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Forgotten Irish sitcoms.

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  • 10-11-2020 10:28am
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    Hangdogroad
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    I'll get the ball rolling with Molloy from 1989. RTE sitcom that lasted one series. Starred the future Bishop Brennnan Jim Norton as the title character. No one of my own age I've mentioned it to remembers it and there are no clips online. I think he was a retiree. Most of it revolved around his local pub. One of his sons was an uptight yuppie and the other was a punk. The only bit I remember finding funny was when the yuppie son passed out in the pub and a drunk lad tries to do CPR on him to which yuppie shouts "get off me you smelly sex maniac"


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    Hodors Appletart
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    Upwardly Mobile

    it should remain forgotten


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    EmmetSpiceland
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    ‘Upwardly Mobile’, had a massive “thing” for Hilary Fannin. Still do.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    There were two that aired around the same time back in the early 2000s that weer good.

    Fergus's Wedding (young engaged couple hiring a professional wedding planner to arrange a kinky swinger wedding)

    Paths to Freedom (mockumentary about the experiences of a weatlthy gynocologist who was found guilty of a hit-and-run and an inner city rap artist/career petty criminal upon their release from prison)

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    The Mulk
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    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    ‘Upwardly Mobile’, had a massive “thing” for Hilary Fannin. Still do.

    You probably loved her in Extra Extra, Read all about it.

    I can only remember Lorraine Pilkington being in it!

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0297557/


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    Hangdogroad
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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    There were two that aired around the same time back in the early 2000s that weer good.

    Fergus's Wedding (young engaged couple hiring a professional wedding planner to arrange a kinky swinger wedding)

    Paths to Freedom (mockumentary about the experiences of a weatlthy gynocologist who was found guilty of a hit-and-run and an inner city rap artist/career petty criminal upon their release from prison)

    The same makers were behind both. Paths To Freedon was one of the funniest things RTE have done. Fergus Wedding came afterwards, I was a bit underwhelmed by it at the time, maybe was expecting to much after PTF.


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    Hangdogroad
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    The Fitz was basically BBC trying to copy the success of Fr Ted. Lasted just one series in 2000. The "joke" was the family in it lived in a house that was half in the Republic and half in Northern Ireland and they all had red wigs for some reason. Was shockingly bad.


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    the purple tin
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    Hodors Appletart wrote: »
    Upwardly Mobile

    it should remain forgotten
    The only good thing I remember about it was David Kelly as the barman.


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    Hangdogroad
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    The Mulk wrote: »
    You probably loved her in Extra Extra, Read all about it.

    I can only remember Lorraine Pilkington being in it!

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0297557/

    That was just awful. I remember seeing just one episode and thinking how did this shyte get commissioned?


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    The Mulk
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    That was just awful. I remember seeing just one episode and thinking how did this shyte get commissioned?

    I know, even the theme song was rubbish,
    I remember looks to camera and canned laughter


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    COVID
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    I've forgotten all of them.


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    Hangdogroad
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    Leave It To Mrs O Brien. Anna Manahan was wasted in this rubbish.


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    El Tarangu
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    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    The Fitz was basically BBC trying to copy the success of Fr Ted. Lasted just one series in 2000. The "joke" was the family in it lived in a house that was half in the Republic and half in Northern Ireland and they all had red wigs for some reason. Was shockingly bad.

    Was just going to post about this - "baddies"/comic relief was a British Army patrol that was always creeping around their house because they suspected them of something. Reminiscent of "Give my head peace".


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    El Tarangu
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    Hodors Appletart wrote: »
    Upwardly Mobile

    it should remain forgotten

    When the actor playing the little chubby fellow died, he was given a full paramilitary funeral - it turns out he was a member of the Real IRA.


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    Hangdogroad
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    El Tarangu wrote: »
    Was just going to post about this - "baddies"/comic relief was a British Army patrol that was always creeping around their house because they suspected them of something. Reminiscent of "Give my head peace".

    Yeah, the scenes with the soldiers creeping about would be accompanied by "comical" military drumming music. One of the soldiers was black and gay in what I presume was a nod to the Crying Game.


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    keano_afc
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    The Cassidys. Best forgotten.
    Dan & Becs. Ditto.


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    Gregor Samsa
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    Paths To Freedom, as mentioned above, was absolutely brilliant. I have the DVD, watched it there again over the summer. Still laugh out loud funny.


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    whisky_galore
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    Ryantown. If RTE had sense they'd have burned all the tapes.


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    Hangdogroad
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    keano_afc wrote: »
    The Cassidys. Best forgotten.
    Dan & Becs. Ditto.

    The thing I mainly remember about the Casdidys was in the opening scene Ed Byrne started getting off with who i thought was his characters sister.


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    Feisar
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    Hodors Appletart wrote: »
    Upwardly Mobile

    it should remain forgotten

    I thought it was called Belvedere something. The place they moved to was Belvedere Downs.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    global23214124
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    Bachelors Walk? Maybe not forgotten but it went years and years without being available on the RTE player and you could only see random episodes on YouTube.


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    Beechwoodspark
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    Hot Milk and Pepper

    Not a sitcom more of a “vehicle” for Brendan o Carroll and his sidekick at the time Gerry Browne.

    Was pretty bad


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    Beechwoodspark
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    “mattie”

    Just when you think it can’t get much worse than killinascully, along comes a sitcom featuring pat short as a country detective in the big city


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    COVID
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    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Hot Milk and Pepper

    Not a sitcom more of a “vehicle” for Brendan o Carroll and his sidekick at the time

    Was pretty bad

    No. That was a terrible quiz show rather than a very bad sit-com.


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    Hangdogroad
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    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    “mattie”

    Just when you think it can’t get much worse than killinascully, along comes a sitcom featuring pat short as a country detective in the big city

    Jesus, yes. It was so poor that I dont think even his audience from Killianaskully took to it.. If that wasnt bad enough it was retconned for another series under the title Sargent Mattie where the events of the previous series apparently didn't happen, this managed to be even worse.


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    mailforkev
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    There was one a few years back that I actually thought wasn’t bad. Can’t remember the name, it was a family surname. Everyone, kids and parents, were played by actors roughly the same age.

    Edit: found it on Google there, looks like it was called The Walshes and Graham Linehan was involved.


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    El Tarangu
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    There was a sitcom 10 years' ago about a load of people living in a houseshare in Rathmines or something called 'The Roaring Twenties' - apparently it wasn't very good. Anyway, there was some online discussion (on Boards, maybe?) that was generally slating it; one of the producers jumped in and got involved in loads of name-calling with the other posters - very unedifying.


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    Hangdogroad
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    mailforkev wrote: »
    There was one a few years back that I actually thought wasn’t bad. Can’t remember the name, it was a family surname. Everyone, kids and parents, were played by actors roughly the same age.

    The Walshes?


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    MrMusician18
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    Val Falvey TD.
    Not as old as some mentioned, but equally deserving to be forgotten.


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    the purple tin
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    Damo and Ivor. Has it been forgotten yet?


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    Hangdogroad
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    the purple tin wrote: »
    Damo and Ivor. Has it been forgotten yet?

    At least most of the terrible comedies mentioned so far had the good grace to last one or two series. Nothing worse than when pure muck keeps getting recommissioned.


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