Ozzy vs. US sense of humour.

[SaraP]

I'm loving this.

 

[yoghurtelf]

I was a kid when this was in its heyday, and I have to say I never got into it. We didn't watch it really

 

[Rufus Coppertop]

Just before it's (thankfully) aborted rebirth, a mate of mine and fellow psych' nurse was all eager for it and got a bit huffy with me, saying "come on! It's one of our cultural icons and the bastards axed it!"

I promised faithfully not to tune in my telly just for that and the next time I saw him and asked what it was like his expression was - oh the horror! THE HORROOOORRRR!

 

[SaraP]

 

[LunaFancy]

Yes yuk it up SaraP - you weren't scarred for life by being forced to watch it as a kid.

I was horrified by it's return to tv. One promo featuring that ostrich tipped me over the edge.

Now, in the interest of spreading my pain-I bring you... Youtube clips.
Mmuahahahahahaha! Now you shall know my suffering.

Dicki Knee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDxhog6qASw&feature=related

And that godawful pink thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKo-JL-TFIo&NR=1

Go on, you know you want to...

 

[MissMacchiato]

Luna, you bring shame on our house *covers face in humilation*

LOL

 

[poetinahat]

Please, no one bring up The Footy Show (either version - Melbourne's or the one for the rest of us). And when you don't, please don't explain why having a regular bit called "Crack a Fatty" was cause for extra lowbrow mirth.

 

[SaraP]

Luna, I am very good at not clicking links on AW.

*glances sideways at Luna's post*

Not... clicking...

 

[LunaFancy]

Please, no one bring up The Footy Show (either version - Melbourne's or the one for the rest of us). And when you don't, please don't explain why having a regular bit called "Crack a Fatty" was cause for extra lowbrow mirth.

ROFLMFAO!

OMG! I had so repressed that knowledge!

 

[SaraP]

Please, no one bring up The Footy Show (either version - Melbourne's or the one for the rest of us). And when you don't, please don't explain why having a regular bit called "Crack a Fatty" was cause for extra lowbrow mirth.

Say, what?

 

[poetinahat]

ROFLMFAO!

OMG! I had so repressed that knowledge!

Say, what?

I should say that I LOVE that Australians have enough of a cultural broadmindedness to allow this sort of cheese on TV.

 

[MissMacchiato]

"cultural broadmindedness"

Hmm.. I'd call it something else

LOL

 

[LunaFancy]

Remember the BMX Kangaroos?

*cringes*

 

[yoghurtelf]

I'd call it "DUMBARSE SYNDROME", at least from the powers that be in television

 

[Rufus Coppertop]

No one mention the "Glasshouse" either.

 

[LunaFancy]

No one mention the "Glasshouse" either.

Oh Good Lord! Please, can we export Wil Anderson to ...well...anywhere?

 

[Rufus Coppertop]

Is Wil Anderson that hideous guy with the nasal voice that somehow seems to have become a bit of an identity on .... the show about wankers dancing is it?

 

[Rufus Coppertop]

Shirley Purvis on the Big Gig was bloody hilarious, wasn't she? And Flakko was a genius.

 

[yoghurtelf]

Shirley Purvis on the Big Gig was bloody hilarious, wasn't she? And Flakko was a genius.

Who what where?

this is what happens (perhaps) when I don't watch TV for years

Not sure I'm sad about it though

*hugs her DVDs*

 

[Rufus Coppertop]

The Big Gig was on in the late eighties.

Shirley Purvis was a bloke with a scarf around his head and a floral shirt like a dear old chook from the sixties. He did a wonderful, warbling falsetto.

Where Edna Everidge comes from Moonee Ponds, Shirley Purvis comes from Morwell or Dandenong.

 

[Hapax Legomenon]

Americans are more into dick jokes than bum jokes.

 

[Haggis]

But I was expecting this Ozzy.

 

[SaraP]

Nobody expects the Ozz--

Oh wait - wrong joke.

 

[yoghurtelf]

I feel sorry for that rat. lol

 

[MissMacchiato]

it's a cute little rat. I hope it wasn't harmed in the making of that photograph.