Not Worth The Warranty

There's been some more interesting finds during my rummaging.

One of them being an edition of T4 from July 1999 where Ben and Dermot had gone to Ireland where the Hollyoaks crew were filming on location.

There was also a trail for The Big Breakfast and The Bigger Breakfast which Dermot co-presented although ironically it included Kelly Brook in it who had just gone on holiday and never returned.

Another tape had a classic edition of Room 101 from 2000 where Phill Jupitus was the guest.

Amongst the items on his disposal list were bizarrely, corporate fast food, people who are not afraid of spiders and extended warranties.

The latter had me laughing because Phill described the documents as electrical store owners allowing someone to buy a product and telling them
"it'll probably break".

Paul Merton responded by suggesting that another ploy used by electrical salesmen would be "if you don't extend the warranty, you might end up with dogshit in your letterbox".

As you'd expect that joke had me in stitches.

One of Phill's more controversial choices was cat lovers, those who speak to their pet cats in silly voices as if they "talk to them".

When the programme was shown first time round we had Pauline, a friend of Mum and Dad's staying with us and she was rather embarassed that it went in as she happens to be a cat lover herself and talked to our one in exactly the same manner.

On a similar note, the Radio 4 series "I've Never Seen Star Wars" is transferring to television for BBC Four, hosted by Marcus Brigstocke and having seen the radio version, I've ordered tickets to see the one recorded at TVC in March if I'm lucky.

The series should work perfectly in visual form and as the radio recording I went to see was pretty visual, it's guaranteed to do pretty well, even if it doesn't quite set the ratings alight.

I've found quite a lot of old print outs in the loft from 8 or 7 years ago including a well written write up charting the history of The Big Breakfast.

I've written about it several times before but may do a further analysis/ribbing after I've had a gander at a few of my own VHS copies including the final show from March 2002.

Still one of my favourite, and most influential television shows which broke all the rules and set the standard for what was to come.