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Post by mikemk on Aug 4, 2004 8:31:38 GMT
There, I've said the words no one dared say.
Now mock me.
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Post by QuincyMD on Aug 4, 2004 9:01:42 GMT
Gareth Hale
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Post by mikemk on Aug 4, 2004 9:31:24 GMT
I see your Gareth Hale and raise you one Rosie Rowell.
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Post by Nick on Aug 4, 2004 9:55:29 GMT
My cousin is a script editor on Family Affairs.
I don't like Family Affairs.
I get quite upset when I think about how involved I used to be with it when it had a Sunday afternoon omnibus, but Family Affairs had gays at a time when the other soaps were going through a relatively gay-free period. They weren't good gays, but they were still gays.
I miss Dusty. Was she really called Dusty, or was she called something else brilliant that was along those same lines?
I fancied Roy for a bit, then I didn't, then I did, then I didn't, then I did, then I didn't. Worthy tosser. Is he dead now?
One thing Family Affairs was always good at was putting regular characters who seemed quite happy and contented into really, genuinely awful situations, like when Sadie's daughter killed her stalker and went down, or when Maria's fake preganancy ended in babysnatch madness. Brookside did this, but in Brookside it used to be funny. Then Brookside became all filmy and took the black comedy out and became Family Affairs, and was axed. So Family Affairs killed Brookside. Think about that.
Family Affairs has the worst soap / drama serial music ever, apart from Doctors.
The last time I watched Family Affairs, the Polish prostitute district nurse from Brookside and Heartbeat was going mad after saying that her daughter had cancer. Every other scene had people crying, sighing and being really unhappy. It was just like watching Family Affairs, or reading PJLife when it's raining.
Is Family Affairs set on one street (good), or all over the place like Home and Away (bad)? I have never been able to work that out.
The lyrics to the horrible Family Affairs theme tune are as follows: "Fa-a-amily Affa-a-airs / Fa-a-amily Affairs / Fa-a-amily Affa-a-airs / Family oh Family Affairs / Family oh Family Affairs / dun-dun-dun-dun-dun, dun-dun-dun-dun-dun". It is usually broadcast without the lyrics.
Did Gabby in Family Affairs (horrible) become Izzy in Hollyoaks (horrible), or did I imagine this?
I'm sure there must have been at least one likeable Family Affairs character at some point. Does anyone know who this could have been? I don't.
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Post by QuincyMD on Aug 4, 2004 11:22:29 GMT
I see your Gareth Hale and raise you one Rosie Rowell. I see your Rosie Rowell and raise you Stephen Yardley.
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Post by mikemk on Aug 4, 2004 13:19:48 GMT
*Throws David Easter on the table*
I win.
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Post by QuincyMD on Aug 4, 2004 13:33:54 GMT
mocks your over confidance and trumps it with a hand of:
Les Dennis Gary Webster Margi Clarke Gabrielle Glaister and Tony Scannell
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Post by mikemk on Aug 4, 2004 13:54:05 GMT
Curses, foiled again.
* overturns table to reveal the mad woman from the Actimel advert who is caught cheating
I stand corrected. I win.
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Post by mikemk on Aug 5, 2004 7:52:51 GMT
I miss Dusty. Was she really called Dusty, or was she called something else brilliant that was along those same lines? I fancied Roy for a bit, then I didn't, then I did, then I didn't, then I did, then I didn't. Worthy tosser. Is he dead now? I'm sure there must have been at least one likeable Family Affairs character at some point. Does anyone know who this could have been? I don't. You're right, Dusty was great - Yasmin and Benji were no substitute, or her sister. Remember the episode where Roy and Declan helped Sadie decorate? She turned up the heating and they had to work shirtless. Any old excuse. Roy was basically nice, when he wasn't shaving his head and trying to kill everyone. Nikki had nice potential, but would shag everything in sight, including her stepson, so yes, you are right, they were all flawed in some way.
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Post by blackswan on Aug 13, 2004 16:45:11 GMT
I like family affairs - much better than it used to be.
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