Bedtime Nostalgia

Professey Chin

Everyone has those memories from when you were younger of what signalled bedtime on weekdays or especially weekends. So what was the trigger that you knew you were being sent to bed after? TV show? Radio? Anything really!

I can still remember being allowed to watch the Simpsons and the intro to 21 Jump Street (just the intro) on Sundays. Sent straight to bed after that (obviously I was very young :P ...i think)

Duckjob

Glenroe music at 8.30pm on sunday night signalled the death of a weekend, and instigated a mad dash to do the homework I'd left to last minute for monday before going to bed and getting up for school. Hearing the end music wafting up the stairs at 9pm was even more depressing.

Still hate that Glenroe music

Professey Chin

Duckjob wrote: »

Glenroe music at 8.30pm on sunday night signalled the death of a weekend, and instigated a mad dash to do the homework I'd left to last minute for monday before going to bed and getting up for school. Hearing the end music wafting up the stairs at 9pm was even more depressing.

Still hate that Glenroe music

That and the old game show Where in the World on RTE. Both of those meant school

Ruu

Gladiators on Saturday night. School Around the Corner and Secret (both hosted by Gerry Ryan). Play The Game (with Twink *shudder* and Ronan Collins, along with Where in the World.

Yep, I knew of the Glenroe theme tune which meant the death march!

branie

Glenroe was the end of the weekend

Professey Chin

Ruubot2 wrote: »

Gladiators on Saturday night. School Around the Corner and Secret (both hosted by Gerry Ryan). Play The Game (with Twink *shudder* and Ronan Collins, along with Where in the World.

Play The Game with Twink & Brendan Grace genuinely sounds like the equivalent of an enema with a rusty drainpipe. Must have repressed it completely

Ruu

"TEW WORDS??!?! SOUNDS LIKE....IS IT A FIL-EM!??!"

Professey Chin

I had to go look at a clip.
Im off to drink bleach.

gobnaitolunacy

The Dark Lord Cthulhu wrote: »

Play The Game with Twink & Brendan Grace genuinely sounds like the equivalent of an enema with a rusty drainpipe. Must have repressed it completely

It was actually Derek Davis...how on earth a show with 'slebs' doing charades could be the premise of quality tv, we must have been easily amused.

Aglomerado

Derek Davis is lovely. Beautiful soft voice and accent. Twink on the other hand is a ghastly yoke.

Glenbore theme music still conjures memories of schoolbags, lunchboxes and uniforms. Yecch.

gobnaitolunacy

Derek seems sound, didn't like the way the wimmens won nearly every week on the show.
The male contestants they got on were nearly all slow-witted buffoons.

r3nu4l

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

It was actually Derek Davis...how on earth a show with 'slebs' doing charades could be the premise of quality tv, we must have been easily amused.

We robbed that from British TV, where it was called 'Give us a Clue'

Bedtime TV rituals.

Mid-week: When I was very young, when the Bill came on mid-week at about 8 PM, I was sent packing to bed. One week I begged to be allowed up a bit longer, watched 5 minutes of the Bill and saw a young kid being chased and beaten by a gang of 'punk rockers'. I saw the 'blood', felt sick and told my Mam who promptly sent me to bed and as a result 8PM remained my bedtime for quite a while

Saturday: We had a bath about 7PM and then from 7.30-8.30 we were allowed to watch whatever Saturday evening light entertainment was on. Might have been blankety-blank or perhaps Morecambe and wise, or if we were lucky, Some Mothers do 'ave 'em

Sunday: Then when I was older the end of Glenroe became a time when I didn't even move on the couch, hoping my parents would somehow magically forget I was there and let me stay up even longer. It didn't work

As I got a bit older I remember not being allowed to watch Twin Peaks so I'm guessing 9.25 or so was my bedtime at that stage.

I actually miss being a kid

Professey Chin

That reminds me. I gotta watch twin peaks again.

Just realised how much my parents used to lie to me about the time in summer. They'd tell me I could stay out until 9 then call me in at about 7 saying it's 9. Bastards :pac:

Ann22

I remember the music from News at Ten intro playing and knowing it was dead late. If my mam happened to be distracted at the time this particular music would defo remind her to send us upstairs to bed pronto.

Posy

Duckjob wrote: »

Glenroe music at 8.30pm on sunday night signalled the death of a weekend, and instigated a mad dash to do the homework I'd left to last minute for monday before going to bed and getting up for school.

This is also my answer!
I still call the depression on a Sunday night 'having a case of the Glenroes.'
If I hear that music it makes me feel like I have a spelling test in the morning and I haven't learned anything for it yet. *shudder*

I used to quite enjoy 'Where in the World' though.

Lyssa

The Dark Lord Cthulhu wrote: »

That reminds me. I gotta watch twin peaks again.

Just realised how much my parents used to lie to me about the time in summer. They'd tell me I could stay out until 9 then call me in at about 7 saying it's 9. Bastards :pac:

Have always loved the theme music to Twin Peaks....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXrjMaVoTy0

gobnaitolunacy

Thought Twin Peaks was great at the start, then it sort of weirded me out.

I was left stay up late, they used play the Anthem at the end of transmission (do they still do that??) with scenes of furzey bushes in the wind and spiders webs and things.

Professey Chin

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

Thought Twin Peaks was great at the start, then it sort of weirded me out.

I was left stay up late, they used play the Anthem at the end of transmission (do they still do that??) with scenes of furzey bushes in the wind and spiders webs and things.

Don't think they play the anthem anymore. I used to love staying up until the transmission ended. Some channels were just home shopping after it. All the amazing products :pac:

madmaggie

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

Thought Twin Peaks was great at the start, then it sort of weirded me out.

I was left stay up late, they used play the Anthem at the end of transmission (do they still do that??) with scenes of furzey bushes in the wind and spiders webs and things.

I loved Twin Peaks as well, then it turned into a very long in-joke. I remember the anthem with the sparkly water over the rocks, being roared at, 'stand up, would ye'.

Professey Chin

madmaggie wrote: »

I loved Twin Peaks as well, then it turned into a very long in-joke. I remember the anthem with the sparkly water over the rocks, being roared at, 'stand up, would ye'.

Who was shouting at you to stand up for the tv? :pac:

madmaggie

The Dark Lord Cthulhu wrote: »

Who was shouting at you to stand up for the tv? :pac:

The Mammy roaring to stand up for the anthem, there we were, 3 eejits standing up for the telly.

dorado

r3nu4l wrote: »

As I got a bit older I remember not being allowed to watch Twin Peaks so I'm guessing 9.25 or so was my bedtime at that stage.

Just playing back the music to Glenroe makes my heart sink, like I still haven't done my homework and have to rush. All these years later...

and as for Twin Peaks, I also wasn't allowed to stay up and watch it, especially as it got weirder and weirder as time went on.... but I could see the sitting room television from the foot of my bed if the door was open, and one night I got the bright idea to crouch at the foot to see what was going on in Twin Peaks- I saw something on the screen that frightened me so bad I couldn't get it out of my head for a long, long time, and I no longer wanted to sneak a glance at the programme.

There was a white horse in a living room, and the scene was very ghostly and tense in one of those ways that you can't put your finger on. That was it, I was gone.
I wasn't even very very young, I was ten or eleven or so. Don't know why it got me so much...

This was the bit....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIfYhiMFKAI