The AH Late Late Toy Show Thread

KeithM89

(Always way better than the one in the TV forum)

Can't believe no one started on yet. For shame.

Everyone owes me a fiver each time one of these things happen

• Billy Barry Kids
• Frozen gets mentioned
• Z List Celeb from the canteen
• One for everyone in the audience (lucky pricks)
• Token Black Kid
• Double barrelled surname, usually a D4 kid
• Microphone doesn’t work
• Kid crashes bike/scooter
• Dustin appears
• Some woeful School Choir
• The dreaded Book section

Link to watch it online:
http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/10348806/

Wish they'd bring back Pat Kenny...:pac:

Lyaiera

I hate the Billy Barry kids.

KeithM89

Lyaiera wrote: »

I hate the Billy Barry kids.

Everyone does.

The Adversary

Take a shot every time a kid rates something 10 out of 10.

Donkey Oaty

KeithM89 wrote: »

• Token Black Kid

I'm not trying to start a row here, but genuine question - how can we tell if it's just a black kid rather than a token black kid?

KeithM89

KeithM89 wrote: »

(Always way better than the one in the TV forum)
:

lies

AllGunsBlazing

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

I'm not trying to start a row here

Yeah, ye are.

Donkey Oaty

AllGunsBlazing wrote: »

Yeah, ye are.

There's a fiver at stake - this is no joking matter.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Hopefully Dustin and Socky make an appearance. It would be great to Snotser again also.

KeithM89

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Hopefully Dustin and Socky make an appearance. It would be great to Snotser again also.

Or John Joe the horologist

Lyaiera

KeithM89 wrote: »

Everyone does.

Honestly? It's made me doubt myself. As a child I hated them, but that felt normal. I was a child with an aversion to other children. But surely this neurosis shouldn't have carried through all the way to adulthood. Surely children are all that is good with the world? They represent the future, hope and innocence. Was it not Jesus himself who said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." But if my choice was between lifelong irritable bowel syndrome and a daily Billy Barry Kids performance I'd be stocking up on triple ply toilet paper.

Donkey Oaty

Lyaiera wrote: »

But if my choice was between lifelong irritable bowel syndrome and a daily Billy Barry Kids performance I'd be stocking up on triple ply toilet paper.

I do believe you have stumbled on a great euphemism there.

AllGunsBlazing

Just not the same without PK. His general warm and easy-going nature around the kids really warmed the heart.

Neyite

• every time a toy doesn't work the way its supposed to.
• every time a kid outsmarts Tubridy.
• every time a kid cries.

Lyaiera

KeithM89 wrote: »

Or John Joe the horologist

Has there ever been a "Greatest Hits" DVD of the Toy Show?

Neyite

Gaybo was the best. His thinly veiled hatred of the brats on the show was a joy to behold.

Neyite

Neyite wrote: »

Gaybo was the best. His thinly veiled hatred of the brats on the show was a joy to behold.

Pat Kenny gave all the toys to the boys and not the girls

"alright lads would you like this toy? yeah? well there's one for you! and everyone in the audience!
now girls, would you love this doll? yeah? oh well too bad. now moving on..."

Neyite

bluewolf wrote: »

Pat Kenny gave all the toys to the boys and not the girls

"alright lads would you like this toy? yeah? well there's one for you! and everyone in the audience!
now girls, would you love this doll? yeah? oh well too bad. now moving on..."

Brilliant!
At least Gaybo though hated both genders equally.

One eyed Jack

KeithM89 wrote: »

Billy Barry Kids

Were they not replaced with the Adele King Stage School Kids?

Does Tubridy wear the shìte jumpers that Gay and Pat used wear?


€10 on Fiachra or Suibhneas dropping the F-bomb, I haven't watched the show in years but I'll watch it tonight for the laugh.

Donkey Oaty

Billie Barry died two months ago, so I'd be very surprised if there wasn't some sort of tribute to her.

Riesen_Meal

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

Billie Barry died two months ago, so I'd be very surprised if there wasn't some sort of tribute to her.

No better stage than tonight for them antics I think...

AllGunsBlazing

I'm guessing a chorus line of dead - eyed children, with fixed grins, belting out songs of from 'Annie'.

Shudder.

podgemonster

They have definitely wound back on the Billy Barry's over the years. Gaybo was a big patronizing fan of them, they could feature several times in the same Toy Show.

Its seems that the foaming hatred that existed for these performing bright eyed doll children eventually filtered down to when Pat Kenny was at the helm.

They featured on and off during the decades but the Billy Barry founder died this year so I do expect a comeback and for them to close or open tonight's show.

KeithM89

Lyaiera wrote: »

Has there ever been a "Greatest Hits" DVD of the Toy Show?

Theres a 'Top 10 moments' on the RTE youtube page.
Separate vids for each clip like this one:

Pumpkinseeds

Funny how most of us hated the Billie Barry kids:D I've got my crisps and chocolate ready for the toy show, well, it's gotta be done.:)

The One Doctor

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

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I'm not trying to start a row here, but genuine question - how can we tell if it's just a black kid rather than a token black kid?

If there's only one black kid in the whole show then it's a token.

Sheep Lover

"And next up we have Sneachta, what's that you have there Sneachta?"

