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One Foot in the Grave

  • 31-10-2014 1:21am
    #1
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭


    Anyone here ever watch the BBC comedy about Victor Meldrew, a grumpy old man who found himself in all sorts of disasters?


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  • #2
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Sorry, I mean One Foot in the Grave. :o


  • #3
    Stone Deaf 4evr
    Registered Users Posts: 7,990 ✭✭✭Stone Deaf 4evr


    branie2 wrote: »
    Sorry, I mean One Foot in the Grave. :o

    an absolute classic. the one with the skip was hilarious


  • #4
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users Posts: 18,073 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    I don't believe it...

    Loved the episode of Father Ted where Richard Wilson makes a cameo and Ted is following him around driving him nuts saying the catchphrase.


  • #5
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    RobbingBandit wrote: »
    I don't believe it...

    Loved the episode of Father Ted where Richard Wilson makes a cameo and Ted is following him around driving him nuts saying the catchphrase.

    That's right; and Wilson says it at the end when he sees Ted in the Parochial House!


  • #6
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    I didn't realise it ran for 6 series and the specials, might rewatch a few of them again.


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  • #7
    lord lucan
    Registered Users Posts: 9,573 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    Great show,loved the finale,classic David renwick,shades of Jonathan creek about it.


  • #8
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Here are the lyrics to the Victor Meldrew song from the episode The Beast in the Cage:

    There's a bloke we can't stand any longer
    Always on the bleedin' moan.
    Every time we mend his bloody Honda,
    He starts groaning on the phone.

    First, we fixed his car's ignition,
    Checked his brakes and clutch and then-
    Overhauled his whole transmission.
    He just brought it back again.

    Chorus: Victor Meldrew, Victor Meldrew
    He can stick it up his bum....up his bum.
    He can bugger off 'till kingdom come.


  • #9
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    I remember trying to act cool and saying I didnt find it funny to my parents.
    Spent more time trying to hold in laughing then anything :o Feckin eejit


  • #10
    Lovely Bloke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,748 ✭✭✭✭Lovely Bloke


    Victor is actually my role model.


  • #11
    TheBeardedLady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭TheBeardedLady


    It was the most unfunny television comedy to have ever existed. Or up there with the worst anyway.


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  • #12
    madmaggie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    My name is also Margaret, and I do say "Oh God" in the same clenched teeth way as Mrs Meldrew!


  • #13
    ttenneb
    Registered Users Posts: 283 ✭✭ttenneb


    Baldy Conscience wrote: »
    Victor is actually my role model.

    I constantly refer to myself as a modern-day Victor. My local Tesco hate to see me coming. But I DO also extend praise when I witness a job or service well done.


  • #14
    ttenneb
    Registered Users Posts: 283 ✭✭ttenneb


    TheBeardedLady wrote: »
    It was the most unfunny television comedy to have ever existed. Or up there with the worst anyway.

    Perhaps the other Martians who watched with you enjoyed it.


  • #15
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,517 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    I remember the final episode of this was superb- complete with a Travelling Wilburys song during the end credits.


  • #16
    BlaasForRafa
    Registered Users Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭BlaasForRafa


    TheBeardedLady wrote: »
    It was the most unfunny television comedy to have ever existed. Or up there with the worst anyway.

    You seem to be in a minority of one here. You were probably a Terry and June fan or something.

    The episode with the 2 tons of manure on the front lawn was hilarious.


  • #17
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    Wait for a wet cloudy dreary Sunday, fire up the boxset of this. Nostalgia Depression :)


  • #18
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    BlaasForRafa wrote: »
    You seem to be in a minority of one here. You were probably a Terry and June fan or something.

    The episode with the 2 tons of manure on the front lawn was hilarious.

    But, I liked Terry & June too.

    ****



  • #19
    Skid X
    Registered Users Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    It was a Classic, right up there with the best British Sitcoms. So well written - at different times it was surreal, poignant, weird but mostly just hilarious.

    You get a lot of people thinking it was just Victor shouting and getting angry, but there is so much more to OFITG. I still enjoy watching it.


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