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What happened to Podge and Rodge ?

  • 30-08-2014 2:15pm
    #1
    Cork_chick_94
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭


    A couple of years ago Podge and Rodge were everywhere and they were getting something like 500k viewers a week on RTE 2.


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  • #2
    rabwaygal
    Registered Users Posts: 159 ✭✭rabwaygal


    Cork_chick_94 wrote: »
    A couple of years ago Podge and Rodge were everywhere and they were getting something like 500k viewers a week on RTE 2.

    One went on to be a GAA commentator. The other became our minister for Finance


  • #3
    Tzardine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭Tzardine


    They stopped being funny.

    Sometime around 2004 IIRC


  • #4
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,653 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Give it a year or two and they'll be representing Ireland in the Eurovision.


  • #5
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,354 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Their audience copped on.


  • #6
    robman60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭robman60


    They both came together and formed Michael D. Higgins.


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  • #7
    Macavity.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭Macavity.


    People realised they weren't actually funny?


  • #8
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,357 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    They died...


  • #9
    josip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,170 ✭✭✭✭josip


    Zig and Zag took them out


  • #10
    Long Gone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 771 ✭✭✭Long Gone


    Tzardine wrote: »
    They stopped being funny.

    Sometime around 2004 IIRC

    They were funny for a bit longer than that, but in the end they did stop being funny.

    They were brilliant in their prime.


  • #11
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Rumour has it they are reforming as poster boys for the vote yes to gay marriage campaign.


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  • #12
    secman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭secman


    Playing for united


  • #13
    wobbles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,090 ✭✭✭wobbles


    A scare at bedtime was a great show, used to enjoy it every week. Once they got their own chat show it went downhill after that. Season 1 was ok but after that they it died a death.

    Fester and Aillen though are still a class act


  • #14
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    josip wrote: »
    Zig and Zag took them out

    Which leads us nicely to the inevitable question - What ever happened to Zig and Zag ?


  • #15
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    Didn't the church have them taken off air or something?


  • #16
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,908 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Lapin wrote: »
    Which leads us nicely to the inevitable question - What ever happened to Zig and Zag ?

    They went back to the planet Zog.


  • #17
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    wobbles wrote: »
    A scare at bedtime was a great show, used to enjoy it every week. Once they got their own chat show it went downhill after that. Season 1 was ok but after that they it died a death.

    Fester and Aillen though are still a class act

    I used to cringe watching it at how bad it got so quickly. Miserable.


  • #18
    Joe prim
    Registered Users Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Joe prim


    Didn't they get a makeover from Louis Walsh and become Jedward.........which leads inevitably to the question, whatever became of Jedward?


  • #19
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Shoved in a box somewhere.


  • #20
    septictank
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 884 ✭✭✭septictank


    Lapin wrote: »
    Which leads us nicely to the inevitable question - What ever happened to Zig and Zag ?

    Same guys went on to be Podge and Rodge.


  • #21
    Skullface McGubbin
    Registered Users Posts: 455 ✭✭Skullface McGubbin


    wobbles wrote: »
    A scare at bedtime was a great show, used to enjoy it every week. Once they got their own chat show it went downhill after that. Season 1 was ok but after that they it died a death.

    Fester and Aillen though are still a class act

    Took the words right out of my mouth there. My opinion is the exact same.


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  • #22
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    You don't see many of that puppet crowd around anymore, for instance is the turkey still on television?

    Snotser was always my favourite, being country folk we used to think the inner city Dub accent was hilarious as kids, we didn't realise at the time that people actually spoke like that.


  • #23
    josip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,170 ✭✭✭✭josip


    Lapin wrote: »
    Which leads us nicely to the inevitable question - What ever happened to Zig and Zag ?

    Like Guinness, didn't travel well across water, I think.


  • #24
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    They were vile crude and completely cringe. Didn't find them entertaining at all. Just really crass.


  • #25
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    josip wrote: »
    Like Guinness, didn't travel well across water, I think.

    They weren't too badly received, They spent a good chunk of the 90s appearing on C4s Big Breakfast.


  • #26
    lufties
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭lufties


    Joe prim wrote: »
    Didn't they get a makeover from Louis Walsh and become Jedward.........which leads inevitably to the question, whatever became of Jedward?

