Real Life wrote: » Soupy Norman was great, but was it not created by the Apres Match guys?
the purple tin wrote: » Soupy Norman. A Polish soap opera overdubbed by Mario Rosenstock. Gas craic it was.
George White wrote: » Wrote notes in a daze of shock and surprise. It begins with Ruth McCabe singing, " you ate all pies, you ate all the pies, you fat bastard, you ate all the pies." They live in a freezing cold house with no electricity. There is a mix of Northern and South accents. Begins with mother's sixtieth birthday "hailstones - french bastards - testing stuff in the sea, burning sheep" Broangh Gallagher - too good for this. She was in Pulp fiction, you know. winter fuel is actually burning wooden furniture, A poor painting of the queen, "no happy queen but a glum virgin""the crying virgin" clash of acting styles - d'unbelievables don't do well in the background "Van morrison" is "grumpy bitch" The exteriors look older than 2000 - father ted-style cuts to burning sheep mother falling through the roof - Ruth McCabe proves herself extremely capable, despite given Mrs. Doyle schtick Mother practices being dead, McCabe relishing her material too far, oversexed, too much gravitas, buried in chelsea home kit, away strip, keep the blue flag flying. Characters singing Ken Dodd's Tears- while virgin cries "in the end, i typed up on the screen - sent it electronically" warwick davis as undertaker, Basil Hodge Damien Kearney as postman deirdre o'kane alistair mcgowan as john motson Set in Tully McFadden. rita haill "asta sighvats" Bobby a schoolteacher - Deirdre o'Kane his mad ex Illiterate Jon Kenny- "I never see the word bargain in the oxfam shop". pick up rocks, sulk the milk out "thousands starving in kilburn" st. mungo's school for derelicts - "dear rita, been in love with the back of you head" Kennedy the gay son cries, "my vocal cords were black" - Billy Carter proves he is better - Jeffrey Holland quality "young man who grinds the poridge", "hair reminds of hairy boiling water, suffering from alopecia " Deirdre O'Kane as a random assasin/spurned lover. "what's the use in being queer if nobody knows about it" Lost son, Nevan Finnegan as ludovic Kennedy- ludovic - mick hucknall's frigigng love bastard ("I thought he looked like Charlie Drake") hamish Mccoll and Sean Foley as the soldiers. Damien Fitzgerald - the unseen 7th member, a footballer for Chelsea - "Damien's chelsea custards" "Oliver Mannion as mick maccattackney" "john brobbey as tennessee" - the black soldier. Jon Kenny's character John F started work wiping sweat off a blacksmith age six - they took the Janet and John books off the curriculm- there were no lesbians in them so they became outdated, so they have to go to Dublin to find a book in the series to educate John F. a dealer in dublin to get the book Eddie Nestor from the Real McCoy as an African, Naquila Mambembo Cast include Max Clifford-groomed Anglo-Irish pop teenybopper Declan Galbraith, Billy mulligan. Martin mulligan, Ciaran Owen, Liam Donaghy, Anthony O'Reilley leaving the sois cake -"can't bear putting on weight after i die" Shipping news is seen as a load of craic Fair City's Vivienne, Helen Norton as lollipop lady
Hangdogroad wrote: » This thread sparked a long forgotten memory about Molloy. There was a dream sequence where Jim Nortons character is being whipped by his mother in law who I think was played by Pat Leavy from Fair City, she was dressed in dominatrix gear and stockings. I swear I'm not making this up. I had a vague recollection of this scene up to now but thought it might have been Anna Manahan in Leave It To Mrs O Brien but now I know for sure what it's from.
Hangdogroad wrote: » It's something I've often wondered myself. How we just (mostly) never seem to master tv comedy in comparison to Britain. I think a lot of it had to do with the rigid censorship and Church control that was in place till recent decades. Any genuinely innovative comics had to go abroad, Dave Allen for example. The Btitish have a long tradition of satire. I think maybe our stringent libel laws might have a part in it too.
Dr Bob wrote: » Friend of mine was in that (despite being in his mid twenties played some sort of 'cool schoolkid' guy who drove around in a convertible,) we still slag him off over it.
ShyMets wrote: » What has me flabbergasted isn't how horrendous it is. It's that someone actually commissioned this garbage and is probably still employed by RTE
the purple tin wrote: » I've never seen it before. Christ that is bad. Peepshow wannabe.
WhenPigsCry wrote: » Unlike so much awful RTE output of yesteryear, this one has been preserved for public consumption by Youtube.
Gregor Samsa wrote: » https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2219927/
I Am The Law wrote: » What a totally depressing list of horsesh1t, for a country with a great sense of humor, you would have to wonder how this crap gets commissioned?
El Tarangu wrote: » 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.
The Mulk wrote: » David Pearse? His bio has him down as 'Strokes' in Spin the Bottle, so you're probably right. Turns out Aisling Bea was in Trivia too, I can't remember her in ithttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt1720019/
Hangdogroad wrote: » I'd managed to forget most of that in the twenty years since I'd seen it , thanks for the bad memories lol. Didn't the gay son get off with the black soldier while both dressed in animal costumes?
Cienciano wrote: » Whoever in RTE commissioned that and let it go out on air is a legend. I can't imagine the description would pass the test in an RTE boardroom nowadays
Cosmo Kramer wrote: » There was a comedy on RTE in the 90s called Finbar's Class (or something like that). Think it might have even got a second season. It was pretty dreadful though.
mloc123 wrote: » I kinda want to see this now
Hangdogroad wrote: » Wasnt a comedy.
George White wrote: » Had an overqualified cast. I managed to get the series on bootleg DVD over the lockdown, and god it is strange. The gay son in it is obsessed with blacking up as famed singers - a running joke they drop after two eps - he does Bassey and Ella Fitzgerald. There's non-diagetic musical numbers, at one point Jon Kenny performs There Once Was a Man from the Pyjama Game. The youngest daughter hs no character, and then basically turns into Lisa Simpson towards the end. A lot of it seeped into Mrs. Brown. Bronagh Gallagher's character had a different job every ep, like Dermot Brown. But the difference is Gallagher is a funny-bones performer. And even in bad material, she still managed to make the most of it. It did the opposite to what Linehan and Matthews wanted, which is the theme song is this very Oirish Sharon Shannon-performed trad thing, while with Ted, they wanted something that wasn't trad, and very sitcom.
Hangdogroad wrote: » The main guy, with the distinctive face. I seem to remember him having a cameo in Paths To Freedom as prisioner who has an altercation with Rats.
The Mulk wrote: » I enjoyed that, the pub where the quiz was held was the Celbridge Manor bar(while it was closed for renovations).There were a few scenes filmed around the Main St. too. It was light enough, and the characters were good
