Conservative MP criticises "Dick and Dom In Da Bougalow"

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Mr Luff said: (to Tessa Jowell) "You can join me in playing How Low Can You Bungalow, a test to see your response to grossly embarrassing personal situations, largely of a lavatorial nature.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Bougalow! Tom Baker said 'Boogaloo' at the end of his Little Britain intro last week - no greater marriage in history has there been than his voice and that word.

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

It sounds awful, to be fair. But I won't be drawn into 'Brass Eye' stlye blind denunciations. I am 24. The show is for kids.

― Miles Finch, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that Dick and Dom need to go and shout BOOGERS!!! in the House of Commons as loud as they dare. And then spray buckets of that goopy stuff about.

The Pants On Head Dance is a more aesthetic and political statement than the majority of modern art and should be afforded the same kind of protection.

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

That'll be "BOGEYS" you american, you...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

As soon as I read the thread title I wondered if the Conservative in question was my local Tory MP, Peter Luff, and , oh look: "Peter Luff, the Conservative MP for mid-Worcestershire, attacked the show"
He was on the front cover of the Worcester Evening News a few weeks ago leading his 'Ban This Sick Filth' campaign against the Jerry Springer Opera - and now he's after Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow???
He is truely history's greatest monster.

― David Merryweather (DavidM), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Boogers, Bogeys, potatoe, potahtoe, let's call the whole thing off...

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"Make Dick Sick"

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

One of them is from down the road from me. The annoying magician. It's an awful programme.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

It's an excellent programme, what are you talking about?

(excellent as in, you know, for kids... and maybe those of us nostalgic for Tiswas. I'm just saying maybe.)

― David Merryweather (DavidM), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's refreshing that a programme for kids actually manages to capture that childlike innocent love for good, clean grossout factors. Rather than trying to push children into this accelerated pubescence the way that so many Saturday morning shows seem to be geared at turning kids into mini-teenagers, pop music and fashion and the like.

Oh god, my hair is starting to do that "tory wife" curling thing again, help me...

― Masonic Boom-Boom (kate), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Previous series, Amber loved it. This time, she seems 'above' it.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw one the other week when, on their Useless At World Records segment, one of them COMPLETELY BY ACCIDENT got really close to the World Milkshake Drinking Record. So he tried again, and nearly made himself sick.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

the tiswas thing and kate's point are completely otm. i find 'No Girl's Allowed' thing on ch5 much more offensive, just because of the name.

plus, frank sidebottom was on it the other week.

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm approaching it from the direction of being 25 and therefore just outside the bracket for Tiswas, and also hating the magician.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I was also a bit too old for that Dave Benson Phillips gunk show.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Dave Benson Phillips still around?

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 20 January 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah. I used to think him and Ainsley Harriot were the same bloke...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 21 January 2005 09:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I saw Dave Benson Phillips presenting the Thomas Cook TV cut in on one of our channels last week.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 21 January 2005 09:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The annoying magician??? is that on Dick and Dom? How come I've never caught that bit. I remember an annoying magician on the death rattle era of SM:TV

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Friday, 21 January 2005 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Dick and Dom had some fun at the expense of the Tory MP this morning, but it wasn't much fun and it was over by the time I had realised what they were talking about. Still, it's nice of them to think of the millions who were tuning in specially. Is one of them related to that actor in 'My Life In Film' or are they just from the same gene pool. Is being from the same gene pool the same as being realted?

I prefer Tiswas. I even prefer Superstore.

Objections: too much hair gel, kids too confident.

Objections to TV in general: too much time wasted on organising phone votes.

― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Saturday, 22 January 2005 10:04 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

I've been watching the new series when I can, I think it's hilarious.

Did anyone see it at the weekend? They read out a letter "My dad's cousin's name is Dom but my mum likes Dick"

I was in bulk.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 3 October 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

There was much worse than that on Tiswas.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 3 October 2005 11:19 (twenty years ago)

NAEBODY MOVE!

Classic: DC Harry Batt, Celeb bogies, the talking pictures
Dud: Celeb bungalowheads.

― robster (robster), Monday, 3 October 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

eugene! rachel stevens! all the best ppl.

not her what plays tracy beaker tho

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 3 October 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

I don't of course view the Dick and Dom programme because at my advanced age I consider it rather dubious and suspect for me to do so.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 3 October 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

well as a kid i remember tiswas being a bit shit, so i must have missed those jokes. now i'm older i can appreciate it more with D&D.

xpost, who the hell was that 'celeb' girl on the last show?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 3 October 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

that Flintoff talking picture was the tits! "just don't call me Shane"

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 3 October 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

Watching kids TV is like listening to pop music.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 3 October 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

i disagree

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 3 October 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

I haven't watched kids' TV since I was a kid so can't comment on that.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 3 October 2005 11:38 (twenty years ago)

This sounds brilliant. When is it on?

