, but you’ll be crying out for more, when you get given what you really came here looking for… the legendary proto-London-Boys-dancers-whose-heads-stay-in-the-same-place-while-their-bodies-move-around Top Of The Pops performance of Shakin’ Stevens’ inexplicable [...]
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Tags: "from raven-haired welsh rocker to raven-haired welsh rocker to... erm... um...", "gasp! shaky! i've got all your records!", "hello? shakin' stevens? you're a little boogie woogie in the back of my mind loser!", 'wakey shaky', alan unable to circumnavigate the dancers, boogie, eve myles sings the hits of house, gary glitter, gene hunt dismisses namby-pamby 'modern' cover version, glam goose, griff rhys boogie, jools holland to sue, lisa scott lee gets new career operating glittery blue bird, motown goes shaky (and not the other way round), paul daniels singing a little boogie woogie in the back of my mind and saying "you may like it not a lot", shakin' stevens, shaky calls it acieeeeeed, the grimleys, when a soldier sang a little boogie woogie in the back of my mind on threads, woogie
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“A Trick Involving An Old Box Or… Summat”
October 31, 2009It’s Halloween laughs galore as Ben Baker counts down The Top Ten Scariest Moments Of All Moments Time Ever (Halloweens) in The Just Impolite Halloween Special.
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Tags: "GMHBOSTBNMUSTFNERS - HAHAHAHANHNHAAAA", "hello michael parkinson? you're a ghostwatch git", "we're witches of halloween - woo woo!", ben baker, billy connolly, ghost in the water, ghostwatch, griff rhys ghost, ha ha ha i am richard herrings, ha ha this-a-way ha ha that-a-way ha ha this-a-way my oh my, jagged edge, jeremy dyson's ghost house of ghosty ghosts, michael parkinson, parky, paul daniels pretending to crush himself in an iron maiden while saying "you may like it not a lot (halloweens)", presenting hoax ghost thingymajigs as a 'journalist', rentaghost, that rubbish poem about cards from soundbites with david baddiel, that rubbish thing with derren brown acting, the tripods, there's a ghost in my house, why did they never do a rentaghost theme single?, with michael parkinsonnnn.... liza goddard... andlionelblair!, wizbit
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‘ainohpolytS’ syoB elttiL owT – spoP deddebmE ebuTuoY yzaL ehT fO kciP
October 29, 2009…ynoB yradnegel eht fo 3PM elbadaolnwod a tsal gnol ta dnif ll’uoy ,kcaB ehT oT dnA tfeL ot revo daeh uoy fi esuaceb yltrap dna ,elbidua ylraelc si “rekcuf ycuas a semoc ereh” esarhp eht sdrawkcab deyalp si syoB elttiL owT lanigiro s’floR fi ,tuo detniop sirroM sirhC sa ,taht tcaf [...]
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Tags: "!egaugnal ruo gniklat er'uoy won" :zes ytippoh & haras, "dratsab eht no hsam emos elknirps", "ecno rac ym trats depleh natas", 'seoreh' morf rednihom s'vt yhtrumamar lihdnes, 'srennid', 6891, bbc schools diamond, bmoweht dnab onhcet fo regnis dael llocsird nala, dlefnies, dnarb llessur, frawd der, gninrom eht ni ruof ta ruoh na selim noillim eerht ta sdrawkcab gniog wohs lertsnim etihw dna kcalb eht, gnirps surtic gniknird looc lihp, gnivrats acirfa gnipeek si mukaoy mij, liameciov s'natas stlusnoc (drac tset) 'lrig' vt, llehctim divad, mukaoy mij, namkrap ttam, nampahc maharg, no si syelmirg eht, NOSNAM SELRAHC OLLEH, ognir rrats, ringo starr, sdrawkcab ssalg a hguorht, sdrawkcab syhr ffirg, sdrawkcab ylno elcihev ydemoc s'eel trawets ekil ohw elpoep ta gnituohs sniterc, seisroh sdrawkcab olleh nitram haras ma i al al al, seoreh, sepat htiw tuoba gnikral rof reenigne tv sih serif doownetlahcm selrahc, sesor enots eht, shcas werdna erusaert sdrawkcab lanoitan, sirrah flor, sleinad luap, smada salguod, snoog eht, ssor nahtanoj, stit selym eve, syob hcaeb eht, tab tekcirc a htiw tih gnieb tar dnalor, yenob, yranoitcid sdrawkcab stlusnoc (drac tset) 'nwolc' vt
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Happy Halloween [VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED]
October 28, 2009Because YOU demanded it – yes you, personally, and in writing - here at last is a fan art tribute to Michael Parkinson’s second finest hour (after The Woofits), Ghostwatch!
