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RIP Jim Bowen - Nothing for two in a bed

  • 14-03-2018 5:31pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,046 ✭✭✭


    Not sure how popular Bullseye was over here but I used to love it. Great guy Jim, RIP


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Easily one of the best TV quiz shows ever. Great presenter as well.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,340 ✭✭✭deco nate


    Let's have a look at what you could have won.... Rip


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    Sunday evening teatime


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 974 ✭✭✭eurokev


    Gutted, watch at least 5 episodes a week on challenge.
    Hopefully they put on a marathon session now in his honour. Great great show and Jim presented it brilliantly


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I used to love the fact that people could go on and say they were on the dole or a cleaner or a navvie or whatever and Jim treated them as equals.

    Everyone on quiz shows now is a student or retired.

    Different era I guess.

    RIP


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,983 ✭✭✭minikin


    Super, smashing, lovely... they should bury him in a motorboat shaped coffin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,010 ✭✭✭velo.2010


    This is mad stuff. They hit all 9 prizes and then gambled....



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,983 ✭✭✭minikin


    The prize descriptions were genius...
    "You'll have no trouble with your Ps and Qs with this economical motor scooter"
    :confused::)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭123balltv


    RIP Jim :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,036 ✭✭✭theoneeyedman


    Spent 5 years as Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church too IIRC......


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,862 ✭✭✭Mysterypunter


    Funny man, was watching reruns recently and a couple of lads were considering going for the speedboat, can't remember how much money they had exactly, think the pair who won the prizes had decided not to gamble. The 2 boys were Jock's, he said before they answered, "335 quid lads, that's a lot of money for a Scotsman" wasn't nasty or anything, just comical. RIP


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,837 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    bfh BUS FARE HOME.rip Jim lad


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭NickNickleby


    Many a Sunday afternoon was spent glued to it. Ahh, memories. I think we may have finally been able to afford a colour telly, by the time it aired. I certainly remember watching it in colour at some stage.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,412 ✭✭✭Road-Hog


    Many a Sunday afternoon was spent glued to it. Ahh, memories. I think we may have finally been able to afford a colour telly, by the time it aired. I certainly remember watching it in colour at some stage.

    I may get pilloried for this but did any of you every watch or attend his stand up comedy routines.....un-pc sexist racist would sum him up.....some of his one liners on bulls eye were borderline if you look back.....he obviously had to be careful on TV


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,582 ✭✭✭khaldrogo


    Road-Hog wrote:
    I may get pilloried for this but did any of you every watch or attend his stand up comedy routines.....un-pc sexist racist would sum him up.....some of his one liners on bulls eye were borderline if you look back.....he obviously had to be careful on TV


    Different times.......when funny was just funny


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    I actually thought he was already gone. He looked quite old presenting Bullseye and that was nearly 30 years ago.

    This too shall pass.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,412 ✭✭✭Road-Hog


    khaldrogo wrote: »
    Different times.......when funny was just funny

    Don’t think so. He continued with his one liners well into the ‘00’s


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,805 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    deco nate wrote: »
    Let's have a look at what you could have won.... Rip
    And the non dart player ready to stick the head in the dart player who couldn't get 59 or more with their three darts. Haha.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,000 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    RIP Jim. No airs or graces but an Utter professional as a presenter. Working men’s club tradition. He had a great sense of humanity and innate decency. As someone said before, he treated the contestants with respect and warmth and it shone through, the viewers appreciated it.

    Bullseye was a great format for the time. He did some good comedy turns on the likes of Phoenix nights too over the years.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    Oh the memories of Bullseye on a Sunday. Such an ordinary, but delightful quiz show. Jim had a stroke a few years ago and did really well to come back from it.

    RIP to the lad.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 653 ✭✭✭Gonad


    Used to watch this in the nanny’s back in the day of a Sunday . All the family together sitting in front of the tv . Better days :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,130 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Bully’s Prize Board.

    A cringingly brilliant show.

    The best part of it was that it was hilarious especially when it was not intending to be.

    As someone else said, the random descriptions of the prizes was bizarrely brilliant.

    Jim Bowen connected with the contestants and the audience and came across as a genuine guy, that’s what people loved about him.

    A personality that was genuine as opposed to some of the fake z listers today.

    Loved it as a kid and love the repeats.

    RIP Jim.

    Thanks for the memories.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,266 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    I watch it a lot on challenge. Just saw 1 last weekend where they gambled for the 101 or more with the non Darts player going first hitting TRIPLE 20 TRIPLE 20 he was gobsmacked. It was also the first time Bobby George was on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,266 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    Road-Hog wrote: »
    I may get pilloried for this but did any of you every watch or attend his stand up comedy routines.....un-pc sexist racist would sum him up.....some of his one liners on bulls eye were borderline if you look back.....he obviously had to be careful on TV

    It was the era where you go do those kind of jokes and as another poster said lots were just jokes said for a joke nothing more. Wasn't there a thread on AH in relation to Friends been been sexist and crude. If we are going to start doing that then anything post 2000 has to be shelved and destroyed


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,412 ✭✭✭Road-Hog


    RIP Jim. No airs or graces but an Utter professional as a presenter. Working men’s club tradition. He had a great sense of humanity and innate decency. As someone said before, he treated the contestants with respect and warmth and it shone through, the viewers appreciated it.

    Bullseye was a great format for the time. He did some good comedy turns on the likes of Phoenix nights too over the years.

