Pajo's Junkbox

branie2 · 26-12-2018 12:57PM

road_high wrote: »

I think they did wipe it, remember reading that. Part of the cultural history of the country and the turnips in RTÉ tape over it!

I vaguely remember bits of it. The last episode wasn’t Pajo and his junk box loaded up on a forklift and brought off? Devastated I was!
Also loved the Professor guy. Remember another episode he was explaining about the peat bogs, he was superimposed on a hot air balloon across the midlands I seem to remember!!

The bit with the forklift wasn't the last episode; he was kidnapped in the episode in question.

The Crowman · 28-12-2018 08:39AM

I remember one bit from one of the very early episodes where Pajo has a dream about these 18th century types in wigs chanting "off with his hair" then he wakes up frightened. Might have been a reference to the French Revoloution.

The Crowman · 06-03-2019 09:17PM

mcmoustache wrote: »

Dinny was the professor?

I never would have known.

wally79 wrote: »

He wasn’t unless there was a different professor when I watched it. 34mins or so in below

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n0Ue7s62Kq8

Not Dinny, that was Joe Lynch.

Coincidentally Jack Lynch aka the Professor did appear in Glenroe. He pops up here in a scene starting around 22.40 playing a detective.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI9X1Q7AM9g

vektarman · 31-03-2019 02:40PM

Rosemary Henderson, who played Grabbit in Pajo's Junkbox, went on to become Sister Assumpta in Fr.Ted and is now waiting to get her gas boiler repaired.

LimeFruitGum · 14-04-2019 07:29PM

Oh man... the first record I got was Pajo. (Vinyl, didn’t have a tape player yet) Can’t remember any of the songs though! I think it’s still at home somewhere.

Hangdogroad · 26-07-2019 09:25AM

The puppeteer behind Pajo, Pat Bracken died in 2010. I only found that out now, RIP.

thejuggler · 10-08-2019 07:08AM

The puppeteer and voice of Pajo was Raymond Keane. He’s now a respected theatre actor and voiceover artist.

van_beano · 10-08-2019 07:18AM

I remember an episode where Pajo and the other 2 were getting lashed out of it on a cliff with poisonous fish (I think).

Then there was an episode where Pajo wrote a Valentines letter and The Professor told us the story of the pair of lovers that feature in that China teacup and saucer set aul ones used to have.

branie2 · 10-08-2019 07:26AM

Fetchit and Grabbit had an aunt called Nookey

branie2 · 10-08-2019 08:50AM

van_beano wrote: »

I remember an episode where Pajo and the other 2 were getting lashed out of it on a cliff with poisonous fish (I think).

Then there was an episode where Pajo wrote a Valentines letter and The Professor told us the story of the pair of lovers that feature in that China teacup and saucer set aul ones used to have.

Pajo, Fetchit and Grabbit were making their own detective series called the Tale of the Smelly Fish in which they played detectives investigating a case of rancid fish being thrown at people from a long distance.

Hangdogroad · 10-08-2019 11:14AM

Hangdogroad wrote: »

The puppeteer behind Pajo, Pat Bracken died in 2010. I only found that out now, RIP.

thejuggler wrote: »

The puppeteer and voice of Pajo was Raymond Keane. He’s now a respected theatre actor and voiceover artist.

Ok, there's a post on Reddit saying Pat Bracken was Pajo, did he possibly have more than one puppeteer?

thejuggler · 11-08-2019 07:10AM

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Ok, there's a post on Reddit saying Pat Bracken was Pajo, did he possibly have more than one puppeteer?

Not sure but there were other puppets - I think an old woman character. Maybe Pat performed her?

15-08-2019 11:05AM

Who was the voice of pajo??

branie2 · 15-08-2019 11:59AM

Raymond Keane

Hangdogroad · 16-08-2019 08:25AM

Christy Moore was a guest on it one time. He sang a song about Pajo, I can remember the chorus went "He's the megastar of the whole junkyard, Pajo's everybodys favour-rat".

Weird the things that stick in your head after more than 30 years.

branie2 · 25-08-2019 04:27PM

He sang it in the very last episode of the series.

branie2 · 26-08-2019 09:58AM

One memorable episode was when Fetchit was accidentally turned into a banana by one of Professor Knowitall's inventions.

Hangdogroad · 26-08-2019 03:40PM

I'm not 100% sure if this was from Pajos Junkbox or Scratch Saturday but I remember a comedy skit featuring an Irish trad act who instead of playing their instruments all just went "diddle diddle diddle diddle" in a really fast demented way while the camera zoomed in and out and there were all flashing strobe light effects.

branie2 · 26-08-2019 03:43PM

I can't say I remember that

branie2 · 02-09-2019 06:49PM

Remember the Egghead cartoons that were on the show? Pajo created them

Hangdogroad · 02-09-2019 10:16PM

branie2 wrote: »

Remember the Egghead cartoons that were on the show? Pajo created them

The short cartoon about a bald guy? How do you mean he created them?

branie2 · 02-09-2019 10:19PM

Pajo showed him in his drawings

Hangdogroad · 25-11-2020 03:16PM

An episode of Pajo And The Salty Frog has turned up on Youtube, very rare.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Pf1Awy1wI

Hangdogroad · 25-11-2020 03:23PM

Same uploader has another episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yeOTjfthVg

25-11-2020 03:26PM

ballsymchugh wrote: »

jaysis look at the eyes on him. he must've been strung out on something. hated pajo!! nasal doobellin accent wrecked my head!

Wouldnt be the first RTE employee strung out on something.