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Tags: "hello michael parkinson? you're a ghostwatch git", "we're witches of halloween - woo woo!", 'real life monkeyboy to sue bbc', arthur c. clarke's mysterious world, billy connolly, but it's got pipes in it, but threads didn't have a 'zoo vet' in it, craig charles, cretins complaining that they'd believed something that was billed as a drama and part of 'screen one' to be real, ghosts monsters and legends, ghostwatch, griff rhys ghost, griff rhys monster (frankenstein), griff rhys mummy, griff rhys skeleton, griff rhys wolfman, griff rhys zombie, jamie cullum, jaymi bantok singing 'bela lugosi's dead', michael parkinson, mike smith, parky, paul daniels pretending to crush himself in an iron maiden while saying "you may like it not a lot (halloweens)", presenting hoax ghost thingymajigs as a 'journalist', sarah greene, that mike smith bloke, the woofits, was that the one where rolf and some 'skeletons' on a black background sang dry bones then?, why no fan art of the girl from threads riding a dodgem car or jonathan ross in space or jagged edge at 'bay'?, with michael parkinsonnnn.... liza goddard... andlionelblair!
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When Logic And Proportion Have Fallen Smartly Dead
October 25, 2009Honestly, they’ll make a ‘TV Movie’ of anything. Here, for your viewing pleasure, is a 1973 rendering of Go Ask Alice, the American Broadcasting Company’s visual rendering of that time-honoured playground-contraband paperback shocker ostensibly relating the Jefferson Airplane-refracted diarised recollections of a normal schoolgirl who gave into temptation and smoked that crazy acid, leading her down [...]
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Tags: "...and i'll sneak into people's houses at night and wreck up the place!", "all these shades of grey...", "you know the actor robert morley? i've got him down here", 'some smartarse with gigs', acieeeeeed, and the white knight is talking backwards and saying "SARAH & HOPPITY SING THE HITS OF CHARLES MANSON", build the tardis, chippy minton sez: "kids - say no to drugs", christine in the sky with opal, go ask alan, go ask alice, grace slick, i'm meeting you damn hippies halfway, jefferson airplane, kate thornton remembers hallucinating after eating too many parma violets, lucy in the sky with diamonds, one pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small and the ones that mother gives you don't do anything at all go ask alice when she's watching cannon and ball, remember what the dormouse said, remember what the spangles said, steppenwolf escape in a gyrocopter, super furry animals freaking out while watching bbc wales continuity, TEH DRUGZ DRISCOLL!, the doctor who technical manual, the magic garden of stanley sweetheart, what the fuck were 'life savers' anyway?, when the men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go and you've just had some kind of mushroom and your mind is moving low... you're watching bbc1!, who needs drugs when you have matt parkman being guided through a desert by a turtle?, william shatner, you can do the cube
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And The Winner Is…
October 22, 2009…well it was a very close-run thing, but just edging half a point ahead (and actually due to his specialist subject rather than his expert knowledge of the Large Hadron Particle Collider) is A Ben Baker Of Keighley – congratulations on becoming the Out On Blue Six Telly Addicts Champion Of Champions 2009. And here [...]
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Tags: 1986, a bit fo fry & laurie, adam monroe, alain carazze, alan driscoll lead singer of techno band thewomb, ananda shankar, ant jones on saturday superstore, ‘oops, ‘uncle’, “we’re back!”, bbc schools diamond, BEATLES, ben baker, bottom, brenda off rising damp, camberwick green, captain snort, children of fire mountain, chris hughes, chu-eeze, dan quayle in space, desmond off lost, dexter, doctor who, dougal, dylan, e’s dead chief!, elephant stone, elle bishop, ethan i. rom (i’m an other), eve myles, eve myles tits, falcon island, fatboy slim is jerk, gabriel gray, garreth f hirons, gaz top, gene hunt, gordon honeycombe, gordon murray, hartley hare, heroes, hey it’s my birthday too!, hoofer doofer, hurley, interstellar overdrive, janet dibley, jaymi bantok, life on mars, little ted, lost, matilda mother, max headroom, michael parkinson, mickey murphy the baker, monty python’s flying circus, mr rusty, nathan petrelli, nicholas lyndhurst, nightingales, noel dressed as a caterpillar in all-star record breakers in 1978, noel edmonds, noel’s addicts, parky, patrick troughton, peter hazel the postman, peter petrelli, phil pope, pig, pink floyd, pipkins, play school, porkpie, rik & ade, rising damp, roland rat, roland rat being hit with a cricket bat, rubovia, russell t. davies, see emily play, slim john, spitting image, stanley unwin, stephen salmon, strom, suede, syd barrett, sylar, TEH DRUGZ DRISCOLL!, telly addicts, the charles collingwood auditions were not going well, the dalek masterplan, the delegates, the goodies, the krankies, the lost islands, the magic roundabout, the secret service, the stone roses, the tomorrow people, tomorrow’s world, topov, tortoise, trumpton, tv ''slim charles'' (wire), tv squash, vetoed stylophone, why was max headroom in the opening titles for about six years after he stopped being on tv?, windy miller, xtc, yorkshire tv chevron, zebedee
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Telly Addicts: Champion Of Champions!
October 19, 2009Yes, it’s the absolute 100% final round of Telly Addicts, by the end of which we will have discovered who is the Out On Blue Six Telly Addicts Champion Of Champions 2009 Xtreem! So, finalists, here are your questions on your chosen specialist subjects…
House (Ben Baker):
1. What ‘number’ was Cutthroat Bitch?
2. Which member of the [...]
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