Does this remind anybody of anybody?

unionman · 01-05-2009 3:41pm #1

OK, it's Friday afternoon of a bank holiday weekend and the mind tends to wander. So I'm reading Leo Hickman's blog on the Guardian website about Mike Judge's new satirical animated series 'The Goode Family' and I notice that one of the animated characters looks erm...well...kinda familiar.

Make up your own mind (and maybe just ignore the shopping bag). Maybe it's just me.

Chips Lovell · 01-05-2009 3:44pm

yeah, that's him.

Raam · 01-05-2009 3:45pm

it's uncanny really

Chips Lovell · 01-05-2009 3:47pm

unionman wrote: »

Maybe just ignore the shopping bag

Nah, that actually makes it. You can just imagine him in full road gear with a bag of groceries.

Chips Lovell · 01-05-2009 3:48pm

Who votes for this as his new avatar?

Raam · 01-05-2009 3:49pm

el tonto wrote: »

Nah, that actually makes it. You can just imagine him in full road gear with a bag of groceries.

yeah, didn't he crash getting milk recently? If that pic had some road-rash, then we'd really be talking.

DirkVoodoo · 01-05-2009 3:49pm

No sandals. But he did say he was getting a pair of proper Look style pedals.

It even has that classic face he has in EVERY photo.

Chips Lovell · 01-05-2009 3:50pm

Raam wrote: »

yeah, didn't he crash getting milk recently?

I thought it was cornflakes.

Raam · 01-05-2009 3:51pm

el tonto wrote: »

I thought it was cornflakes.

You might be right.
it was either milk for his cornflakes or cornflakes for his milk, can't remember

unionman · 01-05-2009 3:53pm

Phew! So it's not just me then.

Sandals would have really sealed the deal though.

I haven't watched the clip yet, but I gather the series is taking the pi55. If it catches on then this character might be a subject of ridicule...in which case my apologies.

blorg · 01-05-2009 4:04pm

It's Tom, right?

Gavin · 01-05-2009 4:14pm

Hahaha, good find Unionman

niceonetom · 01-05-2009 5:42pm

s'freaky.

ROK ON · 01-05-2009 5:52pm

Well, as someone on this site is wont to say: "at least he is cycling a bike".

blorg · 01-05-2009 6:18pm

I don't think Judd has ever tried cycling a bike with a bag of groceries on the bars; where he has it the bag will fall into the wheel. You need to hook the bag handles sort of over the top of the brake lever in such a way that the drop braces the bag and keeps it out of the wheel. This is easier on a modern bike where the brake cable goes back under the bar tape, it is a bit tricky with traditional brake levers where the cables go up like that... Er I think I read this on the internet somewhere.