The Glenroe Feeling

Zebra3 · 20-05-2007 09:34PM

I remember it well! :mad:

But, I'm off work tomorrow.

"Heh heh, losers!"

GhostInTheRuins · 20-05-2007 09:34PM

zuutroy wrote:

Exactly..for those who haven't a clue what I'm on about, it's that feeling you used to get on a Sunday night, knowing that the weekend is finished and there's another gruelling week of school ahead. It officially set in with the first few bars of the Glenroe theme on a Sunday night while yer ma was ironing yer shirts for the week. A terrible thing.

Wow thats weird, you just described my childhood. :eek:

faceman wrote:

the only reason i was allowed to stay up till 9pm on a sunday was cos of the show!

Ditto

nlgbbbblth · 20-05-2007 09:48PM

Murphy's Micro Quiz-M and Glenroe both started in September 1983 and will forever be associated with the 'end of the weekend feeling' for me.

Dallas on Saturday night was good. Used have a bath beforehand and watch it while drying my hair in front of the fire. Anyone else do this?

Dudess · 20-05-2007 09:50PM

Oh I know that feeling so, so well - no explanation was required in my case.

Mike, great find. But it seems so eighties. God, I thought things had moved on a bit here by 1994.

Here are some RTE clocks *shudders*: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVOcyQvvnts, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7WAAQrqb7k

Kernel · 20-05-2007 09:51PM

Ruu wrote:

No idea, there is a collection of the different RTE clocks over the years as well..strange goings on..odd people..ahem. *shuffles off*

You're an expert of both youtube and boards Ruu, so perhaps you can help me out. A user here recently had a link to 'the best song ever' or something to that effect, and it was some dire Eurovision song... do you know the song??

And on topic... I hate sunday evenings - luckily Lost is on, but once it's over you know there's a full week ahead. And Bullseye, watching that on satellite always reminds me of boring Sunday afternoons as a kid. Full of food and half asleep!

zuutroy · 20-05-2007 09:52PM

Dudess wrote:

Here are some RTE clocks *shudders*: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVOcyQvvnts, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7WAAQrqb7k

I remember them talking about the launch of the first one on The Den, when Network 2 was first introduced.

Dudess · 20-05-2007 09:53PM

And this one which weirdly features a punk track and the continuity announcement is from the BBC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRkpSQy_tCA

nlgbbbblth · 20-05-2007 10:00PM

Plenty old RTE idents here

Dudess · 20-05-2007 10:07PM

Dallas on Saturday night was good. Used have a bath beforehand and watch it while drying my hair in front of the fire. Anyone else do this?

Oh pffft! You may as well be describing my childhood!

nlgbbbblth wrote:

Murphy's Micro Quiz-M?

Loved that show. Took for granted the '-M' bit at the time. Anyone know what it meant?

Oh wow, those RTE idents are fantastic!

nlgbbbblth · 20-05-2007 10:16PM

Dudess wrote:

Oh pffft! You may as well be describing my childhood!

Dudess wrote:

Loved that show. Took for granted the '-M' bit at the time. Anyone know what it meant?

Oh wow, those RTE idents are fantastic!

M = not sure if it stood for anything. My friend and his parents / brother appeared on the show in 1986. He still has the videotape which he's never showed to anybody. Someday I'll persuade him it should be digitised for posterity.

The idents are deadly. They make me sad too. Reminders of a time when life was simpler and we had very little worries.

mike65 · 20-05-2007 10:24PM

The M in Microquiz-M was a lame play on the word microcosm.

Mike.

RVD420 · 20-05-2007 10:25PM

That was a bad feeling, even though Glenroe was quality viewing. I believe Dick Byrne was the only person to EVER get away with something dodgy in a soap. If memory serves correct I remember he torched his factory with a cigar and no one ever copped it.....nice.:cool:

Dudess · 20-05-2007 10:27PM

mike65 wrote:

The M in Microquiz-M was a lame play on the work microcosm.

Mike.

Ah, I see. Lame indeed.

Yep, I know what you mean, nlgbbbblth. I always get a lump in my throat when I watch Reeling in the Years - moreso the nineties ones than the eighties ones because I was a teenager in the nineties and have such mixed memories of that decade. Whereas, the eighties just makes me smile about when I was a small kid.

phantom_lord · 20-05-2007 10:34PM

zuutroy wrote:

Exactly..for those who haven't a clue what I'm on about, it's that feeling you used to get on a Sunday night, knowing that the weekend is finished and there's another gruelling week of school ahead. It officially set in with the first few bars of the Glenroe theme on a Sunday night while yer ma was ironing yer shirts for the week. A terrible thing.

lol. how very true!

mike65 · 20-05-2007 10:42PM

(Holy) God its sad is'nt it? This pathetic lamenting of a lost youth from oh, 10-15 years back!

