First Boosh Experience

Crumble Froo

okay, how'd you discover boosh? how'd you get into it? anyone actually get into it themselves, or was it through a friend? what did you think the first time?

i had two mates who were big fans, and eventually goat_mouth bought series one while i was out with him one day, and we went back to mine and watched it. i got ridiculously excited when they started talking about that llama, as i knew the calm a llama down song by heart at that stage, before i knew which one was vince and which one was howard.

fell asleep part way through, but that was extreme tiredness and not boredom. went for a weekend in london later and saw the two dvd boxset then. been entirely hooked ever since. the night the b/f quoted the moon while having a cig at the door, i knew we were compatible :P

Doctor DooM

I was working late shift and the boosh was on Dave channel, at about 1 am, it was the first hitcher episode and it was maaaaddd foggy outside.

Freaky!

Crumble Froo

creeping in your room in the dead of night, with me solo polo vision...

Star Lord

I discovered it through you and Monkeyfudge and feyla constantly quoting at one another and at me

Started watching it, and was hooked like a mother licker!

Crumble Froo

which reminds me, have we got wilburt properly hooked in yet?

ha, and sorry about those nights, damo, the end justifying the means and all that :P

what did you think about it the first time though? too much hype, not enough initial funny? difficult humour to get into the mindset of? good as you expected?

c - 13

Friend of mine saw it on BBC, liked it and asked me to order it for him online. Ordered it and when it arrived he had me watch it from the start. Saw Killeroo, wasnt impressed at all and put something else on.

About a week later he persuaded me to give it another go. I watched the Legend of Old Greg, was impressed, then another, then another .... and i've been hooked since.

Crumble Froo

really? i was never a huge old gregg fan. found that episode a bit not-that-funny, though the love games song is top class, and it's handy for whenever baileys is mentioned.

Star Lord

Watched the first episode and thought "I see why they like it so much!" and proceeded to watch as many as possible!

And how can you not like Old Gregg? Even the bit where they walk into the pub and everything stops... then the barman goes "Hmm..." and walks over, puts money in the meter and everyone starts talking/playing again... genius!

c - 13

Well I has half tore at the time so that did make it seem extra funny. He would have won me over straight away had he shown me the hitcher. I think killeroo is a bad episode to start someone on. I've converted a few myself, I usually go for "The Call of the Yeti" to start them off, has worked every time.

feylya

It started with a clip of Old Greg on YouTube and then it finished with a couple bottles of JD and foggy memories...

monkeyfudge

Crumble Froo wrote: »

really? i was never a huge old gregg fan. found that episode a bit not-that-funny, though the love games song is top class, and it's handy for whenever baileys is mentioned.

Love games?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qyZN4dvUn4

I watched the Boosh when it first started airing on BBC Three... I think Jungle was the first episode I saw. The reason I tuned in to it was because I noticed it had a lot of the same cast as Garth Merangi's Darkplace. I really didn't like it at all at first... but I'd end up watching it when there wasn't anything else on and slowly it grew on me to the point where I'm a huge fan.

Doctor DooM

Crumble Froo wrote: »

creeping in your room in the dead of night, with me solo polo vision...

EELS! EELS! EELS!

c - 13

monkeyfudge wrote: »

... Garth Merangi's Darkplace ...

I actually went the opposite way, I found Darkplace, Nathan Barley, Man to Man with Dean Learner and Snuff Box after seeing the boosh.

F*cking love Garth Meranghi.

Doctor DooM

c - 13 wrote: »

I actually went the opposite way, I found Darkplace, Nathan Barley, Man to Man with Dean Learner and Snuff Box after seeing the boosh.

F*cking love Garth Meranghi.

Aw yeah its hilarious.

Sub forum FTW

HighburyHill

i was on tour with Spider and Rudi in the seventies and when it came on they told me through a dream sequence that it was my destiny....


nah, the real story how i found the Boosh is nearly as strange, a Born again Christian who used to work for me used quotes from it in a pub arguement about creationism.

Galvasean

Im a huge fan of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace so when I heard some of the same people do the Mighty Boosh I was naturally converted.

Jay P

My friends both watch and they told me to so i obeyed. It was the egg of somewhere or other I saw, that was brilliant

c - 13

Egg of Mantumbi - It was Tundra then ...

Ginny

Was off work sick and my little brother gave me series 1 on Dvd and the live Dvd to watch.
Being off your head on drugs the first time you see Boosh is bound to get you hooked!!

missingtime

A guy in work told me about it said it was "nuts".

Remember seeing the Spirit of Jazz episode ("I'm gonna wear you like a glove") at a house but no one was into it.

Didn't get around to watching it until about a month or two ago when I found the box set in our house.

