Geordies And Juvenile

Still continuing my long trawl and the final episode of Saturday Night Takeaway series 3 from April 2004.

I remember it well as it was shown after my last day in the cafeteria in ASDA before they shut it down for 8 weeks as part of the store refurbishment which resulted in me working in the Home and Leisure department for two months which I loved and had more freedom than in that mudbath.

It was also the same weekend as the London Marathon as the gamble question in the Win The Ads game was if the 2004 Marathon was the 24th or 28th and I knew what the answer was as the marathon started in 1981.

It was quite fitting as well because Mum was taking part in that years marathon although I stayed in Canterbury and watched it on television as I doubt I would have been able to manage in that rather damp weather.

Anyway the series itself had gone really quickly as there were only six shows this time round instead of 11 like the last series, but it didn't mean it wasn't as entertaining.

The first part of a final show involved a skit involving the pair miming various extracts of classic pop songs with the funny part being Ant miming to the beginning of Showaddywaddy's version of "Blue Moon" and getting it wrong by putting a "dang" in too soon which resulted in Dec cracking up.

They attempted it again in part 3 where Ant finally got it right.

Other items included Little Ant & Dec meeting Dani Horner, I mean Katie Price fresh from her jaunts in the jungle.
They were provided with hilarious questions such as this;

Little Dec: "You collect cars don't you?"

Jordan: "Yes, I do like cars"

Little Dec: "Because I heard my dad saying that you've got a great pair of airbags"

The real Dec also commented that throughou the series they'd developed talents such as speaking Irish after meeting Westlife sans Bryan, which involved them saying "Larrge!" in an Irish accent, and speaking Spanish after meeting Victoria Beckham which as a result of her knowledge of the language was just them burbling nonsense.

Very entertaining stuff though.

I ended up cracking up when a thought came to mind over their hand shake where they put their hands out to the duo, or whoever they're interviewing and end up making faces.

I then thought of a slightly variant of that which I'm sure you'd know what it involves although to give a better idea, it's similar to the Little Britain sketch with Vicki Pollard on the bus with Ewan McIntosh as the bus conductor and when he asks her for a ticket she puts her hand into her jacket pocket and pulls it out sticking up her middle finger.

Doesn't really work the same way when writing it down.

The musical guest that week was Emma Bunton performing her version of Marcos Valle's "Crickets Sing For Anamaria" from her rather superb album "Free Me" which had a 60s influence throughout.

I bet that song spawned several ejaculation jokes.

That was her final single from the album and she more or less disapeared until November 2006 when she released a rather poor version of "Downtown" for Children In Need that year, although it's safe to say that none of the Spice Girls solo careers have been as succesfull as George Michael after Wham!, or Robbie Williams after he left Take That.

Emma was also lined up to take part in the Human Roulette game for Grab The Ads but it was then revealed that there had been a surprise phone vote unknown to Ant & Dec where the viewers for voted Dec to go on the turntable which worked out well as at the end of the last series the audience chose Ant.

So that's probably why they stole our money in the phone in competitions a few years later.

The finale of the series involved a What's Next surprise which involved Kermit The Frog presiding a over a selection of series highlights and then performing with the duo as the Blues Brothers.

The end of the programme involved a short sketch with them switching the lights off in their dressing room and it said that the show would return later in the year, as it came back for another 6 week series in the Autumn of 2004.

I've now reached a rather large set of tapes from late May/early June of the same year which contain quite possibly the whole first series of Hell's Kitchen with Gordon Ramsay.

I'll make a start on that tonight prior to my viewing of "Nuns On The Run" so they'll be quite a lot of earthy language in store for tonight.

Bringing things up to date, I may want to go and see "The Boat That Rocked" sometime this Easter depsite the mixed reviews it's been getting.

I've heard that they've taken the Johnnie Walker route and approached
Wise Buddah to replicate some of the old style jingles for the fictional station in the film, and as you'd expect it's resulted in plenty of the old farts on Jinglemad moaning that they should have gone for the PAMS originals.

Bleeding purists.

Surprisingly I've never actually ordered any PAMS jingles myself and if I was to go for one, it would have to be the "Smooth Sailing" cut as used on Radio London back in the 60s.

I know it's been done several times but it's very well orchestrated.

Admitedly I've never been a huge PAMS fan, but fully accept that if it wasn't for them we wouldn't have had any of the stunning packages from JAM, Century 21 and TM throughout the 70s and 80s.

Although the funniest PAMS resings (even if they are UK vocals) have to be these ones for Daryl Denham's X-Rated Show on Hallam FM in the late 90s.

Not for those of a sensitive dispostition.