Mike.

OPENROAD · 20-05-2007 10:46PM

Sunday nights were all about Londons Burning and Spitting Image for me, then that sick feeling that the weekend was over and back to school on Monday.

Alter-Ego · 20-05-2007 11:03PM

I'm 18 and i know the glenroe feeling, AND the Londons Burning feeling. We alternated in the ego household.

When i was younger that "school around the corner" show was on earlier in the evening. That brought on the dread on a sunday evening.

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 20-05-2007 11:25PM

Alter-Ego wrote:

When i was younger that "school around the corner" show was on earlier in the evening. That brought on the dread on a sunday evening.

Eurgh, yes... that's actually worse than Glenroe :eek:

Blush_01 · 20-05-2007 11:41PM

woop wrote:

actually bit off topic but does anyone remeber the magic mushies storyline or was that just a figment of my imagination?

I remember it well. Poor auld Mary. And then they gave her a box of Black Magic as an apology... shure wasn't she only scandalised! Black Magic chocolates, of all things! Terrible!

So many good memories. Like Biddy's car crash. What ever happened to Biddy and Miley's kids? Did they give up the "acting" and get on with being children?

Blackie Connors was my favourite. *swoon*

I totally get the Glenroe feeling thing... I really don't want it to be tonight already!

simu · 21-05-2007 12:20AM

The Glenroe Feeling - I get it! Great description!

It was my favourite programme when I was in 4th class, imagine!

WindSock · 21-05-2007 09:17AM

I still get the same feeling whenever snooker is on the telly. Silence then the clack noise and a brief applause then a couple of words of commentry then silence again. The smell of boiled cabbage comes into my head then

Duggy747 · 21-05-2007 09:26AM

Eurgh!! Anyone remember the quiz show Where In The World that would be on before Glenroe? That awful sick feeling as well that your weekend was over and another week of school started in 10 hours......*shivers*

Anyone remember Mary cracking Dick's head on the fireplace?

cooperguy · 21-05-2007 09:47AM

woop wrote:

18 aswell and remember it, jaysus forgotten how ****e rte was euro song 94? followed by some other crappy crap, no wonder glenroe was so popular, ah remember glenroe,good stuff, the molly malone et al, the farm is still open as a petting zoo

actually bit off topic but does anyone remeber the magic mushies storyline or was that just a figment of my imagination?

Haha I remember that. And some woman came in and thought they had made some fancy spread or somethin and ended up stoned off her t*ts:D If I remember rightly they got permission to be in the field by saying they were picking blackberries!!!

Dyr · 21-05-2007 09:56AM

mike65 wrote:

The M in Microquiz-M was a lame play on the word microcosm.

Mike.

I had pondered about that -M at random idle/drunken/high points in my life for the last 20 odd years. Now that its been explained i feel let down.

fruitcake · 21-05-2007 01:19PM

:eek: I have been going on about this feeling for years;) ..just sing ' you haven't got your homework done' to the theme tune and you will get the idea of 'the feeling'

ntlbell · 21-05-2007 01:31PM

OPENROAD wrote:

Sunday nights were all about Londons Burning and Spitting Image for me, then that sick feeling that the weekend was over and back to school on Monday.

Now your talking!

Would I be correct in saying the "glenroe" feeling was more of a "country" thing.

Even at that age i think i'd rather go to bed than watch glenroe

stepbar · 21-05-2007 05:39PM

zuutroy wrote:

Exactly..for those who haven't a clue what I'm on about, it's that feeling you used to get on a Sunday night, knowing that the weekend is finished and there's another gruelling week of school ahead. It officially set in with the first few bars of the Glenroe theme on a Sunday night while yer ma was ironing yer shirts for the week. A terrible thing.

O god, the memories are coming back :eek:

kevmy · 21-05-2007 06:29PM

Blush_01 wrote:

Blackie Connors was my favourite. *swoon*

He was a brilliant character, had it off with Biddy if i remember correctly.

also random, fantastic line i recall
"Blackie like an auld sheep or a goat"

no idea who said it (some auld wan i think) but it always comes to me when his name is mentioned

Dun laoire · 21-05-2007 06:50PM

Excellent thread. Havent got time right now to read everbodys posts but i know the very feeling. However on the other side of the coin there was the saturday morning feeling. I always remember this cartoon. I think it was one of the first cartoons played on sky channel (now sky one) when it was introduced.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQtBF6dftMg

nesf · 21-05-2007 07:05PM

The Star Trek: The Next Generation feeling for me. It set in before Glenroe. Once it started I knew the weekend was ebbing away.

The Glenroe Feeling

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