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Last of the Summer Wine

prole-art-threat [Edit] [Delete] 32 replies 14:29, 30 June '06

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?

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  • i've never watched it in my life.

    prole = loser

    sarkyfox | 30 Jun '06, 14:30 | X
  • 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.

    colonol_k | 30 Jun '06, 14:30 | X
    • That's because you always

      used to draw pictures of Pauline Quirke. With a big heart around them.

      bobbygeorge @colonol_k | 30 Jun '06, 14:32 | X
    • 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.

      prole-art-threat @colonol_k | 30 Jun '06, 14:32 | X
  • 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???

    Rose-Kitten | 30 Jun '06, 14:32 | X
    • * hear the theme

      (stupid laptop keys and hammock)

      Rose-Kitten @Rose-Kitten | 30 Jun '06, 14:32 | X
    • Bizzarly

      Nobody has put episodes of it up on youtube! What's wrong with this world!

      Dans @Rose-Kitten | 30 Jun '06, 14:33 | X
      • None of the target audience know what the internet is.

        joeymahone @Dans | 30 Jun '06, 14:34 | X
  • I watched Lovejoy

    How do we have the same memory of this yet we have a decade age difference?

    Dans | 30 Jun '06, 14:32 | X
    • 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.

      prole-art-threat @Dans | 30 Jun '06, 14:34 | X
  • rubbish programme

    in every episode Compo gets trapped inside a bin or something and rolls down a hill. I swear, every episode

    mapsadaisical | 30 Jun '06, 14:35 | X
    • 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

      prole-art-threat @mapsadaisical | 30 Jun '06, 14:36 | X
      • 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.

        BobbyGrindrod @prole-art-threat | 30 Jun '06, 14:37 | X
      • Yes

        even those

        mapsadaisical @prole-art-threat | 30 Jun '06, 15:00 | X
  • 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!

    BobbyGrindrod | 30 Jun '06, 14:35 | X
    • Reverand LoveJoy as in The SImpsons??

      ????????????????
      Is the name inspired by this character?

      Rose-Kitten @BobbyGrindrod | 30 Jun '06, 14:37 | X
      • I'd like to think so.

        BobbyGrindrod @Rose-Kitten | 30 Jun '06, 14:38 | X
        • Me too - am lost on this entire thread

          *goes inside to make tea and cucumber sandwhiches instead...

          Rose-Kitten @BobbyGrindrod | 30 Jun '06, 14:39 | X
      • 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

        prole-art-threat @Rose-Kitten | 30 Jun '06, 14:40 | X
        • So you were Prole-Rolled instead?

          Ie, lied to and believed the lie...?

          Rose-Kitten @prole-art-threat | 30 Jun '06, 14:43 | X
        • Hahaaaaa!!

          HAHAHAHAHAHAH!

          BobbyGrindrod @prole-art-threat | 30 Jun '06, 14:43 | X
          • I'm actually LOLLING

            and making a twat of myself.

            BobbyGrindrod @BobbyGrindrod | 30 Jun '06, 14:44 | X
        • 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?

          BobbyGrindrod @Terra | 30 Jun '06, 14:45 | X
          • 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.

            Dans @BobbyGrindrod | 30 Jun '06, 14:47 | X
            • I should really proof read

              Dans @Dans | 30 Jun '06, 14:48 | X
            • They're must be an element of fetishism

              involved in this, then. Are there dodgy websites dedicated to this sort of thing...?

              BobbyGrindrod @Dans | 30 Jun '06, 14:49 | X
              • 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

                prole-art-threat @BobbyGrindrod | 30 Jun '06, 14:54 | X
                • haha

                  there is a track on the first Air album that really reminds me of that last of the summer wine theme tune.

                  robin_ac30 | 30 Jun '06, 15:05 | X
                  • 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 ›

                    prole-art-threat @robin_ac30 | 30 Jun '06, 15:07 | X
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