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Fair city goes a bit more soupy than soapy

ifconfig · 2010-09-08 18:42:34

Is it my imagination or is this new character, Tommy, the doctor's husband, a dead-ringer in terms of his diction and mannerisms for the Buttevant dad in Soupy Norman ? I checked out the Wikipedia page on Soupy and it mentions the usual suspects, Barry Murphy, David O'Doherty and another character called Luke Murphy. Maybe…

08-09-2010 07:42PM

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Is it my imagination or is this new character, Tommy, the doctor's husband, a dead-ringer in terms of his diction and mannerisms for the Buttevant dad in Soupy Norman ?

I checked out the Wikipedia page on Soupy and it mentions the usual suspects, Barry Murphy, David O'Doherty and another character called Luke Murphy.

Maybe it is just a coincidence but I can't stop thinking of Soupy Norman every time this guy talks on screen.

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#2 08-09-2010 08:26PM

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Moving this to the Soap Opera forum....

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#3 09-09-2010 08:33PM

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He is very like him! I miss Soupy Norman, it was the funniest thing I'd seen in a long, long time

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#4 13-09-2010 03:46PM

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First time I saw him, I thought it was O' Dowd from Ros na Run.

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