New series of Screenwipe!

[fen_boy]

Yo Gabba Gabba, 1,2,3,4,5,6

 

[Dillinger4]

PS, that 1,2,3,4,5,6 song is by Cornelius.

 

[8den]

Johnny's Ball Games embodied everything that was awkward and beige about the 70s

I suspect theres a badly worn out VHS of Johnny Ball Games sitting in Steve Coogans archive somewhere.

 

[skyscraper101]

Yo Gabba Gabba is fucking well awesome.

It was created by the singer out of the Aquabats

I became a little obsessed by it last night and ended up downloading all of season 1 and an album of the songs

That Japanese band was Cornelius too! Extra cool points!

 

[Pseudopsycho]

Look up Elijah Wood's guest appearance

 

[Augie March]

Anyone who bemoaned the fact that Brooker didn't do enough of his usual sofa-sitting telly show dissection this series, will be happy with the 2008 review show because it's half an hour of him doing exactly that. I was loling all the way through it, especially at the bit where he imagined a crying foetus-face from X Factor was chasing him and running and running and running...

 

[Dillinger4]

barry shitpeas is the best talking head.

 

[Dillinger4]

That was great.

But I especially loved the continuity ending.

 

[Gingerman]

Its repeated on Mon which is good cos i missed it

 

[Riklet]

Yeh man that was ace! <3

Where's Charlie Brooker gone in regards to Grauniad-Mondays anyway? Is he being idle and on "holiday" or something again?

 

[Jon-of-arc]

this series was a bit hit and miss, imo. Felt the final was a bit mediocre, was bored to tears by the "writers special", could take or leave the kids one. The others seemed a bit "brooker by numbers". Although brooker by numbers beats the fuck out of most things.

Highlight was the pissing edition. Even that wasn't a patch on these classics....

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0b7mwTK564o

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xwIeAkEnWlg&feature=related
(admittedly the brilliance of that has nothing to do with brooker...)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4RsLY5b1GcI&feature=related
(the whole "apprentice pisstake" episode, though that clip is a "highlights")

and

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=59OJ17raqWw

Nothing hit quite as close this series.

 

[Iguana]

The 2008 review was fantastic. I laughed out loud most of the way through. Especially the ending, but as I watched it on iPlayer I don't know if any continuity announcer talked over it or not.

 

[Augie March]

They did.

 

[Dravinian]

Charliee Brooker screaming Fuck Off into some pounces faces like something from the Come to Daddy video was just fucking hilarious and excellent.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

barry shitpeas is the best talking head.

Innit. I loved his commentary on the Kerry Katona interview especially. Made a great follow up this Brooker article.

 

[Voley]

I've been catching up with this on IPlayer recently and I'm really enjoying it. Lots of genuine LOL moments, some great sideswipes and some really good, incisive criticism, too.

And in the middle of all that, his obituary for Oliver Postgate was absolutely spot on and genuinely moving.

Great programme.

 

[El Jefe]

yeh, we've just got the kids telly one on terrestrial and his Postgate tribute was (much like the Guardian one) marvellous.

Now where do I get a copy of Junior Bible Lession Christian Science thingy?

 

[Orang Utan]

On YouTube of course!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-PMoXHP4ko4

 

[teuchter]

Now where do I get a copy of Junior Bible Lession Christian Science thingy?

I was just going to ask the very same question.

 

[teuchter]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qsPwtJCuC-U&feature=related

 

[El Jefe]

On YouTube of course!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-PMoXHP4ko4

yeh, but I want a torrent

 

[Sadken]

this series was a bit hit and miss, imo. Felt the final was a bit mediocre, was bored to tears by the "writers special", could take or leave the kids one. The others seemed a bit "brooker by numbers". Although brooker by numbers beats the fuck out of most things.

Highlight was the pissing edition. Even that wasn't a patch on these classics....

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0b7mwTK564o

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xwIeAkEnWlg&feature=related
(admittedly the brilliance of that has nothing to do with brooker...)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4RsLY5b1GcI&feature=related
(the whole "apprentice pisstake" episode, though that clip is a "highlights")

and

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=59OJ17raqWw

Nothing hit quite as close this series.

Agreed.

 

[rollinder]

I spent two hours of watching Screenwipe on BBC4 last night/this morning (cocks in advertising etc, writers interviews special, documentaries/Konnie Huq and shycock + childrens television episodes & a tiny bit about Tales of the riverbank at the end of the first show- think I caught part of that one on bbc2 at the time)
but good to finally see what you lot were all talking about.

The writers special was unexpectedly fascinating, Konnie Huq pissing sequence was even better/madder than expected, the Childrens tv was even freakier/lovelier than I thought it would be - genuinely choked up during the Oliver Postgate tribute & the "we will fix it" mice song on the credits

adverts was the weakest one I think.

 

[strung out]

new screenwipe review of 2009 tomorrow night, bbc4, 10.30pm

 

[El Sueno]

new screenwipe review of 2009 tomorrow night, bbc4, 10.30pm

Nice one for the heads-up, I'll be watching that