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 3 October 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

Rachel Stevens ran off so she didn't get their Creamy Muck Muck in her hair. Superb.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 3 October 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

The same thing happned to me.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 3 October 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

WIMP! She's going to have to do better in the visual department. That new single deserves better than a recycle of the Cast of Emmerdale doing Jailhouse Rock on whatever crap ITV programme it was routine.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 3 October 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

Anyone in the know watches MOM, tch BBC shite. And that's something that I thought I'd never say.

Mr Lee, Mr Lee, Mr Lee

and

Holly Willoughby (mmmm)

make it compelling.

― Kevan (Kevan), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Oh my God, Holly Willoughby is the worst person on TV ever.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

She's a lot better than Fearne "That was amazing!" Cotton.

― chap who would dare to kill all the threads (chap), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

"Pants Dancers in the Hall of Fame, photos of children with underwear on their heads, Make Dick Sick, a game which I think speaks for itself, and finally Bunged Up, in which you play a character in a sewerage system avoiding turtle's poos coming from various lavatories," he said.

― kurt broder (dr g), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

She's a lot better than Fearne "That was amazing!" Cotton.

That's really very faint praise.

― theantmustdance (theantmustdance), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Granted.

― chap who would dare to kill all the threads (chap), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

No, Holly Willoughby is awful. She looks like Cat-Deeley-lite but has no ability to read an autocue, react to guests, look at the right camera or project anything approaching a personality.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

Like many great shows, DADIDB seems to exist in it's own bubble of mayhem, irrespective of what else is going on around it(it always contrasts starkly with the rubbishness of TOTP Saturday, featuring the utterly gormless Sam and Mark). Or at least it did until the current series, where BBC interference has unfortunately made it's presence felt. They say they're not doing any more after the current run, anyway. But still, it's the only thing I'd get out of bed for on a Saturday.

MOM on the other hand just feels like they're trying too hard. It's all this kind of regimented wackiness, like a custard-pie fight at a church outing. Look, here's a midget running into things! And a comedy chinese man! Aren't you having fun yet? Also, Steven Mulhern is a twat.

― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Monday, 3 October 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

omg Andy McNab ?!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 10 October 2005 07:33 (twenty years ago)

Ministry of Mayhem is Fucking Shit.

Just saying.

― Don King of the Mountain (noodle vague), Monday, 10 October 2005 07:38 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

So, as it winds its way to a close, can I just say...

This is the only decent thing on TV right now!

If only for Harry Batt, Geordie Coppa! who is some sort of comic genius.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 09:29 (twenty years ago)

It's been amazing over the past few weeks, watching the bile rising in Dick & Dom about being cancelled and all the sly barbs to the kids about how they'll miss them when they're gone and it's their fault for not complaining loudly enough about the cancellation. It really hit its stride midway through this series and has been consistently brilliant.

One of the under-rated elements, definitely, is the quality of the introduction tunes. Harry Batt's, for instance, has me singing along every week:

Ah've got yer bang to rights an' ye're comin' doon the station
Ah'll have meself a cuppa then ah'll start interrogatin'
If ah divna spot yer secret word in the interview
Then ah'll have to drop the charges, give yer points and let yer go... away.

(interview and go rhyme, somehow)

The music for Brum Brum Ding Ding Sing Sing (Melvin O'Doom starts singing on a bus in Birmingham and you have to guess how many people join in with him) was like Danielson covering Half Man Half Biscuit.

And I can't get the last two lines of Creamy Muck Muck Grand Finale out of my head (Will you be able to capitalise, and win the amazing First Place Prize?). Speaking of which, the impressions by the guy who does Harry Batt have been great for the past few weeks - his Richard O'Brien this week was spot on.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 11:16 (twenty years ago)

"Noel Muckmonds" from a few weeks ago had me crying with laughter.

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 11:20 (twenty years ago)

his noel edmonds was stunning.
However, his Michael Bayymore was exactly the same as his Noel edmonds.

xpost, oh and thats, "have to let yer go... howayy"

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 11:20 (twenty years ago)

Fairy nuff, it probably is.

I'm really enjoying the revival of favourite games, Don't Go Daddy a couple of weeks ago was kind of incredible. I have to say though, much as I loved it I don't think Toddler Tug Of War ever lived up to its potential.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 12:02 (twenty years ago)

Don't Go Daddy , what was that? I used to get that from Alice, a couple months ago.

(I was dropping her at school folks, don't get dramatic!)

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 12:15 (twenty years ago)

Three dads are on their way to work, and their kids have to hang onto their legs to stop them from getting there. The dads (played by Melvin O'Doom, Harry Batt Man and Prize Idiot) stayed in character all the way - "Yes, darling, Daddy doen't want to go either but I have a most important meeting with Mr Tomnkinson at 11."

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 12:19 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

So, as they disappear into the sunset, and Alan Yentob awakes and says "What a horrible dream!" (y.rly)

Hats are doffed, and vids set for the final final one, the "greatest bits" on Sat morn.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:01 (twenty years ago)

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