    Hopefully they realised that they milked it as much as they could before being forced into hiding.


  • #27
    Schwiiing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,704 ✭✭✭Schwiiing


    'Tis an awful pity that Lucy Kennedy bint wouldn't **** off with them.


  • #28
    dr strangelove
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 816 ✭✭✭dr strangelove


    Emigrated to America


  • #29
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Snotser was always my favourite, being country folk we used to think the inner city Dub accent was hilarious as kids, we didn't realise at the time that people actually spoke like that.

    Snotser was a helium fiend. Heard he had artistic differences with Ray D'Arcy over the direction The Den was heading in.


  • #30
    lufties
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭lufties


    Schwiiing wrote: »
    'Tis an awful pity that Lucy Kennedy bint wouldn't **** off with them.

    Pain in the hole that wan


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  • #31
    porsche959
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭porsche959


    Operation Yewtree has them under investigation.


  • #32
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,457 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Like everything vaguely entertaining on RTE it gets screwed up and binned.


  • #33
    Joe prim
    Registered Users Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Joe prim


    lufties wrote: »
    Pain in the hole that wan

    She was extremely lifelike , in fairness.


  • #34
    Remmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭Remmy


    They went on a mad coke and hooker binge with rosy and jim and crashed the canal boat


  • #35
    thelad95
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭thelad95


    Whatever happened the ''socky'' chap that used to be on the Den?

    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-V9Z_XZB-Pcg/ThyrSMeX5ZI/AAAAAAAAAKM/C_kfK77r5zI/s200/socky.GIF


  • #36
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Remmy wrote: »
    They went on a mad coke and hooker binge with rosy and jim and crashed the canal boat

    The cocaine was supplied by Molly and Rossa Morbeg, biggest dealers in western Europe.

    Believe me you don't want to owe money to that pair, two of the most depraved and twisted muthafcukers ever to walk this planet.


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  • #37
    Me?
    Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭Me?


    They had species changes and moved to US. One is a rabbit and the other became an alcoholic drug addicted bear.


  • #38
    caustic 1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭caustic 1


    Hopefully there was a fire in the puppetry department of RTE and they, Zig and Zag and Dustin are now little bundles of ash on the department floor.


  • #39
    TGJD
    Registered Users Posts: 432 ✭✭TGJD


    wobbles wrote: »
    A scare at bedtime was a great show, used to enjoy it every week. Once they got their own chat show it went downhill after that. Season 1 was ok but after that they it died a death.

    Fester and Aillen though are still a class act

    The people of ireland stuck up their free hand, we don't want our porno shop banned.


  • #40
    pow wow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭pow wow


    Podge was sinister as f.ck when he was on the Den.


  • #41
    Long Gone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 771 ✭✭✭Long Gone


    Joe prim wrote: »
    She was extremely lifelike , in fairness.

    She was extremely lowlife, more like.


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  • #42
    NightOfTheHunt
    Registered Users Posts: 120 ✭✭NightOfTheHunt


    They were certainly a lot funnier than some of the replies here


  • #43
    Molester Stallone II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭Molester Stallone II


    Me? wrote: »
    They had species changes and moved to US. One is a rabbit and the other became an alcoholic drug addicted bear.

    Yeah, the Bronx Bunny show was a bit of a laugh alright


  • #44
    AndonHandon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭AndonHandon


    They became the Rubberbandits. RTE just reassigns its people, most young people who get on a tv programme there are friends or family of someone connected to a hirer in RTE.


  • #45
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    I'd totally forgotten about A scare at bedtime. I used to really like that, *off to youtube*


  • #46
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    The calibre of guests went downhill big time, but they had some brilliantly random guests on from time to time, the big guy from The Sopranos and bearded guy from The West Wing. Cutting off the McCauls is still,one of the most unexpected, funniest things I've seen on RTE.


  • #47
    Bipolar Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    Bigger, more important question is, what happened to Sinéad Ni Churnain from DDN? I used to text in every day asking her to marry me.


  • #48
    The Purveyor of Truth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 397 ✭✭The Purveyor of Truth


    Hopefully they'll do another series.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbPPWc-pvs4


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