I love it to bits now but can never remember enough quotes cos there are so many.

grames_bond

saw a mini clip live on one of those "best of stand up comedians charity event" found them funny but i didnt know why, so checked them out, and i havent looked back since!!! anyone up for a crimp?

soup soup a tasty soup soup a spicey....

HighburyHill

....Carrot and coriander, Chilli Chowder....

Crumble Froo

...crouton, crouton...

HighburyHill

...Crunchy friends in a liquid broth.....

Star Lord

... I am gaspachio oh! I am a summer soup mmm! ...

*4 way crimp?

Shiminay

They said it was impossible!

I got into Boosh through my housemate Killo who's in the NCAD and the whole college is Boosh MAD. First time I saw it I thought "****ing hell, it's the new Python!"

I have the radio series on the PC at home and haven't listened to all of it yet, but it's rather good too.

grames_bond

DamoElDiablo wrote: »

... I am gaspachio oh! I am a summer soup mmm! ...

miso miso fighting in the dojo....

Toots

miso miso, oriental prince in the land of soup!

Crumble Froo

loving the avatar, toots! ... actually, and the location, and the sig :P

so if i was to say OH MY GODDD! ice! flow! nowhere to go...

c - 13

ice floe, no where to go,
lost in the blinding whiteness of the tundra!

Crumble Froo

.... check him out!...

*vince does shrew dance which i have oft copied*

grames_bond

boosh boosh, stronger than a moose!!

Crumble Froo

don't lock th door or we'll come through your rooftops!

Fysh

Did nobody else find the radio show first?

About 3 years ago someone on LJ posted a link to a page espousing the virtues of the radio show, which I duly sourced and enjoyed. A good while later I heard about the TV show but, not having access to the Beeb at the time I couldn't check it out and a few comments seemed to suggest it wasn't great. Eventually I moved to the UK and saw Season 3 on TV, at which point I was hooked.

"Sushi? I'm talking about eels, boy! Live eels wriggling around inside your belly! Exploring your organs like internal black wangers!"

Hrududu

I first heard of them when they appeared on Jonathan Ross one night. The clip they showed was terrible but they way they talked about the show piqued my interest. Then a few weeks later I saw that it was on TV that night and tuned in. It was the one where they went to Monkey Hell and it won me over. I just sat there completely charmed by the whole thing. The next episode was Tundra and that just cemented it. Any time I've tried to get people into it, they are the 2 episodes I show them.

Crumble Froo

ha, jonathon ross was my first intro too! my housemate watched the woss show religiously, and had apparently come across the boosh before, and made me watch it,a nd told me i'd love it.. it was a good few months after that that i actually got into it. had to put up with two mates quoting it consistently too. like i say, i knew the calm a llama down song before i ever watched the show.

Wreck

Fysh wrote: »

Did nobody else find the radio show first?

About 3 years ago someone on LJ posted a link to a page espousing the virtues of the radio show, which I duly sourced and enjoyed. A good while later I heard about the TV show but, not having access to the Beeb at the time I couldn't check it out and a few comments seemed to suggest it wasn't great. Eventually I moved to the UK and saw Season 3 on TV, at which point I was hooked.

"Sushi? I'm talking about eels, boy! Live eels wriggling around inside your belly! Exploring your organs like internal black wangers!"

The first Boosh episode I saw was 'The Priest and the Beast', Spider and Rudy's search for the New Sound. While I didn't hate it, I didn't really like it all that much (it's still my least favorite episode). It was only last when I heard an episode of the radio show last summer that I understood the genius that is the Boosh. I'd say I watched all three series over the course of a week:D

As for watching it drunk or stoned, I wouldn't be a fan, especially if it's the first time watching it. It's just too good a show to waste

Ash_M

i'd heard of it but had no idea what it was, then i got into Noel Fielding's comedy (the miracle of YouTube) and keep hearing about the Boosh obviously... so i found the Killeroo and wasn't overly impressed if im honest... the only other one i could find then was Electro, and that converted me.
watched the 3 seasons then in 3 days, by Tundra there was no going back. when i was finished i went and bought the DVDs, downloaded the radio series from iTunes, and went about getting tickets to the live show!
i've converted my brothers and a couple other people... my parents don't get it but they only watched Killeroo, i told them to watch Tundra but they ignored me and just set the DVD going. i might try them with Tundra again sometime... Tundra or Milky Joe have been the most effective conversion episodes in my experience.

Crumble Froo

oh man, was in work today, (i work with kids) and girl at work said that the one i wanted was the oblong box.

i nearly pissed myself laughing cos she said oblong.
i warned her that she coudl get fired for saying that, but she just didnt undersatnd, and i could barely breath from som much laughing.