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Last of the Summer Wine
Now we all know that this brings out the "oh my god its school tomorrow and I'll have to miss Lovejoy if I watch this" feeling but for the last hour i've had the theme to this 'gentle, evergreen comedy' going ROUND AND ROUND my brain and I want you all to share this pain as a collective!
Nicey - is there a button on your keyboard that could stop it if it spreads too far?
i've never watched it in my life.
prole = loser
Haha
You're so right. It just brings back memories of having to do my art homework. Same with the Birds of a Feather theme tune.
That's because you always
used to draw pictures of Pauline Quirke. With a big heart around them.
the opening bars of Lovejoy however
made me either want to glue up my synapses or learn to play the harpsicord - this may have been what got me into the Divine Comedy
i would have loved to have had Lovejoy's job though - that would be better than being the controller of time or something, surely
Birds of a Feather was how a malignant disease would look if you could catch it on celluloid.
As someone who has NEVER watched this programme before
and find numerous threads on this board mildly entertaining - and in fact, was told that this programme, by one DiSer once.. was "about a bunch of grumpy pissed old men", I am intrigued to hear the them..
Can anyone send me a link pls???
* hear the theme
(stupid laptop keys and hammock)
Bizzarly
Nobody has put episodes of it up on youtube! What's wrong with this world!
None of the target audience know what the internet is.
I watched Lovejoy
How do we have the same memory of this yet we have a decade age difference?
UK Gold is to blame I reckon
Sundays weren't sundays without it
if LoTSW was about 3 pissed men then it would have been funny - if it was just a camcorder filming 3 drunk men in a pub near Finsbury Park then it would be still winning awards. Somewhere anyway.
rubbish programme
in every episode Compo gets trapped inside a bin or something and rolls down a hill. I swear, every episode
what? even the ones that he's been dead in?@
That 7 series at least
PROLEFACT: the man who played Compo arranged the strings on Downtown by Petula Clark
REALLY??
I didnt know that! Prole - we should write a book about string-arrangers. I can do the Americans and you do the British. And we can both do the French.
Yes
even those
Anyone who doesn't like Lovejoy is a (not) a "divvy"
(Lovejoy in-joke)
However, I don't remember the theme tune apart from that it had a harpsichord. See- Baroque Pop is cool!
Reverand LoveJoy as in The SImpsons??
????????????????
Is the name inspired by this character?
I'd like to think so.
Me too - am lost on this entire thread
*goes inside to make tea and cucumber sandwhiches instead...
If Groening had any sense it would have been
Sadly Bob that was a 'red herring' Prolefact - he was however on the pilot of Jukebox Jury bizarely and did have something to do with the music scene
PROLEFACT: (this one is real) a mate once told me that Patricia Routledge off Keeping Up Appearences had arranged the strings on The Queen is Dead and I believed him until I got a book that said it was actually all done on an Emulator
So you were Prole-Rolled instead?
Ie, lied to and believed the lie...?
Hahaaaaa!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAH!
I'm actually LOLLING
and making a twat of myself.
All I seem to remember about LOTSW
is that EVERYONE seems to remember that every week they seemed to always end up gong down a hill in a tin bath or something!
Can anyone verify this? Or is it apochryphal?
I can confirm that
in 57.9% of all LOTSW episodes, a tin bath containing at least one member of those motley old men went down a hill in some sort of bath, or other container made of tin.
I should really proof read
They're must be an element of fetishism
involved in this, then. Are there dodgy websites dedicated to this sort of thing...?
I think the bathtub comes from a Reeves & Mortimer sketch
advertising BBC1 and it was called '3 men in a bath tub' and they were in a bathtub going down a hill - though I imagine this happened every week
i loved the piccolo and the cymbal crash and hamonica that followed the end of every 'climax' interspersed with man's best friend, canner laughter.
PROLEFACTL: Dennis Wilson wrote the themetune to Steptoe & Son
haha
there is a track on the first Air album that really reminds me of that last of the summer wine theme tune.
yes! there is
there always was a Gallic element to this 'gentle rolling evergreen comedy' ot should I say rouler légère la comédie d'arbre vert ›