    How can you be so sure of his genuineness...did you meet him in person? ! It’s amazing how many people get carried away with celebs /tv personalities thinking they know them and how they think based on a half hour of tv show onc a week


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,130 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Road-Hog wrote: »
    How can you be so sure of his genuineness...did you meet him in person? ! It’s amazing how many people get carried away with celebs /tv personalities thinking they know them and how they think based on a half hour of tv show onc a week

    You seem to have a grudge.

    weird posts.

    Did your great grandad and granny appear on the show and get BFH.?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,046 ✭✭✭Berserker


    anewme wrote: »
    You seem to have a grudge.

    weird posts.

    Did your great grandad and granny appear on the show and get BFH.?

    Didn't win the star prize.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,330 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Loved the show as a kid very sad he was a good laugh. RIP


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Still watch episodes. Still great entertainment. Very rare to see a truly working class man on Television back then.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,132 ✭✭✭Marty Bird


    “I’ll be back while I count out this £26 pound” absolutely loved Bullyeye growing up RIP Jim.

    🌞6.02kWp⚡️3.01kWp South/East⚡️3.01kWp West



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,412 ✭✭✭Road-Hog


    anewme wrote: »
    You seem to have a grudge.

    weird posts.

    Did your great grandad and granny appear on the show and get BFH.?

    No grudge but amazed at how Jim Bowen is being eulogized for his bulls eye show when If you took the time to research his other abilities such as ‘stand-up’ which he performed well into the 2000’s you would see a different side of his persona.....foul mouthed racist sexist jokes a milder version of Roy chubby brown or even Bernard manning

    Can confirm that nobody in my family ever appeared on the show.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,862 ✭✭✭Mysterypunter


    Road-Hog wrote: »
    No grudge but amazed at how Jim Bowen is being eulogized for his bulls eye show when If you took the time to research his other abilities such as ‘stand-up’ which he performed well into the 2000’s you would see a different side of his persona.....foul mouthed racist sexist jokes a milder version of Roy chubby brown or even Bernard manning

    Can confirm that nobody in my family ever appeared on the show.

    Bernard Manning was very funny, the racism was a stage act, Liam Neeson doesn't go around shooting people, only in the movie's


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 68,570 Mod ✭✭✭✭Grid.


    R.I.P Jim......thanks for the entertainment on a Sunday afternoon.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    minikin wrote: »
    Super, smashing, lovely... they should bury him in a motorboat shaped coffin.

    Uncannily enough, people who won the motorboat usually lived somewhere like Northampton or Derby, so almost a waste of time! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,837 ✭✭✭Doctors room ghost


    dd972 wrote: »
    Uncannily enough, people who won the motorboat usually lived somewhere like Northampton or Derby, so almost a waste of time! :pac:

    You didn’t have to take the boat though or any of the other prizes you won if you didn’t want them. The show would give you cash value instead.id say it was the same boat for years as most people would want the cash


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Danny Donut


    Great character.

    RIP Jim


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,892 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    Bernard Manning was very funny, the racism was a stage act, Liam Neeson doesn't go around shooting people, only in the movie's

    I've seen interviews with Bernard Manning; the racism wasn't an act.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,547 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    There's always some cùnt hopping onto an RIP thread just to have a wind up.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    I'm going to reply, but it will take me 2 minutes

    RIP


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,900 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Bernard Manning was very funny, the racism was a stage act, Liam Neeson doesn't go around shooting people, only in the movie's
    McGaggs wrote: »
    I've seen interviews with Bernard Manning; the racism wasn't an act.
    I've seen Liam Neeson; the 'going around shooting people' wasn't an act.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 870 ✭✭✭barney shamrock


    RIP Ken Dodd and Jim Bowen.
    (Non-dart player went first)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75,435 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Jim’s voiceover in this is brilliant! RIP




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,412 ✭✭✭Road-Hog


    Jim’s voiceover in this is brilliant! RIP


    What is so brilliant about reading a scripted piece about a prize....are you suggesting it’s an off the cuff commentary or something....?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,835 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Still love the show. A show for the workingman who gets up early in the morning .....
    With rubbish prizes.
    RIP JIm


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,435 ✭✭✭wandatowell


    I'm sure they chose the prizes from down the local CO-OP.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5 rick_shaw


    you know what was very funny about the show ( well one of the things )

    you had two in each team where one person answered questions while his team mate threw darts but at the end the person who partook in the quiz aspect of the show would also be called to throw darts for the big prizes

    it was hilarious , the guy or girl who up until then only answered questions , was without fail always always the worst dart thrower to ever walk the earth , i mean tony green ( at the ockey ) was almost in danger of being hit himself , they would barely ever manage to score ten from three darts as two of the darts would not hit the board at all

    like they insisted that the person answering questions was only as good a dart player as you granny who was dead for thirty years


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5 rick_shaw


    " take a look at what you could have won "


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,130 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    rick_shaw wrote: »
    you know what was very funny about the show ( well one of the things )

    you had two in each team where one person answered questions while his team mate threw darts but at the end the person who partook in the quiz aspect of the show would also be called to throw darts for the big prizes

    it was hilarious , the guy or girl who up until then only answered questions , was without fail always always the worst dart thrower to ever walk the earth , i mean tony green ( at the ockey ) was almost in danger of being hit himself , they would barely ever manage to score ten from three darts as two of the darts would not hit the board at all

    like they insisted that the person answering questions was only as good a dart player as you granny who was dead for thirty years

    The person named as the Darts playing one was more often than not terrible as well.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5 rick_shaw


    anewme wrote: »
    The person named as the Darts playing one was more often than not terrible as well.

    some were decent and some were quite good but there partner was always beyond hopeless


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,222 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Stephen Hawking and Jim eh? The non-darts player always goes first...


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