"My mammys favourite toy, she only plays with it when daddy is at work though."

Pumpkinseeds

Sheep Lover wrote: »

"And next up we have Sneachta, what's that you have there Sneachta?"

"My mammys favourite toy, she only plays with it when daddy is at work though."

The gift that keeps on giving.:D

conorh91

I had at least five twenty-somethings and thirty-somethings mention the LL Toy Show to me in work today.

I hadn't the heart to tell them I don't give a fúck. Sorry but why is this "a thing" now? When I was a kid my older siblings went to the pub and the kids watched the Toy Show. Even back then it was a bit lame. I don't think I watched it at all after the age of 14.

Supposed to be going out tonight, but I'm worried everyone is going to bail, in order to stay in and watch that insufferable bean pole shoving books in kids' faces like some dull, childless relative.

Sheep Lover

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

The gift that keeps on giving.:D

Quite a "buzz" around it alright.

xXxkorixXx

Fiver says some little crab says 'oh of course Ryan' or 'wait Ryan' whilst giving a science demo to chuckles from the audience.

Donkey Oaty

conorh91 wrote: »

I had at least five twenty-somethings and thirty-somethings mention the LL Toy Show to me in work today.

I hadn't the heart to tell them I don't give a fúck. Sorry but why is this "a thing" now? When I was a kid my older siblings went to the pub and the kids watched the Toy Show. Even back then it was a bit lame. I don't think I watched it at all after the age of 14.

Supposed to be going out tonight, but I'm worried everyone is going to bail, in order to stay in and watch that insufferable bean pole.

It's okay not to "get it".

But by way of explanation, the fun is in the fact that late-night live TV and kids do not mix, and the show is genuinely dreaded by production people who are so used to co-ordinating everything into bland, spoon-fed nonsense.

We might have to pan a bit in the river, but there will always be at least a chance of a few golden TV nuggets.

For those of us with nostalgic memories, it's a heritage thing - a shared experience - and you kind of have to be there.

Let's hope it all goes haywire.

Rosie Rant

Pink bunny onesie, chocolate, bailey's, homemade banana bread and a big pot of tea. All set for the Toy Show. Do your worst Tubridy! Do your worst!

Macavity.

They've promised that dreams can come true - but forget to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

Jawgap

Neyite wrote: »

Gaybo was the best. His thinly veiled hatred of the brats on the show was a joy to behold.

In fairness Gaybo only seemed to hate those kids who upstaged him.

Every other kid just got a variation on the patronising contempt he had for the rest of the country.

Cienciano

I hate those billy barry kids too. Has anyone famous ever come from there?

Smidge

Why did the last episode of The Blacklist have to be last week??

Why???



Why??????

NotCominBack

3 things I have learned from this thread thus far

1) we dont have token black kids any more
2) Billy Barry is a woman
3) I have never watched the toy show in my life

Sheep Lover

NotCominBack wrote: »

3 things I have learned from this thread thus far

1) we dont have token black kids any more

We've replaced them with token nGaelgoirisiseoigeisis, infesting RTE like a bad dose of syphilis

conorh91

Cienciano wrote: »

I hate those billy barry kids too. Has anyone famous ever come from there?

Angeline Ball, Samantha Mumba and Brenda Donoghue.

SEPT 23 1989

conorh91 wrote: »

Angeline Ball, Samantha Mumba and Brenda Donoghue.

He said famous

thingamagig

NotCominBack wrote: »

3 things I have learned from this thread thus far

1) we dont have token black kids any more
2) Billy Barry is a woman
3) I have never watched the toy show in my life

There's someone out there who hasn't watched the late late toy show? Ah here, what kind of life is that!

conorh91

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

He said famous

I know someone was going to say that! In fairness Angeline Ball and Samantha Mumba are or were genuinely famous.

Bit of a tangent but is there some well-known, never-published story about what happened Samatha Mumba? She had genuine American billboard success, and then disappeared quicker than a line of coke on a Krystal toilet. Does anyone know what the hell actually happened there? She's like, our Malaysian Airlines.

salmocab

Apparently it has a chitty chitty bang bang theme tonight but no child catcher as he might frighten young children, to be fair it already has a pretty sinister presenter so maybe RTE have a limit of one weirdo per show.

Mint Sauce

Live TV, kids, and a slightly hyper presenter. What could possibly go wrong.

xXxkorixXx

Shower PJs food and tuburity. Let the fun begin!

PizzamanIRL

Don't forget the Christmas jumper too

gk5000

Hopefully this thread will be better than the actual show - inflicted on me by OH who want's family bonding/memories watching LLTS with Kid(s).

So this and a few tinnies and it may be bearable.

Yamanoto

AllGunsBlazing wrote: »

Just not the same without PK. His general warm and easy-going nature around the kids really warmed the heart.

This one's for you....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU0OGyPUoQQ

ratracer

I'm trying to get a few swift beers into me before the fun begins...... What drinking games are we playing???

KeithM89

ratracer wrote: »

I'm trying to get a few swift beers into me before the fun begins...... What drinking games are we playing???

This one:
http://www.dailyedge.ie/toy-show-drinking-game-1804890-Nov2014/

Get the appletinis ready.