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gommster.bsky.social
Dad of 3. 40something. Live in Devon. Work in comms and engagement, formerly a newspaper journalist. Do a bit of drawing in my spare time. Enjoy music, comedy, films and general silliness. My sketches and doodles. https://gommsta.tumblr.com/
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Think I stopped watching it around 2016...
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It really was.
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Especially as they had the Director of Lord of The Rings Peter Jackson doing the special effects on Worzel Gummidge Down Under, he must have cost a fortune...
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A match made in hell...
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As a kid I was always a bit baffled by the hysterical shreiks of laughter on things like Last of the Summer Wine which even at its peak could only ever be described as mildly amusing...
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And the "say everything everything twice twice" episode...
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Watching it now. It's so bloody weird isn't it. I obviously remember it being quite weird but...
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Ah, used to love Moviedrome.
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Blimey just seen news story about rabies...
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Always good to see a Duncan Goodhew reference, you don't get many these days...
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Bloody hell that was creepy. Now watching Wallace and Gromit to try and cleanse my mind of it!
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My mum used to love him in Just Good Friends. As all mums did in the 80s of course!
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And currently playing Major Gowan in the stage show of Fawlty Towers.
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I forget how tragically young Gary Olsen was when he died - 42. I feel bad as I couldn't watch 2 Point 4 Children at the time as I really couldn't bear that Barbara Lott having been traumatised as a child by her performance in Sorry!!
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Paul Nicholas as in Just Good Friends fame? Don't think Vince and Penny would have been as popular with that storyline somehow?!
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I'm still disappointed nobody ever thought to do a parody mashup of Schnorbitz and Cujo... especially as they were both at their pop culture height in the 1980s. You'd think either Russ Abbot or Little and Large would have been all over that...
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Never heard of it but will definitely check it out! Anyone famous in it?
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I would have at least had him down as a Fawlty Towers/Dad's Army fan...
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MEDFORD!
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Be funny if there was a Steve Milliband to be fair.
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Perhaps they've been watching The Omen 2
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I feel the potential audience for this is possibly somewhat limited...
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🎶Take off your wig…🎵
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It's been 35 years and yet this still pops into my head with an alarming frequency.
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Well, he was "hot just like an oven" to be fair.
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Marvin Gaye - Rocking After Midnight. "You know I need your love Worser than the stars above..." genius.com/Marvin-gaye-...
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Both my husband and I go to the Isle of Man for our holidays every year. We don't like it...