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Post by Bungle on Apr 8, 2007 19:34:24 GMT
Started watching this today (£12.99 from Play for both series and the Xmas Special!) and it's great - I probably haven't seen any of it for ten years. Proper character comedy. In fact, many of the sketches don't even seem to have punchlines and yet are still very funny. It's also not at all old fashioned, script-wise, even if it is stylistically.
I wish someone else would sing the songs though.
It also contains my single favourite joke ever. 'I'd like to apologise to viewers in the North. It must be terrible for you.'
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Post by David Hunter on Apr 8, 2007 20:15:58 GMT
Among all the comedy, VW sings a song called 'Crush' which almost makes me cry. It's about a girl at school with a crush on an older guy. It's quite lovely.
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Post by jetsetwilly on Apr 8, 2007 22:44:33 GMT
I've been listening to the As Seen on TV CD for years now and so seeing these sketches with pictures now seems weird to me.
But the song David Hunter refers to is utterly destructive. I saw you today, well I just saw your blazer, and it went through my heart like the beam of a laser... It's also incredibly gay; it could easily be sung by a boy and be a coming out story. Particularly:
I'm all muddled up when I think of you
I'm not awfully sure what I'm meant to do
Gets me every time.
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Post by David Hunter on Apr 8, 2007 23:11:34 GMT
Would it be too much to print all the words? Probably.
I saw you today. Well, I just saw your blazer,
And it went through my heart like the beam of a laser,
And I thought that today you would turn round and see me,
But you didn't.
The bus didn't come. It was dead rainy weather,
When it came it was full and we didn't stand together,
And I smiled half a smile down the aisle,
But you didn't notice, did you?
Did you?
I love you so much, all my friends think I'm crazy.
I get told off at school cos I dream and I'm lazy.
I’m dreaming of you,
But I don't suppose you know that do you?
You smiled at me once. Don't suppose you remember,
But I know when it was. Was the tenth of September,
And you put down your bag on my foot,
And I said it didn’t matter.
I’ve got old souvenirs like your empty crisp packet,
And a blond curly hair from the back of your jacket.
They are under my bed.
Maybe one day I’ll show them to you, shall I?
Shall I?
If we went on a date I would just be in heaven.
Well, I know youíre sixteen but I'm tall for eleven.
If I paid for myself could we p'raps go for a pizza?
Could we?
I’m all muddled up when I think of you.
I’m not really sure what I’m meant to do.
My best friend Louise said, oh, write him a letter,
Cos it can't make things worse, and it might make them better,
So I did, but I think, well I don't think you ever got it,
Did you?
Did you?
It was all like in rhyme and I drew like a Snoopy,
And used all different pens. Did you think I was loopy?
Did you crumple it up?
Did you chuck it in your bin? Oh did you?
I saw you today. Well, I just saw your blazer,
And I'm hurting inside like I'm cut with a razor,
Cos I thought that today that you would turn round and see me.
But you didn’t.
I wrote that I loved you and I really meant it.
Now I feel really dumb. I should never have sent it.
Do you hate me or what? Did I do stupid spelling. Tell me, did I?
Did I?
Cos I think about you right from dawn until dusk. You haven’t spoken to me. I just stand in your bus queue,
And I sent you a note,
But I don't think that you got it,
Did you?
Victoria Wood, 1986
*reaches for the hankies*
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Post by jetsetwilly on Apr 8, 2007 23:15:48 GMT
**sob**
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Post by David Hunter on Apr 8, 2007 23:19:08 GMT
The killer for me is sending the letter and wishing you hadn't.
I'm giving far too much away about myself here!
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Post by puppydogstail on Apr 9, 2007 5:23:52 GMT
Victoria Wood Presents is out in a few weeks. I have it on order. Not seen it for years but our R.E teacher used to screen it for us if we towed the line and kept our mouths shut for a few lesssons. I cant wait to see the Package Holiday one and Over To Pam. Worthy of a thread of its own which I will start after viewing.
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Post by Bungle on Apr 9, 2007 9:15:20 GMT
Don't forget Pat and Margaret, due out next month too!
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Post by pauliepoos on Apr 9, 2007 19:45:43 GMT
Oh how I loved Over To Pam, with the licking of the croissant.
I may go to play.com this second and make an impulse buy.
I think my favourite WV line has to be "You've a look of Eva Braun, did you know that?"
I do love All The Trimmings as well, especially WI. "You could have been a great caretaker, Bernard".
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Post by Tacye Marley on Apr 9, 2007 20:17:50 GMT
That song! I had a tape with it on when I was tiny, about 7 or 8, and I loved that song so much... I never knew where it was from though.
Now I feel at peace.
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Post by klee on Apr 10, 2007 11:34:33 GMT
Pat and Margaret AND Victoria Wood Presents?!?
There's a party in my pants and everyone's invited. Oh JOY!
"Press for ticket. Take ticket. Catch plane, go on holiday, sleep with Portugese timeshare salesman. But first PRESS FOR TICKET!"
"Cocoa privileges have been withdrawn."
"You don't talk to Filipinos. You hand them your used cutlery."
Amazing.
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Post by Nicholas on Apr 10, 2007 12:44:34 GMT
I think my favourite WV line has to be "You've a look of Eva Braun, did you know that?" "Which country? Taiwan?" |
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Post by jetsetwilly on Apr 10, 2007 13:44:26 GMT
I think my favourite WV line has to be "You've a look of Eva Braun, did you know that?" "Which country? Taiwan?" See my sig for the best line from that sketch. However: "Don't have the gateau - I just saw her scratching her armpit with the cake slice" and "Aren't prawns an aphrodisiac?" "I wouldn't put it past them." come close... |
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Post by Lisa on Apr 10, 2007 15:16:18 GMT
prawns: treading water at sewerage outlets with their mouths option!
I love Victoria Wood! I taped them off the tele years and years ago and my mum and I still watch them every Christmas.
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Post by pauliepoos on Apr 10, 2007 16:18:11 GMT
I may have said this in another thread, but in my cafe (opposite Torchwood Tower, frequented by stars of stage and screen), whenever I served two bowls of soup to the same table I'd say "Two soups? One soup, and another soup".
The only person who ever got the line was an overweight american lesbian in a beret.
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Post by coxy1979 on Apr 16, 2007 16:08:29 GMT
The only person who ever got the line was an overweight american lesbian in a beret. Her name wasn't "my friend Kim-burrhhhh-leh" was it? |
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Post by klee on Apr 17, 2007 8:05:41 GMT
Kim-nurhhh-leh. really really tall and really really wide. If you put a suitcase on the top of her head she'd look like a fitted wardrobe.
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Post by pauliepoos on Apr 23, 2007 16:59:40 GMT
I watched the Christmas Special last night. I'd forgotton all about the Mayflower Hotel Nottingham and the Cinderella Factor.
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Post by David Hunter on Apr 23, 2007 18:39:27 GMT
We talk about the Cinderella Factor all the time! At one point we were thinking of opening somewhere just to call it that! |
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Post by jetsetwilly on Apr 23, 2007 19:28:06 GMT
We talk about the Cinderella Factor all the time! At one point we were thinking of opening somewhere just to call it that! It's not a television programme, it's a women's cocktail bar. Though I find the preceding sketch much funnier - "Hello Jean. Mmm, your lavatory smells fresh!" |
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