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Post by jamie on Jun 29, 2005 10:15:21 GMT
I just downloaded the first series and watched it. It's so ace. I hope there's other series of it. (I remember reading the books and there was an ace book about them being inside this sweltering hot theme park type thing with snow and stuff)
AND I think that rupert grint was one of the android type prefects in episodes 1 and 2.
Look into my eyes you are feeling very sleepy.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2005 10:42:36 GMT
I think Rubert Grint was about 6 when this came out. That's one tiny prefect. The scariest of them is the girl with the big mole - "the prefects are the VOICE of the Headmaster!"
There were definitely several series of it, although I can't remember if they amalgamated The Prime Minster's Brain into the second half of the first series or made it as a standalone. I like the episode where the tiny girl with pigtails discovers she is totally hypnotism-resistant and a "superbrain". One of my friends went to Christian camp with her around that time, and she apparently genuinely believed it was true.
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Post by Cherubic on Jun 29, 2005 10:53:26 GMT
The Primeminister's brain carried straight on from what I remember. That Tesco advert where Prunella Scales' face gets stuck on hippo always reminded me of the scene where all the kids play the computer game. I'm sure it's the same school.
The best was the series set in the gene lab in the country when the little fat kid was going through a diffcult puberty.
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Post by jamie on Jun 29, 2005 16:38:13 GMT
I think Rubert Grint was about 6 when this came out. That's one tiny prefect. The scariest of them is the girl with the big mole - "the prefects are the VOICE of the Headmaster!" I don't think he was. He was born the year after me and the first series was in 1996. So he would have been 8 then. I think that he was the guy with the girl who said 'the prefects are the voice of the headmaster' And the prime-ministers brain was in the second half of the first series.
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Post by Smudge on Jun 29, 2005 20:58:22 GMT
The second series was really fucking scary and weird, was it not?
I wonder whatever happened to Dinah Glass?
EDIT: Not a lot, apparently.
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Post by MoondialSlater on Jul 3, 2005 17:06:06 GMT
The scariest of them is the girl with the big mole - "the prefects are the VOICE of the Headmaster!" Especially with her lisp.
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Post by MoondialSlater on Jul 3, 2005 17:12:21 GMT
The second series was really fucking scary and weird, was it not? I wonder whatever happened to Dinah Glass? EDIT: Not a lot, apparently. She's studying a dental degree at Newcastle University. Poor cow, even the one who played Rose got some theatre work.
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Post by Sparkle on Jul 3, 2005 17:46:15 GMT
I don't think he was. He was born the year after me and the first series was in 1996. So he would have been 8 then. I think that he was the guy with the girl who said 'the prefects are the voice of the headmaster' . IMDB says - "Although only acting in one school play before being cast in the popular wizard series, "Harry Potter", Rupert has already proved himself one of the most recognized actors on the big screen."
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Post by jamie on Jul 4, 2005 17:21:26 GMT
The scariest of them is the girl with the big mole - "the prefects are the VOICE of the Headmaster!" Especially with her lisp. I never thought of it as a lisp. It makes her sound all weird which is what I thought she was supposed to sound. she sounded a bit eastern european = ace. How do you know she gets theatre work? Maybe dinah didn't want to do any more acting?
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Post by MoondialSlater on Jul 4, 2005 22:46:32 GMT
Especially with her lisp. I never thought of it as a lisp. It makes her sound all weird which is what I thought she was supposed to sound. she sounded a bit eastern european = ace. It's a sort of lisp in the same way Vanessa from Big Brother has one. Well she's gotten a bit, she's done some stuff at the King's Head theatre, she was performing there last year.
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Post by SweatShop on Jul 5, 2005 7:55:23 GMT
As a child I was bloody terrified of the Demon Headmaster himself. Didn't stop me buying the books for about 30p each though when I got the chance. They even had him on the cover, it's like I was trying to scare myself. I mean, bloody look at him!
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Post by Lucinda on Jul 6, 2005 14:19:19 GMT
Heh, has anyone noticed he's in that bland courtroom drama on C4? I'm not sure if it's on regularly now. But I've seen it once or twice. He's a judge. How screwed would you be if you were being sentenced by the Demon Headmaster.
And you all have much better memories than me. I think I watched the first bit, when he was an actual headmaster. Then there was some one with him in a research facility, green hands or something, right? Some logo like that. God, I don't know, I'm confused. I was never clear on all the kids. The Hunter kids. Was one of them a half-sibling or something? I remember the mum was Raquel from Only Fools and Horses.
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Post by Nick on Jul 6, 2005 15:13:32 GMT
As a child I was bloody terrified of the Demon Headmaster himself. Didn't stop me buying the books for about 30p each though when I got the chance. They even had him on the cover, it's like I was trying to scare myself. I mean, bloody look at him! I like his executive toy. There were three series of this. Series one was made of the first two books lumped together over six episodes, with all the stuff with the Eddy Hare show ( The Demon Headmaster) in episodes 1 - 3, and the computer stuff ( The Prime Minister's Brain) in episodes 4 -6. Then they had the genetic-modification-DNA stuff in the second series, which was published as The Demon Headmaster Strikes Again, and the Hyperbrain-green-hands-conspiracy-ACTUALLY-TAKING-OVER-THE-RUNNING-OF-THE-COUNTRY-AND-SHUTTING-DOWN-THE-INTERNET!!! stuff in The Demon Headmaster Takes Over, which was the third series. The third series was the best because Hyperbrain was brilliant. It was basically a bubbly-blue-lit tank in a university lab that was being programmed with all the knowledge in the world, and then it got all the knowledge in the world, and sucked it out of smart people and left them lolling on the floor in a room somewhere playing with bananas like retarded children. By the end, Hyperbrain was projecting a hologram of itself as a woman with exciting hair, sparkly skin and a foil lab coat (or something) and talking in a low, commanding voice, and EVEN MORE DANGEROUS AND POWERFUL than the Demon Headmaster! Yes, really. The kids spent a lot of time sitting in the cybercafe nattering about how weird things were, and then beat the whole information conspiracy thing by singing nonsense rhymes at everything. All the smart people got their knowledge back and everyone probably said "SPLAT FOREVER!" and did a big high five at the end. There were at least a couple of other books in the series, but I think most of them came after the TV show, while the first two were YEARS old by the time all that started. They were our class readers when I was in Year 5. My teacher was very good at saying "Octopussssssssssss." Her name was Mrs Healy. She was nice.
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