Five go mad in Dorset

TheDriver

Any one remember the comic strip presents with this p**stake on famous five with french and saunders etc including Aunt Fanny, Uncle Quentin (world famous homosexual) and robbie coltrain (dressed as woman in local shop) not to mention Anne who would make a good housewife someday with Timmy the Dog constantly dying but they always bought a new one?!!

Couldnt'; stop laughing when I heard it!!

GAA widow

i remember that - it's a real pi**take of the Enid Blyton books -totally un PC, everything is washed down with lashings of ginger beer and whenever they agreed with anything the answer was always an overzealous "ooh, RATHER".

does anyone have any clips i wonder?

stovelid

Man, I'd love to see that again!

Uncle Quentin kidnaps Dick who turns "queer" (as in Julian "Urrgh pull yourself together Dick, you're making yourself look queer")

stovelid

Just found this online...

It got the press in a flap - "Look What They Have Done To The Famous Five" - and Mike Bolland had to screen it at least twice for members of Enid Blyton's estate for fear of offence (unfounded - they all loved it).

Surely not :eek:

TheDriver

have it on video at home recorded years ago on RTE

Nala

There's also "Five go mad on Mescalin". I'd love to see a clip of either

il gatto

Adrian Edmundson was in it wasn't he? I remember when they went to Uncle Quentin's house, and there was tubs of Vaseline everywhere, and a big Vaseline dispenser. Class:D
Anyone remember Happy Families or Ripping Yarns? They were so funny, I shat myself (not really)

stovelid

They showed both of Five Go Mad...episodes last night on the paramount comedy channel!. Just stumbled across them by chance. Just as funny as I remembered.

Did anybody else catch them?

I would say the chance of them being repeated soon are good.

Nala

ah goddammit i would have loved to have seen them!!!!

Nala

Wahoo they're on YouTube!!!

Five Go Mad In Dorset

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=five+go+mad+in+dorset

Five Go Mad On Mescalin

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=five+go+mad+on+mescalin

stovelid

Surely you mean....Hurrah!

Nala wrote:

Wahoo they're on YouTube!!![/URL]

TheDriver

Some Ginger Beer to celebrate

DublinWriter

My fav Uncle Quentin quotes:

"Your aunt Fanny is a raging nymphomaniac, and I am a screaming homosexual"

"Children, I am a drug addict. I need a dustbin full of the stuff every day just to keep me sane"

You couldn't get any Comic Strip vids or DVDs for years because of a battle between Peter Richardson and Ch4 over ownership.

This was settled back in 2004 when the complete Comic Strip DVD box-set was released.

I'm a proud owner. Other Comic Strip gems include Bad News, More Bad News, Mr.Jolly Lives Next Door, Strike! and A Fist Full of Travellers Cheques ("You want soft toilet paper? You go to hotel gay-boy!").

Get the box set. Now!

shane86

I recall when I was 10 or so a new version with the lads goiung to some sort of conference in Swindon? I think it was 5 Men in a Car or something. I vaguely recall one of them getting a vile looking curry at a petrol station which made the other guy throw up, and another of the lads bought some cursed CD which refused to stop skipping on the sound system, even when he tried removing it, kicked the stereo in and eventually stopped the car and ripped out the wires

Nala

stovelid wrote:

Surely you mean....Hurrah!

Rather!!!!!!!!!!