"Rock On Tommy!"

I had quite an early night yesterday and didn't really get to sleep for about two hours as I was pondering over my time here at Uni for the last four years and certain incidents kept on sticking in mind.

Before that I managed to find a vintage edtition of Jonathan Ross's
"It's Only TV But I Like It" from 2002 where the guests were Patsy Palmer,
Stuart Hall, Gina Yashere and Cannon and Ball.

As you would expect, the comedy duo got a lot of stick including a joke at the beginning where Jonathan mentioned that their film "The Boys In Blue" had been released on DVD and was the only one as such to contain the option "Less Scenes".

Tommy took the jokes really well but Bobby seemed to get rather annoyed with Jonathan's digs but I think that was part of the act. One such moment being when
Bobby was complaining about some of the props being too big
in the "Channel Hopping" round.

This was where the guests had to act out TV programme titles to the team captain who was wearing ear-muffs so they couldn't hear the theme tunes

Jonathan responded by saying "There's nothing you can do about your height,
you're almost dead!", with Tommy telling his partner to stop complaining
by mentioning I used to be that height once. When I was six".

Quite a lot of my family saw the duo in Panto in Derbyshire (appropriately enough if you consider Tommy's real name) in 2001, six months before their appearance on this show and I don't think they were too impressed by the duo.

Although I didn't go myself, I still think they were one of the better "old-school" double acts and they appeared on a documentary about Ant & Dec recently saying that
"Morecambe and Wise were Morecambe and Wise, Little and Large were Little and Large,
Ant & Dec are Ant & Dec" and so on.

Anyway, one of the other rounds involved a look back at public information films in particular "Charley Says" which the teams had to guess what the cat was saying.

One of which involved the moggy getting scalded by hot water from a teapot
which resulted in the audience feeling sorry for him prompting Jonathan Ross to retort
"It's not even a real cat!".

He did mention that Charlie later died in the making of
'Charley Says don't go to sleep in the wheel arch of your Dad's car'.

There have been rumours over the years that the animated cat's voice was done by the late Kenny Everett although the PIFs were also featured in Channel 4's countdown of the "100 Greatest Scary Moments" in 2003.

That I can understand because of the grainy picture quality and the muddled voices which ended up being sampled by the Prodigy for their debut single in 1991.

Lightening things up a bit I've found a video courtesy of James2001 of SMTV's
Garbage Hunt with presenter Des Clarke as David Dustbinman.

As mentioned a couple of days ago, it was probably one of the rudest sketches on the show but also very funny where in this one from December 2003 the guests making an appearance are The Cheeky Girls.

It makes me think as to whether they were still around in late 2003 but I'm guessing they were reaching the end of their bum touching tenure.

I wouldn't remember seeing this at the time as I was now working in ASDA on Saturdays but despite no longer having to work the following day, it was a pretty depressing time anyway due to the demands of my HND Media course where I was quite literally drowning.

If I remember correctly I ended up getting to leave early on one of my Thursday shifts around this time due to cutdowns on our bonuses but it didn't really make things any better.

However on the plus side with Christmas and New Year's day falling on a Thursday that year it meant that I was only working on Saturday's during the holiday period and as the special days fell on a Saturday the following year it made things just as convinient the following year.

As I was now on Fridays I ended up working on Christmas and New Year's Eve in 2004 although it actually wasn't too bad and not as chaotic as I thought it would be.

My younger sister Kate on the other hand was temping in Boots at the time and had to work on New Year's Day of 2005, but didn't turn up to work as she was suffering the side effects of the night before. Mum wasn't too impressed but it was only a temporary position in all fairness.

There's no way however that I'll return to either of those places after leaving Uni (although I never actually worked at Boots myself and don't have anything against it really).

No, I'll probably end up in Lidl instead and may lose the will to live.